If married and mother she yet plays her part, With six charming children she still must look "smart," For, judging by facts, what Society likes Is a maid who is bold, and a matron who bikes. Golf and dancing, however, were the great opportunities of the young middle-aged women who refused to retire to the shelf as in early Victorian days. In 1904 _Punch_ printed a story about golf, in which a maiden aunt "scores" overwhelmingly and turns out to be a champion player, to the confounding of her nephew and niece, a _dénoûment_ beyond imagination's widest stretch twenty years earlier. With 1905 we plunge into the new phase of the Suffrage question. At the outset _Punch_ was decidedly sympathetic. Note, for example, the cartoon in which a beery working man--a "qualified voter"--addresses a well-dressed, refined-looking woman: "Ah, you may pay rates an' taxes, and you may 'ave responserbilities an' all; but when it comes to _votin'_, you must leave it to _us men_!" In a brief year _Punch_ was thoroughly estranged by the methods of the militants and their harrying of Ministers. His "Sensible Woman" retorts on her "Shrieking Sister": "_You_ help our cause? Why, you're its worst enemy." Raids on the House of Commons and scenes in the Lobbies and the Ladies' Gallery drove him in the Epilogue to 1906 to take a new line. Since in the course of the Crusade women had descended to man's brutal level, put off their dignity and womanliness, and become "the complete elector"--"why, then, Madam, when you get the franchise, as you will eventually, I shall say to myself--_Serve 'em right_." The name "suffragette" had been coined, and came to stay for about fifteen years, at any rate; _Punch_ tried his hand at a new variant--"the Insuffrabelles." It was still possible to laugh at a movement which intermittently ministered to mirth; as, for example, when a New York correspondent of a London paper wrote as follows:-- "In the course of a sympathetic discussion on the good work done for the cause by the Suffragettes in London at a meeting of a woman's society for political study, Mrs. Cory, a prominent advocate of female equality, gave a definition of a Utopian dream which woman must not rest until she has realized. 'Knowing as I do our ideals,' said Mrs. Cory, 'confident as I am that we shall attain them, I fix my gaze upon the brightening future, hopefully awaiting the time when a woman on trial for her life will be defended by a female lawyer, convicted by a female jury' (the natural result, we presume), 'sentenced by a female judge, consoled by a female chaplain, and executed by a female executioner. Then, and not till then, will she have attained her proper place in the world.'"