The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19

cuddle, pout, vamp wee bit and wear pink
pajamas.
But Syvia's soul cried out through all this toy
exterior, for place in the sun, even though she
got her cute nose sunburnt
And the issue which took the Great Hold on her.
Equality for Women.
Not mere "womens rights" that obsolete propa-
ganda slogan which stood for the right to vote
with far-of possibility of women holding public
office. That was but a narrow chamber of this
giant structure she wanted to rise and help
build, monument which would stand eternally to
mock the world-old savagery that the female was
the weaker, the passive one, the wooed, the pre-
ordained mother and nurse, the gentle thing to be
protected.
She wanted to protect as well as be protected.
She wanted to WOO, if she ever found her ideal.
She wanted the struggle for the reward and the
reward of the struggle. She asked none the best
of it, but she wanted her full half.
Those readers who have already noted the illus
tration this page Ga pretty girl standing and
clinging to strap while of ungaant men
seatedl have probably said to themselves
already; 81 see. The old gag--she hound
for equality until the mon didn't jump up to give
her seat, and then she burned up--and it served
her right and taught her lesson"
Sorry, but that isn't the story at ALL Sylvia
a better sport than that, and wasn't to be
whpsawed into as obvious a trap this old ''come-
back" 1t was Just such fallacious Inconsistencies
that she combating She had no selfish idea
of making the poor men the victims of all the old
feudal knightlinesses, womeAs natural attractions
centuries of traditions, and the system
well.
What she wanted was that when policeman
arrested Jane Doe she was to get the same treat
meut accorded John Doe--no more, no less and
when Jane owned property il to be her
property and not That of John Smith, whom she
might marry; and if they were divorced, the court
should decide that Jane should pay John amJny
if she guilty and he e'was dependent, just the
same as vice versa; and that if Jane wanted
passport it should be granted refused, accord
ing 10 who she was, not who John was; and that
her name should be Jane Doe Smith and his name
should be John Smith Doe after their marriage
and that husband abandonment be made a felony
equally punishable with wife abandonment; and
that women be taken seriously in commerce and
professional life.
So, you see she not by several dimpies and
many mental wrinkles a mannish young woman
Of the burlesqued "suffragette" brand She be-
lieved in love and marriage and babies and lip
rouge and those other elements that cement civili-
cation and carry out the primary principles Of
human creation and propagation. In truth Sylvia
was wildly IN love-and not a bit bashful about it.
The lucky aog was Chester Allister, who looked
no more like his name than Sylvia looked like her
principles He was an outstanding he party with
affectations. He didn't even want to be known
as a roughneck though he was born to the plush
and didn't enjoy the feel of its nap. He was lust
a natural, amiable, afable, likabe chap with no
championships and no pronounced vices He drank
little, smoked little, loafed little read a little
PLAYED some (not the ukulee), prospered in his
own profession an airplane engineer, wore con-
ventional clothes neither fine enough nor sloppy
enough to be snobbish, belonged to disorderly