Recent census reports show that 86.7 of all persons over twenty-five marry. That is quite enough—the other 13.3 are needed to show the married what they escaped.
The woman-suffrage question in this country has been settled. The Colonel did it in his whirlwind tour of New York’s East Side. “How about votes for women?” called out the unscareable Maud Malone. “Madam,” said Mr. Roosevelt, “I have asked that you women be allowed to vote to determine whether or not you shall vote.” Just that; he never told whom he had asked, but the mere fact that he had asked was enough. All the women have to do now is to keep still and wait till somebody “allows” them to vote whether they want to vote. If one over one-half of the twenty-four millions says “yes,” then they can all go right out and vote. But if one over one-half says “no,” then the 11,999,999 that want to can’t. Beautiful plan—so simple, so statesmanlike! But it seems to lack provision for a recall and a new deal.
Two women card sharps on a big ocean liner are said to have relieved a number of the male voyagers of all their ready cash. Another flagrant instance of woman’s usurping an occupation that rightfully belongs to man!
Vice-President Marshall can’t do anything for woman suffrage because his wife doesn’t believe in it. That might be a sufficient excuse for Mr. Marshall as an individual but it is rather thin for the Vice-President of the United States.
“Bachelors are much more likely to become insane than married men,” is the decision of the Massachusetts Mental Hygiene Conference. Yes, the mere fact that they choose to remain bachelors shows a mental twist.