Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-14
MRS. F. HOWE HALL
SPEAKS AT ST. JOHNS
Julia Ward Howe's Daughter j.
for WOman's Suffrage and
Her Mother.
GIVES ELOQUENT TALK.
Cultured Audience EBjOys ''Reminis.
cencss Of NV Neither" Poet and
Authoress.

cencts Of My Neither" Poet and
AulhoTess.
To Mrs. Robert Moss, preside mt Of
the Just Government League of thi.
city and county, a cultured audience
of goodly numbers, who braveo the
rain storm, owes a great deal for the
delightful address delivered yesterday
aftt rnoon from to o'clock in Nc
Dowell Hall, ST. Johns College,
whose use was kindly loane for the
occasion by President Fell.
Mrs. Flora rance Howe Hall, the dis
tinguished daughter Of most dis
tinguished mother, gave a talk or
"reminiscences Of Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, and her ideals of suffrage for
women. Her address was most in
terestIng. Mrs. Hall related many
pleasing anecdotes and incidents in
connection with her distinguished
mothers life and what proved to be
Of unusual interest to those presen
was her mothers : connection and ac-
tivity as one lof the pioneers in the
movement for woman suffrage and
how, by her numerous addresses de.
livered in various parts of the coun-
try, she was instrumental in further
ing the cause of woman's political
freedom
Mrs. Hall stated that her IN jther
became identified with the movement
as far back as 1868, and was much
interested in the Sorosis and New
England Clubs, of Boston, which were
among the first to be formed for the
advancement of the woman suffrage
cause. At a pure milk crusade start
ed in Boston years ago Mrs. Howe was
indignant because its organizers had
only the consumer and the producer
named in the benefit, and before a
meeting on that subject, told her
hearers that it was the babies who
needed the protection of pure milk
more than any one else, and she was
loudly che cred for the suggestion.
Mrs. Howe was very much interested
in the peace -crusade-of 1872 during
the Franco-Prussian War She went
about appealing to the mothers to use
their influence to have the bloody
strife ended She was also instru-
mental in the formation of wnat is
known as Mothers Day throughout
Pennsylvania; this was accomplished
in 1876, during the centennial.
In her declining years, said Mrs.
Hall, il became the custom wherever
she spoke for the audience to rise as
she entered the hall and, on one oc-
casion, at a gathering in Boston, an
Englishman was present and, noticing
the unusual honor conferrt d, remark
ed that it was the custom in his coun-
try to only honor the nobility and
royalty in such a manner. After
mother became too old and feeble to
stand and address the public, she fre-
quently spoke while sitting in chair.
A short time before her death we
asked her for the ideal aim in life.
Her feeble reply was: TO learn, to
teach, to serve and to enjoy
IN her talk on her revered parent Is
opinion OF woman's right to vote anC
the benefit that would result there
from, Mrs. Howe said:
Mother used to say that one of th,
greatest benefits to be gained by wo
man suffrage was the developme Mt o.
woman herself, and also the gail
that would come to the whole human
society by putting many things on
higher plane than they are now
Mother was deeply religious. Sh'
thought it unfortunate that mai
should dictate to woman just wha
the sphere of woman's iufluenc
should be.
Julia Ward Howe, according to he
daugh .er, was not always a surffagist
Mrs. Hall stated that she believed i
suffrage for all women, no matte
what their race or color. But,
she made haste to qualify, i do thin
there should be an educational quail
| fcation. In Massachusetts the suffrs
gists worked for fifty-five years be
fore they succeeded in getting a LAY
making mothers equal guardians 0
their minor children with the fathers
After half a century of effort b
indirect influence only twelve out 0
forty-six states have taken simila
action.
'Since the extension of the frar
chise to women, political parties hav
learned the inadyisability of nom
mating for public Offices drunkard,
notorious libertines, gamblers, r.
tail liquor dealers and men who er
gage in similar discredited occur;
tions, because the women almost a
ways vote them down. Women
presence in politics has introduced 2
independent element which CONNIE
better nominations.
Mrs. Howe ssid what the nineteent
century has done for women !,
'fThe family is made more of a IN
than ever, but it is a unit composed ,
two equal parts which, like the eoul
sides Of an arch, stand ready to :
ceive and uphold the sacred kevstor
Of duty.
Mrs. Hall said her mother had sal
referring to suffrage for womet
that "most Of us shall not taste
death before we do see it. hurrvir
along on the borders # the promis.
land with its fair regions still u
known to u.s." And yet we see Il