Judge — September 22, 1917 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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WALSH - - Manager mae “MADE AT KEY WEST— New York JUDGER, THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ Feminism Versus Effeminacy F votes for women is but part and_ parcel of feminism, as is often charged, then fem- inism is no relative of effeminacy, and the ictionary will have to be revised if it is to keep up with the march of event Recruiting figures the world over show that virility abounds most in provinces and states gone over to woman suffrage. In the United States how the equal suffrage West did put it over the East in furnishing promptly the re- quired number of soldie: In Canada it is reported that the five prov- inces that have given the vote to women also gave every fourteenth man for war service, while in Quebec, where they still shudder at the mere idea of a woman holding a ballot in her hard, only one man in one hundred and thirty-six could be induced to shoulder a musket in defence of his mother country. John Stuart Mill long ago declared that the real obstacle to woman suffrage was that men not yet ready to live with an equal. idently when they do reach that stage of de- velopment, they are strong enough for anything. They have a heart for any fate. Conservatism Not Born of Logic HE other day in Stockholm, Sweden, the conservative party returned two women to the city council. One was a suffragist and the other was an anti-suffragist. If she was indeed an anti-suffragist why wasn’t she home instead of running for office Since the conservative man has announced in many tones and many languages that he does not believe that the vote should be thrust on unwilling women, why did the conservatives of Stockholm thrust office on a woman who did not even want to vote? For it must be ad- mitted that voting is a mild political debauch compared with running for and holding political office. Turn the incident about any way you like, and it fairly bristles with inconsistencies. It surely helps put the halo of truth about an extant definition of the conservative to the effect that he is a person who is opposed to the things he is in favor of. The Uncounted Female the Rule and Not the Exception [Fv had lived in Russia when serfdom existed and had owned a thousand female serfs would have stood zero on the credit list social esteem. For, in those di standing depended on how many souls he owned, and the female serf had this in common with more fortunate women—she had no soul. If you are a bird scout and start out when the dew is on the grass to increase your scason’s record of identified birds and discover a rare and wonderful specimen quite unlike anything you have yet recorded, you may find on you return that your list is no longer for al! sacrifice of your morning nap—for t may be but the female of a male already your list. These are merely instances culled from fields far apart to illustrate the abiding fact 1 females have never been considered work enumerating; that for women to find them. selves uncounted at the polling booth is no cae of isolated derogatory discrimination in favor of men. The uncounted female is one of the fixed phenomena throughout the long history of this weary and unintelligible world. Something That Woman Suffrage Won't Chang HEN New York State proceeded to tak: a survey of its human military resources and, moved by an unwonted impulse of econ omy, invited the women to help, various sor: of muddles occurred in various places and irate males wasted no time in laying the blame or the women. “In my district,” exclaimed one distracted male supervisor, “the muddle occurred because the women would not tell their ages.” “Isn't that the freshest thing you ever heard?” promptly young and impul talking about because “part of it she saw, and part of it she was.” “Not a woman objected. It was the men who tried to wriggle out of telling their ages because they wanted to wriggle out of the draft.” So it appears that there is one thing that will not be changed by the entrance of womea into politics: The pot will still call the bette black. The Poet Falls Down on His Data HEN the poet sang, “Man’s love is of man’s life, a thing apart. woman's whole existence,’ it was before the days of regular census taking. The regular census has always been per fectly frank about the millions of women who lived on wages they carned themselves and the other millions of women whose existence was filled with housekeeping, love being for them the decoration or the lubricant, but never the “whole existence.” The military census now abroad in the land has not served to restore the prestige of the poet as an analyst of life. Millions of women have filed up to the desk of the taker of the military census and meekly written down what they did for a h and what other thing they could do is an emergency But not one blessed on of them has recorded thac their days wer filled with love to the exclusion of other pursuits. Male and female on this point scored as one. retorted a suffrage leader, | ¢, who knew what she was} comicbooks.com sv WiIM