The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-16
frA RENT politics funny?' said
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6rA rem IT politics funny! SAID
~ Polly, gurgling.
| slowed down the automo-
bile and turned to gaze at my wife.
But Polly was intently absorbed in
:, tying the floating ends of her blue
chiffon veil and tucking them beneath
3 her chin.
When a woman goes in for them, >"
she continued, "she gets horribly
And cuts her hair Short inter
ieeted.
nose or to sew buttons on her gloves.
And when a man goes in for them, he
acquires red nose and loud voice
and wears so many diamonds that you
can't see his shirt fro Mt,
ttWill you kindly tell me- I in.
Quired, stepping my motor car in the
middle of the road and gazing at Polly.
.,.where YOU, have been s.'at you have
HOh, only with Mrs. .Stoneley to d
meeting of the Woman's Work and
Wisdom club said Polly innocently,
9 as she blew the ends of her chiffon veil
y out of her mouth.
n / pushed the lever with such violence
9 that we flew along the road, almost
. upsetting a policeman, who shook his
LB club at us menacingly.
s'I didn t think you'd care so much
! Jack" .eoaxed Polly, Cor I'd never,
mover
tsThe members of the. Woman g
Work and Wisdom club interrupted
emphatically, "havent wisdom enough
to attend to their housework!, -
Polly let go of my sleeve and sat up
very straight, trying to look dlgnlied
in spite of the chiffon steamers which h
insisted Oh blowing into her mouth and
the curls which would get into her
fFYou don It understand. jack she
began with gentle patience-a gentle
patience that [ recognized as the ruling
attitude Of the Woman s Work and
Wisdom, whenever it wants to talk non
1Don't I?N I cried, gritting my
teeth and continuing to Let the auto
don't! No woman's husband ever I'M
Woman s Work and Wisdom club: A
happily married woman who will delib-
erately go in for politics or public re-
form or modern thought is naturally an
enigma. Woman's rights are for ,old
maids and bachelor girls and other
substitutes for nunneries. Nowadays
the moment a woman has been disap-
pointed in love or matrimonY, she
plunges into politics or a career instead
Of taking the veil or cold poison as she
o1tude of gentle patience; n.
nd e"That,' she said demurely, "is a
I'D masculine fallacy. The reason men re-
III sent women 8 clubs is because they
h j make women think! And from the
ys masculine viewpoint it is incompatible
"a, for woman to think and at the same
. time to be "a woman. Just as II
go.wearing ones frocks properly, and
Enkeeping one s complexion in order and
45ganning a house and talking small talk
J Rrl managing a husband do not require
she oh, thought than all the reform move
GIi~5tt1cs and political platforms put to-
= gether!'
"That's just it!' I cried. "New
thought is the wrong kind of thought
"a man, pursued Polly, without
for him in all the important things OF
] life. He will let her choose his shirts
!, his collars and his meals, select his
= house, his servants, his friends and his
VI religion, rule his children and make
tohis social engagements. He will ever
fetake her advice in business and leave
aIthe entire handling of the family
finances to her; but when it comes tx
MA public acknowledgment of her claim
Ito intelligence or cleverness, he re
nn'yssents it. He wants.
ny "The empty honors!' / sighed.
81 Pooh He does not even acknowl
Wledge privately that she ought to know
rrasanything. Cieverness in woman i
81 55he one crime he cannot forgive. Th
etpnly clever woman who can keep mai
lat her side for more than ten minute
Fat time is the one who is cleve
- enough TOTO hide it. A reputation
= for brains in woman is worse than.
than-no reputation at all. Poor Mi
nerva was an old maid, wasn't shea
S, and Polly re1apsed into meditative 81
lecne, broken only by the chug chus
H5~f the motor car as we whizzed thru
green lanes Of Central park AM
t the scarlet sumach bushes flash
: out like tiny flames in the hear
a green lake.
lowed down a bit, twas bachelo
girl. A woman who is clever epoug1
to earn her own living and manage he
own affairs is usually allowed to d
Il both. Besides, every man knows tina
woman who is busy running a clu]
or the state or the country has no tim
for running q house or husband Mos
women s rights, if they could be site
% the bottom, would be found to hav
ad their origin in husbands wrongs
enlinine clubhouses are founded o.
ID chops and burnt steaks and ar
llRnments to impudent servants an
Neglected children ~'
Polly pcoped at Inc thru the corne
4Nof her automobile veil, and I could Sc
ttgcntle patience once more returnin
to her eye. / showed the lever forwar
and we few over the road at a distract
ing pace.
If you don't believe, in woman
rights she began.
81 do. / interrupted hastily, "bu
voting isn't one Of them. Franchis
: in the hands Of a woman is like
loaded gun in tie hands of sma
= boy-utterly useless and sure to
Famage to something or somebody
here are just so many rights to b