Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-14

room, outside Of the marble room, Won
dering what they would do, since they had
been excluded from the marble room be-
cause the Senate committee had been prom
ised to the suffragists. Miss Anthony
caught onto the situation right quickly, and.
with her usual alertness, walked out and
invited them into the marble room. Il
thought would scream, remarked one Suf-
fragist. when 1 saw Aunt Susan walking
into that room, at the head of the anti
suffrage women. 1t was one of the very
funniest situations l ever saw. She gave
them seats on sofa-there were just
enough to fill one sofa-and it was in one
of the best places in the marble room, too"
Mrs. Virginia D. Young, the humorist of
the suffragists, newspaper woman, and
talker of the lightning variety, halls from
South Carolina, and she thinks Senator Till
man would make good President In fact
she started an incipient boom for him last
night. Among her Interested listeners was
Representative Talbert of South Carolina.
She roasted men generally, and legislators
and statesmen in particular, for not giving
women political rights, but her inimitable
drawl seemed most pleasing to Mr.. Talbert.
for he laughed till. it is said, he all but
cried. He was there to do Mrs Young
honor. She is immensely liked wherever
she is known.
Miss Anthony's love Of the beautiful leads
her to always clothe herself in good style
and fine materials, and she has an eye for
the fitness of things as well as for the
funny. Girls, she said yesterday, after
returning from the Capitol, those states
men eyed us very closely, but l know very
well that it was impossible after We got
mixed together TO tell an anti from a
suffragist by the clothes. There might
have been a difference in the faces and the
shape of heads she added, dryly, and of
course all in the convention knew she
Intended them to understand that that
difference was in favor of the suffragists
Mrs. Anna Diggs, state librarian of Kan
sas-and Kansas has one of the largest
state libraries in the country, she would
the assertion by the ANTS that municipal
suffrage in Kansas is a failure. She says
women do exactly as men do When the
ticket is a fair one, they take small inter-
est. But when the chances are that bad
men will strive for place, they register and
work and vote. In several instances they
have repudiated ''11ng'' ticket and made
up and elected their own ticket. Kansas
has had several woman mayors. and in
three cities of the state, she says a full
corps of city officers from mayor down
has been elected, and the women all made
good city officers. 1.-THE Ten Commandments
are broken to bits, many times day, from
first one to last, in this big world she says,
but for that you would not abolish the Ten
Commandments. Because all women do not
rush to church you would not close their
doors against the devoted ones who do go
Kansas is all right, and she will one day
make her municipal suffrage as full and
free to women as to men, and don't you
forget it, as we say out west" she con-
cluded.
Representative Shafroth is said to be
aching to roast the woman who hit Colo
RADIO by reading some letters yesterday
from somebody in that state who said that
women there did not vote, and did not want
the ballot.