Judge — August 29, 1914 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL The Tie ITH scorn set deep in flashing ey With bitter taunts, impatient cries, Two mighty companies at bay Have stood for many a hostile day; Both formed of women—one content With fireside tasks, the other bent On struggling up the slopes that lead To heights of power where dwell the freed. Embattled round a cause they've known Delight in seeds of discord sown. But now ’fore Titan war they stand, Appalled and mute, as o'er the land The thund’rous echoes grimly sound From many a distant battleground. And as they vision death and pain, Hear mourning voices, swift like rain Their own tears fall; and mingling free, With a spontaneous sympathy, Not warriors now, but women all, Hearing heart pity loudly call, Their voices now united ring, Their hands, once clinched, now meet and cling. Raiment and Reno A SOCIETY sage is reported as saying that the tight skirt is responsible for Reno, and that the lack of interest in buying the household provender and carrying it home on the feminine arm makes for divorce. The truth of this is made evident when one studies the actions of husbands in high life. When they desert their wives, it is invariably for sirens with voluminous garments and the market-basket habit. These allure them with a deadly certainty, showing conclusively what their tastes are. It isa great help, too, to find out once for all the cause of divorce. A multiplicity of rea- sons have been given by students of social conditions, but now in one fell swoop we learn that it is a lack of the inanimate rather than a lack in the animate that producesit. A popular song among unhap- py benedicts must be ‘‘Oh, for the swish and the swirl of the skirt that has gone!’’ The Penniless Rich 7E ALL know that women have a bet- ter time of it through life than men, and such statements as have appeared recently, showing that rich women are treated unfairly by their husbands, in that they are allowed no spending money, ought to be suppressed. Have we not all read about these languid and luxurious parasites, idling the hours away, while their husbands nobly labor, with hirelings running their many homes, performing their arduous social duties, and presuma- bly bearing and rearing their children, so that they have nothing to do but to para- site? Indeed we have, and so we ask why should they feel humiliated because their spending money may consist of a postage stamp and a vanity box? Let them join the antis and believe that everything that is is right, especially if it places man in a lordly position and woman in that of the humble dependent. For we must all re- member that it is much better for the race for woman to get her desires in a sneaky fashion, which in this case would mean having a tradesman give her cash and add it to his bill, than for her to come out honestly in the open and get her rights as a dignified human being. IF WOMEN COULD VOTE Suffrage Snapshots Ry IDA HUSTED HARPER OBODY can ever make the anti-suf- fragists believe that Friday is not an unlucky day, since that favorable de- cision of the Illinois Supreme Court and the indorsement of the General Federa- tion of Women's Clubs both happened on a Friday. Since the anti-suffragists insist that it is a great deal easier for women to get good legislation without the ballot than with it, they should hurry up and secure laws to abolish child labor, which is at its worst in certain States where women cannot vote; and while they are about it, they might raise the ‘‘age of consent,’’ which in those same States is ten and twelve years. Pretty soon the women there will be electing the legislators, and then it will be impossible for them to get the laws they want. By a new law voters in Nebraska can send their ballots through the mail when necessary. This answers the question, Who will care for the baby when mother votes? Mother will, and Uncle Sam will deposit her ballot. Anti-suffs knocked out again! Mrs. Pankhurst says, ‘‘We will never get the vote until we terrorize the poli- ticians.”” Suffragists of the United States say, ‘‘Same over here, but we can scare them into giving it without burning a house or throwing a single bomb.”’ Per- haps the women of each country know their men. About six hundred suffrage so- cieties, composed of many thou- sands of the leading women of Great Britain, have issued a joint protest against ‘‘militancy,’’ and yet to read the newspapers you would think all the suffragists in that little island were engaged in burning houses, slashing pictures and bombarding His Majesty with leaflets, a One little woman in the big Woolworth Building in New York manages the electrical apparatus for running twenty-eight elevators —and yet some people think a woman hasn't nerve enough to drop a ballot in a box. a That member of the British Par- liament who has started a poultry farm and only keep hens, as a pro- test against that body's action on woman suffrage, is making a mistake. Every enterprise needs some one to do the crowing; roosters are very good at that. The Woman's Journal says the devil and the anti-suffragists will be busy all summer. Why both? fa} A good many legislators are getting ready to ‘eat crow’’ when it comes to voting on woman's rights at the next session, They have already begun in Louisiana. o The public-school teachers who the suffrage have raised the cry, “ disfranchised teachers train citizens Of course they can, so long as they can be had for half the price that a man would charge for the job. comicbooks.com