The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-27
Modern Woman
What the Leading English Paper
Published For Women Thinks of
the Sufhasette Movement = Its
Power Not Comprehended Here.

Naturally enough this journal Is i'm
rnensely 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 tho 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 III 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 With
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 coun-
Gil as saying that the womens 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:
II have no taste for women who
NEEDLE with politics" said the great
Emperor Napoleon l. to the famous au-
thor of .sCorinne" You may perhaps
be 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:
I confidently expect that In less than a
decade the novelty and Strangeness of wo-
the election OF members of parliament
will have quite worn away.
Some ancient female women are SO
asot In their ways that the only ap-
propriate name for them is Old Iron.
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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. It is
not a suffrage league in particular, but
aims especially at securing for the
feminine sex equal pay with men for
equal work as well as equal opportuni-
ty in the trades and professions. 1t
works to destroy sex prejudice among
legislator and employers. At a meet
ing of the league in Cooper Union,
New York city, not long ago more than
900 self supporting women were pres
emit
Next summer will see, at least at
oh rn1
lice women patrolling the beach after
dark to protect needless girls. This
movement was started by the W. c. r.
q. and may well be inaugurated at all
open air summer resorts.
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This makes me perfectly furious"
said the young lady, pointing to
paragraph which declared
women dress TO catch men," But
isn't it true?" asked her friend. Yes,
and that's just what makes me fu-
rious," answered the young lady.
During the civil war Mrs. Sarah A.
Clapp served nearly a year as surgeon
to the Seventh Illinois cavalry. Be-
cause she was woman she could not
be 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. It
was a long time to wait, and it was
lucky Mrs. Clapp wasn't dead when at
ength congress got around to her case. |
Nevertheless the sun do move.
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A clergyman who is a woman suf- |
'ragist wants the church reconstructed |
and brought up to date on the woman
question. He declares that the church |
Dy its teachings now robs woman of |
he ballot. These teachings were t
brought down from ancient oriental I
countries Snd have no proper place |
among the present day free women OF T
western lands
The ideal woman is as gentle and re-
ined as she is strong and wise. Force /
# character in woman never robs her
,f woman1iness.
A man of large experience in the /
,amm ercial world says that the worst
ault of the feminine sex in business
s that girls take a mans place indus
rally and expect nevertheless all a
.irls social privileges and take liber-
les no man would dream of taking
Business girls better reconstruct them
elves.
A man named HolZ. in Hamburg
Germany. committed a murder He
himself TO the police as
vas supposed. The police found out,
however, that the prisoner was not
Iolz ut all. but man named Deyel,
Who looked very much like The real
murderer When reprimanded and
hargcd with trying to be hanged I'm
er false pretenses. Devei broke down
nj declared his wife made him - un-
appy that he would rather die than
Ire any longer with her