Part 14

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Mrs. Havelock Ellis, an English woman lecturing in this country, advises all women to refuse to kiss their husbands until they get the suffrage. This would be somewhat risky, as getting the suffrage is a slow process and meanwhile the husbands might go elsewhere for their kisses.

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“Let us, oh, let us hold fast to monogamy!” wail the “antis.” “Scientists believe it is the normal and natural relationship of humans.” Then don’t be alarmed, for even woman suffrage cannot entirely destroy what is natural and normal. One husband, one wife. All right. Now let every “anti” catch a husband—if she can.

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The leader of the suffrage forces in Chicago says that “to appeal to American men’s sense of justice is all women have to do in order to obtain fair dealing,” and the Indianapolis News comments: “That’s the way to get results—flatter the brutes!” Yes, the Michigan women recently tried it and they got results all right.

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No, the public has been too thoroughly hardened by the present styles in women’s dress to be frightened at anything that may happen if hoop skirts come in again.

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Boston’s new mayor has dismissed all the women employes from the office, on the ground that “it is not a fit place for women.” Probably he knows what kind of a place it is going to be from now on.

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In a temperance play running in New York the husband asks, “Where is my wandering wife tonight?” The answer of course should be, “At a suffrage meeting,” for women never neglect their homes for any other purpose.

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A good many people always seem to be in doubt, along at inauguration time, as to how the great Jefferson got up to the Capitol. It is to be hoped the gentleman himself knew whether he was afoot or on horseback on that auspicious occasion.

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The anti-suffragists have issued a ton or so of literature to show that the constitution of women can never endure the nervous strain of voting. Now the presidents of the State medical associations in all the States where women have been voting from two to forty-five years have signed a statement that if anything has happened to their constitutions their family physicians haven’t discovered it. The “antis” are playing in hard luck—every time they start out a nice little theory it runs up against a fact and is smashed to splinters.

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Some time ago the women of Larned, Kan., met and resolved to use horsewhips on the professional gamblers if they did not leave the town. Now they have not exactly turned their spears into pruning hooks, but they have exchanged their horsewhips for ballots, and when they tell the gamblers to leave town they will gather up their outfit and go.

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Some men are making an effort nowadays to scare women out of their independence by letting them stand in the street cars; but the women answer that they are better able to stand than many of the men they see sitting down, and that, according to statistics, a woman has a good many more years to ride on street cars than men have.

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“We stand for an economic system which will enable every man to support a family so that women need not go outside the home to work,” say the Socialists. A good idea; but suppose some men wouldn’t use their earnings that way, and some women would rather work outside and support themselves than to do the same amount of work inside and have to be supported?

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“The action of the Federation of Clubs at their biennial, indorsing woman suffrage,” says Mrs. Dodge, national president of the “antis,” “was a clear case of gag rule in a packed convention.” Well, if the suffragists could “pack” a convention to the extent of ninety-eight per cent. and “gag” two thousand delegates they are certainly almost clever enough to vote.

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The woman who recently climbed to the top of Harvard Glacier in Alaska is a strong suffragist. Seems as if it would have to be a cold day when she was not able to go to the polls.

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New York’s Alderman Quinn objects to woman suffrage because it would make monkeys of the men. Don’t worry—a lot of them haven’t waited for woman suffrage.