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

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Parables hy OKEOLA W. HASKELL Paruble of the Flour—There was a cer- tain woman who sniffed often at the Sis- ters of the Wide saying, “Why do they lift their eyes to things outside the home, which men attend to perfectly? Let them keep their gaze, as befits females, on tasks of baking and brewing.”” And it chanced that there came to her abode a simple bag of flour, and seeing that she straighway strove to keep it clean, it spake to her, saying, ‘‘I marvel at thy cruelty, oh, woman, Why puttest thou me into a receptacle of a darkness that terrifies and wherein no microbe may pene- trate?”" . And she answered, ‘‘That I may keep thee wholesome for the baking of the loave: And it spake again, ‘‘Not thus have men treated me since I came from the grain. In the granaries was I open and free, and rats and mice disported them- selves upon me, yea, right mer- rily that I might enjoy their gambols. And even when I was confined in a bag, lo! it was a thin one. Upon the docks where I with my fellows waited for shipment, the breezes blew friendly bits of dust into me, and I could hear the talk of swarthy laborers with the sweat of their toil upon them, who leaned and sat upon me as they partook of their noonday bread. Nor was I hidden in the ships and cars that brought me hither, for rodents and gentle vermin found me a soft lodging house, and the dirt of men and of winds was added unto me. Even within the shop whence thou tookest me, daily he who swept covered me with a layer of velvet dust. Verily, now, germs will be in your gems, so why confine me?”” And the woman smote her breast, and the hairs of horror arose on her skull. And she cried out in a public place, say- ing, ‘‘Lo! our bread—it is polluted !’’ And learning that to do well the baking and the brewing she must look abroad, she joined at last the Sisters of the Wide View. Suffrage Snapshots Ry IDA HUSTED HAKPER UST as the Anti-Suffrage Association issued its bulletin announcing that there was no favorable movement in the South, the Georgia Federation of Labor strongly indorsed the efforts of the suffra- gists, and the Atlanta Constitution de- clared editorially, ‘‘Success seems about to crown their efforts."’ The antis are playing in hard luck; no sooner do they get their type all nicely set up than the other side does something or other that knocks it into ‘*pi.’” WHY THE MAN NEEDS THE WOMAN'S VOTE juable to Him. 4—Because Her Judgment is Inv Ske—I have made a specialty of cleaning things up, John. I could help you. He—Tut, tut, Mary! to understand! The Hungarian Parliament, after de- feating a bill for woman suffrage, is now considering one to impose compulsory military service on women. This is no more illogical than the attitude of Amer- ican opponents, who would not let women vote because they cannot fight, when the law will not permit women to go to war. The antis have announced that in their New York headquarters they ‘will over- come the yelling of the suffragists with exquisite music on the harp and other stringed instruments.’’ At the same time the Illinois hospital for the insane an- This is altogether too complicated a job for you nounces an arrangement to cure their pa- tients with music. There must have been collusion between the two. The methods and talk of the antis for a long time have indicated that they thought they were dealing with the feeble-minded, if not the dangerously insane. The experiments will be watched with interest, but the antis should hurry up, as the number of suffragists at large is rapidly increasing. The women anti-suffragists have just held their first convention, while the suf- fragists have had them by the hundreds. Now let the antis get up one pa- rade and match it against the more than a thousand suffrage parades on May 2d, to prove that “the vast majority of women do not want to vote.’” o It is perfectly proper for mothers of wealth and social posi- tion to employ nurses and govern- esses for their children; but when a business or professional woman does the same, society at large goes into hysterics over her poor, neglected offspring. If the mother is off playing bridge and attending ‘‘teas,’’ it is all right; but if she is away earning a.sal- ary, it is all wrong. The Women’s Political Asso- ‘ciation of Australia has called upon its national Parliament to protect the political rights of the women of that country, who become disfranchised the moment they take up a residence in any other part of the British empire, while men continue to vote. Here, too! Help for the women voters of ten States, who, when they go to live in any of the other thirty-eight, are reduced to the political level of the idiots, insane and criminal. I'm sure Whenever anybody issues the edict that women have not the physical strength to vote, some of them immediately begin to shin up a flagpole on a fifty-story building and take a header off the Brooklyn Bridge for a moving-picture show, loop the loop in an airship and climb the highest moun- tain in the world. comicbooks.com