Part 32

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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?

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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.

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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.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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that “all laws which impose or recognize civil disability on a wife that do not exist as to the husband are hereby repealed.”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.”

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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!

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They say that such a crop of eels never has been known. It’s always like that during the season of candidates.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.