The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-15
PENNYPACKERS SAYS
WOMEN OUTCLASS
THEIR MALE RIVALS
New Jersey Colonial Danes Also
Told They Should Have
Right to Vote.

EDGEwATER PARK, Oct. 15.-Sup-
porters of the ''woman's cause in this
vicinity are jubilant today because of
the hattering expression of his faith
in the fair sex and congratulation of
women for their advance in the world
uttered by former Governor Penny
packer of Pennsylvania in addressing
the annual meeting of the Colonial
Danes of New Jersey yesterday at the
home of Mrs. George de Bonneville
Keim at her home, Fairview. In brief,
Mr.. Pennypacker declared that women
in more ways than ever are today dis
playing greater industry in obtaining
more well-merited success than their
competitors of the opposite SEX" In
part the former Governor said:
1.-THE world offers a field broader
than the home if the duties of h home
permit woman to enter it. You here
today have served in the preservation
of historical facts just as your an
cestors made them gloriously. 1t was
the character of those women who so
stanchly supported their husbands and
sons in the days of trial that made the
perseverance necessary to win the war,
Women have always been with men
in everything that is best for the
nation.
"Won1en's suffrage is a subject light
ly touched upon by politicians, but it's
benefits in the Western States show
= that it Is for the good of the States
that now have 1t. I hope and believe
that the movement may soon have a
stronghold in our own State and
yours"
Mrs. Donald Mclean, honorary presi-
dent-general of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, and a guest of
honor, spoke on the work of the New
Jersey DANES and praised them highly
for the love of historical study which
they had shown. General e. Burd
Grubb discussed some original sources
of history and its influence on the es-
tablished beliefs of local Importance.
The purpos of the meeting was to
commemorate, as is the custom of the
society. some important event in the his
tory of the commonwealth. The sub
Ject of this years session was 1.-THE
Publishing of the Concessions and
Agreements of the Proprietors, Free
holders, and Inhabitants of Western
New Jersey in America in 1876" The
paper or the topic was read by Miss
McIlvaine, of the New Jersey society.
Delegates from the Colonial Danes of
other States and from numerous other
societies were present, including the
Mayflower Society, the Founders and
Patriots, the Society of Colonial Wars,
represented by Ex-Governor Penny
packer: the Sons of the Cincinnati, by
General e. Burd Grub, and the HUI
guenot Society Of America, by George
de Bonneville Keim, son of the hostess.
Mrs. Joseph T. Thomas and Miss
Louisa Edge were present and repre-
sented directly the participants in the
War of 1872, as the fathers Of both took
part in that struggle.
Among the guests were Mrs. Bedle
wife of a former Governor of New Jer-
sey; Mrs. w. A. Jameson, ex-president
of the New Jersey Society Of Colonial
Danes; former Governor Penny
packer. DR.. and Mrs. T. H. Andrews,
Mrs. Donald MacLean. Mrs. Matthew
Scott, Mrs. William Libbey, Mrs. Will
liam r. Cox, Mrs. Henry r. White,
General and Mrs. E. B. Grub, Mrs.
Frances Lowthrop, Mrs. Lewis Perrine,
Mrs. William Reeves, Mrs. H. P. White
head. Mrs. William ID. K~earfott, Mrs.
M. M. LeBrun, Mrs. John Moses, Mrs.
r. ". Lowtflrop, Mrs. Samuel Price
Wetherill, Mrs. Grant Rodney Pleason-
ton Mrs. H. c. Condit, Miss Ellen
Mecum, Mrs. Claude A. Swanson, of
Virginia.; Mrs. Russon w. Cox, Mrs.
James Craven, Mrs. B. D. Blair, DR..