Evening journal., 1914-08-29
ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES
IEdlted BY An Anti-Suffragist. J

Miss M. Carey Thomas, president
OF Bryn Mawr and an officer of the
National Suffragist Association, told
n body of college girls that when wo-
men vote, marriage will no longer
disqualify them from following their
life work She says: "They (women)
may have spent half lifetime in fit
ting themselves for a scholars work
and then be asked to choose between
il and marriage. No one can esti-
mate the number of women who re-
main unmarried in revolt before such
horrible alternative"
A writer in the New York Sun who
signs herself r. NJ s., protests
against this attitude which finds cause
for disappointment when a girl of
brilliant promise for successful
career marries and settles down to
the business of home making and own
child training. Being considered
a capable girl, highly ambitions and
studious. / naturally acquired a cir
Gle of friends who had great expec-
/ tatiOns of me-" she wrote."Of course
marriage was a sad blow to this,
which was only emphasized by the
birth of a son year later Five
children have served to os-
traoize me from my former friends
andlfamily. whose most benevolent ap-
plication of the uplifting influence
of modern women is vented in the
expression, Poor Jane, such wasted
lifel
ITO redeem sinners. 10 uplift the
fallen so that they can stagger on
this, for the world today, apparently
means a career. Strangely enough
so have our ideals become warped
to bring up men and women who
do not need 'uplift. who will stand
on their on feet-that is to be merely
useless parasitel" exclaimed Mrs
Annie Nathan Meyer. apropos of sew.
eral books which have appeared of
late dealing with various phases o
modern women's work.
|, The Boston Traveller says:
The world is better for the life o
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Her unselfsl
devotion to the things that count be
yond mere earthly honor and ma
terial gain Will be a source of in
spiration TO many and will. let u
hope. be a potent influence TO sta.
the advance of the so-called new wO
man." whose every thought is of ant
for herself. and in whose philosophy
OF life. home and husband and chill
, 6ren are of secondary Importance
The wife and mother is the mobiles
thing In life. Mrs Wilson was tn
wife and mother In every fibre of he
being. Her death is a nations los:
i and the heart of nation beats toda
= in sympathy with her grief-stricke
9 husband.
a Delaware has a new state organiza
s tion opposed to woman suffrage head
: ed by many of the most prominer
n women of the state.
Their declaration Of principles, a
set forth in petitions for signature
that now are in circulation, is shol
and to the point, as the following wi
" show:
# I'VE believe that the further exter
e sion Of the suffrage TO all the wome
e of the state of Delaware is not de
n sired by the majority of them.
e I'VE believe that it would involy
n greater expense at elections with n
IS corresponding benefit either TO wome
or the state.
I'VE believe that the interests of th
family and the home are menaced
)f any further political activities.
{, "As women of Delaware of full vo
e ing age, and therefore affected by II
Ie proposed change. We subscribe OF
names as being satisfied with II