The sun., 1908-02-16
WHAT WoMEN ARE DOING.


Ths Grand Duchess Louise Of Germany
has taken personal supervision OF the milk
plant presented to the city Of Karlsruhe
by Nathan Strans. She is deeply inter
estod in the work, seeks to employ only
the BEST scientific methods and Is con-
tinually on the lookout for new ideas in
the hope Of checking the mortality among
the infants Of Germany.
Or. David Starr Jordan. president Of
Leland Stanford, Jr., University, was
elected honorary president Of the Cali
fornia State Woman Suffrage Association
at its last convention. Judging by his
work DR.. Jordan has been for years be-
lever in the equal rights Of men and women.
The success of coedncation a. IL exists to-
day in Cornell University ie largely due 20
his Efforts. Back in 1890. during the Cali
fornia campaign. he delivered a speech in
which no came ont unequivocally as an
advocate Tor woman suffrage
Mrs. Elizabeth Custer has declared her
intention to build home for impoverished
literary women a. a memorial to her hus-
band, who fell in the Little Big Horn fight
with the Indians some thirty years ago.
Mrs. Custer has recently bought a site FOR
the proposed homo in Bronxville, West
chester county, v. r., and II is said that the
building will soon be begun.
Siam has recently passed a law giving
women the right to vote in certain cases.
The International French Revis,1 comments
upon this step, which Is extraordinary for
an Orieptal people. IL tpoints out that Bud
dhism has prepared the way, as IL breaches
the equality Of the sexes and gives equal
education to boys and girls. The Buddhist
monks are the educators and have sown
Vne seeo OF this reformation. q
The Mississippi Legislature for the first
time In history finds itself facing a regularly
organized lobby Of women. At first tho
members fancied il a laughing matter and
prepared to make merry at the expense OF
the women who had come to influence their
acts. Recently the smiles have left their
faces, for they have made the unexpected
discovery that the women are in grim ear
nest and are force which must be reckoned
with.
Mrs. H. B. Kell is In charge OF the prohibi-
tion forces, Mrs. A. H. LOnRino is at the
head OF the Old Ladies' Home movement,
and 10 is expected that Mrs. r. L. McIaurin
the child labor bills.
The women Of Shreveport, Caddo parish,
La, carried the day at the recent election
which decided the issue Of prohibition. Il
was the hottest election contest ever known
In the State and the first one In which the
wives, mothers and daughters OF the voting
population showed their determination to
have things their own way.
Led by Mrs. Mary Harris Armour, presi-
dent Of the W. G. T. U. In Georgia, the women
carried on q six weeks canvass. The fact
that the saloons had repeatedly violated the
existing law In the most fragrant manner
made the feeling more intense. The after.
noon before election day 1000 children
marched in line, waving banners and sing.
ing -Caddo is going dry - -
This procession was led by q band, the
acting Mayor and a squad Of mounted
police. while behind them to the number
OF several hundred marched the most
prominent women OF the community and
the leading business men. At daybreah
on election morning the women were hold
ing prayer meetings, before o'clock they
were at the polls, et some booths more
than 100 strong, and they remained unit
after the votes were counted.
When the returns came In and IL wal
found that prohibition had won by a ma.
| iority Of 70 votes In n total Of 2,S9O an en-.
thusiastic demonstration followed. Men