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

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL To the Militants HH, RUTHLESS sisters of the race, Whose deeds the heart appall, Across the severing sea we send Our deep and urgent call. We cannot realize what wrongs, What burdens you must bear, Nor picture iron men like those Who goad you to despair. It is too soon to know if good Or bitter fruit will grow Upon your tree of militance, Since history doth show Full many a fine and lasting good Strife-fostered and blood-born; But this we know—day after day We watch the flash of scorn Replace the sympathy in eyes Once lifted to The Cause As to a shrine, and day by day Grows less the loud applause Fair hands once gave, and enemies Pluck heart of grace to sneer. Is England all? All women now Through you reap harvest drear, Stay, then, your hands. You may not keep God’s freedom back alway, But you can blight our flowered hopes With bleak winds of delay! Fables Fable of Dress—And a man spake to his wife, saying, “Why wilt thou, oh, gem of my bungalow! follow the foolish cus- toms of thy sisters and go forth before the eyes of men with raiment ruffled and rent and with the plumage of songsters springing from thy hatbrim toward high heaven? I implore thee, be even as a man and drape thyself with things that are seemly.’” And the thought her, “Verily will I please him, since few hath such a sensible soul for a mate.’” And after she had robed herself in gar- ments decent and dowdy, it chanced some days later she went forth alone in the cool of the evening. And a messenger came bearing a parchment, saying that her husband was detained at a council. Yet when she had walked a while, she be- held him at a distance. And, behold, he was in strange company, with one whose garments bulged and billowed, yet were ruffled and rent beyond description, whose feet tottered upon sandals of a miraculous smallness, and whose headgear was like unto a cage of countless birds poised for woman hearkened and be- flight. And seeing how tender he was to his companion, the wife went to him and reproached him bitterly. But the bedecked one looked at her in pity, saying, “Knowest thou not that men say one thing and act another? When the day cometh that they let the light of their countenance beam as warmly on the mod- est as on the modish, then mayst thou Gress as beseemeth a quiet wife. But as long as men delight in peacocks, lo! do not thou hope to attract as a wren.”’ And thereafter the wife bloomed forth in all the vagaries of vanity, and the hus- band, ‘seeing none to rival her, walked abroad with her only. SEEKING A MORE CONGENIAL ENVIRONMENT Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HAKPER NDER the English poor law medi- cine cannot be supplied to a sick wife unless her husband makes applica- tion for it, and if he can’t or won't sup- port her, the almshouse will not receive her unless he will come along. To un- derstand the reason for the suffragette movement over there, read the laws, A Democratic candidate for congress man-at-large in Illinois, who is an an suffragist, is making his canvass on the platform: ‘A husband and a home for every woman.’’ As over twenty-five hun- dred husbands in Chicago alone last year abandoned their wives, he should add an- other plank that if he is elected all hus- bands will stick to home and family. Mrs. John Martin, spokesman for the antis, says ‘‘feminism will reduce the lord of creation to the status of a tom- and the New England Woman Suf- frage Association declares ‘‘the antis are using the tactics of the polecat.’”’ It really seems as if the discussion is get- ting ‘‘catty.’” The New York Tribune congratulates the country that the American woman is not trying to be aman. The very idea! As if women, having almost reached the top step, would deliberately turn arcun and tumble to the bottom! If the suffragists and the antis don't quit writing letters to members of Con- ess, they will raise the rate of postage instead of lowering it. John Burroughs says he is going to vote for woman suffrage whenever he getsachance, He can get it in any one of half a dozen States by moving in before the elections next fall. oO A woman who kept a grocery wanted to decorate her show window in the anti-suffrage-colors, but she had no American Beauty roses, so she putin a lotofred lobsters. To make it still more appropriate, she should have added some clams, A Johns Hopkins professor says that in twenty years’ experience with over a thousand graduates of both sexes, he has failed to discover the inferior brains of women which he hears so much about. He should apply to the anti-suffragists, who not only can tell him all about them, but can furnish him with plenty of specimens, John Redmond and his followers want home rule for Ireland, but they don’t in- tend that those who rule the home shall have any part in it. o Some of those husbands who stay out late nights are surprised. that the suf- fragists find it necessary to have so many classes for tr: ig inexperienced speakers, 0 Why is it that as soon as women get the suffrage in any State, they are called upon to clean up the cities and purify politics? As men have always been held to be so much better qualified to vote than women, the latter ought to find every city a Spotless Town and the polit- ical atmosphere too rarefied to breathe in safety. comicbooks.com