The male editors of the two leading fashion magazines are using columns of space in argument whether the women of this country shall adopt American or French styles. The National Association of Master Bakers, at their recent convention, adopted a resolution in favor of woman suffrage, giving as a reason that if women go into politics they won’t have time to stay at home and bake bread. It is really outrageous the way women are crowding into the fields of labor that belong to men!
“It is a wise child that knows its own father,” but in France they have just passed a law which will permit the mother to make some inquiries.
The new invention of making rubber tires out of a substance extracted from whiskey suggests that it would be an excellent thing on most of the “joy” rides if the whiskey was in the tires instead of the automobile.
The public-school teachers who want the suffrage have raised the cry, “Can disfranchised teachers train citizens?” Of course they can, so long as they can be had for half the price that a man would charge for the job.
A Democratic candidate for congressman-at-large in Illinois, who is an anti-suffragist, is making his canvass on the platform: “A husband and a home for every woman.” As over twenty-five hundred husbands in Chicago alone last year abandoned their wives, he should add another plank that if he is elected all husbands will stick to home and family.