Life — April 16, 1914 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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“EEE: ow BEEF | STEAK = tr Posns, No Harm Possible OBODY should regret that women have the vote in California. California, and the Coast generally, is our chief national sanitarium, full of patients who are imperfectly capable of self-support, self-control and self-direction. Women, many of them very capable and devoted, have long been in actual charge of these sufferers. They might as well manage their politics as well as the rest of their affairs. The Coast States will be no more whimsical or irre- sponsible with women voting than they have been hitherto. They can’t be. Feminist Contest ‘OR the best article on Feminism in five hundred words or less, Lire will pay three hundred dollars. The con- tributions as they are received will be passed upon and such as are accepted for publication will be paid for at five cents a word. The one which the editors of Lire consider the best of all the contributions accepted will receive the prize of three hundred dollars, The competition begins at once. i The accepted mariuscript will be published in the Feminist Number of Lire, to be issued the first week in June, 1914. This number will present the case for and against Feminism from Lire’s own standpoint. The conditions of the contest are as follows: No manuscript shall exceed five hundred words in length. Any number of manuscripts on the subject can be sent in by -one contributor. The name and address of each contestant should be placed upon the manuscript, which preferably should be typewritten, All those manuscripts which are not acceptable will be returned, if accompanied by postage. The contest will close on Saturday, May 2nd. No manu- script received after noon on that date will be considered. All contributions should be addressed to the Editor of Lire, 17 West 31st Street, New York City; and “ Feminist Contest” should be put in the lower left-hand corner of the envelope. Envelopes addressed in any other way will not be con- sidered as belonging to the contest. To Contributors We have received a number of inquiries from friends who have asked us to publish a more definite idea of the word “Feminism”. We have purposely avoided doing this for the reason that we did not think it would be fair to limit contestants to our own idea of what Feminism is, or to the kind of contribution on this subject which we might consider the best. Feminism, in its broadest aspects, might be considered to mean the revolt of woman against conditions which in her opinion have hitherto constricted her mentally, or it might be considered a kind of renaissance, an awakening of woman to new possibilities. Or it might be considered something quite different from either of these concep- tions—an actual deteriorating, a falling away from whole- some standards. There are other ways of looking at it which we leave to the creative abilities of our contributors to guess. We have merely indicated three of them in order to show the possibilities. Of course, it is unnecessary for us to state that the article which contains the greatest percentage of real wit, humor, satire, acumen, wisdom, discernment and literary finish will come nearer the prize than if it were— well, otherwise,