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Show 'an cerfafnly' Bis some "rlghTs ' w'fflci. should be considered inalienable. Women have seldom been very successful suc-cessful fighters. They make progress, prog-ress, they get what they want ultimately,' ulti-mately,' but they do it more by finesse and strategy than by force. If they "horn In" it is done skillfully, courteously, courte-ously, with grace even at times. The woman is more often than otherwise the head of the household, but the fight for the position which she holds has been a bloodless one. She has won, usually, without the man's knowing it. Here is a battle of wits and not of brawn, but ft is a fight just the same. (. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) J ! ! -I" 'I ! 1J,I - i" ! I" 2" VV I FIGHTING FOR;' . 1 HER RIGHTS 1 - - ' - f, By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK .3. Dean of Men, University of - ,j, Illinois. .;. YAHATEVER social or political po-" po-" ' sition women have attained they have had to fight for single handed almost. al-most. There was no logical reason from the start which should have denied them the right of suffrage. They are quite as intelligent as men, quite as susceptible to the sophistries of the party politician, quite as Indifferent Indif-ferent to exercising the rights of suffrage suf-frage after they have obtained them. So far they have seemed to be quite satisfied -with the small and gnarly political, po-litical, plums,. ' ' In obtaining such privileges of suf- fi'nge as they now have, it may be alleged al-leged that they have been helped by men, but "It has been In most cases grudgingly given, with a good deal of protest, and after considerable hectoring hector-ing of husbands by politically ambitious ambi-tious wives. The Hudsons sent us at Christmas time a picture of their two chlldren-'-a boy and a girl, aged six and four respectively. It is an intriguing little picture, and shows, Nancy says, the natural relationship between the sexes. The boy, stronger and older, lias a picture book in his hands, and is quite absorbed in its contents. He is paying no attention to his sister; the hook Is his, and he is getting considerable con-siderable pleasure out of it. She is apparently Intending to see also. She is pushing her way to the front, and gazing interestedly over his arm which bars the way to her own possession of the Interesting and coveted cov-eted volume. It is a case of "horning in" ns we say in colloquial English. "Isn't that just like men?" Nancy says when she looks at the picture. "If a man gets something that he enjoys the morning paper or the right of suffrage and if we want it we have to push our way In and grab for it."-. it."-. I suppose it's the truth. Sometimes, loo, when a woman fights for a right and seemingly has "wrm- it,- she -loses, it again. I had always al-ways supposed that it was "a'wb'man's privilege it surely was so In the neighborhood in which I grew up to keep what she could find In her husband's hus-band's pockets, if when changing his trousers or sending them to the cleaners, clean-ers, he carelessly left any loose change in iis pockets. ' The privilege seems to lie a doubtful one now, A woman out iu Kansas City was recently convicted con-victed of petty larceny merely for exercising ex-ercising this supposed privilege. It 1 yrpnis imrrrisonnlile : a married worn- |