The young men of Cairo who have returned from European universities have begun a crusade to “emancipate” the Moslem women from the veil. Let us believe they are wholly disinterested.
A woman who kept a grocery wanted to decorate her show windows in the anti-suffrage colors but she had no American Beauty roses, so she put in a lot of red lobsters. To make it still more appropriate she should have added some clams.
The English government has just raised the pay of the men clerks in the post-offices and reduced the pay of the women clerks to half that received by the men. To be sure hatchets are no argument but sometimes they express people’s feelings better than logic.
“Since the Prince of Wales left his mother,” say the press dispatches, “he has become a ‘man’ in the best sense of the word. He drives his car beyond the speed limit and is rarely seen without a pipe in his mouth.” How fine! It shows that he is rapidly developing the qualities necessary for a great ruler.
Seven men in one precinct in a Kansas town had to get the election officers to mark their ballots, and all voted against the woman-suffrage amendment. Those officials were still more obliging in some of the Michigan towns, it is said, for they gathered up all the ballots that were left over and voted them against this amendment.