Judge — November 14, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN WOMAN Mustard and Cress By ETHEL R. PEYSER Women Arc Not Yet Ready for the Vote os ALL WOMEN as yet are not ready to vote. fo prove this it’s really quite simple. We quote: “That every girl doesn’t know the his- tory of law, Nor why everybody enjoys reading Shaw; Nor the science of hygiene and camp sanitation, Nor the laws of the Greeks or of war aviation; Nor pure sociology and all of the isms, Nor the theory of politics or of world cataclysms. Every girl does not know all the lan- guages spoken, ‘And why every peace pact has suddenly broken; Or the science of plumbing or the lore of the stars, And why all the history of ancient as- trology Has nothing to do with our modern his- tology. Every woman cannot be a great mathe- matician, Nor can she become a world's famed mechanician; Nor are they past masters of commerce and modes, Nor versed in the mazes of all legal codes.’’ So it’s easy to see why the vote is not handed To women with ignorance branded. But men are quite ready! ready begun! For ajl that they need is ERS EEE to be twenty-one! “hy AL ap: Modern Dialectic Woman (sadly)—Tell me, what is the best philosophy of living? Superwoman—Do you mean the easiest or the best and highest? Woman (very wearily) —Oh, the path of least resistance ! Superwoman (sardoni- cally)— Try and please the men folk—dress for them, act up to them, cook for them, humor them, treasure them and be of their opinion. Woman (in despera- tion)—Oh, but I’ve done that all my life, and I am still most unhappy ! Superwoman—You de- serve to be! . patently They've al- Ue 9! 4 Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER HE anti-suffragists have issued a ton or so of literature, to show that the constitution of women can never endure the nervous strain of voting. Now the presidents of the State medical associa- tions in all the States where women have been voting from two to forty-five years have signed a statement that if anything has happened to their constitutions, their family physieians haven't discovered it. The antis are playing in hard luck—every time they start out anice little theory, it runs up against a fact and is smashed into splinters. New York’s public schools have just opened with three-quarters of a million pupils and fifty thousand barred out for lack of room. Lucky for the Colonel that he can turn his attention from ‘‘race sui- cide’’ at least long enough to try to pre- vent some other kinds. A few weeks ago the British govern- ment was sacrificing women for ‘‘mili- tancy.’’ Now it is imploring them to help repair the damage caused by the militancy of men forced to it by the gov- ernment. According to the society notes, our women will now have to wear gowns made by American dressmakers. All right; it doesn’t matter who make a woman’s dress, if only they will make enough of it. > Pox. AY ARE YOU THIS KIND? Dog—Now if that cat ever gets loose she'll want one of my bones. Curbside By OREOLA W. HASK . Making Jail Popalar HE CLERGYMEN who score woman's cooking and say that it is to blame for divorce and deterioration of male character might turn their attention toa jail in Columbus, Indiana, where the sher- iff complains bitterly that the women of his family who cook for the prisoners do it so well that the institution is famed for its fare and attracts the hungry and the criminal for miles around. If, in- deed, food produces virtue, this should be an exceptionally successful place to make over the rascal and the villain. Perhaps regeneration is going on so merrily as to give the sheriff visions of a jobless fu- ture; hence his wailing objection to the skill of the feminine chefs. Another Hero ' OF COURSE suffragists are all man haters, but we fear that, in spite of this well-established fact, they will boldly laud Judge Craig, of Los Angeles, who seems to have common sense raised to the nth power. For, lo! instead of sending a man of wealthy family to jail for ten years for taking advantage of the inno- cence and ignorance of a young girl, he has actually decided to reform the gentle- man raséal and at the same time help the girl. And so, taking for truth the,word of the man that he intended to marry his victim, he has ordered him to educate the girl for the high social position she must occupy as his wife, has told him he must go to work himself and must behave himself, since the stern eye of the court will be upon him, and has used for a club the ten-year sentence that will be carried out unless commands are obeyed. This seems to be an ideal punishment. But what is the world coming to if in- stead of universal incar- ceration, we make wrong- doers make amends to their victims and make them change their own characters? Will not some of us who swell with virtue when walking by the barred inclosure of the bad be cheated out of our pious self-conceit and made to feel that there is no cake and bread, but that we’re all made out of the same dough? Comments cLL comicbooks.com