Life — June 3, 1909 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Mrs. Katt (reading): axp $0 xiTTY AND TOM WERE MAKRIED AND LIVED MAPPILY EVER AFTER THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE OF THEIR NINE LIVES. Equal Rights *LIFE* As to Queens HE Publication Committee of the Equal Franchise Society resents, very properly, all expression of regret that the Queen of Holland's baby is not a boy. Queens, they say, make the best rulers going. Let Holland rejoice, then, in her baby Queen. Votes for women! There have been mighty good queens (Victoria) ; also mighty bad ones (Cath- arine de Medicis); but about the last T is observed that newspaper notices of in- tended marriages no longer read “ Phylli daughter of Maece: Corydon,” but run, don are to be married, ete., ete."” as, Esq., is to be married to Phyllis, ete., ete., and Cory- There is a suggestion in the change of equal rights in the parties to the contract which is not without si nificance. Corydon no longer takes They take each other. Gone But Not Forgotten HE papers are getting to be deplor- able reading. Here’s the World for one day, full of the Hains trial, a divorce suit in three columns where the lady had cight lovers, murders, kidnap- ng cases, complaints of bad shows, more divorces, children run over, all the news! all the news! Alas! how different it was when Theo- dore was President, and had seven col- umns of message a day, and a homily or two, some scraps, and 9 lecture on gymnastics illustrated with living pictures of himself! Then we had a comparatively moral press. T is not the worst liar who makes a hit, but the best. “RATHER MARD COLD You'VE Cot THERE, OLD MAN: TAKING ANYTHING FOR 17?" “po, Ver pot. YoU Z2EE, 1D BLEASES THE RABY SO EUCM TO NEAR BE SNEEZE.” Phyllis. 765 Objection Well Taken HE BRIDAL MORN" affronts the sense of Pittsburg propriety. It is described as a picture by George Sauter of a young woman being bathed by her mother. Pittsburg is right in ob- jecting to it, but the trouble, apparently, is all in the title. Change the title to “Removing the Smut,’ and it will do KNOWLEDGE 1S TOWER thing that any Queen has ever stood for, so far, has been votes for women: Queens have ruled by man-power even more than Kings. So Elizabeth, so Vie- toria. Queen Anne had an influential woman favorite, but Queen Anne, poor dear, wasn’t much. Victoria. had little actual political power, but immense influence, political and social, and used it almost always for good. So it is with most Queens in modern constitutional governments: they have little actual political power, but may have great influence. Not so with Tsi Ann, the late Chinese Empress, who had actual power, won by her superior wit and audacity, and used without scruple for the maintenance of her rule. But Tsi Ann’s record is pretty shady. She is not a strong argument on the side of woman rulers. —Lord Bacon, for Pittsburg, which understands the general need of washing. Or leave the title as it is and ship the picture to Cairo. They Want It I" has been said that a man’s idea of justice is what he thinks he can get, but a woman's idea of it is what she wants. The saying is interesting in connection with the recent successful effort of the women school teachers in New York to induce the legislature to vote them equal pay with the men for equal work. Extract from a Tr r’s Letter: “T OUISE is very kind to me, and was a profound support and moral up- lift on the steamer. But for her I should still be in that lower berth dis- carding from my weak suit.”” comicbooks.com