And yet I ask—and ask in vain—
Why no one in a suffrage state
Has moved to change things back again?
A MASQUE OF TEACHERS
AND
THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
The Ideal Candidates
(A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: “No married woman shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position in the New York public schools unless her husband is mentally or physically incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for a period of not less than one year.”)