The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-02

sm.li fraction OF %. true lesson. q III. tV sS,
hewers Of wood and drawers Of water The upS.mn
cratic spirit shown by thi. remark is one which We
not IN the majority 4 shows Itself in lack Of AN
S1i eSSon or the institutions Of our country in
uhroeIsr IN universal suffrage and opposition 70
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of women. The concet Of
less agreeable to tho onooker than hat ae bs ,n
P IN justice TO our girls, however should
boys" '"'' U''p'"' concert less often than our
Mrs Hall urges that some influence akin to
mat OF home lie should be provided for girls
curing their college course:
plished professors and tutors, men and Wom-
ence OF older women. who have taken a de-
gree In the School OF Life. and. IL possible. of
forms Of education. the education OF wifebood
and motherhood. - "''0"oou
Mrs. Frances Scott's anti-suffraqe p,ner NJ
tho Womens International Council was
greeted. according to the dispatches, with "a
storm OF hisses." and was "punctuated with
laughter and ironical cheers" The distress
caused by this to the American Chairman OF
the meeting. Mrs. May Wright sewall, herself
strong suffragist, shows the difference be-
tween the usual way OF conducting public
meetings in England and America, In this
country such manifestations OF displeasure
are regarded as impolite and indecorou,.
while In England they are the common way
OF showing dissent. When was last In Lon
Don attended meeting mot a suffrage m ect-
ing at which many OF the most Intelligent and
cred. 1t was an. occasion that called together
tme very ente OF London. morally and intellec-
noises with which they 's Erected t se nne
mat they disapproved were amazing to an
A speaker At, the council is reported as say
Ing that she thought women sufrag lists were
tn0 mar on men, Once in a while some i'll
GIl ytat nh tl,N.
not common fault. On the other hand. are
not the anti; suffragists sometimes rather hard
Peck of Columbia University. for instance. who
boastfu!ly declares:
1t is man who is the finest and the noblsst and
live. $50 1t is he and not woman who has bat.
ted with the force. OF nature and snbdued them IT
who has reared great cities Greated States founded
and not woman in whom are born the instinct 'c' Of
even handed justice the love of unsnlied truth the
seIf-devoton.
Unsullied truth would say that the capacity
Tor larGe-minded generosity and civic SELF
ness Miss Helen Gould and others Even
handed justice would point out that while the
men were clearing the forest rearing cities
the food and cohins for tn" men and sboVs
a work quite as important in the creation Of
state az building cities or navigating ships.
Wor Ror ANY nofS S fne5 share hare o. the
burdens. II that ia to be the test they certainly
ought to have voice in choosing it's lawmakers.
The singer. Nine. Antoinette Sterling. is re-
ported AZ saying at the council that women
did not appreciate tho value Of husband till
they lost him. II she had had any extended
acquaintance among American suffraCsts she
would have changed her mind. Mrs Liver
HITS Womn ti 1
at which she is generally. a great star. because
her husband was suffering from an attack OF
Jaundice. and found it soothing to have her
read aloud to him. Shewrote: Newer during
the hfty-four years Of our marriage has HI
once failed me in. any emergency. and wild
horses could not drag me from home who
he is II and needs ne" Three rromi-
Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery and Mrs Laura NJ
Johns. President OF the Kansas Equal Suffrage
Association. always used to bring their hus-
bands photographs with them to the National
Suffrage Convention in Washington. and.
though they were excellent friends on other
points, they had a standing quarrel on the sub.
ject OF their husbands. each maintaining that
her own was the best husband in the world.
Lacy Abe rdeeu struck the keynote Of the whole
| equal suffrage N ovement when she said that
| the true principle was the co6peration OF men
ami women. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
DORCHESTER. Mass.