The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-05-26
Modern Woman
What the Leading English Paper
Published For Women Thinks of
the Suffragette Movement - Its
Power Not Comprehended Here.

SefNdtfNe, SoIlu anu SeIiOuS bI1tlSii
periodical printed in the interests CT
the feminine sex. What it says goes
In a recent number this conservative.
solid and most respectable paper says:
Naturally enough this journal is i'm
mensely interested in the question Of
whether women should or should not vote
at the election of members of parliament
For women it is the question of the day
of the year, perhaps of next year. Our
readers will have already learned that
the Gentlewoman regards this movement
as deserving of the greatest respect
Many of the ladies who joined in the
march to Hyde park bear honored and re-
spected names and would be the last peo-
pie in the world to take part in such a
demonstration for the ignoble sake of no
toriety. 1t is a question, therefore, of Sc
rious practical politics and one that does
not deserve to be dismissed with witt
cism over the dinner table.
Women have already limited munich
pal suffrage in Great Britain. The
Gentlewoman quotes an unsuccessful.
candidate for the London county couD-
ell as saying that the women's vote de
feated him and others; that 80 per
cent of the women who had votes de-
posted their ballots. There was moth
ing unwOmanly in the spectacle OF
women going to the polling booths"
declares the Gentlewoman. The staid
and respectable paper recalls an cpl
sode of history as follows:
Il have no taste for women who
NEEDLE with politics. said the great
Emperor Napoleon I. to the famous au-
thor of "Corinne'' You may perhaps
he right" replied Nine. de Stael, but
since people have taken the freedom
to cut Off women's heads on account Of
politics they ought at least to be al
lowed to understand why"
Then the editor of the Gentlewoman
says:
1 confidently expect that in less than a
decade the novelty and strangeness of wo-
men going to the polls on the occasion of
the election of members of parliament
will have quite worn away
Some ancient female women are Sc
'sot in their ways" that the only ap-
propriate name for them is Old Iron.
One of the most useful and active Or
CARNATIONS for the good of women is
the Equality league. lately organized in
the state of New York by Harriet
Stanton Batch and other women. 1t is
not a suffrage league in particular, bu.
aims especially at securing for the
feminine sex equal pay with men for
equal work as we'll as equal opportunf-
ty in the trades and professions. It
works to destroy sex prejudice among
legislators and employers. At meet
ing of the league in Cooper Union.
New York city. not long ago more than
ent.
Next summer will see. at least at
Long Beach, Cal. a seaside resort, po-
lice woaien p;.troliins the BEECH sf.e
dark to protect needless girls. This
movement was started by the W. G. T
q. and may well be inaugurated at all
open air summer resorts.
e e.
This makes me perfectly furious .
said the young lady. pointing 10 a
newspaper paragraph whic, declared
women Gress to catch men, But
isn't it true:" asked her friend. Yes.
and that's Just what makes me flu
rious." answered the young lady.
During the civil war Mrs. Sarah A.
Clapp served nearly q year as surgeon
to the Seventh Illinois cavalry Be
cause she was a woman she could not
he commissioned or even paid. Now.
forty-two years after the close of the
civil war. congress has passed spe-
cial act granting Mrs. Clapp the pay
and allowance of an army surgeon
during the time she served as such. 1t
was long time to wait. and it was
lucky Mrs Clapp wasn't dead when at
length congress got around to her case.
Nevertheless the sun do move.
b. -
A clergyman who is a woman suf-
fragist wants the church reconstructed
and brought up to date ON the woman
question He declares that the church
by its teachings now robS woman OF
the ballot. These teachings We're
brought down from ancient oriental
countries and have no proper place
among the present day free women OF
western lands.
The ideal woman is as gentle and re-
fined as she is strong and wise. Force
of character in woman never robs her
of womanliness.
A man of large experience in the
comm arcial world says that the worst
fault of the feminine sex in business
is that girls take mans place indus
trially and expect nevertheless all 4
girls social privileges and take liber-
ties no man would dream of taking
Business girls better reconstruct them
selves.
A man named HolZ. in Hamburg.
Germany, committed murder. He
surrendered himself to the police as
was supposed The police found cut