The Washington herald., 1912-06-21
WOMEN MARGHERs
T0GARRYBALL00NS
More Than One Hundred Capital
sufragists to Take Part in
Baltimore Parade.
STYLE OF HAT ADOPTED

Arrayed In white dresses and scent
straw hats and carrying toy balloons.
bearing the words. Votes for Women, /"
more than 100 washington women viii
Join the suIragette parade in Baltimore
next Thursday evening while the Demo-
cratic National Convention is in. session
Final arrangements were made last
night at a mass meeting In the WASH
| ington College Of Law. in New York
Avenue. Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey,
dean Of the college and leader Of the
local suffragettes, presided. More than
fifty women were present
One Of the first questions discussed
was that OF dress.
Il would suggest" said Mrs. Mussey,
that we wear Scent straw hats, such
as were used in the New York suffra-
gette demonstration. Why, don't you
know, ladies, 1 thought they looked ex-
tremely nice"
Suggests crocheted Caps.
"oh. they're frightfully unbecoming,"
interrupted Mrs. william TindaIl, wife
Of the secretary Of the Board Of Com
missioners. II would suggest that We
wear crocheted caps. The trouble with
the Ss-cent straws is, that If they are
not all worn at the same angle, the effect
is something hideous."
As a solution Of the problem II was
suggested that the women parade bare
headed. It was finally decided that the
women should either wear the straws.
or 60 bare-headed. Those women in the
college section will wear caps and
gowns. It was unanimously agreed that
all the women should wear white dresses.
Mrs Mussey suggested that beautiful
duck skirts could now be purchased
for 81.
Female representatives, Of every con-
ceivable profession and calling will form
the local delegation to the Baltimore pa
rade. There will be nineteen feminine
barristers. three nurses, FIVE female jour
nalists. and large groups Of stenogra-
piers, physicians, and business women.
Mrs. Musssy will head the delegation Of
barristers. The physicians will be led
by DR.. Tlnora c. Folkmar. The lawyers
probably will dress in caps and gowns.
The nurses will wear their regulation
dresses.
Special Train Engaged.
A special train will take the delegation
to Baltimore. leaving Union Station at
O'Clock next Thursday afternoon. The
parade will start at Z o'clock in the
evening. II II is raining at o'clock on
Thursday, the pageant will be postponed
until o'clock the following night-Fri-
day.
There will be six main divisions OF the
parade in general-professional women.
college women, business women, mems
league, working women, and mothers. The
procession will be headed by six young
Maryland women on white horses, sym
bolic Of the six States in which women
now have equal rights. ChariOts in the
vzT1 -Na
the route Of parade, and after the pageant
has passed. addresses will be delivered
from them Some Of the elderly women
who are fearful that the route Of parade
will be too long for them to walk have
engaged carriages. Mrs. Mussey, Mrs
TindaIl. and a score Of other women last
night, however. signiied their intention Of
walking the entire distance.
The question Of employing a band was
discussed at some length. Mrs. TindaIl
at first opposed the proposition Of hiring
a band, on the ground OF It being too
expensive, but when II was suggested
that the object was TO make a big noise
in every sense OF the word before the
delegates to the Baltimore convention,
she said: We'll, II the band will help
get US a woman suffrage plank in the
platform, let's have a band" The mat
ter was referred TO a committee.
Prominent in Ranks.
The following are some Of the promi-
nent women who have signiied their
intention Of taking part in the parade:
Mrs. Mussey, Mrs. TindaIl. Miss Janet
Richards. Miss Elsie Hill, daughter of
Representative Hill Of Connecticut; Mrs.
Herbert Knox Smith, Mrs. n. DriscoIl,
Mrs. Jennie L. Munroe, Miss Elizabeth
V. Brown, Miss Harriet Hilton, Miss
Helen NJ. Gardener, Miss Edith Mccall
mont, DR.. Brennon, Mrs L. B. Thorn
son. and the following school-teachers:
Misses ]. May Rallings, n. ]. Young,
Janet McWilham, Karle L. Garrison, and
Flora Hendley.
Some of the others are Miss Florence
Etheridge, Mrs. Margaret Lohr, Mrs. Jo-
sephine Rich, Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, Miss
Alice Jenkins, and Miss Ramsay, daughter
Of Prof Ramsay. Mrs. La Toilette. wife
Of Senator Robert La Toilette, may pos
sibly Join the delegation from Washing
ton and walk in the parade. Mrs. Champ
Clark is greatly interested in the demon
stration, but has not yet decided whether
she will join the procession.
Following the completion Of arrange
ments last night Miss Janet Richards,
the noted woman suffrage advocate, de-
Ivered a speech on great suffragette dem