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(Article No. ti.) We do not not intend to argue the question of woman suffrage in this ed itorial. In the language of the base ball field, it is a problem that's ‘too hot to handle.’’ We are going to imitate the gum-shoe, machine poli tician and maintain a dead silence. ‘'Mum'’ is the word. But merely for the sake of discussion, let us sup pose that the arguments of Miss John ston and Mrs. Valentine last night are destined to take root in the hearts and minds of Rockingham women— and, well, let us suppose that in ten years our mothers, daughters, sisters, wives and sweethearts will be going to the polls and voting. Understand. We are merely ‘ ‘supposin’. * Well, here’s the point: Just think how quickly the dear, sensible women would smash the ancient out-of-date, shopworn PRECINCT MEETING into smithereens, and introduce an elegant, up-to-date, stylish, DIRECT BALLOT HALF-a-DAY PRIMARY, all-wool, two yards wide and guaranteed not to fade~—or your money back. And then consider the BOSSES and the POLITICAL MACHINES, Mercy! Wouldn’t the women send the auto cratic, dictatorial, boss into oblivion in a jiffy! And what would be left of the old political machine would look like a pile of kindling wood! Somebody may argue that under woman suffrage there might be merely a change in bossism- the ousting of the masculine and the induction of the feminine. People prone to ‘contro versy may ask us to contemplate the condition of affairs when the woman ‘‘boas’’ cracks the political whip and the female ‘‘machine'begins to exer cise its nefarious activities. On, well. Are Women Good Democrats? New York Globe. in the United States about 7,000, 000 women and girls are wholly or in part earning their own living. Of this number about 40 per cent, or not quite 3,000,000, are domestic servants. The employers of these women are, in a very great majority of cases, themselves women. How are these women employers treating their women employes? These are Miss Tarbell’s figures. In the American Magazine for June she tells how she arrived at them and what they mean to her. Women, she says, are doing a great deal for the girls who work in shops and factories. They have accomplished much and will accomplish more. But what are they doing for the domestic servants whom they employ and the conditions of whose life they could help to change? This is woman's own particular labor problem. What is her attitude toward it? If we were to judge the American woman solely by what she has done with this problem, Misa Tarbell says, ‘‘we must set her down as a poor enough democrat.’’ She has not created in the household a genuine democratic spirit.’’ She has neither brought herself nor taught her employer ‘to look upon domestic service as a dignified employment.”’ Here is one great opportunity for the American woman. The Woman in St. Ohio State Journal. ‘There is a woman in it'' may be said of much of the magazine adver tising nowadays. The association is pleasantly suggestive and that ad vertises the goods. Here is a rail road advertisement proclaiming the glories of a Colorado vacation, and it fe decked with the head of a charm ing damnel. With that awed face laughing in one’s heart—who wouldn't want to take a Colorado vacation? And here is a polisher advertiser and the maid rubbing the side of the sink with it. The beauty and grace of that maid is supposed to represent in some way the virtue ,of the polisher, and you are eager to say ‘“ that is the best polisher I ever saw, a a closed Cakes.’’ It is the ; ir getingr'a: trick--leaving a, tayor-.
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Harrisonburg Daily News
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Fri, May 31, 1912
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