Show Q O- O Women's Freedom I fr- fr By CYNTHIA GREY We Ie nice helpless he women have surely come a along long Ions way the last lat few rew years ears no longer any talk taik about the emancipation emancipation pation of women In all Christendom there is no group so free as we The rho freedom of the flapper Is a thing thin for the wiseacres to ponder And as for forthe the married women wom worn en n they the theare are FO o very very- vejer er emancipated that today the le leaI leal legal le- le gal al aI attitude of any wife toward her Is this yours is mine and what's mines mine's my myon myown myown own o Such are the taws laws of most of the states stales that no matter how rich a w woman man may be or how much she may earn outside the house she still can compel compel corniel com corn pel iel hor her husband to support her when a a. rich woman dies dies' she sine may cut her hel husband off without so much as the proverbial penny Not so the husband Upon his retiring retiring- fron iron this earthly scheme he may dispose of his belongings belongings belong belong- ings up Uj to to two-thirds two as as' as he pleases The other he cannot touch By law that 1 belongs clon s to his widow N And ind so on One mi might ht enumerate numera indefinite I the legal advantages of us women over the male mal a a far cry indeed from the English Eng custom which gave gave the husband and the right to beat up hi his wife at will so long as he us used d a stick no thicker er than his thumb Of course course there is a reason for all aU this and in the main It is the fault of the men All unsuspectingly un un- un- un they brought it upon themselves For in the days when they were denying us the vote th they y threw us as sop such rights as the widows widow's dower legal support legal alimony and so soon soon on on with the idea of taking our minds off the ballot y we so coveted They were strong for the sheltered life for us In those days clays Or so the they said at any rate They liked the clinging vine and sturdy oak notion notion notion no no- tion the frail woman dependent upon the stron strong male At least eat they said that And to prove it they gave us all these legal legaJ ri rights that we now have And when we had got gotthem gotthem gotthem them all we made them give us the right to vote also also as frosting for our our- cake of freedom Which proves by th the way that once a woman makes up per her mind to get a certain thing she gets It t. t You may thInk youve you've put her oft off the track bu but but t. t But at any rate we omen women now have everything that the men have in the way of legal rights and everything that they haven't besides besides' Man Mn n 1 is as one ZOne might say a bit sarcastically hoist by his own petard letard |