The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-04-05
(ey Charles Brooks Smith,

WASHINGTON. D. c., April s.
The first step toward a nationwide
back-fire campaign to convince con-
gressmen that the congressional union
for women's suffrage is in earnest
about votes for women, through a
federal amendment to the constftu-
ton, has been made.
The suffrage leaders are the busiest
women in Washington. They are not
only directing and conducting the
campaign in the seven states, which
have announced their intention OF
allowing women to vote on state suf-
frage. but they have outlined a wide
spread campaign against the congress
MEN who opposed them in the last
session and voted against a federal
amendment to let them know where
their own people stand on the cues
ton.
Conventions are to be held In every
state in the union. opening with big
rally in Maryland in May, Delaware
and New York being next in line on
the program.
Yellow is to be the predominant
color in the flower gardens or the
national capitol this year. II you be-
lieve the suffrage workers. And not
only in the capitol, but in all the
paign states by the suffra gists. There
is 10 be continuous growth OF the
yellow blooms with one variety OF
family following another in the gar
dens of Washington's residents, and
this growth of yellow is but a part
of the suffrage campaign. The idea
was originated by the members OF
the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION, which conceived the idea
OF making their state one huge suf-
frage garden. II seemed SO good that
there Is to be an effort to have the
plan adopted in all the states where
suffrage is in its acute stage, where
the people are to be allowed to vote
on the acknowledgements OF women.
Boxes of seeds are to be distributed
for purposes of propaganda, and also
with the idea OF helping defray the
expenses OF the years campaigns.
The idea has spread like wild-hre and
many other states are planning to
use this method of showing the pas
scrsby that suffrage is a very live
issue. The flower seeds have been
selected with a view to having the
! period of bloom extend from July
through November, the intensive part
| of the campaign. Their symbolic
! value has also been taken into con-
sideration, although it is a question
whether many who admire the suf-
frage gardens will know what the
blossoms signify.
Beginning with the golden dawn
yellow poppy-like flower that blooms
from July until frost, the flowers chos.
I! en- for planting symbolize: Advance"
| (caliopsis). persistence tcalen-
dulal, conquest (antirrhinuml, vic
tory" (zinnia) and Jubilee" (chrysan-
! themum).
Quite a number of Washingtonians
and West Virginians living in the
! capitol attended the funeral of Major
Samuel Walton, which was held at
/ Charleston, W. Va, on Friday. Major
! Walton was a well-known, and widely
loved man in Washington, as he was
! in Virginia and West Virginia, where
he has had numerous large interests
! for years. He was known as one of
| the most prominent of railroad con-
| tractors through the south, and was
| identified with the building of various
| sections of the Norfolk and Western
! road, among them the tunnel at
| Coopers, and was also connected with
much of the work on the Shenandoah
valley extension, and a great deal OF
the heavy tunnel work on the Chesa'
! peake and Ohio. For many years
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| a large estate at Falls Mills, Va.
situated on the West Virginia side
of the line in Mercer county. Here
he relaxed from his various activities
in construction work, and engaged In
| the breeding of standard bred horses
! BY the horsemen of the capitol, the
horses from the Walton stables were
considered of the highest strain and
for many years he was familiar
figure at all the large turf events
Major Walton is survived by his wife
only. who was formerly Miss Mar.
garet Miller, OF Charleston.
| Easter in Washington, aside from
its religious observance, means that
the capitol is emerging from the dry
| and unattractive chrysalis OF winter.
and stealthily reaching out with buds
and tendrils, to prepare for the riot
GUS outburst of beauty, with which
the capitol annually halls the spring
season. 1t comes so suddenly here,
| that 1t almost makes one gasp with
wonder. All the circles, squares,
parks and innumerable spots which
are tended by Uncle Sans gardeners
| in Washington lie bare and unattrac-
tive for months, and then-as it seems
almost in a night the circles. which
are at the intersection of the ave
nues, and which commemorate the
heroes of the nation, Washington,
Lafayette, Thomas, Scott. Sheridan,
Farragut, Dupont, Mcpherson, and
others come out in respondent dress
of crocuses and tulips and other har-
bingers OF spring. One of the never
| failing heralds of the Easter season
is the hedge of forsythias, which sur.
mounts the terrace wall on Massa-
! chussets avenue. This was formerly
J the most exclusive and much-to-be-
desired residential section OF the city,
but with the rapid growth OF the city.
fashion has decreed that Connecticut
avenue is now the least bit more de-
| airahle for one who Wishes to enjoy