Judge — June 16, 1917 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ Something New in Thoughtfulness 66] WOULD lik aida. prisoner “to be di- so that she awaiting execution vorced from my wii be free to marry again.”” nical suffragists out for the male e politely asked to note; to itate. To note, that even a man about to be executed for murder may display a fine touch of chivalry entitling him to hob- nob with Sir Galahad. To ponder long, as to the justic by them when they brand all men as one in the desire to trick and outwit women. To hesitate, when confronted with some especially irritating piece of mascu- line bluster and swagger, to make their erstwhile exclamation, “Just like a man! scalp ponder; and to h shown Heels for Women LK behind any young couple wheeling the baby out on a fine Sunday afternoon. The utter unfairness with which the family burden is distrib- uted is plain from the most casual back view. What though he does push the baby carriage, bring up the coal, and earn the that makes the family machinery go round? He does it supported on a solid foundation of at least nine square inches of heels. And she? It is to shiver for fear she will topple over on him then and there as she balances herself. wandlike on high spindles set where heels ought to go. One day a salesman sat carefully explaining to a help- less female before him that the narrow toed, spindle heeled thing he was trying to put over on her was just the shoe that the doctors after long study had decided was the best thing for the human foot, when the worm turned, - kd and looking at his comfortable broad heeled shoes she pertly asked, “Then why don’t you wear them yourself?” He merely blinked and turned to another possible victim. Votes for women! Pockets for women! Equal pay for women onomic inde- pendence for women! Husbands for women! all very good 4n their way, but the greatest need of all is heels for women! Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER HE joke is on those tens of thou- sands of our young men who showed their particular kind of bravery by rushing into marriage to escape enlist- ment. Perhaps by this time they will be just ger to rush into conscription and not feel that it sequires half the courage. * unday’s big meeting for ¢ was expressed be- the trail.” They At Billy mothers much surpris cause so few “hit hadn’t any need to, 2 A Bulletin of one of the big Life Insur- ance Companies says there are 10,000,000 able-bodied bachelors in the United States and 9,000,000 spinsters. By the law of supply and demand one million “Has he won her affections yet?” * A trench here and a trench there at an awful sacrifice of iron men.” DERN WOMAN | will have to remain bachelors, but it scems as if the other nine could be snared if the women would set the traps, yet that is just the trouble. * The Chicago marriage bureau broke all records in 1916 in the number of licenses issued. That was because Illinois women can vote. Or at least that would be the reason if it had shown the smal. namber ever issued. s There was a law in Canada t aman could not go to war without the consent of his mother or wife. It worked very well until there was a war and then it was repealed. cd It was charged by the opponents that in the year after the enfranchisement of Nevada women the number in prison in- creased 100 per cent. Investigation proved thi. to be true. At the time the suffrage was granted there did not hap- pen to be any in jail and a year Jater one was sent there. Thus are the “antis” vindicated in their charges. * An Illinois legislator introduced a bill making it unlawful for any woman or girl to wear a dress cut out in the neck below a line extending from a certain point on cach shoulder, and he wanted to be ap- pointed to draw the line. 2 The opponents in their wrath are having a good deal to say about the way the suffragists have ‘wheedled” legislators into passing their bills during the past winter. Yes, there were those in the Oklahoma Legislature, for in- stan The suffragists said they were not ready to have an amendment submitted, but the members told them to guess again, and put the bill through by a big majority. Now it’s up to the women to wheedle the voters, and here is where the “antis” ought to win the game with their strongest suit. comicbooks.com