The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-06
SUFFRAGE NOTES

Suffrage has won another victory
| according to DR.. Frank Crane, who has
the following to say: r.
We have done a SNUG big of criticiz-
ing you and l., and held upgdisap-
proving hands at the English fighting
| suffragettes. They were naughty four
ways. Violence, will not do. These
women have unseXed themselves
They should seek their ends in nicer
| ways 49,, .--.& E ..sy.
You may do as you please. But as
| for me, l have read a letter in The
Chicago News from e. P. Bell of Lon
don; l know Bell and will believe
whatever he may say; and / here and
now advance to the mourner's bench
n %renounce my sin. have judged
and condemned with a high hand
and a stretched out arm. / knew
little about them. What / did know
was wrong.
Mr.. Bell states succincitly the con
ditions of English women. Knowing
those conditions I would not blame
them if they fired Westminster Abbey
and spanked the king.
England is the country most en-
shaved by tradition, and the traditions
having to dc with women are abomin-
able.
From infancy he English girl is
ILldut ~ lctl. toi 4 ~" J. u Sc
maids pet the boys and neglect the
girls. When two little girls and a
somewhat larger brother go out for
an airing the boy rides in the per-
~ambulator, the girls walk.
The girl in ar English family is UNI
der the most rigid restraint. There
are 100000 900 things she must not do
because she is a lady. The boy does
very much as he pleases.
He goes to the best school to be
found. Anything will do for her.
When she gets married she en-
tiers into a s%ervitude most real. In
the average British home, says Mr..
Bell, if there is one new-laid egg for
breakfast the husband takes it as a
matter of course. If there is but one
bathroom the father and sons have
prior claim to it,. Mother may take
a makeshift bath In her room, and
the girls carry up the water for her.
A man and being In partner
ship, he working outside and she at
home, the money when it comes in.
goes to the a Can he not do as
he pleases with his own?
The mistress orders potatoes boiled;
the maid brings them to the table
baked, explaining that master likes
them so. That settles it. All the serv-!
ants have their eyes upon master.
LH6E ISIiDFe Tie ORDERS OF the mistress.
Some Englisamen Will not trust their
wives to do the shopping, lest they
saould prove extravaganza. The men.
may be seen pattering around the
shops selecting goods and gowns for.
wife and daughter.
The wife iscowed, overawed and
snubbed. The man can appropriate
as. Wife's earnings. She cannot touch
his.
MIR. Bell mentions an instance where
tfncle john was a most excellent man,
so just, kind and good. Insall his years
0f married life he had never given his.
wife money enough to buy q postage
stamp or ave her the letter to post.
An English woman is constantly dis
eliminated against by the law. The
tatler has the say whether the child
shall be vaccinated or not, to what
sc;iool the boy or girl shall 60. ana
what religion they shall adopt, and al
thousand other details Of u~nreasoning
tyranny.
III is these small things of daily
istence that by their constant irrita-
ton and Injustice have strung the
women Of England to protest.
So inore power to their arms.