The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-08
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EMHmmWMmlRmN @msHh 1HusME zHm1H EslHznIa sons why women should not vote: "A nation should be ruled by logical in- telligence. Women are guided by in- i stinct and emotion.
 | Where ten women out of hun dred would give their vote because oi conviction based upon a thorough knowledge of the subject the other ninety would accord it because the last eanvasser had been the most eloquent Women of the stsrnest morality | will always stretch a point for a be- | loved, erring son. brother or husband or any male creature they adore. there. fore their vote for the right of the case could not be counted upon. Tt Is the few who are cultivated and able to think and give their own de- auction. Masses Of women, in all | things beyond their small, everyday affairs. in giving an opinion. are merely parrots, so that a clever man could play upon the inclinations of a prodigious number of them. stamp his ] view and win their votes, whether the cause were good or bad"
 Mrs. Howe defends the cause of l woman suffrage at length in The Out look of September 12, and Mrs. Ward I further attacks the cause in The Nine- teenth Century of August, in The Liv- 1 ing Age of October 8, and in the No- yenber number of the Ladies' Home Journal. And the end is not yet. The following Is clipped from The Savannah Morning News and Is an in- teresting comparison of two notable English novels of recent publication. l The motive of each Is the much de- bated question, and it is treated in them from diametrically opposed | standpoints:
 Tt is rather curious that Mrs. Hum phrey Ward and Miss Beatrice Har- {, raden should have recently entered the novelistic arena as literary antag- onists.
 Miss Beatrice Harraden. since she wrote her famous ships That Pass in the Night" has done little to arouse public interest, but her latest novel. "Interplay."i has attractel attention. Mainly, she deals with the subject of | the suffragette and has written a book that puts the case of that much advertised person very strongly. Mrs. Humphrey Ward, on the other hand, minimizes the suffrage cause and deals with the coming of radical socialism in England. Strange to say, and with l true, feminine inconsistency. all of Miss Harraden's women characters fall | in love. and there is q strong inter  | the title. Though the women are lined up in battle against the sex and are trying to defeat the men at the election polls, they ultimately succumb to | Prince Charming when he presents himself. Mrs. Ward, on the other hand draws a strong picture of latter l day politics, and takes an altogethe CT pessimistic view of life. The two books, issued just now. are signs of the times, and give an inkling of polit- tcal upheavals that do not brighten the outlook of the near future in Eng land."
 MEETING or LADIES
 MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION. The Ladies Memorial Association met at II o'clock Tuesday with the president, Mrs. M. B. Bibb. In spite of the downpour of rain outside there was sunshine within, as there always is in this old-faHhioned, hospitable home. Twenty-one ladies enjoyed the mornings entertainment, sitting in chairs which great states men had pressed. eating and drinking from china and cut glass made historic by the use of Toombs, Stevens, Cobb and other distinguished men of the palny days of the old South. No won der that dreams of the Confederacy took the form of "reminiscences, and that the morning was weII-nigh devot- ed to stories of struggles hard-fought in the long ago.
 Among the many interesting anec- dotes related. was one in which the raconteur told of how she was dressed at a certain war time ball in Montgom- cry. Her ''satin" gown was of sure- enough homespun, and was trimmed with ermine from the cotton fields of Dixie. The strands of pearls that adorned her neck and were wound in and out in her dark hair, were strings of white and yellow corn. When Gen. Alpheus Baker begged for favor from my lady. he was honored with the string of pearls from her neck---a me- mento which he always cherished
 These stories brought about the sug gestion of a Confederate supper to be given in Confederate attire on the 1st of December, at the home of Mrs. Bibb. The motion was adopted.
 At the close of the meeting the greater number of the ladies bade adieu to the hostess. complimentinE the profusion of good things and the enjoyable morning, but few remained for a confidential chat about business arrangements. At the close of this conference a silver cup from which President Davis had drunk was brought out, and many toasts were of- fered-the last to our president. Mrs. Bibb. as follows;
 If I were a raindrop,
 And you were leaf
 I'd fall from the heavens above you
 And in a rapture of rest
 I'd lie on your breast,
 And love you, and love you, and love
 you.
  NOTICE, FRANCIS MAR
 ION CHAPTER, D. A. R.
 The regular monthly meeting of the Francis Marion Chapter, D. A. R. will be held at the residence of Mrs. Hailes Janney. 607 Monroe street, Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
 By order of the Regent,
 Mrs Chas. Thigpen. Secretary.
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 PETER FoRNEY CHAPTER, D. A. R.
 The regular monthly meeting of the Peter Forney Chapter. D. A. R.. will be with Mrs. A. J. Taylor at her rest dence. 7OS South Lawrence street. Wednesday afternoon at o'clock.
 A large attendance is desired, as the election of delegates to the conference to be held at Anniston will take place
 Mrs. L. G. Dawson. Regent.
 Mrs. Henry Newsom. Secretary.
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 A meeting of the Ladies' Memorial Association Is called for Monday, the 9th, at 11:S0 a. n., at the residence of