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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11689 ***
+
+ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
+
+A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR SUFFRAGE TIMES
+
+By
+
+ALICE DUER MILLER
+
+AUTHOR OF "BLUE ARCH," "THE MODERN OBSTACLE." ETC.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+TO V.B.W. SLAVE-DRIVER AND FRIEND
+
+
+
+
+Introduction
+
+
+Father, what is a Legislature?
+
+A representative body elected by the people of the state.
+
+Are women people?
+
+No, my son, criminals, lunatics and women are not people.
+
+Do legislators legislate for nothing?
+
+Oh, no; they are paid a salary.
+
+By whom?
+
+By the people.
+
+Are women people?
+
+Of course, my son, just as much as men are.
+
+To the New York Tribune, in whose generous columns many of these
+verses first appeared, the author here wishes to express her gratitude.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+TREACHEROUS TEXTS
+
+CAMPAIGN MATERIAL (For Both Sides)
+
+WOMEN'S SPHERE
+
+A MASQUE OF TEACHERS: THE IDEAL CANDIDATES
+
+THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
+
+
+
+
+TREACHEROUS TEXTS
+
+
+
+
+ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
+
+
+A Consistent Anti to Her Son
+
+("Look at the hazards, the risks, the physical dangers that ladies would
+be exposed to at the polls."--_Anti-suffrage speech_.)
+
+
+    You're twenty-one to-day, Willie,
+      And a danger lurks at the door,
+    I've known about it always,
+      But I never spoke before;
+    When you were only a baby
+      It seemed so very remote,
+    But you're twenty-one to-day, Willie,
+      And old enough to vote.
+
+    You must not go to the polls, Willie,
+      Never go to the polls,
+    They're dark and dreadful places
+      Where many lose their souls;
+    They smirch, degrade and coarsen,
+      Terrible things they do
+    To quiet, elderly women--
+      What would they do to you!
+
+    If you've a boyish fancy
+      For any measure or man,
+    Tell me, and I'll tell Father,
+      He'll vote for it, if he can.
+    He casts my vote, and Louisa's,
+      And Sarah, and dear Aunt Clo;
+    Wouldn't you let him vote for you?
+      Father, who loves you so?
+
+    I've guarded you always, Willie,
+      Body and soul from harm;
+    I'll guard your faith and honor,
+      Your innocence and charm
+    From the polls and their evil spirits,
+      Politics, rum and pelf;
+    Do you think I'd send my only son
+      Where I would not go myself?
+
+
+
+
+Our Idea of Nothing at All
+
+
+("I am opposed to woman suffrage, but I am not opposed to
+woman."--_Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Webb of North Carolina_.)
+
+
+    O women, have you heard the news
+      Of charity and grace?
+    Look, look, how joy and gratitude
+      Are beaming in my face!
+    For Mr. Webb is not opposed
+      To woman in her place!
+
+    O Mr. Webb, how kind you are
+      To let us live at all,
+    To let us light the kitchen range
+      And tidy up the hall;
+    To tolerate the female sex
+      In spite of Adam's fall.
+
+    O girls, suppose that Mr. Webb
+      Should alter his decree!
+    Suppose he were opposed to us--
+      Opposed to you and me.
+    What would be left for us to do--
+      Except to cease to be?
+
+
+
+
+Lines to Mr. Bowdle of Ohio
+
+
+("The women of this smart capital are beautiful. Their beauty is
+disturbing to business; their feet are beautiful, their ankles are
+beautiful, but here I must pause."--_Mr. Bowdle's anti-suffrage speech
+in Congress, January 12, 1915_.)
+
+
+    You, who despise the so-called fairer sex,
+      Be brave. There really isn't any reason
+    You should not, if you wish, oppose and vex
+      And scold us in, and even out of season;
+    But don't regard it as your bounden duty
+    To open with a tribute to our beauty.
+
+    Say if you like that women have no sense,
+      No self-control, no power of concentration;
+    Say that hysterics is our one defence
+      Our virtue but an absence of temptation;
+    These I can bear, but, oh, I own it rankles
+    To hear you maundering on about our ankles.
+
+    Tell those old stories, which have now and then
+      Been from the Record thoughtfully deleted,
+    Repeat that favorite one about the hen,
+      Repeat the ones that cannot be repeated;
+    But in the midst of such enjoyments, smother
+    The impulse to extol your "sainted mother."
+
+
+
+
+On Not Believing All You Hear
+
+
+("Women are angels, they are jewels, they are queens and princesses of
+our hearts."--_Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Carter of Oklahoma_.)
+
+
+    "Angel, or jewel, or princess, or queen,
+    Tell me immediately, where have you been?"
+
+    "I've been to ask all my slaves so devoted
+    Why they against my enfranchisement voted."
+
+    "Angel and princess, that action was wrong.
+    Back to the kitchen, where angels belong."
+
+
+
+
+The Revolt of Mother
+
+
+("Every true woman feels----"--_Speech of almost any Congressman_.)
+
+
+    I am old-fashioned, and I think it right
+      That man should know, by Nature's laws eternal,
+    The proper way to rule, to earn, to fight,
+      And exercise those functions called paternal;
+    But even I a little bit rebel
+    At finding that he knows my job as well.
+
+    At least he's always ready to expound it,
+      Especially in legislative hall,
+    The joys, the cares, the halos that surround it,
+      "How women feel"--he knows that best of all.
+    In fact his thesis is that no one can
+    Know what is womanly except a man.
+
+    I am old-fashioned, and I am content
+      When he explains the world of art and science
+    And government--to him divinely sent--
+      I drink it in with ladylike compliance.
+    But cannot listen--no, I'm only human--
+    While he instructs me how to be a woman.
+
+
+
+
+The Gallant Sex
+
+
+(A woman engineer has been dismissed by the Board of Education, under
+their new rule that women shall not attend high pressure boilers,
+although her work has been satisfactory and she holds a license to
+attend such boilers from the Police Department.)
+
+
+    Lady, dangers lurk in boilers,
+      Risks I could not let you face.
+    Men were meant to be the toilers,
+      Home, you know, is woman's place.
+    Have no home? Well, is that so?
+    Still, it's not my fault, you know.
+
+    Charming lady, work no more;
+      Fair you are and sweet as honey;
+    Work might make your fingers sore,
+      And, besides, I need the money.
+    Prithee rest,--or starve or rob--
+    Only let me have your job!
+
+
+
+
+Representation
+
+
+("My wife is against suffrage, and that settles me."--_Vice-President
+Marshall_.)
+
+
+I
+
+    My wife dislikes the income tax,
+      And so I cannot pay it;
+    She thinks that golf all interest lacks,
+      So now I never play it;
+    She is opposed to tolls repeal
+      (Though why I cannot say),
+    But woman's duty is to feel,
+      And man's is to obey.
+
+II
+
+    I'm in a hard position for a perfect gentleman,
+    I want to please the ladies, but I don't see how I can,
+    My present wife's a suffragist, and counts on my support,
+    But my mother is an anti, of a rather biting sort;
+    One grandmother is on the fence, the other much opposed,
+    And my sister lives in Oregon, and thinks the question's closed;
+    Each one is counting on my vote to represent her view.
+    Now what should you think proper for a gentleman to do?
+
+
+
+
+Sonnet
+
+
+("Three bills known as the Thompson-Bewley cannery bills have been
+advanced to third reading in the Senate and Assembly at Albany. One
+permits the canners to work their employés seven days a week, a second
+allows them to work women after 9 p.m. and a third removes every
+restriction upon the hours of labor of women and minors."--_Zenas L.
+Potter, former chief cannery investigator for New York State Factory
+Investigating Commission_.)
+
+
+    Let us not to an unrestricted day
+    Impediments admit. Work is not work
+    To our employés, but a merry play;
+    They do not ask the law's excuse to shirk.
+    Ah, no, the canning season is at hand,
+    When summer scents are on the air distilled,
+    When golden fruits are ripening in the land,
+    And silvery tins are gaping to be filled.
+    Now to the cannery with jocund mien
+    Before the dawn come women, girls and boys,
+    Whose weekly hours (a hundred and nineteen)
+    Seem all too short for their industrious joys.
+      If this be error and be proved, alas
+      The Thompson-Bewley bills may fail to pass!
+
+
+
+
+To President Wilson
+
+
+("I hold it as a fundamental principle and so do you, that every people
+has the right to determine its own form of government. And until
+recently 50 per cent. of the people of Mexico have not had a look-in in
+determining who should be their governors, or what their government
+should be."--_Speech of President Wilson_.)
+
+
+    Wise and just man--for such I think you are--
+    How can you see so burningly and clear
+    Injustices and tyrannies afar,
+    Yet blind your eyes to one that lies so near?
+    How can you plead so earnestly for men
+    Who fight their own fight with a bloody hand;
+    How hold their cause so wildly dear, and then
+    Forget the women of your native land?
+    With your stern ardor and your scholar's word
+    You speak to us of human liberty;
+    Can you believe that women are not stirred
+    By this same human longing to be free?
+      He who for liberty would strike a blow
+      Need not take arms, or fly to Mexico.
+
+
+
+
+Home and Where It Is
+
+
+(An Indiana judge has recently ruled: As to the right of the husband to
+decide the location of the home that "home is where the husband is.")
+
+
+    Home is where the husband is,
+    Be it near or be it far,
+    Office, theatre, Pullman car,
+    Poolroom, polls, or corner bar--
+    All good wives remember this--
+    Home is where the husband is.
+
+    Woman's place is home, I wis.
+    Leave your family bacon frying,
+    Leave your wash and dishes drying,
+    Leave your little children crying;
+    Join your husband, near or far,
+    At the club or corner bar,
+    For the court has taught us this:
+    "Home is where the husband is."
+
+
+
+
+The Maiden's Vow
+
+
+(A speaker at the National Education Association advised girls not to
+study algebra. Many girls, he said, had lost their souls through this
+study. The idea has been taken up with enthusiasm.)
+
+
+    I will avoid equations,
+      And shun the naughty surd,
+    I must beware the perfect square,
+      Through it young girls have erred:
+    And when men mention Rule of Three
+      Pretend I have not heard.
+
+    Through Sturm's delightful theorems
+      Illicit joys assure,
+    Though permutations and combinations
+      My woman's heart allure,
+    I'll never study algebra,
+      But keep my spirit pure.
+
+
+
+
+Such Nonsense
+
+
+("Where on earth did the idea come from that the ballot is a boon, a
+privilege and an honor? From men."--_Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin_.)
+
+
+    Who is it thinks the vote some use?
+    Man. (Man is often such a goose!)
+    Indeed it makes me laugh to see
+    How men have struggled to be free.
+
+    Poor Washington, who meant so well,
+    And Nathan Hale and William Tell,
+    Hampden and Bolivar and Pym,
+    And L'Ouverture--remember him?
+
+    And Garibaldi and Kossuth,
+    And some who threw away their youth,
+    All bitten by the stupid notion
+    That liberty was worth emotion.
+
+    They could not get it through their heads
+    That if they stayed tucked up in beds,
+    Avoiding politics and strife,
+    They'd lead a pleasant, peaceful life.
+
+    Let us, dear sisters, never make
+    Such a ridiculous mistake;
+    But teach our children o'er and o'er
+    That liberty is just a chore.
+
+
+
+
+A Suggested Campaign Song
+
+
+("No brass bands. No speeches. Instead a still, silent, effective
+influence."--_Anti-suffrage speech_.)
+
+
+    We are waging--can you doubt it?
+      A campaign so calm and still
+    No one knows a thing about it,
+      And we hope they never will.
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      And we hope they never will.
+
+    We are ladylike and quiet,
+      Here a whisper--there a hint;
+    Never speeches, bands or riot,
+      Nothing suitable for print.
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      For we never speak for print.
+
+    Sometimes in profound seclusion,
+      In some far (but homelike) spot,
+    We will make a dark allusion:
+      "We're opposed to you-know-what."
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      For we call it "You-Know-What."
+
+
+
+
+The Woman of Charm
+
+
+("I hate a woman who is not a mystery to herself, as well as to
+me."--_The Phoenix_.)
+
+
+    If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
+      Known to the world as a Woman of Charm,
+    Take all the conspicuous ladies of history,
+      Mix them all up without doing them harm.
+    The beauty of Helen, the warmth of Cleopatra,
+      Salome's notorious skill in the dance,
+    The dusky allure of the belles of Sumatra,
+      The fashion and finish of ladies from France.
+    The youth of Susanna, beloved by an elder,
+      The wit of a Chambers' incomparable minx,
+    The conjugal views of the patient Griselda,
+     The fire of Sappho, the calm of the Sphinx,
+    The eyes of La Vallière, the voice of Cordelia,
+    The musical gifts of the sainted Cecelia,
+    Trilby and Carmen and Ruth and Ophelia,
+    Madame de Staël and the matron Cornelia,
+    Iseult, Hypatia and naughty Nell Gwynn,
+    Una, Titania and Elinor Glyn.
+      Take of these elements all that is fusible,
+      Melt 'em all down in a pipkin or crucible,
+      Set 'em to simmer and take off the scum,
+      And a Woman of Charm is the residuum!
+        (Slightly adapted from W.S. Gilbert.)
+
+
+
+
+A Modern Proposal
+
+
+(It has been said that the feminist movement is the true solution of the
+mother-in-law problem.)
+
+
+    Sylvia, my dear, I would be yours with pleasure,
+      All that you are seems excellent to me,
+    Except your mother, who's much more at leisure
+      Than mothers ought to be.
+
+    Find her a fad, a job, an occupation,
+      Eugenics, dancing, uplift, yes, or crime,
+    Set her to work for her Emancipation--
+      That takes a lot of time.
+
+    Or, if the suffrage doctrine fails to charm her,
+      There are the Antis--rather in her line--
+    Guarding the Home from Maine to Alabama
+      Would keep her out of mine.
+
+
+
+
+The Newer Lullaby
+
+
+("Good heavens, when I think what the young boy of to-day is growing up
+to I gasp. He has too many women around him all the time. He has his
+mother when he is a baby."--_Bernard Fagin, Probation Officer_.)
+
+
+    Hush-a-bye, baby,
+      Feel no alarm,
+    Gunmen shall guard you,
+      Lest Mother should harm.
+    Wake in your cradle,
+      Hear father curse!
+    Isn't that better
+      Than Mother or Nurse?
+
+
+
+
+The Protected Sex
+
+_With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley_.
+
+
+("The result of taking second place to girls at school is that the boy
+feels a sense of inferiority that he is never afterward able entirely to
+shake off."--_Editorial in London Globe against co-education_.)
+
+
+    There, little girl, don't read,
+    You're fond of your books, I know,
+    But Brother might mope
+    If he had no hope
+    Of getting ahead of you.
+    It's dull for a boy who cannot lead.
+    There, little girl, don't read.
+
+
+
+Warning to Suffragists
+
+
+("The Latin man believes that giving woman the vote will make her less
+attractive."--_Anna H. Shaw_.)
+
+
+    They must sacrifice their beauty
+    Who would do their civic duty,
+      Who the polling booth would enter,
+      Who the ballot box would use;
+    As they drop their ballots in it
+    Men and women in a minute,
+      Lose their charm, the antis tell us,
+      But--the men have less to lose.
+
+
+
+
+Partners
+
+
+("Our laws have not yet reached the point of holding that property which
+is the result of the husband's earnings and the wife's savings becomes
+their joint property.... In this most important of all partnerships
+there is no partnership property."--_Recent decision of the New York
+Supreme Court_.)
+
+
+    Lady, lovely lady, come and share
+        All my care;
+    Oh how gladly I will hurry
+    To confide my every worry
+    (And they're very dark and drear)
+        In your ear.
+
+    Lady, share the praise I obtain
+        Now and again;
+    Though I'm shy, it doesn't matter,
+    I will tell you how they flatter:
+    Every compliment I'll share
+        Fair and square.
+
+    Lady, I my toil will divide
+        At your side;
+    I outside the home, you within;
+    You shall wash and cook and spin,
+    I'll provide the flax and food,
+            If you're good.
+
+    Partners, lady, we shall be,
+            You and me,
+    Partners in the highest sense
+    Looking for no recompense,
+    For, the savings that we make,
+            I shall take.
+
+
+
+
+What Governments Say to Women
+
+
+(The law compels a married woman to take the nationality of her
+husband.)
+
+
+I
+
+_In Time of War_
+
+    Help us. Your country needs you;
+      Show that you love her,
+    Give her your men to fight,
+      Ay, even to fall;
+    The fair, free land of your birth,
+      Set nothing above her,
+    Not husband nor son,
+      She must come first of all.
+
+II
+
+_In Time of Peace_
+
+    What's this? You've wed an alien,
+      Yet you ask for legislation
+    To guard your nationality?
+      We're shocked at your demand.
+    A woman when she marries
+      Takes her husband's name and nation:
+    She should love her husband only.
+      What's a woman's native land?
+
+
+
+
+"Oh, That 'Twere Possible!"
+
+_With apologies to Lord Tennyson._
+
+
+("The grant of suffrage to women is repugnant to instincts that strike
+their roots deep in the order of nature. It runs counter to human
+reason, it flouts the teachings of experience and the admonitions of
+common sense."--_N.Y. Times, Feb. 7, 1915_.)
+
+
+    Oh, that 'twere possible
+      After those words inane
+    For me to read _The Times_
+      Ever again!
+
+    When I was wont to read it
+      In the early morning hours,
+    In a mood 'twixt wrath and mirth,
+      I exclaimed: "Alas, Ye Powers,
+    These ideas are fainter, quainter
+      Than anything on earth!"
+
+    A paper's laid before me.
+      Not thou, not like to thee.
+    Dear me, if it were possible
+      _The Times_ should ever see
+    How very far the times have moved
+      (Spelt with a little "t").
+
+
+
+
+_The Times_ Editorials
+
+
+    Lovely Antiques, breathing in every line
+    The perfume of an age long passed away,
+    Wafting us back to 1829,
+    Museum pieces of a by-gone day,
+    You should not languish in the public press
+    Where modern thought might reach and do you harm,
+    And vulgar youth insult your hoariness,
+    Missing the flavor of your old world charm;
+    You should be locked, where rust cannot corrode
+    In some old rosewood cabinet, dimmed by age,
+    With silver-lustre, tortoise shell and Spode;
+    And all would cry, who read your yellowing page:
+      "Yes, that's the sort of thing that men believed
+      Before the First Reform Bill was conceived!"
+
+
+
+
+CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
+
+(_For Both Sides_)
+
+
+
+
+Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons
+
+
+1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote.
+
+2. Because no woman who may vote will attend to her domestic duties.
+
+3. Because it will make dissension between husband and wife.
+
+4. Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to.
+
+5. Because bad women will corrupt politics.
+
+6. Because bad politics will corrupt women.
+
+7. Because women have no power of organization.
+
+8. Because women will form a solid party and outvote men.
+
+9. Because men and women are so different that they must stick to
+different duties.
+
+10. Because men and women are so much alike that men, with one vote
+each, can represent their own views and ours too.
+
+11. Because women cannot use force.
+
+12. Because the militants did use force.
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Pockets for Women
+
+
+1. Because pockets are not a natural right.
+
+2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did
+they would have them.
+
+3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.
+
+4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is, without
+the additional burden of pockets.
+
+5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose
+pockets were to be filled.
+
+6. Because it would destroy man's chivalry toward woman, if he did not
+have to carry all her things in his pockets.
+
+7. Because men are men, and women are women. We must not fly in the face
+of nature.
+
+8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes,
+whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We see no reason
+to suppose that women would use them more wisely.
+
+
+
+
+Fashion Notes: Past and Present
+
+
+1880--Anti-suffrage arguments are being worn long, calm and flowing this
+year, with the dominant note that of woman's intellectual inferiority.
+
+1890--Violence is very evident in this season's modes, and our more
+conservative thinkers are saying that woman suffrage threatens the home,
+the Church and the Republic.
+
+1900--A complete change of style has taken place. Everything is being
+worn _a l'aristocrate_, with the repeated assertion that too many people
+are voting already.
+
+1915--The best line of goods shown by the leading anti-suffrage houses
+this spring is the statement that woman suffrage is the same thing as
+free love. The effect is extremely piquant and surprising.
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains
+
+
+1. Because travelling in trains is not a natural right.
+
+2. Because our great-grandmothers never asked to travel in trains.
+
+3. Because woman's place is the home, not the train.
+
+4. Because it is unnecessary; there is no point reached by a train that
+cannot be reached on foot.
+
+5. Because it will double the work of conductors, engineers and brakemen
+who are already overburdened.
+
+6. Because men smoke and play cards in trains. Is there any reason to
+believe that women will behave better?
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Schools for Children
+
+
+(_By the Children's Anti-School League_.)
+
+1. Because education is a burden, not a right.
+
+2. Because not one-tenth of one per cent. of the children of this
+country have demanded education.
+
+3. Because if we are educated we should have to behave as if we were and
+we don't want to.
+
+4. Because it is essentially against the nature of a child to be
+educated.
+
+5. Because we can't see that it has done so much for grown-ups, and
+there is no reason for thinking it will make children perfect.
+
+6. Because the time of children is already sufficiently occupied without
+going to school.
+
+7. Because it would make dissension between parent and child. Imagine
+the home life of a parent who turned out to be more ignorant than his
+(or her) child?
+
+8. Because we believe in the indirect education of the theatre, the
+baseball field and the moving picture. We believe that schools would in
+a great measure deprive us of this.
+
+9. Because our parents went to school. They love us, they take care of
+us, they tell us what to do. We are content that they should be educated
+for us.
+
+
+
+
+But Then Who Cares for Figures
+
+
+An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as men for the
+same work is that women are only temporarily in industry.
+
+Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public schools of New
+York have been more than ten years in the service, while only twenty-six
+per cent of the men teachers have served as long.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Bundesrath of Germany has decided to furnish medical and financial
+assistance to women at the time of childbirth, in order "to alleviate
+the anxiety of husbands at the front."
+
+How strange this would sound: "The Bundesrath has decided to furnish
+medical assistance to the wounded at the front, in order to alleviate
+the anxiety of wives and mothers at home."
+
+When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is: "Will it
+benefit men?"
+
+When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is: "Will it benefit
+men?"
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Votes for Men
+
+
+1. Because man's place is the armory.
+
+2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise
+than by fighting about it.
+
+3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer
+look up to them.
+
+4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural
+sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms,
+uniforms and drums.
+
+5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball
+games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency
+to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit for the task of
+government.
+
+
+
+
+The Logic of the Law
+
+
+In 1875 the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in denying the petition of women
+to practise before it said:
+
+"It would be shocking to man's reverence for womanhood and faith in
+woman ... that woman should be permitted to mix professionally in all
+the nastiness which finds its way into courts of justice."
+
+It then names thirteen subjects as unfit for the attention of
+women--three of them are crimes committed against women.
+
+
+
+
+Consistency
+
+
+("Vile insults, lewd talk and brutal conduct were used by the indicted
+men to frighten respectable women who went to the polls in Terre Haute
+at the last election, asserted District Attorney Dailey."--_Press
+Dispatch_.)
+
+Are the polls unfit for decent women?
+
+No, sir, they are perfectly orderly.
+
+Tut, tut! Go there at once and swear and be brutal, or what will become
+of our anti-suffrage argument?
+
+
+
+
+Sometimes We're Ivy, and Sometimes We're Oak
+
+
+Is it true that the English government is calling on women to do work
+abandoned by men?
+
+Yes, it is true.
+
+Is not woman's place the home?
+
+No, not when men need her services outside the home.
+
+Will she never be told again that her place is the home?
+
+Oh, yes, indeed.
+
+When?
+
+As soon as men want their jobs back again.
+
+
+
+
+Do You Know
+
+
+That in 1869 Miss Jex-Blake and four other women entered for a medical
+degree at the University of Edinburgh?
+
+That the president of the College of Physicians refused to give the
+women the prizes they had won?
+
+That the undergraduates insulted any professor who allowed women to
+compete for prizes?
+
+That the women were stoned in the streets, and finally excluded from
+the medical school?
+
+That in 1877 the British Medical Association declared women ineligible
+for membership?
+
+That in 1881 the International Medical Congress excluded women from all
+but its "social and ceremonial meetings"?
+
+That the Obstetrical Society refused to allow a woman's name to appear
+on the title page of a pamphlet which she had written with her husband?
+
+That according to a recent dispatch from London, many hospitals, since
+the outbreak of hostilities, have asked women to become resident
+physicians, and public authorities are daily endeavoring to obtain women
+as assistant medical officers and as school doctors?
+
+
+
+
+Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists
+
+
+"Woman's place is in my home."--Appius Claudius.
+
+"I have never felt the need of the ballot."--Cleopatra.
+
+"Magna Charta merely fashionable fad of ye Barons."--King John.
+
+"Boston Tea Party shows American colonists to be hysterical and utterly
+incapable of self-government."--George III.
+
+"Know of no really good slaves who desire emancipation."--President of
+the United Slaveholders' Protective Association.
+
+
+
+
+Another of Those Curious Coincidences
+
+
+On February 15, the House of Representatives passed a bill making it
+unlawful to ship in interstate commerce the products of a mill, cannery
+or factory which have been produced by the labor of children under
+fourteen years.
+
+Forty-three gentlemen voted against it.
+
+Forty-one of those forty-three had also voted against the woman suffrage
+bill.
+
+Not one single vote was cast against it by a representative from any
+state where women vote for Congressmen.
+
+
+
+
+The New Freedom
+
+
+"The Michigan commission on industrial relations has discovered," says
+"The Detroit Journal," "that thousands of wives support their husbands."
+
+Woman's place is the home, but under a special privilege she is
+sometimes allowed to send her wages as a substitute.
+
+
+
+
+To the Great Dining Out Majority
+
+
+The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is sending out
+leaflets to its members urging them to "tell every man you meet, your
+tailor, your postman, your grocer, as well as your _dinner partner_,
+that you are opposed to woman suffrage."
+
+We hope that the 90,000 sewing machine operatives, the 40,000
+saleswomen, the 32,000 laundry operatives, the 20,000 knitting and silk
+mill girls, the 17,000 women janitors and cleaners, the 12,000
+cigar-makers, to say nothing of the 700,000 other women and girls in
+industry in New York State, will remember when they have drawn off their
+long gloves and tasted their oysters to tell their dinner partners that
+they are opposed to woman suffrage because they fear it might take women
+out of the home.
+
+
+
+
+WOMEN'S SPHERE
+
+
+
+
+Many Men to Any Woman
+
+
+    If you have beauty, charm, refinement, tact,
+    If you can prove that should I set you free,
+    You would not contemplate the smallest act
+    That might annoy or interfere with me.
+    If you can show that women will abide
+    By the best standards of their womanhood--
+    (And I must be the person to decide
+    What in a woman is the highest good);
+    If you display efficiency supreme
+    In philanthropic work devoid of pay;
+    If you can show a clearly thought-out scheme
+    For bringing the millennium in a day:
+      Why, then, dear lady, at some time remote,
+    I might consider giving you the vote.
+
+
+
+
+A Sex Difference
+
+
+    When men in Congress come to blows at something someone said,
+    I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red;
+    But if two women disagree, with very little noise,
+    It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.
+
+
+
+
+Advice to Heroines
+
+
+I
+
+    A heroine must shrink and cling
+      When heroes are about,
+    And thus the watching world will think:
+      "How brave his heart and stout!"
+    But if he chance to be away
+      When bright-faced dangers shine,
+    It will be best for her to play
+      The oak-tree, not the vine.
+    In fact the most important thing
+    Is knowing when it's time to cling.
+
+
+II
+
+_With apologies to R.L.S._
+
+    A heroine must be polite
+    And do what others say is right,
+    And think men wise and formidable--
+    At least as far as she is able.
+
+
+
+
+Mutual Vows
+
+
+    "My dear," he said, "observe this frightful bill,
+    Run up, I think you'll own, against my will.
+    If you will recollect our wedding day
+    You vowed on that occasion to obey."
+    "I do recall the day," said she, "and how
+    Me with your worldly goods you did endow."
+    "That," he replied, "is palpably absurd----"
+    "You mean you did not mean to keep your word?"
+    "O, yes," he answered, "in a general way."
+    "And that," said she, "is how I meant obey."
+
+
+
+
+If They Meant All They Said
+
+
+    Charm is a woman's strongest arm;
+    My charwoman is full of charm;
+    I chose her, not for strength of arm
+    But for her strange elusive charm.
+
+    And how tears heighten woman's powers!
+    My typist weeps for hours and hours:
+    I took her for her weeping powers--
+    They so delight my business hours.
+
+    A woman lives by intuition.
+    Though my accountant shuns addition
+    She has the rarest intuition.
+    (And I myself can do addition.)
+
+    Timidity in girls is nice.
+    My cook is so afraid of mice.
+    Now you'll admit it's very nice
+    To feel your cook's afraid of mice.
+
+
+
+
+Democracy
+
+
+    Democracy is this--to hold
+      That all who wander down the pike
+      In cart or car, on foot or bike,
+    Or male or female, young or old,
+      Are much alike--are much alike.
+
+
+
+
+
+Feminism
+
+
+    "Mother, what is a Feminist?"
+      "A Feminist, my daughter,
+    Is any woman now who cares
+    To think about her own affairs
+      As men don't think she oughter."
+
+
+
+
+The Warning
+
+
+    No, it isn't home neglecting
+    If you spend your time selecting
+      Seven blouses and a jacket and a hat;
+    Or to give your day to paying
+    Needless visits, or to playing
+      Auction bridge. What critic could object to that?
+    But to spend two precious hours
+    At a lecture! Oh, my powers,
+      The home is all a woman needs to learn.
+    And an hour, or a quarter,
+    Spent in voting! Why, my daughter,
+      You could not find your home on your return.
+
+
+
+
+Evolution
+
+
+    Said Mr. Jones in 1910:
+    "Women, subject yourselves to men."
+    Nineteen-Eleven heard him quote:
+    "They rule the world without the vote."
+    By Nineteen-Twelve, he would submit
+    "When all the women wanted it."
+    By Nineteen-Thirteen, looking glum,
+    He said that it was bound to come.
+    This year I heard him say with pride:
+    "No reasons on the other side!"
+    By Nineteen-Fifteen, he'll insist
+    He's always been a suffragist.
+    And what is really stranger, too,
+    He'll think that what he says is true.
+
+
+
+
+Intercepted
+
+
+    "Only the worst of them vote."
+      "Are not the suffragists frights?"
+    "Nietzsche's the person to quote."
+      "I prefer love to my rights."
+
+    "Are not the suffragists frights?"
+      "Sex is their only appeal."
+    "I prefer love to my rights."
+      "No, we don't think, but we feel."
+
+    "Sex is their only appeal."
+      "Woman belongs at the loom."
+    "No, we don't think, but we feel."
+      "Doesn't it rub off the bloom?"
+
+    "Woman belongs at the loom."
+      "Isn't the speaker a bore!"
+    "Doesn't it rub off the bloom?"
+      "Oh, it's a fad--nothing more."
+
+    "Isn't the speaker a bore!"
+      "Nietzsche's the person to quote."
+    "Oh, it's a fad--nothing more."
+      "Only the worst of them vote."
+
+
+
+
+The Universal Answer
+
+
+          Oh, there you go again,
+          Invading man's domain!
+    It's Nature's laws, you know, you are defying.
+          Don't fancy that you can
+          Be really like a man,
+    So what's the use of all this fuss and trying?
+          It seems to me so clear,
+          That women's highest sphere
+    Is being loving wives and patient mothers.
+          Oh, can't you be content
+          To be as you were meant?
+        {souls
+    For {books belong to husbands and to brothers.
+        {votes
+
+
+
+
+Candor
+
+
+(_By an admirer of the late H.C. Bunner_.)
+
+
+    "I know what you're going to say," she said,
+      And she stood up, causing him some alarm;
+      "You're going to tell me I'll lose my charm,
+    And what is a woman when charm has fled?
+      And you're going to say that you greatly fear
+      I don't understand a woman's sphere;
+    Now aren't you honestly?" "Yes," he said.
+
+    "I know what you're going to say," she said,
+      "You're going to ask what I hope to gain
+      By stepping down to the dusty plain,
+    By seeking a stone when I might have bread;
+      You're going to say: 'Can a vote replace
+      The tender force of a woman's grace?'
+    Now, aren't you honestly?" "Yes," he said.
+
+    "I know what you're going to do," he said,
+      "You're going to talk to me all day long
+      Trying to make me see I'm wrong;
+    And other men who are less misled
+      Will pale with jealousy when they see
+      The time you give to converting me;
+    Now, aren't you honestly?" "Ye-es," she said.
+
+
+
+
+What Every Woman Must Not Say
+
+
+    "I don't pretend I'm clever," he remarked, "or very wise,"
+    And at this she murmured, "Really," with the right polite surprise.
+    "But women," he continued, "I must own I understand;
+    Women are a contradiction--honorable and underhand--
+    Constant as the star Polaris, yet as changeable as Fate,
+    Always flying what they long for, always seeking what they hate."
+    "Don't you think," began the lady, but he cut her short: "I see
+    That you take it personally--women always do," said he.
+    "You will pardon me for saying every woman is the same,
+    Always greedy for approval, always sensitive to blame;
+    Sweet and passionate are women; weak in mind, though strong in soul;
+    Even you admit, I fancy, that they have no self-control?"
+    "No, I don't admit they haven't," said the patient lady then,
+    "Or they could not sit and listen to the nonsense talked by men."
+
+
+
+
+Chivalry
+
+
+    It's treating a woman politely
+      As long as she isn't a fright:
+    It's guarding the girls who act rightly,
+      If you can be judge of what's right;
+    It's being--not just, but so pleasant;
+      It's tipping while wages are low;
+    It's making a beautiful present,
+      And failing to pay what you owe.
+
+
+    _From Our Own Nursery Rhymes_
+
+    "Chivalry, Chivalry, where have you been?"
+    "I've been out seeking a beautiful queen."
+    "Chivalry, Chivalry, what did you find?"
+    "Commonplace women, not much to my mind."
+
+
+
+
+Women
+
+(_With rather insincere apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling_.)
+
+
+    I went to ask my government if they would set me free,
+    They gave a pardoned crook a vote, but hadn't one for me;
+    The men about me laughed and frowned and said: "Go home, because
+    We really can't be bothered when we're busy making laws."
+
+    Oh, it's women this, and women that and women have no sense,
+    But it's pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the expense,
+    It comes to the expense, my dears, it comes to the expense,
+    It's pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the expense.
+
+    I went into a factory to earn my daily bread:
+    Men said: "The home is woman's sphere." "I have no home," I said.
+    But when the men all marched to war, they cried to wife and maid,
+    "Oh, never mind about the home, but save the export trade."
+
+    For it's women this and women that, and home's the place for you,
+    But it's patriotic angels when there's outside work to do,
+    There's outside work to do, my dears, there's outside work to do,
+    It's patriotic angels when there's outside work to do.
+
+    We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too,
+    But very human beings, human just as much as you.
+    It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime
+    When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.
+
+    But it's women this and women that, and woman's like a hen,
+    But it's do the country's work alone, when war takes off the men,
+    And it's women this and women that and everything you please,
+    But woman is observant, and be sure that woman sees.
+
+
+
+
+Beware!
+
+
+    In the days that are gone when a statue was wanted
+      In park or museum where statues must be,
+    A chivalrous male would come forward undaunted
+      And say: "If you must have one, make it of me.
+    Bad though they be, yet I'll agree
+    If you must make them, why make them of me."
+
+    But chivalry's dead, as I always expected
+      Since women would not let things stay as they were;
+    So now, I suppose, when a statue's erected
+      Men will say brutally: "Make it of her."
+    She may prefer things as they were
+    When they start making the statues of her.
+
+
+
+
+Male Philosophy
+
+
+    Men are very brave, you know,
+    That was settled long ago;
+    Ask, however, if you doubt it,
+    Any man you meet about it;
+    He will say, I think, like me,
+    Men are brave as they can be.
+
+    Women think they're brave, you say?
+    Do they really? Well, they may,
+    But such biased attestation
+    Is not worth consideration,
+    For a legal judgment shelves
+    What they say about themselves.
+
+
+
+
+From a Man's Point of View
+
+
+    Women love self-sacrifice
+    Suffering and good advice;
+    If they don't love these sincerely
+    Then they're not true women really.
+    Oh, it shocks me so to note
+    Women pleading for the vote!
+    Saying publicly it would
+    Educate and do them good.
+    Such a selfish reason trips
+    Oddly from a woman's lips.
+    But it must not be supposed
+    I am in the least opposed.
+    If they want it let them try it.
+    For I think we'll profit by it.
+
+
+
+
+Glory
+
+
+    I went to see old Susan Gray,
+    Whose soldier sons had marched away,
+    And this is what she had to say:
+
+    "It isn't war I hate at all--
+      'Tis likely men must fight--
+    But, oh, these flags and uniforms,
+      It's them that isn't right!
+    If war must come, and come it does
+      To take our boys from play,
+    It isn't right to make it seem
+      So beautiful and gay."
+
+    I left old Susan with a sigh;
+    A famous band was marching by
+    To make men glad they had to die.
+
+
+
+
+Dependence
+
+
+(An Englishwoman whose income has stopped owing to her two sons having
+joined the English army, was taken care of last night at the Florence
+Crittenden Mission.--_Press Clipping_.)
+
+    The young men said to their mother,
+      "Hear us, O dearest and best!
+    Time cannot cool or smother
+      The love of you in our breast;
+    Here is your place and no other--
+      Come home and rest."
+
+    And the mother's heart was grateful
+      For the love of her cherished ones,
+    And her labor, bitter and hateful,
+      She left at the word of her sons,
+    Till she heard far off the fateful
+      Voices of guns.
+
+    Their love did more enslave her;
+      They did not understand
+    That none could guard or save her
+      When war was on the land,
+    But herself, and God, who gave her
+      Heart and mind and hand.
+
+
+
+
+Playthings
+
+
+    Last year the shops were crowded
+      With soldier suits and guns--
+    The presents that at Christmas time
+      We give our little sons;
+    And many a glittering trumpet
+      And many a sword and drum;
+    But as they're made in Germany
+      This year they will not come.
+
+    Perhaps another season
+      We shall not give our boys
+    Such very warlike playthings,
+      Such military toys;
+    Perhaps another season
+      We shall not think it sweet
+    To watch their game of soldier men,
+      Who dream not of defeat.
+
+
+
+
+Militants
+
+
+    Hippolta, Penthesilea,
+      Maria Teresa and Joan,
+    Agustina and Boadicea
+      And some militant girls of our own--
+    It would take a brave man and a dull one
+      To say to these ladies: "Of course
+    We adore you while meek,
+    Timid, clinging and weak,
+      But a woman can never use force."
+
+
+
+
+A Lady's Choice
+
+
+    Her old love in tears and silence had been building her a palace
+      Ringed by moats and flanked with towers, he had set it on a hill
+    "Here," he said, "will come no whisper of the world's alarms and
+        malice,
+      In these granite walls imprisoned, I will keep you safe from ill."
+
+    As he spoke along the highway there came riding by a stranger,
+      For an instant on her features, he a fleeting glance bestowed,
+    Then he said: "My heart is fickle and the world is full of danger,"
+      And he offered her his stirrup and he pointed down the road.
+
+
+
+
+The Ballad of Lost Causes
+
+
+(_About 465 years after Villon_.)
+
+
+    Tell me in what spot remote
+      Do the antis dwell to-day,
+    Those who did not want to vote,
+      Feared their sex's prompt decay?
+      Where are those who used to say:
+    "Home alone is woman's sphere;
+      Only those should vote who slay"?
+    Where the snows of yester-year?
+
+    Where are those who used to quote
+      Nietzsche's words in dread array?
+    Where the ancient crones who wrote:
+      "Women rule through Beauty's sway"?
+      And those lovers, where are they,
+    Who could hold no woman dear
+      If she had the ballot? Nay!
+    Where the snows of yester-year?
+
+    Prince, inquire no more, I pray,
+      Whither antis disappear.
+    Suffrage won; they melt away,
+      Like the snows of yester-year.
+
+
+
+
+Thoughts at an Anti Meeting
+
+
+    There are no homes in suffrage states,
+      There are no children, glad and good,
+    There, men no longer seek for mates,
+      And women lose their womanhood.
+
+    This I believe without debate,
+      And yet I ask--and ask in vain--
+    Why no one in a suffrage state
+      Has moved to change things back again?
+
+
+
+
+A MASQUE OF TEACHERS
+
+AND
+
+THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
+
+
+
+
+The Ideal Candidates
+
+
+(A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: "No married woman
+shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position in the New
+York public schools unless her husband is mentally or physically
+incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for a period of not
+less than one year.")
+
+
+CHARACTERS
+
+    _Board of Education_.
+           _Three Would-Be Teachers_.
+
+    _Chorus by Board_:
+      Now please don't waste
+        Your time and ours
+      By pleas all based
+        On mental powers.
+      She seems to us
+        The proper stuff
+      Who has a hus-
+        Band bad enough.
+      All other pleas appear to us
+      Excessively superfluous.
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+      My husband is not really bad----
+
+    _Board_:
+        How very sad, how very sad!
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+        He's good, but hear my one excuse----
+
+    _Board_:
+        Oh, what's the use, oh, what's the use?
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+        Last winter in a railroad wreck
+        He lost an arm and broke his neck.
+        He's doomed, but lingers day by day.
+
+    _Board_:
+        Her husband's doomed! Hurray! hurray!
+
+    _2nd Teacher_:
+        My husband's kind and healthy, too----
+
+    _Board_:
+        Why, then, of course, you will not do.
+
+    _2nd Teacher_:
+        Just hear me out. You'll find you're wrong.
+        It's true his body's good and strong;
+        But, ah, his wits are all astray.
+
+    _Board_:
+        Her husband's mad. Hip, hip, hurray!
+
+    _3rd Teacher_:
+      My husband's wise and well--the creature!
+
+    _Board_:
+      Then you can never be a teacher.
+
+    _3rd Teacher_:
+      Wait. For I led him such a life
+      He could not stand me as a wife;
+      Last Michaelmas, he ran away.
+
+    _Board_:
+      Her husband hates her, Hip, hurray!
+
+    _Chorus by Board_:
+      Now we have found
+        Without a doubt,
+      By process sound
+        And well thought out,
+      Each candidate
+        Is fit in truth
+      To educate
+        The mind of youth.
+      No teacher need apply to us
+      Whose married life's harmonious.
+
+             (_Curtain_.)
+
+
+
+
+The Unconscious Suffragists
+
+
+"They who have no voice nor vote in the electing of representatives do
+not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved to those who have
+votes."--Benjamin Franklin.
+
+"No such phrase as virtual representation was ever known in law or
+constitution."--James Otis.
+
+"But these great cities, says my honorable friend, are virtually, though
+not directly represented. Are not the wishes of Manchester, he asks, as
+much consulted as those of any other town which sends members to
+Parliament? Now, sir, I do not understand how a power which is salutary
+when exercised virtually can be noxious when exercised directly. If the
+wishes of Manchester have as much weight with us as they would have
+under a system which gives representatives to Manchester, how can there
+be any danger in giving representatives to Manchester?"--Lord
+Macaulay's Speech on the Reform Bill.
+
+"Universal suffrage prolongs in the United States the effect of
+universal education: for it stimulates all citizens throughout their
+lives to reflect on problems outside the narrow circle of their private
+interests and occupations: to read about public questions; to discuss
+public characters and to hold themselves ready in some degree to give a
+rational account of their political faith."--Dr. Charles Eliot.
+
+"But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their (the American
+people) desires: equality is their idol; they make rapid and sudden
+efforts to obtain liberty and if they miss their aim, resign themselves
+to their disappointment; but nothing can satisfy them without equality,
+and they would rather perish than lose it."--De Tocqueville: Democracy
+in America, 1835.
+
+"A government is for the benefit of all the people. We believe that
+this benefit is best accomplished by popular government because in
+the long run each class of individuals is apt to secure better
+provision for themselves through their own voice in government than
+through the altruistic interest of others, however intelligent or
+philanthropic."--William H. Taft in Special Message.
+
+"I have listened to some very honest and eloquent orators whose
+sentiments were noteworthy for this: that when they spoke of the people,
+they were not thinking of themselves, they were thinking of somebody
+whom they were commissioned to take care of. And I have seen them shiver
+when it was suggested that they arrange to have something done by the
+people for themselves."--The New Freedom, by Woodrow Wilson.
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11689 ***
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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11689 ***</div>
+
+<h1>ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?</h1>
+
+<h2 class="no-break">By ALICE DUER MILLER</h2>
+
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR SUFFRAGE TIMES
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+BY ALICE DUER MILLER
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+AUTHOR OF “BLUE ARCH,” “THE MODERN OBSTACLE.” ETC.
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+TO V.B.W. SLAVE-DRIVER AND FRIEND
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Introduction"></a>Introduction</h2>
+
+  <p>Father, what is a Legislature?</p>
+
+  <p>A representative body elected by the people of the state.</p>
+
+  <p>Are women people?</p>
+
+  <p>No, my son, criminals, lunatics and women are not people.</p>
+
+  <p>Do legislators legislate for nothing?</p>
+
+  <p>Oh, no; they are paid a salary.</p>
+
+  <p>By whom?</p>
+
+  <p>By the people.</p>
+
+  <p>Are women people?</p>
+
+  <p>Of course, my son, just as much as men are.</p>
+
+  <p><i>To the New York Tribune, in whose generous columns many of
+  these verses first appeared, the author here wishes to express
+  her gratitude</i>.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<table summary="" style="">
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#TREACHEROUS_TEXTS">TREACHEROUS TEXTS</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#CAMPAIGN_MATERIAL">CAMPAIGN MATERIAL</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#WOMENS_SPHERE">WOMEN’S SPHERE</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#A_MASQUE_OF_TEACHERS">A MASQUE OF TEACHERS: THE IDEAL CANDIDATES</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#The_Unconscious_Suffragists">THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+</table>
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="TREACHEROUS_TEXTS"></a>TREACHEROUS TEXTS</h2>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="ARE_WOMEN_PEOPLE"></a>ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    A Consistent Anti to Her Son
+  </p>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Look at the hazards, the risks, the physical dangers that
+    ladies would be exposed to at the
+    polls.”&mdash;<i>Anti-suffrage speech</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>You’re twenty-one to-day, Willie,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And a danger lurks at the door,</p>
+
+      <p>I’ve known about it always,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">But I never spoke before;</p>
+
+      <p>When you were only a baby</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">It seemed so very remote,</p>
+
+      <p>But you’re twenty-one to-day, Willie,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And old enough to vote.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>You must not go to the polls, Willie,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Never go to the polls,</p>
+
+      <p>They’re dark and dreadful places</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Where many lose their souls;</p>
+
+      <p>They smirch, degrade and coarsen,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Terrible things they do</p>
+
+      <p>To quiet, elderly women&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">What would they do to you!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>If you’ve a boyish fancy</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">For any measure or man,</p>
+
+      <p>Tell me, and I’ll tell Father,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">He’ll vote for it, if he can.</p>
+
+      <p>He casts my vote, and Louisa’s,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And Sarah, and dear Aunt Clo;</p>
+
+      <p>Wouldn’t you let him vote for you?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Father, who loves you so?</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I’ve guarded you always, Willie,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Body and soul from harm;</p>
+
+      <p>I’ll guard your faith and honor,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Your innocence and charm</p>
+
+      <p>From the polls and their evil spirits,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Politics, rum and pelf;</p>
+
+      <p>Do you think I’d send my only son</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Where I would not go myself?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Our_Idea_of_Nothing_at_All"></a>Our Idea of Nothing at All</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“I am opposed to woman suffrage, but I am not opposed to
+    woman.”&mdash;<i>Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Webb of North
+    Carolina</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>O women, have you heard the news</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Of charity and grace?</p>
+
+      <p>Look, look, how joy and gratitude</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Are beaming in my face!</p>
+
+      <p>For Mr. Webb is not opposed</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">To woman in her place!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>O Mr. Webb, how kind you are</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">To let us live at all,</p>
+
+      <p>To let us light the kitchen range</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And tidy up the hall;</p>
+
+      <p>To tolerate the female sex</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In spite of Adam’s fall.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>O girls, suppose that Mr. Webb</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Should alter his decree!</p>
+
+      <p>Suppose he were opposed to us&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Opposed to you and me.</p>
+
+      <p>What would be left for us to do&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Except to cease to be?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Lines_to_Mr_Bowdle_of_Ohio"></a>Lines to Mr. Bowdle of Ohio</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“The women of this smart capital are beautiful. Their beauty
+    is disturbing to business; their feet are beautiful, their
+    ankles are beautiful, but here I must pause.”&mdash;<i>Mr.
+    Bowdle’s anti-suffrage speech in Congress, January 12,
+    1915</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>You, who despise the so-called fairer sex,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Be brave. There really isn’t any reason</p>
+
+      <p>You should not, if you wish, oppose and vex</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And scold us in, and even out of season;</p>
+
+      <p>But don’t regard it as your bounden duty</p>
+
+      <p>To open with a tribute to our beauty.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Say if you like that women have no sense,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">No self-control, no power of concentration;</p>
+
+      <p>Say that hysterics is our one defence</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Our virtue but an absence of temptation;</p>
+
+      <p>These I can bear, but, oh, I own it rankles</p>
+
+      <p>To hear you maundering on about our ankles.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Tell those old stories, which have now and then</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Been from the Record thoughtfully deleted,</p>
+
+      <p>Repeat that favorite one about the hen,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Repeat the ones that cannot be repeated;</p>
+
+      <p>But in the midst of such enjoyments, smother</p>
+
+      <p>The impulse to extol your “sainted mother.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="On_Not_Believing_All_You_Hear"></a>On Not Believing All You Hear</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Women are angels, they are jewels, they are queens and
+    princesses of our hearts.”&mdash;<i>Anti-suffrage speech of Mr.
+    Carter of Oklahoma</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Angel, or jewel, or princess, or queen,</p>
+
+      <p>Tell me immediately, where have you been?”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“I’ve been to ask all my slaves so devoted</p>
+
+      <p>Why they against my enfranchisement voted.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Angel and princess, that action was wrong.</p>
+
+      <p>Back to the kitchen, where angels belong.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Revolt_of_Mother"></a>The Revolt of Mother</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Every true woman feels----”&mdash;<i>Speech of almost any
+    Congressman</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I am old-fashioned, and I think it right</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">That man should know, by Nature’s laws
+      eternal,</p>
+
+      <p>The proper way to rule, to earn, to fight,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And exercise those functions called
+      paternal;</p>
+
+      <p>But even I a little bit rebel</p>
+
+      <p>At finding that he knows my job as well.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>At least he’s always ready to expound it,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Especially in legislative hall,</p>
+
+      <p>The joys, the cares, the halos that surround it,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“How women feel”&mdash;he knows that best of
+      all.</p>
+
+      <p>In fact his thesis is that no one can</p>
+
+      <p>Know what is womanly except a man.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I am old-fashioned, and I am content</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">When he explains the world of art and
+      science</p>
+
+      <p>And government&mdash;to him divinely sent&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">I drink it in with ladylike compliance.</p>
+
+      <p>But cannot listen&mdash;no, I’m only human&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>While he instructs me how to be a woman.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Gallant_Sex"></a>The Gallant Sex</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (A woman engineer has been dismissed by the Board of Education,
+    under their new rule that women shall not attend high pressure
+    boilers, although her work has been satisfactory and she holds
+    a license to attend such boilers from the Police Department.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lady, dangers lurk in boilers,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Risks I could not let you face.</p>
+
+      <p>Men were meant to be the toilers,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Home, you know, is woman’s place.</p>
+
+      <p>Have no home? Well, is that so?</p>
+
+      <p>Still, it’s not my fault, you know.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Charming lady, work no more;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Fair you are and sweet as honey;</p>
+
+      <p>Work might make your fingers sore,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And, besides, I need the money.</p>
+
+      <p>Prithee rest,&mdash;or starve or rob&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Only let me have your job!</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Representation"></a>Representation</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“My wife is against suffrage, and that settles
+    me.”&mdash;<i>Vice-President Marshall</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>My wife dislikes the income tax,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And so I cannot pay it;</p>
+
+      <p>She thinks that golf all interest lacks,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">So now I never play it;</p>
+
+      <p>She is opposed to tolls repeal</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">(Though why I cannot say),</p>
+
+      <p>But woman’s duty is to feel,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And man’s is to obey.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>II</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I’m in a hard position for a perfect gentleman,</p>
+
+      <p>I want to please the ladies, but I don’t see how I
+      can,</p>
+
+      <p>My present wife’s a suffragist, and counts on my
+      support,</p>
+
+      <p>But my mother is an anti, of a rather biting sort;</p>
+
+      <p>One grandmother is on the fence, the other much
+      opposed,</p>
+
+      <p>And my sister lives in Oregon, and thinks the question’s
+      closed;</p>
+
+      <p>Each one is counting on my vote to represent her view.</p>
+
+      <p>Now what should you think proper for a gentleman to
+      do?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Sonnet"></a>Sonnet</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Three bills known as the Thompson-Bewley cannery bills have
+    been advanced to third reading in the Senate and Assembly at
+    Albany. One permits the canners to work their employ&eacute;s
+    seven days a week, a second allows them to work women after 9
+    p.m. and a third removes every restriction upon the hours of
+    labor of women and minors.”&mdash;<i>Zenas L. Potter, former
+    chief cannery investigator for New York State Factory
+    Investigating Commission</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Let us not to an unrestricted day</p>
+
+      <p>Impediments admit. Work is not work</p>
+
+      <p>To our employ&eacute;s, but a merry play;</p>
+
+      <p>They do not ask the law’s excuse to shirk.</p>
+
+      <p>Ah, no, the canning season is at hand,</p>
+
+      <p>When summer scents are on the air distilled,</p>
+
+      <p>When golden fruits are ripening in the land,</p>
+
+      <p>And silvery tins are gaping to be filled.</p>
+
+      <p>Now to the cannery with jocund mien</p>
+
+      <p>Before the dawn come women, girls and boys,</p>
+
+      <p>Whose weekly hours (a hundred and nineteen)</p>
+
+      <p>Seem all too short for their industrious joys.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">If this be error and be proved, alas</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The Thompson-Bewley bills may fail to pass!</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="To_President_Wilson"></a>To President Wilson</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“I hold it as a fundamental principle and so do you, that
+    every people has the right to determine its own form of
+    government. And until recently 50 per cent. of the people of
+    Mexico have not had a look-in in determining who should be
+    their governors, or what their government should
+    be.”&mdash;<i>Speech of President Wilson</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Wise and just man&mdash;for such I think you
+      are&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>How can you see so burningly and clear</p>
+
+      <p>Injustices and tyrannies afar,</p>
+
+      <p>Yet blind your eyes to one that lies so near?</p>
+
+      <p>How can you plead so earnestly for men</p>
+
+      <p>Who fight their own fight with a bloody hand;</p>
+
+      <p>How hold their cause so wildly dear, and then</p>
+
+      <p>Forget the women of your native land?</p>
+
+      <p>With your stern ardor and your scholar’s word</p>
+
+      <p>You speak to us of human liberty;</p>
+
+      <p>Can you believe that women are not stirred</p>
+
+      <p>By this same human longing to be free?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">He who for liberty would strike a blow</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Need not take arms, or fly to Mexico.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Home_and_Where_It_Is"></a>Home and Where It Is</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (An Indiana judge has recently ruled: As to the right of the
+    husband to decide the location of the home that “home is where
+    the husband is.”)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Home is where the husband is,</p>
+
+      <p>Be it near or be it far,</p>
+
+      <p>Office, theatre, Pullman car,</p>
+
+      <p>Poolroom, polls, or corner bar&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>All good wives remember this&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Home is where the husband is.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Woman’s place is home, I wis.</p>
+
+      <p>Leave your family bacon frying,</p>
+
+      <p>Leave your wash and dishes drying,</p>
+
+      <p>Leave your little children crying;</p>
+
+      <p>Join your husband, near or far,</p>
+
+      <p>At the club or corner bar,</p>
+
+      <p>For the court has taught us this:</p>
+
+      <p>“Home is where the husband is.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Maidens_Vow"></a>The Maiden’s Vow</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (A speaker at the National Education Association advised girls
+    not to study algebra. Many girls, he said, had lost their souls
+    through this study. The idea has been taken up with
+    enthusiasm.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I will avoid equations,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And shun the naughty surd,</p>
+
+      <p>I must beware the perfect square,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Through it young girls have erred:</p>
+
+      <p>And when men mention Rule of Three</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Pretend I have not heard.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Through Sturm’s delightful theorems</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Illicit joys assure,</p>
+
+      <p>Though permutations and combinations</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">My woman’s heart allure,</p>
+
+      <p>I’ll never study algebra,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">But keep my spirit pure.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Such_Nonsense"></a>Such Nonsense</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Where on earth did the idea come from that the ballot is a
+    boon, a privilege and an honor? From men.”&mdash;<i>Mrs.
+    Prestonia Mann Martin</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Who is it thinks the vote some use?</p>
+
+      <p>Man. (Man is often such a goose!)</p>
+
+      <p>Indeed it makes me laugh to see</p>
+
+      <p>How men have struggled to be free.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Poor Washington, who meant so well,</p>
+
+      <p>And Nathan Hale and William Tell,</p>
+
+      <p>Hampden and Bolivar and Pym,</p>
+
+      <p>And L’Ouverture&mdash;remember him?</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>And Garibaldi and Kossuth,</p>
+
+      <p>And some who threw away their youth,</p>
+
+      <p>All bitten by the stupid notion</p>
+
+      <p>That liberty was worth emotion.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>They could not get it through their heads</p>
+
+      <p>That if they stayed tucked up in beds,</p>
+
+      <p>Avoiding politics and strife,</p>
+
+      <p>They’d lead a pleasant, peaceful life.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Let us, dear sisters, never make</p>
+
+      <p>Such a ridiculous mistake;</p>
+
+      <p>But teach our children o’er and o’er</p>
+
+      <p>That liberty is just a chore.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="A_Suggested_Campaign_Song"></a>A Suggested Campaign Song</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“No brass bands. No speeches. Instead a still, silent,
+    effective influence.”&mdash;<i>Anti-suffrage speech</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>We are waging&mdash;can you doubt it?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">A campaign so calm and still</p>
+
+      <p>No one knows a thing about it,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And we hope they never will.</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">No one knows</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">What we oppose,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And we hope they never will.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>We are ladylike and quiet,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Here a whisper&mdash;there a hint;</p>
+
+      <p>Never speeches, bands or riot,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Nothing suitable for print.</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">No one knows</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">What we oppose,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">For we never speak for print.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Sometimes in profound seclusion,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In some far (but homelike) spot,</p>
+
+      <p>We will make a dark allusion:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“We’re opposed to you-know-what.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">No one knows</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">What we oppose,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">For we call it “You-Know-What.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Woman_of_Charm"></a>The Woman of Charm</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“I hate a woman who is not a mystery to herself, as well as to
+    me.”&mdash;<i>The Phoenix</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>If you want a receipt for that popular mystery</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Known to the world as a Woman of Charm,</p>
+
+      <p>Take all the conspicuous ladies of history,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Mix them all up without doing them harm.</p>
+
+      <p>The beauty of Helen, the warmth of Cleopatra,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Salome’s notorious skill in the dance,</p>
+
+      <p>The dusky allure of the belles of Sumatra,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The fashion and finish of ladies from
+      France.</p>
+
+      <p>The youth of Susanna, beloved by an elder,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The wit of a Chambers’ incomparable minx,</p>
+
+      <p>The conjugal views of the patient Griselda,</p>
+
+      <p class="i1">The fire of Sappho, the calm of the Sphinx,</p>
+
+      <p>The eyes of La Valli&egrave;re, the voice of Cordelia,</p>
+
+      <p>The musical gifts of the sainted Cecelia,</p>
+
+      <p>Trilby and Carmen and Ruth and Ophelia,</p>
+
+      <p>Madame de Sta&euml;l and the matron Cornelia,</p>
+
+      <p>Iseult, Hypatia and naughty Nell Gwynn,</p>
+
+      <p>Una, Titania and Elinor Glyn.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Take of these elements all that is fusible,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Melt ’em all down in a pipkin or crucible,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Set ’em to simmer and take off the scum,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And a Woman of Charm is the residuum!</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">(Slightly adapted from W.S. Gilbert.)</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="A_Modern_Proposal"></a>A Modern Proposal</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (It has been said that the feminist movement is the true
+    solution of the mother-in-law problem.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Sylvia, my dear, I would be yours with pleasure,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">All that you are seems excellent to me,</p>
+
+      <p>Except your mother, who’s much more at leisure</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Than mothers ought to be.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Find her a fad, a job, an occupation,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Eugenics, dancing, uplift, yes, or crime,</p>
+
+      <p>Set her to work for her Emancipation&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">That takes a lot of time.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Or, if the suffrage doctrine fails to charm her,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">There are the Antis&mdash;rather in her
+      line&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Guarding the Home from Maine to Alabama</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Would keep her out of mine.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Newer_Lullaby"></a>The Newer Lullaby</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Good heavens, when I think what the young boy of to-day is
+    growing up to I gasp. He has too many women around him all the
+    time. He has his mother when he is a baby.”&mdash;<i>Bernard
+    Fagin, Probation Officer</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Hush-a-bye, baby,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Feel no alarm,</p>
+
+      <p>Gunmen shall guard you,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Lest Mother should harm.</p>
+
+      <p>Wake in your cradle,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Hear father curse!</p>
+
+      <p>Isn’t that better</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Than Mother or Nurse?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Protected_Sex"></a>The Protected Sex</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    <i>With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley</i>.
+  </p>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“The result of taking second place to girls at school is that
+    the boy feels a sense of inferiority that he is never afterward
+    able entirely to shake off.”&mdash;<i>Editorial in London Globe
+    against co-education</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>There, little girl, don’t read,</p>
+
+      <p>You’re fond of your books, I know,</p>
+
+      <p>But Brother might mope</p>
+
+      <p>If he had no hope</p>
+
+      <p>Of getting ahead of you.</p>
+
+      <p>It’s dull for a boy who cannot lead.</p>
+
+      <p>There, little girl, don’t read.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+  <h2>Warning to Suffragists</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“The Latin man believes that giving woman the vote will make
+    her less attractive.”&mdash;<i>Anna H. Shaw</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>They must sacrifice their beauty</p>
+
+      <p>Who would do their civic duty,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Who the polling booth would enter,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Who the ballot box would use;</p>
+
+      <p>As they drop their ballots in it</p>
+
+      <p>Men and women in a minute,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Lose their charm, the antis tell us,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">But&mdash;the men have less to lose.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Partners"></a>Partners</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Our laws have not yet reached the point of holding that
+    property which is the result of the husband’s earnings and the
+    wife’s savings becomes their joint property.... In this most
+    important of all partnerships there is no partnership
+    property.”&mdash;<i>Recent decision of the New York Supreme
+    Court</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lady, lovely lady, come and share</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">All my care;</p>
+
+      <p>Oh how gladly I will hurry</p>
+
+      <p>To confide my every worry</p>
+
+      <p>(And they’re very dark and drear)</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">In your ear.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lady, share the praise I obtain</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Now and again;</p>
+
+      <p>Though I’m shy, it doesn’t matter,</p>
+
+      <p>I will tell you how they flatter:</p>
+
+      <p>Every compliment I’ll share</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Fair and square.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lady, I my toil will divide</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">At your side;</p>
+
+      <p>I outside the home, you within;</p>
+
+      <p>You shall wash and cook and spin,</p>
+
+      <p>I’ll provide the flax and food,</p>
+
+      <p class="i8">If you’re good.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Partners, lady, we shall be,</p>
+
+      <p class="i8">You and me,</p>
+
+      <p>Partners in the highest sense</p>
+
+      <p>Looking for no recompense,</p>
+
+      <p>For, the savings that we make,</p>
+
+      <p class="i8">I shall take.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="What_Governments_Say_to_Women"></a>What Governments Say to Women</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (The law compels a married woman to take the nationality of her
+    husband.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>In Time of War</i></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Help us. Your country needs you;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Show that you love her,</p>
+
+      <p>Give her your men to fight,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Ay, even to fall;</p>
+
+      <p>The fair, free land of your birth,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Set nothing above her,</p>
+
+      <p>Not husband nor son,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">She must come first of all.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>II</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>In Time of Peace</i></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>What’s this? You’ve wed an alien,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Yet you ask for legislation</p>
+
+      <p>To guard your nationality?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">We’re shocked at your demand.</p>
+
+      <p>A woman when she marries</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Takes her husband’s name and nation:</p>
+
+      <p>She should love her husband only.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">What’s a woman’s native land?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="quotOh_That_Twere_Possiblequot"></a>“Oh, That ’Twere Possible!”</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    <i>With apologies to Lord Tennyson.</i>
+  </p>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“The grant of suffrage to women is repugnant to instincts that
+    strike their roots deep in the order of nature. It runs counter
+    to human reason, it flouts the teachings of experience and the
+    admonitions of common sense.”&mdash;<i>N.Y. Times, Feb. 7,
+    1915</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Oh, that ’twere possible</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">After those words inane</p>
+
+      <p>For me to read <i>The Times</i></p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Ever again!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>When I was wont to read it</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In the early morning hours,</p>
+
+      <p>In a mood ’twixt wrath and mirth,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">I exclaimed: “Alas, Ye Powers,</p>
+
+      <p>These ideas are fainter, quainter</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Than anything on earth!”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>A paper’s laid before me.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Not thou, not like to thee.</p>
+
+      <p>Dear me, if it were possible</p>
+
+      <p class="i2"><i>The Times</i> should ever see</p>
+
+      <p>How very far the times have moved</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">(Spelt with a little “t”).</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Times_Editorials"></a><i>The Times</i> Editorials</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lovely Antiques, breathing in every line</p>
+
+      <p>The perfume of an age long passed away,</p>
+
+      <p>Wafting us back to 1829,</p>
+
+      <p>Museum pieces of a by-gone day,</p>
+
+      <p>You should not languish in the public press</p>
+
+      <p>Where modern thought might reach and do you harm,</p>
+
+      <p>And vulgar youth insult your hoariness,</p>
+
+      <p>Missing the flavor of your old world charm;</p>
+
+      <p>You should be locked, where rust cannot corrode</p>
+
+      <p>In some old rosewood cabinet, dimmed by age,</p>
+
+      <p>With silver-lustre, tortoise shell and Spode;</p>
+
+      <p>And all would cry, who read your yellowing page:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Yes, that’s the sort of thing that men
+      believed</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Before the First Reform Bill was
+      conceived!”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="CAMPAIGN_MATERIAL"></a>CAMPAIGN MATERIAL</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (<i>For Both Sides</i>)
+  </p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Our_Own_Twelve_Anti-suffragist_Reasons"></a>Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons</h2>
+
+  <p>1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to
+  vote.</p>
+
+  <p>2. Because no woman who may vote will attend to her domestic
+  duties.</p>
+
+  <p>3. Because it will make dissension between husband and
+  wife.</p>
+
+  <p>4. Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her
+  to.</p>
+
+  <p>5. Because bad women will corrupt politics.</p>
+
+  <p>6. Because bad politics will corrupt women.</p>
+
+  <p>7. Because women have no power of organization.</p>
+
+  <p>8. Because women will form a solid party and outvote men.</p>
+
+  <p>9. Because men and women are so different that they must stick
+  to different duties.</p>
+
+  <p>10. Because men and women are so much alike that men, with one
+  vote each, can represent their own views and ours too.</p>
+
+  <p>11. Because women cannot use force.</p>
+
+  <p>12. Because the militants did use force.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Why_We_Oppose_Pockets_for_Women"></a>Why We Oppose Pockets for Women</h2>
+
+  <p>1. Because pockets are not a natural right.</p>
+
+  <p>2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If
+  they did they would have them.</p>
+
+  <p>3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used
+  them.</p>
+
+  <p>4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is,
+  without the additional burden of pockets.</p>
+
+  <p>5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife
+  as to whose pockets were to be filled.</p>
+
+  <p>6. Because it would destroy man’s chivalry toward woman, if he
+  did not have to carry all her things in his pockets.</p>
+
+  <p>7. Because men are men, and women are women. We must not fly
+  in the face of nature.</p>
+
+  <p>8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco,
+  pipes, whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We
+  see no reason to suppose that women would use them more
+  wisely.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Fashion_Notes_Past_and_Present"></a>Fashion Notes: Past and Present</h2>
+
+  <p>1880&mdash;Anti-suffrage arguments are being worn long, calm
+  and flowing this year, with the dominant note that of woman’s
+  intellectual inferiority.</p>
+
+  <p>1890&mdash;Violence is very evident in this season’s modes,
+  and our more conservative thinkers are saying that woman suffrage
+  threatens the home, the Church and the Republic.</p>
+
+  <p>1900&mdash;A complete change of style has taken place.
+  Everything is being worn <i>a l’aristocrate</i>, with the
+  repeated assertion that too many people are voting already.</p>
+
+  <p>1915&mdash;The best line of goods shown by the leading
+  anti-suffrage houses this spring is the statement that woman
+  suffrage is the same thing as free love. The effect is extremely
+  piquant and surprising.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Why_We_Oppose_Women_Travelling_in_Railway_Trains"></a>Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains</h2>
+
+  <p>1. Because travelling in trains is not a natural right.</p>
+
+  <p>2. Because our great-grandmothers never asked to travel in
+  trains.</p>
+
+  <p>3. Because woman’s place is the home, not the train.</p>
+
+  <p>4. Because it is unnecessary; there is no point reached by a
+  train that cannot be reached on foot.</p>
+
+  <p>5. Because it will double the work of conductors, engineers
+  and brakemen who are already overburdened.</p>
+
+  <p>6. Because men smoke and play cards in trains. Is there any
+  reason to believe that women will behave better?</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Why_We_Oppose_Schools_for_Children"></a>Why We Oppose Schools for Children</h2>
+
+  <p>(<i>By the Children’s Anti-School League</i>.)</p>
+
+  <p>1. Because education is a burden, not a right.</p>
+
+  <p>2. Because not one-tenth of one per cent. of the children of
+  this country have demanded education.</p>
+
+  <p>3. Because if we are educated we should have to behave as if
+  we were and we don’t want to.</p>
+
+  <p>4. Because it is essentially against the nature of a child to
+  be educated.</p>
+
+  <p>5. Because we can’t see that it has done so much for
+  grown-ups, and there is no reason for thinking it will make
+  children perfect.</p>
+
+  <p>6. Because the time of children is already sufficiently
+  occupied without going to school.</p>
+
+  <p>7. Because it would make dissension between parent and child.
+  Imagine the home life of a parent who turned out to be more
+  ignorant than his (or her) child?</p>
+
+  <p>8. Because we believe in the indirect education of the
+  theatre, the baseball field and the moving picture. We believe
+  that schools would in a great measure deprive us of this.</p>
+
+  <p>9. Because our parents went to school. They love us, they take
+  care of us, they tell us what to do. We are content that they
+  should be educated for us.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="But_Then_Who_Cares_for_Figures"></a>But Then Who Cares for Figures</h2>
+
+  <p>An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as
+  men for the same work is that women are only temporarily in
+  industry.</p>
+
+  <p>Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public
+  schools of New York have been more than ten years in the service,
+  while only twenty-six per cent of the men teachers have served as
+  long.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+  <p>The Bundesrath of Germany has decided to furnish medical and
+  financial assistance to women at the time of childbirth, in order
+  “to alleviate the anxiety of husbands at the front.”</p>
+
+  <p>How strange this would sound: “The Bundesrath has decided to
+  furnish medical assistance to the wounded at the front, in order
+  to alleviate the anxiety of wives and mothers at home.”</p>
+
+  <p>When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is:
+  “Will it benefit men?”</p>
+
+  <p>When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is: “Will
+  it benefit men?”</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Why_We_Oppose_Votes_for_Men"></a>Why We Oppose Votes for Men</h2>
+
+  <p>1. Because man’s place is the armory.</p>
+
+  <p>2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question
+  otherwise than by fighting about it.</p>
+
+  <p>3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no
+  longer look up to them.</p>
+
+  <p>4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their
+  natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than
+  feats of arms, uniforms and drums.</p>
+
+  <p>5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at
+  baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their
+  innate tendency to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit
+  for the task of government.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Logic_of_the_Law"></a>The Logic of the Law</h2>
+
+  <p>In 1875 the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in denying the petition
+  of women to practise before it said:</p>
+
+  <p>“It would be shocking to man’s reverence for womanhood and
+  faith in woman ... that woman should be permitted to mix
+  professionally in all the nastiness which finds its way into
+  courts of justice.”</p>
+
+  <p>It then names thirteen subjects as unfit for the attention of
+  women&mdash;three of them are crimes committed against women.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Consistency"></a>Consistency</h2>
+
+  <p>(“Vile insults, lewd talk and brutal conduct were used by the
+  indicted men to frighten respectable women who went to the polls
+  in Terre Haute at the last election, asserted District Attorney
+  Dailey.”&mdash;<i>Press Dispatch</i>.)</p>
+
+  <p>Are the polls unfit for decent women?</p>
+
+  <p>No, sir, they are perfectly orderly.</p>
+
+  <p>Tut, tut! Go there at once and swear and be brutal, or what
+  will become of our anti-suffrage argument?</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Sometimes_Were_Ivy_and_Sometimes_Were_Oak"></a>Sometimes We’re Ivy, and Sometimes We’re Oak</h2>
+
+  <p>Is it true that the English government is calling on women to
+  do work abandoned by men?</p>
+
+  <p>Yes, it is true.</p>
+
+  <p>Is not woman’s place the home?</p>
+
+  <p>No, not when men need her services outside the home.</p>
+
+  <p>Will she never be told again that her place is the home?</p>
+
+  <p>Oh, yes, indeed.</p>
+
+  <p>When?</p>
+
+  <p>As soon as men want their jobs back again.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Do_You_Know"></a>Do You Know</h2>
+
+  <p>That in 1869 Miss Jex-Blake and four other women entered for a
+  medical degree at the University of Edinburgh?</p>
+
+  <p>That the president of the College of Physicians refused to
+  give the women the prizes they had won?</p>
+
+  <p>That the undergraduates insulted any professor who allowed
+  women to compete for prizes?</p>
+
+  <p>That the women were stoned in the streets, and finally
+  excluded from the medical school?</p>
+
+  <p>That in 1877 the British Medical Association declared women
+  ineligible for membership?</p>
+
+  <p>That in 1881 the International Medical Congress excluded women
+  from all but its “social and ceremonial meetings”?</p>
+
+  <p>That the Obstetrical Society refused to allow a woman’s name
+  to appear on the title page of a pamphlet which she had written
+  with her husband?</p>
+
+  <p>That according to a recent dispatch from London, many
+  hospitals, since the outbreak of hostilities, have asked women to
+  become resident physicians, and public authorities are daily
+  endeavoring to obtain women as assistant medical officers and as
+  school doctors?</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Interviews_With_Celebrated_Anti-Suffragists"></a>Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists</h2>
+
+  <p>“Woman’s place is in my home.”&mdash;Appius Claudius.</p>
+
+  <p>“I have never felt the need of the
+  ballot.”&mdash;Cleopatra.</p>
+
+  <p>“Magna Charta merely fashionable fad of ye Barons.”&mdash;King
+  John.</p>
+
+  <p>“Boston Tea Party shows American colonists to be hysterical
+  and utterly incapable of self-government.”&mdash;George III.</p>
+
+  <p>“Know of no really good slaves who desire
+  emancipation.”&mdash;President of the United Slaveholders’
+  Protective Association.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Another_of_Those_Curious_Coincidences"></a>Another of Those Curious Coincidences</h2>
+
+  <p>On February 15, the House of Representatives passed a bill
+  making it unlawful to ship in interstate commerce the products of
+  a mill, cannery or factory which have been produced by the labor
+  of children under fourteen years.</p>
+
+  <p>Forty-three gentlemen voted against it.</p>
+
+  <p>Forty-one of those forty-three had also voted against the
+  woman suffrage bill.</p>
+
+  <p>Not one single vote was cast against it by a representative
+  from any state where women vote for Congressmen.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_New_Freedom"></a>The New Freedom</h2>
+
+  <p>“The Michigan commission on industrial relations has
+  discovered,” says “The Detroit Journal,” “that thousands of wives
+  support their husbands.”</p>
+
+  <p>Woman’s place is the home, but under a special privilege she
+  is sometimes allowed to send her wages as a substitute.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="To_the_Great_Dining_Out_Majority"></a>To the Great Dining Out Majority</h2>
+
+  <p>The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is
+  sending out leaflets to its members urging them to “tell every
+  man you meet, your tailor, your postman, your grocer, as well as
+  your <i>dinner partner</i>, that you are opposed to woman
+  suffrage.”</p>
+
+  <p>We hope that the 90,000 sewing machine operatives, the 40,000
+  saleswomen, the 32,000 laundry operatives, the 20,000 knitting
+  and silk mill girls, the 17,000 women janitors and cleaners, the
+  12,000 cigar-makers, to say nothing of the 700,000 other women
+  and girls in industry in New York State, will remember when they
+  have drawn off their long gloves and tasted their oysters to tell
+  their dinner partners that they are opposed to woman suffrage
+  because they fear it might take women out of the home.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="WOMENS_SPHERE"></a>WOMEN’S SPHERE</h2>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Many_Men_to_Any_Woman"></a>Many Men to Any Woman</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>If you have beauty, charm, refinement, tact,</p>
+
+      <p>If you can prove that should I set you free,</p>
+
+      <p>You would not contemplate the smallest act</p>
+
+      <p>That might annoy or interfere with me.</p>
+
+      <p>If you can show that women will abide</p>
+
+      <p>By the best standards of their womanhood&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>(And I must be the person to decide</p>
+
+      <p>What in a woman is the highest good);</p>
+
+      <p>If you display efficiency supreme</p>
+
+      <p>In philanthropic work devoid of pay;</p>
+
+      <p>If you can show a clearly thought-out scheme</p>
+
+      <p>For bringing the millennium in a day:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Why, then, dear lady, at some time remote,</p>
+
+      <p>I might consider giving you the vote.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="A_Sex_Difference"></a>A Sex Difference</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>When men in Congress come to blows at something someone
+      said,</p>
+
+      <p>I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and
+      red;</p>
+
+      <p>But if two women disagree, with very little noise,</p>
+
+      <p>It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have
+      no poise.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Advice_to_Heroines"></a>Advice to Heroines</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>A heroine must shrink and cling</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">When heroes are about,</p>
+
+      <p>And thus the watching world will think:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“How brave his heart and stout!”</p>
+
+      <p>But if he chance to be away</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">When bright-faced dangers shine,</p>
+
+      <p>It will be best for her to play</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The oak-tree, not the vine.</p>
+
+      <p>In fact the most important thing</p>
+
+      <p>Is knowing when it’s time to cling.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>II</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>With apologies to R.L.S.</i></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>A heroine must be polite</p>
+
+      <p>And do what others say is right,</p>
+
+      <p>And think men wise and formidable&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>At least as far as she is able.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Mutual_Vows"></a>Mutual Vows</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“My dear,” he said, “observe this frightful bill,</p>
+
+      <p>Run up, I think you’ll own, against my will.</p>
+
+      <p>If you will recollect our wedding day</p>
+
+      <p>You vowed on that occasion to obey.”</p>
+
+      <p>“I do recall the day,” said she, “and how</p>
+
+      <p>Me with your worldly goods you did endow.”</p>
+
+      <p>“That,” he replied, “is palpably absurd----”</p>
+
+      <p>“You mean you did not mean to keep your word?”</p>
+
+      <p>“O, yes,” he answered, “in a general way.”</p>
+
+      <p>“And that,” said she, “is how I meant obey.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="If_They_Meant_All_They_Said"></a>If They Meant All They Said</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Charm is a woman’s strongest arm;</p>
+
+      <p>My charwoman is full of charm;</p>
+
+      <p>I chose her, not for strength of arm</p>
+
+      <p>But for her strange elusive charm.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>And how tears heighten woman’s powers!</p>
+
+      <p>My typist weeps for hours and hours:</p>
+
+      <p>I took her for her weeping powers&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>They so delight my business hours.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>A woman lives by intuition.</p>
+
+      <p>Though my accountant shuns addition</p>
+
+      <p>She has the rarest intuition.</p>
+
+      <p>(And I myself can do addition.)</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Timidity in girls is nice.</p>
+
+      <p>My cook is so afraid of mice.</p>
+
+      <p>Now you’ll admit it’s very nice</p>
+
+      <p>To feel your cook’s afraid of mice.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Democracy"></a>Democracy</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Democracy is this&mdash;to hold</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">That all who wander down the pike</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In cart or car, on foot or bike,</p>
+
+      <p>Or male or female, young or old,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Are much alike&mdash;are much alike.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Feminism"></a>Feminism</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Mother, what is a Feminist?”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“A Feminist, my daughter,</p>
+
+      <p>Is any woman now who cares</p>
+
+      <p>To think about her own affairs</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">As men don’t think she oughter.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Warning"></a>The Warning</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>No, it isn’t home neglecting</p>
+
+      <p>If you spend your time selecting</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Seven blouses and a jacket and a hat;</p>
+
+      <p>Or to give your day to paying</p>
+
+      <p>Needless visits, or to playing</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Auction bridge. What critic could object to
+      that?</p>
+
+      <p>But to spend two precious hours</p>
+
+      <p>At a lecture! Oh, my powers,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The home is all a woman needs to learn.</p>
+
+      <p>And an hour, or a quarter,</p>
+
+      <p>Spent in voting! Why, my daughter,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">You could not find your home on your
+      return.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Evolution"></a>Evolution</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Said Mr. Jones in 1910:</p>
+
+      <p>“Women, subject yourselves to men.”</p>
+
+      <p>Nineteen-Eleven heard him quote:</p>
+
+      <p>“They rule the world without the vote.”</p>
+
+      <p>By Nineteen-Twelve, he would submit</p>
+
+      <p>“When all the women wanted it.”</p>
+
+      <p>By Nineteen-Thirteen, looking glum,</p>
+
+      <p>He said that it was bound to come.</p>
+
+      <p>This year I heard him say with pride:</p>
+
+      <p>“No reasons on the other side!”</p>
+
+      <p>By Nineteen-Fifteen, he’ll insist</p>
+
+      <p>He’s always been a suffragist.</p>
+
+      <p>And what is really stranger, too,</p>
+
+      <p>He’ll think that what he says is true.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Intercepted"></a>Intercepted</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Only the worst of them vote.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Are not the suffragists frights?”</p>
+
+      <p>“Nietzsche’s the person to quote.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“I prefer love to my rights.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Are not the suffragists frights?”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Sex is their only appeal.”</p>
+
+      <p>“I prefer love to my rights.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“No, we don’t think, but we feel.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Sex is their only appeal.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Woman belongs at the loom.”</p>
+
+      <p>“No, we don’t think, but we feel.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Doesn’t it rub off the bloom?”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Woman belongs at the loom.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Isn’t the speaker a bore!”</p>
+
+      <p>“Doesn’t it rub off the bloom?”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Oh, it’s a fad&mdash;nothing more.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Isn’t the speaker a bore!”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Nietzsche’s the person to quote.”</p>
+
+      <p>“Oh, it’s a fad&mdash;nothing more.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Only the worst of them vote.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Universal_Answer"></a>The Universal Answer</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i6">Oh, there you go again,</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">Invading man’s domain!</p>
+
+      <p>It’s Nature’s laws, you know, you are defying.</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">Don’t fancy that you can</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">Be really like a man,</p>
+
+      <p>So what’s the use of all this fuss and trying?</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">It seems to me so clear,</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">That women’s highest sphere</p>
+
+      <p>Is being loving wives and patient mothers.</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">Oh, can’t you be content</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">To be as you were meant?</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">{souls</p>
+
+      <p>For {books belong to husbands and to brothers.</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">{votes</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Candor"></a>Candor</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (<i>By an admirer of the late H.C. Bunner</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“I know what you’re going to say,” she said,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And she stood up, causing him some alarm;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“You’re going to tell me I’ll lose my
+      charm,</p>
+
+      <p>And what is a woman when charm has fled?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And you’re going to say that you greatly
+      fear</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">I don’t understand a woman’s sphere;</p>
+
+      <p>Now aren’t you honestly?” “Yes,” he said.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“I know what you’re going to say,” she said,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“You’re going to ask what I hope to gain</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">By stepping down to the dusty plain,</p>
+
+      <p>By seeking a stone when I might have bread;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">You’re going to say: ‘Can a vote replace</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The tender force of a woman’s grace?’</p>
+
+      <p>Now, aren’t you honestly?” “Yes,” he said.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“I know what you’re going to do,” he said,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“You’re going to talk to me all day long</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Trying to make me see I’m wrong;</p>
+
+      <p>And other men who are less misled</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Will pale with jealousy when they see</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The time you give to converting me;</p>
+
+      <p>Now, aren’t you honestly?” “Ye-es,” she said.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="What_Every_Woman_Must_Not_Say"></a>What Every Woman Must Not Say</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“I don’t pretend I’m clever,” he remarked, “or very
+      wise,”</p>
+
+      <p>And at this she murmured, “Really,” with the right polite
+      surprise.</p>
+
+      <p>“But women,” he continued, “I must own I understand;</p>
+
+      <p>Women are a contradiction&mdash;honorable and
+      underhand&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Constant as the star Polaris, yet as changeable as
+      Fate,</p>
+
+      <p>Always flying what they long for, always seeking what they
+      hate.”</p>
+
+      <p>“Don’t you think,” began the lady, but he cut her short:
+      “I see</p>
+
+      <p>That you take it personally&mdash;women always do,” said
+      he.</p>
+
+      <p>“You will pardon me for saying every woman is the
+      same,</p>
+
+      <p>Always greedy for approval, always sensitive to blame;</p>
+
+      <p>Sweet and passionate are women; weak in mind, though
+      strong in soul;</p>
+
+      <p>Even you admit, I fancy, that they have no
+      self-control?”</p>
+
+      <p>“No, I don’t admit they haven’t,” said the patient lady
+      then,</p>
+
+      <p>“Or they could not sit and listen to the nonsense talked
+      by men.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Chivalry"></a>Chivalry</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>It’s treating a woman politely</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">As long as she isn’t a fright:</p>
+
+      <p>It’s guarding the girls who act rightly,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">If you can be judge of what’s right;</p>
+
+      <p>It’s being&mdash;not just, but so pleasant;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">It’s tipping while wages are low;</p>
+
+      <p>It’s making a beautiful present,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And failing to pay what you owe.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>From Our Own Nursery Rhymes</i></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Chivalry, Chivalry, where have you been?”</p>
+
+      <p>“I’ve been out seeking a beautiful queen.”</p>
+
+      <p>“Chivalry, Chivalry, what did you find?”</p>
+
+      <p>“Commonplace women, not much to my mind.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Women"></a>Women</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (<i>With rather insincere apologies to Mr. Rudyard
+    Kipling</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I went to ask my government if they would set me free,</p>
+
+      <p>They gave a pardoned crook a vote, but hadn’t one for
+      me;</p>
+
+      <p>The men about me laughed and frowned and said: “Go home,
+      because</p>
+
+      <p>We really can’t be bothered when we’re busy making
+      laws.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Oh, it’s women this, and women that and women have no
+      sense,</p>
+
+      <p>But it’s pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the
+      expense,</p>
+
+      <p>It comes to the expense, my dears, it comes to the
+      expense,</p>
+
+      <p>It’s pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the
+      expense.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I went into a factory to earn my daily bread:</p>
+
+      <p>Men said: “The home is woman’s sphere.” “I have no home,”
+      I said.</p>
+
+      <p>But when the men all marched to war, they cried to wife
+      and maid,</p>
+
+      <p>“Oh, never mind about the home, but save the export
+      trade.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>For it’s women this and women that, and home’s the place
+      for you,</p>
+
+      <p>But it’s patriotic angels when there’s outside work to
+      do,</p>
+
+      <p>There’s outside work to do, my dears, there’s outside work
+      to do,</p>
+
+      <p>It’s patriotic angels when there’s outside work to do.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>We are not really senseless, and we are not angels,
+      too,</p>
+
+      <p>But very human beings, human just as much as you.</p>
+
+      <p>It’s hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime</p>
+
+      <p>When you’re treated as incompetents three-quarters of the
+      time.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>But it’s women this and women that, and woman’s like a
+      hen,</p>
+
+      <p>But it’s do the country’s work alone, when war takes off
+      the men,</p>
+
+      <p>And it’s women this and women that and everything you
+      please,</p>
+
+      <p>But woman is observant, and be sure that woman sees.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Beware"></a>Beware!</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>In the days that are gone when a statue was wanted</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In park or museum where statues must be,</p>
+
+      <p>A chivalrous male would come forward undaunted</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And say: “If you must have one, make it of
+      me.</p>
+
+      <p>Bad though they be, yet I’ll agree</p>
+
+      <p>If you must make them, why make them of me.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>But chivalry’s dead, as I always expected</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Since women would not let things stay as they
+      were;</p>
+
+      <p>So now, I suppose, when a statue’s erected</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Men will say brutally: “Make it of her.”</p>
+
+      <p>She may prefer things as they were</p>
+
+      <p>When they start making the statues of her.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Male_Philosophy"></a>Male Philosophy</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Men are very brave, you know,</p>
+
+      <p>That was settled long ago;</p>
+
+      <p>Ask, however, if you doubt it,</p>
+
+      <p>Any man you meet about it;</p>
+
+      <p>He will say, I think, like me,</p>
+
+      <p>Men are brave as they can be.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Women think they’re brave, you say?</p>
+
+      <p>Do they really? Well, they may,</p>
+
+      <p>But such biased attestation</p>
+
+      <p>Is not worth consideration,</p>
+
+      <p>For a legal judgment shelves</p>
+
+      <p>What they say about themselves.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="From_a_Mans_Point_of_View"></a>From a Man’s Point of View</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Women love self-sacrifice</p>
+
+      <p>Suffering and good advice;</p>
+
+      <p>If they don’t love these sincerely</p>
+
+      <p>Then they’re not true women really.</p>
+
+      <p>Oh, it shocks me so to note</p>
+
+      <p>Women pleading for the vote!</p>
+
+      <p>Saying publicly it would</p>
+
+      <p>Educate and do them good.</p>
+
+      <p>Such a selfish reason trips</p>
+
+      <p>Oddly from a woman’s lips.</p>
+
+      <p>But it must not be supposed</p>
+
+      <p>I am in the least opposed.</p>
+
+      <p>If they want it let them try it.</p>
+
+      <p>For I think we’ll profit by it.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Glory"></a>Glory</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I went to see old Susan Gray,</p>
+
+      <p>Whose soldier sons had marched away,</p>
+
+      <p>And this is what she had to say:</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“It isn’t war I hate at all&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">’Tis likely men must fight&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>But, oh, these flags and uniforms,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">It’s them that isn’t right!</p>
+
+      <p>If war must come, and come it does</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">To take our boys from play,</p>
+
+      <p>It isn’t right to make it seem</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">So beautiful and gay.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I left old Susan with a sigh;</p>
+
+      <p>A famous band was marching by</p>
+
+      <p>To make men glad they had to die.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Dependence"></a>Dependence</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (An Englishwoman whose income has stopped owing to her two sons
+    having joined the English army, was taken care of last night at
+    the Florence Crittenden Mission.&mdash;<i>Press Clipping</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>The young men said to their mother,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Hear us, O dearest and best!</p>
+
+      <p>Time cannot cool or smother</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The love of you in our breast;</p>
+
+      <p>Here is your place and no other&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Come home and rest.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>And the mother’s heart was grateful</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">For the love of her cherished ones,</p>
+
+      <p>And her labor, bitter and hateful,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">She left at the word of her sons,</p>
+
+      <p>Till she heard far off the fateful</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Voices of guns.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Their love did more enslave her;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">They did not understand</p>
+
+      <p>That none could guard or save her</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">When war was on the land,</p>
+
+      <p>But herself, and God, who gave her</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Heart and mind and hand.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Playthings"></a>Playthings</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Last year the shops were crowded</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">With soldier suits and guns&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>The presents that at Christmas time</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">We give our little sons;</p>
+
+      <p>And many a glittering trumpet</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And many a sword and drum;</p>
+
+      <p>But as they’re made in Germany</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">This year they will not come.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Perhaps another season</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">We shall not give our boys</p>
+
+      <p>Such very warlike playthings,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Such military toys;</p>
+
+      <p>Perhaps another season</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">We shall not think it sweet</p>
+
+      <p>To watch their game of soldier men,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Who dream not of defeat.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Militants"></a>Militants</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Hippolta, Penthesilea,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Maria Teresa and Joan,</p>
+
+      <p>Agustina and Boadicea</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And some militant girls of our own&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>It would take a brave man and a dull one</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">To say to these ladies: “Of course</p>
+
+      <p>We adore you while meek,</p>
+
+      <p>Timid, clinging and weak,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">But a woman can never use force.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="A_Ladys_Choice"></a>A Lady’s Choice</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Her old love in tears and silence had been building her a
+      palace</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Ringed by moats and flanked with towers, he had
+      set it on a hill</p>
+
+      <p>“Here,” he said, “will come no whisper of the world’s
+      alarms and</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">malice,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In these granite walls imprisoned, I will keep
+      you safe from ill.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>As he spoke along the highway there came riding by a
+      stranger,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">For an instant on her features, he a fleeting
+      glance bestowed,</p>
+
+      <p>Then he said: “My heart is fickle and the world is full of
+      danger,”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And he offered her his stirrup and he pointed
+      down the road.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Ballad_of_Lost_Causes"></a>The Ballad of Lost Causes</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (<i>About 465 years after Villon</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Tell me in what spot remote</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Do the antis dwell to-day,</p>
+
+      <p>Those who did not want to vote,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Feared their sex’s prompt decay?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Where are those who used to say:</p>
+
+      <p>“Home alone is woman’s sphere;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Only those should vote who slay”?</p>
+
+      <p>Where the snows of yester-year?</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Where are those who used to quote</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Nietzsche’s words in dread array?</p>
+
+      <p>Where the ancient crones who wrote:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Women rule through Beauty’s sway”?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And those lovers, where are they,</p>
+
+      <p>Who could hold no woman dear</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">If she had the ballot? Nay!</p>
+
+      <p>Where the snows of yester-year?</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Prince, inquire no more, I pray,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Whither antis disappear.</p>
+
+      <p>Suffrage won; they melt away,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Like the snows of yester-year.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Thoughts_at_an_Anti_Meeting"></a>Thoughts at an Anti Meeting</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>There are no homes in suffrage states,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">There are no children, glad and good,</p>
+
+      <p>There, men no longer seek for mates,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And women lose their womanhood.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>This I believe without debate,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And yet I ask&mdash;and ask in vain&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Why no one in a suffrage state</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Has moved to change things back again?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="A_MASQUE_OF_TEACHERS"></a>A MASQUE OF TEACHERS</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    AND
+  </p>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
+  </p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Ideal_Candidates"></a>The Ideal Candidates</h2>
+
+  <p>(A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: “No married
+  woman shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position
+  in the New York public schools unless her husband is mentally or
+  physically incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for
+  a period of not less than one year.”)</p>
+
+  <p>CHARACTERS</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board of Education</i>.</p>
+
+      <p class="i7"><i>Three Would-Be Teachers</i>.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Chorus by Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Now please don’t waste</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Your time and ours</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">By pleas all based</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">On mental powers.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">She seems to us</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">The proper stuff</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Who has a hus-</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Band bad enough.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">All other pleas appear to us</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Excessively superfluous.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>1st Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">My husband is not really bad----</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">How very sad, how very sad!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>1st Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">He’s good, but hear my one excuse----</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Oh, what’s the use, oh, what’s the use?</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>1st Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Last winter in a railroad wreck</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">He lost an arm and broke his neck.</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">He’s doomed, but lingers day by day.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Her husband’s doomed! Hurray! hurray!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>2nd Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">My husband’s kind and healthy, too----</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Why, then, of course, you will not do.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>2nd Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Just hear me out. You’ll find you’re wrong.</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">It’s true his body’s good and strong;</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">But, ah, his wits are all astray.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Her husband’s mad. Hip, hip, hurray!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>3rd Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">My husband’s wise and well&mdash;the
+      creature!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Then you can never be a teacher.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>3rd Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Wait. For I led him such a life</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">He could not stand me as a wife;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Last Michaelmas, he ran away.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Her husband hates her, Hip, hurray!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Chorus by Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Now we have found</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Without a doubt,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">By process sound</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">And well thought out,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Each candidate</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Is fit in truth</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">To educate</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">The mind of youth.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">No teacher need apply to us</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Whose married life’s harmonious.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i9">(<i>Curtain</i>.)</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Unconscious_Suffragists"></a>The Unconscious Suffragists</h2>
+
+  <p>“They who have no voice nor vote in the electing of
+  representatives do not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved
+  to those who have votes.”&mdash;Benjamin Franklin.</p>
+
+  <p>“No such phrase as virtual representation was ever known in
+  law or constitution.”&mdash;James Otis.</p>
+
+  <p>“But these great cities, says my honorable friend, are
+  virtually, though not directly represented. Are not the wishes of
+  Manchester, he asks, as much consulted as those of any other town
+  which sends members to Parliament? Now, sir, I do not understand
+  how a power which is salutary when exercised virtually can be
+  noxious when exercised directly. If the wishes of Manchester have
+  as much weight with us as they would have under a system which
+  gives representatives to Manchester, how can there be any danger
+  in giving representatives to Manchester?”&mdash;Lord Macaulay’s
+  Speech on the Reform Bill.</p>
+
+  <p>“Universal suffrage prolongs in the United States the effect
+  of universal education: for it stimulates all citizens throughout
+  their lives to reflect on problems outside the narrow circle of
+  their private interests and occupations: to read about public
+  questions; to discuss public characters and to hold themselves
+  ready in some degree to give a rational account of their
+  political faith.”&mdash;Dr. Charles Eliot.</p>
+
+  <p>“But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their
+  (the American people) desires: equality is their idol; they make
+  rapid and sudden efforts to obtain liberty and if they miss their
+  aim, resign themselves to their disappointment; but nothing can
+  satisfy them without equality, and they would rather perish than
+  lose it.”&mdash;De Tocqueville: Democracy in America, 1835.</p>
+
+  <p>“A government is for the benefit of all the people. We believe
+  that this benefit is best accomplished by popular government
+  because in the long run each class of individuals is apt to
+  secure better provision for themselves through their own voice in
+  government than through the altruistic interest of others,
+  however intelligent or philanthropic.”&mdash;William H. Taft in
+  Special Message.</p>
+
+<p>
+“I have listened to some very honest and eloquent orators whose sentiments were
+noteworthy for this: that when they spoke of the people, they were not thinking
+of themselves, they were thinking of somebody whom they were commissioned to
+take care of. And I have seen them shiver when it was suggested that they
+arrange to have something done by the people for themselves.”&mdash;The New
+Freedom, by Woodrow Wilson.
+</p>
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
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+Title: Are Women People?
+
+Author: Alice Duer Miller
+
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARE WOMEN PEOPLE? ***
+
+
+
+
+ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
+
+A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR SUFFRAGE TIMES
+
+By
+
+ALICE DUER MILLER
+
+AUTHOR OF "BLUE ARCH," "THE MODERN OBSTACLE." ETC.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+TO V.B.W. SLAVE-DRIVER AND FRIEND
+
+
+
+
+Introduction
+
+
+Father, what is a Legislature?
+
+A representative body elected by the people of the state.
+
+Are women people?
+
+No, my son, criminals, lunatics and women are not people.
+
+Do legislators legislate for nothing?
+
+Oh, no; they are paid a salary.
+
+By whom?
+
+By the people.
+
+Are women people?
+
+Of course, my son, just as much as men are.
+
+To the New York Tribune, in whose generous columns many of these
+verses first appeared, the author here wishes to express her gratitude.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+TREACHEROUS TEXTS
+
+CAMPAIGN MATERIAL (For Both Sides)
+
+WOMEN'S SPHERE
+
+A MASQUE OF TEACHERS: THE IDEAL CANDIDATES
+
+THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
+
+
+
+
+TREACHEROUS TEXTS
+
+
+
+
+ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
+
+
+A Consistent Anti to Her Son
+
+("Look at the hazards, the risks, the physical dangers that ladies would
+be exposed to at the polls."--_Anti-suffrage speech_.)
+
+
+    You're twenty-one to-day, Willie,
+      And a danger lurks at the door,
+    I've known about it always,
+      But I never spoke before;
+    When you were only a baby
+      It seemed so very remote,
+    But you're twenty-one to-day, Willie,
+      And old enough to vote.
+
+    You must not go to the polls, Willie,
+      Never go to the polls,
+    They're dark and dreadful places
+      Where many lose their souls;
+    They smirch, degrade and coarsen,
+      Terrible things they do
+    To quiet, elderly women--
+      What would they do to you!
+
+    If you've a boyish fancy
+      For any measure or man,
+    Tell me, and I'll tell Father,
+      He'll vote for it, if he can.
+    He casts my vote, and Louisa's,
+      And Sarah, and dear Aunt Clo;
+    Wouldn't you let him vote for you?
+      Father, who loves you so?
+
+    I've guarded you always, Willie,
+      Body and soul from harm;
+    I'll guard your faith and honor,
+      Your innocence and charm
+    From the polls and their evil spirits,
+      Politics, rum and pelf;
+    Do you think I'd send my only son
+      Where I would not go myself?
+
+
+
+
+Our Idea of Nothing at All
+
+
+("I am opposed to woman suffrage, but I am not opposed to
+woman."--_Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Webb of North Carolina_.)
+
+
+    O women, have you heard the news
+      Of charity and grace?
+    Look, look, how joy and gratitude
+      Are beaming in my face!
+    For Mr. Webb is not opposed
+      To woman in her place!
+
+    O Mr. Webb, how kind you are
+      To let us live at all,
+    To let us light the kitchen range
+      And tidy up the hall;
+    To tolerate the female sex
+      In spite of Adam's fall.
+
+    O girls, suppose that Mr. Webb
+      Should alter his decree!
+    Suppose he were opposed to us--
+      Opposed to you and me.
+    What would be left for us to do--
+      Except to cease to be?
+
+
+
+
+Lines to Mr. Bowdle of Ohio
+
+
+("The women of this smart capital are beautiful. Their beauty is
+disturbing to business; their feet are beautiful, their ankles are
+beautiful, but here I must pause."--_Mr. Bowdle's anti-suffrage speech
+in Congress, January 12, 1915_.)
+
+
+    You, who despise the so-called fairer sex,
+      Be brave. There really isn't any reason
+    You should not, if you wish, oppose and vex
+      And scold us in, and even out of season;
+    But don't regard it as your bounden duty
+    To open with a tribute to our beauty.
+
+    Say if you like that women have no sense,
+      No self-control, no power of concentration;
+    Say that hysterics is our one defence
+      Our virtue but an absence of temptation;
+    These I can bear, but, oh, I own it rankles
+    To hear you maundering on about our ankles.
+
+    Tell those old stories, which have now and then
+      Been from the Record thoughtfully deleted,
+    Repeat that favorite one about the hen,
+      Repeat the ones that cannot be repeated;
+    But in the midst of such enjoyments, smother
+    The impulse to extol your "sainted mother."
+
+
+
+
+On Not Believing All You Hear
+
+
+("Women are angels, they are jewels, they are queens and princesses of
+our hearts."--_Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Carter of Oklahoma_.)
+
+
+    "Angel, or jewel, or princess, or queen,
+    Tell me immediately, where have you been?"
+
+    "I've been to ask all my slaves so devoted
+    Why they against my enfranchisement voted."
+
+    "Angel and princess, that action was wrong.
+    Back to the kitchen, where angels belong."
+
+
+
+
+The Revolt of Mother
+
+
+("Every true woman feels----"--_Speech of almost any Congressman_.)
+
+
+    I am old-fashioned, and I think it right
+      That man should know, by Nature's laws eternal,
+    The proper way to rule, to earn, to fight,
+      And exercise those functions called paternal;
+    But even I a little bit rebel
+    At finding that he knows my job as well.
+
+    At least he's always ready to expound it,
+      Especially in legislative hall,
+    The joys, the cares, the halos that surround it,
+      "How women feel"--he knows that best of all.
+    In fact his thesis is that no one can
+    Know what is womanly except a man.
+
+    I am old-fashioned, and I am content
+      When he explains the world of art and science
+    And government--to him divinely sent--
+      I drink it in with ladylike compliance.
+    But cannot listen--no, I'm only human--
+    While he instructs me how to be a woman.
+
+
+
+
+The Gallant Sex
+
+
+(A woman engineer has been dismissed by the Board of Education, under
+their new rule that women shall not attend high pressure boilers,
+although her work has been satisfactory and she holds a license to
+attend such boilers from the Police Department.)
+
+
+    Lady, dangers lurk in boilers,
+      Risks I could not let you face.
+    Men were meant to be the toilers,
+      Home, you know, is woman's place.
+    Have no home? Well, is that so?
+    Still, it's not my fault, you know.
+
+    Charming lady, work no more;
+      Fair you are and sweet as honey;
+    Work might make your fingers sore,
+      And, besides, I need the money.
+    Prithee rest,--or starve or rob--
+    Only let me have your job!
+
+
+
+
+Representation
+
+
+("My wife is against suffrage, and that settles me."--_Vice-President
+Marshall_.)
+
+
+I
+
+    My wife dislikes the income tax,
+      And so I cannot pay it;
+    She thinks that golf all interest lacks,
+      So now I never play it;
+    She is opposed to tolls repeal
+      (Though why I cannot say),
+    But woman's duty is to feel,
+      And man's is to obey.
+
+II
+
+    I'm in a hard position for a perfect gentleman,
+    I want to please the ladies, but I don't see how I can,
+    My present wife's a suffragist, and counts on my support,
+    But my mother is an anti, of a rather biting sort;
+    One grandmother is on the fence, the other much opposed,
+    And my sister lives in Oregon, and thinks the question's closed;
+    Each one is counting on my vote to represent her view.
+    Now what should you think proper for a gentleman to do?
+
+
+
+
+Sonnet
+
+
+("Three bills known as the Thompson-Bewley cannery bills have been
+advanced to third reading in the Senate and Assembly at Albany. One
+permits the canners to work their employés seven days a week, a second
+allows them to work women after 9 p.m. and a third removes every
+restriction upon the hours of labor of women and minors."--_Zenas L.
+Potter, former chief cannery investigator for New York State Factory
+Investigating Commission_.)
+
+
+    Let us not to an unrestricted day
+    Impediments admit. Work is not work
+    To our employés, but a merry play;
+    They do not ask the law's excuse to shirk.
+    Ah, no, the canning season is at hand,
+    When summer scents are on the air distilled,
+    When golden fruits are ripening in the land,
+    And silvery tins are gaping to be filled.
+    Now to the cannery with jocund mien
+    Before the dawn come women, girls and boys,
+    Whose weekly hours (a hundred and nineteen)
+    Seem all too short for their industrious joys.
+      If this be error and be proved, alas
+      The Thompson-Bewley bills may fail to pass!
+
+
+
+
+To President Wilson
+
+
+("I hold it as a fundamental principle and so do you, that every people
+has the right to determine its own form of government. And until
+recently 50 per cent. of the people of Mexico have not had a look-in in
+determining who should be their governors, or what their government
+should be."--_Speech of President Wilson_.)
+
+
+    Wise and just man--for such I think you are--
+    How can you see so burningly and clear
+    Injustices and tyrannies afar,
+    Yet blind your eyes to one that lies so near?
+    How can you plead so earnestly for men
+    Who fight their own fight with a bloody hand;
+    How hold their cause so wildly dear, and then
+    Forget the women of your native land?
+    With your stern ardor and your scholar's word
+    You speak to us of human liberty;
+    Can you believe that women are not stirred
+    By this same human longing to be free?
+      He who for liberty would strike a blow
+      Need not take arms, or fly to Mexico.
+
+
+
+
+Home and Where It Is
+
+
+(An Indiana judge has recently ruled: As to the right of the husband to
+decide the location of the home that "home is where the husband is.")
+
+
+    Home is where the husband is,
+    Be it near or be it far,
+    Office, theatre, Pullman car,
+    Poolroom, polls, or corner bar--
+    All good wives remember this--
+    Home is where the husband is.
+
+    Woman's place is home, I wis.
+    Leave your family bacon frying,
+    Leave your wash and dishes drying,
+    Leave your little children crying;
+    Join your husband, near or far,
+    At the club or corner bar,
+    For the court has taught us this:
+    "Home is where the husband is."
+
+
+
+
+The Maiden's Vow
+
+
+(A speaker at the National Education Association advised girls not to
+study algebra. Many girls, he said, had lost their souls through this
+study. The idea has been taken up with enthusiasm.)
+
+
+    I will avoid equations,
+      And shun the naughty surd,
+    I must beware the perfect square,
+      Through it young girls have erred:
+    And when men mention Rule of Three
+      Pretend I have not heard.
+
+    Through Sturm's delightful theorems
+      Illicit joys assure,
+    Though permutations and combinations
+      My woman's heart allure,
+    I'll never study algebra,
+      But keep my spirit pure.
+
+
+
+
+Such Nonsense
+
+
+("Where on earth did the idea come from that the ballot is a boon, a
+privilege and an honor? From men."--_Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin_.)
+
+
+    Who is it thinks the vote some use?
+    Man. (Man is often such a goose!)
+    Indeed it makes me laugh to see
+    How men have struggled to be free.
+
+    Poor Washington, who meant so well,
+    And Nathan Hale and William Tell,
+    Hampden and Bolivar and Pym,
+    And L'Ouverture--remember him?
+
+    And Garibaldi and Kossuth,
+    And some who threw away their youth,
+    All bitten by the stupid notion
+    That liberty was worth emotion.
+
+    They could not get it through their heads
+    That if they stayed tucked up in beds,
+    Avoiding politics and strife,
+    They'd lead a pleasant, peaceful life.
+
+    Let us, dear sisters, never make
+    Such a ridiculous mistake;
+    But teach our children o'er and o'er
+    That liberty is just a chore.
+
+
+
+
+A Suggested Campaign Song
+
+
+("No brass bands. No speeches. Instead a still, silent, effective
+influence."--_Anti-suffrage speech_.)
+
+
+    We are waging--can you doubt it?
+      A campaign so calm and still
+    No one knows a thing about it,
+      And we hope they never will.
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      And we hope they never will.
+
+    We are ladylike and quiet,
+      Here a whisper--there a hint;
+    Never speeches, bands or riot,
+      Nothing suitable for print.
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      For we never speak for print.
+
+    Sometimes in profound seclusion,
+      In some far (but homelike) spot,
+    We will make a dark allusion:
+      "We're opposed to you-know-what."
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      For we call it "You-Know-What."
+
+
+
+
+The Woman of Charm
+
+
+("I hate a woman who is not a mystery to herself, as well as to
+me."--_The Phoenix_.)
+
+
+    If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
+      Known to the world as a Woman of Charm,
+    Take all the conspicuous ladies of history,
+      Mix them all up without doing them harm.
+    The beauty of Helen, the warmth of Cleopatra,
+      Salome's notorious skill in the dance,
+    The dusky allure of the belles of Sumatra,
+      The fashion and finish of ladies from France.
+    The youth of Susanna, beloved by an elder,
+      The wit of a Chambers' incomparable minx,
+    The conjugal views of the patient Griselda,
+     The fire of Sappho, the calm of the Sphinx,
+    The eyes of La Vallière, the voice of Cordelia,
+    The musical gifts of the sainted Cecelia,
+    Trilby and Carmen and Ruth and Ophelia,
+    Madame de Staël and the matron Cornelia,
+    Iseult, Hypatia and naughty Nell Gwynn,
+    Una, Titania and Elinor Glyn.
+      Take of these elements all that is fusible,
+      Melt 'em all down in a pipkin or crucible,
+      Set 'em to simmer and take off the scum,
+      And a Woman of Charm is the residuum!
+        (Slightly adapted from W.S. Gilbert.)
+
+
+
+
+A Modern Proposal
+
+
+(It has been said that the feminist movement is the true solution of the
+mother-in-law problem.)
+
+
+    Sylvia, my dear, I would be yours with pleasure,
+      All that you are seems excellent to me,
+    Except your mother, who's much more at leisure
+      Than mothers ought to be.
+
+    Find her a fad, a job, an occupation,
+      Eugenics, dancing, uplift, yes, or crime,
+    Set her to work for her Emancipation--
+      That takes a lot of time.
+
+    Or, if the suffrage doctrine fails to charm her,
+      There are the Antis--rather in her line--
+    Guarding the Home from Maine to Alabama
+      Would keep her out of mine.
+
+
+
+
+The Newer Lullaby
+
+
+("Good heavens, when I think what the young boy of to-day is growing up
+to I gasp. He has too many women around him all the time. He has his
+mother when he is a baby."--_Bernard Fagin, Probation Officer_.)
+
+
+    Hush-a-bye, baby,
+      Feel no alarm,
+    Gunmen shall guard you,
+      Lest Mother should harm.
+    Wake in your cradle,
+      Hear father curse!
+    Isn't that better
+      Than Mother or Nurse?
+
+
+
+
+The Protected Sex
+
+_With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley_.
+
+
+("The result of taking second place to girls at school is that the boy
+feels a sense of inferiority that he is never afterward able entirely to
+shake off."--_Editorial in London Globe against co-education_.)
+
+
+    There, little girl, don't read,
+    You're fond of your books, I know,
+    But Brother might mope
+    If he had no hope
+    Of getting ahead of you.
+    It's dull for a boy who cannot lead.
+    There, little girl, don't read.
+
+
+
+Warning to Suffragists
+
+
+("The Latin man believes that giving woman the vote will make her less
+attractive."--_Anna H. Shaw_.)
+
+
+    They must sacrifice their beauty
+    Who would do their civic duty,
+      Who the polling booth would enter,
+      Who the ballot box would use;
+    As they drop their ballots in it
+    Men and women in a minute,
+      Lose their charm, the antis tell us,
+      But--the men have less to lose.
+
+
+
+
+Partners
+
+
+("Our laws have not yet reached the point of holding that property which
+is the result of the husband's earnings and the wife's savings becomes
+their joint property.... In this most important of all partnerships
+there is no partnership property."--_Recent decision of the New York
+Supreme Court_.)
+
+
+    Lady, lovely lady, come and share
+        All my care;
+    Oh how gladly I will hurry
+    To confide my every worry
+    (And they're very dark and drear)
+        In your ear.
+
+    Lady, share the praise I obtain
+        Now and again;
+    Though I'm shy, it doesn't matter,
+    I will tell you how they flatter:
+    Every compliment I'll share
+        Fair and square.
+
+    Lady, I my toil will divide
+        At your side;
+    I outside the home, you within;
+    You shall wash and cook and spin,
+    I'll provide the flax and food,
+            If you're good.
+
+    Partners, lady, we shall be,
+            You and me,
+    Partners in the highest sense
+    Looking for no recompense,
+    For, the savings that we make,
+            I shall take.
+
+
+
+
+What Governments Say to Women
+
+
+(The law compels a married woman to take the nationality of her
+husband.)
+
+
+I
+
+_In Time of War_
+
+    Help us. Your country needs you;
+      Show that you love her,
+    Give her your men to fight,
+      Ay, even to fall;
+    The fair, free land of your birth,
+      Set nothing above her,
+    Not husband nor son,
+      She must come first of all.
+
+II
+
+_In Time of Peace_
+
+    What's this? You've wed an alien,
+      Yet you ask for legislation
+    To guard your nationality?
+      We're shocked at your demand.
+    A woman when she marries
+      Takes her husband's name and nation:
+    She should love her husband only.
+      What's a woman's native land?
+
+
+
+
+"Oh, That 'Twere Possible!"
+
+_With apologies to Lord Tennyson._
+
+
+("The grant of suffrage to women is repugnant to instincts that strike
+their roots deep in the order of nature. It runs counter to human
+reason, it flouts the teachings of experience and the admonitions of
+common sense."--_N.Y. Times, Feb. 7, 1915_.)
+
+
+    Oh, that 'twere possible
+      After those words inane
+    For me to read _The Times_
+      Ever again!
+
+    When I was wont to read it
+      In the early morning hours,
+    In a mood 'twixt wrath and mirth,
+      I exclaimed: "Alas, Ye Powers,
+    These ideas are fainter, quainter
+      Than anything on earth!"
+
+    A paper's laid before me.
+      Not thou, not like to thee.
+    Dear me, if it were possible
+      _The Times_ should ever see
+    How very far the times have moved
+      (Spelt with a little "t").
+
+
+
+
+_The Times_ Editorials
+
+
+    Lovely Antiques, breathing in every line
+    The perfume of an age long passed away,
+    Wafting us back to 1829,
+    Museum pieces of a by-gone day,
+    You should not languish in the public press
+    Where modern thought might reach and do you harm,
+    And vulgar youth insult your hoariness,
+    Missing the flavor of your old world charm;
+    You should be locked, where rust cannot corrode
+    In some old rosewood cabinet, dimmed by age,
+    With silver-lustre, tortoise shell and Spode;
+    And all would cry, who read your yellowing page:
+      "Yes, that's the sort of thing that men believed
+      Before the First Reform Bill was conceived!"
+
+
+
+
+CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
+
+(_For Both Sides_)
+
+
+
+
+Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons
+
+
+1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote.
+
+2. Because no woman who may vote will attend to her domestic duties.
+
+3. Because it will make dissension between husband and wife.
+
+4. Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to.
+
+5. Because bad women will corrupt politics.
+
+6. Because bad politics will corrupt women.
+
+7. Because women have no power of organization.
+
+8. Because women will form a solid party and outvote men.
+
+9. Because men and women are so different that they must stick to
+different duties.
+
+10. Because men and women are so much alike that men, with one vote
+each, can represent their own views and ours too.
+
+11. Because women cannot use force.
+
+12. Because the militants did use force.
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Pockets for Women
+
+
+1. Because pockets are not a natural right.
+
+2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did
+they would have them.
+
+3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.
+
+4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is, without
+the additional burden of pockets.
+
+5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose
+pockets were to be filled.
+
+6. Because it would destroy man's chivalry toward woman, if he did not
+have to carry all her things in his pockets.
+
+7. Because men are men, and women are women. We must not fly in the face
+of nature.
+
+8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes,
+whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We see no reason
+to suppose that women would use them more wisely.
+
+
+
+
+Fashion Notes: Past and Present
+
+
+1880--Anti-suffrage arguments are being worn long, calm and flowing this
+year, with the dominant note that of woman's intellectual inferiority.
+
+1890--Violence is very evident in this season's modes, and our more
+conservative thinkers are saying that woman suffrage threatens the home,
+the Church and the Republic.
+
+1900--A complete change of style has taken place. Everything is being
+worn _a l'aristocrate_, with the repeated assertion that too many people
+are voting already.
+
+1915--The best line of goods shown by the leading anti-suffrage houses
+this spring is the statement that woman suffrage is the same thing as
+free love. The effect is extremely piquant and surprising.
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains
+
+
+1. Because travelling in trains is not a natural right.
+
+2. Because our great-grandmothers never asked to travel in trains.
+
+3. Because woman's place is the home, not the train.
+
+4. Because it is unnecessary; there is no point reached by a train that
+cannot be reached on foot.
+
+5. Because it will double the work of conductors, engineers and brakemen
+who are already overburdened.
+
+6. Because men smoke and play cards in trains. Is there any reason to
+believe that women will behave better?
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Schools for Children
+
+
+(_By the Children's Anti-School League_.)
+
+1. Because education is a burden, not a right.
+
+2. Because not one-tenth of one per cent. of the children of this
+country have demanded education.
+
+3. Because if we are educated we should have to behave as if we were and
+we don't want to.
+
+4. Because it is essentially against the nature of a child to be
+educated.
+
+5. Because we can't see that it has done so much for grown-ups, and
+there is no reason for thinking it will make children perfect.
+
+6. Because the time of children is already sufficiently occupied without
+going to school.
+
+7. Because it would make dissension between parent and child. Imagine
+the home life of a parent who turned out to be more ignorant than his
+(or her) child?
+
+8. Because we believe in the indirect education of the theatre, the
+baseball field and the moving picture. We believe that schools would in
+a great measure deprive us of this.
+
+9. Because our parents went to school. They love us, they take care of
+us, they tell us what to do. We are content that they should be educated
+for us.
+
+
+
+
+But Then Who Cares for Figures
+
+
+An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as men for the
+same work is that women are only temporarily in industry.
+
+Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public schools of New
+York have been more than ten years in the service, while only twenty-six
+per cent of the men teachers have served as long.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Bundesrath of Germany has decided to furnish medical and financial
+assistance to women at the time of childbirth, in order "to alleviate
+the anxiety of husbands at the front."
+
+How strange this would sound: "The Bundesrath has decided to furnish
+medical assistance to the wounded at the front, in order to alleviate
+the anxiety of wives and mothers at home."
+
+When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is: "Will it
+benefit men?"
+
+When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is: "Will it benefit
+men?"
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Votes for Men
+
+
+1. Because man's place is the armory.
+
+2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise
+than by fighting about it.
+
+3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer
+look up to them.
+
+4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural
+sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms,
+uniforms and drums.
+
+5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball
+games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency
+to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit for the task of
+government.
+
+
+
+
+The Logic of the Law
+
+
+In 1875 the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in denying the petition of women
+to practise before it said:
+
+"It would be shocking to man's reverence for womanhood and faith in
+woman ... that woman should be permitted to mix professionally in all
+the nastiness which finds its way into courts of justice."
+
+It then names thirteen subjects as unfit for the attention of
+women--three of them are crimes committed against women.
+
+
+
+
+Consistency
+
+
+("Vile insults, lewd talk and brutal conduct were used by the indicted
+men to frighten respectable women who went to the polls in Terre Haute
+at the last election, asserted District Attorney Dailey."--_Press
+Dispatch_.)
+
+Are the polls unfit for decent women?
+
+No, sir, they are perfectly orderly.
+
+Tut, tut! Go there at once and swear and be brutal, or what will become
+of our anti-suffrage argument?
+
+
+
+
+Sometimes We're Ivy, and Sometimes We're Oak
+
+
+Is it true that the English government is calling on women to do work
+abandoned by men?
+
+Yes, it is true.
+
+Is not woman's place the home?
+
+No, not when men need her services outside the home.
+
+Will she never be told again that her place is the home?
+
+Oh, yes, indeed.
+
+When?
+
+As soon as men want their jobs back again.
+
+
+
+
+Do You Know
+
+
+That in 1869 Miss Jex-Blake and four other women entered for a medical
+degree at the University of Edinburgh?
+
+That the president of the College of Physicians refused to give the
+women the prizes they had won?
+
+That the undergraduates insulted any professor who allowed women to
+compete for prizes?
+
+That the women were stoned in the streets, and finally excluded from
+the medical school?
+
+That in 1877 the British Medical Association declared women ineligible
+for membership?
+
+That in 1881 the International Medical Congress excluded women from all
+but its "social and ceremonial meetings"?
+
+That the Obstetrical Society refused to allow a woman's name to appear
+on the title page of a pamphlet which she had written with her husband?
+
+That according to a recent dispatch from London, many hospitals, since
+the outbreak of hostilities, have asked women to become resident
+physicians, and public authorities are daily endeavoring to obtain women
+as assistant medical officers and as school doctors?
+
+
+
+
+Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists
+
+
+"Woman's place is in my home."--Appius Claudius.
+
+"I have never felt the need of the ballot."--Cleopatra.
+
+"Magna Charta merely fashionable fad of ye Barons."--King John.
+
+"Boston Tea Party shows American colonists to be hysterical and utterly
+incapable of self-government."--George III.
+
+"Know of no really good slaves who desire emancipation."--President of
+the United Slaveholders' Protective Association.
+
+
+
+
+Another of Those Curious Coincidences
+
+
+On February 15, the House of Representatives passed a bill making it
+unlawful to ship in interstate commerce the products of a mill, cannery
+or factory which have been produced by the labor of children under
+fourteen years.
+
+Forty-three gentlemen voted against it.
+
+Forty-one of those forty-three had also voted against the woman suffrage
+bill.
+
+Not one single vote was cast against it by a representative from any
+state where women vote for Congressmen.
+
+
+
+
+The New Freedom
+
+
+"The Michigan commission on industrial relations has discovered," says
+"The Detroit Journal," "that thousands of wives support their husbands."
+
+Woman's place is the home, but under a special privilege she is
+sometimes allowed to send her wages as a substitute.
+
+
+
+
+To the Great Dining Out Majority
+
+
+The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is sending out
+leaflets to its members urging them to "tell every man you meet, your
+tailor, your postman, your grocer, as well as your _dinner partner_,
+that you are opposed to woman suffrage."
+
+We hope that the 90,000 sewing machine operatives, the 40,000
+saleswomen, the 32,000 laundry operatives, the 20,000 knitting and silk
+mill girls, the 17,000 women janitors and cleaners, the 12,000
+cigar-makers, to say nothing of the 700,000 other women and girls in
+industry in New York State, will remember when they have drawn off their
+long gloves and tasted their oysters to tell their dinner partners that
+they are opposed to woman suffrage because they fear it might take women
+out of the home.
+
+
+
+
+WOMEN'S SPHERE
+
+
+
+
+Many Men to Any Woman
+
+
+    If you have beauty, charm, refinement, tact,
+    If you can prove that should I set you free,
+    You would not contemplate the smallest act
+    That might annoy or interfere with me.
+    If you can show that women will abide
+    By the best standards of their womanhood--
+    (And I must be the person to decide
+    What in a woman is the highest good);
+    If you display efficiency supreme
+    In philanthropic work devoid of pay;
+    If you can show a clearly thought-out scheme
+    For bringing the millennium in a day:
+      Why, then, dear lady, at some time remote,
+    I might consider giving you the vote.
+
+
+
+
+A Sex Difference
+
+
+    When men in Congress come to blows at something someone said,
+    I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red;
+    But if two women disagree, with very little noise,
+    It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.
+
+
+
+
+Advice to Heroines
+
+
+I
+
+    A heroine must shrink and cling
+      When heroes are about,
+    And thus the watching world will think:
+      "How brave his heart and stout!"
+    But if he chance to be away
+      When bright-faced dangers shine,
+    It will be best for her to play
+      The oak-tree, not the vine.
+    In fact the most important thing
+    Is knowing when it's time to cling.
+
+
+II
+
+_With apologies to R.L.S._
+
+    A heroine must be polite
+    And do what others say is right,
+    And think men wise and formidable--
+    At least as far as she is able.
+
+
+
+
+Mutual Vows
+
+
+    "My dear," he said, "observe this frightful bill,
+    Run up, I think you'll own, against my will.
+    If you will recollect our wedding day
+    You vowed on that occasion to obey."
+    "I do recall the day," said she, "and how
+    Me with your worldly goods you did endow."
+    "That," he replied, "is palpably absurd----"
+    "You mean you did not mean to keep your word?"
+    "O, yes," he answered, "in a general way."
+    "And that," said she, "is how I meant obey."
+
+
+
+
+If They Meant All They Said
+
+
+    Charm is a woman's strongest arm;
+    My charwoman is full of charm;
+    I chose her, not for strength of arm
+    But for her strange elusive charm.
+
+    And how tears heighten woman's powers!
+    My typist weeps for hours and hours:
+    I took her for her weeping powers--
+    They so delight my business hours.
+
+    A woman lives by intuition.
+    Though my accountant shuns addition
+    She has the rarest intuition.
+    (And I myself can do addition.)
+
+    Timidity in girls is nice.
+    My cook is so afraid of mice.
+    Now you'll admit it's very nice
+    To feel your cook's afraid of mice.
+
+
+
+
+Democracy
+
+
+    Democracy is this--to hold
+      That all who wander down the pike
+      In cart or car, on foot or bike,
+    Or male or female, young or old,
+      Are much alike--are much alike.
+
+
+
+
+
+Feminism
+
+
+    "Mother, what is a Feminist?"
+      "A Feminist, my daughter,
+    Is any woman now who cares
+    To think about her own affairs
+      As men don't think she oughter."
+
+
+
+
+The Warning
+
+
+    No, it isn't home neglecting
+    If you spend your time selecting
+      Seven blouses and a jacket and a hat;
+    Or to give your day to paying
+    Needless visits, or to playing
+      Auction bridge. What critic could object to that?
+    But to spend two precious hours
+    At a lecture! Oh, my powers,
+      The home is all a woman needs to learn.
+    And an hour, or a quarter,
+    Spent in voting! Why, my daughter,
+      You could not find your home on your return.
+
+
+
+
+Evolution
+
+
+    Said Mr. Jones in 1910:
+    "Women, subject yourselves to men."
+    Nineteen-Eleven heard him quote:
+    "They rule the world without the vote."
+    By Nineteen-Twelve, he would submit
+    "When all the women wanted it."
+    By Nineteen-Thirteen, looking glum,
+    He said that it was bound to come.
+    This year I heard him say with pride:
+    "No reasons on the other side!"
+    By Nineteen-Fifteen, he'll insist
+    He's always been a suffragist.
+    And what is really stranger, too,
+    He'll think that what he says is true.
+
+
+
+
+Intercepted
+
+
+    "Only the worst of them vote."
+      "Are not the suffragists frights?"
+    "Nietzsche's the person to quote."
+      "I prefer love to my rights."
+
+    "Are not the suffragists frights?"
+      "Sex is their only appeal."
+    "I prefer love to my rights."
+      "No, we don't think, but we feel."
+
+    "Sex is their only appeal."
+      "Woman belongs at the loom."
+    "No, we don't think, but we feel."
+      "Doesn't it rub off the bloom?"
+
+    "Woman belongs at the loom."
+      "Isn't the speaker a bore!"
+    "Doesn't it rub off the bloom?"
+      "Oh, it's a fad--nothing more."
+
+    "Isn't the speaker a bore!"
+      "Nietzsche's the person to quote."
+    "Oh, it's a fad--nothing more."
+      "Only the worst of them vote."
+
+
+
+
+The Universal Answer
+
+
+          Oh, there you go again,
+          Invading man's domain!
+    It's Nature's laws, you know, you are defying.
+          Don't fancy that you can
+          Be really like a man,
+    So what's the use of all this fuss and trying?
+          It seems to me so clear,
+          That women's highest sphere
+    Is being loving wives and patient mothers.
+          Oh, can't you be content
+          To be as you were meant?
+        {souls
+    For {books belong to husbands and to brothers.
+        {votes
+
+
+
+
+Candor
+
+
+(_By an admirer of the late H.C. Bunner_.)
+
+
+    "I know what you're going to say," she said,
+      And she stood up, causing him some alarm;
+      "You're going to tell me I'll lose my charm,
+    And what is a woman when charm has fled?
+      And you're going to say that you greatly fear
+      I don't understand a woman's sphere;
+    Now aren't you honestly?" "Yes," he said.
+
+    "I know what you're going to say," she said,
+      "You're going to ask what I hope to gain
+      By stepping down to the dusty plain,
+    By seeking a stone when I might have bread;
+      You're going to say: 'Can a vote replace
+      The tender force of a woman's grace?'
+    Now, aren't you honestly?" "Yes," he said.
+
+    "I know what you're going to do," he said,
+      "You're going to talk to me all day long
+      Trying to make me see I'm wrong;
+    And other men who are less misled
+      Will pale with jealousy when they see
+      The time you give to converting me;
+    Now, aren't you honestly?" "Ye-es," she said.
+
+
+
+
+What Every Woman Must Not Say
+
+
+    "I don't pretend I'm clever," he remarked, "or very wise,"
+    And at this she murmured, "Really," with the right polite surprise.
+    "But women," he continued, "I must own I understand;
+    Women are a contradiction--honorable and underhand--
+    Constant as the star Polaris, yet as changeable as Fate,
+    Always flying what they long for, always seeking what they hate."
+    "Don't you think," began the lady, but he cut her short: "I see
+    That you take it personally--women always do," said he.
+    "You will pardon me for saying every woman is the same,
+    Always greedy for approval, always sensitive to blame;
+    Sweet and passionate are women; weak in mind, though strong in soul;
+    Even you admit, I fancy, that they have no self-control?"
+    "No, I don't admit they haven't," said the patient lady then,
+    "Or they could not sit and listen to the nonsense talked by men."
+
+
+
+
+Chivalry
+
+
+    It's treating a woman politely
+      As long as she isn't a fright:
+    It's guarding the girls who act rightly,
+      If you can be judge of what's right;
+    It's being--not just, but so pleasant;
+      It's tipping while wages are low;
+    It's making a beautiful present,
+      And failing to pay what you owe.
+
+
+    _From Our Own Nursery Rhymes_
+
+    "Chivalry, Chivalry, where have you been?"
+    "I've been out seeking a beautiful queen."
+    "Chivalry, Chivalry, what did you find?"
+    "Commonplace women, not much to my mind."
+
+
+
+
+Women
+
+(_With rather insincere apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling_.)
+
+
+    I went to ask my government if they would set me free,
+    They gave a pardoned crook a vote, but hadn't one for me;
+    The men about me laughed and frowned and said: "Go home, because
+    We really can't be bothered when we're busy making laws."
+
+    Oh, it's women this, and women that and women have no sense,
+    But it's pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the expense,
+    It comes to the expense, my dears, it comes to the expense,
+    It's pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the expense.
+
+    I went into a factory to earn my daily bread:
+    Men said: "The home is woman's sphere." "I have no home," I said.
+    But when the men all marched to war, they cried to wife and maid,
+    "Oh, never mind about the home, but save the export trade."
+
+    For it's women this and women that, and home's the place for you,
+    But it's patriotic angels when there's outside work to do,
+    There's outside work to do, my dears, there's outside work to do,
+    It's patriotic angels when there's outside work to do.
+
+    We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too,
+    But very human beings, human just as much as you.
+    It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime
+    When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.
+
+    But it's women this and women that, and woman's like a hen,
+    But it's do the country's work alone, when war takes off the men,
+    And it's women this and women that and everything you please,
+    But woman is observant, and be sure that woman sees.
+
+
+
+
+Beware!
+
+
+    In the days that are gone when a statue was wanted
+      In park or museum where statues must be,
+    A chivalrous male would come forward undaunted
+      And say: "If you must have one, make it of me.
+    Bad though they be, yet I'll agree
+    If you must make them, why make them of me."
+
+    But chivalry's dead, as I always expected
+      Since women would not let things stay as they were;
+    So now, I suppose, when a statue's erected
+      Men will say brutally: "Make it of her."
+    She may prefer things as they were
+    When they start making the statues of her.
+
+
+
+
+Male Philosophy
+
+
+    Men are very brave, you know,
+    That was settled long ago;
+    Ask, however, if you doubt it,
+    Any man you meet about it;
+    He will say, I think, like me,
+    Men are brave as they can be.
+
+    Women think they're brave, you say?
+    Do they really? Well, they may,
+    But such biased attestation
+    Is not worth consideration,
+    For a legal judgment shelves
+    What they say about themselves.
+
+
+
+
+From a Man's Point of View
+
+
+    Women love self-sacrifice
+    Suffering and good advice;
+    If they don't love these sincerely
+    Then they're not true women really.
+    Oh, it shocks me so to note
+    Women pleading for the vote!
+    Saying publicly it would
+    Educate and do them good.
+    Such a selfish reason trips
+    Oddly from a woman's lips.
+    But it must not be supposed
+    I am in the least opposed.
+    If they want it let them try it.
+    For I think we'll profit by it.
+
+
+
+
+Glory
+
+
+    I went to see old Susan Gray,
+    Whose soldier sons had marched away,
+    And this is what she had to say:
+
+    "It isn't war I hate at all--
+      'Tis likely men must fight--
+    But, oh, these flags and uniforms,
+      It's them that isn't right!
+    If war must come, and come it does
+      To take our boys from play,
+    It isn't right to make it seem
+      So beautiful and gay."
+
+    I left old Susan with a sigh;
+    A famous band was marching by
+    To make men glad they had to die.
+
+
+
+
+Dependence
+
+
+(An Englishwoman whose income has stopped owing to her two sons having
+joined the English army, was taken care of last night at the Florence
+Crittenden Mission.--_Press Clipping_.)
+
+    The young men said to their mother,
+      "Hear us, O dearest and best!
+    Time cannot cool or smother
+      The love of you in our breast;
+    Here is your place and no other--
+      Come home and rest."
+
+    And the mother's heart was grateful
+      For the love of her cherished ones,
+    And her labor, bitter and hateful,
+      She left at the word of her sons,
+    Till she heard far off the fateful
+      Voices of guns.
+
+    Their love did more enslave her;
+      They did not understand
+    That none could guard or save her
+      When war was on the land,
+    But herself, and God, who gave her
+      Heart and mind and hand.
+
+
+
+
+Playthings
+
+
+    Last year the shops were crowded
+      With soldier suits and guns--
+    The presents that at Christmas time
+      We give our little sons;
+    And many a glittering trumpet
+      And many a sword and drum;
+    But as they're made in Germany
+      This year they will not come.
+
+    Perhaps another season
+      We shall not give our boys
+    Such very warlike playthings,
+      Such military toys;
+    Perhaps another season
+      We shall not think it sweet
+    To watch their game of soldier men,
+      Who dream not of defeat.
+
+
+
+
+Militants
+
+
+    Hippolta, Penthesilea,
+      Maria Teresa and Joan,
+    Agustina and Boadicea
+      And some militant girls of our own--
+    It would take a brave man and a dull one
+      To say to these ladies: "Of course
+    We adore you while meek,
+    Timid, clinging and weak,
+      But a woman can never use force."
+
+
+
+
+A Lady's Choice
+
+
+    Her old love in tears and silence had been building her a palace
+      Ringed by moats and flanked with towers, he had set it on a hill
+    "Here," he said, "will come no whisper of the world's alarms and
+        malice,
+      In these granite walls imprisoned, I will keep you safe from ill."
+
+    As he spoke along the highway there came riding by a stranger,
+      For an instant on her features, he a fleeting glance bestowed,
+    Then he said: "My heart is fickle and the world is full of danger,"
+      And he offered her his stirrup and he pointed down the road.
+
+
+
+
+The Ballad of Lost Causes
+
+
+(_About 465 years after Villon_.)
+
+
+    Tell me in what spot remote
+      Do the antis dwell to-day,
+    Those who did not want to vote,
+      Feared their sex's prompt decay?
+      Where are those who used to say:
+    "Home alone is woman's sphere;
+      Only those should vote who slay"?
+    Where the snows of yester-year?
+
+    Where are those who used to quote
+      Nietzsche's words in dread array?
+    Where the ancient crones who wrote:
+      "Women rule through Beauty's sway"?
+      And those lovers, where are they,
+    Who could hold no woman dear
+      If she had the ballot? Nay!
+    Where the snows of yester-year?
+
+    Prince, inquire no more, I pray,
+      Whither antis disappear.
+    Suffrage won; they melt away,
+      Like the snows of yester-year.
+
+
+
+
+Thoughts at an Anti Meeting
+
+
+    There are no homes in suffrage states,
+      There are no children, glad and good,
+    There, men no longer seek for mates,
+      And women lose their womanhood.
+
+    This I believe without debate,
+      And yet I ask--and ask in vain--
+    Why no one in a suffrage state
+      Has moved to change things back again?
+
+
+
+
+A MASQUE OF TEACHERS
+
+AND
+
+THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
+
+
+
+
+The Ideal Candidates
+
+
+(A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: "No married woman
+shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position in the New
+York public schools unless her husband is mentally or physically
+incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for a period of not
+less than one year.")
+
+
+CHARACTERS
+
+    _Board of Education_.
+           _Three Would-Be Teachers_.
+
+    _Chorus by Board_:
+      Now please don't waste
+        Your time and ours
+      By pleas all based
+        On mental powers.
+      She seems to us
+        The proper stuff
+      Who has a hus-
+        Band bad enough.
+      All other pleas appear to us
+      Excessively superfluous.
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+      My husband is not really bad----
+
+    _Board_:
+        How very sad, how very sad!
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+        He's good, but hear my one excuse----
+
+    _Board_:
+        Oh, what's the use, oh, what's the use?
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+        Last winter in a railroad wreck
+        He lost an arm and broke his neck.
+        He's doomed, but lingers day by day.
+
+    _Board_:
+        Her husband's doomed! Hurray! hurray!
+
+    _2nd Teacher_:
+        My husband's kind and healthy, too----
+
+    _Board_:
+        Why, then, of course, you will not do.
+
+    _2nd Teacher_:
+        Just hear me out. You'll find you're wrong.
+        It's true his body's good and strong;
+        But, ah, his wits are all astray.
+
+    _Board_:
+        Her husband's mad. Hip, hip, hurray!
+
+    _3rd Teacher_:
+      My husband's wise and well--the creature!
+
+    _Board_:
+      Then you can never be a teacher.
+
+    _3rd Teacher_:
+      Wait. For I led him such a life
+      He could not stand me as a wife;
+      Last Michaelmas, he ran away.
+
+    _Board_:
+      Her husband hates her, Hip, hurray!
+
+    _Chorus by Board_:
+      Now we have found
+        Without a doubt,
+      By process sound
+        And well thought out,
+      Each candidate
+        Is fit in truth
+      To educate
+        The mind of youth.
+      No teacher need apply to us
+      Whose married life's harmonious.
+
+             (_Curtain_.)
+
+
+
+
+The Unconscious Suffragists
+
+
+"They who have no voice nor vote in the electing of representatives do
+not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved to those who have
+votes."--Benjamin Franklin.
+
+"No such phrase as virtual representation was ever known in law or
+constitution."--James Otis.
+
+"But these great cities, says my honorable friend, are virtually, though
+not directly represented. Are not the wishes of Manchester, he asks, as
+much consulted as those of any other town which sends members to
+Parliament? Now, sir, I do not understand how a power which is salutary
+when exercised virtually can be noxious when exercised directly. If the
+wishes of Manchester have as much weight with us as they would have
+under a system which gives representatives to Manchester, how can there
+be any danger in giving representatives to Manchester?"--Lord
+Macaulay's Speech on the Reform Bill.
+
+"Universal suffrage prolongs in the United States the effect of
+universal education: for it stimulates all citizens throughout their
+lives to reflect on problems outside the narrow circle of their private
+interests and occupations: to read about public questions; to discuss
+public characters and to hold themselves ready in some degree to give a
+rational account of their political faith."--Dr. Charles Eliot.
+
+"But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their (the American
+people) desires: equality is their idol; they make rapid and sudden
+efforts to obtain liberty and if they miss their aim, resign themselves
+to their disappointment; but nothing can satisfy them without equality,
+and they would rather perish than lose it."--De Tocqueville: Democracy
+in America, 1835.
+
+"A government is for the benefit of all the people. We believe that
+this benefit is best accomplished by popular government because in
+the long run each class of individuals is apt to secure better
+provision for themselves through their own voice in government than
+through the altruistic interest of others, however intelligent or
+philanthropic."--William H. Taft in Special Message.
+
+"I have listened to some very honest and eloquent orators whose
+sentiments were noteworthy for this: that when they spoke of the people,
+they were not thinking of themselves, they were thinking of somebody
+whom they were commissioned to take care of. And I have seen them shiver
+when it was suggested that they arrange to have something done by the
+people for themselves."--The New Freedom, by Woodrow Wilson.
+
+
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+<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARE WOMEN PEOPLE? ***</div>
+
+<h1>ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?</h1>
+
+<h2 class="no-break">By ALICE DUER MILLER</h2>
+
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR SUFFRAGE TIMES
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+BY ALICE DUER MILLER
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+AUTHOR OF “BLUE ARCH,” “THE MODERN OBSTACLE.” ETC.
+</p>
+
+<p style="text-align: center;">
+TO V.B.W. SLAVE-DRIVER AND FRIEND
+</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Introduction"></a>Introduction</h2>
+
+  <p>Father, what is a Legislature?</p>
+
+  <p>A representative body elected by the people of the state.</p>
+
+  <p>Are women people?</p>
+
+  <p>No, my son, criminals, lunatics and women are not people.</p>
+
+  <p>Do legislators legislate for nothing?</p>
+
+  <p>Oh, no; they are paid a salary.</p>
+
+  <p>By whom?</p>
+
+  <p>By the people.</p>
+
+  <p>Are women people?</p>
+
+  <p>Of course, my son, just as much as men are.</p>
+
+  <p><i>To the New York Tribune, in whose generous columns many of
+  these verses first appeared, the author here wishes to express
+  her gratitude</i>.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<table summary="" style="">
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#TREACHEROUS_TEXTS">TREACHEROUS TEXTS</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#CAMPAIGN_MATERIAL">CAMPAIGN MATERIAL</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#WOMENS_SPHERE">WOMEN’S SPHERE</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#A_MASQUE_OF_TEACHERS">A MASQUE OF TEACHERS: THE IDEAL CANDIDATES</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td> <a href="#The_Unconscious_Suffragists">THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+</table>
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="TREACHEROUS_TEXTS"></a>TREACHEROUS TEXTS</h2>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="ARE_WOMEN_PEOPLE"></a>ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    A Consistent Anti to Her Son
+  </p>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Look at the hazards, the risks, the physical dangers that
+    ladies would be exposed to at the
+    polls.”&mdash;<i>Anti-suffrage speech</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>You’re twenty-one to-day, Willie,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And a danger lurks at the door,</p>
+
+      <p>I’ve known about it always,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">But I never spoke before;</p>
+
+      <p>When you were only a baby</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">It seemed so very remote,</p>
+
+      <p>But you’re twenty-one to-day, Willie,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And old enough to vote.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>You must not go to the polls, Willie,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Never go to the polls,</p>
+
+      <p>They’re dark and dreadful places</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Where many lose their souls;</p>
+
+      <p>They smirch, degrade and coarsen,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Terrible things they do</p>
+
+      <p>To quiet, elderly women&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">What would they do to you!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>If you’ve a boyish fancy</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">For any measure or man,</p>
+
+      <p>Tell me, and I’ll tell Father,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">He’ll vote for it, if he can.</p>
+
+      <p>He casts my vote, and Louisa’s,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And Sarah, and dear Aunt Clo;</p>
+
+      <p>Wouldn’t you let him vote for you?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Father, who loves you so?</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I’ve guarded you always, Willie,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Body and soul from harm;</p>
+
+      <p>I’ll guard your faith and honor,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Your innocence and charm</p>
+
+      <p>From the polls and their evil spirits,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Politics, rum and pelf;</p>
+
+      <p>Do you think I’d send my only son</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Where I would not go myself?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Our_Idea_of_Nothing_at_All"></a>Our Idea of Nothing at All</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“I am opposed to woman suffrage, but I am not opposed to
+    woman.”&mdash;<i>Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Webb of North
+    Carolina</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>O women, have you heard the news</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Of charity and grace?</p>
+
+      <p>Look, look, how joy and gratitude</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Are beaming in my face!</p>
+
+      <p>For Mr. Webb is not opposed</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">To woman in her place!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>O Mr. Webb, how kind you are</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">To let us live at all,</p>
+
+      <p>To let us light the kitchen range</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And tidy up the hall;</p>
+
+      <p>To tolerate the female sex</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In spite of Adam’s fall.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>O girls, suppose that Mr. Webb</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Should alter his decree!</p>
+
+      <p>Suppose he were opposed to us&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Opposed to you and me.</p>
+
+      <p>What would be left for us to do&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Except to cease to be?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Lines_to_Mr_Bowdle_of_Ohio"></a>Lines to Mr. Bowdle of Ohio</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“The women of this smart capital are beautiful. Their beauty
+    is disturbing to business; their feet are beautiful, their
+    ankles are beautiful, but here I must pause.”&mdash;<i>Mr.
+    Bowdle’s anti-suffrage speech in Congress, January 12,
+    1915</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>You, who despise the so-called fairer sex,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Be brave. There really isn’t any reason</p>
+
+      <p>You should not, if you wish, oppose and vex</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And scold us in, and even out of season;</p>
+
+      <p>But don’t regard it as your bounden duty</p>
+
+      <p>To open with a tribute to our beauty.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Say if you like that women have no sense,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">No self-control, no power of concentration;</p>
+
+      <p>Say that hysterics is our one defence</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Our virtue but an absence of temptation;</p>
+
+      <p>These I can bear, but, oh, I own it rankles</p>
+
+      <p>To hear you maundering on about our ankles.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Tell those old stories, which have now and then</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Been from the Record thoughtfully deleted,</p>
+
+      <p>Repeat that favorite one about the hen,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Repeat the ones that cannot be repeated;</p>
+
+      <p>But in the midst of such enjoyments, smother</p>
+
+      <p>The impulse to extol your “sainted mother.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="On_Not_Believing_All_You_Hear"></a>On Not Believing All You Hear</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Women are angels, they are jewels, they are queens and
+    princesses of our hearts.”&mdash;<i>Anti-suffrage speech of Mr.
+    Carter of Oklahoma</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Angel, or jewel, or princess, or queen,</p>
+
+      <p>Tell me immediately, where have you been?”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“I’ve been to ask all my slaves so devoted</p>
+
+      <p>Why they against my enfranchisement voted.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Angel and princess, that action was wrong.</p>
+
+      <p>Back to the kitchen, where angels belong.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Revolt_of_Mother"></a>The Revolt of Mother</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Every true woman feels----”&mdash;<i>Speech of almost any
+    Congressman</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I am old-fashioned, and I think it right</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">That man should know, by Nature’s laws
+      eternal,</p>
+
+      <p>The proper way to rule, to earn, to fight,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And exercise those functions called
+      paternal;</p>
+
+      <p>But even I a little bit rebel</p>
+
+      <p>At finding that he knows my job as well.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>At least he’s always ready to expound it,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Especially in legislative hall,</p>
+
+      <p>The joys, the cares, the halos that surround it,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“How women feel”&mdash;he knows that best of
+      all.</p>
+
+      <p>In fact his thesis is that no one can</p>
+
+      <p>Know what is womanly except a man.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I am old-fashioned, and I am content</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">When he explains the world of art and
+      science</p>
+
+      <p>And government&mdash;to him divinely sent&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">I drink it in with ladylike compliance.</p>
+
+      <p>But cannot listen&mdash;no, I’m only human&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>While he instructs me how to be a woman.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Gallant_Sex"></a>The Gallant Sex</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (A woman engineer has been dismissed by the Board of Education,
+    under their new rule that women shall not attend high pressure
+    boilers, although her work has been satisfactory and she holds
+    a license to attend such boilers from the Police Department.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lady, dangers lurk in boilers,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Risks I could not let you face.</p>
+
+      <p>Men were meant to be the toilers,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Home, you know, is woman’s place.</p>
+
+      <p>Have no home? Well, is that so?</p>
+
+      <p>Still, it’s not my fault, you know.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Charming lady, work no more;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Fair you are and sweet as honey;</p>
+
+      <p>Work might make your fingers sore,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And, besides, I need the money.</p>
+
+      <p>Prithee rest,&mdash;or starve or rob&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Only let me have your job!</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Representation"></a>Representation</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“My wife is against suffrage, and that settles
+    me.”&mdash;<i>Vice-President Marshall</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>My wife dislikes the income tax,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And so I cannot pay it;</p>
+
+      <p>She thinks that golf all interest lacks,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">So now I never play it;</p>
+
+      <p>She is opposed to tolls repeal</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">(Though why I cannot say),</p>
+
+      <p>But woman’s duty is to feel,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And man’s is to obey.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>II</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I’m in a hard position for a perfect gentleman,</p>
+
+      <p>I want to please the ladies, but I don’t see how I
+      can,</p>
+
+      <p>My present wife’s a suffragist, and counts on my
+      support,</p>
+
+      <p>But my mother is an anti, of a rather biting sort;</p>
+
+      <p>One grandmother is on the fence, the other much
+      opposed,</p>
+
+      <p>And my sister lives in Oregon, and thinks the question’s
+      closed;</p>
+
+      <p>Each one is counting on my vote to represent her view.</p>
+
+      <p>Now what should you think proper for a gentleman to
+      do?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Sonnet"></a>Sonnet</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Three bills known as the Thompson-Bewley cannery bills have
+    been advanced to third reading in the Senate and Assembly at
+    Albany. One permits the canners to work their employ&eacute;s
+    seven days a week, a second allows them to work women after 9
+    p.m. and a third removes every restriction upon the hours of
+    labor of women and minors.”&mdash;<i>Zenas L. Potter, former
+    chief cannery investigator for New York State Factory
+    Investigating Commission</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Let us not to an unrestricted day</p>
+
+      <p>Impediments admit. Work is not work</p>
+
+      <p>To our employ&eacute;s, but a merry play;</p>
+
+      <p>They do not ask the law’s excuse to shirk.</p>
+
+      <p>Ah, no, the canning season is at hand,</p>
+
+      <p>When summer scents are on the air distilled,</p>
+
+      <p>When golden fruits are ripening in the land,</p>
+
+      <p>And silvery tins are gaping to be filled.</p>
+
+      <p>Now to the cannery with jocund mien</p>
+
+      <p>Before the dawn come women, girls and boys,</p>
+
+      <p>Whose weekly hours (a hundred and nineteen)</p>
+
+      <p>Seem all too short for their industrious joys.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">If this be error and be proved, alas</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The Thompson-Bewley bills may fail to pass!</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="To_President_Wilson"></a>To President Wilson</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“I hold it as a fundamental principle and so do you, that
+    every people has the right to determine its own form of
+    government. And until recently 50 per cent. of the people of
+    Mexico have not had a look-in in determining who should be
+    their governors, or what their government should
+    be.”&mdash;<i>Speech of President Wilson</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Wise and just man&mdash;for such I think you
+      are&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>How can you see so burningly and clear</p>
+
+      <p>Injustices and tyrannies afar,</p>
+
+      <p>Yet blind your eyes to one that lies so near?</p>
+
+      <p>How can you plead so earnestly for men</p>
+
+      <p>Who fight their own fight with a bloody hand;</p>
+
+      <p>How hold their cause so wildly dear, and then</p>
+
+      <p>Forget the women of your native land?</p>
+
+      <p>With your stern ardor and your scholar’s word</p>
+
+      <p>You speak to us of human liberty;</p>
+
+      <p>Can you believe that women are not stirred</p>
+
+      <p>By this same human longing to be free?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">He who for liberty would strike a blow</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Need not take arms, or fly to Mexico.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Home_and_Where_It_Is"></a>Home and Where It Is</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (An Indiana judge has recently ruled: As to the right of the
+    husband to decide the location of the home that “home is where
+    the husband is.”)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Home is where the husband is,</p>
+
+      <p>Be it near or be it far,</p>
+
+      <p>Office, theatre, Pullman car,</p>
+
+      <p>Poolroom, polls, or corner bar&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>All good wives remember this&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Home is where the husband is.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Woman’s place is home, I wis.</p>
+
+      <p>Leave your family bacon frying,</p>
+
+      <p>Leave your wash and dishes drying,</p>
+
+      <p>Leave your little children crying;</p>
+
+      <p>Join your husband, near or far,</p>
+
+      <p>At the club or corner bar,</p>
+
+      <p>For the court has taught us this:</p>
+
+      <p>“Home is where the husband is.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Maidens_Vow"></a>The Maiden’s Vow</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (A speaker at the National Education Association advised girls
+    not to study algebra. Many girls, he said, had lost their souls
+    through this study. The idea has been taken up with
+    enthusiasm.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I will avoid equations,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And shun the naughty surd,</p>
+
+      <p>I must beware the perfect square,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Through it young girls have erred:</p>
+
+      <p>And when men mention Rule of Three</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Pretend I have not heard.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Through Sturm’s delightful theorems</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Illicit joys assure,</p>
+
+      <p>Though permutations and combinations</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">My woman’s heart allure,</p>
+
+      <p>I’ll never study algebra,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">But keep my spirit pure.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Such_Nonsense"></a>Such Nonsense</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Where on earth did the idea come from that the ballot is a
+    boon, a privilege and an honor? From men.”&mdash;<i>Mrs.
+    Prestonia Mann Martin</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Who is it thinks the vote some use?</p>
+
+      <p>Man. (Man is often such a goose!)</p>
+
+      <p>Indeed it makes me laugh to see</p>
+
+      <p>How men have struggled to be free.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Poor Washington, who meant so well,</p>
+
+      <p>And Nathan Hale and William Tell,</p>
+
+      <p>Hampden and Bolivar and Pym,</p>
+
+      <p>And L’Ouverture&mdash;remember him?</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>And Garibaldi and Kossuth,</p>
+
+      <p>And some who threw away their youth,</p>
+
+      <p>All bitten by the stupid notion</p>
+
+      <p>That liberty was worth emotion.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>They could not get it through their heads</p>
+
+      <p>That if they stayed tucked up in beds,</p>
+
+      <p>Avoiding politics and strife,</p>
+
+      <p>They’d lead a pleasant, peaceful life.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Let us, dear sisters, never make</p>
+
+      <p>Such a ridiculous mistake;</p>
+
+      <p>But teach our children o’er and o’er</p>
+
+      <p>That liberty is just a chore.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="A_Suggested_Campaign_Song"></a>A Suggested Campaign Song</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“No brass bands. No speeches. Instead a still, silent,
+    effective influence.”&mdash;<i>Anti-suffrage speech</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>We are waging&mdash;can you doubt it?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">A campaign so calm and still</p>
+
+      <p>No one knows a thing about it,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And we hope they never will.</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">No one knows</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">What we oppose,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And we hope they never will.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>We are ladylike and quiet,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Here a whisper&mdash;there a hint;</p>
+
+      <p>Never speeches, bands or riot,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Nothing suitable for print.</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">No one knows</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">What we oppose,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">For we never speak for print.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Sometimes in profound seclusion,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In some far (but homelike) spot,</p>
+
+      <p>We will make a dark allusion:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“We’re opposed to you-know-what.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">No one knows</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">What we oppose,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">For we call it “You-Know-What.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Woman_of_Charm"></a>The Woman of Charm</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“I hate a woman who is not a mystery to herself, as well as to
+    me.”&mdash;<i>The Phoenix</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>If you want a receipt for that popular mystery</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Known to the world as a Woman of Charm,</p>
+
+      <p>Take all the conspicuous ladies of history,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Mix them all up without doing them harm.</p>
+
+      <p>The beauty of Helen, the warmth of Cleopatra,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Salome’s notorious skill in the dance,</p>
+
+      <p>The dusky allure of the belles of Sumatra,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The fashion and finish of ladies from
+      France.</p>
+
+      <p>The youth of Susanna, beloved by an elder,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The wit of a Chambers’ incomparable minx,</p>
+
+      <p>The conjugal views of the patient Griselda,</p>
+
+      <p class="i1">The fire of Sappho, the calm of the Sphinx,</p>
+
+      <p>The eyes of La Valli&egrave;re, the voice of Cordelia,</p>
+
+      <p>The musical gifts of the sainted Cecelia,</p>
+
+      <p>Trilby and Carmen and Ruth and Ophelia,</p>
+
+      <p>Madame de Sta&euml;l and the matron Cornelia,</p>
+
+      <p>Iseult, Hypatia and naughty Nell Gwynn,</p>
+
+      <p>Una, Titania and Elinor Glyn.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Take of these elements all that is fusible,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Melt ’em all down in a pipkin or crucible,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Set ’em to simmer and take off the scum,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And a Woman of Charm is the residuum!</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">(Slightly adapted from W.S. Gilbert.)</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="A_Modern_Proposal"></a>A Modern Proposal</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (It has been said that the feminist movement is the true
+    solution of the mother-in-law problem.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Sylvia, my dear, I would be yours with pleasure,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">All that you are seems excellent to me,</p>
+
+      <p>Except your mother, who’s much more at leisure</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Than mothers ought to be.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Find her a fad, a job, an occupation,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Eugenics, dancing, uplift, yes, or crime,</p>
+
+      <p>Set her to work for her Emancipation&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">That takes a lot of time.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Or, if the suffrage doctrine fails to charm her,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">There are the Antis&mdash;rather in her
+      line&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Guarding the Home from Maine to Alabama</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Would keep her out of mine.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Newer_Lullaby"></a>The Newer Lullaby</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Good heavens, when I think what the young boy of to-day is
+    growing up to I gasp. He has too many women around him all the
+    time. He has his mother when he is a baby.”&mdash;<i>Bernard
+    Fagin, Probation Officer</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Hush-a-bye, baby,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Feel no alarm,</p>
+
+      <p>Gunmen shall guard you,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Lest Mother should harm.</p>
+
+      <p>Wake in your cradle,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Hear father curse!</p>
+
+      <p>Isn’t that better</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Than Mother or Nurse?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Protected_Sex"></a>The Protected Sex</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    <i>With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley</i>.
+  </p>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“The result of taking second place to girls at school is that
+    the boy feels a sense of inferiority that he is never afterward
+    able entirely to shake off.”&mdash;<i>Editorial in London Globe
+    against co-education</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>There, little girl, don’t read,</p>
+
+      <p>You’re fond of your books, I know,</p>
+
+      <p>But Brother might mope</p>
+
+      <p>If he had no hope</p>
+
+      <p>Of getting ahead of you.</p>
+
+      <p>It’s dull for a boy who cannot lead.</p>
+
+      <p>There, little girl, don’t read.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+  <h2>Warning to Suffragists</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“The Latin man believes that giving woman the vote will make
+    her less attractive.”&mdash;<i>Anna H. Shaw</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>They must sacrifice their beauty</p>
+
+      <p>Who would do their civic duty,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Who the polling booth would enter,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Who the ballot box would use;</p>
+
+      <p>As they drop their ballots in it</p>
+
+      <p>Men and women in a minute,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Lose their charm, the antis tell us,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">But&mdash;the men have less to lose.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Partners"></a>Partners</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“Our laws have not yet reached the point of holding that
+    property which is the result of the husband’s earnings and the
+    wife’s savings becomes their joint property.... In this most
+    important of all partnerships there is no partnership
+    property.”&mdash;<i>Recent decision of the New York Supreme
+    Court</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lady, lovely lady, come and share</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">All my care;</p>
+
+      <p>Oh how gladly I will hurry</p>
+
+      <p>To confide my every worry</p>
+
+      <p>(And they’re very dark and drear)</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">In your ear.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lady, share the praise I obtain</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Now and again;</p>
+
+      <p>Though I’m shy, it doesn’t matter,</p>
+
+      <p>I will tell you how they flatter:</p>
+
+      <p>Every compliment I’ll share</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Fair and square.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lady, I my toil will divide</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">At your side;</p>
+
+      <p>I outside the home, you within;</p>
+
+      <p>You shall wash and cook and spin,</p>
+
+      <p>I’ll provide the flax and food,</p>
+
+      <p class="i8">If you’re good.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Partners, lady, we shall be,</p>
+
+      <p class="i8">You and me,</p>
+
+      <p>Partners in the highest sense</p>
+
+      <p>Looking for no recompense,</p>
+
+      <p>For, the savings that we make,</p>
+
+      <p class="i8">I shall take.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="What_Governments_Say_to_Women"></a>What Governments Say to Women</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (The law compels a married woman to take the nationality of her
+    husband.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>In Time of War</i></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Help us. Your country needs you;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Show that you love her,</p>
+
+      <p>Give her your men to fight,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Ay, even to fall;</p>
+
+      <p>The fair, free land of your birth,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Set nothing above her,</p>
+
+      <p>Not husband nor son,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">She must come first of all.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>II</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>In Time of Peace</i></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>What’s this? You’ve wed an alien,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Yet you ask for legislation</p>
+
+      <p>To guard your nationality?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">We’re shocked at your demand.</p>
+
+      <p>A woman when she marries</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Takes her husband’s name and nation:</p>
+
+      <p>She should love her husband only.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">What’s a woman’s native land?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="quotOh_That_Twere_Possiblequot"></a>“Oh, That ’Twere Possible!”</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    <i>With apologies to Lord Tennyson.</i>
+  </p>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (“The grant of suffrage to women is repugnant to instincts that
+    strike their roots deep in the order of nature. It runs counter
+    to human reason, it flouts the teachings of experience and the
+    admonitions of common sense.”&mdash;<i>N.Y. Times, Feb. 7,
+    1915</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Oh, that ’twere possible</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">After those words inane</p>
+
+      <p>For me to read <i>The Times</i></p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Ever again!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>When I was wont to read it</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In the early morning hours,</p>
+
+      <p>In a mood ’twixt wrath and mirth,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">I exclaimed: “Alas, Ye Powers,</p>
+
+      <p>These ideas are fainter, quainter</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Than anything on earth!”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>A paper’s laid before me.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Not thou, not like to thee.</p>
+
+      <p>Dear me, if it were possible</p>
+
+      <p class="i2"><i>The Times</i> should ever see</p>
+
+      <p>How very far the times have moved</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">(Spelt with a little “t”).</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Times_Editorials"></a><i>The Times</i> Editorials</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Lovely Antiques, breathing in every line</p>
+
+      <p>The perfume of an age long passed away,</p>
+
+      <p>Wafting us back to 1829,</p>
+
+      <p>Museum pieces of a by-gone day,</p>
+
+      <p>You should not languish in the public press</p>
+
+      <p>Where modern thought might reach and do you harm,</p>
+
+      <p>And vulgar youth insult your hoariness,</p>
+
+      <p>Missing the flavor of your old world charm;</p>
+
+      <p>You should be locked, where rust cannot corrode</p>
+
+      <p>In some old rosewood cabinet, dimmed by age,</p>
+
+      <p>With silver-lustre, tortoise shell and Spode;</p>
+
+      <p>And all would cry, who read your yellowing page:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Yes, that’s the sort of thing that men
+      believed</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Before the First Reform Bill was
+      conceived!”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="CAMPAIGN_MATERIAL"></a>CAMPAIGN MATERIAL</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (<i>For Both Sides</i>)
+  </p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Our_Own_Twelve_Anti-suffragist_Reasons"></a>Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons</h2>
+
+  <p>1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to
+  vote.</p>
+
+  <p>2. Because no woman who may vote will attend to her domestic
+  duties.</p>
+
+  <p>3. Because it will make dissension between husband and
+  wife.</p>
+
+  <p>4. Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her
+  to.</p>
+
+  <p>5. Because bad women will corrupt politics.</p>
+
+  <p>6. Because bad politics will corrupt women.</p>
+
+  <p>7. Because women have no power of organization.</p>
+
+  <p>8. Because women will form a solid party and outvote men.</p>
+
+  <p>9. Because men and women are so different that they must stick
+  to different duties.</p>
+
+  <p>10. Because men and women are so much alike that men, with one
+  vote each, can represent their own views and ours too.</p>
+
+  <p>11. Because women cannot use force.</p>
+
+  <p>12. Because the militants did use force.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Why_We_Oppose_Pockets_for_Women"></a>Why We Oppose Pockets for Women</h2>
+
+  <p>1. Because pockets are not a natural right.</p>
+
+  <p>2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If
+  they did they would have them.</p>
+
+  <p>3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used
+  them.</p>
+
+  <p>4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is,
+  without the additional burden of pockets.</p>
+
+  <p>5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife
+  as to whose pockets were to be filled.</p>
+
+  <p>6. Because it would destroy man’s chivalry toward woman, if he
+  did not have to carry all her things in his pockets.</p>
+
+  <p>7. Because men are men, and women are women. We must not fly
+  in the face of nature.</p>
+
+  <p>8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco,
+  pipes, whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We
+  see no reason to suppose that women would use them more
+  wisely.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Fashion_Notes_Past_and_Present"></a>Fashion Notes: Past and Present</h2>
+
+  <p>1880&mdash;Anti-suffrage arguments are being worn long, calm
+  and flowing this year, with the dominant note that of woman’s
+  intellectual inferiority.</p>
+
+  <p>1890&mdash;Violence is very evident in this season’s modes,
+  and our more conservative thinkers are saying that woman suffrage
+  threatens the home, the Church and the Republic.</p>
+
+  <p>1900&mdash;A complete change of style has taken place.
+  Everything is being worn <i>a l’aristocrate</i>, with the
+  repeated assertion that too many people are voting already.</p>
+
+  <p>1915&mdash;The best line of goods shown by the leading
+  anti-suffrage houses this spring is the statement that woman
+  suffrage is the same thing as free love. The effect is extremely
+  piquant and surprising.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Why_We_Oppose_Women_Travelling_in_Railway_Trains"></a>Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains</h2>
+
+  <p>1. Because travelling in trains is not a natural right.</p>
+
+  <p>2. Because our great-grandmothers never asked to travel in
+  trains.</p>
+
+  <p>3. Because woman’s place is the home, not the train.</p>
+
+  <p>4. Because it is unnecessary; there is no point reached by a
+  train that cannot be reached on foot.</p>
+
+  <p>5. Because it will double the work of conductors, engineers
+  and brakemen who are already overburdened.</p>
+
+  <p>6. Because men smoke and play cards in trains. Is there any
+  reason to believe that women will behave better?</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Why_We_Oppose_Schools_for_Children"></a>Why We Oppose Schools for Children</h2>
+
+  <p>(<i>By the Children’s Anti-School League</i>.)</p>
+
+  <p>1. Because education is a burden, not a right.</p>
+
+  <p>2. Because not one-tenth of one per cent. of the children of
+  this country have demanded education.</p>
+
+  <p>3. Because if we are educated we should have to behave as if
+  we were and we don’t want to.</p>
+
+  <p>4. Because it is essentially against the nature of a child to
+  be educated.</p>
+
+  <p>5. Because we can’t see that it has done so much for
+  grown-ups, and there is no reason for thinking it will make
+  children perfect.</p>
+
+  <p>6. Because the time of children is already sufficiently
+  occupied without going to school.</p>
+
+  <p>7. Because it would make dissension between parent and child.
+  Imagine the home life of a parent who turned out to be more
+  ignorant than his (or her) child?</p>
+
+  <p>8. Because we believe in the indirect education of the
+  theatre, the baseball field and the moving picture. We believe
+  that schools would in a great measure deprive us of this.</p>
+
+  <p>9. Because our parents went to school. They love us, they take
+  care of us, they tell us what to do. We are content that they
+  should be educated for us.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="But_Then_Who_Cares_for_Figures"></a>But Then Who Cares for Figures</h2>
+
+  <p>An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as
+  men for the same work is that women are only temporarily in
+  industry.</p>
+
+  <p>Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public
+  schools of New York have been more than ten years in the service,
+  while only twenty-six per cent of the men teachers have served as
+  long.</p>
+
+<hr style="width: 45%;" />
+
+  <p>The Bundesrath of Germany has decided to furnish medical and
+  financial assistance to women at the time of childbirth, in order
+  “to alleviate the anxiety of husbands at the front.”</p>
+
+  <p>How strange this would sound: “The Bundesrath has decided to
+  furnish medical assistance to the wounded at the front, in order
+  to alleviate the anxiety of wives and mothers at home.”</p>
+
+  <p>When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is:
+  “Will it benefit men?”</p>
+
+  <p>When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is: “Will
+  it benefit men?”</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Why_We_Oppose_Votes_for_Men"></a>Why We Oppose Votes for Men</h2>
+
+  <p>1. Because man’s place is the armory.</p>
+
+  <p>2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question
+  otherwise than by fighting about it.</p>
+
+  <p>3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no
+  longer look up to them.</p>
+
+  <p>4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their
+  natural sphere and interest themselves in other matters than
+  feats of arms, uniforms and drums.</p>
+
+  <p>5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at
+  baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their
+  innate tendency to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit
+  for the task of government.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Logic_of_the_Law"></a>The Logic of the Law</h2>
+
+  <p>In 1875 the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in denying the petition
+  of women to practise before it said:</p>
+
+  <p>“It would be shocking to man’s reverence for womanhood and
+  faith in woman ... that woman should be permitted to mix
+  professionally in all the nastiness which finds its way into
+  courts of justice.”</p>
+
+  <p>It then names thirteen subjects as unfit for the attention of
+  women&mdash;three of them are crimes committed against women.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Consistency"></a>Consistency</h2>
+
+  <p>(“Vile insults, lewd talk and brutal conduct were used by the
+  indicted men to frighten respectable women who went to the polls
+  in Terre Haute at the last election, asserted District Attorney
+  Dailey.”&mdash;<i>Press Dispatch</i>.)</p>
+
+  <p>Are the polls unfit for decent women?</p>
+
+  <p>No, sir, they are perfectly orderly.</p>
+
+  <p>Tut, tut! Go there at once and swear and be brutal, or what
+  will become of our anti-suffrage argument?</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Sometimes_Were_Ivy_and_Sometimes_Were_Oak"></a>Sometimes We’re Ivy, and Sometimes We’re Oak</h2>
+
+  <p>Is it true that the English government is calling on women to
+  do work abandoned by men?</p>
+
+  <p>Yes, it is true.</p>
+
+  <p>Is not woman’s place the home?</p>
+
+  <p>No, not when men need her services outside the home.</p>
+
+  <p>Will she never be told again that her place is the home?</p>
+
+  <p>Oh, yes, indeed.</p>
+
+  <p>When?</p>
+
+  <p>As soon as men want their jobs back again.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Do_You_Know"></a>Do You Know</h2>
+
+  <p>That in 1869 Miss Jex-Blake and four other women entered for a
+  medical degree at the University of Edinburgh?</p>
+
+  <p>That the president of the College of Physicians refused to
+  give the women the prizes they had won?</p>
+
+  <p>That the undergraduates insulted any professor who allowed
+  women to compete for prizes?</p>
+
+  <p>That the women were stoned in the streets, and finally
+  excluded from the medical school?</p>
+
+  <p>That in 1877 the British Medical Association declared women
+  ineligible for membership?</p>
+
+  <p>That in 1881 the International Medical Congress excluded women
+  from all but its “social and ceremonial meetings”?</p>
+
+  <p>That the Obstetrical Society refused to allow a woman’s name
+  to appear on the title page of a pamphlet which she had written
+  with her husband?</p>
+
+  <p>That according to a recent dispatch from London, many
+  hospitals, since the outbreak of hostilities, have asked women to
+  become resident physicians, and public authorities are daily
+  endeavoring to obtain women as assistant medical officers and as
+  school doctors?</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Interviews_With_Celebrated_Anti-Suffragists"></a>Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists</h2>
+
+  <p>“Woman’s place is in my home.”&mdash;Appius Claudius.</p>
+
+  <p>“I have never felt the need of the
+  ballot.”&mdash;Cleopatra.</p>
+
+  <p>“Magna Charta merely fashionable fad of ye Barons.”&mdash;King
+  John.</p>
+
+  <p>“Boston Tea Party shows American colonists to be hysterical
+  and utterly incapable of self-government.”&mdash;George III.</p>
+
+  <p>“Know of no really good slaves who desire
+  emancipation.”&mdash;President of the United Slaveholders’
+  Protective Association.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Another_of_Those_Curious_Coincidences"></a>Another of Those Curious Coincidences</h2>
+
+  <p>On February 15, the House of Representatives passed a bill
+  making it unlawful to ship in interstate commerce the products of
+  a mill, cannery or factory which have been produced by the labor
+  of children under fourteen years.</p>
+
+  <p>Forty-three gentlemen voted against it.</p>
+
+  <p>Forty-one of those forty-three had also voted against the
+  woman suffrage bill.</p>
+
+  <p>Not one single vote was cast against it by a representative
+  from any state where women vote for Congressmen.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_New_Freedom"></a>The New Freedom</h2>
+
+  <p>“The Michigan commission on industrial relations has
+  discovered,” says “The Detroit Journal,” “that thousands of wives
+  support their husbands.”</p>
+
+  <p>Woman’s place is the home, but under a special privilege she
+  is sometimes allowed to send her wages as a substitute.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="To_the_Great_Dining_Out_Majority"></a>To the Great Dining Out Majority</h2>
+
+  <p>The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is
+  sending out leaflets to its members urging them to “tell every
+  man you meet, your tailor, your postman, your grocer, as well as
+  your <i>dinner partner</i>, that you are opposed to woman
+  suffrage.”</p>
+
+  <p>We hope that the 90,000 sewing machine operatives, the 40,000
+  saleswomen, the 32,000 laundry operatives, the 20,000 knitting
+  and silk mill girls, the 17,000 women janitors and cleaners, the
+  12,000 cigar-makers, to say nothing of the 700,000 other women
+  and girls in industry in New York State, will remember when they
+  have drawn off their long gloves and tasted their oysters to tell
+  their dinner partners that they are opposed to woman suffrage
+  because they fear it might take women out of the home.</p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="WOMENS_SPHERE"></a>WOMEN’S SPHERE</h2>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Many_Men_to_Any_Woman"></a>Many Men to Any Woman</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>If you have beauty, charm, refinement, tact,</p>
+
+      <p>If you can prove that should I set you free,</p>
+
+      <p>You would not contemplate the smallest act</p>
+
+      <p>That might annoy or interfere with me.</p>
+
+      <p>If you can show that women will abide</p>
+
+      <p>By the best standards of their womanhood&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>(And I must be the person to decide</p>
+
+      <p>What in a woman is the highest good);</p>
+
+      <p>If you display efficiency supreme</p>
+
+      <p>In philanthropic work devoid of pay;</p>
+
+      <p>If you can show a clearly thought-out scheme</p>
+
+      <p>For bringing the millennium in a day:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Why, then, dear lady, at some time remote,</p>
+
+      <p>I might consider giving you the vote.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="A_Sex_Difference"></a>A Sex Difference</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>When men in Congress come to blows at something someone
+      said,</p>
+
+      <p>I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and
+      red;</p>
+
+      <p>But if two women disagree, with very little noise,</p>
+
+      <p>It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have
+      no poise.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Advice_to_Heroines"></a>Advice to Heroines</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>A heroine must shrink and cling</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">When heroes are about,</p>
+
+      <p>And thus the watching world will think:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“How brave his heart and stout!”</p>
+
+      <p>But if he chance to be away</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">When bright-faced dangers shine,</p>
+
+      <p>It will be best for her to play</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The oak-tree, not the vine.</p>
+
+      <p>In fact the most important thing</p>
+
+      <p>Is knowing when it’s time to cling.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>II</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>With apologies to R.L.S.</i></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>A heroine must be polite</p>
+
+      <p>And do what others say is right,</p>
+
+      <p>And think men wise and formidable&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>At least as far as she is able.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Mutual_Vows"></a>Mutual Vows</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“My dear,” he said, “observe this frightful bill,</p>
+
+      <p>Run up, I think you’ll own, against my will.</p>
+
+      <p>If you will recollect our wedding day</p>
+
+      <p>You vowed on that occasion to obey.”</p>
+
+      <p>“I do recall the day,” said she, “and how</p>
+
+      <p>Me with your worldly goods you did endow.”</p>
+
+      <p>“That,” he replied, “is palpably absurd----”</p>
+
+      <p>“You mean you did not mean to keep your word?”</p>
+
+      <p>“O, yes,” he answered, “in a general way.”</p>
+
+      <p>“And that,” said she, “is how I meant obey.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="If_They_Meant_All_They_Said"></a>If They Meant All They Said</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Charm is a woman’s strongest arm;</p>
+
+      <p>My charwoman is full of charm;</p>
+
+      <p>I chose her, not for strength of arm</p>
+
+      <p>But for her strange elusive charm.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>And how tears heighten woman’s powers!</p>
+
+      <p>My typist weeps for hours and hours:</p>
+
+      <p>I took her for her weeping powers&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>They so delight my business hours.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>A woman lives by intuition.</p>
+
+      <p>Though my accountant shuns addition</p>
+
+      <p>She has the rarest intuition.</p>
+
+      <p>(And I myself can do addition.)</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Timidity in girls is nice.</p>
+
+      <p>My cook is so afraid of mice.</p>
+
+      <p>Now you’ll admit it’s very nice</p>
+
+      <p>To feel your cook’s afraid of mice.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Democracy"></a>Democracy</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Democracy is this&mdash;to hold</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">That all who wander down the pike</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In cart or car, on foot or bike,</p>
+
+      <p>Or male or female, young or old,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Are much alike&mdash;are much alike.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Feminism"></a>Feminism</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Mother, what is a Feminist?”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“A Feminist, my daughter,</p>
+
+      <p>Is any woman now who cares</p>
+
+      <p>To think about her own affairs</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">As men don’t think she oughter.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Warning"></a>The Warning</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>No, it isn’t home neglecting</p>
+
+      <p>If you spend your time selecting</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Seven blouses and a jacket and a hat;</p>
+
+      <p>Or to give your day to paying</p>
+
+      <p>Needless visits, or to playing</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Auction bridge. What critic could object to
+      that?</p>
+
+      <p>But to spend two precious hours</p>
+
+      <p>At a lecture! Oh, my powers,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The home is all a woman needs to learn.</p>
+
+      <p>And an hour, or a quarter,</p>
+
+      <p>Spent in voting! Why, my daughter,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">You could not find your home on your
+      return.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Evolution"></a>Evolution</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Said Mr. Jones in 1910:</p>
+
+      <p>“Women, subject yourselves to men.”</p>
+
+      <p>Nineteen-Eleven heard him quote:</p>
+
+      <p>“They rule the world without the vote.”</p>
+
+      <p>By Nineteen-Twelve, he would submit</p>
+
+      <p>“When all the women wanted it.”</p>
+
+      <p>By Nineteen-Thirteen, looking glum,</p>
+
+      <p>He said that it was bound to come.</p>
+
+      <p>This year I heard him say with pride:</p>
+
+      <p>“No reasons on the other side!”</p>
+
+      <p>By Nineteen-Fifteen, he’ll insist</p>
+
+      <p>He’s always been a suffragist.</p>
+
+      <p>And what is really stranger, too,</p>
+
+      <p>He’ll think that what he says is true.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Intercepted"></a>Intercepted</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Only the worst of them vote.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Are not the suffragists frights?”</p>
+
+      <p>“Nietzsche’s the person to quote.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“I prefer love to my rights.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Are not the suffragists frights?”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Sex is their only appeal.”</p>
+
+      <p>“I prefer love to my rights.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“No, we don’t think, but we feel.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Sex is their only appeal.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Woman belongs at the loom.”</p>
+
+      <p>“No, we don’t think, but we feel.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Doesn’t it rub off the bloom?”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Woman belongs at the loom.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Isn’t the speaker a bore!”</p>
+
+      <p>“Doesn’t it rub off the bloom?”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Oh, it’s a fad&mdash;nothing more.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Isn’t the speaker a bore!”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Nietzsche’s the person to quote.”</p>
+
+      <p>“Oh, it’s a fad&mdash;nothing more.”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Only the worst of them vote.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Universal_Answer"></a>The Universal Answer</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i6">Oh, there you go again,</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">Invading man’s domain!</p>
+
+      <p>It’s Nature’s laws, you know, you are defying.</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">Don’t fancy that you can</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">Be really like a man,</p>
+
+      <p>So what’s the use of all this fuss and trying?</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">It seems to me so clear,</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">That women’s highest sphere</p>
+
+      <p>Is being loving wives and patient mothers.</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">Oh, can’t you be content</p>
+
+      <p class="i6">To be as you were meant?</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">{souls</p>
+
+      <p>For {books belong to husbands and to brothers.</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">{votes</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Candor"></a>Candor</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (<i>By an admirer of the late H.C. Bunner</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“I know what you’re going to say,” she said,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And she stood up, causing him some alarm;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“You’re going to tell me I’ll lose my
+      charm,</p>
+
+      <p>And what is a woman when charm has fled?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And you’re going to say that you greatly
+      fear</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">I don’t understand a woman’s sphere;</p>
+
+      <p>Now aren’t you honestly?” “Yes,” he said.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“I know what you’re going to say,” she said,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“You’re going to ask what I hope to gain</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">By stepping down to the dusty plain,</p>
+
+      <p>By seeking a stone when I might have bread;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">You’re going to say: ‘Can a vote replace</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The tender force of a woman’s grace?’</p>
+
+      <p>Now, aren’t you honestly?” “Yes,” he said.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“I know what you’re going to do,” he said,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“You’re going to talk to me all day long</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Trying to make me see I’m wrong;</p>
+
+      <p>And other men who are less misled</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Will pale with jealousy when they see</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The time you give to converting me;</p>
+
+      <p>Now, aren’t you honestly?” “Ye-es,” she said.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="What_Every_Woman_Must_Not_Say"></a>What Every Woman Must Not Say</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“I don’t pretend I’m clever,” he remarked, “or very
+      wise,”</p>
+
+      <p>And at this she murmured, “Really,” with the right polite
+      surprise.</p>
+
+      <p>“But women,” he continued, “I must own I understand;</p>
+
+      <p>Women are a contradiction&mdash;honorable and
+      underhand&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Constant as the star Polaris, yet as changeable as
+      Fate,</p>
+
+      <p>Always flying what they long for, always seeking what they
+      hate.”</p>
+
+      <p>“Don’t you think,” began the lady, but he cut her short:
+      “I see</p>
+
+      <p>That you take it personally&mdash;women always do,” said
+      he.</p>
+
+      <p>“You will pardon me for saying every woman is the
+      same,</p>
+
+      <p>Always greedy for approval, always sensitive to blame;</p>
+
+      <p>Sweet and passionate are women; weak in mind, though
+      strong in soul;</p>
+
+      <p>Even you admit, I fancy, that they have no
+      self-control?”</p>
+
+      <p>“No, I don’t admit they haven’t,” said the patient lady
+      then,</p>
+
+      <p>“Or they could not sit and listen to the nonsense talked
+      by men.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Chivalry"></a>Chivalry</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>It’s treating a woman politely</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">As long as she isn’t a fright:</p>
+
+      <p>It’s guarding the girls who act rightly,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">If you can be judge of what’s right;</p>
+
+      <p>It’s being&mdash;not just, but so pleasant;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">It’s tipping while wages are low;</p>
+
+      <p>It’s making a beautiful present,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And failing to pay what you owe.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>From Our Own Nursery Rhymes</i></p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“Chivalry, Chivalry, where have you been?”</p>
+
+      <p>“I’ve been out seeking a beautiful queen.”</p>
+
+      <p>“Chivalry, Chivalry, what did you find?”</p>
+
+      <p>“Commonplace women, not much to my mind.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Women"></a>Women</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (<i>With rather insincere apologies to Mr. Rudyard
+    Kipling</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I went to ask my government if they would set me free,</p>
+
+      <p>They gave a pardoned crook a vote, but hadn’t one for
+      me;</p>
+
+      <p>The men about me laughed and frowned and said: “Go home,
+      because</p>
+
+      <p>We really can’t be bothered when we’re busy making
+      laws.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Oh, it’s women this, and women that and women have no
+      sense,</p>
+
+      <p>But it’s pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the
+      expense,</p>
+
+      <p>It comes to the expense, my dears, it comes to the
+      expense,</p>
+
+      <p>It’s pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the
+      expense.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I went into a factory to earn my daily bread:</p>
+
+      <p>Men said: “The home is woman’s sphere.” “I have no home,”
+      I said.</p>
+
+      <p>But when the men all marched to war, they cried to wife
+      and maid,</p>
+
+      <p>“Oh, never mind about the home, but save the export
+      trade.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>For it’s women this and women that, and home’s the place
+      for you,</p>
+
+      <p>But it’s patriotic angels when there’s outside work to
+      do,</p>
+
+      <p>There’s outside work to do, my dears, there’s outside work
+      to do,</p>
+
+      <p>It’s patriotic angels when there’s outside work to do.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>We are not really senseless, and we are not angels,
+      too,</p>
+
+      <p>But very human beings, human just as much as you.</p>
+
+      <p>It’s hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime</p>
+
+      <p>When you’re treated as incompetents three-quarters of the
+      time.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>But it’s women this and women that, and woman’s like a
+      hen,</p>
+
+      <p>But it’s do the country’s work alone, when war takes off
+      the men,</p>
+
+      <p>And it’s women this and women that and everything you
+      please,</p>
+
+      <p>But woman is observant, and be sure that woman sees.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Beware"></a>Beware!</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>In the days that are gone when a statue was wanted</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In park or museum where statues must be,</p>
+
+      <p>A chivalrous male would come forward undaunted</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And say: “If you must have one, make it of
+      me.</p>
+
+      <p>Bad though they be, yet I’ll agree</p>
+
+      <p>If you must make them, why make them of me.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>But chivalry’s dead, as I always expected</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Since women would not let things stay as they
+      were;</p>
+
+      <p>So now, I suppose, when a statue’s erected</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Men will say brutally: “Make it of her.”</p>
+
+      <p>She may prefer things as they were</p>
+
+      <p>When they start making the statues of her.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Male_Philosophy"></a>Male Philosophy</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Men are very brave, you know,</p>
+
+      <p>That was settled long ago;</p>
+
+      <p>Ask, however, if you doubt it,</p>
+
+      <p>Any man you meet about it;</p>
+
+      <p>He will say, I think, like me,</p>
+
+      <p>Men are brave as they can be.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Women think they’re brave, you say?</p>
+
+      <p>Do they really? Well, they may,</p>
+
+      <p>But such biased attestation</p>
+
+      <p>Is not worth consideration,</p>
+
+      <p>For a legal judgment shelves</p>
+
+      <p>What they say about themselves.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="From_a_Mans_Point_of_View"></a>From a Man’s Point of View</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Women love self-sacrifice</p>
+
+      <p>Suffering and good advice;</p>
+
+      <p>If they don’t love these sincerely</p>
+
+      <p>Then they’re not true women really.</p>
+
+      <p>Oh, it shocks me so to note</p>
+
+      <p>Women pleading for the vote!</p>
+
+      <p>Saying publicly it would</p>
+
+      <p>Educate and do them good.</p>
+
+      <p>Such a selfish reason trips</p>
+
+      <p>Oddly from a woman’s lips.</p>
+
+      <p>But it must not be supposed</p>
+
+      <p>I am in the least opposed.</p>
+
+      <p>If they want it let them try it.</p>
+
+      <p>For I think we’ll profit by it.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Glory"></a>Glory</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I went to see old Susan Gray,</p>
+
+      <p>Whose soldier sons had marched away,</p>
+
+      <p>And this is what she had to say:</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>“It isn’t war I hate at all&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">’Tis likely men must fight&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>But, oh, these flags and uniforms,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">It’s them that isn’t right!</p>
+
+      <p>If war must come, and come it does</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">To take our boys from play,</p>
+
+      <p>It isn’t right to make it seem</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">So beautiful and gay.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>I left old Susan with a sigh;</p>
+
+      <p>A famous band was marching by</p>
+
+      <p>To make men glad they had to die.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Dependence"></a>Dependence</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (An Englishwoman whose income has stopped owing to her two sons
+    having joined the English army, was taken care of last night at
+    the Florence Crittenden Mission.&mdash;<i>Press Clipping</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>The young men said to their mother,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Hear us, O dearest and best!</p>
+
+      <p>Time cannot cool or smother</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">The love of you in our breast;</p>
+
+      <p>Here is your place and no other&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Come home and rest.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>And the mother’s heart was grateful</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">For the love of her cherished ones,</p>
+
+      <p>And her labor, bitter and hateful,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">She left at the word of her sons,</p>
+
+      <p>Till she heard far off the fateful</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Voices of guns.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Their love did more enslave her;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">They did not understand</p>
+
+      <p>That none could guard or save her</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">When war was on the land,</p>
+
+      <p>But herself, and God, who gave her</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Heart and mind and hand.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Playthings"></a>Playthings</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Last year the shops were crowded</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">With soldier suits and guns&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>The presents that at Christmas time</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">We give our little sons;</p>
+
+      <p>And many a glittering trumpet</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And many a sword and drum;</p>
+
+      <p>But as they’re made in Germany</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">This year they will not come.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Perhaps another season</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">We shall not give our boys</p>
+
+      <p>Such very warlike playthings,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Such military toys;</p>
+
+      <p>Perhaps another season</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">We shall not think it sweet</p>
+
+      <p>To watch their game of soldier men,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Who dream not of defeat.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Militants"></a>Militants</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Hippolta, Penthesilea,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Maria Teresa and Joan,</p>
+
+      <p>Agustina and Boadicea</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And some militant girls of our own&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>It would take a brave man and a dull one</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">To say to these ladies: “Of course</p>
+
+      <p>We adore you while meek,</p>
+
+      <p>Timid, clinging and weak,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">But a woman can never use force.”</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="A_Ladys_Choice"></a>A Lady’s Choice</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Her old love in tears and silence had been building her a
+      palace</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Ringed by moats and flanked with towers, he had
+      set it on a hill</p>
+
+      <p>“Here,” he said, “will come no whisper of the world’s
+      alarms and</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">malice,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">In these granite walls imprisoned, I will keep
+      you safe from ill.”</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>As he spoke along the highway there came riding by a
+      stranger,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">For an instant on her features, he a fleeting
+      glance bestowed,</p>
+
+      <p>Then he said: “My heart is fickle and the world is full of
+      danger,”</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And he offered her his stirrup and he pointed
+      down the road.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Ballad_of_Lost_Causes"></a>The Ballad of Lost Causes</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    (<i>About 465 years after Villon</i>.)
+  </p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Tell me in what spot remote</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Do the antis dwell to-day,</p>
+
+      <p>Those who did not want to vote,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Feared their sex’s prompt decay?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Where are those who used to say:</p>
+
+      <p>“Home alone is woman’s sphere;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Only those should vote who slay”?</p>
+
+      <p>Where the snows of yester-year?</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Where are those who used to quote</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Nietzsche’s words in dread array?</p>
+
+      <p>Where the ancient crones who wrote:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">“Women rule through Beauty’s sway”?</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And those lovers, where are they,</p>
+
+      <p>Who could hold no woman dear</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">If she had the ballot? Nay!</p>
+
+      <p>Where the snows of yester-year?</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>Prince, inquire no more, I pray,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Whither antis disappear.</p>
+
+      <p>Suffrage won; they melt away,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Like the snows of yester-year.</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="Thoughts_at_an_Anti_Meeting"></a>Thoughts at an Anti Meeting</h2>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>There are no homes in suffrage states,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">There are no children, glad and good,</p>
+
+      <p>There, men no longer seek for mates,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And women lose their womanhood.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p>This I believe without debate,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">And yet I ask&mdash;and ask in vain&mdash;</p>
+
+      <p>Why no one in a suffrage state</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Has moved to change things back again?</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="A_MASQUE_OF_TEACHERS"></a>A MASQUE OF TEACHERS</h2>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    AND
+  </p>
+
+  <p class="center">
+    THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
+  </p>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Ideal_Candidates"></a>The Ideal Candidates</h2>
+
+  <p>(A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: “No married
+  woman shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position
+  in the New York public schools unless her husband is mentally or
+  physically incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for
+  a period of not less than one year.”)</p>
+
+  <p>CHARACTERS</p>
+
+  <div class="poem">
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board of Education</i>.</p>
+
+      <p class="i7"><i>Three Would-Be Teachers</i>.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Chorus by Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Now please don’t waste</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Your time and ours</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">By pleas all based</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">On mental powers.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">She seems to us</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">The proper stuff</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Who has a hus-</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Band bad enough.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">All other pleas appear to us</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Excessively superfluous.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>1st Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">My husband is not really bad----</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">How very sad, how very sad!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>1st Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">He’s good, but hear my one excuse----</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Oh, what’s the use, oh, what’s the use?</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>1st Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Last winter in a railroad wreck</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">He lost an arm and broke his neck.</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">He’s doomed, but lingers day by day.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Her husband’s doomed! Hurray! hurray!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>2nd Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">My husband’s kind and healthy, too----</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Why, then, of course, you will not do.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>2nd Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Just hear me out. You’ll find you’re wrong.</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">It’s true his body’s good and strong;</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">But, ah, his wits are all astray.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Her husband’s mad. Hip, hip, hurray!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>3rd Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">My husband’s wise and well&mdash;the
+      creature!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Then you can never be a teacher.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>3rd Teacher</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Wait. For I led him such a life</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">He could not stand me as a wife;</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Last Michaelmas, he ran away.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Her husband hates her, Hip, hurray!</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p><i>Chorus by Board</i>:</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Now we have found</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Without a doubt,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">By process sound</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">And well thought out,</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Each candidate</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">Is fit in truth</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">To educate</p>
+
+      <p class="i4">The mind of youth.</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">No teacher need apply to us</p>
+
+      <p class="i2">Whose married life’s harmonious.</p>
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="stanza">
+      <p class="i9">(<i>Curtain</i>.)</p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
+
+<div class="chapter">
+
+<h2><a name="The_Unconscious_Suffragists"></a>The Unconscious Suffragists</h2>
+
+  <p>“They who have no voice nor vote in the electing of
+  representatives do not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved
+  to those who have votes.”&mdash;Benjamin Franklin.</p>
+
+  <p>“No such phrase as virtual representation was ever known in
+  law or constitution.”&mdash;James Otis.</p>
+
+  <p>“But these great cities, says my honorable friend, are
+  virtually, though not directly represented. Are not the wishes of
+  Manchester, he asks, as much consulted as those of any other town
+  which sends members to Parliament? Now, sir, I do not understand
+  how a power which is salutary when exercised virtually can be
+  noxious when exercised directly. If the wishes of Manchester have
+  as much weight with us as they would have under a system which
+  gives representatives to Manchester, how can there be any danger
+  in giving representatives to Manchester?”&mdash;Lord Macaulay’s
+  Speech on the Reform Bill.</p>
+
+  <p>“Universal suffrage prolongs in the United States the effect
+  of universal education: for it stimulates all citizens throughout
+  their lives to reflect on problems outside the narrow circle of
+  their private interests and occupations: to read about public
+  questions; to discuss public characters and to hold themselves
+  ready in some degree to give a rational account of their
+  political faith.”&mdash;Dr. Charles Eliot.</p>
+
+  <p>“But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their
+  (the American people) desires: equality is their idol; they make
+  rapid and sudden efforts to obtain liberty and if they miss their
+  aim, resign themselves to their disappointment; but nothing can
+  satisfy them without equality, and they would rather perish than
+  lose it.”&mdash;De Tocqueville: Democracy in America, 1835.</p>
+
+  <p>“A government is for the benefit of all the people. We believe
+  that this benefit is best accomplished by popular government
+  because in the long run each class of individuals is apt to
+  secure better provision for themselves through their own voice in
+  government than through the altruistic interest of others,
+  however intelligent or philanthropic.”&mdash;William H. Taft in
+  Special Message.</p>
+
+<p>
+“I have listened to some very honest and eloquent orators whose sentiments were
+noteworthy for this: that when they spoke of the people, they were not thinking
+of themselves, they were thinking of somebody whom they were commissioned to
+take care of. And I have seen them shiver when it was suggested that they
+arrange to have something done by the people for themselves.”&mdash;The New
+Freedom, by Woodrow Wilson.
+</p>
+
+</div><!--end chapter-->
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Are Women People?, by Alice Duer Miller
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+Title: Are Women People?
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+Author: Alice Duer Miller
+
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+
+ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
+
+A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR SUFFRAGE TIMES
+
+By
+
+ALICE DUER MILLER
+
+AUTHOR OF "BLUE ARCH," "THE MODERN OBSTACLE." ETC.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+TO V.B.W. SLAVE-DRIVER AND FRIEND
+
+
+
+
+Introduction
+
+
+Father, what is a Legislature?
+
+A representative body elected by the people of the state.
+
+Are women people?
+
+No, my son, criminals, lunatics and women are not people.
+
+Do legislators legislate for nothing?
+
+Oh, no; they are paid a salary.
+
+By whom?
+
+By the people.
+
+Are women people?
+
+Of course, my son, just as much as men are.
+
+To the New York Tribune, in whose generous columns many of these
+verses first appeared, the author here wishes to express her gratitude.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+TREACHEROUS TEXTS
+
+CAMPAIGN MATERIAL (For Both Sides)
+
+WOMEN'S SPHERE
+
+A MASQUE OF TEACHERS: THE IDEAL CANDIDATES
+
+THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
+
+
+
+
+TREACHEROUS TEXTS
+
+
+
+
+ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
+
+
+A Consistent Anti to Her Son
+
+("Look at the hazards, the risks, the physical dangers that ladies would
+be exposed to at the polls."--_Anti-suffrage speech_.)
+
+
+    You're twenty-one to-day, Willie,
+      And a danger lurks at the door,
+    I've known about it always,
+      But I never spoke before;
+    When you were only a baby
+      It seemed so very remote,
+    But you're twenty-one to-day, Willie,
+      And old enough to vote.
+
+    You must not go to the polls, Willie,
+      Never go to the polls,
+    They're dark and dreadful places
+      Where many lose their souls;
+    They smirch, degrade and coarsen,
+      Terrible things they do
+    To quiet, elderly women--
+      What would they do to you!
+
+    If you've a boyish fancy
+      For any measure or man,
+    Tell me, and I'll tell Father,
+      He'll vote for it, if he can.
+    He casts my vote, and Louisa's,
+      And Sarah, and dear Aunt Clo;
+    Wouldn't you let him vote for you?
+      Father, who loves you so?
+
+    I've guarded you always, Willie,
+      Body and soul from harm;
+    I'll guard your faith and honor,
+      Your innocence and charm
+    From the polls and their evil spirits,
+      Politics, rum and pelf;
+    Do you think I'd send my only son
+      Where I would not go myself?
+
+
+
+
+Our Idea of Nothing at All
+
+
+("I am opposed to woman suffrage, but I am not opposed to
+woman."--_Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Webb of North Carolina_.)
+
+
+    O women, have you heard the news
+      Of charity and grace?
+    Look, look, how joy and gratitude
+      Are beaming in my face!
+    For Mr. Webb is not opposed
+      To woman in her place!
+
+    O Mr. Webb, how kind you are
+      To let us live at all,
+    To let us light the kitchen range
+      And tidy up the hall;
+    To tolerate the female sex
+      In spite of Adam's fall.
+
+    O girls, suppose that Mr. Webb
+      Should alter his decree!
+    Suppose he were opposed to us--
+      Opposed to you and me.
+    What would be left for us to do--
+      Except to cease to be?
+
+
+
+
+Lines to Mr. Bowdle of Ohio
+
+
+("The women of this smart capital are beautiful. Their beauty is
+disturbing to business; their feet are beautiful, their ankles are
+beautiful, but here I must pause."--_Mr. Bowdle's anti-suffrage speech
+in Congress, January 12, 1915_.)
+
+
+    You, who despise the so-called fairer sex,
+      Be brave. There really isn't any reason
+    You should not, if you wish, oppose and vex
+      And scold us in, and even out of season;
+    But don't regard it as your bounden duty
+    To open with a tribute to our beauty.
+
+    Say if you like that women have no sense,
+      No self-control, no power of concentration;
+    Say that hysterics is our one defence
+      Our virtue but an absence of temptation;
+    These I can bear, but, oh, I own it rankles
+    To hear you maundering on about our ankles.
+
+    Tell those old stories, which have now and then
+      Been from the Record thoughtfully deleted,
+    Repeat that favorite one about the hen,
+      Repeat the ones that cannot be repeated;
+    But in the midst of such enjoyments, smother
+    The impulse to extol your "sainted mother."
+
+
+
+
+On Not Believing All You Hear
+
+
+("Women are angels, they are jewels, they are queens and princesses of
+our hearts."--_Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Carter of Oklahoma_.)
+
+
+    "Angel, or jewel, or princess, or queen,
+    Tell me immediately, where have you been?"
+
+    "I've been to ask all my slaves so devoted
+    Why they against my enfranchisement voted."
+
+    "Angel and princess, that action was wrong.
+    Back to the kitchen, where angels belong."
+
+
+
+
+The Revolt of Mother
+
+
+("Every true woman feels----"--_Speech of almost any Congressman_.)
+
+
+    I am old-fashioned, and I think it right
+      That man should know, by Nature's laws eternal,
+    The proper way to rule, to earn, to fight,
+      And exercise those functions called paternal;
+    But even I a little bit rebel
+    At finding that he knows my job as well.
+
+    At least he's always ready to expound it,
+      Especially in legislative hall,
+    The joys, the cares, the halos that surround it,
+      "How women feel"--he knows that best of all.
+    In fact his thesis is that no one can
+    Know what is womanly except a man.
+
+    I am old-fashioned, and I am content
+      When he explains the world of art and science
+    And government--to him divinely sent--
+      I drink it in with ladylike compliance.
+    But cannot listen--no, I'm only human--
+    While he instructs me how to be a woman.
+
+
+
+
+The Gallant Sex
+
+
+(A woman engineer has been dismissed by the Board of Education, under
+their new rule that women shall not attend high pressure boilers,
+although her work has been satisfactory and she holds a license to
+attend such boilers from the Police Department.)
+
+
+    Lady, dangers lurk in boilers,
+      Risks I could not let you face.
+    Men were meant to be the toilers,
+      Home, you know, is woman's place.
+    Have no home? Well, is that so?
+    Still, it's not my fault, you know.
+
+    Charming lady, work no more;
+      Fair you are and sweet as honey;
+    Work might make your fingers sore,
+      And, besides, I need the money.
+    Prithee rest,--or starve or rob--
+    Only let me have your job!
+
+
+
+
+Representation
+
+
+("My wife is against suffrage, and that settles me."--_Vice-President
+Marshall_.)
+
+
+I
+
+    My wife dislikes the income tax,
+      And so I cannot pay it;
+    She thinks that golf all interest lacks,
+      So now I never play it;
+    She is opposed to tolls repeal
+      (Though why I cannot say),
+    But woman's duty is to feel,
+      And man's is to obey.
+
+II
+
+    I'm in a hard position for a perfect gentleman,
+    I want to please the ladies, but I don't see how I can,
+    My present wife's a suffragist, and counts on my support,
+    But my mother is an anti, of a rather biting sort;
+    One grandmother is on the fence, the other much opposed,
+    And my sister lives in Oregon, and thinks the question's closed;
+    Each one is counting on my vote to represent her view.
+    Now what should you think proper for a gentleman to do?
+
+
+
+
+Sonnet
+
+
+("Three bills known as the Thompson-Bewley cannery bills have been
+advanced to third reading in the Senate and Assembly at Albany. One
+permits the canners to work their employ�s seven days a week, a second
+allows them to work women after 9 p.m. and a third removes every
+restriction upon the hours of labor of women and minors."--_Zenas L.
+Potter, former chief cannery investigator for New York State Factory
+Investigating Commission_.)
+
+
+    Let us not to an unrestricted day
+    Impediments admit. Work is not work
+    To our employ�s, but a merry play;
+    They do not ask the law's excuse to shirk.
+    Ah, no, the canning season is at hand,
+    When summer scents are on the air distilled,
+    When golden fruits are ripening in the land,
+    And silvery tins are gaping to be filled.
+    Now to the cannery with jocund mien
+    Before the dawn come women, girls and boys,
+    Whose weekly hours (a hundred and nineteen)
+    Seem all too short for their industrious joys.
+      If this be error and be proved, alas
+      The Thompson-Bewley bills may fail to pass!
+
+
+
+
+To President Wilson
+
+
+("I hold it as a fundamental principle and so do you, that every people
+has the right to determine its own form of government. And until
+recently 50 per cent, of the people of Mexico have not had a look-in in
+determining who should be their governors, or what their government
+should be."--_Speech of President Wilson_.)
+
+
+    Wise and just man--for such I think you are--
+    How can you see so burningly and clear
+    Injustices and tyrannies afar,
+    Yet blind your eyes to one that lies so near?
+    How can you plead so earnestly for men
+    Who fight their own fight with a bloody hand;
+    How hold their cause so wildly dear, and then
+    Forget the women of your native land?
+    With your stern ardor and your scholar's word
+    You speak to us of human liberty;
+    Can you believe that women are not stirred
+    By this same human longing to be free?
+      He who for liberty would strike a blow
+      Need not take arms, or fly to Mexico.
+
+
+
+
+Home and Where It Is
+
+
+(An Indiana judge has recently ruled: As to the right of the husband to
+decide the location of the home that "home is where the husband is.")
+
+
+    Home is where the husband is,
+    Be it near or be it far,
+    Office, theatre, Pullman car,
+    Poolroom, polls, or corner bar--
+    All good wives remember this--
+    Home is where the husband is.
+
+    Woman's place is home, I wis.
+    Leave your family bacon frying,
+    Leave your wash and dishes drying,
+    Leave your little children crying;
+    Join your husband, near or far,
+    At the club or corner bar,
+    For the court has taught us this:
+    "Home is where the husband is."
+
+
+
+
+The Maiden's Vow
+
+
+(A speaker at the National Education Association advised girls not to
+study algebra. Many girls, he said, had lost their souls through this
+study. The idea has been taken up with enthusiasm.)
+
+
+    I will avoid equations,
+      And shun the naughty surd,
+    I must beware the perfect square,
+      Through it young girls have erred:
+    And when men mention Rule of Three
+      Pretend I have not heard.
+
+    Through Sturm's delightful theorems
+      Illicit joys assure,
+    Though permutations and combinations
+      My woman's heart allure,
+    I'll never study algebra,
+      But keep my spirit pure.
+
+
+
+
+Such Nonsense
+
+
+("Where on earth did the idea come from that the ballot is a boon, a
+privilege and an honor? From men."--_Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin_.)
+
+
+    Who is it thinks the vote some use?
+    Man. (Man is often such a goose!)
+    Indeed it makes me laugh to see
+    How men have struggled to be free.
+
+    Poor Washington, who meant so well,
+    And Nathan Hale and William Tell,
+    Hampden and Bolivar and Pym,
+    And L'Ouverture--remember him?
+
+    And Garibaldi and Kossuth,
+    And some who threw away their youth,
+    All bitten by the stupid notion
+    That liberty was worth emotion.
+
+    They could not get it through their heads
+    That if they stayed tucked up in beds,
+    Avoiding politics and strife,
+    They'd lead a pleasant, peaceful life.
+
+    Let us, dear sisters, never make
+    Such a ridiculous mistake;
+    But teach our children o'er and o'er
+    That liberty is just a chore.
+
+
+
+
+A Suggested Campaign Song
+
+
+("No brass bands. No speeches. Instead a still, silent, effective
+influence."--_Anti-suffrage speech_.)
+
+
+    We are waging--can you doubt it?
+      A campaign so calm and still
+    No one knows a thing about it,
+      And we hope they never will.
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      And we hope they never will.
+
+    We are ladylike and quiet,
+      Here a whisper--there a hint;
+    Never speeches, bands or riot,
+      Nothing suitable for print.
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      For we never speak for print.
+
+    Sometimes in profound seclusion,
+      In some far (but homelike) spot,
+    We will make a dark allusion:
+      "We're opposed to you-know-what."
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      For we call it "You-Know-What."
+
+
+
+
+The Woman of Charm
+
+
+("I hate a woman who is not a mystery to herself, as well as to
+me."--_The Phoenix_.)
+
+
+    If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
+      Known to the world as a Woman of Charm,
+    Take all the conspicuous ladies of history,
+      Mix them all up without doing them harm.
+    The beauty of Helen, the warmth of Cleopatra,
+      Salome's notorious skill in the dance,
+    The dusky allure of the belles of Sumatra,
+      The fashion and finish of ladies from France.
+    The youth of Susanna, beloved by an elder,
+      The wit of a Chambers' incomparable minx,
+    The conjugal views of the patient Griselda,
+     The fire of Sappho, the calm of the Sphinx,
+    The eyes of La Valli�re, the voice of Cordelia,
+    The musical gifts of the sainted Cecelia,
+    Trilby and Carmen and Ruth and Ophelia,
+    Madame de Sta�l and the matron Cornelia,
+    Iseult, Hypatia and naughty Nell Gwynn,
+    Una, Titania and Elinor Glyn.
+      Take of these elements all that is fusible,
+      Melt 'em all down in a pipkin or crucible,
+      Set 'em to simmer and take off the scum,
+      And a Woman of Charm is the residuum!
+        (Slightly adapted from W.S. Gilbert.)
+
+
+
+
+A Modern Proposal
+
+
+(It has been said that the feminist movement is the true solution of the
+mother-in-law problem.)
+
+
+    Sylvia, my dear, I would be yours with pleasure,
+      All that you are seems excellent to me,
+    Except your mother, who's much more at leisure
+      Than mothers ought to be.
+
+    Find her a fad, a job, an occupation,
+      Eugenics, dancing, uplift, yes, or crime,
+    Set her to work for her Emancipation--
+      That takes a lot of time.
+
+    Or, if the suffrage doctrine fails to charm her,
+      There are the Antis--rather in her line--
+    Guarding the Home from Maine to Alabama
+      Would keep her out of mine.
+
+
+
+
+The Newer Lullaby
+
+
+("Good heavens, when I think what the young boy of to-day is growing up
+to I gasp. He has too many women around him all the time. He has his
+mother when he is a baby."--_Bernard Fagin, Probation Officer_.)
+
+
+    Hush-a-bye, baby,
+      Feel no alarm,
+    Gunmen shall guard you,
+      Lest Mother should harm.
+    Wake in your cradle,
+      Hear father curse!
+    Isn't that better
+      Than Mother or Nurse?
+
+
+
+
+The Protected Sex
+
+_With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley_.
+
+
+("The result of taking second place to girls at school is that the boy
+feels a sense of inferiority that he is never afterward able entirely to
+shake off."--_Editorial in London Globe against co-education_.)
+
+
+    There, little girl, don't read,
+    You're fond of your books, I know,
+    But Brother might mope
+    If he had no hope
+    Of getting ahead of you.
+    It's dull for a boy who cannot lead.
+    There, little girl, don't read.
+
+
+
+Warning to Suffragists
+
+
+("The Latin man believes that giving woman the vote will make her less
+attractive."--_Anna H. Shaw_.)
+
+
+    They must sacrifice their beauty
+    Who would do their civic duty,
+      Who the polling booth would enter,
+      Who the ballot box would use;
+    As they drop their ballots in it
+    Men and women in a minute,
+      Lose their charm, the antis tell us,
+      But--the men have less to lose.
+
+
+
+
+Partners
+
+
+("Our laws have not yet reached the point of holding that property which
+is the result of the husband's earnings and the wife's savings becomes
+their joint property.... In this most important of all partnerships
+there is no partnership property."--_Recent decision of the New York
+Supreme Court_.)
+
+
+    Lady, lovely lady, come and share
+        All my care;
+    Oh how gladly I will hurry
+    To confide my every worry
+    (And they're very dark and drear)
+        In your ear.
+
+    Lady, share the praise I obtain
+        Now and again;
+    Though I'm shy, it doesn't matter,
+    I will tell you how they flatter:
+    Every compliment I'll share
+        Fair and square.
+
+    Lady, I my toil will divide
+        At your side;
+    I outside the home, you within;
+    You shall wash and cook and spin,
+    I'll provide the flax and food,
+            If you're good.
+
+    Partners, lady, we shall be,
+            You and me,
+    Partners in the highest sense
+    Looking for no recompense,
+    For, the savings that we make,
+            I shall take.
+
+
+
+
+What Governments Say to Women
+
+
+(The law compels a married woman to take the nationality of her
+husband.)
+
+
+I
+
+_In Time of War_
+
+    Help us. Your country needs you;
+      Show that you love her,
+    Give her your men to fight,
+      Ay, even to fall;
+    The fair, free land of your birth,
+      Set nothing above her,
+    Not husband nor son,
+      She must come first of all.
+
+II
+
+_In Time of Peace_
+
+    What's this? You've wed an alien,
+      Yet you ask for legislation
+    To guard your nationality?
+      We're shocked at your demand.
+    A woman when she marries
+      Takes her husband's name and nation:
+    She should love her husband only.
+      What's a woman's native land?
+
+
+
+
+"Oh, That 'Twere Possible!"
+
+_With apologies to Lord Tennyson._
+
+
+("The grant of suffrage to women is repugnant to instincts that strike
+their roots deep in the order of nature. It runs counter to human
+reason, it flouts the teachings of experience and the admonitions of
+common sense."--_N.Y. Times, Feb. 7, 1915_.)
+
+
+    Oh, that 'twere possible
+      After those words inane
+    For me to read _The Times_
+      Ever again!
+
+    When I was wont to read it
+      In the early morning hours,
+    In a mood 'twixt wrath and mirth,
+      I exclaimed: "Alas, Ye Powers,
+    These ideas are fainter, quainter
+      Than anything on earth!"
+
+    A paper's laid before me.
+      Not thou, not like to thee.
+    Dear me, if it were possible
+      _The Times_ should ever see
+    How very far the times have moved
+      (Spelt with a little "t").
+
+
+
+
+_The Times_ Editorials
+
+
+    Lovely Antiques, breathing in every line
+    The perfume of an age long passed away,
+    Wafting us back to 1829,
+    Museum pieces of a by-gone day,
+    You should not languish in the public press
+    Where modern thought might reach and do you harm,
+    And vulgar youth insult your hoariness,
+    Missing the flavor of your old world charm;
+    You should be locked, where rust cannot corrode
+    In some old rosewood cabinet, dimmed by age,
+    With silver-lustre, tortoise shell and Spode;
+    And all would cry, who read your yellowing page:
+      "Yes, that's the sort of thing that men believed
+      Before the First Reform Bill was conceived!"
+
+
+
+
+CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
+
+(_For Both Sides_)
+
+
+
+
+Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons
+
+
+1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote.
+
+2. Because no woman who may vote will attend to her domestic duties.
+
+3. Because it will make dissension between husband and wife.
+
+4. Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to.
+
+5. Because bad women will corrupt politics.
+
+6. Because bad politics will corrupt women.
+
+7. Because women have no power of organization.
+
+8. Because women will form a solid party and outvote men.
+
+9. Because men and women are so different that they must stick to
+different duties.
+
+10. Because men and women are so much alike that men, with one vote
+each, can represent their own views and ours too.
+
+11. Because women cannot use force.
+
+12. Because the militants did use force.
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Pockets for Women
+
+
+1. Because pockets are not a natural right.
+
+2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did
+they would have them.
+
+3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.
+
+4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is, without
+the additional burden of pockets.
+
+5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose
+pockets were to be filled.
+
+6. Because it would destroy man's chivalry toward woman, if he did not
+have to carry all her things in his pockets.
+
+7. Because men are men, and women are women. We must not fly in the face
+of nature.
+
+8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes,
+whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We see no reason
+to suppose that women would use them more wisely.
+
+
+
+
+Fashion Notes: Past and Present
+
+
+1880--Anti-suffrage arguments are being worn long, calm and flowing this
+year, with the dominant note that of woman's intellectual inferiority.
+
+1890--Violence is very evident in this season's modes, and our more
+conservative thinkers are saying that woman suffrage threatens the home,
+the Church and the Republic.
+
+1900--A complete change of style has taken place. Everything is being
+worn _a l'aristocrate_, with the repeated assertion that too many people
+are voting already.
+
+1915--The best line of goods shown by the leading anti-suffrage houses
+this spring is the statement that woman suffrage is the same thing as
+free love. The effect is extremely piquant and surprising.
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains
+
+
+1. Because travelling in trains is not a natural right.
+
+2. Because our great-grandmothers never asked to travel in trains.
+
+3. Because woman's place is the home, not the train.
+
+4. Because it is unnecessary; there is no point reached by a train that
+cannot be reached on foot.
+
+5. Because it will double the work of conductors, engineers and brakemen
+who are already overburdened.
+
+6. Because men smoke and play cards in trains. Is there any reason to
+believe that women will behave better?
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Schools for Children
+
+
+(_By the Children's Anti-School League_.)
+
+1. Because education is a burden, not a right.
+
+2. Because not one-tenth of one per cent. of the children of this
+country have demanded education.
+
+3. Because if we are educated we should have to behave as if we were and
+we don't want to.
+
+4. Because it is essentially against the nature of a child to be
+educated.
+
+5. Because we can't see that it has done so much for grown-ups, and
+there is no reason for thinking it will make children perfect.
+
+6. Because the time of children is already sufficiently occupied without
+going to school.
+
+7. Because it would make dissension between parent and child. Imagine
+the home life of a parent who turned out to be more ignorant than his
+(or her) child?
+
+8. Because we believe in the indirect education of the theatre, the
+baseball field and the moving picture. We believe that schools would in
+a great measure deprive us of this.
+
+9. Because our parents went to school. They love us, they take care of
+us, they tell us what to do. We are content that they should be educated
+for us.
+
+
+
+
+But Then Who Cares for Figures
+
+
+An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as men for the
+same work is that women are only temporarily in industry.
+
+Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public schools of New
+York have been more than ten years in the service, while only twenty-six
+per cent of the men teachers have served as long.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Bundesrath of Germany has decided to furnish medical and financial
+assistance to women at the time of childbirth, in order "to alleviate
+the anxiety of husbands at the front."
+
+How strange this would sound: "The Bundesrath has decided to furnish
+medical assistance to the wounded at the front, in order to alleviate
+the anxiety of wives and mothers at home."
+
+When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is: "Will it
+benefit men?"
+
+When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is: "Will it benefit
+men?"
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Votes for Men
+
+
+1. Because man's place is the armory.
+
+2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise
+than by fighting about it.
+
+3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer
+look up to them.
+
+4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural
+sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms,
+uniforms and drums.
+
+5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball
+games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency
+to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit for the task of
+government.
+
+
+
+
+The Logic of the Law
+
+
+In 1875 the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in denying the petition of women
+to practise before it said:
+
+"It would be shocking to man's reverence for womanhood and faith in
+woman ... that woman should be permitted to mix professionally in all
+the nastiness which finds its way into courts of justice."
+
+It then names thirteen subjects as unfit for the attention of
+women--three of them are crimes committed against women.
+
+
+
+
+Consistency
+
+
+("Vile insults, lewd talk and brutal conduct were used by the indicted
+men to frighten respectable women who went to the polls in Terre Haute
+at the last election, asserted District Attorney Dailey."--_Press
+Dispatch_.)
+
+Are the polls unfit for decent women?
+
+No, sir, they are perfectly orderly.
+
+Tut, tut! Go there at once and swear and be brutal, or what will become
+of our anti-suffrage argument?
+
+
+
+
+Sometimes We're Ivy, and Sometimes We're Oak
+
+
+Is it true that the English government is calling on women to do work
+abandoned by men?
+
+Yes, it is true.
+
+Is not woman's place the home?
+
+No, not when men need her services outside the home.
+
+Will she never be told again that her place is the home?
+
+Oh, yes, indeed.
+
+When?
+
+As soon as men want their jobs back again.
+
+
+
+
+Do You Know
+
+
+That in 1869 Miss Jex-Blake and four other women entered for a medical
+degree at the University of Edinburgh?
+
+That the president of the College of Physicians refused to give the
+women the prizes they had won?
+
+That the undergraduates insulted any professor who allowed women to
+compete for prizes?
+
+That the women were stoned in the streets, and finally excluded from
+the medical school?
+
+That in 1877 the British Medical Association declared women ineligible
+for membership?
+
+That in 1881 the International Medical Congress excluded women from all
+but its "social and ceremonial meetings"?
+
+That the Obstetrical Society refused to allow a woman's name to appear
+on the title page of a pamphlet which she had written with her husband?
+
+That according to a recent dispatch from London, many hospitals, since
+the outbreak of hostilities, have asked women to become resident
+physicians, and public authorities are daily endeavoring to obtain women
+as assistant medical officers and as school doctors?
+
+
+
+
+Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists
+
+
+"Woman's place is in my home."--Appius Claudius.
+
+"I have never felt the need of the ballot."--Cleopatra.
+
+"Magna Charta merely fashionable fad of ye Barons."--King John.
+
+"Boston Tea Party shows American colonists to be hysterical and utterly
+incapable of self-government."--George III.
+
+"Know of no really good slaves who desire emancipation."--President of
+the United Slaveholders' Protective Association.
+
+
+
+
+Another of Those Curious Coincidences
+
+
+On February 15, the House of Representatives passed a bill making it
+unlawful to ship in interstate commerce the products of a mill, cannery
+or factory which have been produced by the labor of children under
+fourteen years.
+
+Forty-three gentlemen voted against it.
+
+Forty-one of those forty-three had also voted against the woman suffrage
+bill.
+
+Not one single vote was cast against it by a representative from any
+state where women vote for Congressmen.
+
+
+
+
+The New Freedom
+
+
+"The Michigan commission on industrial relations has discovered," says
+"The Detroit Journal," "that thousands of wives support their husbands."
+
+Woman's place is the home, but under a special privilege she is
+sometimes allowed to send her wages as a substitute.
+
+
+
+
+To the Great Dining Out Majority
+
+
+The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is sending out
+leaflets to its members urging them to "tell every man you meet, your
+tailor, your postman, your grocer, as well as your _dinner partner_,
+that you are opposed to woman suffrage."
+
+We hope that the 90,000 sewing machine operatives, the 40,000
+saleswomen, the 32,000 laundry operatives, the 20,000 knitting and silk
+mill girls, the 17,000 women janitors and cleaners, the 12,000
+cigar-makers, to say nothing of the 700,000 other women and girls in
+industry in New York State, will remember when they have drawn off their
+long gloves and tasted their oysters to tell their dinner partners that
+they are opposed to woman suffrage because they fear it might take women
+out of the home.
+
+
+
+
+WOMEN'S SPHERE
+
+
+
+
+Many Men to Any Woman
+
+
+    If you have beauty, charm, refinement, tact,
+    If you can prove that should I set you free,
+    You would not contemplate the smallest act
+    That might annoy or interfere with me.
+    If you can show that women will abide
+    By the best standards of their womanhood--
+    (And I must be the person to decide
+    What in a woman is the highest good);
+    If you display efficiency supreme
+    In philanthropic work devoid of pay;
+    If you can show a clearly thought-out scheme
+    For bringing the millennium in a day:
+      Why, then, dear lady, at some time remote,
+    I might consider giving you the vote.
+
+
+
+
+A Sex Difference
+
+
+    When men in Congress come to blows at something someone said,
+    I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red;
+    But if two women disagree, with very little noise,
+    It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.
+
+
+
+
+Advice to Heroines
+
+
+I
+
+    A heroine must shrink and cling
+      When heroes are about,
+    And thus the watching world will think:
+      "How brave his heart and stout!"
+    But if he chance to be away
+      When bright-faced dangers shine,
+    It will be best for her to play
+      The oak-tree, not the vine.
+    In fact the most important thing
+    Is knowing when it's time to cling.
+
+
+II
+
+_With apologies to R.L.S._
+
+    A heroine must be polite
+    And do what others say is right,
+    And think men wise and formidable--
+    At least as far as she is able.
+
+
+
+
+Mutual Vows
+
+
+    "My dear," he said, "observe this frightful bill,
+    Run up, I think you'll own, against my will.
+    If you will recollect our wedding day
+    You vowed on that occasion to obey."
+    "I do recall the day," said she, "and how
+    Me with your worldly goods you did endow."
+    "That," he replied, "is palpably absurd----"
+    "You mean you did not mean to keep your word?"
+    "O, yes," he answered, "in a general way."
+    "And that," said she, "is how I meant obey."
+
+
+
+
+If They Meant All They Said
+
+
+    Charm is a woman's strongest arm;
+    My charwoman is full of charm;
+    I chose her, not for strength of arm
+    But for her strange elusive charm.
+
+    And how tears heighten woman's powers!
+    My typist weeps for hours and hours:
+    I took her for her weeping powers--
+    They so delight my business hours.
+
+    A woman lives by intuition.
+    Though my accountant shuns addition
+    She has the rarest intuition.
+    (And I myself can do addition.)
+
+    Timidity in girls is nice.
+    My cook is so afraid of mice.
+    Now you'll admit it's very nice
+    To feel your cook's afraid of mice.
+
+
+
+
+Democracy
+
+
+    Democracy is this--to hold
+      That all who wander down the pike
+      In cart or car, on foot or bike,
+    Or male or female, young or old,
+      Are much alike--are much alike.
+
+
+
+
+
+Feminism
+
+
+    "Mother, what is a Feminist?"
+      "A Feminist, my daughter,
+    Is any woman now who cares
+    To think about her own affairs
+      As men don't think she oughter."
+
+
+
+
+The Warning
+
+
+    No, it isn't home neglecting
+    If you spend your time selecting
+      Seven blouses and a jacket and a hat;
+    Or to give your day to paying
+    Needless visits, or to playing
+      Auction bridge. What critic could object to that?
+    But to spend two precious hours
+    At a lecture! Oh, my powers,
+      The home is all a woman needs to learn.
+    And an hour, or a quarter,
+    Spent in voting! Why, my daughter,
+      You could not find your home on your return.
+
+
+
+
+Evolution
+
+
+    Said Mr. Jones in 1910:
+    "Women, subject yourselves to men."
+    Nineteen-Eleven heard him quote:
+    "They rule the world without the vote."
+    By Nineteen-Twelve, he would submit
+    "When all the women wanted it."
+    By Nineteen-Thirteen, looking glum,
+    He said that it was bound to come.
+    This year I heard him say with pride:
+    "No reasons on the other side!"
+    By Nineteen-Fifteen, he'll insist
+    He's always been a suffragist.
+    And what is really stranger, too,
+    He'll think that what he says is true.
+
+
+
+
+Intercepted
+
+
+    "Only the worst of them vote."
+      "Are not the suffragists frights?"
+    "Nietzsche's the person to quote."
+      "I prefer love to my rights."
+
+    "Are not the suffragists frights?"
+      "Sex is their only appeal."
+    "I prefer love to my rights."
+      "No, we don't think, but we feel."
+
+    "Sex is their only appeal."
+      "Woman belongs at the loom."
+    "No, we don't think, but we feel."
+      "Doesn't it rub off the bloom?"
+
+    "Woman belongs at the loom."
+      "Isn't the speaker a bore!"
+    "Doesn't it rub off the bloom?"
+      "Oh, it's a fad--nothing more."
+
+    "Isn't the speaker a bore!"
+      "Nietzsche's the person to quote."
+    "Oh, it's a fad--nothing more."
+      "Only the worst of them vote."
+
+
+
+
+The Universal Answer
+
+
+          Oh, there you go again,
+          Invading man's domain!
+    It's Nature's laws, you know, you are defying.
+          Don't fancy that you can
+          Be really like a man,
+    So what's the use of all this fuss and trying?
+          It seems to me so clear,
+          That women's highest sphere
+    Is being loving wives and patient mothers.
+          Oh, can't you be content
+          To be as you were meant?
+        {souls
+    For {books belong to husbands and to brothers.
+        {votes
+
+
+
+
+Candor
+
+
+(_By an admirer of the late H.C. Bunner_.)
+
+
+    "I know what you're going to say," she said,
+      And she stood up, causing him some alarm;
+      "You're going to tell me I'll lose my charm,
+    And what is a woman when charm has fled?
+      And you're going to say that you greatly fear
+      I don't understand a woman's sphere;
+    Now aren't you honestly?" "Yes," he said.
+
+    "I know what you're going to say," she said,
+      "You're going to ask what I hope to gain
+      By stepping down to the dusty plain,
+    By seeking a stone when I might have bread;
+      You're going to say: 'Can a vote replace
+      The tender force of a woman's grace?'
+    Now, aren't you honestly?" "Yes," he said.
+
+    "I know what you're going to do," he said,
+      "You're going to talk to me all day long
+      Trying to make me see I'm wrong;
+    And other men who are less misled
+      Will pale with jealousy when they see
+      The time you give to converting me;
+    Now, aren't you honestly?" "Ye-es," she said.
+
+
+
+
+What Every Woman Must Not Say
+
+
+    "I don't pretend I'm clever," he remarked, "or very wise,"
+    And at this she murmured, "Really," with the right polite surprise.
+    "But women," he continued, "I must own I understand;
+    Women are a contradiction--honorable and underhand--
+    Constant as the star Polaris, yet as changeable as Fate,
+    Always flying what they long for, always seeking what they hate."
+    "Don't you think," began the lady, but he cut her short: "I see
+    That you take it personally--women always do," said he.
+    "You will pardon me for saying every woman is the same,
+    Always greedy for approval, always sensitive to blame;
+    Sweet and passionate are women; weak in mind, though strong in soul;
+    Even you admit, I fancy, that they have no self-control?"
+    "No, I don't admit they haven't," said the patient lady then,
+    "Or they could not sit and listen to the nonsense talked by men."
+
+
+
+
+Chivalry
+
+
+    It's treating a woman politely
+      As long as she isn't a fright:
+    It's guarding the girls who act rightly,
+      If you can be judge of what's right;
+    It's being--not just, but so pleasant;
+      It's tipping while wages are low;
+    It's making a beautiful present,
+      And failing to pay what you owe.
+
+
+    _From Our Own Nursery Rhymes_
+
+    "Chivalry, Chivalry, where have you been?"
+    "I've been out seeking a beautiful queen."
+    "Chivalry, Chivalry, what did you find?"
+    "Commonplace women, not much to my mind."
+
+
+
+
+Women
+
+(_With rather insincere apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling_.)
+
+
+    I went to ask my government if they would set me free,
+    They gave a pardoned crook a vote, but hadn't one for me;
+    The men about me laughed and frowned and said: "Go home, because
+    We really can't be bothered when we're busy making laws."
+
+    Oh, it's women this, and women that and women have no sense,
+    But it's pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the expense,
+    It comes to the expense, my dears, it comes to the expense,
+    It's pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the expense.
+
+    I went into a factory to earn my daily bread:
+    Men said: "The home is woman's sphere." "I have no home," I said.
+    But when the men all marched to war, they cried to wife and maid,
+    "Oh, never mind about the home, but save the export trade."
+
+    For it's women this and women that, and home's the place for you,
+    But it's patriotic angels when there's outside work to do,
+    There's outside work to do, my dears, there's outside work to do,
+    It's patriotic angels when there's outside work to do.
+
+    We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too,
+    But very human beings, human just as much as you.
+    It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime
+    When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.
+
+    But it's women this and women that, and woman's like a hen,
+    But it's do the country's work alone, when war takes off the men,
+    And it's women this and women that and everything you please,
+    But woman is observant, and be sure that woman sees.
+
+
+
+
+Beware!
+
+
+    In the days that are gone when a statue was wanted
+      In park or museum where statues must be,
+    A chivalrous male would come forward undaunted
+      And say: "If you must have one, make it of me.
+    Bad though they be, yet I'll agree
+    If you must make them, why make them of me."
+
+    But chivalry's dead, as I always expected
+      Since women would not let things stay as they were;
+    So now, I suppose, when a statue's erected
+      Men will say brutally: "Make it of her."
+    She may prefer things as they were
+    When they start making the statues of her.
+
+
+
+
+Male Philosophy
+
+
+    Men are very brave, you know,
+    That was settled long ago;
+    Ask, however, if you doubt it,
+    Any man you meet about it;
+    He will say, I think, like me,
+    Men are brave as they can be.
+
+    Women think they're brave, you say?
+    Do they really? Well, they may,
+    But such biased attestation
+    Is not worth consideration,
+    For a legal judgment shelves
+    What they say about themselves.
+
+
+
+
+From a Man's Point of View
+
+
+    Women love self-sacrifice
+    Suffering and good advice;
+    If they don't love these sincerely
+    Then they're not true women really.
+    Oh, it shocks me so to note
+    Women pleading for the vote!
+    Saying publicly it would
+    Educate and do them good.
+    Such a selfish reason trips
+    Oddly from a woman's lips.
+    But it must not be supposed
+    I am in the least opposed.
+    If they want it let them try it.
+    For I think we'll profit by it.
+
+
+
+
+Glory
+
+
+    I went to see old Susan Gray,
+    Whose soldier sons had marched away,
+    And this is what she had to say:
+
+    "It isn't war I hate at all--
+      'Tis likely men must fight--
+    But, oh, these flags and uniforms,
+      It's them that isn't right!
+    If war must come, and come it does
+      To take our boys from play,
+    It isn't right to make it seem
+      So beautiful and gay."
+
+    I left old Susan with a sigh;
+    A famous band was marching by
+    To make men glad they had to die.
+
+
+
+
+Dependence
+
+
+(An Englishwoman whose income has stopped owing to her two sons having
+joined the English army, was taken care of last night at the Florence
+Crittenden Mission.--_Press Clipping_.)
+
+    The young men said to their mother,
+      "Hear us, O dearest and best!
+    Time cannot cool or smother
+      The love of you in our breast;
+    Here is your place and no other--
+      Come home and rest."
+
+    And the mother's heart was grateful
+      For the love of her cherished ones,
+    And her labor, bitter and hateful,
+      She left at the word of her sons,
+    Till she heard far off the fateful
+      Voices of guns.
+
+    Their love did more enslave her;
+      They did not understand
+    That none could guard or save her
+      When war was on the land,
+    But herself, and God, who gave her
+      Heart and mind and hand.
+
+
+
+
+Playthings
+
+
+    Last year the shops were crowded
+      With soldier suits and guns--
+    The presents that at Christmas time
+      We give our little sons;
+    And many a glittering trumpet
+      And many a sword and drum;
+    But as they're made in Germany
+      This year they will not come.
+
+    Perhaps another season
+      We shall not give our boys
+    Such very warlike playthings,
+      Such military toys;
+    Perhaps another season
+      We shall not think it sweet
+    To watch their game of soldier men,
+      Who dream not of defeat.
+
+
+
+
+Militants
+
+
+    Hippolta, Penthesilea,
+      Maria Teresa and Joan,
+    Agustina and Boadicea
+      And some militant girls of our own--
+    It would take a brave man and a dull one
+      To say to these ladies: "Of course
+    We adore you while meek,
+    Timid, clinging and weak,
+      But a woman can never use force."
+
+
+
+
+A Lady's Choice
+
+
+    Her old love in tears and silence had been building her a palace
+      Ringed by moats and flanked with towers, he had set it on a hill
+    "Here," he said, "will come no whisper of the world's alarms and
+        malice,
+      In these granite walls imprisoned, I will keep you safe from ill."
+
+    As he spoke along the highway there came riding by a stranger,
+      For an instant on her features, he a fleeting glance bestowed,
+    Then he said: "My heart is fickle and the world is full of danger,"
+      And he offered her his stirrup and he pointed down the road.
+
+
+
+
+The Ballad of Lost Causes
+
+
+(_About 465 years after Villon_.)
+
+
+    Tell me in what spot remote
+      Do the antis dwell to-day,
+    Those who did not want to vote,
+      Feared their sex's prompt decay?
+      Where are those who used to say:
+    "Home alone is woman's sphere;
+      Only those should vote who slay"?
+    Where the snows of yester-year?
+
+    Where are those who used to quote
+      Nietzsche's words in dread array?
+    Where the ancient crones who wrote:
+      "Women rule through Beauty's sway"?
+      And those lovers, where are they,
+    Who could hold no woman dear
+      If she had the ballot? Nay!
+    Where the snows of yester-year?
+
+    Prince, inquire no more, I pray,
+      Whither antis disappear.
+    Suffrage won; they melt away,
+      Like the snows of yester-year.
+
+
+
+
+Thoughts at an Anti Meeting
+
+
+    There are no homes in suffrage states,
+      There are no children, glad and good,
+    There, men no longer seek for mates,
+      And women lose their womanhood.
+
+    This I believe without debate,
+      And yet I ask--and ask in vain--
+    Why no one in a suffrage state
+      Has moved to change things back again?
+
+
+
+
+A MASQUE OF TEACHERS
+
+AND
+
+THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
+
+
+
+
+The Ideal Candidates
+
+
+(A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: "No married woman
+shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position in the New
+York public schools unless her husband is mentally or physically
+incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for a period of not
+less than one year.")
+
+
+CHARACTERS
+
+    _Board of Education_.
+           _Three Would-Be Teachers_.
+
+    _Chorus by Board_:
+      Now please don't waste
+        Your time and ours
+      By pleas all based
+        On mental powers.
+      She seems to us
+        The proper stuff
+      Who has a hus-
+        Band bad enough.
+      All other pleas appear to us
+      Excessively superfluous.
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+      My husband is not really bad----
+
+    _Board_:
+        How very sad, how very sad!
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+        He's good, but hear my one excuse----
+
+    _Board_:
+        Oh, what's the use, oh, what's the use?
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+        Last winter in a railroad wreck
+        He lost an arm and broke his neck.
+        He's doomed, but lingers day by day.
+
+    _Board_:
+        Her husband's doomed! Hurray! hurray!
+
+    _2nd Teacher_:
+        My husband's kind and healthy, too----
+
+    _Board_:
+        Why, then, of course, you will not do.
+
+    _2nd Teacher_:
+        Just hear me out. You'll find you're wrong.
+        It's true his body's good and strong;
+        But, ah, his wits are all astray.
+
+    _Board_:
+        Her husband's mad. Hip, hip, hurray!
+
+    _3rd Teacher_:
+      My husband's wise and well--the creature!
+
+    _Board_:
+      Then you can never be a teacher.
+
+    _3rd Teacher_:
+      Wait. For I led him such a life
+      He could not stand me as a wife;
+      Last Michaelmas, he ran away.
+
+    _Board_:
+      Her husband hates her, Hip, hurray!
+
+    _Chorus by Board_:
+      Now we have found
+        Without a doubt,
+      By process sound
+        And well thought out,
+      Each candidate
+        Is fit in truth
+      To educate
+        The mind of youth.
+      No teacher need apply to us
+      Whose married life's harmonious.
+
+             (_Curtain_.)
+
+
+
+
+The Unconscious Suffragists
+
+
+"They who have no voice nor vote in the electing of representatives do
+not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved to those who have
+votes."--Benjamin Franklin.
+
+"No such phrase as virtual representation was ever known in law or
+constitution."--James Otis.
+
+"But these great cities, says my honorable friend, are virtually, though
+not directly represented. Are not the wishes of Manchester, he asks, as
+much consulted as those of any other town which sends members to
+Parliament? Now, sir, I do not understand how a power which is salutary
+when exercised virtually can be noxious when exercised directly. If the
+wishes of Manchester have as much weight with us as they would have
+under a system which gives representatives to Manchester, how can there
+be any danger in giving representatives to Manchester?"--Lord
+Macaulay's Speech on the Reform Bill.
+
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+universal education: for it stimulates all citizens throughout their
+lives to reflect on problems outside the narrow circle of their private
+interests and occupations: to read about public questions; to discuss
+public characters and to hold themselves ready in some degree to give a
+rational account of their political faith."--Dr. Charles Eliot.
+
+"But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their (the American
+people) desires: equality is their idol; they make rapid and sudden
+efforts to obtain liberty and if they miss their aim, resign themselves
+to their disappointment; but nothing can satisfy them without equality,
+and they would rather perish than lose it."--De Tocqueville: Democracy
+in America, 1835.
+
+"A government is for the benefit of all the people. We believe that
+this benefit is best accomplished by popular government because in
+the long run each class of individuals is apt to secure better
+provision for themselves through their own voice in government than
+through the altruistic interest of others, however intelligent or
+philanthropic."--William H. Taft in Special Message.
+
+"I have listened to some very honest and eloquent orators whose
+sentiments were noteworthy for this: that when they spoke of the people,
+they were not thinking of themselves, they were thinking of somebody
+whom they were commissioned to take care of. And I have seen them shiver
+when it was suggested that they arrange to have something done by the
+people for themselves."--The New Freedom, by Woodrow Wilson.
+
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, Are Women People?, by Alice Duer Miller
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+Title: Are Women People?
+
+Author: Alice Duer Miller
+
+Release Date: March 23, 2004  [eBook #11689]
+
+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?***
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+E-text prepared by papeters and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed
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+
+
+ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
+
+A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR SUFFRAGE TIMES
+
+By
+
+ALICE DUER MILLER
+
+AUTHOR OF "BLUE ARCH," "THE MODERN OBSTACLE." ETC.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+TO V.B.W. SLAVE-DRIVER AND FRIEND
+
+
+
+
+Introduction
+
+
+Father, what is a Legislature?
+
+A representative body elected by the people of the state.
+
+Are women people?
+
+No, my son, criminals, lunatics and women are not people.
+
+Do legislators legislate for nothing?
+
+Oh, no; they are paid a salary.
+
+By whom?
+
+By the people.
+
+Are women people?
+
+Of course, my son, just as much as men are.
+
+To the New York Tribune, in whose generous columns many of these
+verses first appeared, the author here wishes to express her gratitude.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+TREACHEROUS TEXTS
+
+CAMPAIGN MATERIAL (For Both Sides)
+
+WOMEN'S SPHERE
+
+A MASQUE OF TEACHERS: THE IDEAL CANDIDATES
+
+THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
+
+
+
+
+TREACHEROUS TEXTS
+
+
+
+
+ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
+
+
+A Consistent Anti to Her Son
+
+("Look at the hazards, the risks, the physical dangers that ladies would
+be exposed to at the polls."--_Anti-suffrage speech_.)
+
+
+    You're twenty-one to-day, Willie,
+      And a danger lurks at the door,
+    I've known about it always,
+      But I never spoke before;
+    When you were only a baby
+      It seemed so very remote,
+    But you're twenty-one to-day, Willie,
+      And old enough to vote.
+
+    You must not go to the polls, Willie,
+      Never go to the polls,
+    They're dark and dreadful places
+      Where many lose their souls;
+    They smirch, degrade and coarsen,
+      Terrible things they do
+    To quiet, elderly women--
+      What would they do to you!
+
+    If you've a boyish fancy
+      For any measure or man,
+    Tell me, and I'll tell Father,
+      He'll vote for it, if he can.
+    He casts my vote, and Louisa's,
+      And Sarah, and dear Aunt Clo;
+    Wouldn't you let him vote for you?
+      Father, who loves you so?
+
+    I've guarded you always, Willie,
+      Body and soul from harm;
+    I'll guard your faith and honor,
+      Your innocence and charm
+    From the polls and their evil spirits,
+      Politics, rum and pelf;
+    Do you think I'd send my only son
+      Where I would not go myself?
+
+
+
+
+Our Idea of Nothing at All
+
+
+("I am opposed to woman suffrage, but I am not opposed to
+woman."--_Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Webb of North Carolina_.)
+
+
+    O women, have you heard the news
+      Of charity and grace?
+    Look, look, how joy and gratitude
+      Are beaming in my face!
+    For Mr. Webb is not opposed
+      To woman in her place!
+
+    O Mr. Webb, how kind you are
+      To let us live at all,
+    To let us light the kitchen range
+      And tidy up the hall;
+    To tolerate the female sex
+      In spite of Adam's fall.
+
+    O girls, suppose that Mr. Webb
+      Should alter his decree!
+    Suppose he were opposed to us--
+      Opposed to you and me.
+    What would be left for us to do--
+      Except to cease to be?
+
+
+
+
+Lines to Mr. Bowdle of Ohio
+
+
+("The women of this smart capital are beautiful. Their beauty is
+disturbing to business; their feet are beautiful, their ankles are
+beautiful, but here I must pause."--_Mr. Bowdle's anti-suffrage speech
+in Congress, January 12, 1915_.)
+
+
+    You, who despise the so-called fairer sex,
+      Be brave. There really isn't any reason
+    You should not, if you wish, oppose and vex
+      And scold us in, and even out of season;
+    But don't regard it as your bounden duty
+    To open with a tribute to our beauty.
+
+    Say if you like that women have no sense,
+      No self-control, no power of concentration;
+    Say that hysterics is our one defence
+      Our virtue but an absence of temptation;
+    These I can bear, but, oh, I own it rankles
+    To hear you maundering on about our ankles.
+
+    Tell those old stories, which have now and then
+      Been from the Record thoughtfully deleted,
+    Repeat that favorite one about the hen,
+      Repeat the ones that cannot be repeated;
+    But in the midst of such enjoyments, smother
+    The impulse to extol your "sainted mother."
+
+
+
+
+On Not Believing All You Hear
+
+
+("Women are angels, they are jewels, they are queens and princesses of
+our hearts."--_Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Carter of Oklahoma_.)
+
+
+    "Angel, or jewel, or princess, or queen,
+    Tell me immediately, where have you been?"
+
+    "I've been to ask all my slaves so devoted
+    Why they against my enfranchisement voted."
+
+    "Angel and princess, that action was wrong.
+    Back to the kitchen, where angels belong."
+
+
+
+
+The Revolt of Mother
+
+
+("Every true woman feels----"--_Speech of almost any Congressman_.)
+
+
+    I am old-fashioned, and I think it right
+      That man should know, by Nature's laws eternal,
+    The proper way to rule, to earn, to fight,
+      And exercise those functions called paternal;
+    But even I a little bit rebel
+    At finding that he knows my job as well.
+
+    At least he's always ready to expound it,
+      Especially in legislative hall,
+    The joys, the cares, the halos that surround it,
+      "How women feel"--he knows that best of all.
+    In fact his thesis is that no one can
+    Know what is womanly except a man.
+
+    I am old-fashioned, and I am content
+      When he explains the world of art and science
+    And government--to him divinely sent--
+      I drink it in with ladylike compliance.
+    But cannot listen--no, I'm only human--
+    While he instructs me how to be a woman.
+
+
+
+
+The Gallant Sex
+
+
+(A woman engineer has been dismissed by the Board of Education, under
+their new rule that women shall not attend high pressure boilers,
+although her work has been satisfactory and she holds a license to
+attend such boilers from the Police Department.)
+
+
+    Lady, dangers lurk in boilers,
+      Risks I could not let you face.
+    Men were meant to be the toilers,
+      Home, you know, is woman's place.
+    Have no home? Well, is that so?
+    Still, it's not my fault, you know.
+
+    Charming lady, work no more;
+      Fair you are and sweet as honey;
+    Work might make your fingers sore,
+      And, besides, I need the money.
+    Prithee rest,--or starve or rob--
+    Only let me have your job!
+
+
+
+
+Representation
+
+
+("My wife is against suffrage, and that settles me."--_Vice-President
+Marshall_.)
+
+
+I
+
+    My wife dislikes the income tax,
+      And so I cannot pay it;
+    She thinks that golf all interest lacks,
+      So now I never play it;
+    She is opposed to tolls repeal
+      (Though why I cannot say),
+    But woman's duty is to feel,
+      And man's is to obey.
+
+II
+
+    I'm in a hard position for a perfect gentleman,
+    I want to please the ladies, but I don't see how I can,
+    My present wife's a suffragist, and counts on my support,
+    But my mother is an anti, of a rather biting sort;
+    One grandmother is on the fence, the other much opposed,
+    And my sister lives in Oregon, and thinks the question's closed;
+    Each one is counting on my vote to represent her view.
+    Now what should you think proper for a gentleman to do?
+
+
+
+
+Sonnet
+
+
+("Three bills known as the Thompson-Bewley cannery bills have been
+advanced to third reading in the Senate and Assembly at Albany. One
+permits the canners to work their employes seven days a week, a second
+allows them to work women after 9 p.m. and a third removes every
+restriction upon the hours of labor of women and minors."--_Zenas L.
+Potter, former chief cannery investigator for New York State Factory
+Investigating Commission_.)
+
+
+    Let us not to an unrestricted day
+    Impediments admit. Work is not work
+    To our employes, but a merry play;
+    They do not ask the law's excuse to shirk.
+    Ah, no, the canning season is at hand,
+    When summer scents are on the air distilled,
+    When golden fruits are ripening in the land,
+    And silvery tins are gaping to be filled.
+    Now to the cannery with jocund mien
+    Before the dawn come women, girls and boys,
+    Whose weekly hours (a hundred and nineteen)
+    Seem all too short for their industrious joys.
+      If this be error and be proved, alas
+      The Thompson-Bewley bills may fail to pass!
+
+
+
+
+To President Wilson
+
+
+("I hold it as a fundamental principle and so do you, that every people
+has the right to determine its own form of government. And until
+recently 50 per cent, of the people of Mexico have not had a look-in in
+determining who should be their governors, or what their government
+should be."--_Speech of President Wilson_.)
+
+
+    Wise and just man--for such I think you are--
+    How can you see so burningly and clear
+    Injustices and tyrannies afar,
+    Yet blind your eyes to one that lies so near?
+    How can you plead so earnestly for men
+    Who fight their own fight with a bloody hand;
+    How hold their cause so wildly dear, and then
+    Forget the women of your native land?
+    With your stern ardor and your scholar's word
+    You speak to us of human liberty;
+    Can you believe that women are not stirred
+    By this same human longing to be free?
+      He who for liberty would strike a blow
+      Need not take arms, or fly to Mexico.
+
+
+
+
+Home and Where It Is
+
+
+(An Indiana judge has recently ruled: As to the right of the husband to
+decide the location of the home that "home is where the husband is.")
+
+
+    Home is where the husband is,
+    Be it near or be it far,
+    Office, theatre, Pullman car,
+    Poolroom, polls, or corner bar--
+    All good wives remember this--
+    Home is where the husband is.
+
+    Woman's place is home, I wis.
+    Leave your family bacon frying,
+    Leave your wash and dishes drying,
+    Leave your little children crying;
+    Join your husband, near or far,
+    At the club or corner bar,
+    For the court has taught us this:
+    "Home is where the husband is."
+
+
+
+
+The Maiden's Vow
+
+
+(A speaker at the National Education Association advised girls not to
+study algebra. Many girls, he said, had lost their souls through this
+study. The idea has been taken up with enthusiasm.)
+
+
+    I will avoid equations,
+      And shun the naughty surd,
+    I must beware the perfect square,
+      Through it young girls have erred:
+    And when men mention Rule of Three
+      Pretend I have not heard.
+
+    Through Sturm's delightful theorems
+      Illicit joys assure,
+    Though permutations and combinations
+      My woman's heart allure,
+    I'll never study algebra,
+      But keep my spirit pure.
+
+
+
+
+Such Nonsense
+
+
+("Where on earth did the idea come from that the ballot is a boon, a
+privilege and an honor? From men."--_Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin_.)
+
+
+    Who is it thinks the vote some use?
+    Man. (Man is often such a goose!)
+    Indeed it makes me laugh to see
+    How men have struggled to be free.
+
+    Poor Washington, who meant so well,
+    And Nathan Hale and William Tell,
+    Hampden and Bolivar and Pym,
+    And L'Ouverture--remember him?
+
+    And Garibaldi and Kossuth,
+    And some who threw away their youth,
+    All bitten by the stupid notion
+    That liberty was worth emotion.
+
+    They could not get it through their heads
+    That if they stayed tucked up in beds,
+    Avoiding politics and strife,
+    They'd lead a pleasant, peaceful life.
+
+    Let us, dear sisters, never make
+    Such a ridiculous mistake;
+    But teach our children o'er and o'er
+    That liberty is just a chore.
+
+
+
+
+A Suggested Campaign Song
+
+
+("No brass bands. No speeches. Instead a still, silent, effective
+influence."--_Anti-suffrage speech_.)
+
+
+    We are waging--can you doubt it?
+      A campaign so calm and still
+    No one knows a thing about it,
+      And we hope they never will.
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      And we hope they never will.
+
+    We are ladylike and quiet,
+      Here a whisper--there a hint;
+    Never speeches, bands or riot,
+      Nothing suitable for print.
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      For we never speak for print.
+
+    Sometimes in profound seclusion,
+      In some far (but homelike) spot,
+    We will make a dark allusion:
+      "We're opposed to you-know-what."
+        No one knows
+        What we oppose,
+      For we call it "You-Know-What."
+
+
+
+
+The Woman of Charm
+
+
+("I hate a woman who is not a mystery to herself, as well as to
+me."--_The Phoenix_.)
+
+
+    If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
+      Known to the world as a Woman of Charm,
+    Take all the conspicuous ladies of history,
+      Mix them all up without doing them harm.
+    The beauty of Helen, the warmth of Cleopatra,
+      Salome's notorious skill in the dance,
+    The dusky allure of the belles of Sumatra,
+      The fashion and finish of ladies from France.
+    The youth of Susanna, beloved by an elder,
+      The wit of a Chambers' incomparable minx,
+    The conjugal views of the patient Griselda,
+     The fire of Sappho, the calm of the Sphinx,
+    The eyes of La Valliere, the voice of Cordelia,
+    The musical gifts of the sainted Cecelia,
+    Trilby and Carmen and Ruth and Ophelia,
+    Madame de Stael and the matron Cornelia,
+    Iseult, Hypatia and naughty Nell Gwynn,
+    Una, Titania and Elinor Glyn.
+      Take of these elements all that is fusible,
+      Melt 'em all down in a pipkin or crucible,
+      Set 'em to simmer and take off the scum,
+      And a Woman of Charm is the residuum!
+        (Slightly adapted from W.S. Gilbert.)
+
+
+
+
+A Modern Proposal
+
+
+(It has been said that the feminist movement is the true solution of the
+mother-in-law problem.)
+
+
+    Sylvia, my dear, I would be yours with pleasure,
+      All that you are seems excellent to me,
+    Except your mother, who's much more at leisure
+      Than mothers ought to be.
+
+    Find her a fad, a job, an occupation,
+      Eugenics, dancing, uplift, yes, or crime,
+    Set her to work for her Emancipation--
+      That takes a lot of time.
+
+    Or, if the suffrage doctrine fails to charm her,
+      There are the Antis--rather in her line--
+    Guarding the Home from Maine to Alabama
+      Would keep her out of mine.
+
+
+
+
+The Newer Lullaby
+
+
+("Good heavens, when I think what the young boy of to-day is growing up
+to I gasp. He has too many women around him all the time. He has his
+mother when he is a baby."--_Bernard Fagin, Probation Officer_.)
+
+
+    Hush-a-bye, baby,
+      Feel no alarm,
+    Gunmen shall guard you,
+      Lest Mother should harm.
+    Wake in your cradle,
+      Hear father curse!
+    Isn't that better
+      Than Mother or Nurse?
+
+
+
+
+The Protected Sex
+
+_With apologies to James Whitcomb Riley_.
+
+
+("The result of taking second place to girls at school is that the boy
+feels a sense of inferiority that he is never afterward able entirely to
+shake off."--_Editorial in London Globe against co-education_.)
+
+
+    There, little girl, don't read,
+    You're fond of your books, I know,
+    But Brother might mope
+    If he had no hope
+    Of getting ahead of you.
+    It's dull for a boy who cannot lead.
+    There, little girl, don't read.
+
+
+
+Warning to Suffragists
+
+
+("The Latin man believes that giving woman the vote will make her less
+attractive."--_Anna H. Shaw_.)
+
+
+    They must sacrifice their beauty
+    Who would do their civic duty,
+      Who the polling booth would enter,
+      Who the ballot box would use;
+    As they drop their ballots in it
+    Men and women in a minute,
+      Lose their charm, the antis tell us,
+      But--the men have less to lose.
+
+
+
+
+Partners
+
+
+("Our laws have not yet reached the point of holding that property which
+is the result of the husband's earnings and the wife's savings becomes
+their joint property.... In this most important of all partnerships
+there is no partnership property."--_Recent decision of the New York
+Supreme Court_.)
+
+
+    Lady, lovely lady, come and share
+        All my care;
+    Oh how gladly I will hurry
+    To confide my every worry
+    (And they're very dark and drear)
+        In your ear.
+
+    Lady, share the praise I obtain
+        Now and again;
+    Though I'm shy, it doesn't matter,
+    I will tell you how they flatter:
+    Every compliment I'll share
+        Fair and square.
+
+    Lady, I my toil will divide
+        At your side;
+    I outside the home, you within;
+    You shall wash and cook and spin,
+    I'll provide the flax and food,
+            If you're good.
+
+    Partners, lady, we shall be,
+            You and me,
+    Partners in the highest sense
+    Looking for no recompense,
+    For, the savings that we make,
+            I shall take.
+
+
+
+
+What Governments Say to Women
+
+
+(The law compels a married woman to take the nationality of her
+husband.)
+
+
+I
+
+_In Time of War_
+
+    Help us. Your country needs you;
+      Show that you love her,
+    Give her your men to fight,
+      Ay, even to fall;
+    The fair, free land of your birth,
+      Set nothing above her,
+    Not husband nor son,
+      She must come first of all.
+
+II
+
+_In Time of Peace_
+
+    What's this? You've wed an alien,
+      Yet you ask for legislation
+    To guard your nationality?
+      We're shocked at your demand.
+    A woman when she marries
+      Takes her husband's name and nation:
+    She should love her husband only.
+      What's a woman's native land?
+
+
+
+
+"Oh, That 'Twere Possible!"
+
+_With apologies to Lord Tennyson._
+
+
+("The grant of suffrage to women is repugnant to instincts that strike
+their roots deep in the order of nature. It runs counter to human
+reason, it flouts the teachings of experience and the admonitions of
+common sense."--_N.Y. Times, Feb. 7, 1915_.)
+
+
+    Oh, that 'twere possible
+      After those words inane
+    For me to read _The Times_
+      Ever again!
+
+    When I was wont to read it
+      In the early morning hours,
+    In a mood 'twixt wrath and mirth,
+      I exclaimed: "Alas, Ye Powers,
+    These ideas are fainter, quainter
+      Than anything on earth!"
+
+    A paper's laid before me.
+      Not thou, not like to thee.
+    Dear me, if it were possible
+      _The Times_ should ever see
+    How very far the times have moved
+      (Spelt with a little "t").
+
+
+
+
+_The Times_ Editorials
+
+
+    Lovely Antiques, breathing in every line
+    The perfume of an age long passed away,
+    Wafting us back to 1829,
+    Museum pieces of a by-gone day,
+    You should not languish in the public press
+    Where modern thought might reach and do you harm,
+    And vulgar youth insult your hoariness,
+    Missing the flavor of your old world charm;
+    You should be locked, where rust cannot corrode
+    In some old rosewood cabinet, dimmed by age,
+    With silver-lustre, tortoise shell and Spode;
+    And all would cry, who read your yellowing page:
+      "Yes, that's the sort of thing that men believed
+      Before the First Reform Bill was conceived!"
+
+
+
+
+CAMPAIGN MATERIAL
+
+(_For Both Sides_)
+
+
+
+
+Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons
+
+
+1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote.
+
+2. Because no woman who may vote will attend to her domestic duties.
+
+3. Because it will make dissension between husband and wife.
+
+4. Because every woman will vote as her husband tells her to.
+
+5. Because bad women will corrupt politics.
+
+6. Because bad politics will corrupt women.
+
+7. Because women have no power of organization.
+
+8. Because women will form a solid party and outvote men.
+
+9. Because men and women are so different that they must stick to
+different duties.
+
+10. Because men and women are so much alike that men, with one vote
+each, can represent their own views and ours too.
+
+11. Because women cannot use force.
+
+12. Because the militants did use force.
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Pockets for Women
+
+
+1. Because pockets are not a natural right.
+
+2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did
+they would have them.
+
+3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.
+
+4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is, without
+the additional burden of pockets.
+
+5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose
+pockets were to be filled.
+
+6. Because it would destroy man's chivalry toward woman, if he did not
+have to carry all her things in his pockets.
+
+7. Because men are men, and women are women. We must not fly in the face
+of nature.
+
+8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes,
+whiskey flasks, chewing gum and compromising letters. We see no reason
+to suppose that women would use them more wisely.
+
+
+
+
+Fashion Notes: Past and Present
+
+
+1880--Anti-suffrage arguments are being worn long, calm and flowing this
+year, with the dominant note that of woman's intellectual inferiority.
+
+1890--Violence is very evident in this season's modes, and our more
+conservative thinkers are saying that woman suffrage threatens the home,
+the Church and the Republic.
+
+1900--A complete change of style has taken place. Everything is being
+worn _a l'aristocrate_, with the repeated assertion that too many people
+are voting already.
+
+1915--The best line of goods shown by the leading anti-suffrage houses
+this spring is the statement that woman suffrage is the same thing as
+free love. The effect is extremely piquant and surprising.
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains
+
+
+1. Because travelling in trains is not a natural right.
+
+2. Because our great-grandmothers never asked to travel in trains.
+
+3. Because woman's place is the home, not the train.
+
+4. Because it is unnecessary; there is no point reached by a train that
+cannot be reached on foot.
+
+5. Because it will double the work of conductors, engineers and brakemen
+who are already overburdened.
+
+6. Because men smoke and play cards in trains. Is there any reason to
+believe that women will behave better?
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Schools for Children
+
+
+(_By the Children's Anti-School League_.)
+
+1. Because education is a burden, not a right.
+
+2. Because not one-tenth of one per cent. of the children of this
+country have demanded education.
+
+3. Because if we are educated we should have to behave as if we were and
+we don't want to.
+
+4. Because it is essentially against the nature of a child to be
+educated.
+
+5. Because we can't see that it has done so much for grown-ups, and
+there is no reason for thinking it will make children perfect.
+
+6. Because the time of children is already sufficiently occupied without
+going to school.
+
+7. Because it would make dissension between parent and child. Imagine
+the home life of a parent who turned out to be more ignorant than his
+(or her) child?
+
+8. Because we believe in the indirect education of the theatre, the
+baseball field and the moving picture. We believe that schools would in
+a great measure deprive us of this.
+
+9. Because our parents went to school. They love us, they take care of
+us, they tell us what to do. We are content that they should be educated
+for us.
+
+
+
+
+But Then Who Cares for Figures
+
+
+An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as men for the
+same work is that women are only temporarily in industry.
+
+Forty-four per cent of the women teachers in the public schools of New
+York have been more than ten years in the service, while only twenty-six
+per cent of the men teachers have served as long.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Bundesrath of Germany has decided to furnish medical and financial
+assistance to women at the time of childbirth, in order "to alleviate
+the anxiety of husbands at the front."
+
+How strange this would sound: "The Bundesrath has decided to furnish
+medical assistance to the wounded at the front, in order to alleviate
+the anxiety of wives and mothers at home."
+
+When a benefit is suggested for men, the question asked is: "Will it
+benefit men?"
+
+When a benefit is suggested for women, the question is: "Will it benefit
+men?"
+
+
+
+
+Why We Oppose Votes for Men
+
+
+1. Because man's place is the armory.
+
+2. Because no really manly man wants to settle any question otherwise
+than by fighting about it.
+
+3. Because if men should adopt peaceable methods women will no longer
+look up to them.
+
+4. Because men will lose their charm if they step out of their natural
+sphere and interest themselves in other matters than feats of arms,
+uniforms and drums.
+
+5. Because men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball
+games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency
+to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit for the task of
+government.
+
+
+
+
+The Logic of the Law
+
+
+In 1875 the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in denying the petition of women
+to practise before it said:
+
+"It would be shocking to man's reverence for womanhood and faith in
+woman ... that woman should be permitted to mix professionally in all
+the nastiness which finds its way into courts of justice."
+
+It then names thirteen subjects as unfit for the attention of
+women--three of them are crimes committed against women.
+
+
+
+
+Consistency
+
+
+("Vile insults, lewd talk and brutal conduct were used by the indicted
+men to frighten respectable women who went to the polls in Terre Haute
+at the last election, asserted District Attorney Dailey."--_Press
+Dispatch_.)
+
+Are the polls unfit for decent women?
+
+No, sir, they are perfectly orderly.
+
+Tut, tut! Go there at once and swear and be brutal, or what will become
+of our anti-suffrage argument?
+
+
+
+
+Sometimes We're Ivy, and Sometimes We're Oak
+
+
+Is it true that the English government is calling on women to do work
+abandoned by men?
+
+Yes, it is true.
+
+Is not woman's place the home?
+
+No, not when men need her services outside the home.
+
+Will she never be told again that her place is the home?
+
+Oh, yes, indeed.
+
+When?
+
+As soon as men want their jobs back again.
+
+
+
+
+Do You Know
+
+
+That in 1869 Miss Jex-Blake and four other women entered for a medical
+degree at the University of Edinburgh?
+
+That the president of the College of Physicians refused to give the
+women the prizes they had won?
+
+That the undergraduates insulted any professor who allowed women to
+compete for prizes?
+
+That the women were stoned in the streets, and finally excluded from
+the medical school?
+
+That in 1877 the British Medical Association declared women ineligible
+for membership?
+
+That in 1881 the International Medical Congress excluded women from all
+but its "social and ceremonial meetings"?
+
+That the Obstetrical Society refused to allow a woman's name to appear
+on the title page of a pamphlet which she had written with her husband?
+
+That according to a recent dispatch from London, many hospitals, since
+the outbreak of hostilities, have asked women to become resident
+physicians, and public authorities are daily endeavoring to obtain women
+as assistant medical officers and as school doctors?
+
+
+
+
+Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists
+
+
+"Woman's place is in my home."--Appius Claudius.
+
+"I have never felt the need of the ballot."--Cleopatra.
+
+"Magna Charta merely fashionable fad of ye Barons."--King John.
+
+"Boston Tea Party shows American colonists to be hysterical and utterly
+incapable of self-government."--George III.
+
+"Know of no really good slaves who desire emancipation."--President of
+the United Slaveholders' Protective Association.
+
+
+
+
+Another of Those Curious Coincidences
+
+
+On February 15, the House of Representatives passed a bill making it
+unlawful to ship in interstate commerce the products of a mill, cannery
+or factory which have been produced by the labor of children under
+fourteen years.
+
+Forty-three gentlemen voted against it.
+
+Forty-one of those forty-three had also voted against the woman suffrage
+bill.
+
+Not one single vote was cast against it by a representative from any
+state where women vote for Congressmen.
+
+
+
+
+The New Freedom
+
+
+"The Michigan commission on industrial relations has discovered," says
+"The Detroit Journal," "that thousands of wives support their husbands."
+
+Woman's place is the home, but under a special privilege she is
+sometimes allowed to send her wages as a substitute.
+
+
+
+
+To the Great Dining Out Majority
+
+
+The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is sending out
+leaflets to its members urging them to "tell every man you meet, your
+tailor, your postman, your grocer, as well as your _dinner partner_,
+that you are opposed to woman suffrage."
+
+We hope that the 90,000 sewing machine operatives, the 40,000
+saleswomen, the 32,000 laundry operatives, the 20,000 knitting and silk
+mill girls, the 17,000 women janitors and cleaners, the 12,000
+cigar-makers, to say nothing of the 700,000 other women and girls in
+industry in New York State, will remember when they have drawn off their
+long gloves and tasted their oysters to tell their dinner partners that
+they are opposed to woman suffrage because they fear it might take women
+out of the home.
+
+
+
+
+WOMEN'S SPHERE
+
+
+
+
+Many Men to Any Woman
+
+
+    If you have beauty, charm, refinement, tact,
+    If you can prove that should I set you free,
+    You would not contemplate the smallest act
+    That might annoy or interfere with me.
+    If you can show that women will abide
+    By the best standards of their womanhood--
+    (And I must be the person to decide
+    What in a woman is the highest good);
+    If you display efficiency supreme
+    In philanthropic work devoid of pay;
+    If you can show a clearly thought-out scheme
+    For bringing the millennium in a day:
+      Why, then, dear lady, at some time remote,
+    I might consider giving you the vote.
+
+
+
+
+A Sex Difference
+
+
+    When men in Congress come to blows at something someone said,
+    I always notice that it shows their blood is quick and red;
+    But if two women disagree, with very little noise,
+    It proves, and this seems strange to me, that women have no poise.
+
+
+
+
+Advice to Heroines
+
+
+I
+
+    A heroine must shrink and cling
+      When heroes are about,
+    And thus the watching world will think:
+      "How brave his heart and stout!"
+    But if he chance to be away
+      When bright-faced dangers shine,
+    It will be best for her to play
+      The oak-tree, not the vine.
+    In fact the most important thing
+    Is knowing when it's time to cling.
+
+
+II
+
+_With apologies to R.L.S._
+
+    A heroine must be polite
+    And do what others say is right,
+    And think men wise and formidable--
+    At least as far as she is able.
+
+
+
+
+Mutual Vows
+
+
+    "My dear," he said, "observe this frightful bill,
+    Run up, I think you'll own, against my will.
+    If you will recollect our wedding day
+    You vowed on that occasion to obey."
+    "I do recall the day," said she, "and how
+    Me with your worldly goods you did endow."
+    "That," he replied, "is palpably absurd----"
+    "You mean you did not mean to keep your word?"
+    "O, yes," he answered, "in a general way."
+    "And that," said she, "is how I meant obey."
+
+
+
+
+If They Meant All They Said
+
+
+    Charm is a woman's strongest arm;
+    My charwoman is full of charm;
+    I chose her, not for strength of arm
+    But for her strange elusive charm.
+
+    And how tears heighten woman's powers!
+    My typist weeps for hours and hours:
+    I took her for her weeping powers--
+    They so delight my business hours.
+
+    A woman lives by intuition.
+    Though my accountant shuns addition
+    She has the rarest intuition.
+    (And I myself can do addition.)
+
+    Timidity in girls is nice.
+    My cook is so afraid of mice.
+    Now you'll admit it's very nice
+    To feel your cook's afraid of mice.
+
+
+
+
+Democracy
+
+
+    Democracy is this--to hold
+      That all who wander down the pike
+      In cart or car, on foot or bike,
+    Or male or female, young or old,
+      Are much alike--are much alike.
+
+
+
+
+
+Feminism
+
+
+    "Mother, what is a Feminist?"
+      "A Feminist, my daughter,
+    Is any woman now who cares
+    To think about her own affairs
+      As men don't think she oughter."
+
+
+
+
+The Warning
+
+
+    No, it isn't home neglecting
+    If you spend your time selecting
+      Seven blouses and a jacket and a hat;
+    Or to give your day to paying
+    Needless visits, or to playing
+      Auction bridge. What critic could object to that?
+    But to spend two precious hours
+    At a lecture! Oh, my powers,
+      The home is all a woman needs to learn.
+    And an hour, or a quarter,
+    Spent in voting! Why, my daughter,
+      You could not find your home on your return.
+
+
+
+
+Evolution
+
+
+    Said Mr. Jones in 1910:
+    "Women, subject yourselves to men."
+    Nineteen-Eleven heard him quote:
+    "They rule the world without the vote."
+    By Nineteen-Twelve, he would submit
+    "When all the women wanted it."
+    By Nineteen-Thirteen, looking glum,
+    He said that it was bound to come.
+    This year I heard him say with pride:
+    "No reasons on the other side!"
+    By Nineteen-Fifteen, he'll insist
+    He's always been a suffragist.
+    And what is really stranger, too,
+    He'll think that what he says is true.
+
+
+
+
+Intercepted
+
+
+    "Only the worst of them vote."
+      "Are not the suffragists frights?"
+    "Nietzsche's the person to quote."
+      "I prefer love to my rights."
+
+    "Are not the suffragists frights?"
+      "Sex is their only appeal."
+    "I prefer love to my rights."
+      "No, we don't think, but we feel."
+
+    "Sex is their only appeal."
+      "Woman belongs at the loom."
+    "No, we don't think, but we feel."
+      "Doesn't it rub off the bloom?"
+
+    "Woman belongs at the loom."
+      "Isn't the speaker a bore!"
+    "Doesn't it rub off the bloom?"
+      "Oh, it's a fad--nothing more."
+
+    "Isn't the speaker a bore!"
+      "Nietzsche's the person to quote."
+    "Oh, it's a fad--nothing more."
+      "Only the worst of them vote."
+
+
+
+
+The Universal Answer
+
+
+          Oh, there you go again,
+          Invading man's domain!
+    It's Nature's laws, you know, you are defying.
+          Don't fancy that you can
+          Be really like a man,
+    So what's the use of all this fuss and trying?
+          It seems to me so clear,
+          That women's highest sphere
+    Is being loving wives and patient mothers.
+          Oh, can't you be content
+          To be as you were meant?
+        {souls
+    For {books belong to husbands and to brothers.
+        {votes
+
+
+
+
+Candor
+
+
+(_By an admirer of the late H.C. Bunner_.)
+
+
+    "I know what you're going to say," she said,
+      And she stood up, causing him some alarm;
+      "You're going to tell me I'll lose my charm,
+    And what is a woman when charm has fled?
+      And you're going to say that you greatly fear
+      I don't understand a woman's sphere;
+    Now aren't you honestly?" "Yes," he said.
+
+    "I know what you're going to say," she said,
+      "You're going to ask what I hope to gain
+      By stepping down to the dusty plain,
+    By seeking a stone when I might have bread;
+      You're going to say: 'Can a vote replace
+      The tender force of a woman's grace?'
+    Now, aren't you honestly?" "Yes," he said.
+
+    "I know what you're going to do," he said,
+      "You're going to talk to me all day long
+      Trying to make me see I'm wrong;
+    And other men who are less misled
+      Will pale with jealousy when they see
+      The time you give to converting me;
+    Now, aren't you honestly?" "Ye-es," she said.
+
+
+
+
+What Every Woman Must Not Say
+
+
+    "I don't pretend I'm clever," he remarked, "or very wise,"
+    And at this she murmured, "Really," with the right polite surprise.
+    "But women," he continued, "I must own I understand;
+    Women are a contradiction--honorable and underhand--
+    Constant as the star Polaris, yet as changeable as Fate,
+    Always flying what they long for, always seeking what they hate."
+    "Don't you think," began the lady, but he cut her short: "I see
+    That you take it personally--women always do," said he.
+    "You will pardon me for saying every woman is the same,
+    Always greedy for approval, always sensitive to blame;
+    Sweet and passionate are women; weak in mind, though strong in soul;
+    Even you admit, I fancy, that they have no self-control?"
+    "No, I don't admit they haven't," said the patient lady then,
+    "Or they could not sit and listen to the nonsense talked by men."
+
+
+
+
+Chivalry
+
+
+    It's treating a woman politely
+      As long as she isn't a fright:
+    It's guarding the girls who act rightly,
+      If you can be judge of what's right;
+    It's being--not just, but so pleasant;
+      It's tipping while wages are low;
+    It's making a beautiful present,
+      And failing to pay what you owe.
+
+
+    _From Our Own Nursery Rhymes_
+
+    "Chivalry, Chivalry, where have you been?"
+    "I've been out seeking a beautiful queen."
+    "Chivalry, Chivalry, what did you find?"
+    "Commonplace women, not much to my mind."
+
+
+
+
+Women
+
+(_With rather insincere apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling_.)
+
+
+    I went to ask my government if they would set me free,
+    They gave a pardoned crook a vote, but hadn't one for me;
+    The men about me laughed and frowned and said: "Go home, because
+    We really can't be bothered when we're busy making laws."
+
+    Oh, it's women this, and women that and women have no sense,
+    But it's pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the expense,
+    It comes to the expense, my dears, it comes to the expense,
+    It's pay your taxes promptly when it comes to the expense.
+
+    I went into a factory to earn my daily bread:
+    Men said: "The home is woman's sphere." "I have no home," I said.
+    But when the men all marched to war, they cried to wife and maid,
+    "Oh, never mind about the home, but save the export trade."
+
+    For it's women this and women that, and home's the place for you,
+    But it's patriotic angels when there's outside work to do,
+    There's outside work to do, my dears, there's outside work to do,
+    It's patriotic angels when there's outside work to do.
+
+    We are not really senseless, and we are not angels, too,
+    But very human beings, human just as much as you.
+    It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime
+    When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.
+
+    But it's women this and women that, and woman's like a hen,
+    But it's do the country's work alone, when war takes off the men,
+    And it's women this and women that and everything you please,
+    But woman is observant, and be sure that woman sees.
+
+
+
+
+Beware!
+
+
+    In the days that are gone when a statue was wanted
+      In park or museum where statues must be,
+    A chivalrous male would come forward undaunted
+      And say: "If you must have one, make it of me.
+    Bad though they be, yet I'll agree
+    If you must make them, why make them of me."
+
+    But chivalry's dead, as I always expected
+      Since women would not let things stay as they were;
+    So now, I suppose, when a statue's erected
+      Men will say brutally: "Make it of her."
+    She may prefer things as they were
+    When they start making the statues of her.
+
+
+
+
+Male Philosophy
+
+
+    Men are very brave, you know,
+    That was settled long ago;
+    Ask, however, if you doubt it,
+    Any man you meet about it;
+    He will say, I think, like me,
+    Men are brave as they can be.
+
+    Women think they're brave, you say?
+    Do they really? Well, they may,
+    But such biased attestation
+    Is not worth consideration,
+    For a legal judgment shelves
+    What they say about themselves.
+
+
+
+
+From a Man's Point of View
+
+
+    Women love self-sacrifice
+    Suffering and good advice;
+    If they don't love these sincerely
+    Then they're not true women really.
+    Oh, it shocks me so to note
+    Women pleading for the vote!
+    Saying publicly it would
+    Educate and do them good.
+    Such a selfish reason trips
+    Oddly from a woman's lips.
+    But it must not be supposed
+    I am in the least opposed.
+    If they want it let them try it.
+    For I think we'll profit by it.
+
+
+
+
+Glory
+
+
+    I went to see old Susan Gray,
+    Whose soldier sons had marched away,
+    And this is what she had to say:
+
+    "It isn't war I hate at all--
+      'Tis likely men must fight--
+    But, oh, these flags and uniforms,
+      It's them that isn't right!
+    If war must come, and come it does
+      To take our boys from play,
+    It isn't right to make it seem
+      So beautiful and gay."
+
+    I left old Susan with a sigh;
+    A famous band was marching by
+    To make men glad they had to die.
+
+
+
+
+Dependence
+
+
+(An Englishwoman whose income has stopped owing to her two sons having
+joined the English army, was taken care of last night at the Florence
+Crittenden Mission.--_Press Clipping_.)
+
+    The young men said to their mother,
+      "Hear us, O dearest and best!
+    Time cannot cool or smother
+      The love of you in our breast;
+    Here is your place and no other--
+      Come home and rest."
+
+    And the mother's heart was grateful
+      For the love of her cherished ones,
+    And her labor, bitter and hateful,
+      She left at the word of her sons,
+    Till she heard far off the fateful
+      Voices of guns.
+
+    Their love did more enslave her;
+      They did not understand
+    That none could guard or save her
+      When war was on the land,
+    But herself, and God, who gave her
+      Heart and mind and hand.
+
+
+
+
+Playthings
+
+
+    Last year the shops were crowded
+      With soldier suits and guns--
+    The presents that at Christmas time
+      We give our little sons;
+    And many a glittering trumpet
+      And many a sword and drum;
+    But as they're made in Germany
+      This year they will not come.
+
+    Perhaps another season
+      We shall not give our boys
+    Such very warlike playthings,
+      Such military toys;
+    Perhaps another season
+      We shall not think it sweet
+    To watch their game of soldier men,
+      Who dream not of defeat.
+
+
+
+
+Militants
+
+
+    Hippolta, Penthesilea,
+      Maria Teresa and Joan,
+    Agustina and Boadicea
+      And some militant girls of our own--
+    It would take a brave man and a dull one
+      To say to these ladies: "Of course
+    We adore you while meek,
+    Timid, clinging and weak,
+      But a woman can never use force."
+
+
+
+
+A Lady's Choice
+
+
+    Her old love in tears and silence had been building her a palace
+      Ringed by moats and flanked with towers, he had set it on a hill
+    "Here," he said, "will come no whisper of the world's alarms and
+        malice,
+      In these granite walls imprisoned, I will keep you safe from ill."
+
+    As he spoke along the highway there came riding by a stranger,
+      For an instant on her features, he a fleeting glance bestowed,
+    Then he said: "My heart is fickle and the world is full of danger,"
+      And he offered her his stirrup and he pointed down the road.
+
+
+
+
+The Ballad of Lost Causes
+
+
+(_About 465 years after Villon_.)
+
+
+    Tell me in what spot remote
+      Do the antis dwell to-day,
+    Those who did not want to vote,
+      Feared their sex's prompt decay?
+      Where are those who used to say:
+    "Home alone is woman's sphere;
+      Only those should vote who slay"?
+    Where the snows of yester-year?
+
+    Where are those who used to quote
+      Nietzsche's words in dread array?
+    Where the ancient crones who wrote:
+      "Women rule through Beauty's sway"?
+      And those lovers, where are they,
+    Who could hold no woman dear
+      If she had the ballot? Nay!
+    Where the snows of yester-year?
+
+    Prince, inquire no more, I pray,
+      Whither antis disappear.
+    Suffrage won; they melt away,
+      Like the snows of yester-year.
+
+
+
+
+Thoughts at an Anti Meeting
+
+
+    There are no homes in suffrage states,
+      There are no children, glad and good,
+    There, men no longer seek for mates,
+      And women lose their womanhood.
+
+    This I believe without debate,
+      And yet I ask--and ask in vain--
+    Why no one in a suffrage state
+      Has moved to change things back again?
+
+
+
+
+A MASQUE OF TEACHERS
+
+AND
+
+THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS
+
+
+
+
+The Ideal Candidates
+
+
+(A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: "No married woman
+shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position in the New
+York public schools unless her husband is mentally or physically
+incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for a period of not
+less than one year.")
+
+
+CHARACTERS
+
+    _Board of Education_.
+           _Three Would-Be Teachers_.
+
+    _Chorus by Board_:
+      Now please don't waste
+        Your time and ours
+      By pleas all based
+        On mental powers.
+      She seems to us
+        The proper stuff
+      Who has a hus-
+        Band bad enough.
+      All other pleas appear to us
+      Excessively superfluous.
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+      My husband is not really bad----
+
+    _Board_:
+        How very sad, how very sad!
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+        He's good, but hear my one excuse----
+
+    _Board_:
+        Oh, what's the use, oh, what's the use?
+
+    _1st Teacher_:
+        Last winter in a railroad wreck
+        He lost an arm and broke his neck.
+        He's doomed, but lingers day by day.
+
+    _Board_:
+        Her husband's doomed! Hurray! hurray!
+
+    _2nd Teacher_:
+        My husband's kind and healthy, too----
+
+    _Board_:
+        Why, then, of course, you will not do.
+
+    _2nd Teacher_:
+        Just hear me out. You'll find you're wrong.
+        It's true his body's good and strong;
+        But, ah, his wits are all astray.
+
+    _Board_:
+        Her husband's mad. Hip, hip, hurray!
+
+    _3rd Teacher_:
+      My husband's wise and well--the creature!
+
+    _Board_:
+      Then you can never be a teacher.
+
+    _3rd Teacher_:
+      Wait. For I led him such a life
+      He could not stand me as a wife;
+      Last Michaelmas, he ran away.
+
+    _Board_:
+      Her husband hates her, Hip, hurray!
+
+    _Chorus by Board_:
+      Now we have found
+        Without a doubt,
+      By process sound
+        And well thought out,
+      Each candidate
+        Is fit in truth
+      To educate
+        The mind of youth.
+      No teacher need apply to us
+      Whose married life's harmonious.
+
+             (_Curtain_.)
+
+
+
+
+The Unconscious Suffragists
+
+
+"They who have no voice nor vote in the electing of representatives do
+not enjoy liberty, but are absolutely enslaved to those who have
+votes."--Benjamin Franklin.
+
+"No such phrase as virtual representation was ever known in law or
+constitution."--James Otis.
+
+"But these great cities, says my honorable friend, are virtually, though
+not directly represented. Are not the wishes of Manchester, he asks, as
+much consulted as those of any other town which sends members to
+Parliament? Now, sir, I do not understand how a power which is salutary
+when exercised virtually can be noxious when exercised directly. If the
+wishes of Manchester have as much weight with us as they would have
+under a system which gives representatives to Manchester, how can there
+be any danger in giving representatives to Manchester?"--Lord
+Macaulay's Speech on the Reform Bill.
+
+"Universal suffrage prolongs in the United States the effect of
+universal education: for it stimulates all citizens throughout their
+lives to reflect on problems outside the narrow circle of their private
+interests and occupations: to read about public questions; to discuss
+public characters and to hold themselves ready in some degree to give a
+rational account of their political faith."--Dr. Charles Eliot.
+
+"But liberty is not the chief and constant object of their (the American
+people) desires: equality is their idol; they make rapid and sudden
+efforts to obtain liberty and if they miss their aim, resign themselves
+to their disappointment; but nothing can satisfy them without equality,
+and they would rather perish than lose it."--De Tocqueville: Democracy
+in America, 1835.
+
+"A government is for the benefit of all the people. We believe that
+this benefit is best accomplished by popular government because in
+the long run each class of individuals is apt to secure better
+provision for themselves through their own voice in government than
+through the altruistic interest of others, however intelligent or
+philanthropic."--William H. Taft in Special Message.
+
+"I have listened to some very honest and eloquent orators whose
+sentiments were noteworthy for this: that when they spoke of the people,
+they were not thinking of themselves, they were thinking of somebody
+whom they were commissioned to take care of. And I have seen them shiver
+when it was suggested that they arrange to have something done by the
+people for themselves."--The New Freedom, by Woodrow Wilson.
+
+
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