Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-07-29 | Page 2 | Women and the Caricaturist

WOMEN AND THE CARICATURIST caricaturist who makes pictures for an Ohio newspaper William Ireland Ire-land :' the Columbus Dispatch, to he definite views with anxiety what he considers the advance of woman suffrage suf-frage and feminism in seneral. Hit apprehension Ifl not due apparently to any personal antagonism of his to the acquisition by the ladles of any rights Btivilegea or powers they can get. What worries him is the fear that when women become prominent and effectual In political life, as office holders hold-ers and otherwise, the men of his trade or art will be subjected to new restrictions of the most trying sort and be o hampered as to be put prac tlcally out of business. Men. he admits, do not like to be caricatured, but they have learned to stand It, when the thing Is not positively posi-tively vicious, with at least the sem blance of equanimity and good temper. tem-per. Rut women are different, he says. Ridicule, especially if based upon up-on peculiarities of face or figure, either throws them Into furious rage or fills their hearts with the passionate passion-ate grief that sets tears to flowing In torrents. And if the caricaturist can not turn up a little more the slightlv pugged nose of the Lady Mayor, or I emphasize the somewhat exuberant I curves which distinguish the feml-i feml-i nine President of the Aldermanic Board, how will he be able to treat the people and events with which he must j deal or find his occupation gone? Mr. Ireland's anxiety is not wholly without foundation. The charge so often made C at women have no sense 1 of humor Is, of course, untrue, and dls-1 dls-1 like of ridicule is far from monopolized monopoliz-ed by them, but It Is a fact that from lack of training In this direction they are tar more resentful of unkind or hostile laughter directed against them selves than men dare to be. That the women will tolerate any derision which they have the power to pre vent can hardly be expected, for even masculine politicians, pachyderms as they are and have to be, have not in frequently tried to protect their tortured tor-tured hides with a statutory cover. New York Times.