Judge — October 24, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN WOMAN Suffragistic Incongruities By ETHEL R. PEYSER EN WHO claim that they ‘‘owe all to their wives’’—and yet think that they haven’t brains enough to vote. Women who yin championships in ten- nis, rowing, etc.—and yet are considered too frail to vote. Women who gather the harvests, run the trams, manage the factories of Eu- rope, and, because they are not soldiers — are still considered too weak and too lacking in endurance to have full citizen rights. Antis who spend the days motoring— and leave their infants with untrained domestics. Women who claim to be suffragists— and yet think ‘‘that the time is not ripe for women to vote.’* Women who claim to be so busy that “they have no time to even think of the vote, much less to actually vote’’—yet Mr. Morgan, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Edison are busy. The wife who supports her husband— and yet persists in claiming that women are not fit for the franchise. Suffragists who give their children toy firearms—and expect to rear peaceful and law-abiding citizens. The woman who does not believe in militarism—and yet insists upon wearing clothes cut on military lines. Women can express themselves in pub- lic speeches, in public prints, in semi- public gatherings, in painting, in music —and yet are denied the right of the quiet and secret ballot. A Campaign Commonplace Woman editor (canvassing for the cause)— Do you believe in votes for women? Grocery clerk—No, marm; I don’t think women know enough yet to vote. Woman editor—Do you, then? Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL A Strange Gift J[NSTEAD of spending her money for trinkets and trifles, a woman has given a large amount of her fortune to build a narrow-gauge railway into the ruins of ancient Antioch, in Pisidia, western Asia. The gift will make possible excavations that are expected to furnish new light on New Testament history, especially upon the travels of St. Paul, as well as to yield valuable information concerning the Ro- man empire in New Testament times. What a how! would arise to high heaven if this woman had undertaken to take charge of this work for pay! How learned gentlemen would have grown grave and grumpy over the effect of such fusty work upon the female intellect and through that upon generations yet unborn! But as long as Mary gives the money and does not earn it, her interest hurts nobody. Itisso instructive to understand fine distinctions! The New Dream I DREAM a mother dream and see The happy years that are to be, When, grown in usefulness and powers, My child shall live life’s golden hours. No narrow path the feet shall tread That lovingly my own have led, But splendid highways where they go, Who widest hopes and purports know. Free, strong and wise my child shall be, With world-wide opportunity To test each power, each grace and gift; Swift to achieve, not idly drift. And, oh, what service high and great Shall flow from this life to the state, Until new hopes shall stir the race, And living gain both strength and grace. All mothers have thus visioned fair The future for the sons they bear; But unlike these my fancies stream— ’Tis for my daughter that ] dream. A Pair Evangelist MIss IDA HAWKINS, of Baltimore, felt a call to go and preach the Gos- pel, and so with her brother she went to Savannah, Georgia, and is now holding religious meetings that attract the simple farming people and make them regard her as asecond Joan of Arc. Miss Hawkins does not adopt the methods of many savers of souls and has no use for hysteria, saying that she teaches the possible things and not the fool- ish. While it is rather presump- tuous of Ida to do the intellectual duties at such meetings when she was meant simply to assist some man by hum- bly passing the hat, it is not to be wondered at that she has caught the brazen spirit of the times and has gone forth to give a soprano interpre- tation of the Scriptures. Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER THE ANTI-SUFFRAGE ladies mourned over the women’s peace parade, be- cause it showed such a ‘‘thirst for pub- licity.’"’ Yes; those timid, shrinking creatures wouldn’t do a thing except parade up and down the streets wearing a big American Beauty rose to attract at- tention to their being antis, open head- quarters in conspicuous places, call mass meetings and orate from the platform, besiege Congress and Legislatures, attend political conventions: and go before the committees, send their representatives all over the country to conduct a publicity campaign against the suffragists. Oh, yes, they're ‘‘shrinking”’ all right—get- ting smaller every day. i “Oh, suffragists, do you know that if you succeed, the future men will be one- sided mongrels in nature and education, having had two fathers and no mother?’’ (Anti-suffrage document.) Good gracious! Just to think they’ve got ’em like that in those Western States, and the rest of the country doesn’t even know it! oO Nothing scares the suffragists. Their amendment in the last Ohio campaign was No, 23, and now they are going into the Missouri campaign with No. 13. 0 A New York paper said, after the re- cent primary elections, that ‘the people seemed inflexibly determined not to rule.’” Before this statement is accepted, give that half of the people a chance who have been trying to get it since 1848. ARE YOU ONE OF THIS KIND? comicbooks.com