The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-29
THE ANNUAL CONVENTION.

The annuai convention of the
Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation will be held in Pittsburg dur
ing the last week in October. The
programme will have a number of
celebrated speakers. Miss Adele Shaw
of Sewickley, Pa, is chairman Of the
programme committee and Miss
Elizabeth Blanchard, of Bellefonte,
and Miss Florence Sibley, of Philadel-
phia, are the other members. Mrs.
John H. Armstrong of Pittsburg, is
chairman of committee on halls;
Mrs. Robert DePuy of the same city
is chairman of Entertainment Com
mittee. Other committees will be
appointed later. The Pittsburg suf-
fragists are planning to make this
the finest convention ever held in the
State.
Woman's Work.
The American delegates to the
Budapest suffrage congress who
travelled across Germany in the spec
ial train labelled 'Frauenstimmrecht
wondered whether the Kaiser knew
what the women of his country were
doing. They were certainly paying
no heed to his dictum that the only
place for women is in the church, the
kitchen or the nursery. In the coun-
try they were making roads, loading
hay and doing every possible kind
of farm work with not a man in
sight, while in the cities they loaded
baggage, cleaned the streets and did
every sort of heavy work. Nine mil
lion German women are said to be
earning living for themselves and
families in order that the vast army
and navy may be maintained. This
year the Emperor has drawn 300,-
600 additional men from industry
to war. Their work must, therefore,
be done by women.
Beecher a Suffragist.
The celebration of the hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Henry
Ward Beecher recalls the fact that
he was strong champion for equal
rights for women. He was presi-
dent of the American women Suf-
frage Association during the first
year after its organization in 1869.
At the first women's Rights Conven-
tion held in New York City after the
Civil War, in May, 1868, Mr.. Beech
er said: 1--WE shall never round out
the government, or public admins
tration, or public policies, or politics
itself until you have mixed the ele-
ments that God gave to us in So
ciety, namely, the powers of both
men and women. /, therefore,
charge my country women with this
duty of taking part in public af-
fairs in the era in which justice and
humanity and education and taste
and virtue are to be more and more
part and parcel of public proceed
ure."
Suffrage at the Perry Centennial.
CARRIED entirely in white, wearing
white hats and broad blue sashes in
scribed in silvered letters "PENN-
SYLVANIA' the Suffrage Division of
the Women's and Children's parade
at the Perry Centennial in Erie, pre-
sented an attractive appearance and
its approach was the signal for
cheers and applause from the dense
throngs that crowded the sidewalks,
windows and roofs along the line of
march.
The Liberty Bell float was the feat
ure of the parade. The Bell, sus-
pended from four great supports
covered with festoons of daisies was
sum q perfect IeprOuucllOn Oh Jne
original bell that pealed out the
tidings of American independence
that many thought the real bell had
been borrowed for the occasion. The
float, covered with white bunting,
was decorated with palms and
wreaths of smilaX. The wheels,
draped in white with yellow hubs,
resembled daisies. On the float,
which was drawn by a long double
column of women, rode Mrs. Bernard
Hubley of California impersonating
the goddess of Liberty.