New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-01
The Anti OFF Guard


The word women to Miss Chttenden only those
who employ servantsthat to say about per
of the of this country So that il the ants who
constantly that they the majority of
housekeeping have not heard of the existence of about
SO per cent of them.
The figures to the number of who employ ser
wants not to get The of 1910 says that the
total number Of employed servants in this country
309549 including those who work in hotels institutions
and clubs AS there almost 25O0000O twenty
this allowing only each employer would
to show that not than in wentyfour
employs servant
is what Miss Chittenden describes "he servant slack
err in the kitchen who requires most management But there
only 45O44O cooks the country and of these only 36
Is the anti idea that each of these requires
least seventy managers?
Cant these women" the article goes on get together
organization aimed at the control of the serant?"
The servant, in antsuffrage circles, being considered
neither apparently
We hardly know why after reading Miss Chittendens
article looked up old English novel, written
about 1880, "The Sem-Atached Couple"
Everybody says manage servants better than any
body; and know | do, by letting them have their
way any point; and as for attachment, you
might well expect it from this table silence
followed while Mrs. Douglas thinking what clever
manager she and how well she contrved make her
servants hate her.
Somewhere in the article Miss Chttenden ntmaes rather
casually her belief that contribute little moth
ing following subjects Economics politics. music art,
literature and science She mentions that she attended
meeting of the Federation of Clubs and that papers read
on all these subjects and not word about the great prob
lem which the had right in their homes. the
servant problem
Perhaps of them had politics. economics music art,
literature and science their than they had servant
problems
If anything could excite sympathy with the pickes in
Washington such those Of Mr. David
Lawrence Evening POST He says: The public opin-
ion Of the states which might been moved to expeditions
action by convincing arguments and orderly appeals VIII now
bid until assured that the voters would under
stand the fundamentals of citizenship
The ridiculous injustice Of turning to small group OF
women still struggling for the vote instead of to the millions
of women now exercising it. order to get answer to the
question how understand citizenship shows that even
intelligent men do not always inegenty this sub
ject.
What would Mr.. Lawrence have answered if other
great sage had announced reckless action the part OF
one or two reporters turned him against the fundamental
principles of the freedom of the press?
Oh Mr. David Lawrence read your article again,
Don't you think it sounds rather priggish note'
You wouldn't preach like that you know, to any group
Of
Who were doing what they did to get the vote
You might crticise their methods you ght deprecate
their way
You might call for the police, or disagree,
But YOU wouldn't in that proud Olympic manner
to say:
There there if you are good perhaps-we'l see.
We are still waiting for the ants to repudate the militant
action of their Dee Robinson who according to the papers,
t.red the disturbance Oughnt she have been in the
home and not milling about pursuing activities that brought
her into the limelight?
And after ALL it is little dscouragng that Mr. Root con-
siderng the trouble that has been taken with him. shoIa
have spoken of suffrage this state as universal ana equal