The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-16

ton. The first election day for which
she was eligible her brother said.
rather supercillously, Are you GO
ing to vote?" Upon being assured
that she was, she announced that
in that case he would not; she could
do the voting for the family. Which
she did. The next year was presi-
Dental year and when on election
day her brother made the same in
quiry she thought that he was 60
ing to show his disdain of woman
suffrage by losing his presidential
vote. But when he was told that his
sister still intended to vote, he
promptly asked, What time are
you going DOWN." She explained
that she had work to do and could
not get there before ten o'clock.
Whereupon he offered to help her
with the dishes in order that they
might go down together.
Paid a Compliment.
AS a matter of fact the men of
Washington have paid their women
a great compliment in giving them
the ballot And It is a gift which
involves obligations. If the women
go to extremes of impractical re-
form, the men will soon feel that
the confidence was misplaced. If
they take the matter nationally and
quietly making their points slowly
and intelligently, they will not only
get what they are after, but the ad-
miration and support of their fell
low voters as we'll In matters per
tanning to the welfare of the chill
dren and the home, in measures for
the sanitation and beautifyng of the
cities, and in the cleanliness and
freedom from adulteration of the
food supply, they are pretty sure to
meet little opposition, and these
are the lines along which the wo-
men will naturally work. 1t isn't
likely that they will be out after the
offices. They have had equal suffrage
in Wyoming for forty one years and
this year for the first time a woman
is running for the state legislature.
Mrs. May Arwright Hutton of Spo-
kane, probably the most prominent
suffrage worker in eastern Washing
ton, and one of the heaviest tax
payers in Spokane, has given out the
assurance that she will never run
for governor. She says that there
are plenty of men to fill the offices
and that she believes in the men and
their capacity. She doesn't look to
equal suffrage to do anything radi-
cal.
Study Practical Questions.
That North Yakima women are
thinking and talking along lines of
the public welfare and interests wild
err than the home is evidenced by
the program given by one of the local
clubs last week. One of the mem
bers gave a resume of the recent in
surgent movement in the republican
pt Wy. Another talked on the prev
alence of typhoid fever and ways and
H. ans of preventing the disease
suggesting the spread of information
on the character of the fever and
the methods of infection; calling on
all home keepers to fight the flies
and to be sure of the water and
milk supply, boiling the former as a
precautionary measure. Still anoth-
err told of the work for the deaf
being done by the state, and the
this end, the present accommoda-
tons being so limited that not all ap-
plicants can be taken in. Another
subject taken up is of very live in
terest to mothers and so much
question of Importance that it comes
up for discussion in meetings of big
educational bodies is the present ten
dency to overdress on the part of
high school girls. The exaggerated
following of fashion in the way of
dressing the hair, the display of
fnery and the elaborate and eXpen
sve graduation gowns insisted on
by the girls and allowed by parents
came in for criticism and call was
made for rational and concerted
action in what is really a serious
matter both from the economic and
moral standpoints