"Tyranny of the Male"

In balmy Havana last week many clear-skinned Latin ladies and a few from the U. S.j Canada, grew indignant and loud about something which seems nebulous to most people most of the time--Nationality.

Delegates from 21 American countries had met to debate "Nationality" as the Inter-American Commission of Women.

"Women refuse to have their nationality held any longer in contempt!" cried Manhattan's feministic Miss Doris Stevens. "Nationality determines allegiance. It is considered of such supreme importance that men are asked to give their lives in its defense. Yet of so little importance is the allegiance of women that it exists only as an indirect relation determined by the nationality of her husband or father. Women will not much longer stand for this!"

Others who felt the same way about "Nationality" and "Allegiance" were Panama's Sefiorita Glara Gonzalez and Nicaragua's Senorita Juanita Fromen who ended her address with the ringing cry, "Equality between men and women in regard to nationality must be realized!" after which the I. C. W. adjourned to a jolly banquet at the cost of Havana's gallant Mayor.

Affrighting example of the iniquitous advantages enjoyed over females by males in England: One Crawshay Rawson of Chester, England, was deserted by his wife, and, although she is still alive, filed notice of her death with the local registrar, set up a tombstone.

Mrs. Rawson not only protested that she is not dead but sued her former spouse for libel, lost the suit, was sternly told by the Court that in England a wife cannot sue her husband on any ground except one involving the security of finer property. Against such and other "tyrannies of the male," the I. C. W. at Havana fulminated for a week, drafted petitions, went home.

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