El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-03

more women VINO many years ago de-
cided to put their little moneys and
property, their skill and labor in COM
mon sum and to live a life of united
work and share in the profits and loss
of a united enterprise. The community
started in Bolton, Texas. The first years
we're years of hard labor according to
Mrs. MoWh1rter, "a member of the COM
munity. Their first big effort was to
start a steam laundry. This was in
1880. By dint of much hard work
and the most rigid economy they pros
pered so that at the end of five years
they were not only out of debt, but had
saved a little. Made bold by this sue
cess they ventured farther, borrowed
$50, 600 and erected hotel at Waco.
Texas. This hotel, The Grand
Central, also prospered so that
they built two smaller
ones. Every bit of the work except
the heaviest of the manual labor was
done by the women themselves. Their
thrift and enterprise we're amply re-
warded and they began to have easy
profits. Last year they decided that
their hotel enterprises were too much
bother and work so they sold out and
with the proceeds bought themselves
fine permanent home In Washing
ton. Here they live simple, industri-
Gus lives. They sell milk and butter
and among their number are women of
much skill-a doctor, dentist,
sesmstresses and milliners. They
have adopted q few children. The
man organization, but they preach no
extravagant doctrines but simply get
along livery satisfactorily without mas
culiue assistance and seem to be proud
of their success. From all one can
hear it ia simply method of getting
along in this world that brought these
women together and holds them to the
fortunes of their commonwealth.
The suffrsgists have come and gone.
Susan B. Anthony has given over the
gavel of the great association to one
of her pet "girls" and has retired from
the leadership, The convention has
laughed and cried over her fun and
pathos as she resigned the presidency
and commended her successor. "Aunt
Susan" is now in her eightieth year
aud has spent her life's best energy in
furtheripg the cause of women. She
has become one of the most interesting
women of the day. She has success
fully lived down the enormous preju-
dice against her opinions which was
practically prejudice against herself.
While the sixteenth amendment has
not yet been added to the constitution
aud thus, speaking by the letter, she
marvelously succ eied. For thirty
years, regularly every February, she
and her associates have placed an
earnest petition before congress that
women should be allowed to vote and q
protest against taxation without re-
presentation as being contrary to the
fundamental spirit OF American civili-
cation. Congress has reported I'M
favorably ald favorsbly but
the desired amendment has not yet
been added to the constitution. Miss
Anthony has seen the equal suffrage
idea and its representative hooted at,
jeered at and stoned; this violence only
lasted the first few years, then came
years when SCOTS and insults were
heaped upon the cause, but the in
tolerance has gradually subsidized until
today men and women crowd the halls
where the convention Is, applaud the
speakers to the echo and are glad to
number the distinguished women
among their frienos Besides she has
seen one state after another take up
the ideas until today women vote as
N after of course and womsn's right to
a voice in municipal cleanliness and in
school matters Is not for moment
questioned. Miss Anthony expects to
live to see the day of complete success
of the cause of equal suffrage.
The new president, Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, is q noted housewife,
is not only good cook but is skilful
with her needle and has luck with her
plants, To add to this excellent re-
putation as home keeper she is noted
for her logic, her eloquence and her
executive ability. She and her
associates in the conventions
offices as we'll as the great
body of the convention women
are complete denisls of the argu nent
of the ignorant, that the suffragist ia a
sour tempered, dowdily dressed.
st~ident voiced, manhatIng woman and
a miserabl failure IS q home keeper.
The suffragists are we'll dressed, elk
petticosted, pretty bonneted, affec-
tionate, good humOred crowd. The
convention is always ripping over
with kindly merriment and it is the
rule that with the women the suffrage
interest is only part of well filed,
we'll rounded out home lives.
One may scold at the women for not
having more sense than they have
about fashions, for their stupid, blind
a while it is we'll to consider what we
are escaping. Crinolines, hoops,
bustles, French heels, eighteen-inch
are today things of the
past. Not that they may mob all come
again. 1t would be very hard work to
convince the unprejudiced observer
that the increase of the average femin-
inc intelliR ence has been as prodigous
as that but there have been worse
days than our own. Walter Besant
rather whimsically on the
collapse OF the crinoline and says:
blow we'll I rememSe the change
OF fashion! 1t was like transforms
ton of things ugly and creeping into
things ethereal and beautiful. Sudden
ly the girl stood before US without her