The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-25
SUFFRAGE NURSE
IDEA OVERCOME
MOTHERS OF DERBY FLOCK IN
THRONGS TO HAVE THEIR
BABIES CARED FOR, BUT
NOT TO HEAR TALKS.

Derby, Feb. 25-Three crying babies
and a dozen protesting italian moth
ers have almost severed the connec-
ton between woman in the home and
votes as the suffrage agitators OF
saannecticut see them. The state suf-
sage association is running cam
paign which struck Derby Saturday.
Yesterday the campaigners settled
their exhibits in an empty store on
Elizabeth street and openeds up for
business. Part of their business with
care of babies so the mothers could
hear the lectures and study the ques-
ton of votes for women.
The idea for this baby chech r14an
came from Miss Clara Hill, daughter
of Congressman E. J. Hill, OF NOR
walk. Miss Hill Joined the campaign
a week ago at Middletown She at
once discovered the mothers VINO
hung about the headquarters win
dows fascinated with an exhibit Wnich
shows the baby death rate IN the CIV
their babies in baby carriages or in
arms as they watched. In order to
get them inside Miss Hill undertook
worked to perfection, Miss Hill had
four or five babies every afternoon.
Perhaps the babies of Derby are I'M
the nationality of the mothers is not
the same nor their grasp of English.
The italian women who pass UP and
down Elizabeth street heard of the
dren- They liked the idea, it meant
a chance to see the moving pictures
and go to the five cent store undis-
turbed- They were not interested In
suffrage because they had never
heard of It, but the moment the suf-
fragis&s opened their doors in flock
ed the mothers with their bambinos:
In vain Miss Hill explained In
vain the babies howled. Three moth
ers deposited their babies and march
ed happily away. Others came In,
each carrying her baby and with her
mind on pleasure bent. Miss A1yse
Gregory, another of the campaigners,
who studied for opera in Italy, APP
peared just In time to rescue the un--
fortunate creche nurse. Miss Gregory
explained that the creche was for the
ged, they were delighted with the plan
and offered to pay, some had pennies
and one woman had as much as ten
cen - lev more f, eager Sie sn ta Toors
certain Miss Fill was that she would
not take care Of them. BY the time
all OF the babies were disposed of she
had made up her mind that the creche
idea was all wrong and that she
would not try the scheme again
Miss Emily Pierson, who is the or
ganizer of the state association and
the campaign manager, asked for vol
unteer nurses but not one of the cam
paign party, which numbers ten,
would offer to play nurse maid. The
suffragists spent the day addressing
audiences on the good old taxation
without representatio ton ideas. For
once the woman in the home and
mothers need of the vote kept it
self in the background.
The campaigners will stay a week
here holding meetings not only in
their Headquarters but before many
of the chur ches and clubs about town.
On Friday night at the Methodist
church they are to hold a mass meet
ing at which DR. Charles Aked of CAL
ifornia Is to be the speaker.
The campaign goes from here to
Torr1ngton and Winsted Waterbury
and Meriden. The campaigners say
they have had good luck in the north
ern part of the state.