New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-09

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p,cpal League. Mrs. Hazard quotes a
letter which. she says. was received b.
"a Young girl who lives in q club TO
which careful parents living out of town
lntrust their student daughters" This is
The letter;
September 4. 1872
Nv dear Miss ---: Can't you scare
M a brigade Of the beautiful and en-
tbusiastic AT the - Club 10 stand in
The lobby of the Victoria Theatre next
week and sell copies Of The Womans
Journal the national suffrage organ?
II you are benighted enough not to know,
they want volunteers for afternoon and
evening and ! rather think you might
have some fun at il II YOU are hunting
for fun. The girl in charge is good sort
10 know-Mrs. Bertha I. Carter, No. 5S5
BOylston street. Boston-to whom write
Il YOU want 20 have a shy at the project.
She would Ike 10 have several girls TO
help IN details. The more the merrier
and the prettier the better. We old war
horses are absolutely constituencies about
using besuty-other people's-for reasons
best known to ourselves, but also face
evdent-to boost the cause If you write
Mrs Carter mention Me and she WIFI I'M
derstsnd. ] hope you can volunteer. 1t
viii be lark If approached in the right
spirit Thine, X Y.
Mrs Hazard says that as one who has
done much work in connection with he
women's night court, the Florence Crit
,enton Mission and the Committee OF
Fourteen she is so specially alive to the
great dangers in which young and
ihoughtess girls may be involved by &C
ceptlne such an invitation" that she feels
Il her duty 20 warn mothers and guar
dams by giving il full publicity.
Mrs Hazards object wasn't TO warn
mothers Mrs. Z. Jean Nelson Penfield.
chairman Of the Woman Suffrage party.
said yesterday. Her object was to III
iure the suffrage cause. That is ap-
parent IL she had wanted to thwart the
purpose OF that letter she would have
communicated with its writer and warned
the officers OF the club to which II was
sent DO think II vas perfectly abom-
!nabie TO make the use Mrs. Hazard does
Of a private letter-publish a letter OBJ
,iously without the writer's consent.
letter manfestly written in a Joking
spirit. between friends never intended FOR
publication"
The Woman Suffrage party opens suf-
irsge week at Hammerstein's to-day with
a tventy-minute spectacular show in the
afternoon and evening. and Mrs. James
Lees Ialdlaw has been enlisting the SER
vices OF young women 10 sell copies OF
The Woman Voter" in the auditorium
during the turn. Mrs. Penfield says she
thinks the "sntis' ought 10 be compl-
mented to see the suffra gists thus borrow
Ing their theories.
It's our one concession 10 the anti
suffrage standard-this use Of womanly
charm instead OF facts and logic 10 gain
our ends" she said
Youth and beauty were gathered in force
al the headquarters Of the National Wom-
an Suffrage Association. No. sos Fifth
avenue. on Saturday. trying on the gowns
nat will be worn at the nationals day
Al Hammersteins - Wednesday. Mrs.
Francis Maule Bjorkman. fitting red
tooe on the young and beautiful Miss Al
oer'a Hlll,-who is 10 appear as Australia
among the countries where women vote,
spOuered Indignation al Mrs. Hazard with
ner mouth full OF pins
think II was a perfectly horrid thing
70 oo-publshing a personal letter" she
so" letter that came 3pto her hands
D! accident. But isn't Mrs. Hazards
~W Oh lie antiQuated? In this day and
ese were no longer obsessed with sex.
e cont think that because a girl stands
~ 'Sinmerstein's lobby and sells suf-
rage literature for an hour every man
Nno sees her is going to insult her.
'o' ought 70 hear Mrs. Bertha /. Car
"r on Mrs. Hazard. She's the business
manager OF The Woman's Journal, and
'"e came to New York to put this thing
through. She's been going around all day
I'm her hand clasped 10 her brow. say
ing Me, the white slaverr
We aren't asking girls TO do anything
improper IT'S Mrs. Hazard who is doing
",ae N making public private letter.
VI course young and attractive won-
ore IN the suffrage movement" cried
'S ili'i' It's modern movement and
ets The young Speaking from the
~ ipo'ht Of a young though not beau
- woman they only dare 80 say that
H they are beautiful can assert
We aren't dragged into the work by
wa war hOrses'-we are eager TO be
why. at meetings II is difficult TO
sris OF sixteen and eighteen from
,an hs' and We don't wish them 20 en-
y" until they are OF age.
been around lot. both az
NJ 10 suffrage and in the Wilson and
m e'' campaign. and 7 have yet TO see
Z, SAT- Who has been harmed by working
10 a good cause"
carter was 50 wrought I'd by Mrs
charge that she gave The Trio
h, ''porter list OF those she had
a, ~ 10 sell THE Woman's Journal"
a., euhesday. She did this to prove, she
81 uat her newsgirls couldn't be
SSH as young and thoughtless."
a, ny some OF them are married wom-
-. she declared Mrs James Lees
n''oisw ID one. and Mrs. Mary Ware
rh"eu and Mrs Bjorkman are others
n ~" ulere are Miss Caroline Reilly, Mis-
p~ehce King. Miss Eleanor Garrison. of
oVn' granddaughter OF William Lloyd
r'Son; Miss Inez Milholland, Miss
snces Perkins, OF the committee on
,..E and various social workers from
Nuement houses.
wasn't trying TO get beautiful girls.
..~ glad TO get anybody regardless OF
| aho beauty OF course. Il Is always
'ui 20 make ss good an appearance az
| ,oe' never understood that the
'N put premium on age and ugliness.