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.
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?
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?
Speaker Clark is no “neutral” when it comes to woman suffrage. During the House debate the other day the officers of the Suffrage Association were invited to occupy his bench in the gallery and have luncheon in his rooms at the Capitol. Give him the Iron Cross.
A man in Chicago has written a booklet against woman suffrage, in which he relates that when he was a small boy he and his sister were attacked by wolves, which his mother drove off with a gun. “If she had been a suffragette,” he says, “she would probably have been away from home that night attending a political meeting and Sister Lucy and I would have been eaten alive.” Sister Lucy might have been a loss to the world.