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Show I THE WOMEN RULE. After a visit to the United States, Blasco Ibanez, the famous Spanish author, takes off his hat and bows low to the American woman. He says she is a tremendous influence in Amenea and has so tamed the individual man that he instinctively obeys every command. com-mand. The American woman, he declares, has trained the American man to suit herself. There seems to be much of truth in the words of the Spaniard Note the alacrity with which Harding and Cox and the governors of states are responding to the, demand that pressure be brought to bear on the legislators of Tennessee to compel them to ratify the woman suffrage amendment to the constitution. At first the men held back, but as soon as the women grew serious and demanding, the female of the specie was obeyed. Kvcn Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, has been caught by the ear and made to hop aloni; Two or three men have rebelled and defied the women, but a horrible example is beinp made of them. |