It seems quite a long time ago now since the militant suffragettes of London, to gain publicity and thei] own ends, stuck their umbrellas! through valuable paintings, gassed) the Houses of Parliament with obnoxious bombs, threw dignified ""bobbies" over railings and so forth, They did this, chiefly, to make their cause known tothe country, Similarly, in the United States, parcel of women" trooped down to the Black Hills during the President's vacation to argue the cause of equality for women in everything everywhere in the United States, What the outcome was nobody knows, only it is understood that Mr. Coolidge was bored stiff. One writer} says that normal American male citizens are confessedly at a loss to know what the "egalitarians" want, They have the barber shops, he says, and the "Police Gazette," can have their necks shaved, wear anything or alone, shoot their them' away, put their feet on scote in the smoking car up in any street car filled with men, if they manage to get on at all, They are entitled to government-poisoned gin, cigarettes and ringside seats, and freedom to drive an automobile anywhere they want to in any traffic, This seems to be the complete life, bat there is apparently on: the part of the ladies some lack, and the writer quoted thinks that "if arrangements could be made, advocate that the "éyalitariay take the warlord of Manchuria, Chang Tso-lin, along to call in Mr, Coolidge," remarking that Chang] was all ready for the shooting of Mme. Borodin when U.S. Senator Hiram Bingham (of Connecticut) happened along in Peking and told him that he would be regarded as a barbarian if he shot her. Whether this is true oF not, people in China will know better than does writer, but it is reported country that Chang Tso-1 thus approached, could not conceal some slight annoyance, replying to the worthy U.S. Senator that, "if that is the way you Westerners feel about women, I won't shoot her, ut "it has always puzzled me why Westerners are so foolish about their
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