The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-23
MISS DASKAM TO GIRLS TO BE-:
"HANG on TO YOUR PRIVILEGES
AND LET YOUR RIGHTS CO."
This Didn't Seem 10 suit the Pilgrim
Mothers Who Are Pursuing Women's
Rights and Have q FOremothers' Day
Luncheon Every FOrefathers' Day.

iNhcneOn Every tOT0atnesS Uey'
The 2SOth anniversary Of the landing Of
the Pilgrim mothers from the May flower and
incidentally Of the landing Of the Pilgrim
fathers. was celebrated at the Waldorf
Astoria yesterday afternoon by the MEM
bers Of the New York Legislative League,
of which Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake is pres
ident. by what was called a Pilgrim
Mothers Dinner" The dinner, or luncheon,
was in the Aston Gallery and about 200
women partook. Mrs. Blake presided.
After the tables had been taken away
the gathering resolved itself into meeting
to extol the merits Of the original mothers
and listen to speeches on the evolution Of
their daughters. Most Of the members Of
the league are women suffragists.
Among the speakers was Miss Josephine
Dodge Daskam, whose toast was the Amer
lean Girl Of the Future" Miss Daskam
didn't say at all what the mothers expected
her to say.
THE women who are most valiantly anx-
ious To get their rights seem to forget one
thing" said she. They forget that the
party of the first PARTLY that mean our
brother-is to-day right where ne was in
the beginning. He has the same number Of
advantages he always had The woman Of
to-day has oil these and about 753 more and
yet her shoulders are no broader and her
back is no stronger than 1t ever was. The
girl Of the future will be obliged to choose
between her present privileges and her
rights. II this evolution continues should
advise young girl who asked me what to
choose to hang on 10 her privileges and let
her rights 60.
III you cannot in this generation get your
vote, you always can get your voter. Women
have always influenced man, and don't see
but what that's just as good. There is
some danger of women getting what our
brothers call the 'big-head II the young
girl isn't careful her brother may turn like
the worm. Whatever we do We should
leave him two things. One OF these Is the
conviction that he knows and can do more
than we can, las. for instance. looking up
our trains for usl. and we should leave him
his bank book. he may give us everything
else. including his latcnkey.
Il think there Ia a great deal OF unneces-
sary twaddle these days about the increas-
ing strehuousness OF the young girl. !
don't think she has changed so much.
don't think these little fads Of the modern
girl and modern woman, such AZ PHYSICAL
10 which she must devote at east a morning
a week, have changed the woman under
meath. She has no more mind. She may
use her mind little differently. but it's
the same old mind. the same energy that
she Uses.
There are two things which women
must always have had since the creation
to he successful. and those two things are
the same In the far-off islands Of the Pacific
and in the high school in Massachusetts,.
woman to he successful must be good and
she must he charming. You may think
OF her charm as her parliamentary ability.
her oratorcal power or her excellent can
ming OF peaches, but she has got to have
it, And II she IL not good the world can't
progress. There NAV I've something inter-
esting in the bad woman. but abe can't
perpetuate nations, and after all that was
the main purpose q our creation, think.
" a woman is good and nothing else, she
will he as dull as anything the world ever
made, but II she can be good and charming
her heritage and posterity can ask abso-
lutely nothing better
Miss Daskam got some applause through
her speech, but II was Very evident that her
remarks did not exactly coincide with the
views OF .some Of the mothers. When she
finished Mrs. Blake, before introducing the
next speaker, said:
Il think we all enjoyed hearing Miss
Daskam's remarks, but possibly II she was
{"
written books and had not got paid like
man her view point would be somewhat
different"
Mrs, Blake In her introductory remarks
referred To the married woman who had
made the school authorities reinstate her
as a teacher and said II was one OF the
great victories Of the year.
When she said. IAN American woman.
although under the Constitution she il a
citizen Of the United States, marries an
Englishman she becomes a subject Of King
Edward That is wrong. We should for.
ever be citizens and not be disqualified
when we marry foreigners. The flag
should protect an American woman the
world over and she should never lose her
right to it,"
Among the other speakers were Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Batch. daughter of
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady stanton. in whose
memory the members stood in silence for
q few minutes: Miss Henrietta Muller OF
London. who told OF her work on the London
school board: DR.. Ph1be j. B. Waite. Mas
T. W. Law and Mrs Fanny Carpenter, the
latter a lawyer,