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.
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.
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.
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.
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.