The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-05-31
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
SuFFRAGETTE WEDDING IN ENG
LAND WITH SPECIALLY
WoRDEp CEREMONY.
Women of Iceland, Poland, Japan,
Hungary and Elsewhere Make
Progress in Movement.

suffrage is HidhlHS sIeauJ PiO0
The New York Mothers Club, which
has hitherto avoided the Suffrage
question, closed its season with DIS
clssion of "Self-Goyernment for Wo-
men
The Bishop Of lincoln is president
o. the Church of England League Tor
Woman Suffrage. A branch OF TINS
League has just been formed at
Worthing, Eng, with the Rev. j. F,
Fallowes as chairman.
Telegraphic reports bring the IN
formation that the Icelandic Paslia-
nent has passed bill giving the right
of suffrage to all women who have
reached the age Of 25.
In Hungary a Junior Woman Suf-
frage League has been formed With
membership of ESQ young men and
women between the ages of IS and "a,
/ These young people are to act as ush-
ers at the meetings of the older suf-
| fragists.
The women of Poland arc making
strong fight for acknowledgements The
subcommittee appointed by the Gov
eminent to investigate the questioo
have recommended that suffrage be
granted to the women who own prop
erty and pay taxes.
Strongly declaring IN the ultimate
winning of the ballot by women, Mrs
Allan, Dean of Women of Stanford
University, recently expressed herself
as being heart and soul with the
movement for Women's Rights which
is now sweeping the country.
Japanese women are employed in
all the trades, are newspaper writers,
reporters and typists. They publish
magazines, lecture, reach, and are at
the head of schools Compulsory edu-
cation is the rule for boys and girls
in Japan.
The Connecticut State Senate has
passed bill giving women who pom
sess 5000 in personal property the
right to take part in city, town and
borough meetings; and the Woman's
Suffrage Committee has reported fav
orably a bill giving women the right
} to vote.
Mrs. Emile Broome has been
elected on the Liberal ticket to the
Municipal Council in Stockholm
Sweedn. She is at the head of a so
ciety for social work Miss Anna
Lindhaden, who was elected on the
Democratic ticket, founded the work
mems gardens in Stockholm.
United States Minister Egan says
that in Denmark, where women are
elected as aldermen and take active
part in carrying on the government
of municipalities, taey take their du
ties as matter of course and perform
them quietly and efficiently.
Miss Grace Strachan, president
of the Teachers Association OF
New York, when congratulated on
her successful fight for equal pay fol
women teachers, sad that the men
, who most earnestly opposed equal pay
We're the so-called chivalrous type
who say that women should be pro
, tected"
Representative Mondell, of Wyom
ing, has introduced resolution in
Congress proposing an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
providing an amendment to the Con
sttution of the United States provid
j ng that the right of citizens of thu
, United States to vote shall not bt
, denied or abridged by he United
! States or by any State on account OF
sex"
A "suffragette wedding took place
, recently in England the suffragists
( gathering in force, with color uaes
, emblematc of freedom, purity and
nope. There was specially wordet
: marriage service, iii which it wa!
{ declared that the couple united them
selves on grounds OF perfect equally
, as comrades and helpmates, what
ever the circumstances of life might
bring them.
/, Baron DEstourneues de Constant
the French Peace advocate, lis a firm
believer in woman suffrage, and in 6
recent interview sid, Anything that
tends to emancipate woman helps
the movement for international peace
For this reason | believe In the bal
lot for women"
In an article on tile Parliament OF
FINLAND, which Is doomed to extinc
tion by the Russion Government, jill
: nus Ostermann writes: What Russia
demands is absolute submission. The
runs, therefore, stand steadfastiy:
and, certain as they are of destruc,
Iion' no man will give way. And
among them will stand firmly their
. nineteen women legislators. So that