Judge — July 11, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Coa TH Snapshots Suffrage By IDA HUSTED HAKPER THE Industrial Welfare Commission of the State of Washington has ruled that no adult woman clerk ina store shal! receive less than ten dollars a week, and none under eighteen less than six dollars, and this only for the first half year of their apprenticeship, and but eight per cent. of the whole number can be appren- tices, Will the anti-suffragists please match this ruling in a State ~ where women cannot vote? The English government has just raised the pay of the men clerks in the postoffice and re- duced that of the women clerks to half that received by the men. To be sure, hatchets are no argument, but sometimes they express people’s feelings better than logic. a Mayor Mitchel ought to take it out on the powers that ad- vised him to do it. How was one so young to know that a gun could have such a power- ful back action? The men of St. John, New Brunswick, by a very Ildrge majority, have declared in favor of giving to wives the municipal franchise possessed by widows and spinsters since 1886. It always has seemed odd that up in Canada they should take away a woman’s vote as soon as she marries and not give the husband two. If it required a vote apiece to rep- resent them both before marriage, how can it be done afterward with only one between them? o President Anna Shaw thinks it very odd that, with so many colors to choose from, the anti-suffragists should have se- lected the red of socialism and the black of piracy. Why not take the black and blue of the British antis, which would be more appropriate for the United States, where they have been beaten so many times? Or, better still, why not the pure white of innocence, for they must be ex- tremely unsophisticated if they think that He—Tut, tut, Mary! under all the colors in the chromatic scale they can march to anything but total de- feat. Women have voted for over twenty years in Colorado, and twenty-one judges of districts courts have sent letters to United States Senator Shafroth, testify- ing that they never have known a case of. divorce because of political differences between husband and wife. Another anti-suffrage bomb has failed to explode. 2—Because He is Trying to Do Something He Knows Nothing About. She—Oh, John! why don't you let me do my own cooking ? Politics is my job! Curbside Comments By OKEOLA W. HASKELL Proofs of Fragility rr IS always gratifying to have a the- ory backed up by hard, uncompromis- ing facts, and so those esthetic souls who insist upon the extreme delicacy of the female physique will be pleased with a perusal of the English Blue Book, which shows-that women in that country are taking up professions and trades com- patible with their frail figures, 70 being listed as paperhangers and whitewashers, 4 as bricklayers, 4 as coal heavers, 347 as carmen and wagoners, 231 as black- smiths, 66 as carpenters and joiners, 14 as masons, and 68 as plumbers. In Rus- sia the factory inspectors report 638,277 women workers as against 1,412,921 men, and they add that the women engage in such easy manual tasks as to carry tree trunks and boards to and from rafts for sawmills and to do similar work in other lines of labor. In Foreign Ficlds DPESERTING the sacred precincts of the kitchen, a number of native women are running a daily newspaper for their sex in Turkey, calling it Kadinlar Dunjasse and treat- ing in its columns all topics but politics, which is forbidden by the government. In order to be strictly up to date, Miss Li Soo Young, of China, has launched an anti-cigarette so- ciety to dissuade women from smoking, and thus has joined the great world society of up- lifters. In Jerusalem Miss Eva L. Gottheil, an American, has organized a settlement of Amer- ican nurses for district work among the poor, and has founded a household school in which Jewish girls are taught domes- tic science in the most ap- proved modern manner. Attractive Types METROPOLITAN news- paper publishing inter- views with well-known people, in which are expressed the ideas of the interviewed as to what is the most attractive type of woman, has been furnishing many surprises to its readers. Men have expressed themselves as fond of the kind of woman denounced by magazines the land over, and women are found clinging to ideals already supposed to be extant. Recently a man and a woman artist de- clared themselves on the subject, she praising the helpless, impulsive, childish creature who appeals to the protective in- stincts, and he standing valorously fur the wage-earning woman of brains and resource. Whatever we aren’t or haven't is usually ideal to us, so that we suspect the man in the case to be mar- ried to the gossamer type, and the wom- an to be so solid that she finds butterflies alluring. comicbooks.com