The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-09-17
keep MERE MAN
IN BACKGROUND
Is Considered Of Little GOnSS-
quencsIn Suffraglst Scheme.
WOMAN DEPICTED IN BONDAGE
Anti.Suffraeists Draw Contrasting
Picture to. Point Out Evils Arising
From Wcman's Desertion of the
Home to Pursue the Ballot.

picture To- Polnt OuI Evils N'S's
From Wcman's Desertion of the
Home to Pursue the Ballot
The suffragists have issued a pic
tured argument portraying the in
terror of a house. The mistress sits
in the parlor with her hands tied;
the maid is preparing luncheon in The
kitchen; upstairs child is i'll in bed;
two other children with school books
are descending the 'front.' steps. The
City Hall is seen in the background,
its windows marked Food Inspec-
tor" Board of Health" Board or
Education" etc. Cord-like lines run
from the occupants of the house to
the windows of the City Hall. Below
the picture reading matter states that
the hands of the mistress are tied by
lack of ballot. also infers that tie
child is i'll because the mother can not
vote and the maid is unable to pre-
Lare proper food for the same reason.
the man of the house is not in evil
ience, being, according to the suf-
fragist idea, of little importance in
the family picture.
Several pictures showing many
other important phases might well
be presented. Suppose we transfer
the City Hall to the foreground OF the
picture and relegate the home to the
background. Now let us show a view
of the interior disclosing members OF
the board of health tied hand and
foo., with lines extending to the kitch-
ems of careless housewives, to their
| garbage cans and refrigerators, to the
lily prepared food they set before
their helpless children and husbands,
! thus 0isreL arding all health rules and
! undaing the best efforts of the afore-
| mentioned board. One line might we'll
trail to the nurseries, where the In
| nocants are left to paid substitutes
for mothers, or to poorer homes with
out nurseries, but where unkempt
| children are left to their own devices,
while their mothers indulge in back
fence gossip or attend various clubs
and suffrage meetings 1t might be
well TO stretch one line from juvenile
courts to street corners, where un-
mOthered youngsters receive their
first lessons in vice. against which
the tied hands of court officers are
powefIess, for the antidOte to juvenile
crime is in the home. We might ex-
tend various lines from million fac
tories to as many bargain counters
where women scramble and push to
set first chance at garments for $1.9S
marked down from 50. These wom-
en- are much too busy to unite the
cords from swollen wrists of factory
girls, who must make these garments
as long as popular demand exists.
Other lines might extend from leg
islative halls, where pure food laws
are enacted, and from courts of JUS
tice, where jaded judges punish dis
honest dealers, to women telephone
users, who laconically order without
inspecting the family supplies; also,
to women who never take the time.
to weigh or measure, but who go on
day after day encouraging graft of
every description because of their in
dolent and unbusiness-like methods.
Oh, yes, too, we might stretch many
a pathetic line from little graves ON
lonely hillsides to careless or ignor-
ant mothers. who, failing to inform
themselves ON laws regarding child
conservation, are now left with empty
arms. Also-but our lines are ex-
hausted and, in order to cover all
negligence on the part of women, we
shall have to order a new and larger
supply of twine.