Part 24

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The anti-suffragists opened their campaign at Sherry’s, in New York, the other day; but this does not necessarily imply that they used a corkscrew.

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In many places the liquor sellers are complaining that the moving-picture shows, where a man can take his wife and children for five or ten cents, are ruining their business. Anything that keeps a man with his family is an enemy to the saloon.

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The latest census report shows that there are about thirty thousand more divorced women than men in the United States. This seems to indicate that the men get back into the married state as quickly as possible but the women know when they have had enough.

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The wild outcry of the anti-suffragists against “feminism” indicates that they prefer masculinism for women. Let them have it, for luckily they are not of enough importance for all womankind to be judged by what they do and say, as is the case with the suffragists.

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The California papers congratulate the State that, “whereas it was in a ferment of suffrage meetings two years ago, now there is not the slightest turmoil but all is peace.” This should be a lesson to other States where the turmoil is getting worse every day and there is just about as much peace in sight as there is in Europe.

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Help, help! The pastor of the First Spiritual Church in Worcester, Mass., has to appeal to the police for protection from “lovesick maidens and scheming mothers.” He’d better go West, where there is not such a scarcity of men and women can be more particular.

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People used to object to letting women vote because of the publicity it would give them; but nowadays when one sees the public stunts of the suffragists trying to get the ballot and of the “antis” trying to prevent it, he devoutly wishes that they might all be made voters at once so they could retire to the privacy of their homes and families.

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That big New York hotel that had to change its dainty, esthetic liquor buffet for women into a common bar for men, because the women would not patronize it, seems to prove two things; first, that the stories of the drink habit among women are greatly exaggerated; and, second, that it’s always safe to start another bar for men.

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The Anti-Suffrage Society of Washington passed at vote of censure on the Young Women’s Christian Association of that city because it allowed the delegation of working women who called on the President to have a paid-for luncheon in its headquarters. The members of the association felt so badly about it that they immediately proceeded to give a circus.

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South Carolina has employed three policewomen. Well, if the men insist on electing an individual like Cole Blease for Governor, it’s up to the women to protect the State.

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The new Socialist member of Congress says he will try to have a law passed that no workingman shall marry a wage-earning woman who has not a union card. Wouldn’t a marriage certificate be a union card?

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“For six thousand years men have been trying to run the world,” said Speaker Clark, “and some people think they have made a bad mess of it.” If it had been for only that brief space of time women might be willing to let them keep on trying awhile longer.

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The favorite newspaper paragraph now in referring to the cheap suffrage-parade hats assures women that if they will wear forty-eight-cent hats all the year round they can have anything they want. Well, the first thing they want is for men to set the example by wearing hats at the same price.

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The Denver police records show that married men are far more law-abiding than unmarried, and the New York City superintendent of schools says the married women teachers are much more amenable to discipline than the spinsters. There seems to be no doubt that marriage is the best known means of saving grace for the unregenerate.