Part 31

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The State of Washington has the lowest death rate of any in the country; New Hampshire the highest. Moral—Go West, where women vote.

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There have been but four “champion” typewriters, and three of these were women. As soon as the machine was invented women were at the keyboard, and yet you hear men operators complaining that women have “usurped” their positions!

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When that International Congress of Women Voters meets in San Francisco next summer, there will be a fine chance to observe how the suffrage has unsexed women and destroyed the feminine instincts in at least nine countries.

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Whenever anybody issues the edict that women have not the physical strength to vote some of them immediately shin up a flagpole on a fifty-story building and take a header off the Brooklyn Bridge for a moving-picture show, loop the loop in an airship and climb the highest mountain in the world.

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Civil Service Commissioner McIlhenny says the women government employes may march in the suffrage parade as individuals but not as clerks. Thanks Mr. Commissioner! That is what the suffragists are asking for—to be considered as individuals instead of belonging to somebody or something. But they can’t join a suffrage club, he says. As the man in prison answered his lawyer who said, “They can’t put you in jail for that”—“They already hev.”

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An anti-Tammany bureau of a thousand speakers is being organized in New York to talk the “tiger” to death. Right there is where they need the help of women.

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Medical statistics from Paris announce that men show most brilliancy from forty to fifty-six. This holds out a great deal of hope for a lot of men we know who are under forty.

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“There is no reform legislation in any suffrage State which is not duplicated in those where women cannot vote,” says the “antis.” If that is so they will have to find some other excuse for beating the suffragists to the polls as soon as they get a chance.

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The United States Senate has made an appropriation to erect a splendid memorial in Washington in recognition of the service rendered by women during the Civil War. By all means; and then don’t deny the franchise to women because they cannot serve their country in time of war.

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The Women’s Political Association of Australia has called upon its 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.