No woman nowadays makes the promise to obey in the marriage service with the slightest intention of keeping it, so why compel her to prevaricate to the minister? Let her reserve that privilege to use with her husband.
The courts of Missouri have decided that a husband cannot be arrested for burning up his wife’s clothes, as they are his, not hers; but after his wife learned of this decision the man soon found himself in jail for disturbing the peace.
“Man is the natural protector of woman,” shouted several thousand of the species as they attacked the suffrage parade in Washington. “Man is the natural protector of woman,” echoed the policemen as they turned their backs.
The “antis” ask why the suffragists are not afraid to trust men with the musket in time of war, but are afraid to trust them with the ballot? Bless you, nobody wants to take the ballot away from them; but the suffragists can’t see how a man can represent more than one person with one ballot, and, besides, some of them haven’t got any man, and they think it isn’t fair to be deprived of both the man and the vote.
Recently, at an anti-suffrage meeting in one of those wonderfully progressive towns for which Connecticut is noted, forty ladies signed a remonstrance against giving other women something which this immortal forty did not want for themselves. Where was Ali Baba with his oil can?