Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-11-08

Vote the ticket of the
Get your r.ends to promise to vote this ticket
Vote early election day. See that friends vote and
you to be sure that you how vote, under
evening this week Madison avenue and sxtysxth street.
or Broadway below eighth street. east side, first door,
OF course they wouldn't have their names
dragged into anything so unpopular as a woman
suffrage circle, and it makes a suffrage woman
grin all to herself to see how they are directing
the wave of public opinion Bye-and-bye the tide
will turn, and then-t sounds cruel to suggest it
but you know, dear little CHRONICLE, the dead
fish always float with it.
The women who are lending their names, TO this
movement are not reformers. And while they
settle back in their cushions and fancy they are
dealing death-blow to the enemy, they forget the
veterans in the womans cause who for forty years
have worked to clear away the rocks and stubble.
But when the election comes off and Tammany
goes in with colors flying as it always does, and
ignorance and the saloon element rule the city
once more, these same gentle workers will receive
an object lesson which they will ponder in their
hearts, and they will discover that after all the
only thing that counts is the little ballot This of
course will scare them to death and they will crawl
back into their sphere again and cover up their
heads.
Indeed am not sure that some of them are not
there now, wondering at their own audacity, and
indeed we'll they may, for as they have announced
their party the one on which they expect TO use this
harmless, gentle influence, the Tammany papers
have scored them cruelty. heard Delmore Ell
we'll, prominent newspaper man and prohibit
zionist, say the other day. ''The day OF woman
suffrage is not far off, it is coming soon and from
direction where you least expect it,
The ship of state will one day have wiser, bet
ter, more able hands at the Wheel The women
haven't stood on the shore and famed the winds
with their aprons all these years for nothing.
DR.. Emily Kempn began her course of law lee
lures at the University of New York last Thurs
day. They are to be given twice week all Win
ter, under the auspices of the "Womans Legal
Educational Society,"" Several prominent society
womes have taken the course, among them is Mrs.
Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan. | had the pleasure of
meeting Mrs. Kempin last Winter She is a woman
OF perhaps 80, and has an attractive appearance
and pleasant foreign accent. She is graduate
In law OF the University Of Zurich, and came to
America to practice law, which she was not allowed
to Go in her own country She will apply for adj
mission TO the Bar here when she becomes cti
zen, which will be in three years. In her address
Mrs. Kempin wore the collegiate cap and gown.
AT the beginning of her speech she said
Ladies' gathered here for new venture t. meono
10 especially self protection and self defence and as
female sex. ' P0"'i W 'he
And means more Itmeans to elevate the moral stand
ara OF our community purify the public sent
ment means to sweep off corruption. 1t not only new
Dut UNIQUE venture, without its like in the whole world In
many places people are realizing that ought to know
e laws er own country but this the and only place
Where the idea has developed into action" '' ro
L had the pleasure of meeting Mr.. and Mrs.
Edmund Russell, the we-known disciples of Del
sarte, at reception last week. In the comnanv
were some well known literary and dramatic LIGHTS
OF New York. 1t would seem disrespectful to the
charming host and hostess to say that every guest
mad his or her hobby-but so it was. A tall, VEN
cradle old gentleman looking very like pictures Of
lolstol was Levoisette, the famous memory nro.
lessor. A spirituelle looking little man delivered
lnsplratlonal poetry, and Mr.. Russell and Laura