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November 24, 1917 THE MODERN-WOMAN Suffrage Facts and Fancies ‘i By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ vis Turkey Troubles Not » N America woman is upbraided for her unwillingness to note and imitate ar [te ways of the ploughed field. If she but mentions birth control Le» solons denounce her in legislative halls as a disgrace to the species. aw | But in Turkey the female is lured to fertility in more subtle ways. 29 In Turkey the cemetery is no place of gloom but a popular tesort. » From her earliest toddling years the little Turkish female is made 9 | familiar with two kinds of graves for women. Some graves are marked with am fruit and some with but bits of buds. And she is taught that to the fruitful Le woman goes the fruit and to the childless woman goes the incriminating bud, 9 the insignia of failure. So from the first her little heart is fired with the re- ir) solve to so live that she may earn the badge of honor. Ty Why, beside the subtleness, the self-workingness of a scheme like this, the a noisy exhortations in America made to women from press and pulpit to go » forth and replenish the earth seem of a crudeness that moves one to blush rr) for one’s native land. 20 0 Not So Funny as It Seems J ROM Moscow came the news of Cossacks, big and fierce-looking. each a rose at the feet of the commander who, before he made his sp of appreciation, turned and kissed the veteran counselor standing by. And the enemies of votes for women rushed to Washington to tell the Congressmen what they might expect to happen in this land if it imitated the example of Russia and gave votes to women. Just to think of himself as throwing roses in front of General Pershing, or kissing Champ Clark, or Senator La Follette, or any solon save perchance a one, is enough to bring on palpitation of the heart to any Congressman. is Vote for the Federal suffrage amendment if it implies such a departure from Fy masculine ways? Not if he sees it first! 5 To women who know menfolk; who know that while men may v7 perhaps “rather be right than President”; that they rather be wrong ry than laughed at, this added bit to the anti-suffrage armor is a touch of vy adversity rather to be shivered at than scoffed at. 10 20 ms Suffrage Snapshots - By IDA HUSTED HARPER aos HE Pathological Congress has announced that women should not eat cod green peas as it makes them frivolous and reckless. All right; mush- 4 rooms and truffles will answer, served with Guinea hen and alligator a pear salad. 2 a THE colleges are opening and the girls are starting in on‘the job of taking more than their proportion of the honors and prizes. Well, the boys have got them bested when it comes to baseball and football. There man maintains his proud supremacy. OMEN have not the poise and self-control necessary for statesman- c ship. When Heflin and Norton clinched and had to be pried apart in the House of Representatives the other day Jeannette Rankin sadly realized this fact. 2 AFTER a two years’ struggle on the part of its advocates the French Chamber of Deputies has at last enacted a law that anybody found intoxicated in a public place shall be fined from one to five francs—20 cents toone dollar. Is there no appeal from such a drastic law? 2 N India the young married people are defying tradition and taking a separate house where the wife will not be under the absolute rule of the mother-in-law. The next step will be to find a place where she will not be under the absolute rule of the husband. 2 'HE mayor of Baltimore has notified some women inspectors that every city employee must give a dollar’s worth of work for a dollar’s pay. If that is going to be the rule the women can have the offices and be— blessed. Subscribe to the & Red Cross & Subscribe to the & Red Cross uh