"Women rule through Beauty's sway"?
And those lovers, where are they,
Who could hold no woman dear
If she had the ballot? Nay!
Where the snows of yester-year?

Prince, inquire no more, I pray,
Whither antis disappear.
Suffrage won; they melt away,
Like the snows of yester-year.

Thoughts at an Anti Meeting

There are no homes in suffrage states,
There are no children, glad and good,
There, men no longer seek for mates,
And women lose their womanhood.

This I believe without debate,
And yet I ask--and ask in vain--
Why no one in a suffrage state
Has moved to change things back again?

A MASQUE OF TEACHERS

AND

THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS

The Ideal Candidates

(A by-law of the New York Board of Education says: "No married woman
shall be appointed to any teaching or supervising position in the New
York public schools unless her husband is mentally or physically
incapacitated to earn a living or has deserted her for a period of not
less than one year.")

CHARACTERS

_Board of Education_.
_Three Would-Be Teachers_.

_Chorus by Board_:
Now please don't waste
Your time and ours
By pleas all based
On mental powers.
She seems to us
The proper stuff
Who has a hus-
Band bad enough.
All other pleas appear to us
Excessively superfluous.

_1st Teacher_:
My husband is not really bad----

_Board_:
How very sad, how very sad!

_1st Teacher_:
He's good, but hear my one excuse----

_Board_:
Oh, what's the use, oh, what's the use?

_1st Teacher_:
Last winter in a railroad wreck
He lost an arm and broke his neck.
He's doomed, but lingers day by day.

_Board_:
Her husband's doomed! Hurray! hurray!

_2nd Teacher_:
My husband's kind and healthy, too----

_Board_:
Why, then, of course, you will not do.

_2nd Teacher_:
Just hear me out. You'll find you're wrong.
It's true his body's good and strong;
But, ah, his wits are all astray.

_Board_:
Her husband's mad. Hip, hip, hurray!

_3rd Teacher_:
My husband's wise and well--the creature!

_Board_:
Then you can never be a teacher.

_3rd Teacher_:
Wait. For I led him suc