The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-15
American Melody Co.. n. 2. Copyright, 1905,

are irreproachabIe as to legs and ears
and especially as to generosity, but the
match is really a good one. They are
equals and each is abandoning the same
thing-an ideal Il will not say it is fool
1sh but they have at least found 1t i'm
practically to which each chung tenac-
iOusly for many years. What a good
thing it would be if every Allen would
find his Clorinda."
Barbara would be horribly insu1ted if
she should ever hear that any one con-
sidered her an Advanced young women.
She scorns the entire breed of females
new and has no use for suffrage con-
VentiOns or other assemblag es of the
high proved sisterhOod. She has all
ways said she would never vOte-neyer
under any circumstances, but when she
has been solicited by the earnest work.
ers who conduct the house to house
canvasses before the municipal pri-
maries every year she has often reflect
ed, as she gave a refusal which she had
a proud consciousness of making as
quiet but firm as the ones you read
about that IL she didn't vote it wasn't
because she was not more capable than
some of those who would peTSume to
tell her how. If she ever did vote, she
though with that comfortable superior
ity one gets from self-communings 1t
would not be just to please a husband,
nor yet just to displease one. She would
blindly. The pastor OF her church
should not direct her. neither should the
president of her club She would know
what she was doing and why she was
doing it.
But the truth is that after all Bar
bara did vote at the last election. or
rather at the primaries. And, alas. for
principles, she voted because the man
she doesn't like best asked her to and
the man she does like best doesn't an
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perfectly consistent she voted for the
candidates that the man she doesn't like
| best advised instead of those whom the
man she does like best was supporting
Thoroughly abreast with the times as
EShe has an ambition to be- she had
neglected to read the municipal political
news and couldn't have told for the life
Of her, until the night before the pri-
marIeS when she got into a discussion
with the man she does like best about
the propriety of women's voting, the
name of any of the candidates. nor
what they stood for. But having an
nounced to the man she does like best.
in the heat of discussion and as a
clinching argument, that she intended
to vote next day there was nothing for
her to do but to add that she was coins.
/ to vote for the ticket headed BY the
man whom she had just heard him be-
rating. She didn't really know who
any Of the rest were, YOU see and
/ she named were the candidate for
| mayor or dog catcher
/ However, the next morning found
| her as firm in her resolution as ever
1 Like most people Barbara calls her
I stubbornness by such names as reso-
4 luton, determination and tenacftv of
purpose. She called up by telephone
1 the man she doesn't like best and told
him she had decided to vote for his
! friends and he thanked her profuselv
and told her how delighted he was
and how much influence she'd have
with the other girls who didn't realize
their duty in this respect The man
she doesn't like best was a candidate
you see. but how was Barbara to know
that2 Moreover. she had failed to tell
him who she was and he confused. her
voice with that of another girl whom
he had been urging to exercise her
right to vote at city elections and. OF
/ course her residence number. All mer
are absent-ninded about mere women
when their other. more vital and abb
lsorbing affairs are concerned. but q