Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-01-17
LIGHT ON A PROBLEM
By EVELYN HocE.

Don't tell me-" said young Clekky, with deep sorrow in his tones, that you are a suffragette!"
 In spite of his protest young Clek- ky's voice hinted that he didn't care long as she continued to direct her conversation at him. In this sentiment young Clekky would have been joined by any man who had chanced to be in his place, which was next to a fasci- hating pink and white, large eyed di- vinity of eighteen, with sense enough to act as though she did not know that she was adorable.
 Indeed, I am!" insisted Miss Flu mey indignantly. Everybody is now adays. And you can't imagine the fun we have at the meetings or at the luncheons the girls get up! At mine Pm going to have cream of mush. room"
 "Why are you a suffragette" per sisted the shocked young Clekky. Whats the use? Haven't you always got everything you wanted on earth, anyhow, just by looking as though you wanted it?"
 "W-e-ell," admitted Miss Flumey, dimpling. Then she looked stern. T am not thinking of myself" she said.
 Suppose" went on Miss Flumey, "that l was poor woman with six children and drunken husband, who didn't earn a cent and came home l nn1v fn fo Ln ho money had earned over the washtub wouldn't it be splendid to have law that would do something perfectly aw- full to him and let me keep my money ? That's what we are working fort"
 T should think such law would be a good thing" agreed young Clekky, with enthusiasm. Any money you earned over the washtub ought to be framed and hung on the wall-only, suppose, you would have to spend 1t for potatoes and cabbage and things for the six hungry children. That's the trouble with money-when you want to buy all the orchids in the chop for girl you have to go and pay the tailor or your laundry bill. Oh, know you were using that merely as an ex. ample! But think it is very com. mendable of you, really!"
 "Your voice doesn't sound so," pro. tested Miss Flumey, dubiously. You'll see how it will be when women vote. Things will be very different"
 ''I've not the least doubt of it, agreed young Clekky. Until now poli- tics was the only conversational topic in which bunch of men could gambol untagged and unwatched. Women knew something about everything else and I suppose that's why they couldn't bear to leave politics alone. ,Wk1t's the referendum and the recan?"
 That hasn't anything to do with suffrage" said Miss Flumey. agilely. You're like .aif tee You want to keep 4ss@down and in the dark!"
 N>ever!" said young Clekky. "If h:sA anything to say about it I'd put f You on pedestal and show you off and be proud of you! Do you know, you remind me so much of"
 "You haven't studied the question, l" interrupted Miss Flumey with some degree of haste.
 Yes, I have!" said young Clekky. firmly. You'd be surprised to know the hours I've spent studying woman. 1 She"
 T think" interrupted Miss Flumey. "that we are talking on entirely diff. ferent subjects!"
 Mot at all!" said young Clekky. You can't understand woman suffrage If you don't understand woman, can you? Tell me what you are going to do after you have attended to the drunken husband with the yearnings 1 for washtub earnings?"
 T know you're making fun of mel" said Miss Flumey, with little frown "Oh, we're going to do lots of things l We're going to pass law making smoking illegal and regulating the full ness of trousers, to say nothing o1 abolishing clubs entirely and turning all golf links into picnic grounds. Then we shall set business hours from z a. m. till p. m., with only twenty min utes for luncheon, because you mer l "eoSO CO MuCA I4luS. AlSO we are certainly going to tax bachelors hal1 their incomes"
 You don't need that!" insisted young Clekky. There won't be any bachelors when they get a good look at you! don't suppose the other girls can be like you, but they must be faint limitations. and if there are any men left over they will go and beat their brain out against the first con venient stone wall. That's what your suffragetting and upsetting men is go ing to accomplish! Come, now-vhaa led you to he one?"
 We'll" said Miss Flumey, 'li you don't play auction bridge and aren't suffragette there isn't a sin gle thing to dc. because you don't gel asked anywhere! But. truly. I believe in women having the vote!"
 My dear ckil6," said young Clekky with all the benevolence of his twenty two years, T believe in their hayina