Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
Cheap Headgear Is the En-
bIem of Democracy in Great
Demonstration.
CHINESE WOMEN RIDE
HORSES IN PROCESSION
1000 Men Take Part-Roose-
welt SHED at Leading Them.
World Represented.

NEW YORK. May 4.-Twenty thou4
sand women, wearing Ss-cent hats as a
sign of their democracy. prepared to-
day to march through the streets OF
New York as demonstration for
votes for women The parade was
scheduled to start at p. m.
The procession will be the most re-
markable demonstration of it's kind
ever held in America. Nearly 1000
men, husbands and sons of the women
paraders. volunteered to appear in the
male section of the procession.
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch was one
of the notable exceptions in respect to
hats. She wore a Vassar college cap.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was 4n4
vited to lead the men in the parade.
but he declined saying that he was
otherwise engaged. The Colonel is in
Maryland on a campaign trip.
Chinese Women
AS Suffragettes.
The demonstration takes a strong in
ternational tinge from the fact that
women of several nations volunteered
to take part. Among the foreign ma
lions represented are England, China,
France, Germany and Finland The
Finish women showed their spirit of in
dependence by refusing to march I'M
der the Russian flag
The smallest suffragettes are Marie
soltz, Madeline Ball, Marie Moore,
Gertrude Melch, Helen Singleton and
Helen Palconer. These little girls,
ranging in age from 7 to 10, are mem
bers Of THE Rose Maid" company
Mrs. Loo Lin, the boss Of China
town" represented China Not only
did she volunteer to appear. but she
consented to ride horse 'astride." Mrs.
Wfston- Churchill. wife of the novelist.
arrived here at the head of delega-
ton of New Hampshire suffragettes,
all bursting with enthusiasm Miss
Fola LaFollette, an actress. and daugh-
ter of Senator LaFollette. of Wiscon-
sin, consented to lead a detachment of
Wisconsin suffragettes. Nine. Greg
DRY headed a delegation Of European
women. She had also written q NUNS
Der of suffragette songs.
A late recruit to the parade was
Miss White. of Syracuse. N. Y, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Leonard White. and a
niece Of former Lieutenant Governor
Horace White.
There were suffragettes Of every de-
scrption and color, from equal right
ers of The Carrie Nation type and
| those who ran long on lingerie and
French heels. Likewise were there
sufragettes of every shade. from ala
baster whiteness to deepest black in
Guiding the various gradations of tan.
brown, yellow. notified and African
smoke
Notified Sisters, Too.
The notified suffrage sisters were
freckled. of course, but the tan, brown
and pure African belong to a squad
of negresses. organized and led by Mrs.
Albert Pnmpton, while the yellow
shades adorned marchers from the far
off land of China.
These paru- colored advocates of +
equal suffrage. however, paled to insig-
nifcence beside the doughty Miss Tin
ker and her cavalcade of equestriennes,
all OF whom were mounted upon beau
tifully caparisoned horses thoughtfully
provided with binders. This cavalry
squad was comprised of the flower of
New York suffrage, and in its ranks
were Miss Inez Mulholland. Miss Mabel
Lee. the Chinese suffragist; Mrs. Paid
ing Farnum, the sculptress; Mrs, VIII
liam Bracher. and Mrs. Richard S.
Chisholm. Theirs was the only head
dress not of the 39-cent denomination.
1t was composed of three cornered
black straw. with a tri-coIored cockade