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Vol. XLII

BOSTW

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SATURDAY, JUNE, 1%, 1911

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.No. 23‘

 

 

 

‘THE WOMAN’S JOURNAL

FOUNDED BY
LUCY STONE and HENRY B. BLACKWEL

A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to
Winning Equal Rights and especially
to WinningviEqual Suffrage for Women.
V Editor
MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL

Contributing Editors
MISS‘|MARY JOHNSTON
MRS. IDA H. HARPER
MISS ELLIS MEREDITH
REV; CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE
MRS. MABEL CRAFT DEERING

Office - 585 Boyldton Street. Boston. Man.

Telephone. Back Bay 4717

New York office: National Suffrage Head-
quarters, 505 Fifth Ave.

 

 

.STOCKHOLM CONVENTION

A Thousand“ Delegates Present—Mrs.
Catt Re-elected—Great Welcome to
Miss Shaw
A press despatch from Stockholm,

dated June 12, says: ,

The sixth conference of the Inter-
national Woman Suffrage Alliance
opened here today. There were pres-
ent 1000 delegates from Europe, the
United States, Australia and South
Africa. The address of welcome was
made by Mrs. Anna Whitlock of
Sweden, after which Mrs.,»’ Carrie
Chapman Catt was're-elected presi—
dent of the Alliance. Riksdag Deputy
Beckman spoke Warmly in favor of
suffrage for women, and then Mrs.
Catt. delivered a long and eloquent ad-
dress on the history of the movement.
Mrs. Frederick Nathan of New York
proposed'the formation of an associa-
tion of Swedish men to work for wom-

an suffrage. .,
The Congress will sit until Saturday.

Interesting incidents of today were
the presentation to the Congress by
Janet Richards of a suffrage ‘baton
. Mash. warren .. ;-
the warm Welcome given the Pié‘v. Dr.
Anna Shaw. The whole assembly
arose on Miss Shaw‘s entrance.

The newspapers speak, highly of
Miss Shaw’s eloquence at the religious
services held Sunday at the Gustavus
Vasa Church, where she occupied the
pulpit.

 

Apparently the report that she
would not be allowed to preach in that
great church was a canard.

A LIAR

Alleged Ex-Dean of Colorado Univer-
sity, Who Is Talking Against Wo-
man Suffrage in California, Never
Was Connected with University-—
ls UnknOWn in Colorado

The Denver News of June 3 says:

Members of the VVonian’s Public
Service League are much wrought up
over the statements made in Los An-
geles recently by Professor E. C.
Lindmann, in which he declared that
women in politics have been a bane
to Colorado, and have desecrated the
homes of the State. At a meeting yes-
terday the League adopted the follow
ing resolutions and sent copies to the
Equal Suffrage Association of Los
Angeles and to various woman’s clubs
of that city:

Whereas, One E. C. Lindmann has
recently, in the city of Los Angeles,
California, according to the press of
that city, stated that, since the adop-
tion of woman suffrage in Colorado,
family life has decreased and that

. woman suffrage has been the bane of
Colorado, has desecrated the homes or
the State, has debauched womanhood
and is one‘of the greatest evils of the
age;

Now we, the members of the “/0-
man’s Public Service League of Colo-
rado, hereby denounce each and every
one of such statements as Wholly and
maliciously false and without a
shadow of excuse. We declare that
anyone who makes such statements
is wholly unworthy of belief and not
entitled to the confidence or respect
of any truth-loving or justice-seeking
person. We regret that there seems
to be no way in which to mete out le—
gal punishment for such slanders.

Inasmuch as it has been stated in
the press of Los Angeles that this so—
called “Professor” Lindmann was for-
merly a member of the faculty of the
University of Colorado, we desire to
state that said Lindmann has never
been connected with the University of

 

-‘ woman’s signature as witness is not

Grand/W6 '

WOMAN AND LAW

Odd Legal Injustices—Mother Not

“Next of Kin" to Her Own Child
i

Mrs. John K. “White, at a. recent
suffrage meeting in Frederick, Md.,
gave some curious examples of the
law’s injustice to women. Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis bequeathed interesting
relics to the“ Daughters of the Con-
federacy, but her will could not be
carried out, because in Louisiana a

legally valid. Mrs; White "also cited the
case of a young man killed at a dan-
gerous trade in New York State. The
father put in a claim for damages,
which would have been granted but for
his death before the case was settled.
The mother could not collect the claim,
because by law she was not “next of
kin” to her son. f

FOR WORKING WOMEN
Baltimore Form’s Trade Union League

The \Voman’s Trade Union League
of Baltimore has been organized to
promote the interests of ,women’s
trade unions, to forward labor legis:
la'tion and to 'aid in the formation of
new unions in all trades. These
unions are to be affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor and
with their national of international
organization. Their platform includes
equal pay for equal work, the eight-
hour day, and woman suffrage.

A BRAVE MOTHER-

/ .

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. T

Mr.

APPEAL Toj'CHURCH t

Weighty and EarnesilgAppeal’of Epis-
copalian Women for Enlarged ‘Field
of Usefulness I,

The 5 following influentially- signed

memorial was presented to the Six-

teenth Annual Council of the Episco—
pal Diocese of Legcihgton, Ky., re—-
cently held at Frankfort:

Memorial

he Sixteenth Annual
the Diocese of Lefxington:

We, the undersigned communicants

of the Church in the Diocese of Leic-

ington, in View of the enlarged field
for the activities of women brought
about by changes in education, indus-
try and other social agencies, earnest-
1y urge this Council to consider these
facts in their bearing upon the rela-
tion of women to theiwork of the

Church and upon the need of taking

measures whereby women mayr have

opportunities for: commensurately
larger usefulness in the Diocese; and
we suggest and petition, in further-

ance of these objects, that Canon II,

Section 3, be so amended as/to make

women equally eligible with men .to

be elected deputies to“ the Diocesan

CounCil. ? ' ' '

(Signed)

' Mrs. Charlton H. Morgan
Mrs. Wickliffe Preston,
Mrs. Wilbur R. Smith,
Mrs. Shelby '1‘. Harbison,
Mrs. Katherine G. ,Reid,
Mrs. Avery Winston,
Mrs” Samuelf Bennett,

.Mrs. 'Sarah W. ,Norwood,
,Mrs. John W. Scott,
Laura Clay.

Miss ClaMfii Address
.- . s1 ‘ . .
Miss Laura Clix Coke as follows.

ouncil of

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‘ Government had secured as speakers

Charities and Correction in this city.

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NOTABLE SPEAKERS

Jane Addams, Louis D. Brandeis, Dr.
Edward T. Devine and Dr. Sophon—
isba Breckinridge Address Crowded
Suffrage Meeting—Mr. Brandeis An-
nounces His Co‘nversion

Despite a furious rainstorm, a great
audience gathered on June 14 at Jacob
Sleeper Hall in Boston Univgrsity,
where the Boston E. S. A. for Good

some of the ablest men and women at-
tending the National Conference” of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- JANE. ADDAMS -.
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President 4 9/ Members of the

Council :

Louis D. ,Brandeis presided. Twenty-
five‘years ago, he conducted the case

 

 

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Mrs. Margaitiat Dreier Robins, in her
address at the National-"anference of
Charities, told a remarkable incident
of the great strike among the Garment

 

 

 

 

 

MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS

 

Workers in Chicago. The strike lasted
for months, and caused \great' suffer—
ing. During the course of it, 1250
babies were born to the strikers. The
Women’s Trade Union League and
other sympathizers tried to supply all
these little noncombatants with milk.

A visitor, going into one of the
homes, found a mother in bed with a
neW-born baby, and surrounded by
three other children of three, four and
five years old. i There was neither food
nor fuel, and it was a bitter winter’s
day. On the mother’s bed were three
letters from her husband’s employ’er,
offering to raise his pay from $15 to
$30 per week if he would come back
and help to break the strike. He had
refused, and his wife rejoiced in the
refusal. The visifor asked her how
she could hear such suffering, not for
herself but for her children. With a
steady, quiet look in her patient eyes,
the mother answered, “It is not only
bread‘we give the children. We live
not by bread alone, we live by free-
dom; and I will fight for itgtill I die,

 

(Continued on Page 186)

to give it to my children." ‘

”PM

the org nized ’Ch'urr’l‘vewe,“ your memo-
rialists, do not WiSIQ‘ fonve’y the idea
tha'lee supposegrafnssg a new form
of liberty would indi‘lwhfiya new spirit
in the Church. We k ere and. are fully
persuaded that, wher glee Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty,'a.nd that it is,
as it always has been, the duty of the
Church to watch for this sign of the
Spirit‘s loadings in all her delibera-
tions. We present the facts for the
purpose of directing your attention to
the expediency of making such altera-
tions in the rules of the Church as are
needed to keep them in touch with the
alterations in the social conditions of
women which have come about ‘with
such rapidity and force that it has
proved difficult for institutions to ad-‘
just themselves to them.

Industrial Methods Revolutionized

These alterations have come very
largely, as ‘a little investiagtion will
show, from a revolution in industrial
methods. Mechanical inventions, es-
pecially those made within, the last
have greatly affected the in-
dustries of men; but they have revolu-
tionized those of women. Not only
has the change been greater than in
any previous equal length of time, but
greater than has been known in the
whole of previous history covered by
written records. Men are familiar
enough with the fact that mechanical
devices have made it possible, with
their assistance, for one man to do
the work which formerly required
many men. Society" at times has
found» it difficult to adjust itself to
the changed industrial I attitude of
men; and how immensely more diffi-
cult it is to adjust itself to the new
position of women! ‘

century,

'Women’s Work Transformed

For, after all, men’s outlook upon
life has been very slightly modified.
The views of their own ability,»the
qualities which are required “for their
self—respect and their customary rela-
tions to others, have remained very
much the same. But with women the
whole outlook upon; the world has un-
dergone a transformation. The new
machines have taken their work out
of the home and placed it in factories
and shops. “ They 1:10. )longer in their

scanners—said: ,

for ‘the anti-s-uffragists sat a legis-
~- > L3 1.1;:er _ _ ‘ . '
" ' aringfim Massachusetts. Mr.

 

FIVE MILES

»Of Women Seven Abreast Are March-
ing in London To-day—Greatest
Procession in: History -— Manyr
Nations Represented ‘

If we were in London today, what
should we see? Five miles of women
marching seven abreast—women of
all ranks and conditions, and of al-
most every nationality.

A, Hundred Kangaroos

“The man in the street” will recog-
nize the Australian contingent at once
by the‘little models of the kangaroo
which the Australian women are car-
rying on long poles. At the Headquar-
ters where the pageants and decora-
tions were arranged, a man came to
the door a few days ago and told the
secretary that he had one hundred
kangaroos outside and wanted to knOw
what to do with them. Skilful suf-
fragette hands have since gilded them,
and today they are glittering in thg
parade.

A particularly strikingisection is that
in which the women from India are
marching in' their beautiful native
dresses, carrying a. model of ' an

. elephant to typify Hindoostan.

Will Sing Welsh Airs
At the head of the Welsh women

goes a banner bearing the beloved red

dragon of Wales, and‘smal-l models of
'it are carried by the marchers. They
are singing in their native tongue “All
Through the Night” and' “Men of
Harlech,” led by a famous\Welsh con-
tralto. With them‘march the Cardiff ‘
Progressive and Liberal Women‘s
Union, with their banner, “We Stand
for Justice." ‘ '

The Scottish contingent are march- .

rear. 'twhite mdggsses..t-nit v: t-

 

Louis D. Brandeis’s Speech

It is just a quarter of a century
since\I last expressed in public my
viewson woman suffrage. Then I op—
posed it. Today I advocate it.‘

That change in opinion is the result
of~ my own experience in the various
movements with which I have been
connected, in which We have tried ,to
solve the social, economic and politi-
cal problems that have 'pres ted
themselves from time to time. As

and more impressed with the‘ difli
culty and complexity of those prob
lems, and also with the power of so
ciety to solve them; but I am con-
vinced that for their solution we musr
look to the many, not to the few. We
need all the people, women as much as
men. In the democracy which is to
solve them, We must have not a part
of society but the whole.

'The insight that women have shown
into problems which men did not and
perhaps could not understand, has con-
vinced me not only that women should
have the ballot, butthat we need them
to have it. This is especially the case
because these problems will have to bc
solved largely through collective ac-
tion, in‘which legislation is necessary.

Dr. Devine Speaks

Dr. Edward T. Devine made a bril-
liantand witty speech calling forth
much laughter. He said that ‘he did
not underate woman’s power to in—
fluence public opinion. “But,” he con-
tinued, “the ballot is the final autum-
nal fruitage and justification of all the
agitation and discussionthat leads up
to a reform.‘ However beautiful a
flower may be, if we‘know that it can
never culminate in fruit, its sterility
brings a shade of contempt and a les-
senin of its influence upon our es-
theg sense. When we realize that
the woman who discusses. so intelli-
gently the need of a new law is not
able to vote for it, the fact casts a
shade of depreciation upon her influ-
ence. Not more intimately connected
are the fruit and the. blossom than the
ballot and the qualities of mind that
women possess.” ,

Mr. Brandeis introduced Jane
Addams as one of those women whose
work had converted him to orthodoxy
on the, sufirage question. Miss
Addams said: ‘ ’

Jane Addams’s Speech

It is always very difficult for me to
make a speech on woman sufirage. I
always feel that it belongs to the last
century rather than this. The men
who foresaw that the Negroes would

 

 

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(Continued on Page 186)

years have passed, I have been more»

scarves and ‘ rosettes. x . 1... ring"
Drummond—“General” Drummond, as? .
she is affectionately calledeheads
them, with four girl pipers.

The“ Irish Contingent g

The Irish contingent are wearing .
“Colleen Bawn’-" cloaks, and are un-
doubtedly being cheered all along the
line. I ‘ “ 9 ‘
The” college and university women
march in their hoods and robes, under
their academic 'banners.‘~ They are led
by pr. Flora Murray. .

Lady Stout, wife of the Chief Jus—
tice of New Zealand, is-much disap-
pointed that she is unable, on account
of her health, to leadgthe New Zealand
section. The New Zealand women
march under their own banner, and
carry models of the Fern Tree as the
emblem of their country. The Ca-
nadian contingent are marching under
a" beautiful banner, with the maple
leaf as their distinctive mark.

Many Nations Represented

There is an American contingent——
our hearts go with'ltheml—a Rouman— .
ian L“group, and others representing
many nationalities. Madame Pinnet
has come from Da’usanne on purpose
to head the Swiss section, and many
representative, Swiss women are
marching with her. " The Britsh colo-
nies of the East and West 'Indies are
represented, as well as the East and
West African Protectorates, the Fiji
Islands‘and the British possessions in
the Western \Pacific. South Africa’s
women are [marching under a model
of the Springbok. They are led by
Mrs. Saul‘ Solomon, Widow of the
great Prime Minister of ‘Cape Colony,
“the Gladstone of South Africa.”
Olive Schreiner is undoubtediy march-
ing with them in the spirit.

The London branCh of the Church

Socialist League marches under a ban--
ner bearing a figure of John Bull hold-
ing the cross, with the words, “God
send help, for NOW is the time.”
' The Catholic Women’s Suffrage So-
ciety is in line, and some of the march-‘
ers personate the Abbess Hilda and
her “seven blue nuns.” She founded
at Whitby in 664 a monastery for men
and women. ' V

’

The Historical Pageant
The Historical Pageant is not only
a wonderful sight from an artistic

 

 

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ing under the Scottish lion. They. __V"V'.5~‘V:{.yi

 

 186

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”THE

WOMAN’S *

— NAL’ JUNEILIFI137131’Vujjl

 

 

TO THE FUTURE J
V. H. Friedlaender

 

 

[Suggested by a paragraph in re-
gard to the Suffrage Procession]

 

You hush them in the shadow of your
hand—— .

Dear, unborn women of an age to be;

Not yet they wake to your new umel-

ody,
Fluted in gardens of the Promised

L nd I get letters from John each mail -—“ ulilisatisf?ctory. When you want a. be saved if women could vote.
a - - _ . ’ C ange 11 the MM, you address meet— The crowd was so reat thata -
Yet we who may not hear nor under_ but, Japan Is far away, and mails A LIAR ings and clubs and bodies of voters of flow meeting was hefd in ' th n‘ 91:”

stand dont come each day. I wrote him all sorts; you talk‘to your neighbors; _ ano 91 Hall..
The In’uSic they shall dance to, even that I had begun to Fletcherise my (Concluded from Page 185) you instruct and entreat great num- Members O§ thfe College .Equal Suffrage

we thoughts I am being more sur r' d bers of men, young and old' and even eague an o the newly-formed Hat.
Claim the for k' ‘ ' p ise , - . . , . ’. ’ . ,

the Ifi'ee, Ill-om Of the bond than I can express how many Of them Colorado m any capacity, and that he :Ifité’ouogofgftafiiltfiiig algutfmohgugagilsg Vérd Men S League for Woman Suf-
Soul of our soul, fruit of our high do I find quite different from when I just ls so unknown m Colorado that it has you ’feel that this roundabBout W8, 9: fiage acted as “ex.

mand. bolted them. I begin to fem. John 36:5: léglglzseilfililggtofielafirn aI‘inythingdefi- needlessly laborious, and you )f’mlg ——- ‘-~——-——~\
How Shl‘ggldbe‘lfii 1((ilhoose but love them? 'won’t know me when he gets back. against the publicity which i: gipfreogetsct {gzgiielf Ifigi'gvzn balfk upon the 01d APPEAL TO CHURCH

’ ’ iBless 'hlS' heart, my ideas about him the falSe and reckless statements of you hid abandofiec‘iv igcg0$?%h§1%%%%%t .. E

These be the travail of our spirits,
these ..

Shall walk in meadows that our tears
make green,

And find there, of our sowing, fairy
gold.

her mother allowing her to associate
with those awful women who want to
wear trousers, and, I hear from good
authority, bite policemen!”

Well, I’m not that, either. Perhaps
I’m an Anti-Anti-Suffragist. ‘- How
about my starting a club and Calling
it that? It will be original, anyhow,
and I feel sure these days one must
have views on the subject.

won’t change!

I wish you had a John—not mine—
to go through life with, hand in hand
—lovers and friends to the end. You

 

Guardian says: “'iffipe Suffrage Asso-
ciation of Kansas hs especially fortu-
nate in havingas’ leaders in'the move-
ment the wife of it, Governor and the
wife of the Chief Justice, particularly
as they. are not simply lending their
names to the cause as honorary mem-
bers, butare active workers in the
movement.”

 

 

peripatetic unknowns, who hope by the
utteijance of slanderous untruths con-
cerning the women of Colorado to gain
a brief notorietyunohtainable in any
other way.

We court the fullest investigation by

has attracted so much attention, the
question of the standard of living, and
what the State may do to insure. a
certain minimum of health and de-
cency even to the poorest people.‘ Im-
mediately we find ourselves in the tur-
mOlI of political discussion, and we
should be very glad to find ourselves
in the turmoil of political action.

Indirectness Unsatisfactory
We find the indirect method very

All Roads Lead to Suffrage
At every turn we are brought up to
the desire to have a vote. Almost ev-
ery subject in which women are in-
terested leads right up to it. When

on' the stage. After many hearings,
one legislator said, “If Miss Addams’s
strength holds out, we shall win.” .She
has had to‘ go down 'to Springfield
over and over again to oppose the
change. So do men who are interested
in legislationabut the .women {have to
go_oftener for what they want; and
it is the hideous waste of having Miss
Addams obliged to go down once
oftener than is necessory that would

 

 

(Concluded from Page 185)

homes take the raw flax or wool to
card, dye, spin, weave, and sew or
knit into clothing. They no longer

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Our children?—~nay, ourselves 0 see I am growing romantic in my 01d . I 1"
uu y ‘7 . . reassess ou uuuuuuuu a... Wineries i‘li.”ii.“’§§fiti iii uuuuuuuuuue au home .-
For what they shall be, we, too, might I feel so foolish . _ n o e ability to speak the truth reasons are too man to name. ’ cheese, famil furnishin s- the
sometimes when I y I had y g ’ - y do

have been.
—-Votes for Women.

 

THE LIGHT*

 

By Jane Waters

 

Boston, October 1.
My dear Alice:

Thanks a thousand times for your
splendid long letter. ‘I was just long-
ing for news of everybody and every-

.t'hing. Here I am, laid up with a
broken ankle, and feeling that before
long I shall go crazy unless I get hold
of something and crack off the plaster
cast

You can’t imagine anything more
killing than for me' to be kept still.
I am usually doing something that re‘
quires my legs. ‘

John—oh, how I wish you knew my
Jo‘hnl—suggested in his 7 last letter
that I might try the experiment of
.using my head. Wasn’t that insult-
ing? The only thing that makes it
nice (John is always nice), isthat he
thinks I am possessed of a brain equal
tot—well, I can’t off-hand think of
anyone to compare myself with.

He is always insisting that some
day I shall (wake up and find the joy
of using it, etc., etc. That’s part of
being engaged. It’s so cheering to find

i inn 7 l

n” ’V min

remember that I hadn’t seen John fif-
teen times (they were long times by
the clock), when I bashfully (‘3) said
“Yes.” If he hadn’t been going to
Japan, I might have been coy. I am
inclined to doubt it, though.

When your are near thirty and have
never ,cared enough for any mere man
to think seriously. of marrying him,
you get kind of boWled over when the
man you had been waiting for all
your life comes along. We recognized
each other at sight. John had been
waiting for me, too. L

Why am I writing like a sixteen-
year-old schOOl girl? Excuse me, and
send along yourtracts. I wish you
had never mentioned suffrage to me.
I can’t get it out of my head. I have
suddenly developed a wild desire to
know why I haven’t‘a perfect right to
vote if I want to, which I don’t. You
no doubt will tell me in a few well-
chosen words. Give love to everyone.
’On second thought, restrict it to peo-
ple I' know. ‘

‘ Yours,
Elizabeth.
(To Be Continued.)

 

CONCERNING WO'MEN‘

 

of the workings of woman suffrage in
Colorado—of its effect on the home, on
the government and on women them-
selves—being absolutely sure that
every such investigation will fully
Justify Woman suffrage as it exists in
Colorado, and will further the cause
of- woman’s liberty and of just gov-
ernment throughout the world.
Gail Laughlin,
Annie .,G. Whitinore,
. Cora. S. Richards,

Committee of Woman’s Public Service

League. 7

The Denver Republican of June 1
records similar action 011 the part of
the Denver VVoman’s Club. This club,
of about 1000‘ members, including the
most'prominent and highly esteemed
Women of Denver, has‘passed the fol-
lowing resolutions:

We, the members of the Woman’s
Club of.Denver, have read the inter-
view in the Los Angeles Times with
one E. C. Lindmann, professing to
have been at one time a teacher in the
State University, but now a resident
of Los Angeles. Every statement
made ‘by him is wholly without foun-
dation in fact.

Colorado women have long suffered
from the aspersions of reckless pur—
veyers of misinformation, but we see
no reason why thei,w0men of an entire
state should be called to account be-
cause of the idios ,"y‘ sies of one un-
known. individual ,9 S cgefrained from
expressing his *hODI’i‘thropic views
while a residento nolorado, .and now

a lecture once, illustrating them in de-
tail. I have almost forgotten it now,
though I gave it many times. It
shOWed why any woman in Chicago,
—~Ita1ian, Bohemian, or Jewish——
needed the vote. I had my illustra-
tions all along the line, attaching her
to the city government by her- need of
dry basements and of fire escapes, to
the State government by her need of
laws regulating hours of labor in fac-
tories, and to the national government
by her need of pure food for her fami-
ly, etc.’ >

3, Just a Survival

Foreign-born women in my neigh-
bodhood are always asking me why
women do not vote at municipal elec-
tions in Chicago, aSIthey do in so many
of the countries from which they come
—England, Ireland, Scandinavia, etc.
I am at a loss how to answer them. I
believe it is simply because of tradi-
tion; because, away back, it was con-
sidered unladylike to take part in gov-
ernment, in the days when government
was concerned mainly with the seiz—
ing and keeping of loot, and was some-
what uproarious. The ballot is such a
simple device, and so far away from
the clashing o‘f shields! Yet we can:
not get away from that old idea. But
if we keep on straining to the extent
of our powers, this tradition will
break down, as it is already breaking,
here and there andeverywhere.

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When our suffrage bill was pending
in the Illinois legislature this year,
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not provide the food supplies by cur-
ing meats, drying fruits, vegetables
and herbs. The very names of the in-
dustries and their implements which

ago are almost forgotten.
woman of a century ago dream that
her spinning wheel, the companion of
her daily toil, would first berrelegated
to the garret, and then brought forth
as an antique and become an idle or-
nament in the home of her great-
granddaughter?

Change in~Women’s Outlook

industries has not changed more
radically than their mental view of
them. In the days when all women

little in contact with the commercial
aspects of iabor that, though they
were constantly occupied in creating
values, their position was regarded as
that of financial dependents. -In fact,
the attitude of mind of what we now

practically unknown.
. Women Are Now Educated
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tion of women was that imprOVed cp-r

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fore I gracefully slipped on Auntie’s
best rug. It has made me feel how
far away he is, when I didn’t know
that he knew until today. -

I feel well enough, and am getting
on famously. ‘1 hope soon to get rid
of the cast and dance a Highland
Fling, whatever that may be.

How like you to add a. postscript.
“How do you stand on suffrage?”
Bless your heart, I don’t stand, I sit.
Trying to. be funny aside, I think most
women dosit, and hold tight.

Personally, at present I feel as a
’dear old maiden lady I know (not an
old maid) felt when asked if she be—
lieved in women’s rights. She said,
“Women’s rights! of course I believe
in women’s rights. I have all the
rights I need, and any I don’t have I
take.”

I suppose you are prepared to sally .

forth and die for your cause, which-
ever it is. Come to think of it, I have
a. horrible suspicion that you are an.
“Anti,” and of course no “Anti” will
be so unladylike as to die for a cause.

Write me all about it next time. I
will promise to take it seriously. Let
next time be soon.

Fondly.
Elizabeth.

 

Boston, October 4.
My dear Alice:

I am fascinated at the outlook. You
see I now answer your letters almost
before I get them. ,

So you are a full-fledged “Anti!” I
suppose I must be something. I am
rather vague as to what it is all about,
but have written to Eleanor (you
know she is a red-hot sufiragist) to
send me a lot of literature on the sub-

, ject, and am depending on you to send
me all the proper “Anti” stuff. I
heard a delightful definition of anti-
suffragists the other day which con-
vinced me' I’m not one, whatever else
I am. It was “Those ladies who go
into politics to keep other ladies out.”

That isn’t any. funnier than Aunt
Maria when she heard of Eleanor
throwing herself into the work. She
gasped, and said, “I can’t understand

*Copyrighted, 1911, by the Woman's

.homes for children of dissolute par-

that every school room :in Chicago
shall have its windows opened three
times a day. ' ‘
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch expects
to spend a month or six weeks in
California, helping in the suffrage
campaign.

Miss Mary Johnston sailed for Eu-
rope this week, accompaniel by her
two sisters. She expects to visit Hol-
land and Brittany, and then to settle
down for a while among the Pyrenees
to write a continuation of her new
novel, “The Long Roll.”

Dr. Alice Hamilton, of Hull House,
Chicago, a member of the Illinois
Commission for the Investigation of
Industrial Diseases, has been visiting
various manufacturing plants in Eas-
tern cities as ‘part of her researches.
Dr. Hamilton was elected president of
the Chicago Pathological Society at
its last meeting.

Miss Molly Spicer, 23 years of age,
has been appointed deputy sheriff of
Dutchess County,.New York, by the
sheriff of Poughkeepsie. She is said
to be the first woman deputy in New
York State outside of the Federal ser-
vice. Miss Spicer is charged with an
important mission infinding proper

cuts, and her appointment as deputy
will greatly facilitate the discharge of
her duties.

"Dr. Elizabeth Cassidy, one of the
County Commissioners of Denver, has
her hands full of civic work. Among
various reforms she is urging are the
establishment of separate wards for
criminals who are drug—users, and the
further separation of the older offend-
ers from those Whose habits are not
so fixed. She urges full publicity in
the conduct of municipal affairs, and
has asked to have the proceedings of
the Board of Commissioners made»
public.

Mrs. W. A. Johnston, wife of Chief{
Justice Johnston, the new president;
of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Associa~
tiOn, is one of the best known women
in; Kansas, a past president of the;
State Federation of Women’s Clubs;

and a Director of the Topeka Y. W. C.{

perversion of thi such attention as

- and paying for boarding each (of them

they. find advi t thz'
(Signed) ,

kendi ’

Julia ViWMVelles, Chairman.
FannieM. D. Galloway,
Adella C. Bailey,

Ellis Meredith.

 

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need the protection‘of the ballot ought
to have given it to the WOmen. The
best of them, like Theodore Parker
and Abraham Lincoln, Were concerned
when they saw women going into in-
dustry without it, The eighteenth
century was a century of big theories
and much discuss-ion about them. To-
day things have changed. Now we are
looking after all sorts of minute and
pressing things; and when we would
lay our hands on that little mechan-
ism, the ballot—not because We want
to talk about it, but because We need
to use it—it is embarrassing to find
that we have not got it‘. It? is annoy-
ing to have to stop in the midst of
our social work and realize t