Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-03-27
Modern Woman
A Notice. by Request Of the
Anti-Woman Sufragists Mrs.
Parington Sweeping Out the
Atlantic With Her Broom. :: ::

A pamphlet issued by the Association
Opposed to the Extension of the Suf-
frage to Women has been placed In
my hands. Upon the cover Is stamped
eonspicuously. please notice" oh,
yes, I'll notice! No fear of that. Let
US see. The thing begins with list of
officers and committees. | glance over
the list. Some | know personally, 9th
ers know of. Here Is the name of a
flubwoman who has used clubs to get
herself into "sassiety." Here is one
noted for being the most mannish look
ing, mannsh acting, mannish dressed
woman In q certain city. | think OF
her in comparison with gentle, refined
Anna Shaw, beautiful, womanly Mrs.
Potter Palmer, that motherly old saint
of Quaker preacher, Lucretia Mott.
and-pardon me IL smile-here Is the
name of another conspicuous woman
who never would have been heard of
only for the desperate, unceaslng
struggle through storm, suffering and
opposition of those pioneers In the
woman movement who persisted In
their agitation for higher education
for their sex till the doors of colleges
and universities were at length opened
to woman. Then this one goes In and
comfortably takes her university de-
grees and deliberately turns and rends
those who made 1t possible for her to
do so. Oh, you Migrate! Go way back
and sit down and hide your head in
shame. A majority Of the other antis
are "female women" who never earned
a nickel In their lives, who could not
do so If they tried. If they were
thrown out on the world suddenly ev-
cry one of them would have either to
subslst on the cold charity of rela-
tives or go to an old woman's home or
the poorhouse. These antisuffragists
are like Mrs. Partington trying to
sweep out the Atlantic ocean with her
broom VIII this notice do, l Won
der?
In the cases of 'brain fag," now so
common, there is apt to be more fag
than brains.
"Never perhaps" says musical crit
ic, "has there been more exigent de-
mand for the poetic, the indefnable.
the unattaInable." So glad to know 1t!
Once more the American Federation
of Labor has passed its annual resolu-
tion favoring woman suffrage.
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Rose Pastor Stokes, the cigar girl,
who is the wife OF Millionaire j. @.
Phelps Stokes, has obtained deep In
sight into the present industrial sys-
tenn. She objects to any pauperizing
system of charity-the kind now prev
alent In civilization. In a recent speech
she said: "It Is not love of man to
take from him what Is his and then,
when he Is lying robbed and wounded
upon the Jericho road, to put him upon
a beast and take him to soup kitch-
en-. There Is little use In trying to re-
lieve poverty while we are creating it."
Mrs. Stokes pronounces the system
which robs the laborer and gives mil
lions to public institutions a sham.
Nine. Nordica's latest picture shows
her to have finer, handsomer face
than she had twenty years ago.
The highest, shrillest soprano that
ever did sopran has been discovered in
an Australian girl who can compass
five C's. Let us be glad there Is only
one.
Dorothy DIX says married life Is dull
because it is shorn of illusions. She
pronounces it champagne without the
fizz and the circus without the hoopla
to give it thrill and faseinate.
Anna Strunsky, the vigorous Socialist
worker and writer, declined to take her
husbands name when she was married
to Mr.. Walling I've often wondered
what was the sense in a woman's CIV
ing up her individual name when she
was married.
Miss Annie Kicker of Lancaster, Pa,
Is member OF the Pennsylvania Inter
state Association of Gunners and one
of the best marksmen in her own