The Anti-Suffrage Association claims the credit for defeating the appointment of a Woman Suffrage Committee in the lower house of Congress. The only question voted on in the Democratic caucus was that “woman suffrage is a State and not a Federal question,” but this will not disturb the complacence of the “antis.” They will simply claim that they originated the doctrine of State’s rights.
The Texas preacher who asked all the women of his congregation on Easter Sunday to take off their hats had St. Paul beaten to a frazzle.
The “antis” are failing to scare the suffragists by warning them that they will get the worst of it when they “rouse the brute force in men.” As long as they are gradually getting everything they ask for they will never believe that men are brutes.
Englishmen are howling because, under the new income-tax law, the wife can find out how much property the husband has. But didn’t she know already, as he promised at the altar, “With all my worldly goods I thee endow”?
There seems to be some anxiety lest the new women internes at Bellevue Hospital may not be able to jump on a speeding ambulance. Some encouragement is given by the news from Vassar that one girl has just thrown a basketball seventy-five feet and another has “smashed the broad-jump record” with a jump of over nine feet. Give the new internes a chance.