The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-06

Here Is a. practical solution Of the vexed
question, What will become Of the baby while
Its mother goes to cast her voter
Sam Walter Foss. who is the author OF many
bright poems. contributed the following TO a
recent woman suffrage festival:
THE HALF-MAN AND THE wHoIp-MAN.
No carpenter build man the way he saws
The wisest way to make man is-let him make him
The way TO build giant. and the nrest way know,
is to drop him in tho sunshine with this one COM
The way to make perfect race. the lords of sea and
Is to unoose it's bibs and belts and toll II TO expand
Tho race down Fats's great turnpike road has
with one good arm strattjscketed and ono good
And thus. through many sur. parched days and many
,,, ste rn.drsnched niEht., <
And gazing down the visit. of the ,ourns, tina. re-
hs.ks no stat no sEutoh. no help. but say. TAX.
One man and woman make man. Is either half
The fnlles, freedom of 1T. rsht.' The whole man
Tho race is fsttered foot and wrist h.mpsrcd
- chnin.Rang, whom
One man and woman make man. with self same
Take OF the half mans shschles. thon. and set the
whole-man free.
To drain the moral Dismal Swamp and cleanse tho
We need the power Of whole laws enacted by whele-
The half man si.ce the years began has staggered
And climbed e many . tabiol.nd and many star
But down the vistaed distance fur are summis more
And msntled peaks. beloved of heaven. which the
whole man shall climb.
Tho oosmio yeast is working; the centuries ripen
And strange new shapes are looming dim from out
Strange sunbursts on strange mountains. wide
Let the whole man march untestorod toward the
Lot him front the coming glortes and the sr.ndeurs
with feet ungyved and fetterless and hands without
Achain
1t appears that DR.. Mary Breene OF lie Mars
ia not after all. the Hrst.woman IN Iowa to be
appointed city health officer. The bulletin Of
the State Board OF Health announces that two
ner Of Colfa1, who was elee ted in her town in
asS7 ana dssShrrssd ths d h s WITH Mr
Of Who
now serving.
AL legislative reforms for women arc granted
later to Ireland by the British Parliament than
to England. Scotland and Wales. Thus mu.
nicipal suffrage was. extended to the women
OF England and Wales In 1899 to tho women OF
Scotland in 1881. but to the women Of ireland
not till 1893. 1t has been the same way with
married womens property bills and all similar
LEGISLATION. In England wo men have been al
lowed for many years to be poor law guar:
dians. and $50 women are now serving. OF
%a not Til 1855 thar tho Women resnd
were made eligible "a poor law guardian but
since hsn the to be-
and bounds. In 1897 thirteen Irish women
were elected guardians Of the poor nj, In 1873
more than eighty women were elected guar
dams. while four women were chosen as urban
district councillors and twenty-six as rlral
district councillors.
The figures OF the vote on the woman suf-
frage bill In the New York Legislature we're
enormously given In many OF tho papers at
the time Tho correct figures have now been
nscertained and are here published. The bill
to let taxraying women vote on questions of
municipal taxation passed the Assembly by
the enormous majority Of 90 to 9. and came
within four votes of carrying the Senate. As
Cov. Roosevelt was known to be ready to sign
It. the taxpayinR women OF the Empire State
came very near indeed TO securing this meas
ure OF justice. The large vote In the Assem-
bly, was The more remarkable In view OF the
fact that the New York Association Opposed
to the Further Extension OF Suffrage to Wo-
men" fought. the tax suffrage bin us vehe-
universal suffrage on all questions. The bill
providing that one third Of the nom ers OF
all appointed School Boards should he women
received 80 ayes to % noes In the Assembly
a majority of more than two to one. but
not the constitutional majority required to
carry It,, While neither bill became law the
figures OF tho vote are encouraging and siRnif
cant. They 90 lar to disprove the i'd ca that
woman suffrage cannot hope to win victories
the near future S1oyr bncens AZ the
DORCHESTER. Mass