Show AS TO SUFFRAGE It seems that California has lias adopted woman suffrage That is as it should be and aud it ought to be carried to the limit Women should serve sc on juries as ns well elL as vot vote The only trouble I will vill be that all the men there will want wait to be beon beon beon on the tho juries jurie's because we have been told there are are JH hardly r ly any women in the tho world so fine to sit up Ui with during a long night as California women An And now Alice ilice Stone Blackwell is out with a anew anew anew new She wants the word obey omitted from the marriage service We Ve cann cannOt t see Iee wh why because that word obey with the wives of f the world is treated just as an obsolete law is isby isby isby by the public public public-it it is not obeyed Miss Blackwell thinks further it would possibly be a good od idea to put in some clause lause which should make direct reference ref ref- to the question of equal political rights For instance some such phrase as this might be iu inserted I promise to aid and assist my husband in every way and to help heli him to uphold his politic political pout pout- ic ical l views U There we think the lady is a little off because the rule is women th that t bother with politics do not promise to uphold their husbands husbands' husbands husbands' hus hus- bands bands' views It should read rend this his way I 1 promise to aid and assist my husband in almost every wa way but if he proves to be a chump chumpI I will see dictate the political views for the whole household In Engl England they are going still further One woman woman is president of an association n that has petit petitioned petitioned pe pe- pe- pe tit the government for permission for to raise a brigade of fighting women They think they could hold the fort ort This woman who is the president dent though only 25 23 5 years old speaks fluently four or five languages is an n author of distinction a fine speaker and must have a level head because because be be- cause caus sh she knows th that t the great bugaboo of England now is is that there may some time be a German invasion invasion in in- of the island She knows that if she with her brigade of female fighters were like Dido t to on the wild and dare the Germans Ger mans to come with their l love ve to the new Carthage not ot a in n the k kaisers kaiser's iser's army would r respond spond The nowadays are arc having about what h ve had all the time practically their practically their own way |