The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-31
CONNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS
(By A. 6. Porz.itt.3

Connecticut Sufxrag1ats are taxing great interest in the deputation of President Wilson next Monday. The Connecticut contingent will number at least twenty and possibly twenty-two
 or twenty-three. Three women are
 going from each of the three largest cities or the State--Hartford. New Haven and Bridgeport. Danbury is sending two. and onA representative
 fs going from Waterbury, Mertden,
 Wiliimantic. Putnam. Norwich, New London. Norwalka Derby, Naugatuck. and probably also from Westport and stpatford, The working women will be accompanied az far as New York by
 Miss Emily Pierson and there they will join the New York contingent
 which will be escorted by Mrs. Mary Beard of New York and New Milford. HContingents are expected from all the eastern State. and at their interview they expect to impress the President with the need of woman suffrage for the protection of the women workers.
 Miss Emily Pierson had g busy week for the last week in January. On Monday. after some strenuous houra in Hartford. working over the new doll exhibits which are now nearly ready for use. Miss Fierson went to
 Meriden to address the Meriden Po- liticaI Equality Club. Tuesday found her at Waterbury. where she address ed first a meeting of the ward work ers-the women who are undertak- ing the regular canvass of the voters of Waterbury and then a general Waterbury Equal Franchise League. The Bridgeport Equal Franchise Lea gue had an address from her on We'd nesday on Working Women and the clever anti-sufGrage speech at the Town Circusa bit Of revelry which
 was arranged by the townspeople of Cromwell. The gathering together and starting on their journey of the working women's deputation occupied a considerable part of- the renaiHdar of her time, and this evening she Is attending the suffrage ball at the z1st Regiment Armory in New York
 Since Mrs Hincks resigned her po- sition as President of the Connecti- has been hard at work stirring LID the people of Bridgeport to greater activ- ity in the cause of Woman Suffrage. The League there has opened new Headquarters in the New Poli Build ing, and nanhers oef the Bridgeport Equal Franchise League keep office hours there daily from Il a. m.. to D. m. and from 3 D. m. to 4 p. m. It is also announced that headquarters will soon be open in the evenings also. These headquarters will also soon probably be shared by the Fairfield and Stratford Leagues. The next big meeting in Bridgeport under the auspices of the Bridgeport Equal Franchise League will be addressed by pr. Josephine Baker, the mead of the work for school hygiene in New York City. Dr. Florence Sherman Of Bridgeport who has done excellent work in introducing school hygiene in the Bridgeport public schools is an intimate friend of Dr. Baker, and it is through the kind offices of pr. Sherman that Dr. Baker has been in duced to visit Bridgeport.
 More important than the meeting of Dr. Baker will be the big public meeting in Lyric Theatre, Bridgeport, of Feb. 18th. This meeting will be addressed by Rabbi stephen Wise Of New York. Dr. Wise has spoken on behalf of woman suffrage several times in Connecticut. He is most excellent speaker and he has the cause so much at heart that he refuses to accept any honorarium for his ser vices when he addresses suffrage meetings
 Tn Hartford on February 10, Sena- tor Helen Ring Robinson Of Denver, Colorado is to speak at a meeting held | under the auspices of the Hartford l Equal Franchise League. The meet ing will be held in the large rooms at | Suffrage Headquarters, 55-57 Pratt | Street Hartford, and like most suf- frage meetings will be open freely to | the public. Another meeting plan ned for next week is a Susan B. An thony meeting to be held at the home | of Mrs Frank Hitchcock. Canaan.
 The South Manchester Equal Fran chise League is giving signs of wig l h Mrs. Frank Dexter Cheney. President | of the League is opening her home | for a meeting to be addressed by Miss | Helen Todd, of the International | Child Welfare League Miss Todd | was an active worker in the campaign | Of the California women preliminary | to their enfranchisement, and is an and able speaker.
 Adam had much to be thankful for l He never was obliged to smoke a box of cigars bought by his loving Eve as | a Christmas gift