New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-09
cause" WINS MAXWELL
School Superintendent LaudS
Example Of Suffrage MarChers.
GIRL ATHLETES PLAY HOST
Hold Reception in Natural His
tory Museum to Honor
1000 Teachers.

Sh, Don't say much about it. ~ might
not like to have it dwelt upon. but the
fact is that William II. Maxwell, city
Superintendent Of Schools, talked very
much like suffragette at the reception
the girls branch of the Public Schools
Athletic League gave for a thousand
school teachers at the Museum of Nat
ural History yesterday afternoon.
And who do you suppose converted DR..
Maxwell? Why, General" Resale Jones.
General" Jones hasn't been talking to
DR.. Maxwell She didn't have to. 1t was
Just "A case of a walkover. Her pedestrian
feat was what conquered him.
The reception was in honor of the
teachers who give their services in the
work of the league, staying after their
classes are dismissed to train little girls
to do folk dances and athletics: and along
with Dr. Maxwell on the platform of the
huge auditorium where the speaking
was were Mrs. Alfred Seton Post, presi-
dent of the girls branch; Miss Catherine
Il. Leverich. its first president; Mrs.
Richard Aldrich. Miss Martha Lincoln
Draper. Henry Fairfield Osborn, president
OF the museum; Professor Winslow'
curator IF public health. and several
others
Or. Maxwell made the first speech.
Girls, n said hal to be helped TO
find ways to exercise. Boys would find
WAYS anyhow, but girls wouldn't; they
had to be helped And that was why he
liked the sumragists: they had taught
girls and women To march. NO woman
would ever dare To say that she couldn
walk. he declared. when those suiiragsts
had done their twenty and twenty-four
miles n day He wished the sufragists
would get all girls into marching clubs.
"Especially." he said. the little East
Side girls. who. some of them. have never
been three blocks away from the tehe-
ments where they live They need walk
ing expeditions. and we can't send party
of girls off on jaunt without chapcron
and guide. Bows can bc sent OF that
way. but not girls. 4 suffrage hike WOMB
be an excellent thing for those little East
Side girls
Then Dr. Maxwell talked about folk
dancing. and said how sorry ne was that
he didn't have time TO Join class lie
vould tust love 90 belong. he assured
,borr and he'd certainly never play
bookey. he'd be on hand every day. Ana
the thousand teachers gigGled delightediy
..s tbev pictured the white haired CITY
.,,,,o,,,,.,dert learning the oNdons or
the Irish jis
mr. Maxwell said ne did like commls-
eioners If education who had one IDEA
and worked il Tor all IT was worth
General George Wingatc." he Observed
"beran with his library plan. but he soon
changed from the mental 10 the physical
.rJ he has done wonders for the p"Ns
bodies And Airs Post has done as much
for the girls"
After the speeches curator 'ou"d'"
profossor 81 anthropology. showed some
,roving pictures of Indian dances lie
said before he began that he hoped the
,o,cbers before him wouldn't introduce
the dances I'm the New fork PUBIC
schools. and the teachers AFTER S'"IhS
,ov, agreed that they certainly wouldn l.
NJ, ~ the dancers were dressed simply
+, n,inted rings and symbolic figures
done ON their bare skins. And they car
rigd gUnkpS-Sfldkfh III Ai'ii ii'''''.'' '.''
&, their mouths-for this was the snake
dance the Hopi Indians do when the
weather f. too dry and their crops need
rain The thousand teachers were really
rather relieved when the moving pictures
ended those snakes did wriggie so real
isticalv through the scenes. ana th'y
were rattlesnakcs. with their iangs uhre-
moved. Professor Goddard said.
After the speaking the tcacfers went up
to Philippine Hall and had tea. flles OF
sandwichcs. cakes by the thousand uh-
limited icecrcam and tea and chocolate
vore consumed by them. while the Drown
men In the glass cases went on calmly
s,rireing their bows and pursuing ther
regular avocations. quite unmoved by the
invasion OF their domains
Before the teachers went home MIS-
Aldcich re al TELEGRAM from Miss ELIZA
10th Rurchenal who IS in California say
ing how sorry she was that she couidh
be- AT the party the girls branch was
giving.