Farmer Radford on Woman Suffrage

1915

The home is the greatest contribution of women to the world, and the hearthstone is her throne. Our social structure is built around her, and social righteousness is in her charge.

Her beautiful life lights the skies of hope and her refinement is the charm of twentieth century civilization. Her graces and her power are the cumulative products of generations of queenly conquest, and her crown of exalted womanhood is jeweled with the wisdom of saintly mothers. She has been a great factor in the glory of our country, and her noble achievements should not be marred or her hallowed influence blighted by the coarser duties of citizenship.

American chivalry should never permit her to bear the burdens of defending and maintaining government, but should preserve her unsullied from the allied influences of politics, and protect her from the weighty responsibilities of the sordid affairs of life that will crush her ideals and lower her standards.

The motherhood of the farm is our inspiration, she is the guardian of our domestic welfare and a guide to a higher life, but directing the affairs of government is not within woman's sphere, and political gossip would cause her to neglect the home, forget to mend our clothes and burn the biscuits.

—New Oxford Item, New Oxford, Pennsylvania, Jan. 28, 1915.

Maxims of a Modern Maid — "Understanding Little Pal"

1920

Get Wise — Maxims of a Modern Maid

Marriage, like the department stores, could not get along nowadays without the exchange privileges.

The girl with golden curls and a pink and white complexion is any man's idea of an angel — even is she has a selfish mouth and a small cold blue eye.

How in the world did a "sunkissed summer girl" ever transform herself into a ballroom beauty before the art of make-up reached the present miracle working stage?

Every girl with a grouch can cheer up by reflecting that the sort of man who never makes a woman unhappy never makes her happy either.

No man ever falls in love with his stenographer — he falls in love with the "understanding little pal," he thinks she is.

Now that women have won votes, perhaps an occasional valiant soul may be allowed an idea of her own — even when a man is around.

When you hear a man say that his wife is an angel, see if he isn't a widower.

West Virginia's Vote Cheers Suffrage Head

1920

"The Struggle Is Over," Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Declares.

NEW YORK, N.Y., March 18. — "Suffrage is won. The words are simple, but they thrill as few words do or can." This was the encouraging conclusion of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, in a statement issued here on receipt of news that the West Virginia Senate had ratified the Federal suffrage amendment by a vote of 15 to 14. With West Virginia won and the Washington and Delaware legislatures meeting soon in special session, the opinion expressed at headquarters was that "the struggle is over."

"People who have followed the course of woman suffrage from the outside with indifference or small understanding of what has been at stake," said Mrs. Catt, "will have no comprehension of the real message which the West Virginia victory carries to women. To us it means that the nation is won, that the seventy-five year struggle is over, that the women of America are enfranchised women.

"And now whatever comes out of granting the suffrage to women, it is safe to predict that it will never be responsible for any offering to the general welfare except those things which have been well considered and intelligently endorsed."

Woman Has Personal Invitation to Anti-Suffrage Meeting

Pennsylvania, 1915

ANTI-SUFFRAGE MEETING

Mrs. O'Neal to Attend Session in Philadelphia on Saturday.

Mrs. Walter H. O'Neal left for Philadelphia on Thursday to attend, by a personal invitation from Mrs. Horace Brock, State Chairman, a conference of women, opposed to the granting of suffrage to women. The meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Brock, 1920 Spruce street, on Friday morning. Mrs. A. J. George, of Boston, will be one of the speakers. After the meeting Mrs. Brock will serve a luncheon to the guests.

—Adams County News, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, January 16, 1915, page 5.


Folly of Profanity

Although the use of some expletives decently and in order may often be justified, it is something we should all try to avoid. Thoroughly well balanced men and women never let their nerves become wrought up to a pitch where swearing is necessary. They appreciate that no matter how good scientific reasons there may be for expletives their use is a confession of weakness.


Certainly Suggestive

Perhaps the old fellow who first pointed out that a man's home is his castle had in mind the way it's almost constantly beleaguered by persons wishing to sell you brooms, potatoes and other commodities that you don't want any more of than you already have. — Columbus (Ohio) Journal.


Amended the Author

Little Lola had been given a short poem to commit to memory by her teacher. In it these lines occurred: "Sail on, ye mariners, the night is gone." Later when requested to repeat the poem, she rendered the lines thus: "Sail on, ye married men, the light is gone."

Unitarians Don't Just Vote for Unitarians

1908

Sensible Remarks

The Christian Register, the able organ of the people who profess the Unitarian faith in this country, indulges in the following sensible remarks concerning the religious opinions of political candidates: "Unitarians in America have never acquired the habit of voting for a candidate because he was a Unitarian, or of voting against a man became he was a Roman Catholic or a Methodist. But, if they were inclined to carry their denominational interests into politics, they would be restrained by the saving grace of common sense. They remember the sad fate of Mr. Burchard, the honest gentleman who by the alliteration of the three R's, rum, Romanism and rebellion, was charged with defeating Mr. Blaine, the candidate whom be supported. Any public man who in his private capacity is a loyal Unitarian has the right to let his denominational preferences drop out of sight when he becomes a candidate for office; and he is neither a consistent Unitarian nor a wise supporter of such a candidate who challenges the vast majority who are not lovers of Unitarianism "to make it an issue at the polls." All of which seems a rather pertinent deliverance.

--The Charleroi Mail, Charleroi, Pennsylvania, September 19, 1908, page 2.