Judge — July 4, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL With buctes and with banners, the suffrage ‘And I. a watcher on the curb, look eat for ‘And note what word the gaping world in pas Points from the Pulpit WO CLERGYMEN have contributed recently to the absorbing question, “Why Men Go Wrong.’’ Divorce, says one, is increased by the delicatessen store, its boiled ham and pickled tongue having a disastrous effect evidently on hubby’s conjugal affections. Poor cooking on the part of wives is given as a reason by the second divine why men do not develop in the high and noble way they should. So between the Scylla of the commercial cook stove and the Charybdis of the private range, man, who has always been depicted as composed largely of. stomach, is certainly in a bad fix. It is to weep! A Timekeeper INCE the comic sheets have established the fact that woman cannot be punctual, the news that a female, Miss Anita Belleville, acts as purveyor of correct time in London will bea powerful shock to the decriers of the Subordinate Sex. Miss Belle- ville is considered the champion timekeeper of her town, and her business is to call once a week at the Greenwich Observatory with her chronometer, check up her instrument and carry the correct time around to her many clients, who are watchmakers, Lest the unwomanliness of this unique occupation may be too hor- rifying, Miss Belleville may be explained, if not excused, by the fact that she inherited her calling from her parents, who held it in turn until their deaths tempted their offspring to follow in their footsteps. In New Orleans SYSTEMATICALLY canvassing their city to get signatures to a petition denouncing a measure before the Legis- * lature to legalize betting on horse racing in Louisiana, the women of New Orleans are furnishing the antis with another hor- rible example of what the female sex is capable of doing when obsessed by their peculiar idea of placing morality before money. Not content with using their in- fluence directly on the bill, the women’s organizations also plan to boycott all merchants who favor the measure, thus forcing poor man to do the right thing in spite of himself. It is just like a pack of women to place the welfare of growing sons above the noble art of pocket pad- ding, and it is for this reason they will turn things topsy turvy when they rush from their domestic coverts and come into the open as voting citizens. WHY THE MAN NEEDS THE WOMAN'S VOTE 1—Escause He Is Doing More Than He Is Humanly Able To Do Oo She—Let me haul the baby, John. He—Tut, tut, Mary! Politics is my job! Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER First the petitions for woman suffrage began coming by mail, then the num- ber grew so large they came by express, and foreseeing the day when they would arrive by the freight-car-load, the House Judiciary Committee shifted the burden by making a favorable report. Now the individual member of Congress will have the same unhappy experience, and nobody to unload on! o New York’s commissioner of correc- tions suggests that the one hundred and seventy-five wife beaters on Blackwell's I always have done it! Island be put to making creosoted paving blocks. Good idea! The perfume will remind them of what awaits them after their exit from this world of inadequate punishment. a The woman inspector-general of labor sent here as special envoy by the French republic says the American man has a greater respect and honor for women than the men of any other country. And yet women of all countries, including our own, are constantly informed that_as they grow more independent and self-reliant, they will lose the esteem of men. The possession of power never lessens respect, but increases it, and women may rest assured that the more nearly they reach the intel- lectual and financial level of men, the higher will be the regard felt for them. Helplessness and dependence are very pretty in children, but the most pitiable of creatures is the child who never reaches man’s or woman’s high estate, Oo Dr. Hugh Cabot, of Puritan Boston, says that ‘“‘if women want men to reform, they must cease to tempt them.’’ Maybe 80, the poor things! but how did they ever happen to be called “the stronger sex’’? Kansas women have issued an ultimatum that they ‘‘must have in their political party what they demand in men—cleanness, virility, cour- age, high principle, definite purpose.’’ If there are enough of that kind of men in Kansas, there will be no difficulty in finding a party that they can support. o The speech delivered at the Anti-Suf- frage Convention in Harrisburg, showing how futile had been the vote in the hands of Colorado women to affect the great miners’ strike, made interesting reading side by side with the account of how a thousand women of Denver forced the Governor to call for the Federal troops to end it. The one thing which the antis have most to fear is the deadly parallel column, comicbooks.com