Judge — May 27, 1916 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ 66 A ‘ Why Men Are So m e r 1 Cc a n 9 INE of the most important books in the library of feminism bears the title “Why Women Are So.” The consuming interest in this questiog nowadays blinds the public to the fact that men are also so and that its e r I I l a n - just as interesting and important to know why men are so as it is te know the same thing about women. s | If we may believe a group of eminent publicists women are simply merican wasting their time conjuring up reasons that will be logic proof to the ead that men will vote for woman suffrage, for, while man has been listed from the time of Aristotle as a reasoning animal, reason is not the gasolire 99 | an erman that speeds reforms. 9 It has never been a question, so writes one of them, of making ma that woman suffrage is right, but to make him like the idea, for 's information consists largely in a knowledge of what he likes and dis ‘ | likes, and on sex his native taste is strong. Man isa person who gets ver b Booth | arkin = angry, so writes another, with anyone who tries to change his opinica Vy g on any matter in which he has feelings and to avoid this he only joins © the club and reads the paper that agree with him. The suffragist reads ton, 1s a sympa- the suffrage paper and the anti-suffragist reads the anti-suffrage paper . ° . Now it happens that man’s deepest feelings are centered about his thetic discussion dinner and that in man’s mind woman is inextricably interwoven with this same process of feeding. It isn’t that she cooks so well, for man is sure, in his inmost mind, that he could beat her if he cared to try. But he doesn't of one of the most and, while he is a good sport in most things, in this he cares to take m . chances. serious problems It is because men are so that a half a century of argument has surged " . over their heads and yet woman suffrage lagged apace. It is because mea of American cit- | are so that once woman suffrage is established as it is now as a politial experiment interfering in no way with family life, that it is spreading like wild fire and even its bitterest opponents have given up all hope of stop- izenship. Somuch ping has been thought mourns Pama Cale Reel government could call itself complete which gave to its most ignorant ° . and said on this men what it denied to its most intelligent women. women have prayed three times for admission to J su bj ect t h at 1 t when last reported, they were praying still, and al in vain. . Why? Disquieting rumors floated over from Indianapols will be ver in- where the names of men have been entirely deleted from the honor rl y of Butler College, and the women students, so the report goes, not satisfied with having entirely feminized the roll of honor, made themselves still mor = teresting to read f obnoxious by scoring ten points above the men on the average standing Times have changed since the great Virginian boldly proclaimed the the ideas of a man like rights of women. In those days Mary Somerville meekly studied it private in order not to offend the gentlemen who had little liking for the Mr. Tarkington. The female bluestocking. In these days women fairly flaunt their article will be published learning in the eyes of men ap- . . parently quite indifferent as to in the May 27th issue whether men like or dislike it. But even so, good sportsman- of ship demands that the men accept the hazard. Better a feminized honor roll than to ¢. be dubbed “fraid cats.” ° Stew 9, The Way of Man ] rs | “DUST thou art, to dust re- turnest,”” THE NATIONAL WEEKLY Wrote the Psalmist, wise and 416 West 13th Street, New York City 3 gray, Never thinking that some Mudd, in deadly earnest, Would propose to Widow Clay. —W. J. Lampton, TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE comicbooks.com