The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-04-06
BROADBRIM'S n. 7. LETTER.

All the week we have been blessed and
lcAeered by the Sorosis, and what bright
set Of women they were, and handsome
toe, if handsome is as handsome does.
There were literary fellows in abundance
poets, printers, sculpters, musicians,
singers; many represented large business
interests, while other lucky members of
the guild had all the loose change they
needed for their personal comfort and
were not called upon to represent any
particular profession; but the fact of their
having permanent bank account entitled
them to go special consideration. The
newspaper fellows soon made themselves
felt, and brighter, keener, smarter lot of
people would be hard to find. The came
from all parts Of the country, having one
commonobject. and feel warranted in say
ing that no natinsl convention has ever been
assembled in this country, or in any other
country, that moved with so little friction
and that completed its labors as harnoni-
ously. The man or woman who pictures
the Sorosis as a body of hard featured
spinsters, kiln dried old maids, or angular
widows with short cropped heads, should
have seen the women who assembled here
this week. They were all business, as a
sailor would say, from main truck to keel
son. All the speeches were short, sharp
and crisp, and as the time grew valuable
towards the last Of the session, the mem
bsrs were ruled down to two minutes and a
half, and when the time had expired down
came the gravel on the tick Of the watch,
and the talking sister subsidized at once like
lump Of sugar in a teacup.
There were plenty Of young and pretty
women there, some Miss and some Mrs.
and there was also an array Of silve, beads,
just a. lovely IS lovely could b.. How
swestlY thos matrons)iooked in their besuii-
ful silver coronets representing every shade
from tbe dark, steel gray to the spotlsss
purity Of the mountain snow. Looking at
their decent, orderly meeting and listening
to their speeches, could not help asking
myself, why deny women like these the
right of suffrage and give it TO hordss OF
ignorant foreigners, who never did and
never will understand our system of govern
ment thousands of whom can neither read
nor writer opportunely at this time bill
has just been introduced in the Legislature
which gives them the right to vote at
municipal elections L hope that this is
only an entering wedge, and that ere
many years have passed they may be full
voters in every State in the Union.
During the week the entire body has been
the recipient of the most hattering atten.
lions. Those from the outside have made
it point to see whatever there was TO see
They went to the theatres and the churches
they saw everything from Little Puck tc
Doctor John Hall, and many found the
Little Church Round the Corner At two
O'Clock in the mSrning score or more oi
them diEed down in the cellars under the
World sface to take look at the wonder
full presses in motion. Some of the news
paper fellows thought that they would like
TO take in the opium joints on Pell and
Mott atreets and get a sly peep at Billy Nc.
Glory's. while their more staid sisters from
away back contented themselves with ex-
ploring the wonders of the Metropolitan
Art Museum and admiring the wax figures