As man has only fourteen pockets in his clothes the tailors are now putting in another, a secret one, where he can hide his money from his wife. As it is only the size of a watch pocket she won’t grudge him the contents; besides she will know where it is located almost as soon as he does himself.
An “inspired” article says that there are signs of a revolt among the wives in nearly all the royal families of Europe and that “it is because the ideas of Mrs. Pankhurst have permeated the circles of royalty.” If Mrs. Pankhurst had accomplished no more than this, she would deserve all the honors her followers claim for her.
The president of a New York club said in her address to the City Federation the other day, “You neglect culture and buzz around too much; you should set aside ten minutes every day to meditate on something refining and ennobling.” Like that speech, for instance; but isn’t ten minutes a day an awful lot of time to spend on culture?
The 140,000 members of the Woman Suffrage Party in New York City are balloting for their officers in the different districts. The Anti-Suffrage State Society announces that it is increasing at the rate of one thousand a month. This proves that in one hundred and forty months it will catch up with the city party, provided the latter doesn’t add any new members.
The most important thing in regard to the candidacy of that woman from Kansas who is running for Congress is that it shows there is no constitutional barrier to women members of Congress. All they have to do is to get elected.