Judge — February 13, 1915 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL Aunt Betsey on Suffrage Heads and Foots I WALLACE come to our house to din- ner yisterday, and whilst he was bolt- ing the corn beef and cabbage and making Niag: Fallses of coffee swoop down his gullet, he says to me, *‘Aunt Betsey, don’t you go for to spile my wife 'n’ fill her head chuck full of this here suffrage nonsense, They can't be but one head toa fambly, and the man’s him by Scripter and nater. And i only right for the State to take ‘count of heads in vot- ing and not foots."* “That so?"* “*Mebbe "twould be all right if the foots, meaning female wive often they g! . When men is so contrairy as to kite out and jine the heavenly choir and make their wimmen folks hustle to keep the stomachs of the offsprings filled, what then? Hadn't the State ought to cock its weathereye that way and say, ‘Land's sakes! This fambly's got a ma-pa, and if it’s to git a show same as others, this side-combed head's got to be give the right to express an opinion on something besides mush and measles.’ Then, again, they’s a pile of heads un- hitched foots, and so them that should be nice fambly extremities has got to be combinations of heads and foots all by theirselves to git along; and also and be- sides, I've read twenty thousand heads de- sert their famblys every year in London, and I reckon we ain't entirely destitute of vanishers here. And lastly, some heads that stay stuck, not going to heaven or Halifax, ain't no great shakes, jest showing their headiness by strutting round in pants and growling at the coffee. Ain't you ever heard of men that ‘ud fall in a fit if a job walked up and looked 'em in the eye—men that make the female foots support ‘em? On the whole,"’ says I, ‘‘this heads busin simmered down, looks to me jest like male supremacy with a new pair of overalls on. Strikes me 'twould be better to drop heads and foots and stick to plain bodie and then wimmen'll come in same as the men and be something besides tails in politics." And jest as Si Wallace was about to sput- ter some more, I added, “Come to think of it, perhaps the whole to calling wimmen urally got to female movement's due foots. A foot has iest kick."" ALL THROUGH BUT THE SWELLED HEAD! A Spade’s a Spade By ETHEL RB. PEYSE HY IS it that a woman who never rides in a taxi always expects every man she knows to provide one for her when he takes her out? Why is it that men who think that only women property holders should be granted the rights of woman suffrage rarely if ever own property themse! Why is it that the women who think that all men are inferior expect so much of them? Wi hy i is it that women who don’t bel t influence want the vote Idren"’? it that women who don’t believe in woman suffrage believe in indirect in- fluence? Why is it that men who say they are only making money for their wives’ sake never make it possible to have a joint checking account? Why is it that the men who think that women are superior expect so little of them? Why is it that men like to put women on a pedestal—but fail to offer them seats? Why is it that women do not put men on pedestals and give them all the comforts of home? Why is it that women who are in business for themselves rarely ever take a husband to check them? Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER HEN the Pennsylvania women read that the recent senatorial election in that State cost over two million dollars, they thought perhaps they'd better put off their suffrage campaign until there is a slump in prices. New Zealand has just been celebrating the twenty-first year of its equal-suffrage iaw. To be sure, that country is some dis- tance off; but it seems as if we should have heard of the wrecked homes, ruined fam- ilies, declining birth rate, feminized men and the general reign of socialism, polyg- amy and other things which the antis de- clare will follow woman suffrage. If they will, then they have done it, so let us have a bill of particulars from New Zealand. [s) Secretary of the Interior Lane urges the enfranchisement of the rest of the Indian men as quickly as possible. Seems as if the government is determined to leave the voteless women no company at all. Secretary of State Bryan he wouldn't feel sure of the support of women, as they did not vote for him when he was a candi- date; but he must remember that he hadn't discovered then that he was in favor of woman suffrage. o The National Women’s Anti-Suffrage As- sociation announces that it spent less than $10,000 in the seven campaign States last fall. Why should it waste even that much good money when the other branches of the opposition were amply able to furnish hun- dreds of thousands and did so?