Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-12-28
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akin to the scratching, hair-pulling
and screaming Of the average woman
fighter, with little reference to Mar
quis of Queensberry rules. Kindly al
low me a dialogue with her.
| Beavin-I have come to the conclu-
sion, after summing up all the letters
written by Mr. Francis B. LiYesey,
that he is lined up to battle by word
and pen against everybody and every
thing-Socialists club women, public
schools, suffragists and anti-suffra-
gists.
Livesey-Exactlyl All of these are
in the same boat, and Mrs. Beavin
seems to make no attempt to separate
them. She seems to be glad of her
company. The Socialist comrades who
run the Socialist paper at 1l01 E.
| Baltimore street, Baltimore, should
call on her and tell her that the short
est cut to the gaining of woman
suffrage is under their banner.
Beavin-I wonder what kind of wo-
man would suit him anyway? A'sort of
an angel and a housewife combined?
Livesey-Exaetly! An angelic
beauty and love and the equivalent of
a housemaid in the performance Of
those duties without which life is full
of divorce and dyspepsia, would suit
me exactly, and / believe that it
would also suit every man who can
| call his soul his own and who is not
n-pecked by woman suffrage wife.
Angels or suffragists-of the Mrs.
Elliott and Mrs. Parkhurst order
what man would choose the latter?
Don't all speak at once.
| SBeavin-Mr.L ivesey will find Mary
land suffragist is not as easy to fright
en- as that Kentucky lady.
Livesey-"F Fools rush in where
angels fear to tread"--that's a fact.
After fifteen-years hunt in Maryland.
Mrs. Beavin is the first club woman
or suffragist to come out against me.
| am far from wishing to brighten any
| body. | only want to see people who
profess such an abundance of lntelli-
/ gence to come out in the press and
stand by their cause, letting the public
see the best man win. say man,
for perhaps the lady would prefer to
be called a man in fight, something
| like novelists who think the world
Il serves them better turn under the
masculine name. Heretofore, the
Maryland suffragists have not appear
ed in sufficient evidence to be fright
ened-at least on any of the many
lines that ! have antagonized them.
Leading Maryland suffragists, like
Mrs. Corkran, Mrs. Elliott and Mrs.
Hooker, whose theories l have antag-
i
come forth against me. If Mrs.
Beavin is to set a long-necessary ex-
ample for them, trust that she will
proceed with the main questions and
allow personalities to serve only as the
spices for her connections. Of late
have had about two dozen letters in
the Maryland papers that need her
reply. One was in her own Annapolis
Evening Capital of December z, head
ed CLUB Women Pie lse Note"
Beavin--The great trouble with
some men is they are so conceited
they find fault to see their own faults.
They need a glimpse of themselves
from woman's point Of view.
Livesey--Yes, this glimpse" from
woman will, the woman fondly
thinks, deter the men from knocking
the woman suffrage movement to
smithereens. For myself, nothing suits
me so we'll as to have lot of mannish
women looking at me. There are said
to be some thousands of them in this
State, and trust that the papers will
| open to every one of them against me,
| and that they will 10 longer go around
begging or bribing people to make
me shut up. In plain parlance, let US
both "show up"
Beavin--How is it girls are becom-
ing very intelligent women and a
credit to home and country in the
same schools where the boys are sup
posed to be learning nothing and be-
| coming worthless?
Livesey--There are exceptions TO all
rules, and it is true that here and
/ there girls are found learning better
/ and behaving better than the boys /;
/ but the results are the things to
count. All over the land we see girls
running to cities the same as the
/ bows, and as untitled to become wives
and mothers as the boys are husbands
/ and fathers. Our divorce courts prove
that. The greatest Mayor of the great
est city in the country, Mayor Gay
nor, of New York, confesses that the
public schools are failure" for both
boys and girls. am receiving con-
gratulations upon receiving such g
worthy ally. Woman suffrage, also,
Mayor Gaynor condemns.
Beavin---Probably, if fathers spent
little more time training their boy!
and setting good example, we Nigh
have better results.
Livesey--I am one of the fathers
that spends lots of time in that man
ner, and it exasperates me to see wo
man suffragists and club women lik
Mrs. Benjamin w. Corkran seeking
q compulsory education law tina
would totally deny me this parenta
duty. The average father sees tn
State school taking the boy ava
from him and making him good Stat
| Socialist. A mans life is not boy
life exactly. Example in some thing
is all we'll and good, but there ar
things for which a boy should hav
the birch for attempting to initiate
man ;but the birch is one of the neces
sary parts of a boys life that tn
women in their sentimntality hav
sought to eliminate. they haze man