Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-25
"Votes for Men.n

so-called suffragette of the militant
type.
A woman of brilliant mind and
keen instincts said to me the other
day: We quite see the point, that
if we compete with men in certain
walks of life, every woman who gets
a living is depriving a man of one
If all men who made a good living
married. this objection would have
great weight with our sex. But
many men who ought to marry dc
not marry, and the main reason is
that with less expenditure they can
get all they desire out of certain
members of our sex. So we have
arrived at the conclusion that if I'M
appropriated women are to get some
of the good things of this life they
must depend on themselves and not
on men" Thus the suffragist-now
let us hear her opponent in Votes
for Mem"
The true suffragette is a man
hater. Her chief end and aim is to
stir up sex-antagonism. She
is of that sisterhood of cranks who
wear gray sleeps wool underwear
and number seven shoes and whose
skirt and waist don't meet in the
back.
Ignorance about women is fostered
by mems fake modesty in not in
forming themselves about women'S
peculiar nature and by women''
conscious or unconscious shrewdness
in realizing that she has man 'dippy
as long as she has him guessing
tranquility, and not strife. mus
be the keynote of woman's life
Thus woman. at every point in he
life. demands, and must have pro
tention from man. Only {
fool will seriously seek to justify BY
the freak arguments of abnormal
unsexed women, a program which
proposes to pile upon the shoulders
of normal women the burden o.
mans responsibility. which he alon'
is able to bear.
Women cannot enter into any fail
competition, physical, mental oil
economic, with men. "A fair field
and no favor is impossible Sh'
must have favor and this gives hel
in every way the advantage of man
Woman is in love Will
power. Her absolute authority will
children tends to autocraey in ever!
relation and thought. The imperson
al, the judicial is impossible to her
A good mother is a poor voter
not fair-minded, not just-not mean
to be. She has narrow but power
fully concentrated intelligence.
good mother is a person of one idea
A good voter must not be.
1.-The New Woman is Degenerate
and incompetent female who seeks t
Justify her existence by preaching tn
gospel that all women must be lik
her. She's master of all tn
arts but the arts it's woman's bust
ness to know Votes 70
women means not only casting a vot
at the polls, 1t means rather the fina
word in the de-sexing of women, be
gun by women's invasion of tde in
dcstrial world.
What is the most revered woman
aame the world has known. knows to
day? Is 1t that of some queen. or en-
press of the ancient world, some WON
an in the guise of man on the field {
battle, or some female would-be phi
| losopher, scientist or artist? Not an
of these. But just Mary, the mothe
of Jesus of Nazar s-h. She was 81
greatest woman. because, simply. ST
was the mother of the t-r.atese ma
| the world has seen. Yet narro'
sphere and calling vas hers. Her CT
ness for motherhood is ne suprem
| test of a woman's worth"
1t is, perhaps, well COR his ar he
safety and peace that the author !
this little volume, pregnant as it
with thought, remained shelts-e
under the cover IF anonymity.
VOTES FOR MEN" Anonymou.
Duffield & Co., New York. 1913.
A Delightful Romance.
"Susette" is a charming romanc'
full of delightful colors and loveligh
II is the story of young English
man, who as soon as he inherits hi
property takes his two brothers for
| long cruise in his yacht, which
wrecked. Algernon is cast ashore o
| an island In the tropics, and, as b
| imagines, is in complete and desolat
solitude, but, greatly to his relief,
finds a Frenchman and his lovel
daughter living in a bungalow wit
all the comforts of civilization.
Twice a year a ship comes fror
France with supplies for the French
man, who is supposed to be
marquis. He is also, he says,
refugee, exiled for political exigenciei
Algernon soon becomes slave
Susette. She is a veritable littl
tyrant. She had never known the sc
ciety of other girls, and men othe
than the crew of the supply ship, VIII
treated her like a queen, We're un
known to her. Algernon, when tn
opportunity comes, will not leav
Susette, who has cast the chains c
love upon him. But finally he goe
back to Paris. There he finds tha
one brother had been lost In tn
wreck The other, Arthur, is at hi
home.
In the denouement the reason fo
the solitary life of the marquis is dis
closed, after his death. He had bee
| faithless to his trust as bank office
Let all those who love a novel c
distinct charm and lively inciden
and love-making read "Susette."
'SUZETTE," A ROMANCE OF Tw'
YOUNG PEOPLE. BY Dion Clayto
Frederick A. Stokes Company, pub
fishers, Fifth avenue, New York.
Stokes Company Publications.
Among the notable new publica
tions of the Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany, Fifth avenue, New York, ar
1.-The Chasm." by George Cram Cool
author of "In Hampton Roads.
beautiful story of love with dramati
intensity of treatment; THE Vow,
bv Paul Trent. a novel of extraord
nary interest and excitement, with
ruthless captain of finance as III
hero: Woman and Labor" by DIV
Schreiner. the well-known author {
1.-THE Story of an African Farm"
remarkable contribution to moder
| thought, and Sherwood, Robin Hoo
and the Three Kings" by Alfre
| Moves. author of 1.-The Enchante
Island This is a fve-act dram
which. the publishers say, is full {
swift action. high romantic color an
poetry. both delicate and strong.
! Cavour and Modern Italy.
Late this fall the Putnams will pull
fish in their Heroes of the Nation