Posts Tagged ‘women’

Why and Why Not

by on Monday, August 21st, 2017

Federal officials have broken up a plot of the I. W. W. at Detroit to tie up the Great Lakes commerce through strikes.

Under the prohibition law of West Virginia its inhabitants are restricted to the importation of one quart of liquor a month.

A bill to prohibit Sunday golfing in North Carolina failed to pass because some representatives insisted on exempting two popular hotel resorts.

While gangsters shoot each other upon the street and daylight robbers escape, the police of New York in one day arrested 400 persons for spitting in public.

The governor of Florida is a clergyman. He says he has been so busy since his election that he has not had time to “say my prayers at night or to read my Bible.”

Secretary of War Baker told the House Committee on Military Affairs that he broke many laws after Congress adjourned in order to speed up the manufacture of equipment for our new armies.

Heads of the labor unions have united in a huge protest to President Wilson against the adoption of national prohibition, assailing the Prohibitionists as “a fanatical and bigoted element of the population.”

Second-class mail, for transporting which some Congressmen propose to charge newspapers and other periodicals 4c a pound, is carries 438 miles by the Pennsylvania railroad every day for ¼c a pound.

Rear Admiral Chadwick says that foreign-born women in the United States have twice as many children as the native-born women and that women school teachers are causing young men to become effeminate.

Hungry women besiege New York city hall

by on Wednesday, April 5th, 2017

Scene at New York city hall showing the food rioters, nearly all women, mounting the steps in their effort to see Mayor Mitchel. The first of the police reserves have arrived and are stopping the first rush. Thousands of women from the East side and other sections of the city opened a crusade against the high cost of living and started by raiding push-cart peddlers who had raised their prices. They then marched in a disorderly body to the city hall to enlist the mayor’s aid in their fight against the rising cost of necessities.

Short skirts mean bigger meat bills

by on Sunday, April 2nd, 2017

She smokes in the street; put in jail

by on Tuesday, January 24th, 2017

Philadelphia, Pa.—Mrs. Margaret Wilda, thirty-eight years old, was arrested the other night when a policeman saw her smoking a cigarette on the street. The policeman told Mrs. Wilda her act was a breach of the peace. She refused to put the cigarette out and was held in jail over night. She told Magistrate Tracey in the morning she had quarreled with her husband and smoked on the street “for spite.” The magistrate discharged her.

Letter to the editor

by on Thursday, January 12th, 2017

Several women in Boston demanded to be registered as voters, basing their claim on the Federal Constitution which says specifically: “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.” The women who desired registration were formerly citizens and voters in California and Colorado. Lawyers who have studied the provisions of the United States Constitution express an opinion that there is a possibility for women who were enfranchised in one state to vote in a non-suffrage state, if they have complied with the qualifications, because the Federal Constitution says: “Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state,” and “The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.” It will be interesting to watch the decision of the courts relative to what constitutes citizenship and abridgement of “privileges and immunities.”

Women and love will find the way.

Ethel Varnish
New Toulouse

Letter to the editor

by on Saturday, July 16th, 2016

Madam Editor,

Nearly four million women will vote in the coming presidential election in November. The states in which women can vote and the number of women over 21 years of age in each state according to the census of 1910, are as follows:

Illinois, 1,567,491
California, 671,336
Kansas, 438,934
Colorado, 213,425
Washington, 277,727
Oregon, 168,323
Arizona, 43,891
Utah, 85,729
Montana, 81,741
Idaho, 69,818
Wyoming, 28,840
Nevada, 18,140

Woman are at last receiving some consideration in the enactment of laws in the State of Louisiana. At the session of the legislature, which has just adjourned, an act was introduced and passed defining the capacity of married women, that is, that now married women will have the right to buy and dispose of their own property without the authorization of their husbands. If the State is not completely corrupted by giving this right to women, perhaps succeeding legislatures will be a little more liberal in their grants.

Miss Anna Morrell
Covington, La.

Coast bathing girls go sleeveless

by on Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

sleeveless-bathingLos Angeles, Cal., May 25. — The mandates of the Fashion Art League will be defied by the fair sea bathers at southern California beaches.

When the serious minded body solemnly proclaimed sleeves for feminine bathing suits, they went too far for the pretty maids that haunt the beaches the year round.

“Knees may show, but elbows are taboo,” declared the Fashion Art League. “The long sleeve gives the bather a coquettish appearance.”

Whereat open rebellion was declared at Long Beach, Seal Beach, Redondo Beach, Huntington Beach, Balboa, Ocean Park, Venice and Santa Monica.

“If we must wear long sleeves in the surf to be coquettish, we will sacrifice coquetry for comfort,” declared the mermaids in chorus, and the sleeveless sea suits for spring give no indication that the Fashion Art League is on earth or ever had issued a decree.

Early arrivals indicate that striking colors and daring styles will predominate. The lead in fashions on the beaches surrounding Los Angeles usually is taken by the moving picture actresses—several thousand of whom are engaged in the sixty-odd film manufacturing plants adjacent to the Pacific ocean.

The canoe girl, the hiking enthusaiast, the angling maid and all other outdoor devotees, are going in for ease rather than style, but withal have not sacrificed the paramount consideration of the eternal feminine. Outing costumes will be “nifty,” say the arbiters, and they usually know.

The “Bathing Girls’ Parade,” an annual function at Venice by the sea, participated in by more than one hundred young women, brought out every variety of suit. “Low necked socks” and powdered knees were in evidence, but no sleeves. The one-piece suit retained its popularity and ideas of the riot of colors may be obtained from the following awards of prizes.

Miss Mabel Johnson, first, silver cloth design of a typical mermaid, hat, shoes, stockings and trimmings of old gold; Miss Victoria Wolf, second, apricot suit, trimmed with white, white stockings and sash; Miss Claire Alexander, third, cerise and white Billy suit.

Mondieu for mayor? Seriously?

by on Tuesday, April 12th, 2016

My colleague, Mr. Jack Mondieu, has announced his candidacy for mayor. In response, my employer, the New Toulouse Tattler, is not endorsing a mayoral candidate this year, in order to avoid a conflict of interest. Out of journalistic integrity, I too will avoid endorsing a candidate.

But it is that same integrity that compels me to write this editorial imploring you not to vote for Jack Mondieu.

Lest I be accused of airing a workplace grievance in the guise of politics, I believe Mr. Mondieu is a talented writer, and although I sometimes disagree with his methods, his familiarity with the seedier side of our fair city is frequently an advantage to his investigative skills. Professionally, I have no real quarrel with Jack.

Neither is this a personal matter. After the incident several years ago when the Tattler threw a small holiday dinner for its staff, and he got drunk and attempted to smack me on the backside and I gave him a black eye, we have had a perfectly cordial relationship. In fact, if refraining from chasing Mr. Mondieu off of my bayou property when I find him sleeping in the shed because he got evicted again is any indication, I might go so far as to say we are friends.

No, this is strictly in regard to his qualifications for office. Jack is a disorganized, alcoholic disaster of a human being, in addition to being an utter cad. Unfortunately, Louisiana, unlike some other parts of the nation, does not (yet!) see the wisdom of women’s suffrage, so that alone may not disqualify him, much to my chagrin.

Does anyone really think that Mr. Mondieu believes he will actually “destroy the sun”? Surely it is obvious that this amusing euphemism simply means that he will be far too hungover to keep office hours during the daylight.

Imagine, if you will, next hurricane season, with a city in a state of emergency and (God forbid) a Mayor Mondieu. Will he be organizing rescues? Coordinating shelters? Organizing rations of food and water? Or will he be where he always is—flat on his back and three sheets to the wind?

Ordinarily, I would assume that Jack’s candidacy was a lark conceived over a few too many at Lafitte’s, but I have not found Jack sleeping in my shed in several weeks. This is because he is staying at his new campaign headquarters. Knowing what I know about Mr. Mondieu’s finances, I can only come to the alarming conclusion that his candidacy has supporters.

I understand that Jack has a blunt, crass charm, and the idea of him as mayor is amusing. But the joke will no longer be funny if the punchline is his election.

For the love of the city, for the love of all that’s holy, vote for someone else.


Jane Moreaux keeps all four eyes on New Toulouse.

Votes for Women

by on Tuesday, March 29th, 2016

WOMEN SUPERINTENDENTS

Four states have women as superintendents of public instruction. They are Wyoming, Colorado, Washington and Idaho. In Montana all the county superintendents are women. About one-half of the same officials in Kansas are women, and in California over one-half its county superintendents are of the gentle sex. In all these states women are voters and can use their votes for the benefit of the schools. That is one reason why the percent of intelligence in these states ranks higher than in the south. Why shouldn’t women teachers fit themselves for every position of school control? Especially should women have the vote on questions relating to the school life of children. The west has been quick to recognize the merits of its women and this may be the principal reason why it has gone so far in advance of other sections of the country. It surely cannot be because western women are cleverer than others, but must be because their opportunities are greater. The vote is a great factor in individual progress as well as in state affairs, and western women have shown how well they can use the vote.


WOMAN PLANTATION MANAGER

Eight hundred acres is something of a good-sized farm, yet this is what Mrs. John MacDowell of Lake Arthur, La., has acquired and will manage. The plantation has two large pumping stations and numerous canals. About three thousand orange trees are an important feature of the plantation. With the necessary amount of intelligence to operate, and the necessity for contributing a goodly sum to the taxes of her region, it is significant that because she is a woman, this plantation manager’s opinion is of no account at the ballot-box. Louisiana woman are no better protected than women of other states which value votes for women. What’s the reason? Just plain prejudice? Let California answer with its voting women and its wonderful progress.


GIRLS CAN SPELL

New Toulouse public schools had a spelling test recently. About twenty-five thousand pupils participated. In every grade the results showed the girls made better records than the boys, and this in face of the statement that more boys are over-age in various grades than are the girls. Another curious fact is that more girls than boys are being graduated from public schools generally. This surely means that in a few years the women will be the educated portion of the community. No better argument for votes for women can be advanced. It would place the ballot in intelligent hands and raise the standard of voting to that of an intelligent citizenship.


Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference, 417 Camp Street, New Toulouse

Tough luck, men

by on Thursday, February 25th, 2016

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