Judge — April 25, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL With bagles and with banners, the suffrage cohorts £0, And I. a watchet on the curb. look out for weal of woe, ‘And ote what word the gaping world in passing may bestow. Home Perils UNDOUBTEDLY there will now be a stentorian chorus rising to warn woman to keep out of the dangers of the kitchen—a chorus such as follows every accident to woman in trade, for the papers report that Mrs, Mary Tamburno, of Chicago, is dying from a stab wound inflicted on herself when she fell creatures were relegated to the galleries, and sat, smiling and starving, gazing soulfully down at the ballot-box lords at their succulent feed. Now, alas! women have fallen from the heights, dropping from the galleries to the floors, right down into seats beside the men, where they indelicately eat not as wifely-annual- lady’s-night guests, but as equals At the Kansas Day Republican Club’s twenty- third annual dinner, the women shared the food of and aired their views with their fellow-Republicans, assuring the Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER HE dean of the New York University Law School urges that all students above the high-school grade should be systematically taught politics. But why instruct girls on this subject? The State is already spending enormous sums to give girls exactly the same education as boys, and then refusing to let them util- ize it by participating in affairs of state. Would the dean bar girls from the class- room where politics is taught, or while washing dishes. As yet, how- ever, one listens in vain for even the tiniest peep that might make woman look askance at soapsuds and crockery. Juvenile Suffrage Speeches N PUBLIC SCHOOL 109, in Brook- lyn, woman suffrage is flourishing as one of the results of establishing a school city government, by means of which the children rule themselves. Two suffrage speeches delivered by boy legislators when the question of enfranchising the girls came up are well worth quoting, expressing as they do good anti and suffrage argu- ments. Said the first legislator, earnestly if not grammatically, “T don’t think we ought to leave our girls vote, because they wasn’t meant to. Now, they don’t let our mothers vote, and I don’t know why they don’t, but they must have some good reason for not leaving them.’” Said the second legislator, with more heat and less grammar, “I don’t agree with the previous speaker ’bout women voting, because I think that out West somewheres they do let ladies vote, and they do it very nice, and I think we can’t tell what's go- ing to happen in ten or twelve years. Perhaps by then the ladies will be let to vote here, so I think we ought to leave our girls vote, so that if they are let to when they grow up, they’ll know how to do it good.’’ Another Drop AS IS well known, in the old days men loved to look up to women, especially at political dinners, when the feminine M. 3. KIN SENO President of the Seno Commercial Bank of Tokyo men that their idea of political life was to work side by side with their brothers and not to streak off by themselves and form a brand-new woman's party to work havoc on society. If the antis could only believe this chumlike assurance, they might appreciably lighten their load of fear. Not So Difficult The spring wind blew her scanty skirt And played within its lightness. «Tis easier with slits,’’ it said, “Than ’twas with so much tightness!’’ would he spend the State’s: money in giving them knowledge which its laws forbid them to put into practice? There seems to be some anxiety lest the new women internes at Bellevue Hospital may not be able to jump on a speeding ambulance. Some encouragement is given by the news from Vassar that one girl has just thrown a basketball seventy-five feet and another has ‘‘smashed the broad-jump record’? with a jump of over nine feet. Give the new in- ternes a chance. The Anti-Suffrage Association sends out a press bulletin saying, “‘We object to being called away from uplifting the world through the old channels of education and religion to assist in uplifting it by the doub: ful channels of the ballot box. They need not leave their job, for it is such a big one that if derricks are erected in both channels, it will still be necessary to call for outside help. Oo A wife has recently laughed her- self to death at one of her husband’s jokes. At least there is the consolation that she never will have to listen to any more of them. Cc The president of the Nationai Anti- Suffrage Association has issued a state- ment that the number of women voters in the United States is greatly exaggerated, that there are not quite one and three- quarters of a million. Even letting it go at that, the number is amply sufficient to disprove all the calamity predictions of the antis. It is also enough to make the politicians sit up and take notice. comicbooks.com