Life — March 16, 1911 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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528 -LIFE- Priscilla Counsels With a Gentleman Suffragette ERE, girls, is a perfectly splendid idea. It was suggested by one of onr gen- tleman-Suffragettes. He says that we are trying to do too many things at once and that we ought to concentrate instead of wasting our energies. He says we are shooting too much of our ammunition in the air. We all know that each of our peer- less leaders has a new idea every few minutes and as each one insists that her own ideas shall be tried out, per- haps he is right. HE idea is that the best way to make the Cause triumph is to add the proper amendments to the Constitution of the United States. This would enable us to spend our time in Washington, which is a de- lightful city, and one where a great amount of social entertaining is going on. We could give up our attacks on the different State Legislatures and the dear sisters who spend their time in making speeches on the street corners would find it much more agreeable meeting Senators and Congressmen at afternoon teas, dinners and evening receptions A few of us got together the other day and drafted these amendments to the Constitution : ARTICLE XVI Every woman shall have the right to vote, which shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color, sex or previous condition of married servitude. ARTICLE XVIT Every male citizen riding on a public conveyance, whether engaged in interstate commerce or not, shail give up his seat to any female citizen desiring the same. ARTICLE XVIII No recovery at law shall be permitted and no punish- ment be adjudged in any court in the United States for any injury received from protruding hat-pins worn in the headgear of any female citizen. ARTICLE Xt No unmarried male citizen shall be entitled to vote or hold any office of emolument or profit, and any male citi- zen who, being unmarried at the time, shall refuse a proposal of marriage from any female citizen, shall be deemed guilty of treason and punished under Article III, Section III. ARTICLE. XX Every female citizen shall be entitled to a divorce at any time and for any cause of no cause whatever. ARTICLE XXt No State shall pass any law abridging woman's right of free speech, especially the right to talk back. ARTICLE. XXII __ The Congress shall pass laws prescrib- ing suitable punishments for criminal Mbel, which offence shall hereafter, include printing or publishing any article or picture ridiculing Suffragettes or any fashion of woman's wearing apparel, no_ matter how absurd, ridiculous, useless and extravagant in cost. If any of the sisters have any other amendments they would like to have added to the Constitution of the United “on! 1 DO BELIEVE THAT HORKID MAN IS TRYING TO FLIRT WITH ME AND I'M SURE I LOOK A PERFECT FRIGHT.” States, they will please send them in at once. If President Taft calls an extra session of Congress all the Suffragettes in the country can concentrate on this one thing and descend on Washington in a body. There can be no doubt that with all of us there at once we will make ourselves heard ROM the week at Albany there are bound to be splendid results. Only a few of the Antis appeared before the Judiciary Committee to oppose us. Those women are of the weak, stay-at-home kind, and it wasn't to be expected that they would leave their families for the sake of speechifying and making a public demonstration of themselves for a whole week. We're the girls for that sort of thing. One of the most gratifying things was the voluntary ap- pearance of Judge Lindsay of Denver, who made a speech on our side. The Judge holds his position and draws a com- fortable salary, . being elected largely by the votes of Colorado women, Nat- urally he is a gentleman - Suffragetie and it was a very graceful thing for him to come to Albany to help the Cause. Prisciuta Jawzoxrs. PUZZLE—WHAT IS 1T? comicbooks.com