Judge — August 1, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments Ry OLEOLA W. HASKELL Pious Foliteness THE CLERGYMAN, with air benign, Stood up to speak the word divine. The church with women glowed and stirred, Their voices in the choir were heard, And all his memories of the week Were of their sacrifices meek. They fed and clothed his poor for him, They fattened funds that grew too slim; and meeting long they worked, sk forgot, no duty shirked. Into their eyes distrust ne‘er crept, They never through his sermons slept; But reverentially were taught And treasured up his every thought. And ever seeking good untold. They brought their children to the fold. With sympathy and tact they made His path of work more shine than shad Without the’ trust, His church would crumble into dust. Yet, true pure and perfect to old Tradition’s law, He looked at the few men he saw, And speaking truths he wished impressed, His ‘‘Brethren’’ dressed. only he ad- Parables Parable of a Man's Desire— A husband who was rich in she- kels spake to his wife many times, saying, ‘‘Men like that which is their opposite. If that they be strong and wise and able to labor, they would that their women be none of these. Even as a flower would I have thee, oh, high- heeled one! to glow upon me and to lean against me as against a wall.’’ And the woman heeded his words. And it happened that sickness fell upon him and his strength of soul and body waned, And his wife did naught but wring her hands and weep. And he said unto her, ‘‘Woman, brace up and let me lean upon thee till I be well.”” And she answered, ‘I am thy weak and helpless blossom that thou lovest. Look upon me, but do not lean."’ spe aa y ul: Las eee And he looked, but it was not a nice look. Then they lost their shekels and grew ahungered. And he said, ‘Woman, thou must labor that we may eat.’" And she answered, ‘‘This I cannot do, for verily I would wilt under the hot sun of toil."” And he was distraught, but he said, “Use, then, thy wits and plan for me and for thy children."” And she answered, ‘‘I cannot do these things, but I will glow upon thee.’’ And he lifted up his voice and cried, “A curse upon all flowers !'" WHY THE MAN NEEDS THE WOMAN'S VOTE 5—Because He Has Vet to Realize what “ Democracy ” Means. She—Why do you run around in that little coop, John? He—Tut, tut, Mary! Politics is my job! And she rebuked him, ‘‘I am but what thou didst desire me to be. If, then, woman must be a flower, see to it, oh, man, that the winds of adversity do not blow upon her and that the wall against which she leans does not fall. It is of little use to glow across ruins.”’ Suffrage Snapshots Ry IDA HUSTED HARPER EN MAY be divinely ordained to govern, but the revelations in the districts of Mr. Murphy in New York and Bathhouse John in Chicago don’t seem to indicate any divine call to manage elec- tions. In fact, their commission might have come from the other place. The yearly meeting of Friends (or Quakers), in Philadelphia, by an over. whelming vote, indorsed the favorable at. titude toward woman suffrage which this denomination always has maintained, Its members have been noted for the harmony in their homes, and they seem quite will- ing to take the risk. It’s a poor sort of domestic peace that can be maintained only by muzzling half of the partnership, The London Telegraph, in describing a disturbance of church services by suffra- gettes, says that ‘‘the ladies of the con. gregation had less mercy than the men, and one of the disturbers had her hat tom off and her hair pulled down, while an- other left the church bleeding at the mouth.’’ When a third attempted to get into a cab, ‘‘a well-dressed lady pulled her out and thrashed her.” Queer kind of ‘‘ladies’’ they have over there! By compari- son, the behavior of the suffra- gettes seems quite respectable. Englishmen are howling be- cause, under the new income- tax law, the wife can find out how much property the hus band has. But didn’t she know already, when he promised at the altar, ‘‘With all my worldly goods I thee endow’? A hundred-dollar gold medal offered for the best agricultural essay and open to all the col leges has been won by a woman student. What's to be done? Even bar ring women from the higher education wouldn't put a stop to this sort of every- day occurrence. All over the country ministers are gi¥- ing sermons in favor of woman suffrage. Why don’t the antis get some of them to preach against it? Surely a few can be found who would dare to do it! Mrs. Havelock Ellis, an English woman lecturing in this country, advises all women to refuse to kiss their husbands until they get the suffrage. This would be somewhat risky, as getting the suf- frage is a slow process, and meanwhile the husbands might go elsewhere for their kisses. comicbooks.com