The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-17
111THAT THE WOMEN
OF H WORLD
l@1 ARE DOING .

Advocates Of woman's suffrage ma,
we'll point to 1911 as tho banner yeal
in the history Of the movement. Two
important states granted complete
franchise rights to women. and tho
use they Immediately made of 1t gave
All impetus in other states too grea,
to be estimated. The coming year
promises even O in achievement
The past yea has shown worldwide
activity toward granting full political
rights to women. and the year 1912
will doubtless zee their enfranchise.
mont In more than one foreign coun-
try.
Reports from South Africa are to
the effect that Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, president of the InternationaJ
Woman Suffrage alliance, who Is
maxim ga tour OF the world, has
aroused intense interest in the suf-
frage movement there. and meetings
are being held everywhere i'm her
honor. presided over by prominent
public officials.
AIRY president of the Canadian Woman
Suffrage association, was the first wo-
man to receive ii medical degree in
the dominion OF Canada. She was
also the first woman to serve on the
school board of the city of Toronto,
and was recently elected to serve on
the senate of Toronto university.
Mrs. Ella Wilson, mayor of Hume
we'll, Kan. after long and bitter OPP
position on the part of the members
of the city council, is now in control
of municipal affairs, the councilmen
having been ousted by order Of the
governor and attorney general of the
state.
Mrs. Gideon Frazer of Tacoma,
Wash. has the distinction of serving
on 4 Jury with her husband. MIR.
Frazer was the first juror and Mrs.
Frazer the sixth.
Miss Mona Wilson. the first woman
insurance commissioner appointed for
England by the government. is a
daughter OF Canon Wilson of Worces-
ter. formerly archdeacon of Manches-
ter and head master of Clifton. Miss
terins the trade hoard act with regard
to the chain naking and box-mak-
ing trades; she has served as Il MEM
her of the home office departmental
committee on Industrial accidents. and
has devoted her whole life to the
problems of women's employment.
Canon and Mrs. Wilson are towers
of strength to the suffrage movement
in England.
Marian Randall says that Mary
Garden. the woman Of moods. as she
is called. must have been in a strange
ly pessimistic frame of mind when
she accused American women of lack
of ambition. II is IN %undeniable fact
of singular interest that American
singers arc filling the opera houses
of the world. Voices thcre are in all
countries. but Of ambition there is
Fremstad said to a friend in ST. Paul
when she first sang there. Success is
obtained by Just going ahead n To-
ing things. The people who fail are
the people who do not try hard
enough" OF course. Mmc. Fremstad
spoke from the vantage point of ge-
MUS. and geniuses are apt to think
that everybody else could do as well
as they, just by trying. Perhaps try
Fremst1d's name stands g%loriously at
the head of the list Of American
singers to be heard in st. Paul the
week of January %.
But a glance al the prfma donnas
of the world convirces one that Amer.
lean women are trying. Besides Nine.
Frernstad there are Geraldine Farrar,
Lillian Nordica, Emma Eames. Alice
Nelson. Louise Homer. Alma Gluck,
Jane Ausborn Hannah. Edith Delys,
Jane Noria. Henrietta hatfield. Edith
Walker and others who are compar-
able to tiadski and Sembrich among
foreign dramatic stars of world fame.
Perhaps one Of the most important
reasons why we do not realize the
extent to which Americans. and par
ticularly American women. have TAX
an the operate stage, by storm is
that many of their names have been
Europeanized. They have heen taxi
ing the advice of directors like GATH
Cazazza Of the New York M%etropoli-
tan Opera company and have beer
singing at various foreign houses and
to the countries in which they first
appeared.