The Washington herald., 1914-06-21
Is SFEMINISM
CE INSTIGATOR
Uses Sufragists' Oh
vations as Arguments
Against Them.
rs TO CIGARETTE
that Suffrage Movement Is
eading Women to Adopt
Mems Bad Habits.
MRS. GEORGE p. WHITE,


Chairman Of the Organizing COMMITTEES. PennEyl-
Tznia Association Opposed 70 Woman suffasel
In the July issue of one of the maya
zines that is constrained to keep at least
a month ahead Of the up-to-date, Mrs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox claims that ''wom-
ans greatest need is a school for the
cultivation of common sense"
Mrs. Wilcox thinks that lit required
uncommon sense for woman first to
awaken to the realization that she had
every moral and natural right to the
franchise But she has shown her pitt
full lack OF common sense in the last
score OF years by her persistent acquisi-
ton of masculine Old World vices while
she is proclaiming from the housetops
that the race needed her refining and
uplifting influence in politics.
Mrs. Wilcox continues: To-day three
fourths OF the women prominent in our
social life and our artistic circles are
confirmed smokers" and blames this on
"woman's lack of wisdom in emulating
the undesirable habits OF the sex with
which she claims her equality. Further,
she says that IL woman Is to lift politics
from the mud in which It has made its
bed. the cigarette will not prove an ef-
fecttve lever"
MImIery OF Men.
It 10 not surprising that this brilliant
suffragist should notice the marked MIN
icry of masculine traits that characterizes
the feminist movement throughout Yet
here, as elsewhere, we see that the mere
man" is not one whit behind her in point
ing II out
DR.. L. r. Briggs, dean of Harvard Uni
versity, in a recent address to college
graduates in Philadelphia, told them tina:
the problem confronting modern woman
is whether she shall continue TO be mans
ideal. or shall merely use her new free
dom to copy all that is coarse and vulgar
in man. Curiously, too, he linked the in
crease OF the cigarette habit among
women with the agitation for equal rights.
1T 60 deplorable that woman should edu-
cat lerself to such habits" he said, and
she's another coincident of feminism:
"EE. y and consistency are treated too
HghT, today among the married and the
sn-. grried," he declared. Since the So
ria. e Of the community depends largely
r. tie point of view assumed by the
yussr women. they must make their
aE.se distinction in what they refuse TO
30 is the truth that has made women
s-o-
s~a her observer, DR.. Edwin z. Sparks,
T,r snt Of State College, deplored the
E-s.r tegration of the modern family
ie Hls address to graduates Of the Wom-
arsE Medical College, Of Philadelphia
os is no longer any companionship
~ D. macy in the home" he asserted.
In he evenings the children are at the
So father goes to his club, mother
e. Htr equal rights meeting. There is
a p -er OF dust on the family Bible. The
.gT-plest need of the country is a deeper
.,ssozg. for authority and willingness to
ry the law. Old-fashioned- mothers
with palm leaf hands succeeded In get
ting more obedience from the last gem
Grafton than all the advocates OF moral
suasion have been able to gain from the
present one"
wOman's Health Most Important.
However much we may be inclined to
doubt Mrs. wIlcox's assertion that three !