The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-05


Gallaudet college. and declined to rec
ognize the right of Mrs. Draper to
issue orders. L. GabelI Williamson, an
attorney, has been retained by the
friends of Miss Gerald. under the con-
tent1on that the president general had
no right to dismiss the employee Mrs.
missed for INSTRUMENTATION. In six
weeks the annual meeting of the D.
A. r. will be held in Washington The
case promises to be discussed and to
divide the society,"
In an effort to silence the oft-repeat-
ed statement that women do not want
to vote, the suffragiStS of the United
States are now engaged in securing sig
natures to a petition. asking congress
| to submit to the legislatures of the sew
eral states for ratification, an amend
n emit to the national constitution which
shall enfranchise women. The work
has been organized on a larger scale
than ever before attempted and is in
charge of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
the president of the International Suf-
frage Alliance. who directs activities
from headquarters established in New
YORK city Here a force of competent
clerks and volunteer helpers send out
the blanks and look after the returns
Mrs. Gait is one of the best known
workers in the cause in the world. She
was born in Wisconsin,. educated in
Iowa, was the first woman reporter in
San Francisco. worked in Washington.
and then went to New York. When
Susan B. Anthony retired from the
leadership Of the National Association
in 1900, Mrs. Gait was elected to sue
coed. In 1894 she was made president
OF the Internatior"' Alliance, which in
cludes a membership from 16 coun-
t1ies.-Emporia Gazette.
Mrs. Georgia Notes.-The, of Hiawatha,
iS~cf n fcfr- tot fe7%~-a Al
lowing message to Kansas club women:
My message to the club women of
Kansas is for the same high standard
of study and social life for which club
york has ever stood, but can we not
at the same time have a vision of SER
vice? Let our work be practical, gen.
erous, cordial, llospitable, having many
guest days and open meetings, meetings
for those less fortunate than ourselves,
meetings for tired mothers, with helps,
teaching them to recognize the necessi-
ty of a sanitary home. Let US aim to
forward a movement for civic educa
ton; to make a big campaign against
the life destroying house fly, and to
work against the infectious mosquito.
Let me urge upon you the beauty of
this work. May we stand for better,
cleaner. and more beautiful towns,
giving loyal support to our public
schools. Our schools lack the influence
and supervision of mothers on the board
of education. Mothers and teachers
should know the conditions controlling
the life of every child, and especially
children neglected by their parents.
There IS no possible doubt that
many social evils would be blotted out
If girls were educated for the calling
of motherhood. So long as it is the
ever remain her ordained province, 1t is
nothing short of criminal and unworthy
of our day of progress that women
should be launched into duties for
hi n nv m n q Of
education, she is wholly untitled.
May our civic work be along those
lines that will make for the highest
type of womanhood and manhood. Then
shall we have solved the problem of
perfect civilization
To a large number of people the
words Turkish woman" suggest one
of two pictures: either a yelled form
wrapped IN an ample garment and re-
vealing only two large black eyes made
up with kohl. or a beautiful creature
reclining on thick satin cushions, clad
in silk and cause, and smiling incident
~ as she puffS toward the carved CELL
ing of the room the smoke of a scent
&c cigarette. The recent awakening of
Turkey, however, has had its effect
upon the life of Turkish women, and
civilization, as westernerS understand
II, has made its way into the haremlik.
But there are some privileges that
Turkish women have that the most ad-
vanced suffragists of our country have
not dreamed OF asking for. For in
stance, when they marry they retain
their own name ana their own fortune
which they manage just as they please.
They have all the legal rights that
men enjoy, and the husbands sanction,
q approval, or signature. is not needed.
For the past IL centuries Turkish wo-
men have been able to obtain divorces
" henever they had serious grievances
against their lords, while our laws on
separation and alimony are compare
lively recent.
Still. there were traditions about wo-
men in Turkey that no one thought
would ever be tempered with and which
the women are rapidly living down"
A number of Turkish ladies of high
standing have discarded their wells on
some occasions, and many of them have
Eeen admitted to court functions where
they wore modern Partisan gowns and
talked with Sultan who enquired about
their husbands and families, their work
and ideas. This freedom. so far, is
accorded only to women of rank. Many |
of them were educated by European |
and have absorbed many west |
ern ideas. They have helped the young |
Turks in the overthrow of the old |
Gespotism and in securing a constitu- |
tIonal government. and they are now |
receiving their reward.