Life — February 2, 1911 — page 34: what you’re looking at

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= LARP IE Priscilla Nails an Argument HARLOTTE McCULLOCH WILLIAMS is one of those idiot women who think that women ought to be womanly. On another page in this issue of Lire will be found a long letter which was printed in the Sun and in which she practically denies that Suffragetting is the most womanly and ennobling occupation in which a woman can spend her time. From her letter I take this example of her comment on the magnificent and uplifting accomplishments of our dear Suffragette sisters in England. She calls what they are doing “ suffragette madness.” To me St seems cynic Fate’s re- venge on England for her colonial policy; she sends the flower of her young manhood to spend its strength in alien riot, leaving young womanhood to lament. In other words, the Suffragettes heckle public men and break laws and windows because they have no husbands to heckle privately. Of course, this is arrant nonsense. In the English move- ment are several perfectly estimable married women and women who have been married and disagreed with their hus- bands. In the case of these latter the fault was unquestionably on the side of the tyrant to whom they had been tied in the unholy bonds of wedlock. I think that settles one of C. McC. Williams's silly arguments. Brooxtys, January 18. Drax Miss Jawsonrs: Mf My wife is a Sufiragette 'F) and the discussions she ? has brought into our form- erly peaceful and well- kept home has made the “Cause” a subject of vital interest in my life, I have decently ~—lomestic tastes and work hard to secure the necessities and comforts of life for my family, to provide for our children’s education and to guarantee those things in case of my death. I believe that a man and his wife should live at peace, but since my wife has become a Suffragette I find that it is an impossi- bility unless I abandon my beliefs in womanliness as I knew that quality in my mother and the women of her generation. I am willing to be converted and will become a he-Suffragette if you will name to me among those you call your “ peerless leaders” a woman who is a good wife and mother and whose home is what a home should be under the rule of a womanly woman. I give my real name as a guarantee of good faith and beg feave to sign myself Yours, but not yet for the Cause, A Huspanp. Our poor Brooklyn sister has my heartfelt sympathy. Her husband is an ass W are coming along, sisters. Even that staid old literary Mausoleum the Encyclopaedia Brittanica is going to give our sex some spzce in its new edition heen content to say: Woman —The female of man. (See Homo.) Hitherto it has ERE is a little trick in Suffragetting, dear sisters, which you should not forget. If any tyrant man or silly woman brings up a new or unanswerable argument against “A YLYYa IN REAL ESTATE” The Cause, do not be disturbed nor try to answer it. Just say something like, “ Why that’s as old as the hills and you show your ignorance, etc, etc.” Then change the subject to the injustice of different laws for different sexes, taxation without representation, or any of the things you can talk about. ROM a recent yellow-journal interview with dear Incz Milholland, who is one of the prettiest and best gowned of our Suffragettes and is not ham- pered by ary silly womanly modesty in the matter of put- ting her pretiness on public exhibition, I take thie profound and precious thought: We ought to try to make lif: casier and more joyous for every one. We cannot Legin at a better foundation than making the working girl's life healthicr and happier. That is exactly what women are doing and always have done for the working-girls. We change the fashions every little while so that the working-girl shall have something be- sides her work to think about. Naturally she is imitative and wants to be in the fashion as nearly as she can, so we give her the constant problem of how to follow .he rapid charges in the styles we set and do it with the four, five or six. dol- lars a week she gets as wages from the shops we patronize. She may have to scrimp on necessary food and go without vacations and outings which would do her good physically, but life is made “ easicr and more joyous” for her by trying in a cheap way to follow our intellectual example cf frequent changes in the style of our hats and gowns and the amount of false hair we wear. If you don't believe that dear Inez’s splendid mission is succeeding, go into any devartment store and see the joy the working-girls take in their neck curls, their transformations and their coronation braids, to say noth- ing of their increased comfort and usefulness in hobble skirts. Priscitta Jawsoxes, comicbooks.co