Mrs. Havelock Ellis, an English woman lecturing in this country, advises all women to refuse to kiss their husbands until they get the suffrage. This would be somewhat risky, as getting the suffrage is a slow process and meanwhile the husbands might go elsewhere for their kisses.
“Let us, oh, let us hold fast to monogamy!” wail the “antis.” “Scientists believe it is the normal and natural relationship of humans.” Then don’t be alarmed, for even woman suffrage cannot entirely destroy what is natural and normal. One husband, one wife. All right. Now let every “anti” catch a husband—if she can.
The leader of the suffrage forces in Chicago says that “to appeal to American men’s sense of justice is all women have to do in order to obtain fair dealing,” and the Indianapolis News comments: “That’s the way to get results—flatter the brutes!” Yes, the Michigan women recently tried it and they got results all right.
No, the public has been too thoroughly hardened by the present styles in women’s dress to be frightened at anything that may happen if hoop skirts come in again.
Boston’s new mayor has dismissed all the women employes from the office, on the ground that “it is not a fit place for women.” Probably he knows what kind of a place it is going to be from now on.