New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-13
GIVE SUFFRAGE MATINEE
Women'S Political Union Offers
Optimistic Programme.
CLOSES WITH A "VlSION"
Woman Enfranchised" Ends
Afternoon After Boobies"
Invite All to Parade.


Yondon 'bobbies" requesting suffragettes
"a march IN street parade
This is the truth that is stranger than
action. The amazing deed really took place
yesterday afternoon at the Republic Thea
tra between the acts of the Easter matinee
g,yen by the women's Political Union.
yAs the hobbies" were converted by the
sn4rage oratory to such an extent that
+beir. enthusiasm had to find vent in action.
and they threw themselves upon the audi
.nce. demanding signatures to pledges to
march in the suffrage parade They must
fave been extremely susceptible to reason,
these John Bull "bobbies." because il could
mot have been the feminine charms and
praces that converted them. The scene was
Trafalgar Square during a militant meet
ing, and Mary Keegan. looking none the
better for the rioting through which she
had passed -unsce-Aed, had harangued
the hooting crowd.
No with her hair in horrible wisps be-
side her face, her hat askew her i'll fitting
vaist and bedraggled skirt hanging pre-
cariously by two safetypins, she was
obliged 10 have recourse to logic. The parts
~ tho policemen were taken by r. c.
was an extremely irritating dude of the
monocled type He stood supercilously on
the outskirts of the crowd. but all Of
sudden he had clever idea.
"Oh. say, now!" he called 10 the suf-
fragette. Don't you wish you were
mani"
ayes, don't you wish you were?" was the
awful retort The dude skunk away
crushed. and be did net appear later in the
aisles soliciting parade pledges H. c.
Jackson and o. a. Rogers were art stu
dents in the crowd. with flowing locks and
hair and huge sketchbooks, upon which
they recorded their impressions Of the suf-
fragettes presumably for the edihcation of
the London comic sheets. They were not
popular with the Honest Working Man IN
the Crowd" Harold Herts). or with the
"Suffragette Paper Sellers" (Rheta Childe
Dorr and Anna Friedman.
In startling contrast to the London suf-
fragettes were the tableaus in "The Vision
of Brave Women" which followed, Mrs,
Otis skinner, wife Of the actor, herself
star Of no mean magnitude before her mar
rage. read the poetical devices which &C
companied the pictures. The poems were
written by Mrs. Wilfred Lewis.
Brent. the first Grave woman in America
10 claim the vote. or, as the old Maryland
record has it, Game Mistress Margaret
Brent and did demand both place and
VOICE" Mrs. John Rogers, sister-in-law Of
Secretary Of War stimson, represented
Abigail Adams, the first woman who threat
ened militant methods, proving, as one SUI
fragette holly said TO the other, that
there's nothing new, by George, even in
the methods Of the modern suffragettes."
Abigail was the good wife Of John Adams.
but she found time between darn!ng his
socks and caring for his children while he
was off making a government 20 write him
thus:
Since we have no voice in the laws you make
What wonder If unjust laws we break
Now look that you to our cause be true,
Or wen fornent a rebellion, TOO. - -.
But John CONTINUES the poeO, VINO q nave ole1
at Freedoms need,
Just laughed at the letter and paid no heed.
One Of the most charming pictures was
that Of Deborah Logan, Pennsylvania
heroine and model mistress of a Colonial
household. She sat in the midst OF her |
maids, with their spinning wheels and
needlework, around the great old fireplace. !
They all wore real old heirlooms, full !
skirted gowns, and 'kerchiefs, with crisp
white muslin caps on their curls, and they
worked as they listened to fair Mistress
Deborah reading aloud to them from an
instructive book. What a contrast" signs
the programme, between these girls,
working under the care of this gentle
lady. and modern women toiling in sweat
shops"
The climax of the tableaus was the vision
Of Woman Enfranchised." showing Miss
1nez Milholland in a classic white robe and
Blue velvet cloak. with one arm protect
ingly around the little children at her feet,
and the other mercifully sheltering the
scarlet woman" The children were little
Mss Fredericka watrous and Master Will
lam Chanler. the son of William Astor
Chanler. Miss Vida Milholland, sister OF
Miss Inez. was the other figure in the
group.
There were sixteen tableaus in all. show
ing Pocahontas, Priscilla. Margaret Brent,
Hannah Penn, Abigail Adams, Lydia OAR
rach, Molly Pitcher, Deborah Logan, Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony.
Lucretia Mott Ida Lewis, Daughter OF
the Confederacy," Julia Ward Howe. Clara
Barton and Woman Enfranehised."
Among those In the audience were Mrs.
Caroline b Alexander, Mrs. Winthrop
Burr. Mrs Herbert S. Carpenter, Mrs. |
Lewis L. Delafeld. Mrs. John Dewey, Mrs. |
Magee Ellsworth, Mrs. Cyrus w. Field. |
Mrs. Albert Herter, Mrs. Wallace Irwin, |
Mrs. Ethelbert Nevin and Mrs. Ansel
Phelps The affair was under the direction
r. Nee D.,