The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-06
WHAT WOwEN arr po,>c,


Mrs. Mabel Craft Deering OF San Fran
cisco has been added 10 the list OF CON
tribut ing editors for the Woman . journal
t1 N me piacs made vacant by the death
OF Mn. Julia Ward Howe
Ars. Thomas J. Vivian. the prs~itient
OF the Nation California Club. r.c~u,lv
gave -presidents tea in New York
Among the presidents entertained were
Miss Mary Garrett HAY Of the Daughter
OF Indiana. Mrs. Elliott LanRstAf Of the
Imperial Order OF the Daughters of the
Emp'rs Ms. Philip Carpenter OF sorosis.
Federation OF women's Cluix. Mn
Gerard Banker. Society Of IN. New York
State Women: Miss Hel.n vArick Bos-
well. WomAn's Forum. and Mrs Heron
nrosman OF tn. Nationsl Society OF
Patriotic Women
Mrs. Annie Waterman I-athrop il making
q tour of this country To study the con
ditions OF American women for a group
OF London newspapers. She il now I'm
California and after finishing her obser-
yatIons in the West she will 20 South
and then come East Ms. Lathrop is
an American woman who twenty-sey.n
years ago went TO London as a news
paper correspondent. Her husband 10 10
the American consular service at Bristol
DR. Edith NJ. Hall has returned 20 her
duties in Mount Holyoks College after
spending six months in the work of explo-
ration in Crete Miss Emily HotYmet4-
and Miss Bernice Cort land have been
appointed As her assistants in the ar,
department. Miss Ethel q. Sturtevant
has been made instruct or In English
TO take the place Of Miss Florence Adams.
\ rt.< haA La 49, r.
Columbia. Miss Miriam Thrall will assist
in this depart ment a. reader and tutor
Miss Emma p. Carr. who has Just com
plcted her doctorste in the Chicago Uni
verssty. returns a. associate professor
OF chemistry.
Up to few months ago Mrs Dutklewitz
a resident Of Posen. a city In Polish Ger
many. was thought the oldest woman
on the earth Now her claim In being
disputed by Bahia yasiIka Of Bull a ria
who claims to he ten months Mrs Dutkl-.
Wits senior. The record Of her birth
IN the GreeS Church Of her home town
gives the date as May, lisa She 10 now
living on the farm Shsr. she was born
and in whose Fields she worked for more
than hundred years. Her only com
panion il her son. who "a 70 years old. and
who still works the farm lie has left
the farm b'., fwics in his lif. to serve
short terms IN the. army
Miss Adele Pratt. who ha. been Deputy
Register for tho last five years IN Marion
cite. Wis. has announced herself ~ a
candidate for Register Of Deeds. Three
women have been nominated for the
House Of Representatives in Colorado
Miss Julia Allen. Miss Sadie McManus
and Mrs. Elizabeth Donl-y Miss Nc
Manu- IL member Of the Garment
Workers Union. q delegate TO IN" Trad.
Assembly and to the Label League. and
rscentlv represented the Trade Assembly
at tho Colorado State Federation Of Labor
convention AZ Grand Junction.
Mrs. MAY Hoyle Tompkns has been
announced rs one or the speakers
AZ the national rivers and harbors CON
Ere.e. which meets in Washington next
north. Mrs Tompkin- is the president
~ inc Woman's National Rivers and
Harbors Congress.
Mrs. Mary r. CraiRis OF South Dakota
10 authority for the report tha, an agent
has been employed by the liquor interests
Of that State NJ o salary 81 $40 O0O q year
10 fight the suffrage movement. She SAYS
this agent il backed by unlimited money
and recently sent ont 400 pounds Of
anti-s,ifrage literature in . sin gle mail.
This work il supposed to have been go,ls
on for more than a year. though 10 In only
within the last few days that the suffra-
gsts have been able TO ind tho headaIIar-
tiers. The agent il said TO have been
brought on from the Fast for the purpose
Of organizing the work
The answers TO tho circular letters sent
out by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe lust before
her death ina,Iirir g tho results OF woman
suffrage in Wyoming. Colorado. Utah
and Idaho give S2t in favor and ~ op-
posed. with % n doubt These letters
we're sent TO ministers. Sunday school
superinfendenfs and editors. The Epis-