The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-07
The Woman Who Votes
BYSARAH COMSTOCK.

LITTLE later 1 stroned up Ferguson street. where rows of elderly
best residences draw back from thu youthful imp@tinence of a troll
= ley line. In the largest md most digniaed and repo@huI IF these
a house that seems by som mistake to have been transpanted from ne of
the elm-ined Eastern towns n set down in this breezy little city Of the
plains whose airs still hold thu tang Of adventures tradiian-ives ex-senator
Carey well known as a champion of woman suffrage
Mrs Carey was putting on her street things THE Judge had to go
po oma't m nm larry ssrv 0u1 ~ n st r coming nt t "a for fr me-, oa n explained snn d.r Me-, ", RE
comes : oh, do you mean 1T? Really, do o to make me side
the pace-both my girls one and 1 can get anybody. But Presidential cleo
ton day comes only once in our years ant l don't think l could be said to
A few minutes later the judge hustled in big and bluff and twtnAhng.
"Aud we always vote differently" added his wife
That's only because she won't v@e m wy She's like all women-she
Now you know you don't think such a man IS x ought to be elect
ed" protested Mrs, Carey.
That's true. I'm o going to vote for him myself But women scratch
but you know that what a man is as an Individual counts
Then they looked straight at each other in the happy disagreement of
mutual respect, AM smiled nat wise, delightful middleased smile that
scattes the cynicsm of youth to the fur winds. n the last I "a of
them he wa holding open he gate for her and chuckling with her we some
bit of news as they started Off already forgetful that there a any ISSUE
even as trihing as politics. upon which they differed.
Mrs Gibson Clark who is vice president of the State Federation Of
fast was wei and the dishes done my cook and I put on our hats n went
Again I a an instance. a I had many times during the day, of that
harmless kind Of teaching n Joking which enters into this cOeducational sys-
part Mrs Clark was telling me about N issue for which she any many
other wonen of CHEYENNE had been fighting regardless of party
Il meta ma knew yesterday mt I said to him: Remember, you're
Eyes, I'VE decided to do ss he re Piled seriously. 1 was SO disappointed
at losing even N vote which had thought secure. for the issue is - i'm
P0rta nath from h e." standpoint poi Of morality m I had worked 50 hard for it,
This morning his wife called M up N h phone She was laughing.
onn lust bee telling me To- he teasedy you. saying he was going TO vote
for = she said He's not though 1t wa all a joke. 1 told him it was
From the fashionable residence di strict women drove in their W car
rases or walked in calling costume, dropping in t. east their ballot ON the
way to somebody's house, chatting as they met friends doing likewise
Many came in little knots-a mother and daughters. fr instance, W OF three
neishbors a group of sisters Others wen with a husband or father. a
brother OF Sol 'Therew val n necessity for this, however All of us need
chised Western women 1t the polling places Occasionally men were seen
iounsins n chatting outside, but with no disorder or excitement They
wouldst step aside nd nah oom for wome entering. When friends met.
there was the anne sort of banter that yu might hea Of a coeducauonal
"a a,s q entered sss x s@sss ss' se easa: ! s sss Governor ssas : rs%s' H as s sas ssa
t eslIs 3 college ne fsa 2 TOP ~ 'n a'asF'ras seriousness 2 purpose