Help, help! The pastor of the First Spiritual Church in Worcester, Mass., has to appeal to the police for protection from “lovesick maidens and scheming mothers.” He’d better go West, where there is not such a scarcity of men and women can be more particular.
People used to object to letting women vote because of the publicity it would give them; but nowadays when one sees the public stunts of the suffragists trying to get the ballot and of the “antis” trying to prevent it, he devoutly wishes that they might all be made voters at once so they could retire to the privacy of their homes and families.
That big New York hotel that had to change its dainty, esthetic liquor buffet for women into a common bar for men, because the women would not patronize it, seems to prove two things; first, that the stories of the drink habit among women are greatly exaggerated; and, second, that it’s always safe to start another bar for men.
The Anti-Suffrage Society of Washington passed at vote of censure on the Young Women’s Christian Association of that city because it allowed the delegation of working women who called on the President to have a paid-for luncheon in its headquarters. The members of the association felt so badly about it that they immediately proceeded to give a circus.
South Carolina has employed three policewomen. Well, if the men insist on electing an individual like Cole Blease for Governor, it’s up to the women to protect the State.