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gible for membership? That in 1881 the International Medical Congress excluded women from all but its "social and ceremonial meetings"? That the Obstetrical Society refused to allow a woman's name to appear on the title page of a pamphlet which she had written with her husband? That according to a recent dispatch from London, many hospitals, since the outbreak of hostilities, have asked women to become resident physicians, and public authorities are daily endeavoring to obtain women as assistant medical officers and as school doctors? Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists "Woman's place is in my home."--Appius Claudius. "I have never felt the need of the ballot."--Cleopatra. "Magna Charta merely fashionable fad of ye Barons."--King John. "Boston Tea Party shows American colonists to be hysterical and utterly incapable of self-government."--George III. "Know of no really good slaves who desire emancipation."--President of the United Slaveholders' Protective Association. Another of Those Curious Coincidences On February 15, the House of Representatives passed a bill making it unlawful to ship in interstate commerce the products of a mill, cannery or factory which have been produced by the labor of children under fourteen years. Forty-three gentlemen voted against it. Forty-one of those forty-three had also voted against the woman suffrage bill. Not one single vote was cast against it by a representative from any state where women vote for Congressmen. The New Freedom "The Michigan commission on industrial relations has discovered," says "The Detroit Journal," "that thousands of wives support their husbands." Woman's place is the home, but under a special privilege she is sometimes allowed to send her wages as a substitute. To the Great Dining Out Majority The New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is sending out leaflets to its members urging them to "tell every man you meet, your tailor, your postman, your grocer, as well as your _dinner partner_, that you are opposed to woman suffrage." We hope that the 90,000 sewing machine operatives, the 40,000 saleswomen, the 32,000 laundry operatives, the 20,000 knitting and silk mill girls, the 17,000 women janitors and cleaners, the 12,000 cigar-makers, to say nothing of the 700,000 other women and girls in industry in New York State, will remember when they have drawn off their long
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