Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-14
MRS. BOLT,SHE'S CHARMING
Coaxes Precious Cash From College
Men for Post Cards.
PUSH ON TO TRENTON TODAY
Women Are All Glad It's a Short
March or They Might Be Forced
to ''Give Up Ghost"
BY ETHEL LLOYD PATTERSON.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PRINCETON, y. j., February 14-It
was a big night i'm Princeton. Everybody
had a good time. The suffrage pilgrims
liked the students and the students liked
them. Both parties were a little noisy in
their demonstrations of mutual admira-
ton. The uffragists made speeches. The
students interrupted them with wild
whoops and yells of sympathy and also
with groans.
Mrs John Bolt made the hit OF the even
ing. She, you will remember. is the par
ticularly pretty pilgrim. She looks about
eighteen. Somewhere. it is alleged, there
is Mr.. Bolt. to whom she has been mar
red three years. How Mrs. Bolt can
walk Seriously it is astonishing The
route that all the other pilgrims took
from Mctuchen to Princeton is twenty
seven miles Mrs Bolt with a boy, who
accomr anies the party as photographer,
came to the college town by longer way.
They put on an extra flourish of four
miles just because they liked it, Ana
last night Mrs. Bolt was the only one or
the eight remaining pilgrims who did not
limp Also that very charming little lady
can sell postal cards.
Sells Her Postal Cards.
IT happened like this:
Miss Elizabeth Freeman was delivering
suffrage speech. perched on the railing
of the inn. About 800 college students
were grouped about her. Mrs. Bolt, with
excellent business judgment, decided that
here was the psychological moment TO
commence selling suffrage postal cards
She skirted the crowds. She tapped
student on the arm and offered her
wares. simultaneously she looked at him
appealingly. He gave up his nickel for
the card without a struggle
That was the first olive out of the bot
tie, as one might say. In three minutes
viving business acumen of the students
commenced to assert itself. rive cents
and exchange for 1t nothing but bit or
cardboard: that's bad" they said to each
other.
One more enterprising than the others
evolved a scheme.
She Signs the Cards, Too.
81 will give you 10 cents for a postal II
you will sign your name on it" he sug-
gested. Mrs. Bolt wavered. thought a
moment and asked for a pencil. They
kept her pretty busy for about half an
will make it 10 cents if you will write
YOUR address OH my postal" said clever
youth.
Again Mrs. Bolt paused. No one
breathed for a moment She, the much-
sought, nbbled the end of the pencil ana
card" she conceded. Then she did land
Office business. How quaint 1t will be II
Mr.. Bolt begins to receive tender plilet
doux before Mrs. Bolt has had time to
x,f hav q a
correspondence
Light March Ahead.
All, we'll, we have light march before
us today. Only eleven miles from Prince
ton to Trenton. Yesterday was terrific.
Just out of New Brunswick, where We
had luncheon. two of the marchers went
under. One was Mrs. Frank Baird and
the other was Miss Morgan, a newspaper
woman. They simply buckled. They
found they could not walk another step.
Fortunately. the casualty occurred near
a house with a telephone. A hurry call
was sent for rig.
Afterward when I saw Miss Morgan
at the inn she told me that they both had
to be lifted from the carriage to their
rooms Mrs. Baird has been made really
i'll. Probably she will have to stay in
Princeton several days before she can be
moved Then it is to be hoped she will
not try to join the walkers again.
Even Gen. Jones. who had been train
ing for the hike and who marched to
felt yesterdays march. 1t took
her one hour to make the last two miles
into Princeton. There was a grim look
about her mouth as she came into the
arc of light made by the inns lamps. At
dinner she ate very little and when she
arose to go to her room she tottered
slightly. Should she give out the army
would go to pieces at once. She is quiet,
but she is an ever present force. The
other women lean on her.
Receive Cheering News.
Perhaps more of us would have fallen
by the wayside had it not been for the
college students. Five miles out of Prince
ton one of the boys delegated a scout for
us came flying toward us on motor
cycle. He dismounted and saluted the
general He wanted TO know when we
would reach the town. Gen. Jones told
him and he departed to spread the glad
That heartened us. We knew
we were to get reception. And We put
our best foot forward from this on. Nor
were we disappointed.
Miss Elizabeth Freeman. the only one of
our party who has suffered actual impris-
onment. drove ahead of us in a little yell
low suffrage cart. It is the same cart in
which she drove through the western
states in a suffrage campaign.
A flying body of students rushed her We
hicle about six blocks out of town. They
lifted it bodily from its wheels. The as
tonished horse that drew it stopped in
his tracks and cast an apprehensive
glance back toward his driver
Leads Horse Into Town.
One of the boys asked Miss Freeman if
he might get in and ride with her She
:. i'll he could Immediately four stu-