Judge — November 27, 1915 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Address Leslie-Judge Co., 225 Fifth Ave., New York THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ If Women Are Good, 'Tis Because Men Would Have It So OMEN flaunt their virtues in the face of man, forgetting that if they are better than men in some departments of human activity ‘tis because men would have it so. When men organized human society, they sorted over all the human | qualities, and those they did not want they gave to women—very much as | a man sorts over his wardrobe and gives to the poor the clothes he is tired of wearing. Men had to be honest, or how could they trade with any peace of mind? So they marked “honesty” as masculine. Women not having any | money did not need it anyway. Somebody had to be chaste, or how could men devise their Property with any peace of soul—how could a man know his son as such? It bored men to death, the very thought of being chaste themselves, so they dubbed “chastity” as feminine. Women, not being in a position to choos, meckly took the part, and all through the centuries they have played it just as strictly as it suited men to have them—some very strictly; others quite the contrary. They played it so well, in fact, that not long since a mayor of New York had a pipe dream, in which he saw a time when “all the men of the city would be honest and all the women virtuous.” Men set aside for women also all those domestic qualities w make for the health and comfort of the family. They kept for themselves all the sporting and warlike qualities, and pursued them so diligently that we have in consequence the present war and the American baseball season, But the point is that, just as men put money in the bank against a rainy day, so they have stored up virtues in women and these virtues are now at the service of a society that desperately needs them. States that have given women the vote boast of the clean-up due to the practice of the house- wifely arts on city housekeeping. The East is a bit slow, but it’s coming. Woman and the Law In carly days cleverness in women was not were burned as witches. When over half a century ago Miss Jex Blake asked admission into the medical school in Edinburgh, she was not argued with. She was stoned. But in America men have always been willing to take the time to explain carefully to women their limitations. “No, ma’am, you can’t be a lawyer, becau: ‘ou couldn’t any more make a legal contract than a babe in arms,” 1 the Supreme Court of Illinois to Mrs. Myra Bradford in 1868. ’ “No, ma’am, you can’t be a lawyer, because when the Constitution ’ it never thought of you,” said the same court politely but firmly when she came back the next year. “We are very sorr} said the United States Supreme Court to which she next appealed, “but God meant the sexes to occupy different spheres and he doesn’t raise women to be lawyers. ‘0, ma'am, you can’t be a lawyer,” said the Wisconsin Court to Lavinia Goodall in 1875; “it is not for us to tempt you to leave the duties of your sex by giving you a chance at the opportunities that be long to men. If these things are to come,” the court continued with pious unction, “we wash our hands of any responsibility.” F And even in rorg these same funny men maintained that a distin- guished New York state woman couldn't practise law because in an unguarded momenv¥ she had fallen in love and married a Dutchman. argued with. They An Illustration in Logic Reason, said good old Benjamin Franklin, was given man so that be could tell why he was doing what he wanted to do. “Vote for them? Not on your li ejaculated a New York man after the big suffrage parade. “I’m sore at them. I watched them march for several hours and I got the fiercest cold I ever had in my life.” and as though for a moment he saw the fallacy of his position, he added a bit sheepishly, “And I,have other reasons for voting ‘no.’”” “Other what, did you sa asked his questioner. Times Changed “ Willis—In the old days, kings had jesters to pull off the funny sul Gillis—And now they have diplomats do it.