Article May 1, 1909 Issue

"WAIT PATIENTLY"

MYRA B. LORD

During the past few months the equal suffrage question has been unusually to the fore in this country, due in a measure, perhaps, to the propaganda carried on by visiting suffragists from abroad, where, largely because of vigorous governmental opposition, the campaign is waged with somewhat more of aggressiveness than obtains here.

We are apt to think of equal suffrage as a comparatively modern movement, but the argument therefor harks back to the creation. When God who made all things pronounced them "good," man, whom God had created "in his own image, ... male and female," was included. The sameness of nature and the common right to equality of opportunity of the two sexes, as well as their mutual interdependence, were thus established from the beginning; but as time went on, women came to be considered as merely personal chattels, regarded by the head of the family as

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