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eee The Evening World Daily Magazine. Saturday, February 13, & Tlorld, Published Dall; y, Nos, 63 to 63 ept Sunday by the Press Publishing Compa Park Row, New Y JOSHPH PU! 63 Park Row, ntered at the Pe jons to vote, | Every women’s} club has a wom- an president, a woman secretary women election| tellers and wom-| en voters, It would seem} that women! should not be re- garded as quali-| fiea to vote on the tavilf or excise or direct nomina- tions or public service or civil or} criminal — proced- ure and like mat- ters until they haye shown themselves fitted to conduct their club politics better or at least as well as men. Last week the New York City Federation of Women’s Clubs had | an election at the Hotel Astor. Several hundred women attended. The contest for the presidency was close, The campaign manager for Mr de Rivera, the successful candidate for president, was Mrs inson Lewis. Since sh® elected her candidate, while other candidates on the same ticket were defeated, Mrs, Lewis euccessful woman politician. The result of this election has been to convert Mrs. Lewis from a | suffragette to an anti-suffragette. Before the meeting she believed | that women should be allowed to vote at all elections. Since her expe- | Tiences she has come to the conclusion “that woman is unfit to vote.” | Sarah Dick- s entitled to speak asa At the Federation election some women, instead of mahing an X in) the space before the name they wished to vote for, where they espe- | cially disliked an opposing candidate would draw several black penet marks through her name. Instead of dividing on questions of prin- ciple or policy they voted according to their likes and dislikes, Mrs. Lewis found that the women took the election too much to | heart. They re- The New York Girl---No. 18, By Maurice Ketten. THE VALENTINE GIRL garded the test as personal, The strain on their nerves was too great. The ex- citement was up- setting. There was a great deal of feeling aroused. Unless the majority of wom- en really desire to yote why should the mass of men be urged by the minority of wom- entogiveall women suffraye? So far as women’s votThg or not yor- ing is concerned the ordinary man knows better than to have or to assert an opinion, to vote the hundreds of thousand the Constitution accordingly. con- Any time that married woin of married 1 And since marrie nen can vote ld enough to decide an election married wou please, As or unmarried wome n woul raise a f “ye TH Able rte 0, Louts hi all the fi wm turd Mcnkobe Able and Loule fights at the clu The Chorus Girl Says Managers with Moral Plays Have Had to Fire Most of Their Ticket Sotculatts landlords, and theatrical ‘B Roy L. McCardell. siieria earn Jebaum and) their own expense. taking in| sand Mamma | De Branscombe all fussed up over the tmmorality of the “You can get a seat at any stage and wanting bad shows th to be out as a@ five green certificates, skull, that's aj)shows that are deadhead, every chase from the s; night, to see if Them them plays is as well-paying bad as yiup an awful nial theatric clgar coup: and some but at McKnight can get tickets fh wants fr at makes him rula ayd {t do and whilé he can enty-five certifleate waiting room than j theatre a home than it < so Interested | s that it wasn't for ng arour for se lust as I was telling you dp that we don't } 1, I don’t blame ao fl we § managers A to dischar . who ses Is being papered in that's the , is getting it done in| of tt t are good for sever won't n seventy-five certificates for a e are all |turned tn the several unsold ld get a sit down, off! s personally acc $ of all the the a hand on t as 1 told y wait ull nine s to get a seat when as Mamma any respectab'e 9 o'clock be> But now th » and! nted be- | shy jot the sort that it’s an] table woman in| Br De| pr that it’s an| ch all the |insult to see that the theatres that has|ulators was always slat to get them at) at the moving pictures 1s al in one bg comt h s he ntlous seruples ag pl trust. Before that hi Irresponsible wasn't gure of getting lis money. ws was so "We was all talking about how some | speculators charged $25 a seat ght of some of the s0- | and Mamma De! was the highest | att Hed tmmoral iscombe said tha hows, ange sold for $ them sort ¢ s s crowded with | that price. jadles as critnlt when all! So Dopey McKnight said that wa n is ordere the room, | something like {t, and If he ever wen the only ones 1 to the friends to hurry ey s to tell down nee is goin famma De terrible te of that kind them from vo He knows b ‘ Private people their| plays a D 8 From a man’s point of view the domestic peace is of 1 more | houses 3 alls of’ thelr) Brana eC Ur ipensert deca Lae ane vital concern than whether women vote or not. ~ From woman’s point of view it ehould le: 1 that th nt they might ocet to conduct their purely feminine electior to conduct men’s electic s too, Letters From the Ti | ET Denounces the “40 Limit” oS Advice to Mothes fachine pic "Panhandle Pete «# [nh GLUING To KAT Mask VD THAT Sut URS 18 JUST THING ») BALL o>) OF X THE at) s them that) thelr! as the unpleasant and I've ot By George McManus seat speculating it would be on t walk in no piking for his. “He went down to look It over and ¢ the gallery, But he come back a us that got there just after som y had stolen all the orchestra and the brokers was all running ar swearing and accusing each otlier wing taken theme and it looked s if tt were har living by Ww fo other alg t und he to another, ‘Ain't tt horrible, Claribel? SAY Yoru ve D> You TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS FOA THAT Suit ! Tu gust 40 TO DAT BALL AS DE MILLION DOLLAR KID, MESELF | y won't engage has con- ing for ay pukin't play for | moving pictures because so many of the that he of the Stock Exchange, to r than ever to ‘Tin afraid it's a a | 1909. Stage Muck Is Going Some Here. Improving Our Poor Is Conning Them. Slaves Are Human Lemons “ac RE you doing your part in the tiut s\age muck is cuing some in that A present movement to disinfect ‘direction they conglude that the time has gy the dram sked the laun-) ed for the lowbrows to participate, roman | vOne manager starts. ‘The lowbrows The drama) respond at f per : Halt don't. need disine | do managers jump, in each a fecting,” declured little stronger than his predecessor, and w York wal a dozen theat! at once sup to the \ res are turn lity. Loud \ the man who was 4+ getting his pack- age. “The stal clogs up every often and then flushes Itself auto- matical The man who clamors for 4 villboard and stuff houses quit attending shows. closes quietly, the really abjece | ible shows are put in storage and | they nover emerge, because the next as play censor bobs season brings out somotling new, and | up about every six! Qecency always wins In the long run.” | years, draws the attention of the curious for a brief pe- MUpowaaaananmncnanannamand | | tod and then subsides because the c $ Voluntary Slaves. $ | dition that Drought about his uprising | Ot hes deappeared. > “These perlods of muck display on tie | 66 stage recur with tidal regularity. | are always started by the highbr When at thelr fu'l sgength the ite men were sola slavery th @ erday," te- SBE that 2) wh into volunta Brooklyn chur St marked the laun popu | The purchas ai en se voluntary es posseused af deciared the an his packa “Far be tt Scourage the philanthrople who used the for a men Who dd Knocked di him that ‘e Job. ig of the sun rn to him They will be fired lace revolts, the box office begins to suf- fer from paralysis and slab in pi h Dillion per guy that c Down Bas “Blame th of disgust that ts spicuous e certain Broa agers pro- they'll give a men to the Way r again 1 put over another * by heck, agita the y dramatic perform- ances, The brows form a restless | class. When the drama ts 5 @ usual way, H ent ard and s services me meetings and resc fon ts pun | ay 2 i » | } Improving the Poor, } | $ Plays with a P-u-r-p-o-s-¢. § | Nira 9 ’ remark \66 HICH Ht ves Y Ws like their stage Mes » the Poor They Have all movements that a family can be ) average a day. It to bend our ction of asis of wil need no 3 hire a hall 8 and act performance portray gent a were we n stch a fil abduction, divorce for cause, J suicide, If the star ti man on a North government Governor te him: 1 to me,"* good . y Ret a lot of Managers of attrac: "sald the is package. omi+ spac ty By Count Tolstoy. —— Translated by Herman Bergstein, ——= j (Copyrighted by the Press Pubitshing Company, the New York World, 1908.) (Copyrighted by Herman Lernstetn.) The italicized paragraphs are Uount Tolstoy's { | original comments on the subject i eats || Religion and Philosophy? :R ELIGION is a philosophy comprehensible to all; philosophy proves religion FEB. 13. Wisdom is te | HE first and most ancient opinion in abstract mattors is always the most plausible because tt dia appeals to | ELIGIAN is wisdom simplified and directed to the heart. ligion logically justified. eee ET us regard certain acts as part of our duty not because they are Gods | commandmentg, but let us consider them as God's commandments because | we feel thas they are part of our duty.—Kant, ae a a ne bc OW are we to live, not knowing what will be in the future, not H knowing in what forms we will live?" Only then when you do net know what will happen in the future real life begins. Only | then do you shape your life and fulfll the will of God. He knows. Only ; such activity serves as evidence of faith in God and in His law, Only then there is real freedom and life. > \ ELIGION can illuminate philosophical discussions, Philosophical dlee | cussions can confirm religious truths, And therefore seek the come pany of truly religious people and of real philosophers, the living as well as the dead, “And your daughter's phonograph."* “Good! chang “Also your son's punching bag.* “What! to the Mbrary bottle. Thanks to the Burglar, HE dark lantern flashed through the flat. Then came thy gleam of a revolver, “Hands up!" hissed the head of the You're a burglar. -yes," gasped the intruder, as he faced the cold steel. Here's some more loose Great Scot, man, come out and I'll open a speola) —Tit-Bits, family i ” The Day’s Good Stories | | | ! “What have you stolen?” | "Your wife's pug dog.” “i'm. Er-!t_ that's | sneak out quietly.” loose change.” Rr. all “you may “MM eves a man should pay a@ he “And your mother-itlaw's parrott.’” “You don’t say. Well, here {s some debt, he must be accustomed to travele A Logical Conclusion. PURSINGTON says he \be- goes.” \ “Judging from the way he gets in \ Ing backward."'—Washington Star,