of the
past, thanks to woman suffrage."

"What do you have reference to?"

"Taking the straw vote. Who would venture to predict a woman's ballot
twenty-four hours before election?"

WOMAN'S RIGHTS

_Why We Oppose Pockets For Women_

1. Because pockets are not a natural right.

2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they
did, they would have them.

3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.

4. Because women are expected to carry enough things as it is without
the additional burden of pockets.

5. Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to
whose pockets were to be filled.

6. Because it would destroy man's chivalry toward woman if he did not
have to carry all her things in his pockets.

7. Because men are men and women are women. We must not fly in the
face of nature.

8. Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes,
whisky flasks, chewing-gum, and compromising letters, we see no reason
to suppose that women would use them more wisely.

WORK

Oh, would that working I might shun,
From labour my connection sever,
That I might do a bit or none
Whatever!

That I might wander over hills,
Establish friendship with a daisy,
O'er pretty things like daffodils
Go crazy!

That I might at the heavens gaze,
Concern myself with nothing weighty,
Loaf, at a stretch, for seven days--
Or eighty.

Why can't I cease a slave to be,
And taste existence beatific
On some fair island hid in the
Pacific?

Instead of sitting at a desk
'Mid undone labours, grimly lurking--
Oh, say, what is there picturesque
In working?

But no!--to loaf were misery!--
I love to work! Hang isles of coral!
(To end this otherwise would be Immoral!)

--_Thomas R. Ybarra_.

Labor is man's great function, He is nothing, he can do nothing, he
can achieve nothing, fulfill nothing without working.--_Dewey_.

If you are poor--work. If you are rich--continue to work. If you are
burdened with seemingly unfair responsibilities--work. If you are
happy--keep right on working. Idleness gives room for doubts and
fears. If disappointments come--work. If sorrow overwhelms you and
loved ones seem not true--work. If health is threatened--work. When
faith falters and reason fails--just work. When dreams are shattered
and hope seems dead--work. Work as if your life were in