Evening star., 1913-02-18
PLAN A BIG MEETING
Suffragists to Gather at Ii
brary Monday Evening.
HALF HOLIDAYS ANNOUNCED

Employees Of Several Offices to See
Parade-Two More Actresses
for Pageant.
Two more actresses have accepted in
vitations 10 take leading parts in the
pageant which is TO he held on the Treas
ury Department steps March 3 by the
woman suffragists. it was announced to-
day.
They are Hedwig Reicher, daughter of
the German actor, Emanuel Reicher, and
Eleanor Lawson of California, who is
well known as an actress in the east.
Nine. Nordica, it has already been an
nounced. will have the principal part, that
OF Columbia, and others who will be in
the pageant are Miss Flora Wilson,
daughter of the Secretary OF Agriculture;
Florence Fleming Noyes. classic dancer,
of New York. and pupil of hers. Miss
Mildred Anderson of New York. and
Mary Shaw, who has made reputation
as an actress of Shakespearean parts.
and, more recently, in Ibsen plays.
Big Public Meeting Planned.
lHt Equal SiuD lS
scheduled to hold big public meeting I'm
the Public Library in the interests of suf
frage and the pageant here. the meeting
10 take place next Monday evening at 8
o'clock. Mrs y. L. Allender is president
of the club. The speakers will be Mrs.
Robert NJ. La Toilette and Miss Janet
Richards. Representative Edward T.
Taylor of Colorado will preside.
Mrs. Helen Il. Gardener, chairman of
the press committee, who returned today
from New York. where she attended and
addressed the annual meeting Of the
Women's Press Club brought word that
already two special trains had been char
tered to bring suffragists from New York
TO Washington for the big demonstration
here. One will leave New York Saturday
morning. March 1, and the other Sunday
night, March ..
The women of Bible lands will be rep
resented IN the parade by a float which
is being arranged for by Mime. Lydia E.
Won Finkelstein Mountford of Jerusalem
She herself will have a place on the float.
Nine. Won Finkelstein Mountford said to-
day that the modern woman OF the Holy
Land is not far behind the thought aud
progress of the century.
Firms to Give Half Holidays.
Half holidays will be given by a num-
Der of firms and offices March 3, the day
Of the woman suffrage parade, 1t was
dHDOuHCSu COudy. Among tnOSc WHICH
will take this action are the following:
Judd & Detweiler. Sudwarth Printing
Company. National Capital Press, Ma
tionai Tribune, american Federation of
Labor. auditing office, Potomac Telephone
Company. and the government printing
Office.
Calls It "Sidestepping."
Representative Hef1in of Alabama has
refused the challenge Of woman suffra-
g1sts for joint debate on the suffrage
question. The challengers. who were
anxious to have Mr.. Hefiin back up his
criticisms OF suffrage and sufrragists. ex-
pressed at a recent meeting in Falls
Church, Va, with facts. If he could pro-
duce them. say that he has automatically
''sidestepped" their challenge.
Mr.. Hefin wrote a note last night to
his challengers. Mrs. ]. Ohio Stevenson.
Mrs. Nettie Podell Gutenberg and Mrs.
Owen Kildare, In which he said:
Il do not believe that 1t is proper for
. woman to debate in public any political
question with a member Of the opposite
sox. ! have such an exalted opinion Of
woman and such a deep-seated conviction
~ to the sphere to which God in his wis
dom intended she should conf1ne her ac-
ttv1ttes that i cannot consistently accept
your invitation to debate the question Of
woman suffrage with a woman. Some
time In the near future It is my purpose
to discuss the question of woman suf-
frage. It may be that / shall speak in
the House"
Mrs. Clark Gives Reception.
In honor of Mrs. Lafayette Ewing of
st. Louis. in charge Of the Missouri rep
resentation in the suffrage parade, Mrs.
Champ Clark gave a reception at her resi-
dence here yesterday afternoon. The
wives OF the Missouri members of Con-
gress and Miss Genevieve Clark, Miss A.
b. Pitzer and Mrs. Pitzer assisted Mrs.
Clark in receiving her guests, who were
for the most part Missourians All en-
Enthusiastically indorsed the project for
Missouri float in the parade and also ex-
pressed delight over the plan to bring
woman bands from Bowling Green, Mo-,
and the famous girl band of Marysville
the same state. There are twenty-five
members of the Marysville band. every
one suffragist, and this town already
penses of the band for the trip to WASH
ington.
The musicians will dress in blue uni
forms with broad sashes of purple green
and white ribbon, the suffrage colors.
Guests Hear Addresses.
Mrs Clark made an address on the sub
JNCl VI Wouid1 suffrage, ana preQlCteQ
women would have the vote in Missouri
by 1914
Mrs. William Kent, wife of Representa-
tive Kent OF California. brought out
many interesting facts about the sue
cessful voting of women in her home
state.
Mrs. Owen Kildare, who is in charge
OF the division of writer's and allied pro-
fessions in the pageant, told Of the sue
cess OF her division The Cameo Club
OF New York has promised a division.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Markham, Mrs
Isabel Wordon Curtis. Miss Mary John
ston, Miss Carolina Abbott Stanley, Mrs
Fanny McCue Garrett and Miss Mary
Hunter. secretary to Mrs NJ. T. Scott.
president general OF the D. A. r.. and
Mrs. Harnet Eckheart Munroe are among
the authors who have promised to march
in this section.
Miss NJ. G.. w. Mechlin. a former Wash
ingtonian. now residing In New York city
has shown her interest in the pageant
and parade to be given March 5 by dedi-
eating TO the National Wornan's Suffrage
-,seociation march-two-step, entitled
Triumph" which she recently COM
posed.
Arrangements have already been made
at national headquarters in New Yo a.
for the playing of this piece for the first
time March =. by seven or more bands
which have been engaged to take part
in the parade.
Meeting In Takoma Park.
At the Takoma Park Public Library.