The sun., 1908-12-13
WHAT WoMEN ARE DoINe.

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The advocates OF equal suffrage are
claiming President elect Taft as q believer
In woman suffrage They say that In ad'
dressing q crowd Of school children al
Sabina, Ohio. he said. You do not vote
now. but some day you will. and hopt
when you. do the girls will vote as well al
the boys"
Mrs. Richard Sophris was the Oldest
woman to cast q ballot In the recent election
In Denver. Col. She is In her ninety eighth
year, has perfect control Of hor faculties
and declares that she Is proud OF being
able to vote as a full Aedged citizen OF the
country.
Miss Laura A. Hecox has tended the light
in the Santa Cruz. CAL. lighthouse for the
past twenty y-seven years. During al
that time the light has never gone out a'
night. Mas Hecox is quoted as declaring
that she finds the life Of lighthouse keeper
neither lonely nor monotonous.
Mrs. Mary Carr Moore and Mrs. Alice
Hartman Of Seattle are preparing to give
suffrage vaudeville. The libretto was
written by Mrs. Hartman and the music
by Mrs, Moore. who is described as having
sung herway through q suffrage campaign
In California. Mira. Moore has already
published several popular songs and VIII
intended to be used as war song by the
militant branch OF the suffraglsts.
Girls attending tho Lakeview High
School In Chicago are to receive lessons
In the art Of jumping from moving oar,
IL reports are true. A platform on wheels
represAnting the running board Of street
oar h to be used. The club women OF
Chicago do not wholly approve this new
featns-ef the high school.
A space ten feet square on billboard
facing Lafayette Square in New Orleans
has been given to the members Of the
New Era Club by Junius Garriok and will
be made TO help In the suffrage campaign
the club is carrying on. Each week the
movement win be announced on the
space.
President Mary Z. Woolley of Mount
Holyoks College recently announced a
legacy 70 the college Of $4,000 from the
estate OF Mrs. Mary Dame Hall. Mira.
Hall was at one time president OF the
New York Sorosis.
II is reported that moro than 800 women
have already registered at Waltham,
Mass.. with the intention Of voting for
DR.. Eioise Sears for the school committee.
DR.. Sears was nominated for the Office
by the Republican. Inde2endent and
Of the women of Waltham It rs believed
that she viii receive majority Of those
cast by the men.
Miss Harriet 8. Hayward OF Brockton,
Mass. is the first woman to be elected
by q county In Massachusetts TO preside
st a county teachers association, She
10 the primary supervisor OF schools in
BrocktSn, and the Plymouth County
Teachers Association, over which she
largest bodies Of the kind In the state.
The meeting 10 said TO have been the best
ever held.
The college women IN the University
Of Illinois are to have tho first opportunity
ever offered to women to study the rela-
tive advantages OF the housekeeping OF
our Rrandmothers and Of the present
day. The department Of social science
ftsS fDLtSU ~ Aoi 80 aWCiiL& lpOueo tlcdI
the campus and divided 1t into two equal
apartments, One is fitted up according
TO the most approved theories OF house
hold economics. Heating, cooking and
laundry work are done by RKs and
electricity. The 1ooTS are Vanished
and covered with rugs.
The other apartment 10 fitted up In the
good old way Of our grandmothsrs.
Coal, wood and coke are used 70 heat the
rooms as well as to cook and wash. Oil
lamps are used for fghtH tho water is
drawn from q pump and carpets are
tackled on eoft pine boards. Classes in
household science have charge Of the
apartments. Careful account Is to be
kept Of the expense, the oonvenienoe and
the time consumed In the preparation Of
all the foods and the discharge Of all the
other domestic duties.
Mrs. Mary A. Lamont is said To be the
only railroad sWitohwoman In New Eng
land. 1t was she who few weeks ago
threw the switch that connects the main
line Of the Boston and Albany Railroad
with the new track between GAINESVILLE
and Webster Junction. Mrs. Lamont
sends and receives all the railroad teie-