Cuban women are organizing for the suffrage and a flourishing society already exists in Hawaii. Truly the anti-suffragists are kept so busy these days trying to stem the tide they are obliged to forget that a woman’s place is at home.
The candidates on the primary-election tickets in New York all had numbers opposite their names, so that voters who couldn’t read or remember carried the numbers of their choice into the polling booth and copied them on the ballot. It almost seems as if women might have intelligence enough to perform a feat like that.
A tablet has been discovered in Babylonia, recording that the first world was created by a woman, and the male gods, growing tired of it, wiped it out by a flood and created another. There is a nice thing about this record—it has no account of Eve’s eating the apple and bringing sin into the new creation. This removes one charge against woman and puts it up to man to account for the large amount of wickedness that has crept into his world.
That English anti-suffrage mother had no right to feel insulted when her “militant” daughter sent her a post-card with the one word “doormat” written on it. Wasn’t it the English writer, Dinah Mulock, who said women ought to be satisfied to be doormats in their husband’s home?
There seems to be some mild excitement over the question whether a woman should be allowed to write “Mrs.” before her name when she is really “Miss.” The chief effect would be on the men, who are much more chesty before the unmarried women that believe them to be heroes than before the married, who know they are not.