Life — January 26, 1911 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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220 -LIFE-: Priscilla Still Against the Tyrant © you ever get a feeling of depression, dear girls? I confess that 1 do. It seems to me that in the last week not more than thirty or forty of our dear sis- ters have been able to get their names into the newspapers. Mrs, Belmont’s press agent has been working overtime, but I haven't seen her name mentioned more than fifteen or sixteen times a day. Not many of us are rich enough to employ press agents to get our names in the papers. Dear Inez Mil- holland managed to make herself conspicuous in con- nection with the meeting of the Antis, but so far as I have been able to discover not a single daily newspaper made any allusion to her lovely gowns. What's the use of Suffragetting if the reporters and editors do not picture us as heroines sacrificing our personal and womanly mod- esty in the furtherance of the cause? I suppose the men fools of the daily press would never have paid any attention to Joan of Arc if she hadn't been burned at the stake and made a good fire story. aa HAT makes me despise the reporters and editors more than anything that has happened lately is that they have given that contemptible Richard Barry quite as much notoriety as they ever gave to our peerless leaders. And what has he done in connection with the cause of Woman's Suffrage? Not a thing on earth, but boost the cause of the weak-kneed women who believe that a woman's strongest sphere of influence is in the household, bringing up her chil- dren to be good citizens, and tommy-rot of that sort. This man Barry is more credulous than any woman that ever voted for a school trustee because he was better looking and better manicured than his opponent. He actually believes that Woman's Suffrage is a failure in the Western States, where women have been given the right to vote. He says that in those States the things we play as our trump cards, such as improving the condition of child-labor, the working hours of women and the like, are in worse condition than here in the East, where men make the laws and where men want to give the matter serious consideration before they give us the yote. He says that the only law which women have enacted, something about the age of consent, has only resulted in in- creasing the number of arrests for blackm I don’t know this man Barry, and I don’t want to know him. He evidently believes everything he hears. We Suf- fragettes know that in the States where women are allowed to vote all corruption has disappeared from politics, and that no one is permitted to smoke in the polling places. How about that, Mr. Barry? RS. MACKAY is a Suffragette of true refinement. She has organized some tableaux of what woman has done to aid the progress of the world, starting with Helen of Troy and Cleopatra of Egypt, and coming down to Hetty Green. The characters are to be represented by some of the best known society women whose names are already well known to the society reporters, and therefore easy to get into the newspapers. Persons who could never see these exclusive ladies otherwise are bound to flock to the theatre, where the exhibition takes place, and contribute their dollars to the Cause. I am told that quite a number of wealthy Hebrew ladies have already bought seats and had their jewelry cleaned for the occasion. It is original enterprise like this which shows what woman can do when she tries, and that she is quite as fit as man for the privileges of snobbery and the ballot. AM surprised, dear sisters, that you do not show more avidity to gain my prize of a Bright, New Silver Dollar for the Suffragette or any one else, who will suggest some way to keep the Cause and the names of our peer- less leaders before the public. Can it be that our British sisters are cleverer than we are? Every little while they do something to get themselves in the papers. One suggestion that has come in is that some Suffragette should dare to refuse to pay a taxicab chauf- feur who overcharged her. It is iY true that no man has ever had the Cy courage to do this, but I dare say os {Z the man magistrate or whatever Soe oF man official has charge of such U4 things would side with the man chauffeur and the man_ reporters would keep it out of the news- papers. It must be a better idea than that to win the prize. The competition is still open and there is still a chance for American Suf- fragettes to show their British sis- ters that we are cleverer than they are in devising schemes to gain notoriety. HE New York Board of Aldermen are secking to enact an ordinance which shall do away with the wearing of long and dangerous hat pins. There is no chance that such an ordinance will be adopted. There is no graft in it. I only mention this to show how tyrant man is always try- ing to interfere with the legitimate privileges of our sex. What if we do occasionally put out an eye or two? Is it any of their business? The bigger the hat, the longer the pin, and the more its point sticks out on the side are only evidences of woman's superior intellectuality, which no true woman will abandon on the grounds of common decency, much less at the behest of any stupid Board of men Aldermen. Priscitta Jawnones. “GREAT SCOTT! MERE COMES THAT JOY RIDER AGAIN.” comicbooks.com