Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-07-27
From the New York Press

legislature is only II ss-a!! pa III htf
act!yities-a sort of rccrcatioil. an avoca-
tion, a sde issue il, her general ambition
for .;GiNau reform.
NOthiae in the appearance OF ti,is small
wosna,t, who looks as II II good gust OF
wind would blow her quite away. suggests
the popular conception OF the woman re
former" Her slight franc, in it's very
feminine faces and furbelowa. her gray
hair waved and parted. her frail hands,
her Quiet movements, cause the observer
to hastily reconstruct his ideas of fen!i-
nine lobbyists. III is only when MIS-.
tirannls assume hci smile OF confident
Knowledge OF her subject and launches
s%ervcntiy upon rs discussion that her
mental dynaInics are disclosed. III Is tEeii
that the Interviewer. overcome with meek
ness. no longer wonders that Frank Moss
and IEibci1sc Il. Gerry draw up her bills
for hcs, AID That Representative Lainlheer,
Senator O'Connrr and some %. the other
busy metz at Albany hustle round and get
them through.
Mrs. Grannis has been more or less en-
gage IA public work for AZ years and
tells you proudly that she il on tho edge
of hcr 1lst birthday. The achievement of
Y life already threescore and IN years long
has meant IA continuous struggle against
the hSadicap OF Il frai! constitution that
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forts In behalf of women's equal rights
and all tho other benefits she hopes to
feaiize. That she is alive at all she at
tribute. tn her lifelong avoidance of doc
tors. She Ievoutly hopes there may come
= day when a health profession shall eX-
st and the medical profession lie no more.
Now that she is living on what she calls
borrowed time having encornpassed the
term bibl;cally allotted to man upon this
sphere. she feels she must work a little
longer and "a little more persistently each
day than ever before. to hasten the COM
clete victory of the ''fenale man" The
last two words OF that sentence are her
own, copied verbatim. Mrs. G,anni scorns
the word ma as a distingiiShment OF
the human male alone and uses it only
as covering boti, senters of the human
family. thus: Male man"-"femala man.
After a while you get accustomed to her
use of TIE expression man" in its purely
generic sense and rather like it.
This small human dynamo of u woman
began her work for humanity at the age
OF II. when she first began to teach. Her
class was composed OF ~urcnins whom, she
collected from the slums, which urchins
IL was her self-appointed task to hunt out
IN thetr homes. scrub. comb, dress and
convey to the Sunday school. From that
beginning she has gone on. broadening
and humanizing her work until it has
teapcd over It's original limitations of
church and orthodoxy. and has long since
been aimed at all public questions which
she believes bear upon the betterment of
the race rs a whole. That she is sincere
IN her purpose to the point of utilizing her
last particle OF energy in its accomplish
Ment no one can doubt who eve1. comes
the range OF her personality.
Her dream is to see the sexes working
together upon an equal footing. training
their children for the achievement of per-
feet economic independence and teaching
them the tremendous responsibility OF
She thinks divorce would be
largely done away with. together
much OF the suffering now entailed
p O women through lack of economic in
OF male man" Marriage, she
thinks. Is good for everybody. She goes
80 TAR as TO think even u halfway COM
tortable marriage is better thar the sim
gle lifc," since she thinks neither sex can
do Its best work in the world without
'cO-Oporatt0n." She enthusiastically adj
vOcates the association of the sexes i'm all
wholesome work and play. aud would ii
she could establish a home for all self |
girls and women OF whatever
q and station, where there would be
restrictions ipOn normal friendship and
social intercourse with their male coun-
terparts."
She has, In fact, manufacturer sort of a
home" in the basement of her
W. house. whittier drift various and sun
dry human fiotsam. good. bad and in
different. n good are helped: the bad
not uouted. but m.ntstercd to in whatever
way seems Immediately necessary. The
indifferent are treated to a course OF
Mrs. verbal and mental dyna-
mics In the form best suited to the indi-
vidtsat case. They may or may not be
acted upon. but they never are forgotten.
and any one who has passed through tho
experience has somewhat the impression
Ut being run over by a s%ix-cylinder auto
mobile which had been un~accountably
mistaken for a baby carriage.
The history of cases. that haze come
to this small female man. and have been
propped up. perhaps temporarily. prob
ably permanently. through her help, would
Nll = book larger than Mrs. Grannis her.
sell. One of her Christmas dinners alone
would Furnish material for a dozen
etories. To these dinners are
all the .%leftovers'' Of her acquaintance
Women from her "dOrmitOry'' down in the
basement land some of them haven't
clothes enough in their possession to en-
abtG them to appeay). children from the
street. sptnsters or widows who .nhabit
cold hail bedrooms and live on condensed
milk and crackers. -down-and-outs who.
through scme mental or physical inflrmity.
host their grip on the good things of
old. the young, the sick. the
broke" the lonesome. the human drift
mood OF life-all are asked, and nan ac-
.ept. The best turkey in market is pro-
vlded. ~ the u table groans beneath
the feast. Afterward there ara talks"
human documents find voice and
speak. saying what they will and IN any
way they choose. Last Christmas q lit
tie newstoy born in Russia made the
OF the evening. replying to an
descriptive poem written and read
81 . woman physician nearly 50 years old.