Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-06
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chairman Of a committees to bring our school
history text books up to date In an inter-
view (5) she says;
Most of the histories dismiss woman euf-
Irage with n short paragraph or a footnote.
These usually saw; ''The vote hns heen aivon
TO women in two-sometines they saw three.
states. but they have not made as much ttse
OF the opportunity as they might" The Cam
tury Company has offered to let me furnish
them two pages Of suffrage facts TO be incor-
porated In am American history Il will bftEk
out In March. In one history now used In the
New York public schools. q revised edition
published this year. brief footnote states
that women now vote in three States and
the movement has assumed some force" This
when women are voting in ~ States.
A history by Professor Muzzey, of CoIun-
bia University, covers the suffrage movement
IN patronizing paragraph, saying that
women vote in several States" IL devoten
half page TO the San Francisco earthquake.
Sonia Leven, writing of The wonen's
Invasion Of the East" C6), calls attention 10
the fact that the suffragists are 70 turn east
ward from their western campaigns and tri-
umphs. and that next year the issue will
come up for vote in Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey Massachusetts, and Iowa.
She quotes letter signed by the Brewers
and Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association
which was widely circulated in Oregon pre-
Vious TO suffrage election. and which seems
to back up charge frequently made by suf-
lIdglstS. Ihe letter reads In part:
~ will take $4,000 votes to defeat woman
suffrage. There are 1000 retailers in Oregon
That means that every retailer must him
seit bring In 20 votes election day. Every
retaller can get 20 votes Besides his em-
ployes, he has his grocer his butcher his
landlord, his laundryman and every per-
son he does business with. II every man in
the business will do this we will win.
Crinoline Crinkles
True to its tradition of saying whatever IL
pleases, Town Topics Saunterer has this to
say of tendencies in the fashions (D:
:, Not the crinoline, pleasel We have en-
dured more or less patiently the vagarles in
woman's dress, from sheath skirts to trou-
sers, but we draw the line at crinoline the
zeppelin OF dress The steady conservatism
and admirable courtesy of the men while
their wives and daughters-and even their
mothers and grandmothers have been
stripping themselves to the skin for public
inspection, deserve u better reward than the
return OF the eugenic enceinte STYLE of which
n frantic poetess wrote:
ut tips UP behind, II tips UP before;
can't sit in seat can't get through door"
In dramatic criticism, Francis Hackett
gives semiphilosophical treatise on women
ana morals and asks n pertinent question as
10 the relation between relaxing standards of
morals of and on the stage. He writes (s):
There was time in the American theatre
When the dramatist alluded to an "unchaste''
woman as rhetorician alludes to the
i",,,e peneinoth. In France II was pleasantly al
iowed. women graded anywhere from a faint
PINK TO q scarlet too hot for naked eyes but
III America women were either as Innocent
us snow or as uncomfortable as lepers That
u woman could "transgress" was admitted
put she properly stood an island of mo-
nogamy surrounded by an ocean of disan-
proVal' and that ocean was infested by every
horror OF the deep serpents, sharks and
sWordhsh. beasts to which the male was
more or less immune, but to which the fe-
male was as carrlon to the crow.
Ana now, unashamed on the American
stage, appears the open record of a woman
who has no more prejudice about chastity
as such than broker has about loans In
The Song OF Songs" the four walls of as
sumptions about chastity are fallen COM
pletely away.