The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-28
Budapest May Soon Hold Aoft Torch
 Of Equal Suffrage

Women who are leaving Arner1ca on their way to the various European congresses, which hold their keen in terest this summer, have promises that the hostesses of the Budapest suffrage meeting will prove revela- ton as opponents of the worldwide <'woman's movement The execu- tive committee of the Congress of the International Woman Suffrage All lance includes the most prominent feminists in Hungary, and is aston ishtng1y. dem ocratic- in it's association of women of all social castes, profes- sions. and political and religious faiths.
 At the head of it stands the Count ess Iska. Te1eki She is a novelist, and in her the suffragists honor one of the most devoted pioneers of the moveme lent. She concentrates her so- ciaI activity on equal rights for wo- men, and her two homes, one in Bu- dapest, the other in Tartrarfured, are propagandist centres for the aristoc- racy, both of birth and culture. Then there is Wilma G1ucklich, vice presi- dent of the committee, and one of the founders of the Woman Suffrage As sociation of Hungary. She is a teach CT of mathematics and physics, and was the first woman student of p1ilos- ophy after the University was opened to women. Social reform, through education, is her aim, and she is, eS- pecial1y, an advocate of the idea of preparing parents for their duties.
 For another vice-president of the committee, the Hungarian suffragists went again to the ranks of the nobi1- ity, choosing Countess Ilona Ha1ler. Besides being vice president of the committee, she is president of it's sup- committee on finance. Her family is an ancient one; but she is a leader of the suffrage movement and devotes herself exclusively to the work for gaining economic and political equal ity for women. Still third vice president of the executive committee is Rosika Schwinner, the acting vice president, author, and journalist, one of the first in the Hungarian women's movement, and really the leader of its political side. As a, lecturer, she has carried the feminist message all over Europe.
 Another woman journalist, Paula Pogany, is the head of the younger feminists. She serves as general sec retary of the executive committee and is secretary of the Political Commis- sion of the National Suffrage Asso- citation. Then there is Jane Dirnfe1d, the committees honorary treasurer, and Mrs. Victor MoInar de Kapos, d woman, who, as the head of a great business, plays a part in the commer- cial life of the Hungarian city. She was the first woman candidate for election to the Chamber of Commerce. and missed election by only few votes. A member of the committee who has made a. special record by her ability for organization is Adele Spa dy, recording secretary of the com mittee, while one who gives special service because of her unusual knowl- edge of the legal status of women is Mrs. Sidon1e Szegvari.
 Hilda Behr is secretary of the com mittee of interpreters, and Aranka Balint, teacher at the High School of Comm cree for Girls gives her services as president of the committee on ex- cursions. She is one of the leaders in the women-teachers' movement, which obtained women's representa- ton on the School Board of Buda pest. At the head of the propaganda conn rnittee is Mrs. Gisel1a de Bekassy, who is president of the Literary and Edu- cational Union of the County Feher.
 The executive committee has put in to effect one of the particular am bi- tions of Mrs Percy V. Pennybacker presid idenf-general of Americas great body of Club women, in linking up with the older women "the younger set,' through the apt1y named Com mission of Youth The literary and musical young daughter of Mrs. Gi- sella de Bekassy is "chief commission CT of youth.'' Her father is the Chamberlain E1emer de Bekassy.
 Mrs. Berta Enge1, president of the local group of the North-Hungaria branch of the National Suffrage Ase
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