The new Socialist member of Congress says he will try to have a law passed that no workingman shall marry a wage-earning woman who has not a union card. Wouldn’t a marriage certificate be a union card?
“For six thousand years men have been trying to run the world,” said Speaker Clark, “and some people think they have made a bad mess of it.” If it had been for only that brief space of time women might be willing to let them keep on trying awhile longer.
The favorite newspaper paragraph now in referring to the cheap suffrage-parade hats assures women that if they will wear forty-eight-cent hats all the year round they can have anything they want. Well, the first thing they want is for men to set the example by wearing hats at the same price.
The Denver police records show that married men are far more law-abiding than unmarried, and the New York City superintendent of schools says the married women teachers are much more amenable to discipline than the spinsters. There seems to be no doubt that marriage is the best known means of saving grace for the unregenerate.
They say that gymnasium statistics show a steady increase in the size of women’s waists. In that case something should be done to bring about a steady increase in the length of men’s arms.