Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-11
WOMEN'S COLUMN.
The Mrlligatawnev Family.

WOMEN'S COLUMN.
The Muliigatawney Family.
| Col. I. w Higginson says he has found
I tnat the women who are strong advocates
/ OF the subsection of women may genefallg
| be divided into two ciasseS--''school girls
| without experience, and matrons of the
most determined character, who rule their
| husbands with a rod of iron
Mrs. Mulligatawney said, Il think it's go
Mr.. Mulligatawney said. ITO me it's very
William !Mulligatawney said, Il think It's
Mary Mqligatawney said, ITS going TO,
And vet there was not cloud in sight,
and twas pleasant day:
have her way
Refrain
With Mrs Mulligatawney the family all
agreed
For all the Mulligatawneys feared her
very much indeed.
| They always did when they were bid
What Mrs. Mulligatawney did
And always tried, when they were taught
TO think as Mrs. Mulligatawney thought.
Mrs. Mulngatawney said, Two and two
are three"
Mr.. Mulligatawney said, I'm sure it ought
William Mulligatawney said, Arithmetic is
wrong.
Mary Mulligatawney said, Its been SO all
along"
Now two and two do not make three, and
three they never were;
But Mrs. Mulligatawney said twas near
enough for her.
Refrain
Mrs. Mulligatawney fell out of the world
Mr.. Munigatawnev hadn't word to say
William Mulligatawney said, Il don't know
what to do"
Mary Muligatawney said, II feel the same
Mrs. Mnlligatawney left the family sitting
there.
They could not think, they could not act,
because they did not dare.
For Mrs. Muigatawney had always
thought for them,
| And all the MulligatawneyS thought the
same as Mrs. Nj.
Refrain.
! -Women's Journal.
-o.:.o-
Indiscreet Tactics
Greatly Damage a Certain Cause.
Unwise counsels have prevailed i'll the
ranks of those groups of women who
are banded together, here and in Eu-
rope, to agitate for a change in the po-
litical status of what, by courtesy, is
called the gentler sex. A French suf-
| fragiSt of note has cheered on the ag-
| gressiveness of the suffragists and suf-
| fragettes by insisting that what women
need to learn is to practice yiolence-an
| activity rney now ay0id-and for this
reason. she advocates that military serv-
| ice of certain kinds should be exacted
| of hat N
upon the hideous realities of war with
out a shudder, one way of girdng them
| up to do aggressive work in behalf OF
votes for women"
| In England, the women's disorderly
| conduct in storming the House of Par
lament. and creating other disturbances,
| is now an old story, without any lmpor-
tant sequel, nothing having been gained
for the cause by the unseemly behavior
but the privilege of posing as martyrs.
1t is said the falling of some of the more
blatant of the leaders has resulted III the
improvement of certain jail conditions
which is good as Jar as it goes. but
it assuredly does not indicate any prog
ress in regard to securing of the right
to vote. In this country, where there
is no excuse for women resorting to cir
Gus methods for drawing attention tC
the movement. the goings on of thC
women have been characterized by the
extreme of ill-breeding. and that the
youths and men in the financial district
and in the uptown residential portions
of the city resOrted to ridicule expressed
in very practical fashion, is no more
than was TO be expected when womef
indulge in cheap methods to attract at
ton. The public respects the Salvation
Army lass, and the Sister of Charity
and it would also treat with considera
ton the advocates of the political equal
ity of women if these methods were
not of the kind that are used to adver
tise the biggest show ON earth' anC
kindred spectacular amusements. Thu
pioneer women suffragists and their de
scendants, who have carried on the agi
tation for emancipation of women in al
the relations of life in a manner be
fitting the seriousness of the matter, ar
scandalized by the boisterous behayio
of these latter-day recruits. and hay
made haste to formally register thei
disaproyal.
The anti-suffragists could ask no NOR
; convincing proof of the correctness o
their contention that women ought no
to be given the franchise than the hur
rah methods of the suffragettes so called
anG the conduct OF those representing tn
, school teachers of Greater New York
who at Albany last winter, in defanc
of the home rule principle Ito whic
progressive and patriotic men and won
, en- are so deeply and earnestly commit
ted tried by unSeemly methods to ca
iole and bend the Legislature and gov
ernor into increasing the salaries of tn
best paid of the teachers and who TIL
wear made covenant with the forces o
, evil to defeat the man who stood 70
, principle. The contention of the pro-sui
! fragists all along has been that the ad
dition of women TO the body of voter
would inject moral tone into politics
: hut the conduct of fhp PpDFnspnfafiy
! women of the teachers association doe
not. according to that authority on civi
. righteousness, DIR. Parkhurst, carry on
this amiable theory.
In marked contrast to the turbuleu
methods and selfish aims of the shouter
, for woman's equality, is the campaig
: of much needed education planned b
the League for the Civic Education q
Women, national anti-suffrage organ
. zation. An Office has been opened, wher
: is to be found ready reference librar
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