The Guidon Anti-Suffrage Club of New York is devoting itself to a study of the Bible. Nobody needs the consolations of religion quite so much just now as the anti-suffragists.
That dull thud which was heard in the direction of Springfield, Ill., was Senator Shaw, of Decatur, being dropped from his committee chairmanships because he presented a resolution to repeal the woman suffrage law.
The wife of Congressman Taylor, of Colorado, says the women of that State have found that it does not take as long to vote as it does to match a piece of silk. It is to be hoped not or the worst fears of the “antis” as to the neglect of the home and family would be more than realized.
Sir Almoth Wright says that women ask for the suffrage because they “have not been taught the defects and limitations of the feminine mind.” This is not because Sir A. W. and men of his stripe haven’t wasted a good deal of more or less valuable time pointing them out; but in another chapter he says, “Failure to recognize that man is the master lies at the root of the suffrage movement,” and to this the women plead guilty when they can stop laughing.
The French courts have decided that a married woman may spend as much on clothes as the rent of her home. If she lived in New York she could dress like the Queen of Sheba.