Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-25
SUFFRAGE BIG BAZAAR
FIRST CAMPAIGN MOVE

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V. Etrum, of Chicago, will speak in the
auditorium of the club. While in this
city Mrs. Roesslng will be the guest of
Miss Ida Stokes Adams, 1921 Green
street.
All the energy and all the ingenuity Of
the entire association have been COM
pressed into one concentrated effort to
fire this first gun of the campaign for
"Votes for Pennsylvania women" with
such telling effect that all the rest will
be easy. The friendly rivalry shown by
the nine associations in decorating their
booths only has added to the successful
ensemble.
SAY, Ann, how does this little vanity
bag look hanging up here?' Mrs, Edward
Troth, chairman of the booth devoted to
domestic articles, put the question to
youthful enthusiast helping her and both
surveyed the effect with critical eye.
At the next table Miss NJ. N. Stewart,
in a fowery garden apron and picture
sunshade hat, was busily engaged ar
ranging little suffrage flower pots and
baskets in artistic positions, while the
cheerful sound of Mrs. Howard Rattay
beating mayonnaise with vigorous suf-
frage blows in a salad bowl made the
welKln Win sOuuu CHdIdCleIlHeu
to force the masculine visitor to sit down
and wait while for the dinner gong
On the south side of the hall a bevy
of pretty college girls, with Miss Ruth
Reeder, in charge, put out candies and
confections to tempt the unwary, and in
a nearby corner DR.. Heistand Moore sat
in her Garden of Eden, more willy than
the serpent of old in Turing visitors to eat
of the luscious apples she had to sell.
said Eve TO Adam, as she came through the
gate:
said Adam 70 Eve. as her, hat he espied
MY dear Other Half, It's al on one side"
My side doesn't count for haven't the vote"
Clever little yellow and white signs
everywhere fiaunt their blithe messages.
Women always have had such winning
ways" says one, they can't be beaten
now" And another at the farm and gar
den booth:
"Plant a garden with woman's Votes
and watch 1t grow'
If all the little packages of variegated
seeds Of strictly yellow flowers that were
purchased this morning are planted and
blossom forth this spring, Pennsylvania
is going to be the most suffrage" of all
the campaign States this year Every
loyal advocate of votes for women" not
only has pledged her own garden to the
cause, but also has agreed to influence
chosen that 1t will be possible to have a
succession of yellow bloom from early
spring until late fall, when the suffragists
hope to lead their cause to victory.
This afternoon, Mrs. George Foulke,
State agriculturlst, will give free advice
on all farm and dairy subjects and will
outline the best methods of making the
Keystone State bloom for suffrage this
year.
Tonight Mrs. Roessing will accept the
suffrage poster done in oil by a cele-
brated local artist. Copies of the poster
will be struck off by the thousands for
use Siroughout the State in the cam
paigTi#
Fifty thousand dolIars is needed to OBJ
tain $4,000 offered by an anonymous
donor and the bazaar Is expected to pro-
duce the major part of this sum. For
months suffragists have been begging and |
borrowing and practically everything up |
for sale was given by persons interested |
In the cause.