The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-08-07
SUFFRAGE NOTES

Inez Haynes Gilmore, one of the
best known OF present-day American
authors, is also one of the most in
defatiguable workers in the suffrage
cause. She has just written a new
novel, Angel Island, which Is ap-
pearing serially In a popular maya
zine. According to her publishers,
this story contains the most power
full argument for equal suffrage that
has yet appeared. s
Chicago mn suffragists will bring
tout the Aug. II, edition of The Chi
cago Examiner for the purpose or
raising money and of reaching the
people with suffrage truths. Adolphus
Clark offered 81 for the first copy, a
woman quickly offered 50 and it was
decided to auction it off. Mrs. An
toinette Funk, one OF the successful
lobbyists. will act as a~uetioneer" Au-
~tographed copies bearing the sigma
lures of Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout,
Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch n
other prominent workers will be sold.
The Hotel LaSalle purchased the
first full page advertisement and paid
1000 for it.
Looking on the District of Column
bia as an excellent ground for prose
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Gil of Women Voters, which meets in
| Washington next week, have %announc-
ed tina they would wage a vigorous
street speaking campaign in the hope
Of making converts for the cause.
Suffragists Of national reputation will
preach the suffragist articles of faith
on the street corners every evening for
the next ten days and the crusade may
be continued even longer.
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United States suffragists are inter-
| ested in hearing what foreign suffra-
gists are doing toward winning votes
for women. Miss Josephine Schain Of
Minneapolis, a we'll known sllffra gette
in this part of the country who is
travelling abroad, writes the following
to The Minneapolis Tribune from Nor
way: ....n
when we left New York the women
were rejoicing over the victory In, 1lli-
nois and upon our arrival in Norway
we found The women of that COUNTRY
had just been given full suffrage. Be-
fore this the. Norwegian women were
required to show that they received
wages equal to $40 a week, before they
could vote. The fac that a woman re-
ceived this, amount from her husband
as pay for running the household was
not considered sufficient to class her as
a wage Garner and therefore she vas
not entitled to vote.
Upon reaching Denmark | learned
that the women here are certain of
gaining full suffrage this coming year.
Not only did / hear this glad news, but
I had the pleasure of hearing it from
Miss Sophie Alberto Denmark's most
beloved woman, as l, sat at tea with
her in her apartments at the Woman's
club, ..
Miss Alberti is president of the
Kvindelig LaeseforeIGng', Or Woman's
Reading circle, a club in Copenhagen
which has a membership of 4,500 wom-
en-. This wonderful club has grown out
of a small group of women who began
to read together in 1872. In r%ecogni-
tion of what they are doing the ma
tional government has given them
1000 kroner a year for the past three
years, something of which few other
clubs in the world can boast.
'"Three years 6 they built a fine
club house in the downtown district
and the architect received the prize
offered by the city for the finest public
building erected that year. Unlike
many clubs, part of the building is
! open to the public. There is a large
tea DON IN the first floor which is
open all day. The library of $4,000
volumes is also for public USE, as are
their several newspaper and reading
rooms. Then there are the private
rooms which are for the club members,
including offices, p~arlors, hall, twenty
two bedrooms n many smaller rooms
which the women nay use for half
a day to rest in.
"The large national organization of
women Is the Council Of Danish Won
en-, which has clubs in many cities. It's
work is wider in scope than that Of
the Copenhagen club and at present is
centered in the efforts of the women
to gain suffrage.
"The women in Denmark have mu-
nicipal suffrage and in Copenhagen
thirteen out of seventy members In
the city council are women: in fact,
the vice president of the city council
| is a woman. There is, little class feel
ing here, also little ,antagonism to-
wards woman suffrage. The men seem
as much interested in it as the women
and they Cooperate in splendid fash
ion.
1.-THE only difficulty lies in the fact
that the upper house of the national
parliament, which is appointed by the
king, is very conservative, but public
sentiment is so strongly in favor of
suffrage that undoubtedly it will be
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