A hen at the Agricultural College of Oregon has laid 283 eggs this year, while the roosters stood around and crowed; and a cow in Michigan has given 18,733 pounds of milk, while the—but why specialize in order to prove the superior value of “the female of the species?”
Miss Julia Lathrop, head of the National Children’s Bureau, says, “The anti-suffragists are like the hypnotized chickens which balk at a chalk line when there is nothing beyond.” Yes, and after the ballot is actually given to women they are just like chickens when some corn is dropped the other side of the chalk line.
French annuity companies have discovered that women live twenty years longer than men, and now they propose to give women a choice of dying young or having their premiums raised.
“If my mother-in-law comes to heaven, I’ll leave,” wrote a New Orleans man, just before he committed suicide. Doubtless she will speed the parting guest.
It is too bad that members of the European nobility cannot come over here to hunt grizzly bears without being accused of seeking a rich wife, but perhaps it is because their graces and lordships have so long considered American heiresses as game.