The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-10-29
WHERE THE WOMEN
is ALLOWED TO VOTE
AND MAN HAS TO

I'm the November American Maya
zinc George Fitch writes an amusinp
piece entitled a High School Flee
uon." He says that Homeburg Is the
place where woman is allowed To vote
and man has to. 1t is a splendid piece
a. fooling on the subject of womans
suffrage in the small towns where
women vote at school elections FOL
lowing is an extract:
y at into my coat pretty cross and
80 down stairs Homeburg is fran
tically awake. Down the streets
scores OF patriots are marching to the
polls. They are not marching in lock
step, but most Of them are undc
guard just the same. Mrs. Chat Fraz-
er pale but determined, is towinl
Chef out OF his butcher shop. Mrs
Timhlo Horn Is hurrying down IN,
,trect with an umbrella in one hanG
and Nimble in the other. From the
post liiice comes Postmaster Flint
emitting loud walls. II 10 against the
law To leave the post office unocCu-
pied, but he can thresh that out with
Attorney Cox was going to Chicago
this afternoon, but notice he is com
ms back from the depot Mrs. Coz
is bringing him. II ! know anything
about rage, Attorney Cox is ready t.
masticotc barbcd wire. His arms are
making blue haze as they rcvolvc.
But he's coming back to vote. He can
go TO Chicago tomorrow but the ma
ton must be saved before five o'clock.
4 do my errands
Then | hurry back and 20 10 the
polls arm in arm with my loving wife.
We have Go wait out turn outside the
engine house. From all corners of
town the votes roll in most of them
under convoy It's Il weird mixture
the mon sullen ana shcepsh, the wo-
men inspired and terrible. Even the
candidates, most Of whom are mon.
are embarrassed. They are pcddlng
tickets frantically and whenever they
falter and show signs OF running. their
wives hiss something into their cars
and brace them up.
Five o'clock is coming fast. Mrs.
Payley looks over her list. Young Ad
Singer has refused to bulge from his
shop Miss III Hawkes. bushes
little and then goes away 20 a tclc-
phone. Pretty soon Al appears. He's
painting into the bar ain Ho gets
Ia line, votes and RI walks away with
him. Fherc Is q sigh or relief from
the Parlcy cohorts now because old
man Thompson is coming. lie is over
ninety ana hates like thunder To go
cut and vote, but he can't help him
self He has lived In n wheel chair
for ten years and has to so wherever
his granddaughter wheels him lie
passes in, mutterng.
only five minutes more. The OK
citoment is intense. Hurrah. Some
enc has gotten the telegraph opera
tors goat. He's coming on the run
That probably means he'll go 20 the
next dancing club party. Judge Hicks !
appears, four women around him. He |
Is mad, but they arc triumphant and |
they look scornfully at me. say ing |
'chump' with their eyes. He votes. !
There Is q commotion at the corner |
because Gibb OSle our leisure class !
mas attempted In a mild way to he |
corrupted. He wants TO know why |
he cart sleep in the South school
basement. The women are. Indignant. |
and appoint two husbands TO deal |
with him GLIB votes. Bang! The |
polls are closed. It's all over but the !
We'd like TO go back to work but |
the suspense Is too great Not that
we have any suspense, but our wives
nave; aud II we arc worthy Of tho |
name Of men we must help them en-.
dure Il, even u we ourselves are not
interested IN tie scheols So ve han
around and fume over the jungle
fingered judges who take as much time
as Y 'hev were enurerating tho eooql