Judge — October 9, 1915 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ Fancies Herb Wessel, the boy ferret- er, squeezes his ribs against those of the umbrella. He is waiting for rain to drive Point 7 his way. While Herb is busy you've a great chance to hunt it in the package! Memorize Points | to 6: Point 1—Crowded with flavor Point 2—Velvety body—NOGRIT Point 3—Crumble-proot Point 4—Sterling poy Point 5—Froma dayligh t fact Point 6—Untouched hands y hands Point @) (Ohare The STERLING GUM CO., Ine, Long Island City New York PEPPERMINT = RED WRAPPER CINNAMON = BLUE WRAPPER Be An Artist MAKE Money Drawing Comic Pictures. Let the world’s famous cartoonist, Eugene Zimmerman, spill a few ideas into your head. Get the Zim Book— it's chuck full of valuable suggestions. Price $1.00 postpaid. Bound in 3-; Morocco. Satisfaction guar- anteed. 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Be- lated editors still write editorials on the weaker sex, but to be put to the lie by their own news columns. The Slocum, the Paris Ba- zar fire, the Eastland: every disaster faced equally by men and women, reveals women asanything but short on poise and fortitude. This being so, asks the suffragist, why send men forth alone to face the perils of politics? She Was Able He had come down from Fulton to see the sights at the State Fair at Syracuse, but the sight of a woman in the band stand exhorting the crowd to vote “no” on the woman suf- frage amendment “got his goat,” as he sai and he promptly went up and told her what he thought about her. “Why, man,” she responded, “would you want your wife to sit on a jury? Whereupon wifey, who was trotting along at his side, piped up, “Huh, I could sit on the jury and the judge too, if necessary.” What Converted Him “Suffrage meeting here in fifteen minutes. Come and listen. Perhaps we can convert you,” called out the barker at the street cor- w York State village. “Why, * responded an elderly man as he drew near, “I was converted fifteen years ago. Never shall I forget the day that I went down to the polls and saw the political workers bring in a male idiot and vote him. I marched straight home and said to my wife, ‘Mary, it’s time we had your vote.’”” If a man could always have his own way, he would soon lose his way in this world. SETTING THE KEYSTONE ; The Law's Kindness Y PENSIONING widows only—and po grass mentioned in the specifications either—New York virtually says to an pressed or deserted wife: If you poison yor husband and don’t let us catch you at it, the state will support you. By inflicting a jail sentence on desert husbands, New York virtually says to q worthless man: Oh, so you will not ‘Support your family? Well, then we will Support you. And he is given a ride in an automobile to the county seat where he is furnished with a bed and three meals a day while his wife continues to practice athletics at the wash board, and his children are glad to get any. thing to cat and watch the automobiles go by, By pensioning only those widows who af. firm that they cannot and will not support their children, New York virtually puts a bounty on_ indifferent mothers and penalizes the mother who at any sacrifice will keep her home intact and ber children with her. On the platform when the statesman mentions home and mother it is to weep with sympathy and adulation. In the platform that blossoms into legisla- tion, “home and mother” seldom get a “look-in,” and when it does it is apt to be cross-eyed, as these instances illustrate. The Ins and the Outs The world has always been divided into two classes: the people who are In and the people who Out. The Outs never get In, if the Ins know it. That is the case of woman suffrage ina nutshell. If women were the voters and men stood politically on a pedestal with criminals and idiots and_ children, the struggle necessary for them to succeed ia getting down and off would repeat in every detail the history of woman suffrage in the last half century. Just as the right of counsel and appeal for prisoners had to be won over the protest of bench and bar; just as the men teachers ia New York City were the most bitter opponents of equal pay for women teachers, so it is that the Ins ever line up against the Outs. Woman suffrage makes its strongest appeal as a part of the oncoming of demot racy under which there will be no Outs