Judge — January 22, 1916 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ When Wives Are Most Valued by Husbands OHN,” said the wife of a worthy up- state New York farmer, ‘can you let me have two dollars? Lam going into town with the eggs and have some shopping to do.” “Indeed not,” he reproachfully answered I think that as I give you all the egg money you ought not to ask for more.” On the way to town her sleigh got mixed up with a passing freight train and Mary was on the invalid list for four months. chereupon John sued the railroad for a thousand dollars’ damages due to loss of his wife's services. Which proves that a wife rises and fall in her husband's esteem through no fault of hers, or that Mary’s hens were laying about three thousand dollars’ worth of eggs a year. Men Refuse Their Own Medicine N MARYLAND the powers that be have taken to beating wife beaters. The law has reposed unenforced on the statute book for over fifty years. During that time the wives who have been beaten have endured with silent fortitude the pain and ignomin; At least the press has not recorded their protests. But when the court administered a dose of his own medicine to a man charged with wife beating, he not only screamed aloud with anguish, but his spiritual suffering was so great that he declared himself disgraced for life and a wanderer henceforth from home and state. When we get down to the rugged facts of life it is man who is of the gentler sex. If you don’t believe it, ask any dentist. Do Women Want To Vote: Just A f Few Straws \ THOUSAND women cared so much about the right to vote or not to vote that they pilgrimed to Washington to tell the government how they felt about it President Wilson received them. ‘They numbered, 4 passed down the line, 200 anti-suffragists. The representative women in. practi- cally all the states are banded together into state federations of women’s clubs. Thirty-two of these scrapped their out-of tate federations have late ideas and The Na- Inter- marched into the suffrage fold. tional Federation is there. The national Federation is there. In twelve states women can vote and do so in enormous numbers. Voting is not com- pulsory. If they did not want to vote they would not. These are just a few straws to show how the wind is blowing among women and they show it headed toward democracy. By Their Games Ye Shall Know Them OME hundreds of years ago, little high- born maidens had their crinoline pinned up while they played blind man’s buf. Those were thrilling times for little girls. Bead work and wax flowers once stood as the sign and the symbol of the athletic achievements of the young female. Later she stood in the midst of voluminous stiffened skirts playing at archery. Oh, most modest and decorous of athletic ventures! Croquet came and brought with it vast emancipation, for it involved motion swift and accurate. It was played in hoopskirts and sunbonnets, but, my, how they skipped about ! Good old Matthew Vassar sent the ball rolling toward freedom for women, and Vassar girls in ugly grey dresses and pinked sashes of red flannel went through prim movements to the tune of the anvil chorus. And finally came tennis, the real emanci- pator of woman. At last she was free. Rub- ber soles; short skirts; hatless and sweatered. And with physical freedom came a great impetus to the votes for women movement, for physical freedom induced spiritual liberty. For just as a naughty child can be reduced to meekness by holding him firmly, so that he can’t move; just as a crowd packed so closely that individual movement is impos- sible easily degenerates into a mob; so the spiritual subjection of women through the ages has gone hand in hand with clothes that made movement difficult and social custom that decreed it unwomanly. a Cunning Shopper very clever shopper, ot the Kiddies and for Popper, And you need not try to stop her, Not a bit! She is wise as all the sages, With the wisdom of the ages From the advertising pages, And she’s fit! Unpleasant Honor VOWED s But it wa When he explained that one so placed Was called the senior partner. JE “d head the household firm, some disheart'ner Sanferd. Guest—Why do you give your daughter such an awful nickname as “Misery” > Host—Because she loves company. comicbooks.com