, 1906-01-03
Wednesday,, January 3. 1000
Feminine
Snapshots
Increasing Political ActiV-
ity of Women.

That person would be a very blind
Did fogy indeed who failed to recognize
that full political rights for all women
In America are not far off. Never since
| can remember have women been SO
actively engaged in political work as
during the campaign this autumn in
nearly every state in the Union In the
large cities feminine politics has been
red hot, usually on the side of clean
government, it is only just to say. In
Philadelphia there was actually a wom-
ans official committee attached to one
of the parties. The women of his com
mittee and their representatives made
Il house to house canvass among
doubtful and illiterate" voters and
eloquently impressed their principles
Oh these. The ladies' displayed the par
ty flag from the windows Of their
homes, and they held parlor meetings to
which speakers II voters We're invit-
ed. In New York not only the organ
lied feminine political workers We're
busy as bees, but there We're morgan
iLNd oiitS II III opAiitthihS " tiSii
candidates on their own account. Mrs.
Nelma Swanston Howard, Il refined,
cultured woman of Swedish birth, went
around among he voters of that ma
tionality giving information, persuad-
ing and distributing literature, with the
result that she gained not only votes
for her candidate, but money for his
campaign fund, which last she had not
at all asked for. Each year more and
more women campaign speakers are
employed by political parties, and some
of them are well paid for their elo
quence. Women may collect campaign
funds, distribute literature, hold meet
ings, gain thousands of votes for thu
men candidates and yet-the doubled
and twisted, crisscrossed ~ineongruity
of it!-not one of these influential wom-
en- herself has Il vote! When since the
world began was there ever such a
situation before?
If every woman were brought up to
n trade or profession, no matter how
rich she might be prospectiyely; if ey-
cry woman were taught that ii is Il dis
grace to hang dependent on IA man rel
alive by marriage or otherwise, there
would not be so many old women
slumping down for support on their
daughters generally grudging hus-
bands; there would not be so many
grandmothers shaving for their thank
less grandchildren in nurseries and
baek kitchens; there would not be one
quarter so many useless and unwel-
come women seeking refuge in old
women's homes-that last resort for
feminine improvidence and inefficiency.
Men universally complain-poor in
nocent things-how he women chase
them up, determined to marry them
whether they will or not. Well, the
way to stop this ferocious and terrible
man hunt is for men themselves to en-
courage by all means i'll their power
the entering of woman into trades and
professions in which she may earn her
own living Independently. Then We'll
see.
An English woman writer says that
the ordinary mother love for a wom-
ans own offspring instead of being
sacred II holy" is in reality Il mar
row, selfish, morbid animal instinct.
Mother love takes in all Gods children,
else it is no rue mother love at all,
only the animal instinct abnormally
developed.
b. D.
AT Moscow, Russia. during one of
the fiercest encounters between Cos
sacks and strikers, the strikers, on
whom the soldiers were in the act of
charging, showed signs of breaking and
%retreating. AT that moment a young
girl with loose, flying hair al in front