The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-25
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MRS. LITTLEToN's FoRUM-MIss
PANKHURST TELLS OF ENG.
LIsH JAILS - MRS. DONALD
M'LEAN FoREsEEs CRISIS IN
MARRIED LTFE-MRs. GARRl.
ELLIE STEWART. MuLLlNER ADJ
VocATEs STRINGENT DIVORCE
PREVENTNEs OF THE RIGHT
SORT.
| M RS. MARTIN w. LITTLEToN OF
Fort Washington, N. Y, has es-
tablished a forum in Victoria hall,
where meetings win be held every
other Sunday afternoon during the
winter months. The Long Island To-
rum, as 1t is called, is founded that the
residents of the different counties may
gather to hear discussions on ques-
tons of the day by prominent men.
Among the people scheduled to speak
is Henry w. Taft, brother of the presi-
dent.
The richest woman in Germany and
one of the richest in Europe is Baron
ess Krupp Won Bohlen, owner of the
big gun and armor plate factories al
Essen She employs more than $1,000
men.
She has fine head for machinery
and understands every detail OF the
great business her father left her.
" r.
"How did I like iaiI?" said Sylvia
De-.
"Oh, 1t was bad. You don't sleep, and
you don't digest your food. We had to
eat brown bread and skilly, which is a
kind of Cruel, and we stayed in our
cells twenty three hours out of the
twenty-four, and we had to wear
dreadful, i'll fitting underwear and
clumsy shoes. think they were made
by some horrid man. The shoes hurt
our feet, and mostly they were not
mates. knew some women who had
gangrene from wearing them. The
first time I was in prison--it was IN
Iso5-I was put in the rnird class. the
worst class, which has the fewest
privileges. I'm sure don't know why.
I hadn't done anything. But all sut-
fragist prisoners are put in the first
class now
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Mrs Donald Mclean thinks there is
another crisis more important than
the vote. II
Here is one of the vast problems
Of present day society" she said re-
Gently. The working woman by her
broadened life has undoubtedly been
united for domesticity. Undoubtedly
having become accustomed to the free
dom of her leisure hours, the unques-
toned expenditure of her own money
and a wholly different life from that, |
lived in the small domestic circle, the
woman developed from the working:
girl quite naturally wishes to remain
without restraint.
There would be little objection to
her retention of this freedom In mere
shildless matrimony. She might have
all the liberty her early training as a
working girl had taught her to require |
and yet remain an admirable wife in I
some respects, wholly loyal to her hus- /
band, and, because of the decrease of |
domestic drudgery, due to the mani /
told inventions of the age, a competent +
housewife. But there is always a |
question Of the child where matrimony /
exists, and women cannot have per-
feet freedom and perfect babies at the
same time.
"The tendency toward race suicide is
everywhere apparent and is due I
think. to a mistaken conception on the
part of modern women of what really /
means freedom"
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Mrs. Gabrielle Stewart Mulliner, one
OF New YorlS's foremost women law
gers, says that the safeguards against
marital infidelity are not stringent
enough.
Every correspondent ought to be /
mpounded in the penitentiary for a
certain term" she asserted recently.
Such an offender against the public
good Ii a criminal of the worst type"
The woman who takes away another
woman's husband Is not stealing alone
from the family; she Is stealing from
the social welfare and that or the soul
IN futurity. Hers is a marvein,ssly
wicked crime