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MAKING LOVE BY THE WHISTLE, Mme Vesta La Viesta, a suffra gette. In a speech in New York de clared that as soon as women gain legislative control, they will enact laws, limiting the working day to four hours in order to give men time to make love. The fact that men have been in control so long and _have never thought of extending the hours of courtship, awakens the hor rid possibility that the men would rather work than make love, or, if the time for courtship were extended, they might spend it in some less ele vating pursuit. May be, again—for here is a vast field for speculation— herd-headed man has more regard to the future than to the honeymoon, and after spending the night hours at the expense of some other man's gas bill, realizes that it will take more than four hours’ work a day to sup port the woman of his choice. If this is so, Madame ‘s proving herself less aetical than aawmaker should be: the one cannot live on love. Are women neglected because men » “petrified in the love of gain’? me. La Viesta declares this is so, asks men what they will do when men make the laws. The answer promptly: is, make love to them; and now it is up to the women to prove they like the prospect by joining the ranks of the suffragettes. That was a great play of Madame’s. Ostensibly she was talking to the men; but she was slyly offering in ducements to her own sex, by sug gesting four hours a day love mak ing, with Sunday off, and two even ings a week. Every love lorn maid and merry widow, romantic young misses and everybody will flock to the suffragette standard—everybody but the woman whose husband can't earn enough in eight hours to give her all one wants. Think of what Madame proposes! Four hours a day for courtship! When the whistle blows the men will pour out of their homes and hall bedrooms and make their way to the parlors of their sweethearts. Mar ried men, shaved and dressed for work, will tie themselves to the par lor, where their wives, tidied up as becomes a good, honest working woman, await them, and for four hours they will industriously make love. Probably in a short time there will be a union, and then it will be come inmpossible to make love to an other man's wife unless one carries a card. The members of each union will look after their brothers’ wives and sweethearts, while they are away. It will be delightful, ladies. We anticipate a general uprising of the sex in favor of universal suffrage.
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Paducah Evening Sun
Paducah, Kentucky, US
Thu, Nov 04, 1909
Page 12
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Chris A.
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