Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01
MRS. ORLADY KEEPS
HER OWN COUNSEL
ON SUFFRAGE PLANS
New President Of State Associa-
ton Gracefully Declines to
Indicate Policy She
Will Pursue
DISCREET AND RETICENT
Follows Advice of Philadelphia Who
Said, Don't Talk and Fear
Nothing"
Bv M,LIsS

II was my firm intention when 7 APP
proached Mrs. George b. Orlady at the
Hotel Adclphia today to get her to talk
about i0l interesting things in which good
sunragists and good antis, too, are in
terostcd but Ct did not take me many
minutes to discover that IL there was
any interviewing to be done, the new
president Of the Pennsylvania Woman
Suffrage Association was going to be the
one to do It,
Which, Of course. leads me to the con-
clusion that the captain of the Keystone
Suffrage Ship has that qualification
which. above all others, is held to be
praiscworthy one in an executive. She
has discretion. | respect discretion, but
being a newspaper person | naturally
don't sympathi2e with it.
TO cnumeratc the number of subjects
on which this exceedingly fashionable
and charming, If somewhat reticcnt
woman was not willing to talk would
be an infinitely easier task than men
tioning those on which She was
For instance, Mrs. Orlady. who yes
terday resembled the quiet vortex around
which whirlpool Of turbulent suffrage
argument and quarrcls secthed Is not
willing to discuss any plans that she
may have for the successful conduct of
the crucial campaign that is to be CON
Quoted here in the next few years.
Nor will she tell whether her husband
Judge Orlady of Huntingdon, is n good
suffra gist, nor the names Of her three
children. nor her hobbie. nor any of the
many things that the Interested public
thinks it has the right to know since she
has become n public figure
And yet for all of her refusing, she is
q very gracious person.
PHILADELPHIAN'S ADVICE.
81 am only acting on the advice of one
OF your most astutS Philadelphia men,"
she said, twiddlinE her gold lorGnette
apologetically for the clam-like attitude
she said she found It necessary to as
sumo Some time ago. when my name
was mentioned for this presidency, he
wrote to me, and his advice was very
much like that. of the famous New York
criminal lawyer, who always told his
clients, Don't write, and fear nothing.
Well, my adviser said, Don't talk and
fear nothing
81 count that as good advice" she con-
tnucd, land | am going to abide by it.
1t is of course, quite too early to talk of
the plans of the association for the COM
ing campaign, and | am sure that having
anything about the personal side of my
life printed publicly would not be agree
able. | am so sorry that | feel this way
about it,
DAINTY, But DECIDED.
However, | am sure that the little
woman who has emerged victorious from
the stormicst convention the suffragists
have ever held, with the highest office to
her credit, will have no objections to a
brief description of her appearing in cold,
unfeeing print, particularly since it is go
ing to be n nice and truthful one.
In her smart black suit with redingote
lines and black fcather-trimmed toque,
Mrs. George Orlady is judged to he one
of the bcst-dressed women attending the
convention. In appearance she is dainty,
with clear complexion sharp features
and white hair, reminding one of a
Dresden doll. Although she has not been
as prominent in the cause as many of
the other big figures in the State Suf-
frage Association, and although her cleo
tion was successful only after a hot con-
test that almost made Mrs. Maxwell Is.
Chapman. of Scranton, the president, ii is
not at all improbable that she will prove
herself an extremely capable executive,
who will start the Pennsylvania suffrage
ball rolling once more to that victory to-
ward which the women of the State have
headed for AZ years.