Judge — August 8, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL Camp Followers H, LOYAL lovers of the old, Rise up, rise up, with spirits bold! Let us forsake the haunts of home, Upon the highways wide to roam; For we must follow night and day The woman army on its way. In States where bright its campfires shine, There must we skulk behind each line, To watch its every move and plan, Its weakness and its strength to scan, That while before its soldiers face Male selfishness and greed of place, They, too, an enemy shall find That follows fealty on behind— A foe all feminine, content To share the rights by conquest sent, Bat swift to run with many acry, Whenever battle rages high, To aid the opposing force and greet With scorn both victory and de- feat. Aye, though this army wins at last, We'll follow ever on, to cast Into sweet cups by Triumph brewed The dour drops of ingratitude. Fables Fable of the Hero— And, be- hold, there arose in a certain tribe a scribe who reviled the women, saying, “If, then, any man fail either as warrior or toiler and showeth no wisdom when he sitteth in the gates, lo! it is because his wom- an baketh not his meats properly nor cooleth his wine, but serveth him with vile stuffs that weaken his strength and maketh him even as an empty gourd of little use.’” And the men of the tribe, thinking they had scored another one on the wearers of veils and the flaunters of frills, and re- joicing to put the blame for their dere- lict and decrepit on the simpler sex, ap- plauded the scribe and cried out his wisdom abroad and at home. And the women grew aweary, but they said naught, only whis- pered together. And it chanced there came an occasion to honor a hero, and a day was set apart, and the women begged that, while the men spake and gave music with cymbals, they should be allowed to give a statue of the hero to the tribe. And the men were amazed, but permitted it, And the women brought many shek- els and gave them to a sculptor with strange commands, which he, marveling much, obeyed. And on the great day, on THE MODERN WOMAN a signal, the hero was displayed, all in marble, riding as befitted a warrior, not upon a heroic beast, but mounted high upon his mother’s cooking vessels, And the women spake, saying, “See, then, oh, men! if we alone be potent to produce the faults and weak- nesses of men by the bread we serve them, shall we not also take the credit for their strength and greatness?” And the men, waxing exceeding wroth, terrified the scribe so that he fled from the tribe, and settling in another country, forbore to stir up the meek and to enrage the fragi'e. Riga hn ei 2B> { \) WHY THE MAN NEEDS THE WOMAN'S VOTE 6—Because He Can't Solve Modern Problems Without It. She—Let me head him off, John. He—Tut, tut, Mary! Politics is my job! Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HAKPER ND SO the anti-suffrage ladies are going into the thick of the congres- sional fray to help elect the men who will promise not to give them a vote! It is now in order for them to get up a street parade, and then the suffragists won't have a thing on them—they will have done everything they were afraid they might have to do if enfranchised, and they haven't got the ballot as a compensation for doing it. a “(As for me, I defy you women. Come and meet me on the stump.’’ Such were the brave words of a New York alderman, and from that moment Ajax defying the lightning was simply not in it. o ‘American newspapers are giving a good deal of undeserved sympathy to the Eng- lish government. It is reaping what it It will save so much time. . has sowed, for it would be much easier to gather figs from thistles than to have peaceful, law-abiding women as a result of years of broken promises, neglect, de- ceit and treachery. The government put in the crop; the country is getting the harvest. The reformers say that when woman is economically independent she will be free to do the ‘‘proposing.’’ Perhaps then she won'c want to. All the woman-suffrage societies in Great Britain used their influence against Lloyd George's Liberal Labor candidate, Mr. Masterman, who had twice broken his pledge to vote for their bill, and he charged his defeat to ‘outside in- fluences." The chickens will soon come home to roost in such numbers that the ptesent Liberal government will have to climb down from its perch. The anti-suffragists say that “feminism and the family are inherently and irrevocably in- compatible.’’ When we find out what that means, we are going to get mad about it. o The Legislature of Toronto cer- tainly does not represent the women. The men of that city, by a majority of over 13,000, voted in favor of giving to wives the municipal vote now possessed by widows and spinsters, and the Legislature refused to grant it, so it does not represent the men, What does it think it was elected for, anyway? Just to enjey a salary partly paid by taxes of women? a Hampton Court has been closed to the public for a long time, through fear of the suffragettes; but the government has at last evolved ascheme—it willopen the palace and charge a shilling admission! How clever! But suppose a suffragette should be able to borrow a shilling? ie] Mrs. Dodge, president of the Anti- Suffrage Association, wants to go into the fight against suffrage in the next presi- dential campaign, with 500,000 women at her back. All right; she will need every one of them. But what is to become of the half-million families while the wives and mcthers are marching on to victory behind Mrs. Dodge? comicbooks.com