Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1898-09-22

married women the absolute right to
make will and that making mother
and father joint guardians of their chill
dren. In national effort she has aided
in securing pensions for war nurses and
first urged the appointment of women
as census enumerators
On the direct question of woman
suffrage Mrs. Blake has led many Iegis-
lative campaigns. During every year of
her presidency of the state she carried
some form of suffrage bill to vote, SO
that the position of every public man
on this question was we'll known, and
more than once the vote of member
on the suffrage bill was factor in his
campaign for reelection. During the
sessions of the convention to revise the
constitution Mrs. Blake carried ON a
lively campaign in New York city
She addressed the convention in behalf
of the reform, and has spoken many
times before various legislatures and
congressional committees.
AS writer Mrs. Blake is we'll known
not only Oh reform subjects, but ON cur
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Atlantic, Harper's, The Forum and The
North American Review, as we'll as to
many of the popular magazines of the
day. She has published several novels,
and her replies to the Lenten discourses
of DR.. Morgan Dix on the sphere of
woman, published under the title "Wo-
mans Place Today" have had large
sale. Her latest work was volume of
short stories published i'll 1894 under
the title "a Daring Experiment
Mrs. Blake is at this time president
of the League of the Civic and Political
Equality Union of the City of New
York, which is an association of all the
societies in the new city having for
their object the advancement of women;
honorary president of the Society For
Political Study, chairman of the COM
mittee on legislation of the National
American Woman Suffrage association,
member of the auxiliary committee of
the Authors guild, Daughter of the
American Revolution, and chairman of
the New York delegation to the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers. Since the
formation of the union her efforts have
been mainly directed to securing better
opportunities for women under the new
charter of the Greater New York and
advancing the salaries of the women
employees of the city.
MARY DoANE KEYsER.
Dancing Birds.
One of the many strange sights on
the plains of southern Africa is party
of waltzing ostriches. Their queer an
tics have been described thus:
when there are number of them,
they will start off in the morning and
after running few hundred yards will
stop, and with raised wings will whirl
rapidly round till they are stupefied or
perhaps break a leg. The males pose
also before fighting and to make their
court They kneel on their ankles,
opening their wings and balancing
themselves alternately forward and
backward or to one side or the other,
while the neck is stretched on a level
with the back and the head strikes the
sides, now on the right, now on the
left, while the feathers are bristling
The bird appears at this time so absorb
ed in its occupation as to forget all that
is going on around him and can be ap-
preached and caught The male alone
utters cry, which sounds much like
an effort to speak with the mouth shut
tight.