Life — April 29, 1909 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Jack Spratt was gettin; His wife was getting She turned Epicurean, really I couldn't, I couldn't! It took too much moral courage last night."" Winkle threw off a bear skin rug, a steamer blanket, an afghan and a knitted shawl and emerged. My dear.” he said, “I wish I could forgive you. But when I think of that nice warm bed, and me standing outside frozen to death, it’s too much to ask of any man. But maybe next summer, when I have thoroughly thawed out, and the birds are singing in the trees, and the buds are bursting. maybe then I shall forget and forgive! as 1. Masson. GOOD backbone is better than a big wishbone Hippo: ve cor a toormacne. Dr. Monk: 1NTranat. ow EXTERNAL? ig fat, lean. He Fletcherized and exercised, Mr. Duck> war's coop ror THE TEETH MUST BE Coop YOR THE GIZzARD, Too! Serious Work “Kirke’s Handbook on Physiology,” page 1908. Textbook at Cornell University. le (Paul Bert) grafted the tip of a rat's tail either to the back of the same rat, or to the nose of another. When union had been effected, the tail was amputated near its base. After a time, irritation of the end of the trunk-like appendage on the back or nose of the rat gave rise to, sensation. The impulse thus passed from base to tip,, instead of ‘om tip to base, as formerly. This experi- ent does not, however, prove the point at all: .. Exactly the same _ objection holds’ to another series of experiments, in which the motor and sensory nerves of the tongue were divided and united crosswise. Though these experiments do not prove what they were intended to, they are of consider able interest in themselves.” ELL, rather. But if you caught children in that business wouldn’t they catch it! ANY a girl thinks she has broken her heart when she has only sprained her imagination. Morality and Responsibility eminent lady-suffragist A that influence without bility is immoral. How about responsi- bility without power? Is not that im- moral, too? But it is the men who finally have the power. Their physical strength and fighting ability exceeds women’s, and on physical strength pol cal power finally rests. Is it not immoral, then, that women should vote, who have not the power to enforce their will as their votes express it, but must depend for that upon the thews of men? Their votes, if they had them, would stand, not for power, but purely for influence. If influence with- out votes is immoral, it does not gain an atom of morality by gaining votes, for it is still influence and nothing else. Whether woman's influence with man —which is enormous—expresses itself through the man’s vote, or through the vote which he permits woman to cast, not a matter of very much moment. The possession of superior physical power— and probably superior mental power, also—places. on man a_ responsibility which he neither invited nor created, and of which he can by no means rid him- self by so simple an expedient as grant- ing the suffrage to women. Whether women vote or not, political responsi- bility will still rest upon man. To en- force the laws and defend the realm will inevitably continue to be his part, just as it has always been. The apparent order of things may be changed some- what by general consent. The real order of things cannot be changed—at least, not for long. Men did not institute it, and cannot change it. The Power that made men and women settled in a large way their relations, leaving them noth- ing more to do about it than to work out details, and attain to harmony as indi- viduals in such measure as they could. has said responsi- CARRYING THINGS TO EXTREMES comicbooks.com