The Washington times., 1919-02-18


animals skins III St. Louis. Miss King hopes it viii reach
he hearts and of my SEX and says that she
vas Christian Scientist years ago. but could not bear to
see the other scientists wrapped up In skins OF animals
whom she calls 'the silent children.
''They all wear furs,' writes Helen King 1.-THE very
woman who showed me your dear article WEAkS SEAL
SKIN"
Miss King is certain that woman suffrage is failure,
always thought it would be- positively knows it now be-
cause women elected to the New York Legislature voted to
add fifteen days to the legal duck shooting period
She cannot understand how any woman could thus
prolong the right to murder innocent creatures.
Her letter sincerely written opens up interesting
discussion.
First to comfort Miss King may mention that ami
mails that are killed feel little pain. This applies
especially to wild animals Darwin says that In the excite
ment of fight their enemy they die without knowing
it. This does not however apply to animals caught In
traps suffering scutely, dying of hunger and cold while
waiting for the trapper to kill or release them
One lady wearing SILK gloves met another wearing
gloves of hdskn The silk gloved lady pointed at her
friends hand In horror, saying "S1n OF beast The
lady with the kid gloves pointed at her friends
hands replying: "Entrails Of worm"
The lady who tells you that it is horrible to kill and
skin an innocent kid make gloves her silk dress
silk stockings silk gloves forgetting that every yard Of
silk means many silk worms boiled alive inside their CO.
coons.
creatures among the dry leaves. The hunts the
beetle The fox hunts the mouse and eats it.. The fox
hounds chase the fox to his death Men gaop after the
hounds and their conScences pursue them AS the German
gentleman is supposed have said to his dog: when you
die that's the end of it-youre lucky; but when die,
they are not through with have to go to hell.
As to woman suffrage enthusiasts that favor and the
less enlightened that oppose fail it very clearly
The question is not whether the average woman knows
s much as the average She certainly could not know
much less and call herself human.
The question is whether not each human being, gov
erned by laws made here compelled to live this earth
hasa rio IN an
Suppose you looked down from a flying machine and
saw and women, wrecked floating on raft Suppose
they all short of food and water al compelled to
work with badly made, all frightened not knowing
how they got the raft where they would when they
got of. You would realize that or two the
raft were stronger and knew than all the Others in
GLIDING the women. But you would say: 1.-The least they
can do is let them all express opinion Since they all
have work and suffer together they ought to be allowed
20 say what they think
Human beings are all on round raft called the EARTH
floating in space travelling with the sum- heaven knows
where, through endless billions of miles.
They don't know how they got that raft in the ocean
of space what going happen to them when they get
off, They make rules control them while they float and
wonder The whole thing is at best guesswork and the
least that each could ask right to express opinion
through the and thus obtain hearing in return for
work done and privation endured
Instead of helping each other for the short years that
together the real question in mind Carlyle
says is: Can kill thee, canst thou kill me?" We
don't all plan murder fortunately at this stage-athough
re all did so lew thousand centuries BACK when we lived
IN But all plan to get the better of somebody
else. How cheap buy the goods, how cheap I
hire the how young put the child to work how
get big interest my money without going to jail
Tor usury?" Those Of the questions our I'M
happy floating island.
Travellers that climb to the +op Of Vesuvius and SEE
rocks go laundering up into the air from the volcano
euth amazed at the people in the little hus the side
Of the mountain. They ask How they live there
so calmly when they know that later this vol
cano Is apt to overflow and kill them2"
The wonderful thing Is that oil live on this little
raft called the earth spending much Of Inns fighting
and qusrTelng with each other when know that in
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