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,. HKK: OMAHA. 1 I )S).Y, (HTOUKU J7t 11)14. . , g Conducted By KISS daisy xojurr ror the Dong-la County Equal Bulfrags Association. The "Unanswerable Argument" Answered By Mrs. Uda Calvert Obenchaln (alia Calvert Hall). "It Is asserted that the average good American woman's Indifference to wo man suffrage' la an unanswerable argu ment against the movement. "If this be true, there la an unanswer able argument against every good work and every reform movement of the pres ent day. or of any past day, for ft Is a fact- that ., 'the average . good American woman,' and her brother, 'the average good American man,' are shamefully In different to the things that make for the publlo good. "A knowledge of sanitary science Is a good thlngl The average American wo man living" In a town without a dratnage system will permit the cook to throw dishwater and kitchen garbage into the back yard, and the average American man, unless deterred by law, doea not hesitate to expectorate on the public pavement and the floors of publid build ings. Is this Indifference to eianltary precautions an unanswerable argument against sanitary science? "The men and women who are working to abolish child labor encounter a vast Indifference to this subject on the part of legislators and the people at large. Is this Indifference an unanswerable ar gument In favor of child labor? "Seventy-five years ago women did not go- to college. When the agitation rot the higher education of woman began the Indifference of the average Ameri can cltlien , arrayed Itself against edu cation for women. Was this Indifference an. unanswerable argument In favor ot Illiteracy for women? "There was a tlmo when a married woman could not make a will, and a married woman's wages belonged to her husband. So indifferent were the a erage men and women to this Injustice that It was years before married women obtained property rights. Wa this In difference an unanswerable argument against granting women the right to dls pose of her own possessions by, and to collect and spend the wages earned by her own" oil? "But why go further In citing parallel . cases? r There are two classes of people In the world. In the women of one class la keen sense of justice Is' developed. In the other class the sense of Justice is so undeveloped that women belonging to this do not object to a condition of dts enfranchlsement that reduces them to the political level of the idiot, the luna tic, the felon, the minor and the Illiter ate negro of the south. "This large class, of women Is well de scried as 'average,' and by mere fore "of numbers these average' women may. continue for a long while to have things their", own way. Bilt" human progress means the netting aside of the opinions and wishes of average people, and in the . long run the world Is governed by the small first class, the men and women who love Justice; who know what Justice ,1 and who, by this love and knowledge, are' raised above the 'average.' " .. Conducted By xm mabjobxb bobjcajt. For Uie Xsbraaka Association Op posed to Woman Suffrage. Are Women . Kepresented? American men are the best in the world, and If it were possible for any Tjerf to represent women, through klnd ' less and good will to them, American urn would do It. But a man is by na ture stoo d:fferent from a woman to be ible to' represent her. The two creatures - ire unlike. Whatever his good will he can not fully put himself In a woman's Place and look at the things exactly from her point of view. To say this Is no more a reflection upon his mental or moral ability than It would be a reflec tion, upon his . musical ability ' to cay that he can net sing both soprano and bass. ' Unless men and women should ever become Just alike (which would be reffretable, and monotonous) women must either go unrepresented or represent themselves. In the Woman's Journal, i Alice Stone Black well says: . "The anti-suffragists tell us that things are going pretty well, so well that there is no need of the Introduction of sny new element to make them go better. A group of well-to-do women who made an antt-suffrafie 'pilgrimage' "through Massachusetts uttered this declaration again and again. Their complacency re calls an old Spanish proverb: 'To the man who has thoes, the world seems to he paved with leather." One of their spokeswomen boasted that they all had good homes, and Intimated that they were abandoning them fur a tour of pub lic speaking only under a strong sense of duty to save their ce-untry from the impending., horrors of equal suffrage. None of them had children working in the mills. If other people's children were working there, these ladles were not unhappy about it. Their favorite epithet of scorn for the suffragists is 'discontented women.' While children sre needlessly worn out, used up and made old before their time, have women any right to be contented." Why I am an Anti Suffragist By Kate Douglas W'lggin. I am probably an anti-suffragist by Instinct and temperament, but all the experience of my busy life has con firmed my natural attitude of mind. I would not for the world retard the de velopment of woman nor hamper her In her struggle for still greater freedom than she now possesses, though to my mind she has not at any time gone to the limit of her powers under present conditions, but I cannot believe that th ballot Is the first or the next or the best n... iu hoik iwr. i want ner to be a good homemaker, a good mother, and a loyal. Intelligent, active citizen, but above all, to be a helpful, stimulating, Inspiring force in the world rather than a useful and Influential iactor In politics. I do not question a woman's ability to con centrate her mind on political questions, to grow steadily In knowledge and power." and to vote wisely and conscientiously, but I would prefer her to develop still higher power, for thero are higher ones. It Is even more difficult to be an Inspiring woman than a good cltlsen and an honest voter, and if you declare your ability to be all three 1 shall continue to brlieve that the first of the three will continually be lost In the development of the other two. Nobody can say that the services of local or na tional government demands as concen trated a use of woman's powers as the service of humanity. a woman a "Job" to my mind Is with other women, with children. And with men. who, next to children, are most dependent upon what she thinks and says and does and is. Her peculiar Job." I say. Is with men, women and children their bodies.-their hearts, and their souL I would have women strong enough to bear the burden of the weak, to rescue and educate derelicts, to make life cleaner, safer, saner, more upright than It Is now. I would have her strong enough to keep Just a trifle In the back- ground. Sho spoils the composition of many a good picture Just now by" want ing the center of the stage and all the limelight thet the electrician can fur nish. The limelight never makes any thing grow; It only causes the thing to look a little different "than It Is. If woman Is as strong as 'she ought to be she should be called continually in coun cil to advise, consult and co-operate with men wherever her peculiar gifts are valuable. If she enjoys and uses these rights and privileges she does not need the ballot. i Birds of a Feather : snowbirds By Neil Brinkicy 'opyrlght. Intern I Nes Service, Explain -,' Can suffragist tell why women fail aa prohibition voters? The vote In Vlr- I glnla, September 22. makes ten states that I have gone prohibition on the votes of men alone. Of the nine suffrage state none is prohibition but Kansas, and It went drr many years before women got a vote there. Colorado, Oregon, Washington, California and Wyoming all rejected prohibition, and Wyoming, where women have voted forty-five years, never voted even one I county dry, while California has but one i jlry county. Can Dr. Anna Shaw or any of the other suffrage leaders tell us why these are not prohibition states when the very strongest argument the suffrage ad vocates use Is "Give us votes and we will give you prohibition " If but 58 per cent of the Colorado women had voted against the saloons In 1912 prohibition would have won by over 6,00u votes without one male ballot In its favor. Why didn't the female voter there accomplish what male voters have in male suffrage states? Wby are Denver, Chicago and San Francisco wide open on Sunday? Will the suffragist please explain? Judge Idndsey. in an Interview in the Boston Post of July 36, aaid: "Here 1 another point In which men are mistaken. They believe, most of them, down in their hearts, that women would at once close up the saloons. That Is absolutely dis proved by what baa happened In Colo rado. Colorado la a wet state and Den- ver is a decidedly wet city. The weta won ! i , i .j i . . . . 1 ... vu.uiauu iw year wun women voting. Women good women got out and worked for the wets. Thus you have Colorado' with equal auffrage, going wet by DO.OOO, while West Virginia, where the women can't vote, goes dry by 100.000." W WW &Ms$m Little Mary's Essays : : Reason Widowers Always Seem to He So Care Free I f Idos 1J IMHtOTIIV MX. Wldonera are men who look like tin picture's In mamma's lllble of the msrtyrs I that have Just come throuiih grent afflli-- t'nns. Only, of eouife, the martyrs hsve bnlcis. but widow ers ur mua.l I'.ilii-hvaiiMi, so it'k .iutu tlit mi., liny louii , on fei I sftsr yoti '.e liml u lti.lt ,1 ,,,!,, and von nr thai calm and (nippy 1 Hint you l.ive all j the world. J Widows are nl , ways telling you It heir troubles. ht:t widowers look like ithey haven't nnv ', (roubles to tell. Madame Ise'bell Sayg Callouse Arm Mark of NeglectMay B Easily Prevented .1 ' v .-i-. .-,"": ....4 iciower are classy dreenem and have lots of good rlothes. VMn n man Is a married man he does not' ca'ro ' ',rpPr""v rtnn' f" ""' perspire easily The (are of the Feet Part II. Some feci seem peculiarly subject to callous spots which give them oonslder ablo pnln, but as a rtl these are brought about by loose shoes that rub the foot, first causing an I r r Ration and then the skin thickening to protect the sore portion. A barefooted child mn have cal louses without discomfort; It la only when they arc pressed Into the nsttlve flesh that they sre painful. Never cut or a callous spot with a sharp To reduce thenv soak the night In hot, sospy water. rub Ihoroughly diT with a rough towel .-ind then with an every board or plec or putnlc slone rub the callous spots until they ste less thick.. Honest thin rightly until the entire foot show a skin of equal tlilcknass. If the feet are properly cared for there fho'ild he no callous spots: they sre A rt'r!t .if mulct. A daily foot bath Is yT- "VK I V i scrnpe away Inslruinent. feet well lit Snowbirds are fluffy little chaps, who begin to be Been on the great highways when the brown leaves are skipping and the first soft, gentle white flakea are drifting silently out of the gray heaven Sometime the little chap I a tiny, perky giay bird, making dainty little tracks, begging for a bit of a crumb, cocking a bright eye at you, puffed up around the throat a It h had a fur boa on and was netllng Into it V kwpehln Into the black fur at her throat; his chin warm: he mnU'hea the snow and the murmuring dark watHr that sings in a silver voice under a shroud of Ice, and he sways on the bare bougha and utters a tiny call. Sometime the snowbird is " a perky little gay girl, also making, dainty tracks, with crumbs In her muff for her little name-brothers, he, too, cocking a bright eye at you, nestling her pinky Enforcing Laws Forty Years Put' in Six Months In a letter to Dr. C. K the public health department of Cleve land, O.. Dr. William J. Mayo, the noted surgeon of Rochester, Minn., says: "Mr. Caroline Bartiett Crane ot Kala mnzoo, Mich., came here a while ago. She told u a lot of very Interesting, but llgreeabl thing In regard to our pub lio health and sanitary methods. And a result of it was that a civic- league of women was formed, and this league has dona more for thl town In six months than the men of the community have dona In forty years. "It would seem that the best sentiment and the only hardworking conscience are In women rather than men of this country, as women appear to be the only onea to do things that are right because they are right" Arthur EvAns Wilcox, in an Able ar ticle In the September number of the Midwest Magazine, says: "Daw have the'r origin In the wishes of the elec torate, but those laws are only enforc Ible because of the knowledge that be hind them it Is possible to bring to besr the pressure of as many bayonets, practically, as there were votes to bring this about. It is therefore clearly the duty of every voter who insists upon the enactment of law to be ready to en- one wow tawa wun tne strong arm of might should the necessity arrive. Let us submit a purely suppositious case: In a certain country where man And women alike enjoy the franchise there are 10,000 female voters and 10,000 male voters. A certain law la submitted to the referendum and the affirmative vote reaches 11,000, of whjch number 10,000 are votes of women and 1,000 the votes of men. Then further suppose that the ,000 men voting in the negative Absolutely refuse to abide by the law what would Ford, head of happen In such A case? How could th law be enforced? Having assumed the obligation of government, would It be the duty of the 10.000 women voter to enforce the law by bringing to bear the pressure found only In th rifle and ths bayonet? And If they triad It, what hcadaay would they make against the 1,000 male opponent? AN OPINION. Krancls Parkman It has born claimed a a right that woman should vote. It I no right, but a wrong that a amall num ber of women should impose on all th rest political dutlea which there Is no call for their assuming, which they do not want to aun and which If duty dis charged, would be a. cruel and intolerable biuden. Advice to Lovelorn I T BXATBXCB TAXmrAX j. Girls mud Letters. Dear Miss Fairfax: A girl friend of mine quit writing to me, ajthougk she liked my company. The only reason I can see Is that she does not find much Interest in writing. Would I act manly bv calling on her without asking her per mission? (No telephone). I don'foome to her town too often. A friend of mine Is corresponding with a nice girl of IS years without her par ents' consent (she gets her letters on my address) although her parents know that they keep company and I don't be lieve that they are against it, as he calls at her house. Would he be right by send ing his letters to her house before asking her (the might quit writing then) or to continue to send letters on my address? Kindly advise as soon aa possible before I visit my friend' town. O. C. It your relation with th young lady are friendly, there la no good reason why you shoulj not call on her when in the town where she resides. However, you would better assure yourself she I not averse to your calling. One very good way to do this la to call. As to clandes tine correspondence. It la wrong at any and All times. If the girl parent do not object, why should there be any cancel meat? It la quite likely, however, that they would cbjecj to their lH-year-oid daughter carrying on a clandestine cor respondence with a man, and you may be sure that If it aver cornea to light you will very likely receive a call from a righteously Indignant father. Thirty In Does. Der-Mla Fairfax: I am year old and have been kenning company with a gentleman for th last ten year who is five years older than myself. He la madly In love with me, but I have come to realize that my affection have slowly drifted from him to hi nephew, who la several yeara younger than myself. I hsve tried to tell the ssld gentlmnan of my transferred affectlune. but of no avail. Will you kindly come to my rescue and advise ma. "FLIRT." When a woman reach W h ought to be Able to know her own mind. The fact that you were able to keep company with a man for ten year without reach ing a serious understanding make it very plain that no deep attachment ever existed between you. At to falling in lov with youngtr roan, that is not at all surprising. The only advice I can give you Is to aee neither until you can decide which one you really care for, and then you will know how to act. Complexion and Knee Powder. Miss Beatrice Fairfax: .Would vou Plea tell me If putting witch hazel and peroxide on the skin after washing will clear the complexion? Also, if putting epson salts in the rinsing water will clear the complexion? Also, what is good for a shiny skin? And what Is a good face powder? u. x. Z. Face lotions are only serviceable In the matter of removing surface blemishes. The cause of muddy or poor complexion usually lies much below the surface. Eat moderately of plain .food, keep fular hours, get plenty of sleep, dres properly, bathe frequently, and wash your face with good aoap in warm water, rubbing the lather in well with the hands, and then wipe the skin dry with a soft tow.;!, and you will aopn find your complexion mu'll lmprovd. A good cold cream, well rubbed In with the flnner tips, and then wiped off with a. soft towel, will serv? to clear out the pores of the skin. Muny kinds of good face powder may be ob tained at any well tot ked drug store dimply ask the druggl.t for one. Too Young- to Wed. Desr Miss Fairfax. I am a voting girl of Id and dearly In love with two young men; one of them Is 19 and the other 2t As both of them have asked me to marry them. I am In doubt of wlili h one to 'narry. BABE. Kelther of you three Is old enough to marry. When th right man comes alon you will not need to he told. Better send them both about their buslneaa if you can't te.ll which one you care for. At any rate, put off getting married for a couple of yearn. Widowhood anal t'onrtahlp. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young widow of 2. My husband has been d.d (or two yeara. and do vmi ihi,.tr i, i. too soon for in, to receive attentions from men? there is a young lawyer that j months. Ih you think I should onrour sge him. or should I wait a while longer Ue'ore receiving the attention of rn-ii Sorely perplexed. P J H Two year would seem quit long enough to remain a widow, and unless you Are vowed to perpetual widowhood, no good' reason exists wh von ahnui.i not encourage the serious attention of a man whom you would be willing to med. snd she matches the snow and' th last fall leaves, for her hair la russet gold snd her throat and hands are white, and alio stand beneath the winter bougha snd answer th call above har with a laugh and A whist la. What do we care for the nip of winter when "w got snowbird, w have?" NELD BRINKLET, how he looks, and he wears trousers thai rag at the knee, and comfortable collars, and any kind of nnrktte. But when a man becomes a widower the first thing he does is to go out and buy himself a lot of good clothes and the latent thing In neck ties and collars. , I do not know why this Is so, but It Is so. There Is also another curious thing about widowers that I dt not understand, and that is that when a man becomes a wldoVrr he looks ahout twenty years younger than he did while his wife wn alive. When his wife was nllve he walked with hi shoulders hunched over, snd he cnuld not go out to the theater In the evenings because he hnd the rheumatism, but when he Incomes a widower he straightens up and take, ango lessons. There are two kinds of widowers, wid owers with children and widowers with out children. Indies prefer the widowers without children, but all of the old m.,l afid widows are very kind to. the poor little mothnrlsns children of a good look ing widower, and they take the children to ride In their automobiles, n, bring them dolls and call them little loves. tin sav they are so interesting. I wish my papa was a widower, and then the ladle would take me to the mntlnee nnri bring me randy like they do Marjorle. Oraham, whose papa Is' our preacher, and who Is tall and handsome, and a widower. Widower don't stay widower long. I expect they get lonesomo for somebody to quarrel with and blame for everything that goes wrong. Also, there Isn't any fun In doing things that you hadn't ought to when nobody notices whether you do them or not. Also It Is most expensive to hire rooks and nurse girls, and pcnplo to take cre of your children and make them dote. Also servants sre always giving notice and leaving, while a wife Is cheap, and has got to stay whether she likes her place or not. Widowers have only one eye. I know thl. because my mother says tfiat It Is so easy to get on the blind side of a widower. Also she says that Anybody ran catch a widower with any kind of bait. Also she says that she hopes that when I'm grown 1 11 marry a widower, and when 1 asked her why, she ssld It was because widowers have been hoiwe broken and domesticated by some other Woman, and that a man first wife was a good, kind Isdv, who saved up money for th second wife to spend. Ths Bible Is full of promise and con solation for widows, but there are none for widowers. My pap says that widow ers don't need any help. They can con sole themselves. oliciulii he thoroughly wsnlied twice a, day. of eyunl Importance with the foot bnth Is proper 'drying. The feet should be wiped until the skin Is perfectly dry. paying particular attention to between the toes, th seat of soft corns and all dead fklu ruhted away. If the feet are in.-llnod to be dry, massage them with a little vnaeltre; If too soft and Inclined to , over perspire, follow the het bath with ' a cold sslt bath or a rub with witch haiet.. Callous snots sometimes " hechm thick on the solo of the fopt and the under part of th toes hat they turn Into corns nnfl must he treated as corns ss described In th following lessons. For this reason never allow a callous spot to rnntlnue. but mh it away aa soon it nppesrs ,A peculiar form of foot trouble called vascular corn sometimes appear or. the soles and under part of the toes. These hove very deep root", they appear almost like wnrts. and they contain blood vessels. Fdr this rensnn It is dsngerous to cut them, although they may be mhhed down with pumice stone. For any more drastic treatment a Skilled chiropodist should be consulted. I know of "a cas of ' bad vascular corns both on the soles of th feet and the under side bf the toe that wa per manently cured bv a few month at the seashore. f The patient Waa a boy of U snd. ih cur simply took th form ot allowing him to go In the water when he liked and lo remain bare-footed all day. The soaking that th feet got by rlng so much In :ihe water, th astringent effect of the salt and the fric tion of the sea aand effected the cur. At the end of the summer the toes and soles of th feet were quite smooth and normal. (To Bo Continued.) A Hrejat Keeret. Little IJlllan parents were well-to-do and kept several sen ants. Phe was al lowed to go for a visit to a friend' house whose family- did their own housework. When IJlllan returned home sh wa tell ing her mother. about the good time sh had. "But, mother dear," confided the child, solemnly, "they do one thing that la very dreadful! I hate to tell you about It, for It la realty kind of cruel, and I'm afraid you won't let me go ther Again." "Why. Lillian," urged th mother, la soma alarm, "you must tell me, dear." "Well, mother." replied the child. In a hocked whisper, "they us their own grandmother for a cook!" Harper Magajeln. . , ! " miff ' l ;;W IfpOH mm . y i i: SlD GOLDEH COFFtt ,MOI'1W"'- Buy 77as Coffee Next Time You'll like its finer flavor at once and youll appreciate it more every day because that flavor is never varying. Old Golden Coffee is always uniform. Our foreign agents are constantly cautioned to select the same high ' grade year after year. Our method of aging, roasting and blending then improves its goodness to the last degree. You can never grow tired of Old Golden Coffee because, unuke most coffees, the same, good taste is always "there. Buy of your grocer, ground, steel cut, or in the whole bean. TONE'S Old Golden Coffee .... TONE BROS., Des Moines Milltri f A Ftunoau Ton Bro. Spem