The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-21
THE HOTEL CLERK TALKS
 ON GIVING OF THANKS
BY IRWIN s. COBB.

, the women get the vote maybe then they'll quit taking all the mems jobs away
 from them. I'd be entirely reconciled to
 the idea of having Mrs. Belmont or Mrs.
 Clarence Mackay for President with May
 Manton as the Secretarette of State and Mrs. Rohrer in charge of the department
 of the interior and Butterick's Fashions
 as the official organ of the administration,
 if only had the guarantee that the hand that rocks the cradle wouldn't eventually
 be the hand that lays the brick.
 "Just look around you, Larry, and see
 how few pursuits are still left to- the os-
 tensibly stronger sex. Who gives us our dlctations at home and takes them from
 us at our offices. but spells most of the
 words wrong and has the same idea of punctuation that a fly has? Woman. love ly woman, strong minded, horny-handed
 woman, that's who. Who is 1t that we
 used to give up our seats on the street
 car to, if by nature polite, but now takes them away from us? Need ask? Who
 is 1t that fights with us for the most de- sirable place in the aisle and wins 1t by main brute strength? You know already
 without my telling you. How often, as
 you travel back and forth, does 1t make
 your heart bleed to see some inoffensive
 and shrinking young haberdashery clerk
 forced to dangle from a strap. limp and
 wan, while a brawny lady boilermaker or female scene shifter sits with her feet out in the aisle occupying seating space for two? But you don't dare to protest. She might make your nose bleed, too In our boasted civilization what has be- come of the tender, shrinking, fragile female of our grandfathers day, who suffered from megrims and vapors, and regarded taking pill as being in the na- f.trn Af c1r for I can't tell you. I guess, though, she's put on walking skirt and 8 pair of bulldog shoes and is out trying to take some poor mans means of livelihood away from him. Anyway, this isn't grand fathers day any more. It's grandmother B. And she's there with the wallop, too.
 Who's got most of the desirable jobs in the business world and is hot after the others? Is 1t little Johnny Jones2 No sir. It's his sister Sue. Who's the tennis champion? Cousin Maggie. Who's made the best golf score at the Country club this fall? Great Aunt Clarissa, "A years old, and prominent in politics.
 T tell you, Larry, we owe a great debt of gratitude to those dear lads that still retain possession of the white goods de- pertinent and the embroidery counter at the department stores. We mayn't realize 1t yet, but they're pretty near the last bulwark of our sex. Let us. therefore, take minute off and be also thankful for Clarence and Algie. Women to sell us safety razors and cooking stoves in the basement, women to put up the pre- scriptions in the pharmacy on the top floor, women to do the buying for the car pet department and the grocery annex, but thank heavens there stand those noble boys still holding the baby ribbon and the neckwear against overwhelmt~s. odds.
 ''If things keep on the way they're keeping on, what's ahead of us, I ask you? That's what I'm asking you what's ahead of us? I can shut my eyes and see the finish. Gentlemen admitted free at the popular priced lnatnees when accompanied by one paid admission and a lady escort! A comical lady clown standing on blue barrel and holding up paper hoop for the bareback gentle man rider in the tarleton lamp shade skirts to jump through while tall and coprtly ringmistress snaps a blacxnake whip and 8 troupe of husky canvas mes danes and misses tote in the iron tank containing the performing seals. Bold girls-about-town, reprimanded by stern police court magistresses for flirting with unprotected youths on the street. Su- preme Court Justisettes, lady baggage smashers. female head walters. and jour-