The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-16

l United States. Germany in Africa was l mentioned and the speaker said Ger 1 many must have some place from | which to get raw material: she must l feed herself. There are splendid for l ests in that country, cattle can be l raised, and the land is full of iron l and copper. The natives are not as 1 lazy as they have been reputed At feast 100000 are now working on their own land and 6OOO0 are building rail- | roads.
 Mrs. Mitchell hoped the Census bill would be defeated. There will be d great saving of time and money if 1 ftx is. The necessity for the restraint or speech on the part of men in the senate was alluded to and the remark made that women were not the only persons who needed such restraint It Is wise to have 8 rule to prevent Sen- atosr from speaking extensively. The development of the stage was the next topic, and, Mrs. Mitchell was of the opinion that women should refuse to patrcnize immoral plays. Although many of the managers are Hebrews,
 Rabbi Wise says they are heathen. MT. Frohman contends that there are
 but few bad plays on the, stage in
 New York. and he has recently given
 3 list of the good ones. Plainfeld, N. J.. has a censor of plays, and Passaic and Newark have censors of bill boards. Many good laws are being enacted in New Jersey. Mrs Mitchell
 was astounded to learn that Prof. Phelps of Yale thinks there is a great moral lesson in the play called "The Easiest Way''
 Reference was made to the Congress of Suffragists which is to meet in Lon- don in April, when 21 nations will be
 represented and all languages will be spoken, And this year the New York
 suffragists will charter a whole train of cars when they make their descent upon Albany. Last year they had but one car. And they have rented the whole of one of the big dining rooms in an Albany hotel. Many authors have come out in favor of female suf- frage. and it was intimated that prominent women in Fairfield has re- gently joined the ranks. The women are fast climbing into the band wag- on are fast climbing into the band wagon. A petition with one million names is to be sent to Washington. and takes the Old Testament view that woman should be dutiful wife with the emphasis on dutiful. Some one has said that women show a lack of judgment since they wear such big hats and low cut shoes and therefore they can never become politicians and statesmen. Suffrag is gaining all the
 
 New Jersey. In London women are forbidden to come within a mile of the Parliament building! And yet two- thirds of the members of the House of Commons are in favor of female suf- frage. Premier Asquith will listen to them when it can be proved that the majority of English women want sui frage. The last topic which engaged the attention of the ladies was fores- try. It is plain that the Department of Agriculture and MT. Pinchot, have succeeded in frightening the country about deforestation. and the long list of dreadful ills which will follow when trees cease to grow, and the riv CTS wash all the silt into the sea and the government has to dredge it out. Even now it takes 15 acres of wOOd- land, or the trees on that much land. to get out one edition of a yellow newspaper. Our Wasteful NatiOn,' is a book which should be in every lib rary. If the forests are destroyed cigar boxes will be much higher. which would indeed be calamity. All sorts of telephone and telegraph poles will be higher. Even now cooks have to use glass rolling pins. and they are of little use. Roosevelt has set aside twenty million acres. Most of our brad wood is already gone. The mod ern saws devour 40 square miles of wood in one day. And the railroads use 100 million ties each year. Much was said on this subject and it was argued that the Philippines will be of great value to us by req son of the magnificent wood found there.