The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-22
WOMEN ACTIVE FOR EXTENSION
 OF FRANCHISE
Bridgeport to Be Well Rep resented at Hearing Be- fore Double Committee
 of Assembly, April 5 Open Meeting in Stratfield Will Be Addressed by Mrs. Hepburn and Miss Pierson = Mass Meeting / April II.

eastward the star Of woman Suf- frage takes its way. Hopeful are the suffragists of Connecticut that this
 State will be the first in the East to grant full electoral powers to women. Every effort is being made to have an imposing representation before the committees on constitutional amend ments and woman suffrage, at Hart ford, April 6.
 7 In every city in the State interest is being stimulated by State Organiz- CT Emily Pierson and other ladies de- voted to the movement. The activity in Bridgeport is not small, although the circle of active adherents is not large. An open meeting of those who are interested in votes for women will be held at the Stratfield tomorrow af- ing will be held in Warner hall, April Il.
 Much is hoped for the movement from the fact that Senator Archibald McNeil, IT., is chairman of the com mittee on constitutional amendments, and is an open adherent to the move- ment for full suffrage for women.
 The open meeting at the Stratfield will be addressed by Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford. president of the Connecticut association who will speak on Woman Suffrage in it's Relation to the Home.''
 Mrs. Hepburn is wife of the we'll known physician of that name. She is the mother of two beautiful children and believes that women should have the ballot in order to assist in making the environment under which children must be reared. Bryn Mawr college has given Mrs. Hepburn an A. M. She studied art for two years in Italy. fol- lowing her college course and she studied social conditions in Germany, especially the condition of women there. She is we'll known among the workers for woman suffrage in the United States and has lectured upon this subject in many o5i 1&e great cities, including New York and Baltimore.
 Miss Emily Pierson, State organizer, will speak on Educated Women and The Suffrage in which the whole de- velopment of the education of women, will be discussed from the period when girls were admitted to the public schools up to the present day, when they are admitted to institutions of higher learning on an equality with men.
 This is likely to be an especially in- teresting talk because of the large part that college women. are taking in the movement and because of the large number of collegiate suffrage leagues that have been formed.
 Steps will be taken to have Bridge port largely represented at the hear ing on the constitutional amendment granting suffrage to women and also upon the bill granting municipal suf- frage to women, which is to be held at Hartford, April 5. before the com mittee on constitutional amendments and the woman suffrage committee which will sit together.
 The mass meeting to promote the cause in Warner hall, April Il, at 8 o'clock will be addressed by Dr. Anna Shaw president of the Ma tional Association and Miss Inez Mill holland. a Vassar graduate.
 Among the other women to be pres ent are Mrs. Edward Parker of Green wich. press chairman for Connecticut; Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, chairman of Fairfield County; Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president of the Connecti- cut League; Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, vice-president of the State as- sociation; Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, chairman of Hartford county and Miss Emily Pierson. State organizer. Great interest is shown by a small circle of ladies, who are most in- fluential and through whose efforts the movement here is expected to at tain large proportions.