Part 5

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At the legislative hearing in Massachusetts, the other day, one of the opponents said she did not believe women ought to vote but thought one-half the Legislature should be composed of women. Just as her sister “antis” always have done, she keeps one eye on the offices.

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During the recent registration in San Francisco, automobiles were provided for the women, while the men were left to walk, and they rent the air with their protests. In Washington a jury composed of men and women had to go to the country to inspect some property. The women were sent in automobiles and the men in wagons, and their anger could be heard for miles. As the young woman wrote to her sweetheart, “The trubble with you is you are jellus.”

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Possibly women as well as men may be at their best when fifty, but they will never give anybody a chance to prove it on them.

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Representative J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia, is quoted as saying it will be 20 years before Congress hears any more about prohibition or woman suffrage. That 0 must be a printer’s mistake, and even the 2 is fifty per cent. too much.

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Indiana women have formed a council to work with the Legislature “for the uplift of women and children.” Wouldn’t it be of greater benefit to the State if they would work for the uplift of the legislators?

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Anti-suffragists are censuring Senator Helen Ring Robinson, of Colorado, because she is in the East lecturing instead of at home legislating. But she can’t unless the Governor calls a special session, as the Legislature does not meet this year. Those anti-suffrage objections are such funny little boomerangs!

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New Zealand has just been celebrating the twenty-first year of its equal-suffrage law. To be sure that country is some distance off, but it seems as if we should have heard of the wrecked homes, ruined families, declining birth rate, feminized men and general reign of socialism, polygamy and other things which the “antis” declare will follow woman suffrage. If they will then they have done it, so let us have a bill of particulars from New Zealand.

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A Chicago lawyer secured a big alimony for his client on the argument that a man who marries a handsome woman must dress her in a style befitting her beauty. This ought to put the plain woman several laps ahead in the matrimonial race—but it won’t.

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If the colonel feels a little disheartened at the lapses in the Progressive party while he was away revising the map of South America, he can cheer up at the boom in votes for women. There will be more than twice as many of them in 1916 as when he set out to round them up two years ago.

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The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has decided that after a wife has left her husband’s bed and board she may establish her own domicile wherever she pleases. That is an improvement on the old law, which did not allow her any place to sleep and eat legally without her husband’s permission.

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Mrs. John Martin, a leader of the “antis,” said recently, in a public address in New York, “If they dare attempt to force the ballot on us here in the East, they will find that we are the daughters of the heroes who fought and bled at Concord and Lexington, who starved at Valley Forge!” Seems as if we had heard somewhere that those heroes did all that for the specific purpose of obtaining the ballot. “Descendants” is a very suitable word to apply to their daughters.

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It was a woman who solved the “Million Dollar Mystery” and received the $10,000 prize; but that isn’t the worst of it—she hasn’t any husband to take care of the money for her.

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The Anti-Suffrage Society forbids its members to say, “Woman suffrage is coming!” That’s right—it shows a lack of originality to use the same slogan as the suffragists and how can they expect to raise money for a campaign against a sure thing?

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A rich New Yorker, who has just died, left his fortune for his daughters in the hands of masculine executors because he doubted women’s wisdom in business. How did he happen to have so much confidence in men’s honesty in business?