The evening world., 1911-01-13

do you recall" asked the fiery leader
OF the M~ilitants, that when you we're
a little girl at school YOU considered
nothing quite SO choice as sucking the
juice OF a lemon through a pepper
mint stick? Well. some women, some
s~uhrag!sts even. keep that schoolgirl
taste when they're past fifty. You can
make them eat any amount Of lemons
through the peppermint stick OF fat
terry. chivalry, Difference to the weaker
sex or whatever brand 1t happens to be
Tea and Lemons.
"what 10 the average suffrage
meeting but . tea party, anyhow,
the tea served in the latest style
with . slice or two OF the legis-
lativs lemons tina have been
handed to the Cause. The trou-
BILE with the so-callsd conservative
sunragist 10 that she expects man
to treat her a. his equal, when
she persists In using h methods
OF an inferior. They cajO:s and
plead n persuade when they
should demand. we've got to show
the Legislators that we're in PAR
nest, that We mean business-and
we . only prove It &c them by
militant methods.
Look how far ahead OF us the Eng
..sh women are. The battle Is practi-
cally won In Great Britain. and why?
Simply because It's been a battle. not
a tea party. Every woman In business
or the professions has got to be mill
tant II she expects to win. Here and
fi1arA ~ III f.A at... Aa
guishes along TO a mediocre success.
but It's he woman who meets men on
their own terms. on their own battle
ground, who asks no favors and who
gives none because she's a woman,
that gets the big prizes.
Must Be Ready to Fight.
ITS The sort OF woman who takes the
candy-coated lemon sWeetly and says:
Let me make you a lemonade with IT,
who wins a mans respect. He may not
Ike her particularly. but women have
cared too much about being liked. about
making a good impression. It's the fear
OF doing something unwomanly that has
Nep: the suffragists in New York from
accomplishing anything"
Then you think women will have to
be &Ewomanly to VIM" | asked.
"'Vhy. winning itself is unwomanly."
laughed Mrs. Loeb!nger. The womanly
woman always loses, whether the game
l. .cve or cards, or else she cheats. 1t s
nc; Womanly to slap a policeman or
- chain yourself to the railing of Par
i!aa:ent, or to throw stones at a Cab
met Minister. but it's just UGH things
which have convinced the men OF Eng
land that English women are deter
mined 20 ave the vote.
You remember Bernard Shaw COM
pared the womanly woman TO n parrot
In a g!.ded cage, and he added that the
only parrot one can have any respect
for is one that makes Itself so disagree
able It's captor is obliged to let 1t out.
- ell. our sunfrasists should learn a
lesson from that parrot n do a little
more sluawking and beating about the
cage.
"of course the American parrot has
a very commodious cage Mrs. Loe-
binger admitted-"all the modern I'M
~provements, the choicest crackers. cut
tiefsh bones. apples and emons-don'
forget the lemons. But The parrot wants
to sharpen its beak a little. 1t should
quit saying, Polly wants the ballot" In
a ha.f-hedrted way that gets a laugh
and a lemon. IL should 10 some fiylng
about Ind nippIns, /, should fly up tc
Albany and perch above the cham Ell
door o: the Capitol I'LL its demands are
answered, not with compliments bu,
with actions. | tell you. senator .juili-
van put the whole suffrage case in thai
Interview you wrote when he said: II
men are such mighty affairs. why SHOULD
they be afraid 10 let women compete
with them? II they're not. why not
give the aides n chance Senator Sui
Ivan Is a fine ma =. and ! consider hi.
coming out In that whol.-hearted way
Ger suffrage a great victory for us. A
least. we won't get any ~candy-coateC
lemons from him"