The Anti-Suffrage Association sends out a press bulletin saying, “We object to being called away from uplifting the world through the old channels of education and religion to assist in uplifting it by the doubtful channels of the ballot box.” They need not leave their job for it is such a big one that if derricks are erected in both channels it will still be necessary to call for outside help.
Prime Minister Asquith is caricatured by Punch as Mona Lisa with the smile that won’t come off. To the suffragists he looks more like the cat that swallowed the canary.
“The clinging-vine type of women will continue to multiply,” we are assured by those who claim to know. Well, that is a very good business, since they don’t seem to be able to do anything else.
In all the New York public-school gymnasiums the number of girls exceeds the number of boys. This does not indicate that the girls are preparing to be militant suffragists but only that the boys would rather smoke cigarettes and shoot craps.
Secretary of State Bryan says he wouldn’t feel sure of the support of women as they did not vote for him when he was a candidate; but he must remember that he hadn’t discovered then that he was in favor of woman suffrage.