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The sun., 1909-02-21

Now either the scoffers are all con-
verted or they are afraid of getting ar
rested. for the meetings are as orderly
ns prayer meetings. The crowds increase
weekly and some Of the converts have
become enthusiasts. One man who came
regularly week after week presented the
speakers who had been utilizing the
useful but humble soap box with a fine
portable platform. The movement
finances itself as it goes along. for there
IL rarely a meeting at which 81 or SO
worth Of the suffragette buttons. Votes
for Women" are not sold. and the aver
age humber Of new members, nearly all
gained In the street work. IL fifty a
month.
The Fast Side, according TO the sufrra-
gettcs. never needed any tanning. The
Fast Side takes life seriously always.
1t took woman on soap box asking for
the ballot seriously. Why not? 1t
saved hall rent, a reasonable and sufficient
explanation.
Richmond and Stapleton in Staten
Island have received flying visits. also
Oyster Bay, and Brooklyn was sufficiently
inoculated with the virus TO start Euifra-
gette camp Of its own.
The Union Square evening crowd is a
curious affair. 1t is made up on one hand
Of persons who will later seek a downy
couch on a park bench. and. on the other
Of men and women in gala attire on their
way to some place Of amusement. Both
elements listen quietly and ask reason
able questions. The suf1ragettes declare
that the changed status of their move
ment is shown by the change in the stock
question propounded to them. A year
ago it was Who's going to wash the
dishes while the woman goes to vote?"
Now it. is Which party are the women
going TO vote for. Republican or Demo-
oratic?-
Just as IT, SAYS Miss Coleman in
evaporation, Just as il we wouldn't
have had the vote forced on us long
ago il we could only have told them
that
Mrs. Lydia N Commander is president
of The American Suffragettes and Mrs.
Borrmann Wells. the English Suffragette.
who fies back To London to 10 TO Jail
occasionally, ia an honorary member.
Others very active in the str eet campaign
of this organization have been DR.. Maud
Glasgow, Miss Helen Murphy, Mrs Sofia
VI. Loebnger. Mrs. Edith Commander
Breithut and Mrs Olive Pierce. Z
Mrs. stanton Batch has done some
street campaigning as president Of the
Equality Lee Qie OF Supporting
Women, and Miss Rose Schneidermann,
who il an officer of the Womsn's Trade
Union League. is one of her aides.
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30 MATCHES APIECE DAILY.
Our Average for Every Man. Woman
and Child.

The American people use up the enor-
nous total Of 100000, ,00o. 900 matches a
year 1t is the general belief that matches
are the by-product Of planning mills and
other wood working factories. but as a
matter of fact the best grade of two inch
humber is used tor matches. while sash.
doors and blinds are the by-products of
tho match timber sawmills.
In a single year the manufacturers cut
225. 900 900 feet (board measure) Of pine
in the Great Lakes region, and one of the
l50-odd factories used up 200, 200 feet of
sugar or yellow pine logs every day.
The deduction is that in common with
other INDUSTRIES OF tho United States de-
pending upon existing forests the mstoh-
makers arc within sight Of a shortage In
the wood supply.
When the present timber holdings have
been depleted, seys the Technical World,
they Of course cannot be duplicated In
u generation, and the people Of this oouu-
try may have TO get along with fewer
than twenty-five OF thirty matches day
each, as at present. In their insistent
way they will probably demand that the
practice Of Germany and France be fol-
lowed. that foresters plant and grow
timber especially for matches.
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forfeited my two appearances rather
than appear under conditions that were
not sympathetic to me. That Is one
relief FOR the singer who devoteS her time
to concert. There cen never be any
atmosphere. for which she is not re-
sponsible,; Nothing can interfere with
her mood"
Nine. Eames has not yet decided on
any new roles that she win prepare before
her return to the Metropolitan. Nothing
in the present field Of new works has inter
tested her. Her old desire to sing in some
Of the operas Of Glick has not yet been
satisfied, nor has it ceased 10 appeal
TO her.
Il sometimes wonder what roles
should sing in the future. she told the re-
porter, -for | have given my country peo.
pie the best that is in me. feel
that ! am not going TO be able TO give
them, vocally or dramatically, what Will
be superior to what they have already re-
ceived from me. That makes the selection
of new roles difficult. l think that un-
der certain circumstances l should nave
liked 10 appear as SdIome. saw the opera
the other night.
-Itis tremendously interesting. but there
is too much literalness about the perform
ance that saw. -Salomerneeds distances
and shadows. Like the work OF Yer
laine, Mallarme, and in a less degree
Maeterlinck, the success Of such piece
depends on the creation OF mood. can
imagine that the performance at the Met
ropolitan, with its greater spaces, mus.
the poet meant.
There seems to me, however. a mis-
conception as TO the character OF Sdtome'
She ia a girl of fourteen, raised IN the az
mosphere of the court and SO much infatu-
ated with John the Bdptist that, although
a princess. she allows the soldiers and the
others of the court to see her rePulsed py
him. IL is not TO my mind. however, AMI
NAL affection that sho feels for him. She
is hypnotized by the thoughts OF tos
stranger who with his wonderful spirit
uality and personality had obsessed het
until she leaves the banquet hall 70 look
for him. Hers is not mere gross physicasi,
love. In speaking of love she says on az,
they say. She does not know OF ner
own experience.
.For the first time in her life she has
seen somebody different from the acnsn',,
overfed, ambitious men by whom she Is
surrounded. and she has learned through
his braveness in denouncing her motneI
10 admire his power. Her mind Is filed
with the thought of this man, until. mao-
dened by his Indifference, she sees AZ op-
portunity to make him YIELD, Nnps nhs
Herod offers to give her whatever she
asks after the dance, the thought comes 20
her that che can now show John that she
will make him surrender toner; o. he.
object is not to get the head that she
may fondle and embrace II. Physledl
love has no ehare 10 her feeling nor
would she be led to any sort Of physical
display or any Of so-called 'Salome dahc,
ing to attain her object-at least thal II
my idea of the part OF Sdlome.'
Mime. Eames will travel for the rest o.
the present season in concert. and dunns
the coming year will also be heard IN
opera abroad and in concert here.
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on a suffrage bill. shc did not go to the
hearing. but was attending 10 some legal
business. Happening TO enter the Capitol
just after the hearing was over, she ran
into a group Of Legislators who were
commenting upon n. Some OF them
were laughing, some yawning
Same old thing they said. year
after year. Same old gang comes up.
! Same old arguments nothin' new, nothin'
doin y ...
None Of them supposed that. the trig'
smart young woman just out OF law
school who stood listening had in her
( the makings Of the fearsome suiragette.
Miss Coleman heard and pondered
We've got to cut in behind these mon
keys said she II was thus she referred
20 the law wmakers OF her State. We've
got TO get their constituents a-going.
Ralph Waldo Emerson indorsed suffrage
years ago. but they don't care for that.
We've got to 60 to Rafael Polinski and
John Jones and Billy Smith"
Aside from the prime object OF carry
ing the campaign TO the man who would
never attend regular suffrage meetings
the suffragettes have had one other OBJ
ject, TO keep suffrage before the people
In the press. They have done il. they
exultantly think.
The most dignified meeting in the most
dignified place with the most dignifed
speakers could be dismissed with para
graph or no notice at all, bat when
four women go down TO Wall Street
in an automobile and get soaked with
buckets of water and bottles Of ink not
a paper in town can ignore it, At least
that is the way the women argue. That
story won't out by telegraph and hum
dreds of columns all over the country
were printed about IL;
That is all that takes the sufiragettes
into the business district. They say
that II they could 60 long enough and
often enough they would tame even Wall
Street .. As il il they do not hope 10 make
realms of finance. They only do it to
keep the subiect before the public. Every
such episode of new spaper notice. they
say, has brought them fresh names and
new WORKERS
The sufngettes bear the same rela-
ton to the suffrage movement as the
salvation Army does to the regular
churches They may be called "a flying
guerrilla squad. which dashss into the
eicny's country and out again while
tho regulars are fighting it out On ths
lire il il takes all summer.
The feeling between the regulars aud
the guerrilas is perhaps II bit strained
The hashing suffragette. who il generally
young and not previously associated
with suffrage work regards the old line
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some other similar fractional insult
wanted to have It marked with the girls
initial, but my wife said not. They might
want 10 exchange it, she said. And then
she laughed. What the blazes do women
laugh at when they just look at you and
laugh like?
Well, sir ! figured it out that il they
tried To exchange that ladle IL would
sort Of show mo up only S3.i so | let
her take me over To where they had the
nildew looking desk sets: you know.
corrodei copper and some brass that
needs cleaning. was sort Of scheming
around to spend Il little more and throw
q better blur.
We didn't see anything ! liked there
and | was Just steaining over to the
silver counter again when I says No.
like that. No, ! says, you've got me
doing il now. Lots get ont of here be-
fore get dust IN my hair spring and stop
running ! was some peeved. l was,
being that | was getting sort OF SLOPPY
myself. SO we went home.
Say, son, it was lucky thing the
next day was Sunday. | felt as though
had just done a Marathon in rubber
boots. | was all in, with corns on my
disposition besides.
Honest, | don't see how the women
do il. But then for that matter no
mere man can see how they do anything.
lncY re a WOnOef1ul lnNHtlOn.
Monday night i comes home. Rose
bud | says, has the gravy ladle come
YETI | says. No, dear she says, sweet
as peaches. 1 'phoned them not TO send
IL. But the cat glass punch bowl came
all right. IL is simply perfect. I've
written them Il note TO come and take it
back Tomorrow Well | says, then
what are you going to award the bride?'
oh, she says, as though was asking
something that / ought To have known
all about long ago, Oh she says. I've
decided to keep the pitcher had in the
first place. ! think after all that will do
very we'll
And say, son, all my Saturday after
noon excitement for nothing. Not one
single, lonesome, solitary thing. Henry
she says, ! think have settled this busi-
ness Of buying present very easily.
You must admit, she says, I'm one wife
in thousand she SAYS.
II did. 1t WAS diplomatic But. you
hear me, not one wife in thousand is
one wife in n thousand
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sufrragist with mild pity, as II good ma
tured. we'll meaning old fogy who isn't
up with the times and doesn't know
where she's at The old line sufragst,
who has obtained the very respectable
amount Of woman suffrage now exist
ing, for her part is glad To. see anything
whatever done for suffrage, but she
shudders at suiragette methods You
eau see her do IT, She can't help it..
II is all difference in temperament.
Such divisions of methods and organiza-
tim are inevitable when a movement
gets too big to be any longer contained
in an association. The British suffragists
worked for forty years in the association
organized by John Stuart Mill in 1857.
Now that the movement has suddenly
become one of the questions of the day
there are four different organizations
a. work in England The sufragists
aud sulTragettes of New York are not
factions. They are women who are
working for the same thing by different
methods.
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Miss Coleman lis perhaps most truly
typical Of the suffragette movement
of any American woman. She ia es-
sent tally the New Girl" a product Of
the new regime Of equal opportunity
for women
She never had any lingering influences
Of the old regime to shed, She was
born emancipated. A mind trained like
a mans, u full share Of feminine youth,
good looks and good clothes, and tongue
that goes with feminine speed and mascu-
line logic make a fairly effective COM
binat ion.
The older suffragists were all hampered
by their painfully acute perception Of
the mental attitude OF their opponents
Miss Coleman sees only one side of the
quest ion. To her il is as though men
had made law that women should not
use the sidewalk She does not say
Just think of all these poor girls that
90 to work every morning! It's hard
ship for them to be forbidden to use the
sidewalk" Nor Just think Of all the
women that pay taxes and help maintain
the sidewalks" She says: What! You
say ! sha'n't use this sidewalk"
Then she starts to climb onto the side
walk
The only thing 10 do is 10 stand at the
edge and forcibly prevent her. No
arguments will induce her to dcsst,
To forbid Miss Coleman to-vote strikes
her as a cole cssal impertinence
That is tho typical mental attitude
of the suhragette. Their leaders are
mainly young profe ssional women,
lawyers, doctors and writer's, and they
regard il as both an absurdity and
villainy that they cannot vote.
II il a curious little fact that Miss Cole.
man 3 mother has been a sufIragist for
twenty years and never marched in the
streets nor hsrangued from cartail,
but she raised a daughter who does.
The case is similar TO that Of Mrs. Stanton
Batch. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote
memorials to Congress and raised seven
children. Her daughter and grand
daughter have done street campaigning
here and in England
Miss Rose Schneidermann is n type
Of the immigrant girl whose mother prob
ably never heard Of suffrage. The daugh-
ter, pushed in early youth into the in
dust rial mae lat rom Of the lower Fast
Side takes 10 demanding the vote on the
street.
One result of the street campaigning
has been the tuning Of Harlem. Since
last March the suffragettes have missed
holding meetings at the corner Of l2jth
street and Seventh avenue only two
Monday nights. Ii was great lark for
the youthful Harlemites at first.
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the other day "and never having seen
Niagara. Ii has always been too cold
or too windy or too wet-something has
always interfered. So l have left Buffalo
without seeing what every tripper has had
the chance 10 enjoy That has been
typical Of my life. That's the reason |
say that have been travelling for years
just as trunk does. Only a beneficent
earthquake in California three years ago
enabled me to see a part of that beautiful
country, So far have passed my win
ters in working and then settled for the
summer on a hilltop in Italy, Now
am 10 spend some time discovering the
beauties of the rest of the world
Nine. Eames lives always in a large
hotel on Long Acre Square and the sun
shine pours through her southern win
dows. few fine embroideries, one or
two chairs of exquisite design and some
pictures that are the possession Of Nine.
Eames impress on the hotel apartment
the characteristics OF its tenant.
My goal as q singer" she exp aimed,
was TO master the means of my singing
30 completely that ! should never be
hsmpered by problems of technique in
giving expression to my dramatic ideas.
I aimed to get TO a point that enables me
TO leave out Of my calculations all thought
of my vocal expression. / felt 4 had
accomplished that when IL came to sing
ing certain operas that had not previously
been very successful. Two of these were
'Tosca' and Aida. ...
People used to say that had Maurice
Grau in my pocket and that he would do
for me anything l asked. People who
knew him we'll knew also that such a
thing was impossible, since nobody could
make Maurice ,Grau do what he did not
wsntto. Iasked to sing Aida.
You're the most remarkable woman
he esanswered. You're the only person l
know Of who wants to sing failures.
Most Of the singers who come to me want
to take up an opera that some other
singer has made success of. You come
to me, however, and want to sing in an
opera that has always been a failure here.
II makes no difference whom put in the
cast the public will not come. can tell
you moreover that Aida never will be
a success in this country. People don't
like the black faces in opera. II you
must. however, l suppose you can sing
IL next season.
Until Nine. Eames appeared as Aida
the average woman who attempted the
role looked like Topsy in Uncle Toms
Cabin or IL she was not coal black COM
promised on some hue that resembled
cold gravy. There were other peculi-
arities Of dress about the usual Aida
which had become traditional and were
enough in themselves TO make an opera
with such a heroine uninteresting TO
a fastidious public. A short drape-y
that came to the ankles, feathers that
gave her the look Of a cigar store Indian
and beads Of many kinds and oolors made
her the most eccentric looking heroine
in the old repertoire unless II were Seiiltd.
who had much the same vagaries in taste
and dress.
Then when wanted to sing Toscc Mr..
Grsu was just as astonished when asked
permission. Why. the opera has besn Q
failure. he said. and 1t always viii be.
There is no opera In the world consisting
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count-plus Timidly he confesses his
smoking and drinks-minus.
Mamlna-maybec comes in and tells him
hat she has tried to rear her darling
daughter to be an ornament 20 her hus-
hands home. She says they could not
think of letting her life 20 into the keep
ing OF a man who could not provide for
her as well al her parents have done.
Son-in-inw suggests that he is con-
sidering lease on an apartment in the
fashionable. select and expensive
Whitherland. He says it as il he we're
not at the moment wondering where
he will land when he il forced 10 live up.
ask more. Why. she can't afford to live
there herself.
He gets the girl.
The cook cuts out during the first week
of housekeeping. He eats dried beef
and biscuit for dinner three days run
ming.
The housemaid leaves because she
won't wash the dishes.
He begins TO think about that question
he didn't ask.
His ornament can't cook. Her kisses
are sour because he even hints that she
ought.
He remembers that in every other
bargain he has made he has let the seller
prove the worth of the goods. He recalls
how he stood papa's questioning. how
he pleaded for the privilege OF providing
a home and servants and gilded leisure
for the
He thinks she ought TO be able to
cook dinner that would fill the aching
void. He doesn't ask, he doesn't want
her TO do it all the time He appreciates
her beauty and her charm and her gift
for entertaining; but she ought to be able
TO take the wheel in an emergency
Why didn't he ask about il? Why didn't
he see what she had to bring 10 the do
mestic partnership?
WHY:
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SUFFRACETIES WAKE EN- UP
WOHEN LEADERS SATISFIED
WITH STREET C.LNI.i ASS.
In the First Year They Have al Least
Taught People That There Is Woman
suffrage Cause, They Ssy-They Are
Making Converts Also As They 60.

Making Converts Also As They TO.
Six hundred men members are one OF
the results of the first years street cam
paign of the Progressive Woman SutiruU
I..:"n, or the American Suffrage les.
They carry both names on their letter
head, but the public calls them one name
only. sufiragettes.
This naturalization of a new woro ~
American soil is in fact among the most
salient results of their years work. All
men and women who work for suffrage,
whether thev like il or not, are now
dubbed sufTragettes by the general public.
The word suIragist, in Use for sixty
years, has passed into imnocuous desue-
tude except among the active workers
themselves. who make sharp distnc-
tion. But the public makes no such dis
tinction.
White haired Anna Shaw, president
Of the National Suffrage Association;
aged Henry Blackwell. lifelong worker
for the cause-all alike arc described as
sufTragette' Letters have come through
the New York Posi- Office addressed merely
10 Mrs. Gait. Sur'ragette, y. r." and
reached the diguidcd Mrs. Chapman Gait
president OF the Worlds Suffrage Al
lance. who was working for suffrage be-
fore the suffragot,es were born.
The really great achievement of the
suffragettes by their frs. year Of street
work is something indehnuhle and not
susceptible Of statistical proof, yet as they
view it very real and widespread thing,
They have put the word suffrage into
every mouth in New iork
Although people have been worHing
for suffrage for sixty years and although
some measure of woman suffrage pre-
walls over q large portion Of the elrth'a
surface. the sutirapsts declare that one
year ago probably three-fourth, OF the
inhabitants OF New York had never even
heard of woman suffrage To-day, they
add, there is probably not one Of New
York's 1000. 900 who has not al least heard
of il. The suhraEctte have carried the
cause to the people. They have tlhcn
il TO the man in the street.
An incident that happened 10 Miss
Mary Coleman, the young lawyer who
has been so active in the Hreet cam
paign, illustrates their attitude She
happened to he IN Albany one winter
when a legislative hearing was given
The sun., 1909-02-21
NINE. BAMES TO LEAVE Us
NOT FOR GOOD. but TO TRAVEL
AND SING ~ CONCERT.

Wants \ Rest and TO See atHer Leisure
little More OF the Conntry-Her
Aims In Opera a--some Novel views Of
"saiome"-Msy Expand Repertoire.
Nine. Eames is another of the singers
at the Metropolitan Opera House 10 bid
adieu 10 it's boards. but she is taking no
more than brief holiday. She has no
idea Of retirement from the stage that
she has known in reality longer than any
Of her associates, although she did not
begin as soon as Nine. Sembrich, who
celebrated her twenty-ffth jubilee the
night she retired. She made her first
appearance at the Metropolitan in Decem-
Der, 1891. and since that time she has been
absent only two seasons.
Just to think of having been to Buffalo
three times" she told THE Sun reporter
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From fke " dshtsoton Std'- IL.
How did that man get the rsputLS"
Of being such profound thfnkcr
by tal king on subjects that nocooy 10
OF hs yin his Arguments definitely retutsa-'
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family moved to Nebraska from this COUNTY,
Their dog, a fox terrier. evidently oia S nVSs
like the West and to-day. footsote ~
almost starved. II umped into the Ia'S "
its old home
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