Judge — December 23, 1916 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ% A Womanly Woman First of All a Clothes Rack MAN is talked about and sized up generally by two B’s: his brains and his bank account. A woman is talked about and sized-up generally by two C’s: her clothes and her complexion. If you doubt it for a minute, just put your mind on the attitude taken by the press toward that innovation in our government, our new congresswoman. Jeannette Rankin, it appears, is an able woman strong in every way: strong minded cnough to have recognized at an carly age that if women were to have any chance protect their home interests the ull to develop themselves and must have the right to vote; strong enough physically to campaign on horseback through the rough mining state of Mon- tana to win the vote for women in that, her native state; strong enough morally to have so won the confidence of the pub- lic that she was chosen to represent it in Congress. This being so, did the press emphasize the real significance of the eccasion, the fact that women were to be represented directly in Congress for the first time by one of their best specimens, one with brains, character, and physique equal to all the demands of her trying positio: Quite the contrary, When the press, after its first strenuous hours with the question of Hughes vs. Wilson, got down to writing up our first Congresswoman, she was featured needle in hand making her own clothes, and “perfectly corking ones too.” She could cook, my, but she could cook! And her mind, too, dwelt by choice on clothes— she being a womanly woman. And, if she were to be asked to tell the story of her wonderful campaign that would have taxed the resources of the strongest man, she could be counted on to brush it all aside as irrelevant and uninteresting and exclaim, “Oh, come on and let’s go and buy a hat!” This was Jeannette Rankin as featured in the public press. Congressmen by the score were elected and their election received due newspaper space. But none of them was described as having hair that was “softly grey”; none of them was reported as having built his own home, or as having dug the family well; of none of them was the story told that, if he were asked to tell how he did it—that he would not rather do it than anything else in the world—he ay, “Oh, come on! Let's go chop And yet the modern woman really no more spends her time making her clothes and cooking her husband's dinner than the modern man spends his time chopping food and bringing in # water. And for fear that you may hastily infer that it is only in the minds of men that woman is still rated by the two C’s, pu may take it as true beyond perad- venture of a doubt that, if you could look into the hearts of practically every suf- fragist in the country, you would find, that their first impulse when they got down on their kneces—metaphorically speaking—was to thank God for having at last been vouchsafed a congresswoman; that their first grateful impulse was due to the fact that Jeannette was a good- look nd knew how to wear her clothes —in short that she was womanly woman, that is, a sort of vivified clothes rack. This is a sad story but true. Let her deny it who dare! Every time we hear a sermon on the short skirt we wish it was shorter. OUR NATIONAL GUARD Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER THE new Business College of Colum- bia University will be open to wo- men the same as men and they will be fully equipped to enter the business world. After all this, how are they to be convinced that a woman’s place is at home? And if it is, why spend the time and moncy to fit them for business? There's a flaw in the logic somewhere. 2 It is a wonder that Vice-President Mar- shall got the votes of the women after calling Eve a “soubrett She was un- questionably the leading lady and the prima donna; there was none to dispute these titles. She was also the chorus and in fact the whole show from the feminine standpoint. We are indebted for all the knowledge there is in the world to the fact that the serpent handed her an ap- ple instead of a lemon, and she was her- self a peach. * There will come a time when many members of Congress will envy the men they defeated, and that will be when the suffragists go into camp at the Capitol. 2 The spirit of feminine revolt has reached India and the wife, instead of waiting on her husband while he eats and gratefully accepting what he leaves, now sits down with him and takes her share. The next news from there may be that he is doing the cooking for the family. 2 It seemed providential that those short skirts should have come in style just as women were about to go into the mire of politics 2 The dean of women at Chicago Uni- versity will not allow drum music at the dances; she says it is too exciting. Yes, an accordion would be better. 2 A letter written 2,200 B.C. and never delivered has been discovered some place, but the man who forgot to post it will never be discovered. Long ago he went to meet just. deserts. comicbooks.