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clad as a herald, in yellow, mounted.
Next came the cavalrywomen from Vir-

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| float carrying a man and woman
working in the field, the man wearing
snuff brown and the woman in golden
brown. The float was followed by con-
| tingent of women farmers, wearing brown
costumes. Mrs. Clare Taylor led the
| marching farmers. and on the float were
| Miss Mary I. Decker, jr., and Kercheval
Evans Smith.
The next float showed "the homemak-
| ers.' a man in quaker gray and a woman
| In gray with a gray cloak. and behind
them marched large contingent OF home
makers, also wearing gray. These were
lead by Mrs. William Moore. wife OF
Commodore Moore. L. S. n. and on the
Herbert w. Cornell
Another float followed showing man and
woman working side by side in war. when
called upon for patriotic service. the man
in soldiers uniform and the woman In the
garb of a nurse. On this float were Miss
May Howard and William George. This
was followed by a contingent or nurses,
wearing bluegray. led by Miss Priscilla
Page and Miss Lillian Valid. Man and
woman in education was the next float.
and they both wore cap and gown. and
the college women. led by Miss Eliza tlar-
dy Lord. walked Immediately behind it.
Then followed floats showing the prog
ress of men and women together in law.
medicine. in pharmacy and in the held OF
labor. Many prominent women lawyers.
led by Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, walk
ed behind the lawyers float. and the
woman doctors who followed the doctors
float We're no less numerous The wage
earners. of whom there was a great num-
Der, followed after the last float.
Shows Story of Labor.
An allegorical float came next, showing
the STORY Of labor with greed, Tyranny
and Indifference threatening factory wom-
en- and little children. More wage-earners
followed in lighter blue costumes.
The government float" showed man
bearing the state on his shoulder, and a
woman beside him with her hands bound
On this float were Mrs. Nora Todd Gold
stone and Hunter Moss.
| The fourth section of the procession
was made up of delegations OF women
| representing various occupations ana
| professions
A large contingent of women employed
| in the government departments and bu-
reaus in Washington, led by Miss Lily
/ Ray Glenn. made an impressive showing
! as they marched along at the head or
| this section
| The social workers led by Mrs. W. G.
| Stuart, wore costumes of dark blue; the
! teachers. led by Miss Ruth NJ Oberly'
| lighter blue; the business women, led by
! Mrs. f. 3. Newmant, another shade OIL
| blue, and the librarians, led by Miss Har-
| riet J. Hilton. dressed in very light blue
The delegatio of writer's, led by Mrs.
owen Kildare, including SolHe VI Tic
we'll known authors of this country, wore
| white costumes with black trimmings.
School Teachers in Line.
Among the women school teachers
| from Washington who marched were
Miss Ruth Abbot Cooke School; Miss
| Cornelia Allen. Cleveland School; Miss
| NJ Anderson, Langdon School: MISS
| Louise Arnold. Harrison School; Miss NJ
Bayly. Thomson School; Miss +. v
| Brown, Franklin School; Miss Emily
Carr. Dennison School, Miss Martina
Clarke, Central High School Miss AlIce
Couglen. Miss Carrie Craig, Miss De
Latre. Eastern High School: Miss Ed
wards Jefferson School, Miss Alice
Fletcher. Hubbard School. Miss Helen
| Gordon, Thomson School; Miss +. l..
inson Miss EVELYN Keith, Miss Ida
Langley, Miss c. Martin. Franklin
school: Mrs Ethel earle McBee. Miss
Ruth Oberly. Miss Emma Phillips. Miss
f. y. Schaffer. Miss o. sullivan, Miss
Watkins Berret School: Miss Emily
White and Miss Bertha Yoder, Edmonds
School.
Leads the Actresses.
| The actresses. headed by Miss Fola La
| Toilette. daughter of Senator La Fol
| lette We're in deep rose costumes. the ar
| lists in pale rose, and the musicians, IN
| deep American beauty rose. The artists
were led by Mrs. Irving Moller the must
| clans by Mrs. f. w. Ions
Between the librarians and the writers
! was a float showing what the press is
| doing to enlighten the people of the ma
! ton. On this float were Mrs. Helen III.
/ Gardener, chairman of the press COM
mittee. and Thomas Mainwaring, repre-
senting the writer and the artist as
| ,,J3 Of
| The fifth section was composed OF the
| I'M uniformed marchers, business women,
| club women and others who arrived too
| late to adopt a uniform Each of the
! women however, carried flag of her
own Hundreds of suffragists who had
failed to provide themselves with cos
| tunes marched in this section.
In this section also marched the
Friends Equal Rights Association, head
| ed 10y Mrs. Guion Miller.
| appeal of the States"
The sixth section, designated AN APP
peal of the States, was headed by
marchers from the various political par
ties, and included senators and repre-
| sentatives from equal suffrage states.
The next section was recruited from
| every state in the Union First came
a herald, mounted, followed by A
| float showing The First Bill of Rights
/ Congress. 1hefe was one girl DIS IL ledu-
| er on the float, with nine others wearing
hoop skirts and rosebud bonnets. The
banner float followed, with map,
showing nine states of light" where
suffrage has been granted-thirty-n nine
Estates of darkness
Delegations from each of the nine equal
suffrage states marched next. The dele
cations We're from Wyoming, Colorado.
| Idaho, Utah, Washington, California, -Ari-
IONA, Kansas and Oregon.
| AT the end of the section came the
| marchers of the National Mems League
| for Woman Suffrage, under the leadership
of it's president, James Lees Laidlaw of
| New York
| Leading the seventh and final section
| of the parade were delegations from those
| states where the suffrage amendment to
| the state constitution has passed both
houses of the Legislature. Each delega-
| ton was preceded by q golden chariot
The states in question We're Montana,
| Nevada, New York and South Dakota.
Gen. Jones' Band Cheered.
| Then marched Gen Rosalie Jones
and her pilgrims who tramped from
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