New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-23
Has No Right to Keep
Maiden Name, Says Ma
tional Secretary.
DECLARES PROPHECIES
HAVE BEEN FULFILLED
Mrs Funk Criticises ''the Fathers
and the Constitution
They Drafted.


,,..,iro,on. March - Miss Fola la
,,ouo,.o srNraeist. wife Of George N''-
5,o,o, and daughter Of Senator la Fol
,o,,. ie made tho target for ant-sul-
e.,,-,,. criticism because Of her IDEAS re-
.t,c IN rodcrn social conventions ny
Miss Minnie Bronson, secretary 81 Wy,
~stionsl Association Opposed 10 No''H ,'I
Suffrage ir statement made p"o"0
here TODAY c..,..~e
81, wight bc necessary fCr inc iHl''e
,,i.sr, tollcttcs 10 carry their n'rr''Ee
80. wifi, Thorn when travelling WIN
.,ot- husbands" says Miss Bronson OF
toos the feminist 60 so far as TO o'-
,,opnce DIR present standards In TINS mat
ter also .
"ee-ha1s the most amusing feature OF
.t.s tuaddlo." Miss Bronson continues
.4f 3, can ne called amusing, is tie PEE"
~ Miss la Toilette airs Gcors" M'd-
,uetor,-tho parenthcscs arc minc-ior the
tight Of woman 10 retain her maiden
mo after marrtace and 20 he called
Miss instead of Mrs. because II was
no business Of the world Whe'her 81
woman IS married or nov.
Nov Miss la Toilette. although q
married woman. prefers her father
name TO her husbands 8: but what rlshl
ba- She TO call La Toilette her maiden
name is her maiden name her father
name. or Is il Smith. or Jones or BROWN
or whatever name her mother bore be-
fore she was married? And even them
was that not her mothers fathers name
Y would seem. therefore. that Miss La
Toilette instead OF retaining her Identity
nc she claims she does las become in
extricablv mixed as 20 name. and the
ionIy solution for such tansIe II Wohe"
generally adopt the plan would be 10 80
back TO first principles and call all women
Ewes and all men Adams.
"Anti-suffracist have FOR wears been
derided for their exaggerated fears OF
what sort OF q world this so-called woman
movement would lead 10 Well. how DO
they stand as prophets now" All that
they predicted as the result Of this move
nent has been advocated 10y suftragists-
feminists I'm New York this winter Tile
auti-suffragist talked Of the new woman
and was laughed al Now the younger
suffragist laughs at the mental frumpish-
ness ana lle NONuN ~ tJ'N'iNN' VI '''N
older suffraglsts
The fathers" and the Constitution were
the target for the criticism OF Mrs. An
toinctte Funk, on the Congressional COM
rnittee OF the National Suffrage Associa-
ton. in a statement also issued tonight.
Il am not saying that the fathers ala
not try to do the best they could, said
Mrs. Funk They were working with
the know ledge Of the time but their great
error was in assuming that the conditions
would not change; that progress never
would be made; that generations Of tie
future would not need different constitu-
tons. They should have made their con-
situations. national and state, more easy
30 amend.
We who want woman suffrage know
an about the constitutional difficulties
which stand in our way. We have found
them IN every state IN the linton, these
man-made legal barriers which deny one
half OF the citizenship the right TO par
ticipate in the government, which is FOR
All the people II criticism Of the wisdom
Of the men who erected these barriers TO
the rights OF women constitutes 'trea-
SON then ! viii continue to he traitor
for some time 20 come"