New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-24
VOTES" AID DIGESTION
Anti.Suffragists' Plan of Boring
Men Falls Flat.
A DANCE PARTNER LOST
Missionary Work Done by Land
Show Booth Is Making
Many Converts.

An unforeseen complication arises.
The men refuse to be bored. What now
OF the anti-sufiragists' best laid plansT
Imagine the feelings of the prettiest girl
when she has made up her mind to sacrt-
flee her dinner companion on the altar OF
the cause, and plunges bravely in.
"Oh, by the way, Mr.. Vandermont,
hope you're not thinking OF voting yes
on that suffrage amendment. You know
We women don't really want to vote
and young Mr.. Vandermont. gazing at her
in amaxemsnt, cries:
You don't want TO vote? How Is that!
I can't conceive Of any intelligent person
not wanting to. Why, just look at the
children in factories, the women
Far, far better for the prettiest girl IL
she had let the young man describe the
remaining members Of his college faculty
Already many sad tales like the above
are being collected by Jealous faddists'
One girl confessed that she almost lost
the friendship of dance partner by tell
ing him she was an anti-suffragist The
pain and horror on his hitherto happy
countenancs will follow her through life.
II would be a tragic story but for the
confessed the truth, that she really wasn't
an ANTI" at all; she just said II for fun
That's the funniest thing about tns
whole thing" prominent suffragist said
the other day. THE men won't be bored
at all. They like TO talk suffrage. They are
intensely interested. Why. I have an OLD
uncle who used to be the most raplo
anti" and now he goes to all our meet
ings. He went to Dr.. Shaw's meeting ana
to Mrs. Cats, too, and you should nave
seen the expression on his face wneh
those women began TO talk.
why, they're orators, he saio'
They're Just as good as men.
LOT course they are, L SAID anu
they've been orators for the last thirty
years, but you men wouldn't listen 10
them before
well, we sufrrasists don't care how
much the .antis' try to bore the men. Tho
more the better, because as soon as an
intelligent man really, begins to tank aho
10 think about II, he begins to believe III
il. Men can't comprehend the anti-sol-
frage point of view at all. And even IL
we don't convince all men before lslb' ~
.. sn't matter. The ants say they are
!, they will defeat US. Never mild
Almost never has a state been won In me
first campaign, but no campaign WORK
was ever lost. Ohio and Wisconsin nave
, begun again, you know. and Whatever
happens in New York in 1918. the CAM
psign Of education will be that much fur
Their advanced. By all means, let the
antis' talk all they cam
Down at the land show. wedsed in be-
tween the cabbases and cows, is wom-
| an suffrage booth, where enc has an eN-
cellent opportunity OF observing the at
| titude OF the masculine American pubic
| toward the question which is 10 bore them
for the next three years.
True it is that many pass by on the
| other side.
Trus, too, that-well, some cross over 10
receive the votes for women literature
landed out TO them. Now and again an
! incident such as this comes TO cheer the
| workers. An elderly man, evidently q
foreigner, with shabby clothes and paper
collar, stands surveying the booth from
afar. Then he approaches.
Might have something TO read on the
subiect?" he says. II think It's right, out
| don't know how TO answer the things
people say against 1t.
picture the charming smile with which
Miss Eleanor Brannan favers that poor
mani -,
You know" he volunteers, thus en-
couraged, II think every honest man is a
sutYragist at heart. II he has a good wife
and daughters, he wants them TO nave
VERY right thew can get His duty as
their protector requires this of him, and
"RHt I am only a poor man. I do not
know about these things. Olive me what
| should read
BLESS his heart" sigh the women as
he trudges away. "If they were all Ike
THAR ,..
Mrs. Henry Butterworth: I think man
are much better about Il thaa women
IFS lucky the vote doesn't rest on then,
they're so snippy! They come along here
with their heads in the air, afraid veI
/ contarninate them. The men who pass
a.. much better behaved. Men are more
open minded They aren't afraid OF what
people will think. They know tbs Is a
big question and they want 20 lsssn about
II. Boredt Well, I guess not!'