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DR. MA THEWS IS AS
GOOD AS A CIRCUS
teal Suffragist Takes a Hot Shot at Seattle Divine in
Letter to The Press—"He Is Suffering From Notor
itis"—"Ranting, Long-Haired Preacher."
Editor of The Props: T desire to
reply to Dr. Mark A. Mathews's of
Seattle attack on women in your
issue of April Ist. He says: "Suf
frage agitators are female freaks
suffering from male-itis," which he
interprets as "desire-itis."
Of all the accounts that have
reached me of tomfoolery stunts
performed by foolish freaks on All
Fools' 11ay. the unsound ranting of
the long-haired, spectacular preach
tT from the sound city is the worst. ■
Had 1 not previously heard some
thing of the opinions on the wom
an's suffragt question of this indi
vidual, who claims to be pastor of
one of the largest Protestant
churches In the United States. 1
would think he was Buffering from
NOTOKiTIS. bj his attempt to per
petrate this April Fool's joke.
I was once told when in Seattle
that I shculd go to hear Dr. Mat
thews, he was a<- good as a circus.
I reolied that I had been reared ac
cording to Episcopalian methods
aod believed in the "eternal fitness"
of things: that I preferred my re
ligious devotion conducted decently
and in order: also that I preferred
to witness circus performances in
a tent with proper accompaniment.
DR. MATTHEWS NOT REAL
MAN?
Dr. Mathews says women are
"suffering from male-itis and a de
sire to be and do as men do." Hod
forbid! Intellectual, womanly WO
MBS, such as you will find among
the advocates of woman's suffrage,
have no desire to be as some men
are. bal wish to help real men with
their vote to make this old world
a better place in which to live. Pre
vailing conditions prove thai men
are unable to cope with the situ
ation alone Realizing Iheir impo
tency, they are going to place the
ballot in the hands of the wives,
mothers, sisters and daughters of
the nation to aid them in the pro
tection of the race.
The doctor says "the ballot is not
a right, but a privilege conferred:
that it has always been restricted
and always will be." The only re
strictions placed upon the ballot
are those of criminals, idiots, pau
pers and American women. "Oh.
the pity of it." that Belt respecting,
self supporting, laxpaying women
RHMt submit to the humiliation of
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begging this privilege at the hands
of the <>iil> class which can confer
it —men voters. The class of voters
most bitterly opposed to granting
this iust privilege to women is
women's proteges —the preachers.
It is a well known fact that if it
were not for the support the women
give the churches, preachers would
BOOQ have to look for other occupa
tions.
WOMEN GOT MONEY. THEN
BARRED.
I presume the women of Seattle
owe the ins.lie of disbarment from
the missionary convention banquet
to Dr. Mathews and those of his
stamp. 1 am surprised they did not
add Injury to ir.su!' by asking th'j
good Bisters to cobh and serve for
their masters, as did the pntrlnchs
of old. Oh, the shame of it. that
women in this enl ghtened age are
not awakened to the fallacy of hold
ing church socials and raising
money for the support of men who
represent Institutions and who dare
insult them by refusing them a
place at the banquet board.
Raising mom y for foreign mis
sions is another system that should
be relegated to the past. "Charity
begins at home." Even in Dr. Math
ews' own city. Seattle, men and
women who desire to follow the ex
ample o r the lowly Nasarene can
find sufficient work among' Amer
ican giris to employ their time
profitably and righteously.
Statistics show that "during the
month of October, 1908. over $r,ooo
was paid Into the police fund in Se
attle as fines by prostitute women
—each woman being fined $10 a
month."
MATHEWS MIGHT MAKE
BLACKSMITH.
Bear this in mind, women—that
it takes lest time and labor to go
to the poll? and cast a vote in the
interest of the home than it does to
raise money to support preachers,
who might have made good black
smiths and might prove a mighty
sight more successful as such.
Dr. Mathews says that "these fe
male freak.- are the curse of the
domestic life. They are the cause
of social unrest: that any of them
could marry in 12 months if they
wanted to: hut women do not want
to resume tlie responsibility of a
home mid family. Let them stay
THIS IS THE COUPON
—MAY ARKWRIGHT HUTTON
homo and be wives and mothers,
that the nation will be safe and
happy."
It strikes me the doctor's logic Is
a little faulty. He calls women suf
fragists freaks and yet he says they
could marry in 12 months if they
wanted to. He talks about the
home—this much lauded home is a
luxury and beyond the reach of the
average man and woman of today.
His advice Is a little like the old
darky auntie's recipe for cooking
rabbit, you must "fust cntch de
rabbit."
Again he says. "Co home and be
ladies"; but if woman must stay in
the home, how can she earn money
to aupporl preachers of Dr. Math
ews' attainments?
The educated young women of
America are going to regulate the
home and the motherhood question,
whether the men give them the bal
lot or not. Women of today have
too much to take upon them
the responsibility of bringing chil
dren into the world to support
them. Which to it great extent
women arc doing today—not only
children—statistics prove that
50,000 women are supporting their
husbands in New York alone.
Women have come to look upon
bringing children Into the world
without b prospect of seeing them
properly reared a crime.
'PADDLE YOUR TOES, DON'T
PLUNGE."
Dr. Mathews informs his readers
that he i<< a "cavalier from Georgia.
To elbow women at the polls and
other public places is revolting to
his chivalric instincts." I would ad
vise the doctor, as I have advised
greater men than him, to only "pad
dle your toes" in this woman's ques
tion, do not go in all over, or you
are liable to flounder. Cease your
tirade against women who are
working for the betterment of hu
manity or you may wake up some
of these days and find yourself
minus a job or paymaster.
In view of the insult offered the
women of Seattle and the state of
Washington by this would be regu
lator of woman's affairs, it might
be wise to invite him to use that
pair of long legs with which he
walked out of the state of Georgia,
to carry him out to this new. pro
grosshY state of Washinsiotn—
where men of his passe opinions
hjive no place— back to where he
came from. His utterances against
women do not savor of southern
chivalry . but show more of the in
stinct of (he (leorgia "cracker."
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MOST MYSTERIOUS ANIMAL IS FROM TIBET
This is the most mysterious ani- or half antelope; sometimes it is
mal in the world. It is a native of termed the gnu-goat. Hudoreas
,» ~. Mo „,„ . ___»„ _ „,.. . taxicolor is its official name. There
the h ghlands of eastern Tibet, the ;|f on , y <m( , m captlvtty and that is
ultra exclusive country of Asia. The ln tho zoo , where this pho
takin might be called a half goat l tograph was taken.
Inventors Flooded Postoffice
With Unique Mail Box Models
In the dusty loft at the rear of
the postoffice building in Washing
ton there is a monument built of
1500 boxes to the memory of Amer-1
lean persistency and failure. I
These boxes are the Offering of as
many inventors for the alluring bait
Of the O. K. of the department on t
their inventions, which would have i
brought them a chance at an order
for 5,000,000 mall boxes for the
rural delivery service.
All these contraptions have been
sent in since 1901. I T p to that time ,
the department allowed the farm
era to nse whatever they chose as
a mail box, but when it found that
in many' instances their choice ran
to a piece of tiling, stove piping,
old powder and oil cans, and every
thing else from the refuse heap
back of the old homestead, the
department balked and decided to
set a standard. This immediately |
created a market for an enormous j
supply of boxes and all the would
be Westinghouses of the country!
set to work lustily to supply Uncle
1 Sam's need.
The Coming City
of Central Oregon
The results of their efforts form
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I some open on a hinge like a clam
| shell. One is rigged out with more
I accoutrements than a Harlem flat,
•with coin and letter holders, inter
locking signals and electric an
nunciators to tell the passing post
man whether the patron desires
stamps, money orders, postcards or
to register a letter. One (proba
bly invented by a letter carrier) has
,an arrangement whereby it could
ibe swung into the carrier's wagon,
| emptied and returned without the
carrier getting out of his seat.
BOASTS THE WOMEN.
COI.i'MHIA, Mo., April 2.—"The
fashionable Woman" was charac
terized as simply a "clothes horse
for some rich man to show off his
wealth" by Dr. J. H. Davenport, pro
fessor of economic*, in a lecture be
fore the Home Economics club of,
the I'niversity of Missouri.
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EXCITED SEARCH FOR
A RICH TREASURE
OF DIAMONDS
Excited by stories of a rich treas
ure casket concealed somewhere in
the vaults of the treasury depart
more, Representative Flood of Vir
ginia instigated a search which,
leading through many musty vol
umes and through rooms long
closed to the light, has just been
concluded.
The story which at first attract
ed Representative Flood's attention
was to the effect that in 1825 the
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emperor of Japan sent a casket
filled with gold and precious
stones to President Monroe, as a
present. Starting with this as a
basis, treasury department officials
made a hunt through the archives
of the department and established
the fact that Imaum of Muskat sent
to President Van Buren a treasure
box. It contained a bottle of dia
monds, a bottle of pearls, and a
bottle of attar of roses, a gold plate
with some gold ornaments and a
box of mixed diamonds and pearls.
These were olaced on exhibition
in the old patent office where they
attracted the cupidity of a thief.
He stole them, but they were re
covered within a short time and in
1849 the box with its precious con
tents was placed in the treasury de
partment for safe keeping. After
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DIES FROM HICCOUGHS
LOUISVILLE, 111., April 2.—Rob
ert Lewis, a well to do fanner and
stockman, died at his home near
Bible Grove. Last Saturday he was
taken sick, and after a spell of vom
iting was seized with, an attack of
hiccoughs, and efforts of several
physicians to stop them were un
availing. In his suffering he said, "I
am dying one of the most horrible
deaths imaginable." He leaves a
wife and two children. He was a
nominee for collector on the demo
cratic ticket for the coming spring
election, being nominated on the
same day he was stricken.