The Detroit times., 1914-06-12
SUFFRAGE MAY DIS
RUPT CLUB WOMEN
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Iation. representing over 100000 club
women will be interpreted as repudia-
/ ton OF suffrage, they declare They
I fear the effect OF this negative action
on congressman and state legislators,
who may assume that clubwomen OF
( America are opposed 20 the equal
franchise because they failed TO give
! ii their endorsement They do not
want to disrupt the federation. but
they feel that the wishes OF the ma
jority should be respected.
So intense has become the suffrage
campaign that several state delega-
tions are devoting all their time 10
It, ignoring the federation program.
Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout. heading the
Illinois delegations Miss Mary Gar
rett Hay, OF New York. and Mrs. Lii
liam p Pray. OF California are lead
ing the fight for suffrage Endorsement.
The real battle probably will be
staged on Monday or Tuesday The
suffragists are counting upon a big
suffrage meeting tonight and a suf-
frage banquet tomorrow night 10 stir
up enthusiasm
At the forenoon session today Mrs
Horace Mann Towner, wife OF the
Iowa congressman, and chairman of
the legislation department. told how
women can best influence legislation.
Don't send floods OF letters and
kilograms 10 congressman asking sup
port for certain legislation, said Mrs.
Towner. That helps merely the
postoffice and telegraph companies
They have puritanical minds" was
the answer Mrs. Jean Van Vlissingen
today flung at visiting club women
who said they We're shocked at the
scanty attire of girl dancers in The
Pageant Of Apollo and Reyels OF
Daphne" put on under her direction
at the Art institution last night, for
the entertainment of delegates TO the
General Federation OF Womens clubs
DR.. Emerson, the censor Of the
Art institute, saw the dress rehearsal
and told me there was nothing i'm
girls" said Mrs Van Vlissingen
other clubwomen assured me to-
day that the pageant was a success
and the criticism entirely unfounded"
The opening scene of the pageant
was the startler A yellow-haired
Apollo, who wore a biz Of leopard
skin, in lieu OF trousers, did wild
dance with Daphne, who, IN real life
lis Miss Patsey Shelley. OF Chicago
Daphne's form was sparsely draped in
winding sheet OF gauze and she
wore no stockings Other girl dane.
ers We're covered similarly.
Il don't believe IL X at all" said
Mrs j. r. Gordon. Of Pueblo. Colo,
today "A pageant like that with
such exposures is wrong and ought
not 70 be allowed. But ! must ad-
nit that scanty as the dancers
clothes were, they were modest com.
pared TO those or some OF our own
delegates who looked on Why. | saw
one big woman there-one % our own
delegates--who looked as II she we're
only half dressed
Mrs Herman Hall OF Chicago mem
Der Of the committee that arranged
the pageant, admitted today that OBJ
/ jectlons were raised at the dress re-
I hearsal TO the fact that Miss Shelley
and other girl dancers were bare
! legged
1T was suggested that all the girls
except the younger ones wear stock.
! ings and use more drapery" said Mrs
1 Hall "but the suggestion was not car.
ried out"
A representative OF Mai Funk.
\ houser. city morals censor, saw the
pageant. but made no effort TO censor
the costumes OF the players.