Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-12-25

Wllliam Funck, or Baltimore, and Mrs
Mary Beatly Thomas.
The West VirgiHia booth was pre-
sided over by Mrs. Anna Caldwell
Boyd and Mrs. Fannie J. Wheat, both
OF wheeling. 1t had n fine display OF
glass and china manufactured in the
state. including splendid vase. three
feet high and sixty inches in circum-
ference at the top, made expressly fol
the bazaar, with q portrait of Miss
Susan B. Anthony on one side.
A booth bearing the inscription
Dixie Land" included contributions
from Alabama, North and South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Virginia, Kentucky
tennessee, Delaware, etc. Here was q
doll dressed by the wife OF Governor
Russell, Of North Carolina, to repre-
sent Virginia Dare, the first white
child born in the Colonies. wearing q
pale blue quilted skirt and red velvet
bodice; another doll dressed in green
from the wife of Governor insolvency
of South Carolina, and still another
dressed in white, from the wife of the
Governor-elect of Delaware. Thare
was a blanket made in u little mount
ain cabin in Kentucky by woman
who herself raised and sheared the
sheep carded spun and dyed the wool
and wove 1t into designs.
There was a picture OF an aged negro
by Howard Weeden, of Alabama,
author Of Songs of the Old South;
quaint dolls representing plantation
hands with bales of cotton on their
heads. made by Miss Norris Lewis,
president by the North Carolina Equal
Suffrage Association; baskets and
fancy work from Georgia, knife and
fork IT'S years old from Virginia and
many other Southern curiosties. Mrs.
Virginia d. Young of South Carolina,
had interested herself especially In
this BOOTH Mrs. Bette NJ. Donelson,
of the Ladies' Hermitage Association,
of Tennessee. contributed an autograph
letter written in 1922 by General An
drew Jackson to Major Andrew Donel-
son, with photograph of the "Hermi-
tage," Jackson's home, and n picture
OF Rachel Donelson, his wife, and a
photograph of a portrait of Jackson,
made by Healy for the French king.
which was completed only five days
before the death of the general The
Southern ladies In charge of the vari-
Gus booths had also for sale autograph
copies of the works of n great many
Southern authors. Miss Laura Clay, a
kinswoman of Henry Clay. is president
of the Kentucky Equal Rights Asso-
citation. She is q farmer, and raises
blue grass seed and stock. She was
unable to be at the bazaar in person,
but she sent SIS. the price OF a hog
that she had fattened and sold for this
express purpose.
The bazaar cleared thousands of dol
lars. but its financial success is only a
small part of Its good results. 1t dealt
a heavy blow TO many ancient errors.
The quantities OF beautiful fancy work
of all kinds must have cured the delu-
sion that the women who wish to vote
do not know how to sew. The delicious
homemade jellies and preserves fully
refuted the accusation that they do not
know how to cook. The many charm
ing and elegantly attired women pres
ent showed the fallacy of the idea that
the advocates of equal suffrage must
be devoid OF personal attractions and
of taste In dress.
Last. but perhaps not least the fine
exhibits from the Southern States
ought to do away forever with the old
prejudlced error that the South Is
solid" against equal rights for wo-
men.
EMILY DeSAUSSURE.