Show The Woman of of f It It I By Helen Rowland Sometimes I think that the funniest thing Inthe in inthe the world Next ext to a pacifists pacifist's argument Is the average mans man's argument against woman suffrage And that the tho question Why should woman be allowed to vote Is as superfluous as the question Why should man aman a a. be allowed to wear vear a wristwatch 1 Or Why should a man a-man be allowed to have the last word 1 Dear mo me mol Woman s ha has always had the last word I Man would not know what to do with the last word if we gave It to him He Ill has not reached that stage of fE mental development where he can can appreciate its full significance its sacred importance Give a man the right to the last word and he would make an awful muddle of it I And the result would b be all sorts of mix ups and upheavals in the do domestic do- do i affairs of the country To fo say nothing of the fact that it would merely double the number of last words in every home and in every quarrel Besides man doesn't really want the thelast thelast thelast last word word word- He only thinks he lie wants It ft Because a few p 0 restless unsexed fanatical men who are of the sentimentally sent senti mentally unemployed and aud have nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing else to do do And arent aren't attractive to women women and and andall I all that that that- Have started the hue and cry for Men Last Words for Mans Man's place is in the office I Why should he desire to usurp woI woman's womans womans woman's wo wo- I mans man's place and womans woman's prerogative in her own domain the domain the home I And anyway Think of the effect which the grant grant- ing of ot the last word man would have on him him him- And on womans woman's attitude altitude toward him L Would it not unsex men eventually f Good heavens The first thing we know they will be carrying their handkerchiefs in their sleeves And drinking tea with rose leaves in it instead of cocktails And insisting on doing the cooking and holding office around the house house- If we grant them the last word Besides 3 z Could any true womanly v. woman re respect respect respect re- re a man who took advantage of Ithe J I the last word 1 V 1 Men would lose more by the 1 t tion of the last word than they would ever gain b by it it a Besides as as we have said before f f r Men do not really realty want the last word 2 When they do they'll g get t it But at present nine true manly men out of ten prefer to bang the front front door and rush off oft to the club t Leaving their wives triumphantly i shouting the tho last word through the keyhole Copyright lilT 1817 by The Press Presa Publishing C Co The n t York Evening World |