Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-21
A ISLANDER ON COLORADO.
Woman Suffrage and Smoking in the
Colorado LEGISLATURE,

At legislative hearing in Boston
on woman's suffrage a few days ago,
Frank Foxcroft said:
In the Colorado house of represent
tatives the other day. the speaker was
trying to enforce the rule against
smoking, and the one woman member
said the smoke made her i'll, but the
members continued to smoke. In
Massachusetts, there is hardly a hod-
carrier that would be guilty of such a
thing What makes the difference be-
tween the Massachusetts hod-carrier
and the Colorado legislator? 1t is be-
cause in ColoraQo the woman who ask
ed for the ballot had got what she
wanted"
Thinking the alleged Incident was
probably canard, wrote to the enc
woman member" of the Colorado leg
islature, Mrs. Evangeline Heartz, in
curing as to its truth. Mrs. Hearth
replies:
House of Representatives, Denver.
Colorado.-Tha rule against smoking
has been uniformity observed, and I
have never suffered the slightest I'M
pleasantness from that source. | was
member with other ladies of the
Eleventh general assembly; the
Twelfth had three representatives
from women's ranks. and all have re,
ceived the same courtesy. 1t gives
me pleasure to say further, that we
have many lady visitors from eastern
cities-New York. Albany, st. Louis
and elsewhere-an they have all
complimented us on the freedom from
tobacco smoke which distinguished our
house of representatives.
II can render the following testi-
mony individually and substantially
it could be verified by three-fourths of
the citizens of Colorado. Beginning
with my personal experience, am
bound in candor and justice to say
that more courteous, gentlemanly
body of men than the Colorado legis-
flature, in their habitual conduct to-
ward the one woman member, could
not be found in any state of the Union,
Massachusetts included. 1t is worth
noticing that no woman exercising her
privileges as an elector has any COM
plant to offer of a diminution of re-
spectful and even gallant treatment,
in every walk in life"
Mrs. Hearth READ Mr.. Foxcroft's re-
marks and her answer, to the mem
bers of the Colorado legislature. They
expressed their opinion of Mr.. Foxcroft
in vigorous terms, and passed vote
of thanks to Mrs Hearth for defend
ing them from the unauthorized SLAM
der
When Cuvier was reconstructing
prehistoric animals from their relics,
some of his students laid plan to
brighten him. One of them got himself
up as a prehistoric monster of fright
full aspect, and appeared one night at
the professors bedside, crying in a
hollow voice: "Cuvier, Cuvier, have
come to eat you!" The great natural
list scanned the aparition, and answer
ed, cody: Horns, hoofs. Graminiv-
orous! You can't" And turning ov-
er he went to sleep again, while the
extinct animal, more extinct than ever
sneaked silently away. Anyone with
the slightest experience in Investigate
ing the long series of groundless stor-
les that have been circulated against
equal suffrage, could have recognized
that one about the Colorado legisla-
ture as canard by its ear-marks, and
would have refused to be disturbed by
it. Alice Stone Blackwell.