The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-26
DIR. MARY WALKER, TREASURED SUFFRAGISE
 IS EIGHTY-ONE TO-DAY.

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 l pr. Mary Walker, famed all over the world because of her adoption of masculine attire and her prominence as a suffragist and physician, will pass her eighty-frst milestone to-day. It was nearly half a century ago that Dr. Walker startled the world, and be- came an object of rid1cu1e, by donning a Prince Albert coat, trousers, silk hat and the remainder of the habiliments of a modestly dressed man. The roars 1 of laughter and cries of scorn that 1 greeted this innovation have long since died out, and many people, look ing at-and through-the diaphanous feminine costumes now fashionable. are asking themselves, 'FWel1, why not ?" Although an ardent suffrag1st, pr. Walker has long insisted that cumbersome and unhygienic clothing, even more than lack of the ballot, has been responsible for the subjection of the fair sex. For many years hers has been voice crying out in a will derness of dry goods and lingerie, but at last, she declares, women are be- ginning to listen to the demand for sartoria1 freedom and emancipation from the cunbertng skirt.
 Dr. Walker has many claims to fame other than her garb. She was the first woman in the worlds history to become a surgeon in, time of war. Throughout the conflict between the North and South, she was a veritable angel of mercy to the sick and wound ed soldiers of both the Union and the |Confederacy. and saved hundreds Of lives. Those stricken men did not laugh when pr. Mary Walker, armed with medicines and surgical instru- ments, appeared at their sides and, calmly and with skill, bound up their wounds and assuaged their gnawing pains. Once she was made a prison CT. but was tmm ediateIy exchanged for a male surgeon of her rank. the Con federate captors sending up rousing cheer to speed her on her work of mercy. After the war the fearless woman was awarded a medal of hon. or. richly deserved. She was the first woman to attempt to cast ballot in the United States, and from her youth has been a suffragist
 pr. Mary Walker was born in Os- wego, N. F.. Nov. 2e, 1882. and, after years spent in great cities and in tray cling about the world, she was retired to farm near her native town to spend her declining, days. She. grad uated from Syracuse Medical College in 1855, and practiced medicine for some years in columbus5 O., and Rome, N r. She has lectured on
  we'll as all over her native country. Last month several young ruf1ans vis- fled Dr. Walkers home at night, with the evident intention of tarring and feathering the aged woman. but she escaped that crowning indignity.
 Queen Maud of Norway, sister of King George V. of Great Britain. will celebrate her forty-fourth birthday to- day She was the third daughter of King Edward VII. and Queen Alex andra, and married Prince Charles the second son of King Frederick VIII. of Denmark, in 1sse. He was elected 1 to the throne of 4Norway, as Haakon l VII, in 1905. two years after the birth of their son and heir. Crown Prince | Olaf. Within the last few years the anti-nonarchy movement has made great headway in Norway, and in con sequence Queen Maud's position is not a happy one, since she is in constant fear that her son may be assassinated. l On several occasions it has been re- ported that Queen Maud has said that she would welcome the overthrow of the monarchy, since she could then return to England and live in peace. : M - -7--