Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-30

| spouse or daughters are laboring. Orien :
tai women surely have been servile
pretty long time. The Chinese and
Japanese wife of all classes has been
doormat for her lord to step on. Yet
what do we find today2 japanese fem
inists are publishing q magazine. They
have an organization called the Shin
Fujin Kyoki (sounds startlingly like the
| Sim Fein y which means the New
Women's Organization. Its platform
sounds suspiciously like suffrage propa =
ganda of the Western world; can the
missionaries have been slipping over
some revolutionary doctrine of the
emancipated woman concealed in tracts
Picture the tiny. silk robed, soft :
voiced ladies of Nippon, bowling to the
ground, and murmuring. My lord
will?' But let us listen more ncutely
I'VE demand equality of opportunity
for men and women. ."s
I'VE insist on the cooperation ot
both sexes, and equal morality for
both. - =
I'VE oppose everything contradictory
10 the interests of women and chill
dren 49,
Are we insane. or is 1t possible that
the shrinking, fiuttering Madame Chrys :.
apthGmums Tesi!, are using " sHGn %oFFS TSs
fierce samurai, who died on their
swords must turn in their graves
Poor dead men Of every land, what
IRE you going 70 do about usf
In the Arabian Nights q wicked genie
had compressed a human being into u
bottle. but the creature was let out and
escaped into an immense cloud of vapor.
The Devil mnde every effort to collect
the cloud and force it back into the
confines Of the bottle, but in vain. So
II Is with men today. The cork is out,
md woman has risen as huge cloud.
She cannot be gathered together and
TANNED into that narrow space again.
In vain man gazes upward and CNclaims
in horror that she has escaped her
bondage.
If he would give chase, man must
rise upward,
Some wears ngo a Western Senator
was so exercised over the possibility Of
lis States enfranchising its women that
re thrcatencd-yes, threatened the
Statc--that If such an unthinkabIc
calamity should come about, he, yes
even HE, their noble fellow citizen, who
honOred them by holding office, would
leave the State forever Simply would
not live in a State that disgraced itself
by giving women the vote--the ladies,
God bless EN-. who we're born to orna:
ment pedestal, and be our queens and
our holy inspiration.
One of the local newspapers at once
published the following
We're sorry to lose you, George
But WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO
GO?
Now that the women vote,
From Maine to Idaho
Millions of ladies since then have
hoDpcd nimhly down from their pedes-
tails and gone to the dirty polls. soon
after paying their income tax. but from
last accounts that Senator still dwells
| IN the same State. Peace be with him ;
l hone his wife runs for Mayor! Even
the Orient can offer no haven from the
New Woman.
Although men are gaining jolly conf
rades, they are losing something in
. fnitely precious. our writer believes.
! Was it so sweet. Mr. Tired Business
Man, to be wheedled ont of sable coats
/ by girls who were playing you for II
| sucker? Isn't it really more fattering
to have a woman love you when she is
not getting any money out of you!
Was it so 'iprecious' TO be sure that
the chorus girl looked you Up in Brad =
streets before marrying YOUR son! That
girl was extremely feminine in the good
old fashioned sense she clung and
clung, just like n barnacle
Altogether we feel very sorry for
modern men, but We still are loving and
marrying them. Perhaps that Is why
they are 80 in need OF sympathy.