Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

SUFFRAGE PARIY." 10 the lett OF HIM was yet
third, on which writ boldly the staring legend,
"LEAGUE FOR THE POLITICAL ENFRANCHISE-
MENT OF WOMEN" BY dint of heroic struggle he
effected reunion of his lips and murmured to himself:
Il must be in the wrong house.
He turned reproachful eyes upon his wife, and the
flicker in her eyes and the upturned corners of her mouth
led him into the error of s1spectlng that 1t was all Joke
As such it should be treated with the severity 1t de-
served He bent his brows into formidable imitation
of thunderhead in sky and with thickened
speech demanded slowly:
whats the meaning of the tapestries?"
ooh, those woman suffrage banners Mrs. Farley
replied airily.
al see they're woman suffrage banners I can read
that on the bold faces of the" Farley said with an
extra kink in his brows "But what are they doing in
my library"
Mrs Farley caught the possessive note Her smile
vanished and suspicion of aspety crep into her voice
"They there because put them there she replied,
4and put them there because have joined the Woman
Suffrage Party"
1t wasn't joke. The silent realization of this
quite weakening, and for the moment Farley could
think of nothing adequate in the way of speech He
went idly to his desk picked up paper after paper only
drop each if it burned his fingers. The hateful
legend that stared at him from the wall them all
w asked at last, his voice profoundly melancholy.
Mrs. Farley felt just little bit uncomfortable. She
had not anticipated this effect She thought her hs-
band would hail with enthusiasm her entry into the
of political strife Her reply was therefore, some
what confused.
"why, it'sit,s party. Dan; you know, just like
Farleys eyes frightened, and beautifully simulated
interest shone in his face Oh, like 1ammany is t'"
he said "Then I'm for it. How do get in?'
The undertone of sarcasm in his words not lost
Mrs Farley She replied loty, at is not for you poll
ticans. And the leader of this district, just like
you for Tammany Hall.
"You don't mean it," Farley responded admiringly.
"That sounds good to Well have everything in the
family All need to do is to raise little Daniel to
be a progressive Republican, and make Socialist of
Baby Helen. But what is there in this suffragette
party"
@Whats in it," Mrs. Farley echoed, her puzzled rep
eton betrayng her lack of familiarity with the ter
ninology of New York's ruling class
ayes, you know, the graft Who gets it?"
Farley made explanatory motions with his right hand
and fingers which might have been translated in the
vernacular of the district as the mazuna sign Mrs.
Farley was rightly indignant
"There will be no graft she announced with en-
phasis 1--WE are going fight grafters well those
who won't promise to vote for suffrage in the
legislature
ooh. So you're going to try to make me lose my
electioni"
"No, Danny DEAR going to convert you"
Mrs. Fareys sweetness just then like the rosting
on bakeshop cake hard and brittle. Farley grunted,
which is the way Irshman shrugs his shoulders, and
took another survey of the banners.
am converted now, think" he said IL used to be
in favor of this suffrage business; but m thinking