THE FEMININE TOUCH

Suffrage leaders have always predicted that the entrance of women into politics will appeciably raise the ethical standard of campaigns. At last their prophecy has been realized. While stupid male candidates become heated over oil and the Supreme Court, the women with that constantly described intuition of theirs have gone straight to the heart of the campaign and are incisively discussing Mrs. Coolidge's policy of wearing $1.69 shirt-waists and of baking the White House biscuits.

The attack of Mrs. Marbury, New York Democratic leader, on Mrs. Coolidge for making public the cost of her waists may, of course, not be free from malice. It is enough to stir any true Democrat to wrath to realize that the process of making modish shirtwaists for $1.69 is exclusively a Republican secret. One suspects that the criticism is motivated as much by the fact that Mrs. Coolidge withheld the details as to pattern and material as by the advertising of her thrift. Were the Democratic women truly wise, they would immediately closed themselves in conference with Mr. Snippean. What consternation in Republican ranks if Democrats (feminine) were to appear at political rallies garbed in shirt-waists of their own creation at a cost of, say $1.65.