The-anti-suffragists have declared officially that they “recognize man as the head of the nation’s household.” All right, he is welcome to sit at the head of the table; but that doesn’t mean that the rest of the family must not have anything to eat.
The Chicago American allows the women to get out a “suffrage” edition and they clean up a neat little profit of $15,000 for the “cause.” The New York Hippodrome gives the suffragists a benefit performance and their treasury can’t hold the profits. Seems as if we never hear of any anti-suffrage special editions or theater benefits. Wouldn’t anybody buy or go?
All the pilots and captains on the Panama Canal are now required to be teetotalers. Pretty soon they will be forbidden to swear, and then Colonel Goethals will have to get women to run his boats.
President John Adams is said to have declared that “politics are the devil’s own,” but that was when “they” belonged entirely to the masculine half of the population.
A London physical-culture professor has announced that it is possible for every woman to have as perfect a figure as the Venus de Milo. If it is to be so common as that, the most of them would prefer to look like somebody else.