Judge — October 10, 1914 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL Hysterics O}#. WOMAN, with your tricky nerves, ‘When overwrought you grow, Your tears like glittering drops of rain In mournful showers flow. Your fair face grows contorted, Your lily skin turns red, And reason, routed by a mood, Gives way to stormy dread. For this the world condemns you oft And calls you silly, weak and soft. Oh, pattern after man! for he, When overcharged, lets fly His noble fists and aims good blows At whoso passes by. So shall you then be fit to rule; For kings, ’gainst weep- ing steeled, Work out their wild hys- terics Upon the battlefield. And this the world doth swift extol, It loves so well a martial soul. A Little Surprise A YOUNG woman of pro- perty, who has always scoffed at suffrage, basing her opposition on a general ignorance of its basic argu- ments, has found out to her amazement and consequent disgust that the will she carefully executed a year ago, according to the statute of wills of New York State, will be re- voked upon hermarriage. This little slap at her pocketbook makes her look with a wary cye upon men’s dealings with wom- enkind, and she shows a tendency to wab- ble toward the feminist camp. Now is the time for some anti to save her from contamination and remind her that it is only natural for man to look out for the shekels, as it has been his principal oc- cupation since the flood. It is gems of thought like these that make women be- lieve that whatever is is right. A Sturdy Champion W L. GEORGE, taking up the cudgels ° for the unmarried woman in a mag- azine article, strongly advocates training her to do work other than that in the home, making her a strong factor in so- ciety and in politics, and thus stopping IN TIME OF PEACE “You are not physically able to vote.”” creature, without family or wide inter- ests. Those who believe suffragists want the vote as the great end of life will be surprised that this advocate of it believes it a means and not an end, to be used by “the feminist party to gain sex rights, for married women a proper share in the family income and an endowment for motherhood, and for the unmarried the right to status, making a woman a crea- ture conscious of political power, there- fore a creature more combative, more in- clined to combine in trade unions, with all that means for the worker.’’ Can it IN TIME OF WAR be that man will forgive the old maid for not ensnaring him and will some day permit her to be something considerably more than a mere cog in the great ma- chinery of society? A Woman Cannot Go to War! AN GOES to war and counts it brave To kill his brothers in the strife, While woman stays at home to save His little son for love and life. But when the man comes marching home Mid blaring trumpets and huzzahs, He is the hero, he the one Deemed fit to vote and make the laws, And if asked why the woman vote He thinks a subject to abhor, He'll likely say, ‘*Why, she’s not fit! A woman cannot go to war!'’ —Lida Keck Wiggins. “Take up that burden.” Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER Quo has just rolled up the largest petition of voters on record for woman suffrage—more than ten per cent. of the whole number. It also gave in 1912 the largest vote ever cast in favor of woman suffrage—over a quarter of a million. Really that State doesn’t justify the loud cackling of the antis, Almost every organization in the ‘‘cam- paign’’ States which stands for anything that ought to be stood for has indorsed the suffrage amendment. Will the antis name one which has de- clared against it—that is, has declared publicly? Oo “T shall ask no political rights for myself that I am not willing to grant to my wife,’’ nobly declares Mr. Bryan, after having done so ever since he became a benedict. ‘*While the lamp holds out to burn’’—and the suffragists belong to the wise ones who keep plenty of oil in their lamps. New York’s only anti- suffrage paper says editori- ally that ‘‘fair and honest opponents of woman suf- frage do not believe that to withhold the right to vote from women is inequality of treatment.’’ A national Constitution which gives to one class of citizens the power to withhold any kind of a ‘‘right’’ from another class offers a flagrant ex- ample of unequal treatment. [s] Have a Father’s Day, by all means, if any of them feel slighted; but wouldn’t a “‘night’’ be more appropriate? Go Those clever antis! What wonderful research work they are doing! Having discovered that woman suffrage has led to polygamy in Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Kansas, they have now found, ac- cording to their official statement, that it means ‘‘the deliberate return to sav- agery.’’ Alas, yes! one can hear the war whoops even now—they sound like the suffragists celebrating a victory! comicbooks.com