The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-17

The women of Wichita do not propose to
be hypnotized and mesmerized by Colonel
Anna Shaw, Major Susan b. Anthony aud
Corporal Gait, who will open their crusade
here during the coming week, in hopes OF
DISTINGUISHING the wives and daughters OF
| Wichita of their woman hood and enfran-
chising them with the prerogatives of the
| sterner sex.
At the last meeting of the cooking club,
some sister who wants TO do more voting
and less cooking, made a motion to tue
effect that the club should entertain the
petticoated crusaders upon their arrival
here, but be it said TO the refined taste and
firesids patriotism of the other members
of the club, they laid the motion on the
table under ton weight OF good sense
and good Judgment.
That same motion will stay on that
same table Till Gabriel toots his horn and
till long after the angelic pin feathers of
the wings of Colonel Anna, Major Susan
and Corporal Gait will have blossomed out
into quilts beyond the stars in tbs firma-
ment.
This is not the only stroke contemplated
against the Populistic ism Many OF the
other ladies of Wichita have joyfully pat
ted their little hands and praised the
nerve of the members of the Cooking club.
It is even said that the other social ciups
of Wichita have taken the initiatory steps
TO do something on the same order. In
deed it is said to be fact that confeder-
alton of the social clubs of
Wichita is TO be formed to sit
down on the entire unfeminine
movement aud metaphorically speaking TO
give il discolored optic.
In his rounds yesterday reporter for
the EAGLE met promlueut member OF
Hypatia, a mos: charming lady. aud one
who is highly gifted with that taste which
enables her u see the proper sphere of
womanhood. Speaking abont the socalled
equal suffrage movement, she said: NO
woman having proper conception of her
duties should advocate woman suffrage.
The maker, protector aud best friend of
woman never intended her for an active
political factor. He endowed her with a
sweet disposition, which, when il is not
corrupted by the 3aser elements
of civilization, enables her to correct
the evils of politics without participating
in it on equal terms with the hoodlum
and the boodler. / have given politics
SEINE study; | read the papers and don't
see how women can correct the alleged
evils. l say alleged because do not be-
lieve that political methods are as rotten
as they are painted by the political fe-
males who go about as political salvation
army preaching millennium political
purity. / have heard that the Cooking
club have turned their backs on the move
msnt,-have given it the cold shoulder, go
to speak. IL is very fitting that women
who aspire to be perfect in the art of cook
ing should have taken that STEP 1t
demonstrates that there Is some
thing in a name after all. Good
pie. palatsble salads, undyspeptic
bread and well-broIled beefsteak
are more powerful factors in the reform of
political kmethods than thes ballot so
far ss women are concerned. I've want
TO vote for our homes" is favorits cry.
Give your husband nice home, a cheerful
hreSide, a palatable dinner that he can dl-
gest, kiss in the morning aud a smile at
night when he returns from his daily avo-
cation and I'll promise you that he will
take care of your homes. To me the whole
thing looks too ridiculous for serious
thought. Just imagine the effect of en-
reimbursement on established ideas. Some
Sunday morning we would pick up the
EAGLE and see in the society columns,
Constable Brown was charmiugly attired
in lonsiale dress cut V shaped
with a vatican pleat down the back.
County Treasurer Smith wore n pretty
easter bonnet white slippers, q charming
gown of pink silk en- train with short
sleeves and Il yellow sash around the waist.
Sheriff Robinson wore embroidered skirts
striped hose, Henrietta silk dress low at
the neck, corsage TO match aud diamond
ear rings. Turning over to another page
we might read, when n reporter called last
night on County Commissioner Thompson
her baby had the whooping cough ana she
said she would not be interviewed or,
when the details of the stabbing affray
were conveyed to CHIEF of Police Bessie
McCarty she hurriedly jumped out OF bed.
hastily jumped into a Mother Hubbard,
threw the baby to her husband and with
her curl papers disarranged over her
classic brow she put pistol in her hip
pocket and started down the alley TO head
off the murderer | am against woman
suffrage. II we are bound TO have n Nc
Carly for sheriff let it be Mike, or Pat,
or Billy, aud no: Bessie"