In the debate in the North Carolina senate on a bill to permit women to act as notaries public it was objected to because women write a “vertical hand” and wear slit skirts. That shouldn’t disqualify them as notaries, but it is as strong an argument against giving them the suffrage as one often hears.
The New York City board of education dismissed a woman fireman from one of the public schools, on the ground that it was not suitable work for a woman. It’s all right for her to get up at home winter mornings and make the fire but whenever there is a salary attached the work becomes unwomanly. Strange that women cannot see these things without having to be shown so often. There ought to be little sign-boards set up along their path, saying, “Public salaries are only for voters.”
“Yeast,” a new suffrage play, is just being tried out. It is sure to cause a rise among the “antis.”
A bill is before Congress to annex the North Pole as United States territory. Bet it comes in with a Votes for Women flag on the end of it.
If the suffragists and the “antis” don’t quit writing letters to members of Congress the latter will raise the rate of postage instead of lowering it.