Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-10-17
SUFFRAGETTES
RE-RELIEVING
MUCH DISTRESS
Votes f0T Women Propaganda Has Eeea
Abandoned Completely ard tic Woman
Suffragisis Have Turned Their Energies
to Assisting the Country.
J0.c10 MOhEf-EAaHIRG WOMEN
or ENGLAND EEcO5iE DESTITUTE
War Causes Them TO Lose Their Positions
and Sunragists Set About Providing
Work-Jam Contract With War De-
partment Restrats a Big Factory.
(Associatcd Press Corrcspomdcnce.l

(ASSOcidfcd Press COrrcSpORdeHcc.l
London. September 3J.-Thc
Suflragi>t> are DOING ii't work IN rlicv
ing distress caused IN tic war.
The votes for women propaganda has
been abandoned completely for the pres
cnt and MANY of rhr organizations are
placing All ~ their r,-~our rg IN the ser
ricc ~ needy women. III Lrndon aloe
there are some .in.nnn women who were
earning their own living before the war
but who have >iurc become destitute.
MANY facing starvation.
The Active Service League ~ the Ma.
tional Union 81 Womcn'S Suffrage Sacic
ties which includes la H. ranks over c0n
societies which have been working for
suffrage ~ constitutional means. has an
organized relief bureau III it, offices III
"a shop on Parliament street. aud the
brar.'h offices throughout the country
are also filled with SufragiSiS working
for their country. Th, workers diStin
guiSh themselves IN wearing 4 uniform
consisting of \ dark prtcm coat and skirt.
green felt hats. with badges and ties of
red and green The Unions colnrS.
The assistance uf German ~ and
girls stranded ia London j. included III
til" relief program.
I'll" Union has hud many offers Of hos
pitality for stranded people. and many
private school mi>tres>cS have offered
free education for daughters of officers
Killed IN action. Several wurkrOumS
have been started where ont Of work wo-
men are paid 10 Shill.neS = week Of 10
hnnrS-the Trade Union ratc-for max
ing garments which are given Ia dcSti
tutc people.
MrnV pathetic eases have been aided
\ British girl. 4 childrcn'S nurse in Par
is. arrived there after a four wears en-
gaecmcnt ia chile she left Paris when
= siege was threatened. leaving her luz
gage behind. and before the Union found
her she had been living for three days IN
London OH bread and butter and ten.
One woman offered hospitality to a
Belgian for one month rrtain" cvrlain
ING that her small income had drnnrrri
one third ana shc did not know whether
~ the end of one month il would drrp
altogether or not. She was anxious
while She could afford ID Ia have - great
n privilege ~ that ~ giving shelter ~
a Belgian.
Another woman who was ~ a small
inn received two Belgian children. who
were taken 10 her by = >unrraei>t in \
mninrrar. : vldcnlv the children began
~ shout for iov for they recognized III
the hostess of the inn. heir mother from
whom they had been scr.ratcd during
the war.
IN Enrli>hwoman %An-inr. married ~
= German doctor has suddenly had the
whole nf her income en-; 1I ~ her hu~
hand. having "a live under the %rcStric
ti"n> for ali"nS. has lost al his prncficc
\ journalist who hnf been corning
5000 4 year AMI Nn~ diS .hlrgr.l NV his
ntnrr. enlisted. - ~ was prnnileSs. III
ne wife gets all his urt aud her War
cnice allowance IN" sill only hav. about
- 90 = week.
~ Manchester work ~ being found IN
y warehouse for 500 women and penny
dihner> ore provided. Al SOUTHAMPTON
the Art Gallery has been turned into =
w"men'S workroom. In Dublin the >uffra.
-iSiS hv getting an armv contract for v
lam Factory where \ lat VI rirl, are en-
pl"vcd saved il from closing down.