Judge — January 19, 1918 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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January 19, 1918 THE MODERN WOMAN By ANNA CADOGAN ETZ Why Ask Women to Achieve the Unachievable “7 VOTED against woman suffrage, and have always voted against it,” said a legal light of the town to a suffrage torch bearer, “simply because I know that you can’t make good.” “Dear man,” she replied, “why should you expect us to? id me the man who is willing to assert that democracy among men has produced a bright and shining govern- ment. But cheer up, you will like us a whole lot better if we make mistakes much after the fashion of men than if we intro- duced the millennium. To enjoy the mil- lennium must require a cultivated taste. Are you sure you men have it?” Running True to Type ACCORDING to a large manufacturer of air craft for the government more than half of his employees engaged in making wings are women, in which occupation they decidedly excel men. Even that arch-anti-feminist. who wrote in The Ladies’ Magazine some hundred years ago that woman in the scheme of things was “lower than man but nearer the angels” would be neither shocked nor surprised at finding women to the front in the manufacture of wings. It is pleasant to record one gain made by woman in the wage earning world in which she is not apt to be accused of pilfering from her brother man. Women More Like Men Than Otherwise PP a certain small city in New York a well-oiled, perfectly manipulated politi- cal machine had been unable to cajole more than about 2,700 men into going to the polls on the election day that carried the state for woman suffrage. Yet it was at once assumed that provision must be made to poll the vote of 4,000 women next election. When men want to forecast what women will do under certain conditions, they don’t candidly look about to see what men have done under similar circumstances, but they ask of the stars, or they dig the answer out of their own inner batch of prejudices, or they make a wild guess based on no reason whatsoever. Now if women are more like men than otherwise, which we have much evidence to believe, it will be a perfectly safe bet that the election day which sees women entitled to vote will also see a large proportion of them placidly pursuing their domestic duties at the washtub, the cookstove, and the sewing machine apparently unconscious that they are missing the chance for which a brave minority of women have struggled for nearly three-quarters of a century. The appearance at the polls of the entire adult female population like a lot of Ama- zons demanding their right to vote, is a figment pure and simple of man’s excited imagination. Men have never rushed en masse to demand a “freeman’s right.” No more will women. THE MOST VITAL QUESTIONS you can ask—now answered for you by MEN WHO ARE MAKING AMERICA + J: Ogden Armour William A. Gaston J. Ogden Armour The square deal policy. | |: The money back policy | | Mr. Forbes can get closer to big'men than any other writer in America, and knows how to make these men tell us the reasons back of their success, and how we can profit by their experience. Examine This Great Book FREE SEND NO MONEY “Men WhoAre Making Ame . with gold deco by nine inches and contains and 50 full-page illustrations. Thecouponentitles you toexamine“‘Men WhoAre Making America” with greater convenience than if you came to our office personally. Fill it in or i letterhead and mail We take theri: 7 B.C. Forbes handsomely bound in blue s TF Suite 424, 120 Broadway s—450 pages of text apo bntead The price is $3.00. 7 Please send me at once a ing a 7 If satisiied after I will send you $3. ‘book. promptly. Send no money