Judge — November 25, 1916 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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Dept. 2548 \ Chicago, m1. htpet” HOTEL CHELSEA West Twenty-third St, at Seventh Av, NEW YORK CITY 500 Rooms 400 Baths European Plan 4th Avenue car sout Sd street n rie, Reading, Raltiinore & Otio, Jersey Central ‘and Lehigh Valley K. i. Station@, take 23d Street cross- "ar east to Hotet Steamsalp Pier t erosstown eaf. Write for Colored Map of New York. t West 23d Street, take 23d THE MODERN WOMAyY Suffrage Facts and Fancies CADOGAN ETZ | By ANNA Some By-products of the Wat EFORE the war if a policeman in Berlin saw a woman boarding a street car with freedom and ease because her legs were encased in trousers amply comfortable, he would take her by the car, figuratively speaking, and “run her in” to police headquarters where she would be made to settle for a misde- meanor. But the god of war demands instant and efficient service and conven- tion may “go hang.” for all of him. So it isthat the government has demanded that women serve in the street cars, not as of yore when they meekly paid their fares to an august male, but as collectors of fares themselves, and no petticoats are permitted to hinder the prompt ringing up of the far By government edict conductors’ legs are to be encased in trousers grey in color and ample in width regardless of s So it is that trousers for women is a by-product of the war. Before the war all over Europe were men, rude peasants, as we are wont to call them, living in villages in which wo- men served many of the purposes of cat- tle; were regarded as cattle; and submit- ted with the same meekness to injustice. The god of war has, as it were, picked these men up; smashed them; and left them for weeks flat on their backs in hos- pitals where the ministrations of skilful women nurses and doctors have kept the breath of life in them. Weary weeks have been passed in seeing nothing but wo- men performing unthought-of service; in thinking of women as something alien to the cattle-like females left behind in the home villages. Under the stress of suf- fering; in the blinding light of grati- tude for immeasurable service, in the minds of these multitudes of men, has been etched a new vision of woman. It can no more fade than the amputated leg arm return toits socket. Never again will the woman and the cow be inter- changeable ideas in the minds of these men—with the betting odds in favor of the cow. So it is that one of the by-products of the war has been the manufacture, so speak, of veritable yeast cakes of fem nism out of wounded soldiers who will carry home with them new ideas of wo- man as a guide and a comrade rather than a thing to be kicked and brow- beaten, and thus the old status of woman will receive a jolt so startling that the old ruts of serfdom will know her no more. Before the war women in England pleaded in vain for the right to vote. Public men of all sorts and kinds were as adamant. The men were not woman- haters. Nothing of the kind. They were kindhearted gentlemen who believed that rights belonged to those who could fight to protect them, and that women Wer not of these. In vain the women tp minded these stubborn gentlemen tke women furnished the soldiers and the; | share of the tax money. The men never blinked. Still they were as adamant he god of war knocked out of the hands of woman her old-time pursuits ani set women at work at five hundred open. tions in the munition factories and at al the rough and heavy jobs of agriculture and trade supposedly possible only for men. So it is that the permanent Spec. tacle of women performing these ma jobs with cheerfulness and efficiency has knocked into the heads of public mend all sorts and kinds this truth to whid they were blind: Instead of being usees in time of war, this war would be im. possible without the service of wome Hence it is that one of the most ix portant by-products of the war is sud an accession to the ranksof the suffragss that they have become an irresistibe force merely biding the time when polit cal readjustments are in order. Let Us Say “Good-by ” to This Theory 66 A LAS,” wrote the surviving member of a matrimonial venture toa distant friend, ‘the hand that rocked the cradle has kicked the bucket What we would like to be able is that the theory that “the hand rocks the cradle rules the world” “kicked the bucket.” This is heart's desire. Do we not owe a debt of gratituk to this lamenting spouse for his simple statement of an impossible achievement Merely to state that said hand “kid the bucket” is to reveal to all thinkes that no hand ever “kicked a bucket.” ought to be equally clear to all observes that seldom or never has said basd “rocked a cradle.” The cradle fro time immemorial has been rocked by the same portion of human anatoay that functions when a bucket is to be kicked Let logic pursue its straight course at it is clear, or ought to be, that to say tht the hand that rocks the cradle rules te world is as absurd as to say that th world is ruled by the foot that fires gun. When these facts can be plait driven into the public mind, then, a then only, can we rejoice to say that te most fallacious theory of history—t# which connects cradle rocking and woe ruling via hands—has indeed “kid the bucket.” May it rest in peace! 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