national Parliament to protect the political rights of the women of that
country, who become disfranchised the moment they take up a residence in
any other part of the British empire, while men continue to vote. Here,
too! Help for the women voters of twelve States, who, when they go to
live in any of the other thirty-six, are reduced to the political level
of the idiots, insane and criminal.
* * * * *
Shall women propose? Well, they have a good deal of nerve nowadays, but
hardly enough to say to a man, “Please take me and support me for the
rest of my life!” They must first be financially independent and then
somehow they seem to lose interest in the matter.
* * * * *
When Utah’s electoral college met to cast the vote of the State for
President and Vice-President, its members selected the one woman elector
to carry the result to Washington. Those Western States are constantly
giving just such examples as this of the way men lose respect for women
when they can vote and hold office.
* * * * *
In all of the Eastern cities thousands of children are kept out of
school because there are no seats for them. Does any one believe this
would be the case if women handled the school funds? A good many useless
officials who are now holding down chairs would stand up and the school
children would have seats.
* * * * *
Another English woman heard from! “American men,” she says, “are
arrogant snobs, who think they are the salt of the earth.” That is a
much more alluring description than to call them spiritless creatures,
entirely dominated by women—the usual English idea. Whatever they are,
they suit American women and the English women can’t have them.
* * * * *
Mayor Mitchel ought to take it out on the powers that advised him to do
it. How was one so young to know that a gun could have such a powerful
back action?
* * * * *
Kansas suffragists declare they are not going to ask men for a penny to
carry on their campaign. Maybe not but husbands had better go to bed
with their clothes on.
* * * * *
A woman who has just returned to earth after a trance reports that she
saw some male angels but they had no wings. Possibly they had at one
time but found them inconvenient and passed them on to women, just as
here on earth they did with skirts.
* * * * *
“Do women realize,” says a writer in an anti-suffrage paper, “that as
they become self-supporting they deprive men of the right to support
them?” Don’t worry; men can always find women who are willing to be
supported—some of them find too many.
* * * * *
The National Women’s Trade Unions’ League and its various State
auxiliaries and all kinds of working women’s organizations are
continually passing resolutions for woman suffrage. On the other hand,
Dr. Katharine Bement Davis, superintendent of the Bedford Reformatory
for Women, says that her charges, almost to a woman, are opposed to it.
If a person is to be judged by the company she keeps, one hardly feels
like getting acquainted with the members of the Anti-Suffrage
Association.
* * * * *
It’s all right for the Kansas Legislature to have a woman
sergeant-at-arms, but it seems that her name ought not to be “Effie.” By
the way what does the sergeant have to do with her arms.
* * * * *
In the States where women can vote they have not exactly turned their
swords into plowshares but they have transformed their suffrage
societies into civic clubs, and instead of their begging men to give
them votes, the men are begging women for the votes they already hold in
their lily-white hands.
* * * * *
The Legislature of Alaska enfranchised women and then enacted a statute
declaring that “all laws which impose or recognize civil disability on a
wife that do not exist as to the husband are hereby repealed.” As the
“antis” are fond of saying, “Women must accept the suffrage at a
terrible sacrifice of the privileges they have enjoyed.”
* * * * *
History repeats itself. The Ceres Ladies’ Society, fifty years old—the
society, not the ladies—admitted a few men as a compliment and now has
filed an ouster against them because they usurped all the offices. Sixty
years ago Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed a women’s
temperance society and were persuaded to admit men, who at the first
election, got control of the offices. The two women walked out of the
society and out of the temperance movement straight into that for woman
suffrage. Men should have a care!
* * * * *
They say that such a crop of eels never has been known. It’s always like
that during the season of candidates.
* * * * *
According to the decision of the New York board of education, no woman
is fitted to teach children after she has had a child herself. Masculine
logic!
* * * * *
The latest scientific discovery is that on the right kind of food a hen
will lay a hundred per cent. more eggs. If she does the rooster will
crow himself to death.
* * * * *
The papers have given wide publicity to the Arkansas farmer who offers a
large porker to any one that will find him a wife. There is often an
exchange of that kind in marriage, and the wife gets it.
* * * * *
The “antis” have announced that in their New York headquarters they
“will overcome the yelling of the suffragists with exquisite music on
the harp and other stringed instruments.” At the same time the Illinois
hospital for the insane announces an arrangement to cure their patients
with music. There must have been collusion between the two. The methods
and talk of the antis for a long time have indicated that they thought
they were dealing with the feeble-minded if not the dangerously insane.
The experiments will be watched with interest but the antis should hurry
up, as the number of suffragists at large is rapidly increasing and it
will require a lot of music.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Silently corrected typographical errors.
2. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.