Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-07-19
Feminine
Snapshots
Women Members of the
Philadelphia Board of
Education.

Some years ago a number Of Phila-
aelphia women joined the Civic club
and the Civic Retirement association.
They were home makers and social
leaders. They became specially inter
ested in public schools and the peoples
children and, as one of them, Mrs.
Shilliard Smith, expressed 1t, in the
physical and municipal cleanliness of
Philadelphia. They were not in poll
tics Ia any sense SO far as politics
means partisanship. but they were de-
voted to the interests of their city.
They strove to enforce their high ideals
on the men IN municipal authority.
No good. no goodl Then all at once
they saw a great light. They saw that
to get any result they, home makers
and society women, must "enter poll
tics.a Women have the right to serve
on the school board in Philadelphia.
but few had hitherto availed them
selves of it. With the new light that
had dawned on them the feminine civic
betterers perceived that If they were
ever, while the world stands. to ac-
eomplish what they longed for In the
educational system they themselves
must become members of the school
board and fight the reforms through.
So the womens city committee made
list of the names of sixty-slx ladies
who would serve Oh the board of edu-
cation If nominated and elected. They
sent the list to the ward chairmen Of
all the political parties. OF the sixty
six. forty eight were nominated and
thirty elected Among these are Mrs.
Wendell Reber. formerly herself
teacher In the girls high school; Miss
Frances Anne Keay, lawyer and col
lege settlement worker, and Mrs. Wool
ston, wife of Rev. Clarence Woolston.
Not yet as write have been CON
cluded all the memorial services held
for Susan b. Anthony in various parts
of this wide land in which she lived,
loved and labored It seemed as
though the country in which she suf-
fered SO cruelty could not do enough
to honor her after the breath had left
thing about it. The senate of New
York state, at whose doors she had
knocked SO long and so hopelessly,
passed q resolution of sympathy with
her family for her loss and forwarded
it officially to them. At her funeral
city flags in Rochester were placed at
half STAFF by order of the mayor, and
oil tn hnp a fc-
trict Never before was any woman SO
honored at her death, except. of course.
in cases where perfunctory respect Is
paid at the demise of queens and en-
presses. The lesson is easy to read: IT
you have conviction. advocate It.
Stand up for it through good and Ill,
through sunshine and storm You may
not have much fun while you are liv-
ing, but you will be Immensely hon
ored after you are dead, If that is q
satisfaction. And. besides-and here is
the real point after all-your ideas will
have taken root
1t is quite out of fashion now for a
woman to say she does not like women
so we'll as men and that she gets on
better with men than with women
The woman who says that is not at all
up to date
Apropos of the attempt on the part
Of men to exclude women from col
leges. professions and high Industrial
and commercial places and from yari
Gus societies. clubs and unions. ] won
der If man ever thinks the time may
come when men themselves will knock
at the doors of the great and splendid
organizations built up by wonderland
knock In vain. Begins to look like that
k@
The reichstag Of Germany has passed
a resolution requesting the prime min
lister to present bill abolishing the
law which forbids public meetings Of
women in the empire:
Not long ago number of women EN-
ployed ID an art mandatory were
discharged because work was slack,
At the same time men who did the
same grade of work as the women
were all retained. Almost without ex-
ception the women had other persons
dependent Oh them, and at least one Of
them had several children. II is gener-
ally the case In coed factory, when
any employees are to be discharged,
that the women must 60 Do women
workers who claim to have all the
rights they want know whyf
Frank Hess deserted his wife be-
cause, be said, she insisted on having
beefsteak and mushrooms for dinner
three times week, and be refused to
stand for 1t. Now, II Mrs. Frank Hess
had been new woman she would have
got out and hustled for that beefsteak
and mushrooms herself and then
sweetly invited her husband to dine