The corporation counsel of the District of Columbia has ruled that the new eight-hour law for women applies to those who do mechanical work in a newspaper office, but not to those who do brain work. He probably considers that those big, forty-page papers are a greater strain on hands than brains, and it sure does seem like that when you try to read them.
“As for me, I defy you women. Come and meet me on the stump.” Such were the brave words of a New York alderman, and from that moment Ajax defying the lightning was simply not in it.
All over the country ministers are giving sermons in favor of woman suffrage. Why don’t the “antis” get some of them to preach against it? Surely a few can be found who would dare to do it!
Mrs. John Martin, opposed to a vote because it will turn women from matrimony, says that “soon the only women to marry will be the infirm and the idiotic.” The anti-suffragists will continue to be eligible, won’t they?
Ex-President Eliot has come to the front again to declare that there wasn’t any Garden of Eden or Adam or Eve. All right. Then Eve didn’t eat the apple and bring sin into the world; therefore that objection to giving the ballot to the women of the United States is null and void.