Arizona republican., 1914-02-15

In the war against bill boards in Chicago a few years ago, some of the ablest arguments before the mu- women.
 We are all aware of the great re- forms in labor regulations brought about by the Consumers league and the pure food law of 1906 was en- acted a result of the combined efforts of the Consumers League and the National Federation of Woman's clubs.
 It has been said that the move ment among women during the past half century is the latest step in evolution.
 One of the most interesting ex- amples of this process of evolution is to be found in a free night school for working men and boys in New Orleans, which for twenty years has been not only managed but prlnci- pally supported by one woman.
 It may or may not be worth com ment that during the early days of
 
 more men refOrmers than women, but later on, dating perhaps from the civil war the number of reforms in stituted by women is the greater
 We have sanitary plumbing, the doing away with the distinction of sex in work. and the introduction of patriotic teaching in public schools. and the higher education of the par ents. and dress reform, and many other things of like gravity, which, like the apostle, T have not time to speak of now
 At the beginning of the nineteenth century the stage was almost the only career open to women of dis tinguished ability Even literature was practically closed. although Eng land already had a few women au- thors of note. such as Fanny Bur hey. Mrs. Radcliffe, and several oth- CTS Were about to appear-notably Mrs. Shelley, Jane Austen and Jane Taylor
 Sixty years ago Harriet Martineau, while visiting America, declared that the found here but seven occupat tions for women-today almost every oc- equation is open to woman.
 New York made history for itself during the month of January, 1906 in having formed within it's limits the first woman's bar association in the world
 In Washington, N. J.. few years ago. an English women, Mrs. Jessie Boone, wife of Rev. F. A. Boone, one Sunday. when her husband was iii thought nothing of climbing into the pulpit in his stead and saying things. She was so successful that the contributions were doubled This Is a far step from the days when women dared not speak in meeting. Twenty years ago woman well versed in parliamentary law was an 3nomably-today she is a necessity. so great has been the change Rev. Anna Howard Shaw of Phila- delphia, frequently called "the femin- inc Demosthenes." was born in Eng land, but has lived in the United States since early childhood She holds three college degrees. having been graduated from Michigan, then | from the theological department of Boston university. and afterward from its medical college She stud jed medicine in order that when she carried spiritual help to the poor and unfortunate, she would thus be able to minister intellgently to their physical necessities. She was great ly disappointed after having been granted d degree by Methodist Episcopal theological college, to be refused ordination by the general conference of that church
 Finally she was ordained by the Protestant Methodist church and had charge of one parish on Cape Cod for seven years. Meanwhile she lec- tured extensively. Those who heard her speak at the Elks' theater last year know what her work is now and the progress she has. made for woman suffragists
 1 The Berlin congress in 1904 was undoubtedly the most important gathering of women that had ever been held in the world. In 1899 | Queen Victoria received the mem Eers of the International Council of Women. The exposition there made of the organized work of women throughout the world was indeed a | revelation.
 Baroness von Suttner, president Of the Austrian Peace society. was the first woman to win or hold the Nobel peace prize. She was instru- mental in bringing about the for nation of peace societies and par liamentary groups and in securing | the peace conference at Rome She labored as a lecturer, has written ir the periodic press and has made personal appeals in the very highest quarters She has been seen at al our congresses. She was conspicu- GUS at The Hague during the cele. brated peace conference of 1899 Il What can be done to mitigate tho sufferings of war was shown by tho monumental work accomplished by the sanitary commission in the wal of the rebellion. This work is now carried on by the great internationa T organization of the Red Cross. I will be remembered that this soci | ety, having for it's watch word T Neutrality and Humanity" held it !, first convention in Geneva in 1864 l, The sign of the red cross was adopt ed. This is the emblem of the fla, of inaugurating this humane move