Life — November 17, 1910 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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Fein Me o\ ey, Priscilla Is Getting Worried OU all know, dear sisters, that the New York Sun is a man-edited newspaper. And we all know that there are no limits to what the tyrant man will do to cause suffering—not suffraging— to our downtrodden sex. In what purports to be a cable dispatch from London the Sun men say thay" while women continue to show the keen- est determination in the matter of securing a parlia- mentary vote, it is evident that they have little interest in the vote which they al- ready possess for the elec- tions for councils in cities, boroughs and urban-districts in England. The women have votes in the elections and are also eligible for seats; but throughout the country only twelve women have been nomi- nated as candidates in a field where women’s qualities are universally admitted to be of real service.’” What of it? Everyone knows that if a baby cries for the moon, it wouldn’t stop his crying if we gave him the moon. He would at once begin to cry for something else. Especially a girl baby. Our English sisters are quite right. It isn’t the thing they’ve got that they want. It's the thing they haven’t got. What notoriety could they gain, what excitement would there be in showing their fitness to use the suffrage they al- ready possess? What fun would there be in using their “women’s qualities "’ in fields where they would be of “ real service"? UR real business, sisters, is to agitate. It is freely predicted by our peerless leaders that within five years New York State will give votes to women. When that comes there will be no further use for Suffragettes and we shall have to find some other vent for our surplus energies and some other way to attract attention to ourselves, Already it begins to look as though we had lost our novelty. A recent experience of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont shows that the sight of a woman making herself conspicuous on the streets has lost some of its former power to attract atten- tion, She had been out on Broadway peddling Suffragette hand- bills. When she came back to Suffragette headquarters she said to the sisters, made breathless by her dauntless courage, “ Whatever annoyance I suffered was duc to purely subjective causes, Not a single person whom I approached showed me the slightest discourtesy. The time has gone by when suf- fragists are regarded in the light of dime museum freaks.’ She was not.insulted once. What a disappointment! And at this very time the police were busy handling the strike of the express drivers. The only thing Mrs. Belmont was able to do was to get her name into the newspapers. That is all right for her, but it is not enough for the sacred cause and the rest of us, We must find some way to get ourselves noticed. ,What dear sister will make a suggestion? I think we ought to boycott Mrs. Clarence Mackay. She was not present at the Suffrage convention. She sent word that she was busy entertaining an aviation party at her country house and could not come. Any woman who prefers the business of her own household and her petty house- keeping to the pleasure of suffragetting is not worthy to be one of us. At the next meeting of the committee I shall move that Mrs. Mackay’s name be stricken from the list of members. Priscitta JAwBoN KEEP YOU IN THE REAR OF YOUR AFFECTION.—Hamlet, comicbooks.com