Judge — January 23, 1915 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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f Curbside Comments Ry ORKOLA W. HASKELL Our Poor Men HERE should be a wild scramble on the part of American men to procure copies of the book by Mr. C. W. Sams, of the Virginia bar, on ‘Shall Women Vote? A Book for Men."’ It is certainly a crying shame that thousands, nay, millions of our dear brothers are going innocently about, absolutely unconscious of their deposed and degraded condition, all due to the laws now enacted in a majority of the States, giving woman the right to her own property, the privilege of suing man for non-support, and depriving him of that absolute headship of the family whose loss Mr. Sams deprecates with verbal sighs and sobs. Of all the think- ing men in the country, Mr. Sams seems to be the only one to realize the awful straits of the male sex and to try to instill into it a deadly fear of the encroaching female. How soul-stirring it is to see a mighty mind rise up to defend the masculine lawmakers from doing damage to themselves and their fellows! We only hope the solemn warnings will penetrate the waist- coats of the unwary; for, indeed, anyone who can peruse this work and not dissolve into briny weeps at the pictures drawn of poor men prevented from deserting their families and from bossing the whole domestic shooting match must be possessed of a double breasted, armor-plated heart tightly encumbered with reams of the latest feminist literature. A Woman Warrior HAT can one expect of women when their parents, instead of counseling them to stick to the pastoral bypaths of life, order them out into the glaring highways? Sophie Iovanovitch, of Servia, is therefore no more to blame for her military pursuits than for her name, both of them having been thrust upon her by her father. On his deathbed the latter exacted a promise from her that she would take up arms against the Turks, and having been appointed a ‘‘cam- etadje,"" whatever that by King Peter, she fought in three battles, throwing bombs that she carried in her belt. Since suffra- ODF! gists believe that women ought not to take over the vices of men, her bloodthirsty oc- cupation will evoke little admiration from them. Binding up wounds is not as roman- tic as making them, but it does the old ball of dirt we live on a lot more good. A Pointer L =T THE antis sit up and take notice, Insanity is rapidly increasing in this country. In 1890 the number of the insane in the United States was 106,485; in 1910, 200,000, and at the present time is about 225,000. Experts lay the blame on the stress of modern life and other prosaic SACRED HISTORY things, but the antis know better than to be fooled. Haven't women come out of the coverts by the thousands during those years and the suffrage movement grown enor- mously, without doubt driving every vestige of sanity out of thousands of innocent Amer- icans? Yes, indeed; and the only way to restore mental balance to those who have lost it is to crush the very word feminism into pulpy particles. Being Done Raymond—I did so like your sister! It is so nice to meet a girl who is really doing something. Stephen—Isn't your sister doing some- thing? I thought she was. Raymond—No, not unless you mean me! —Ethel Ry Peyser. LOu ROGERS Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER DISON says ‘the movement for woman Suffrage suffrage is just plain morals.’* Maybe that’s the trouble—they’re too plain. Dress them up fashionably and see if the lady antis won't accept them. The pugilists of California are so mad be- cause prize fights are prohibited that they are going to move out of the State to spite the women who did it. a In the States where women can vote they have not exactly turned their swords into plowshares, but they have trans- formed their suffrage societies into civic clubs, and instead 6f their begging men to give them votes, the men are begging women for the votes they already hold in their lily-white hands. The first thing the women of Oregon did with their brand-new ballots was to cast them against letting foreigners vote on their “‘first papers,’’ which they had always done. Did somebody re- mark that women are too radical to be trusted with the suffrage? = Annie Riley Hale, a prominent anti, says that women want the suffrage in order to establish polygamy throughout the United States. If she can prove it will have that effect, the women can take a rest, and the men will carry on their campaign for them. The leaders of each political party in Chi- cago are imploring the women to preserve it at the spring election. o If South Carolina women don’t get the suffrage very soon, there won't be enough convicts left in the penitentiary for Gov- ernor Blease to free in order to counteract their votes. The Guidon Anti-Suffrage Club of New York is devoting itself to a study of the Bible. Nobody needs the consolations of religion quite so much just now as the anti- suffragists. comicbooks.com