Winston Churchill mispronounced a Greek word in the House of Commons lately, to the consternation of its members. Imagine the commotion in the House of Representatives at Washington if a member should make a mistake in his Greek!
“Our only problem now,” says the national anti-suffrage president, “is, Can we make the negative majority large enough to keep the voters from having to vote on it again for twenty-five years?” No use to waste any time and money figuring on that problem. The answer is, It can’t be done.
One of the New York Supreme Court justices, in adjourning a case against a woman recently, said, “My sex has been deceiving the other sex since the day of Adam.” There has always been a suspicion that in that little transaction in the Garden of Eden it was Adam himself who was deceived. Since then possibly the men have been trying to get even, but it looks nowadays as if the women were beginning to claim their share from the tree of knowledge, and deceiving them was not quite so easy.
The only “perfect woman” has been found at Cornell University. To find perfect ladies visit a bargain counter.
A noted astrologer has seen in the stars victories for woman suffrage in many States. The “antis” see stars every time there is a new victory; but when they pick themselves up they never make any forecast of the future.