The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-30
|SUfFRAG|STS TURN
TO MOTHER GOOSE
Ancient Classics Rcmade 10 Garry
Arguments for the Ballot.

There have been many adaptations
of the Mother Goose classics, and
the latest is Mother Goose as a sur
ragette" 1t Is Woman Suffrage Party
literature and Is a gay little book
showing on the outside picture OF
the famous Queen of Hearts," who
is Opposition" The rhyme for this
is:
The Queen of Hearts
Has made some darts,
And shoots them straight each day.
The Knave of Hearts
Has felt her darts.
And fast is giving way.
Many Mother Goose heroes and
heroines are to be found in the little
volume jill is the only sufferer in
the recreation of one of the ia
miliar stories, as will be seen by
this:
Jack and jill
Have equal will
And equal strength and mind.
But when 1t comes to equal rights
Poor Jill trails far behind.
deep knowledge of human nature:
Little Miss Horner
Stood on a corner
Making suffrage speech
Her logic and BRAIN
Said the women, ARE plain"
But the men just said, "Ain't she
peach.'
Here is wicked one on the Ants:
Mistress Mary, quite contrary
How do your arguments grow?
A few facts perverted old notions
asserted,
And little fibs in a row.
A narrowing picture of fair damsel
standing in the tub of "Disfranchise-
ment" has this ryme:
Rub-a-dub-dub
Three men in tub.
And crowded in with them a lady.
convict. a fool.
And a lunatiC--wholl
Leave her longer with people so
shady?
An agonized creature looking out
of a we'll labeled Oppression" is
thus described:
Ding, dong, bell, the woman's in the
we'll.
Who put her there? Ignorance. I
swear.
Who'll pull her out? The vote. with
out a doubt.
II was a naughty world, | know,
To try to hurt the lady go,
Who never did it any harm,
And only added to It's charm.
Manhood suffrage. vissualized as
an egg, is thus treated:
Humpty Dumpty sits on a wall
Humpty Dumpty's doomed to a fall.
For suffffragist logic and women's
intrusion
Are demolishing much of his former
seclusion.
The books go to the children. but
the grown-ups are expected to get the
benefit
There are so many children at the
open-air meetings that the suffra-
gfsts have ben turning their atten-
| ton to them. The youngsters were
delighted when offered suffrage
blowers" for the best reason Why
mother should vote This brought
out some amusing answers. One pre-
cocious infan. said:
Shed ort to have a chancet like
the men--she's a human being, amt
she? She'd ort to have her rights
One boy started In bravely. but
didn't get far:
She's gotter hustle some times fur
the whole family when the father dies
ana leaves her widder'--but then
he choked and COUNT connect up with
his suffrage argument. Some OF the
girls are very glib. They have picked
up whole sentences In listening TO
suffrage speeches and run them off
like poll parrots. One. about four
teen. gave this:
Woman is the CONSERVATION OF life
and she ort to express her views
through voting as to what shall be
done by the State to proionS human
life"
The younger children gazed at her
with open-eyed admiration.
The noblest of all was given by an
eight-year-old boy. who got this Off
with great solemnfty:
II amt got the silver tongue of a
William Jennings BRYAN. but can
speak a simple word for suffrage"
That sounded like home coaching.