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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1914-03-24
TOWN IMPROVEMENTS

Ill Tile hallway vi GdCn Vi JhC lOui
upper floors of the Babbitt building
nave been placed red signs, lettered
in black, pointing the way to the
nearest door to reach the fire es-
cape. On each sign is a hatchet to
be used in breaking the glass panel
of door that may be locked.
Carpenters in the employ of the
Laekawanna railroad have put up new
signs at each end of the railroad sta
ton announcing the name of the
town. New signs have also been
hung indicating the various rooms in
the station and giving directions as
to exits, etc.
The Altamont Realty company,
which purchased the Elms property
some time ago and cut a street
through the same known as Altamont
court, has signed a contract with
Louis Marinaro, of this town, ia
build sewer rough that street
connecting with the city sewer at
Elm street.
David s. Enslee has rented the stor
in his building, No. 81 Speedwell av-
enue, for "a market and is remodeling
it, lowering the floor and putting in
new front.
H. A. & G. E. Babbitt are furnish
ing up the show windows of their
store, putting in ornamental panels
of glass at the top and also panened
backs.
Mrs. Joseph Absalon is improving
the appearance of her home on Clin-
ton street by the addition of a piazza
on the front.
John T. Ritter is repairing and re-
painting his house No. 49 Western
avenue.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1914-03-24

John T. Ritter is repairing and re
painting his house No. 49 Western
avenue.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-14
Suffrage Cause Moving Slowly Onward
IN Italy Despite the church's Op-
position = Other Interesting Side
lights Of Work Are Given

nothing to do with it. The Royalist branch
coolly proceeded to arrange for it, and, as has
been related, the two Queens put their seal on
it; nevertheless there is tremendous opposition
to every step leading to the emancipation of
women in Italy, and, as it must necessarily be
headed by Catholic women, the progress cannot
be rapid. 1t will go forward, however, and
with the vast work that is being done by the
Socialists among women of the middle classes
the church will be wholly unable to stop the
movement.
Papers from the United States have lust
come with cabled reports of the attempt, led BY
Mrs. May Wright Sewall to defeat the Countess
of Aberdeen from the presidency. There is not
one word of truth in them Nominations for
all officers are made months beforehand by
official action of National Councils That OF
the United States nominated Lady Aberdeen;
there was no other candidate indorsed by any
country; the election of all officers did not re-
quire half an hour Mrs. Sewall was elected
honorary president by large vote; Madame
Jules Siegfried, wife of the former French pre-
mier; Mrs. Henry Dobson wife of former
premier in Australia, and Miss Forchhammer,
president of the Council in Denmark, were elects
ed vice-presidents; DR.. Alice Solomon, of Berlin,
was continued as secretary; Mrs. w. E. SAM
ford, of Hamilton, Canada, was elected treas
urer for the fourth time, having served already
fifteen years.
No history of the origin and first five years
of the Council had been written when Mrs. Sc
wall was requested some time ago to prepare
one. She brought it in concise form to. this
meeting and it was accepted. The remarkable
discovery was then made that from the records
in existence brief histories had lately been writ
ten in German, French and Italian, neither
writer knowing that the others were engaged in
the work, and of course as all used the only in
formation available the books are almost identi-
cal.
The announcement just received in our home
papers that the "antis" had decreed that every
woman wearing a red rose should be regarded
as opposed to suffrage has met with vigorous
protest, as this especial blossom has been a
favorite with all women ever since flowers grew
According to that said our delegates, "all
of us coming from the Queens garden-party
with our bouquets would have belonged to their
ranks" They must be made to understand that
they cannot pre-enpt this most popular Of
flowers" said Dr. Anna Shaw, "and l shall ask
every suffragist to wear red rose on all oc-
casions, especially at public meetings" "And
will send your message in my newspaper let
ters," l answered, so here it is!
The Washington herald., 1914-06-14
Church W. Suffrage.

the biennial session Of the Federation OF
Woman's Clubs. She was a delegate
from the Civic Club, of TAMPA. Fla.
which made her an honorary member
and delegate to the convention fer the
express purpose OF working for equal
suffrage.
The club women Of equal suffrage States
are lending their testimony to refute the
argument often heard that women can
accomplish more for humanity withou,
the ballot than with it. circular let
ter Of inquiry was lately sent by the
editor of the Woman's Journal to he
presidents of the State Federation of
Women's Clubs in the suffrage States
apd to the chairmen of tter legislative
committees. asking whether the ballot
caused women to lose their nonpartisan
influence, and whether they found the
ballot an advantage to them in securing
good public measures.
Answers Are Instructive.
The answers are instructive. These ex-
perienced club women are unanimous in
saying that the ballot has brought
women increased respect and added
power for good. The letter Of Mrs B. +.
Page. chairman of the Illinois Iegisla-
tive committee. is representative. She
writes:
The politicians all over, the State pcy
much more attention to what the women
want. Women are going TO be 4 great
power for nonpartisanship in all the
questions that affect the public well
fare"
The president Of Wyoming character
ICES the difference in a phrase: The
Eastern women are as a nation without
a navy; the votes to US are super-Dread-
noughts.'' MRS. r. B. MORGAN.
The Washington herald., 1914-06-14
SUFFRAGE VOTE
This SESSION.
Mrs. Antoinette Funk Conf
dent that House Will Act
Before July IS.
CAUSE GAINING POWER
Congressional Committees Organizers
Report Southern Women Are
Aroused to Action.
CAUSE GAINING POWER

Woman suffrage as well as prohibition
session.
That is the opinion not only of suffra-
gists. but Of members Of the House.
Mrs Antoinette Funk, Of the Congress
sional committee. after two days spent at
the Capitol interviewing the party lead
ers, announced yesterday that she was
assured the resolution would come to an
early vote.
"Prophesy a vote on the Bristow-Mon-
dell resolution" said Mrs. Funk. before
July Is. When the vote does come it will
give the biggest impetus to suffrage in
the history of the movement Not only
shall We thereby have a record vote of
the legislators, but the strength that the
cause has mustered will be a surprise to
the whole country.
VIII Bring Pressure to Benr.
Before that time we shall have pre-
sented to the House and Senate the Pc
titions from our May demonstrations,
all bearing resolutions adopted by organ
izations or mass meetings, which will
show Congress the strong demand for
equal suffrage that comes from all parts
of the country"
1t Is planned to present the petitions
OF the national association in connection
with the meeting Of the executive board,
which will be hel1 in Washington the
last Of this month.
Every day letters are received at Con-
gressional committee headquarters tell
ing of progress in organization and
propaganda. Up to the present time
there has not been a general demand
among the women of the South for suf-
frage. but the situation Is rapidly chang
ing. Much of the momentum Is due to
the effective work done by the organ
izers sent out by the committee.
Miss Lavinia Engle, of this city. who
is working under the direction Of Mrs.
Medill Mccormick. is now in Jackson
willie, Fla, editing a special woman suf-
frage edition of the State, a magazine
devoted to welfare topics.
Enth usiasm In Georgia.
Great enthusiasm is shown in Georgia,
which was recently visited by Mrs.
Funk. Mrs. Francis Smith whiteside, a
sister of Senator Hoke Smith, is presi-
dent of the Georgia Woman Suffrage So
ciety, which has just obtained State
charter and is going to become a State
with the National Woman Suffrage As
sociation. In Augusta, Ca. Mrs. Min.
ME Battle Allen Is organizing a new So
ciety, and is rapidly obtaining signatures
Of prominent business men. She writes
that in a few hours she had secured 500.
Mrs. Wesley Martin Stoner, also of
WASHINGTON, who has been doIur field
work for the congressional committee,
has been in Chicago this week attending
The Washington herald., 1914-06-14

were scratched and torn, SO that the
blood run down upon their chairs. and
were finally overpowered and dragged
out into the street.
This was the beginning of the ques-
tioning which has become such an inter-
ruption to meetings held by members
Of the cabinet, that 1t is now almost i'm
possible for any of them to speak in
public. Why should not this question
be answered which they ask at the pub
lie meetings? They call out from boats
on the river to members taking tea with
their friends on the embankment; shout
at them from megaphones and balloons;
and chain themselves to the Grille" that
they may have the opportunity to ask
1t from their vantage ground of the
ladies' gallery" "Why do you not give
the vote to womenT
The arrest of these young women when
they held an INDICATION meeting outside
was the first of the thousands Of arrests
which have been made Of women for ask
ing this question. and it occurred on the
fortieth anniversary Of the formation Of
the first woman suffrage society in Eng
land. Is II strange that women UNDER
took by militant methods to make their
question one of practical politics, when
they had failed to gain consideration by
forty years Of quiet educational work9
The Washington herald., 1914-06-14

ing defeat of a woman suffrage resolu-
ton.
quarters that suffrage activities ere
permitted at Noel. Friendship, and
Neighborhood House Settlements. A pro-
test was forwarded.
A st. Paul CNinn.) association opposed
to woman suffrage has been organized.
The association will unite with the Min
neapolis association.
Mrs. Mahon, In charge at headquarters.
is swamped with orders for Representa-
tive Hefiin's speech of May % last. which
appeared in the Congressionat Record.
and gives facts and figures showing the
fallacies Of woman suffrage.
The greatest increase in membership in
the anti-sufrage movement in Connecti-
cut during the last few months. accord
ing TO letters received at locG head
quarters. has been among the self-sup-
porting women, who declare they are
tired of being exploited by the sufrragisls
to advertise the suffrage cause.
The defeat of the woman suffrage
question in debate at Harvard. Yale,
Princeton, Pennsylvania, and George
town and other universities has given
deep satisfaction to the anti-suffragists
who contend that government by man IN,
the United States Is not a failure. and
that the woman's vote would not prove a
gain. but a distinct loss
The Washington herald., 1914-06-14
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The Washington herald., 1914-06-14

ancient Roman bath have been uncovered, and
the old wall of Rome forms one boundary, be-
ginning at the gate where the victorious army
entered the city. Here in this HISTORIC spot on
that sunshiny afternoon in May sat one large
group of women from all parts of the world dis
cussing the best method of obtaining the suf-
frage. Near by was another planning to besiege
their governments in the interest of peace and
arbitration. Still another was working for an
equal moral standard. A fourth was considering
the most effective means for educating the
masses, and fifth for securing the entrance
of women into all professions and trades!
At the entrance to the big hall where tea
was served were splendid new portraits of King
George and Queen Mary, not yet hung, and one
thought came into the minds of everybody. 1t
was recalled that for several days after our
council opened the delegates when going about
were followed by gaping crowds, and it was
learned the report had been published that the
"suffragettes" had come to Rome This incident
brought out the interesting information that
when mid-quinnial, or executive meeting, was
to be held in Stockholm few years ago the
women there were unable to arrange for it until
official assurance had been received by the au-
thorities that it was entirely disconnected with
the militant suffrage movement.
This suggests that the sequel must be told
of the refusal of the Italian Council to allow
suffrage or peace public meetings to be held
in connection with the Council. They had to
yield in regard to the suffrage, giving Rev.
Anna Shaw few minutes at the close OF pro-
gram of FIVE speakers. Luckily two of them
failed to come, so she got full half hour and
made every minute count Her speech was so
enthusiastically received that the somewhat EN-
byronic suffrage society here in Rome was en-
boldened to get up an Independent meeting in
a big hall The movement was headed by
Teresa Labriola, professor of law in the Uni
versity of Rome, but not allowed to practice her
profession. The most distinguished suffrage
leaders of the Council from half-a-dozen diff
ferent countries volunteered to speak; hall
seating about 1000 was secured and it was
crowded, one fourth of the afternoon audience
being men, There was the greatest enthusiasm
and as result the next day prominent men,
Der of the Parliament announced that bill for
woman suffrage would be Immediately presented
and committee formed to promote it. Steps
also were taken at once to organize a Mems
League for Woman Suffrage.
Church ". Suffrage.
Later | was told that Countess Spalletti
president of the Italian Council, had spoken for
woman suffrage in her opening address but
when l asked her she said: No. l did not but
| believe in it all of us are in favor of it, but
we have to work slowly. So they DO, and much
allowance must be made Two years ago, when
it was decided to bring the Qunquennial here
the Pope directed the Catholic women to have
The Washington herald., 1914-06-14
HOW SUFFRAGISTS
BECAME "ETTES"
English Women Developed
Into Militants When Forty
Years Silence Failed.
FROM PLEAS TO BLOWS
Since a Working Girl Demanded Fatal
Question of Parliament, Roting
and Arrests Followed.
By CLARA BEwICK COLBY.

In 1892 Sir Albert K. Rollit obtained a
place on the parliamentary calendar for
a bill to extend the parliamentary fran
chise to women who were already quail
fed as voters in local elections. AT TINS
time Mr.. Gladstone, although he had for
merly said "Mer have often been the
most unfaithful guardians Of women's
rights to social and moral equality,
took the lead against the bill. Mr.. Bryce
followed with the argument that II once
the principles of woman suffrage were
admitted there would be no stopping
until all men and all women had been
enfranchised. On the motion for second
reading 152 voted for the bill; 17s against
it. Thus it was defeated by the opposi-
ton of the Liberal leaders
Immediately following this action an
appeal to Parliament was signed by 257.-
7s6 women. asking for the ballot
Second Time Defeated.
In 1897 a bill was carried through its
second reading by a vote Of 2S to l51,
and a day was set for its discussion.
This was afterward taken up by matters
relating to the jubilee celebration, and
the bill was set for July Z. Before that
time arrived the government gave notice
that this would be the last day for the
consideration of private members bills.
Everybody had his own pet measure to
save, and when II came the turn Of the
measure Just preceding the woman suf-
frage bill. ii was talked out by the op-
position. the speaker refusing the closure
to be voted. Here was the second time
at which the measure was defeated by
the government.
The political work of women was con-
tinued and in 1900 274 members pledged to
woman suffrage were returned. In 1904
Sir Charles MacLaren's resolution for
woman suffrage carried by a majority
of ia In 1905 Keir Hardie had charge
Of the womens enfranchisement bill. but
was not successful in his balloting for
a place for it. However. a place was
secured for 1t as second order. This
made II easily possible to talk IT out.
which was again done. Wearied with so
many Intellectual attempts to bring the
matter to vote, and with all the vain
efforts Of the rank and file of members
pledged to the question and redeeming
their pledges as far as permitted by the
government. the Woman's Social and
Political Union had warned Mr. Bal
four that IL he did not give opportunity
for their bill to come up they would
work actively against the government
at the next general election.
This answers the question most fire.
quently asked by the man In the street;
why the women oppose the Liberal gov.
ernment, and did not oppose the Con-
servative. The psychological moment
had not arrived. The women had not
The Washington herald., 1914-06-14

practice OF the ancient Egyptians in re-
spect to the position OF woman are re-
markably advanced and RATIONAL COM
pairing very favorably with those of tie
great nations Of classical antiquity.
Woman was to the Egyptian not the
slave Of man or the minister of his
pleasures: she was his companion, his
fellow-worker on very equal terms, often
his adviser. not infrequently his ruler.
Reverence for womanheod.
There existed in the Egyptian mind
a sentiment that could almost be called
reverence for womanhood. particularly in
respect Of its great function OF mother
hood-a sentiment which is much more
akin to our modern Western view than
anything else that we meet with among
ancient peoples. The mother was re-
spected for her supreme share in the
life and upbringing of her children, and
for all the self-sacrifice which Is essen
TALLY involved in true motherhood. and
from the very earliest days the child was
carefully indoctrinated with the duty of
reverencing and loving the mother who
bore and nourished him.
$50 strong was this sentiment that on
the tombs of the old kingdom the moth
er of the deceased is as a rule repre-
sented together with his wife, while
the father rarely appears. In noble Egyp-
tian families the general. though not in
variable, custom was that the heis Of
the house was not the eldest son. but
the son of the eldest daughter. Under
the middle kingdom this rule prevailed
to such an extent that the inheritance
passed from one family to another
through heiresses. He who married an
heiress gained for his son the Inherit
ance of his father-in-law.
Had Their Harems.
Men Of the upper classes had their
harems. Pharaoh himself appears in
all ages to have been the possessor Of a
large harem. Under the empire the
harem was supervised by an elderly
matron, and was administered by high
oficials-'the governor of the royal
harem.' the scribe of the royal harem,'
the delegate for the harem-while Q
number OF slaves watched over the
ladies and guarded them from the outside
world.
The scale to which such an estab-
lishment could attain ID illustrated by
the case Of Amenhotep III. When the
King Of Mitanni sent him his daughter,
Gilukhipa, in marriage. the young lady
was accompanied by q train of 81
maidens. who were no doubt added to
the royal harem."
The Washington herald., 1914-06-14

two black ostrich tips Her short dress was OF
black satin, with surplice front filled in with fine
lace and cuffs of lace; around her throat were
two strings of large pearls and her earrings
were pearl solitaires. 1t was her wrap, however,
which called forth exclanlations of praise, long
circular mantle of black net embroidered in sill
yer falling over border of pale gray panne
velvet about eight inches wide, narrowing up the
front and into a ruff at the back of the neck.
Her hands were bare, and she held closed
parasol with mother-of-pearl and turquoise
handle, and her costume was finished by dainty
patent leather colonial shoes without steel cut
buckles.
Therel Every suffragist present will testify
that this is correct description and that Mar
gherita is the sweetest, most gracious, and Iowa
bic woman it has ever been her happiness to
meet. After she had shaken hands and smiled
at everybody procession of half dozen stall
wart feetmen in rich livery of black and silver
appeared bearing shallow baskets filled with bou
quets of three or four large red roses, which the
Queen took up one by one and presented to all
the guests, who came in groups to receive them.
Then she sat down under the trees and con-
versed in an animated manner with Lady Aber
deem and the wife of Ambassador Page until
exactly O'Clock, when, accompanied by her gen.
tlemen and ladies-in-waiting, who had been
mingling with the visitors, she walked through
the garden bowing gracefully to the right and
left and entered the palace. As we passed down
the broad steps leading to the street, to our sur
prise she appeared at a window and bowed and
smiled again Words are quite inefficient to de-
scribe the simplicity, delicacy, and charm of
what was the most enjoyable social affair in the
long history of the council. The preceding aft
ernoon Queen Marhegrita had entertained at tea
its official members, about forty, in the same
gracious and wonlanly manner.
Enter Eleanora Duse.
In recalling these eventful weeks another
face fingers in memory-that of Eleanora Duse.
1t was the evening of the banquet given to the
international by the Council of Italy at one of
the largest hotels when, after it was over and
all were assembled for the music and speeches,
Duse entered with grace that belongs to her
alone, and remained to the end, smiling and con-
the situation was met in an interesting way. All
of the standing committees were to convene in
the hotel here for the last time on certain aft
ernoon, but they were invited to meet instead in
the garden of the embassy at 8 O'Clock, after
graduating the speakers and singers. She
seemed not the Duse one sees on the stage, but
another whose large dark eyes, hair, more than
sprinkled with snow, and face touched with
melancholy suggested the real tragedy of wom-
an and not the simulated one of an actress. "She
is older than thought" l whispered to an
Italian woman whose knowledge of English is
limited. "Oh, she loves SO very strong on the
stage" was the answer, "that it makes her look