The San Francisco call., 1910-10-02

vited to bring "a friend or two" so
that the hall was crowded with con-
genial and sociable spirits. The colonel
commanding is j.. j. Kerrigan, with J.
J. Sweeney as adjutant and an enter
tainment committee with NJ Rothen-
berg as chairman. The assistants were:
A. Fouseca Hon. George H Bahrs
E. NJ. Levy Hon. George H. Caban
Hon. A. B. Treadweu iss
R. =. Countryman E. S. Strauss
W F. Balch Hon. A. r Barnett
A. Rojo Hon. James 4. Trout
Hon james G. conlan c. Braun
Mrs, Clinton Worden and her mother,
Mrs. A. N Towne. gave one of the
unique parties of the week. They in
vited dozen of their oldest friends to
participate in the festivity that they
had planned for last Saturday week in
honor of the seventy eighth birthday
anniversary of Mrs. Towne and of the
sixtieth wedding anniversary of the
same matron. Mrs. Towne makes her
home with Mr. and Mrs. Worden at the
Fairmont during the greater part of
the year and the friends were invited
to the hotel to take part in the elabo-
rate anniversary party. The decora
tions were appropriately in autumn col
ors with brilliant dahlias for the touch
of red and gold with the foliage There
was a large birthday cake sparkling
with tiny candles that held the
place of honor on the table Each
place card was inscribed with the date
of the birth and also of the marriage
of Mrs. Towne in addition to the name
of the guest Among those who were
hidden by Mrs. Towne and Mrs. Wor-
den for the importsnt occasion were:
Mrs James Otis Mrs. William H. TAYLOR
Mrs. Eleanor Martin Mrs. Henry L. Dodge
Mrs. James Carolan Mrs Isaac L. Reuua
Mrs. James Gale Mrs Henry Schmiedef
Mrs. J. Parker Currier Mrs. Hoyt.
Mrs Drury Malone
It seemed difficult to realize that the
suffrage convention last week at the
Palace was the fortieth annual pow
WOW of the league of progressive
women. We are so accustomed in the
west to think of suffrag ge as an in
spiration or an obsession of yesterday
that the 40 years of effort sounds in
credible in the cause. Such is the fact,
however The convention of the Cali
fornia equal suffrage association was
held yesterday and Friday with a pro-
gram of speeches and invocations that
any organization might boast about |
The congregation of clever and capable !
women discussed pertinent questions of |
the day and speakers came from near |
and far to add their mite of knowledge |
and valuable experience to the fund. |
In fact, suffrage seems. after listening
to these enthusiasts, IN imminent and
a good prospect for every one The !
question has become a living and vital |
one with decided future. whatever |
the personal opinion of those aloof |
Here is a resume and partial prophecy
Of the future of the cause in the east |
fresh from the pen of an intelligent OBJ
server: The return OF Mrs. O. H P |
Belmont, with renewed stock of bel
ligerart enthusiasm for the cause .,f |
woman's suffrage, gathered at the |
headquarters of feminine warfare, will
probably instill new vigor in the win |
ter campaign and the cry for mascu-
line gore may be heard. Mrs BELMONT |
is all right in her views, but she ana /
those who regard the present legal
status, or rather lack of status, of |
in the light Of a deliberate
personal desire on the part of each /
generation of men to hold them down !
to slavery, show their lack of under |
standing of things human and of his
tory Even the socialist Marx saw |
that mems institutions are the result |
The subsection of women as seen today /
is but survival of conditions that are
passing away, and which were based |
on the doctrine that might makes
right a doctrine potent when fighting
was in the air one breathed and brute
force was worshiped as god under. the I
form of an AK or a sword. What place
could women hold under such condi- I
tions other than that of warrior
maker or q dr1dYe2
Even then, however, if clever, a
woman usually managed to have, a say
in affairs; nay. and to do few things
too. Along the ages there have been
and Joans and Elizabeths I
and Catharines and Maria Theresas
And. worse luck. there have also been
Louise Colets, of whom a Paris wag
wrote the epitaph:
Here lies she who
Compromised Victor Cousin,
Slandered Gustave FlaNbert and
Endeavored to murder Alphonse Carr
"It is trite to aver that strong minded
men generally prove to have had
strong minded mothers. But modern
are too impatient. They should
that, like Eugene Field. who
once answered to that effect an English
lady of high degree who asked him if
ne knew anything of his ancestors,
theirs lived In trees when they were /