New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-20
DR.. SHAW BELLE
AT OWN TEA DANCE
Suffrage Leader Fox Trots
but Doesn't Try to Emu
late Barefoot Steps.

The suffragists gave a party for DR..
Anna Howard Shaw yesterday, and she
celebrated the occasion by dancing the
fox trot and the one-step. Mrs. Her
bert Carpenter, herself a veteran in
suffrage work and with two grandchil-
dren growing up in the cause, was her
partner. Mrs. Henry Willard also
danced with Mrs. Carpenter and with
several male suffragists, and both Dr..
Shaw and Mrs. Willard appeared to en-
JOY themselves huge.
Everett Colby, of New Jersey, who
looked on, said they iivalled the girls
from the Florence Noyes School, who
did several flower dances. But there
was one stunt of the Florence Noyes
girls that they didn't attempt to emu
late. That was barefoot dance.
DR.. Shaw came back from her hard
Southern tour looking, her friends said,
better than she did when she left.
Seated at the end Of the long ballroom
in the Hotel McAlpin, where the recep-
ton was held, she talked with all her
old vIgor of the prospects Of success
in the four referendum states in which
she will set out to-day to redeem her
promise Of 100 speeches. All about
her were spring flowers with which
her cO-workers had decked the place,
and canaries in cages. The canaries
were to have been freed, to fly about
the room, but DR.. Shaw was afraid
they would injure themselves or get
lost, so they were kept in their cages
and symboized the women Of New
York in their present unfranchlsed
condition.
The tea was from 4 o'clock until
7, and most of the well known sufFra-
gists dropped in Mrs. Harriet stan
ton Batch, whose organization, the
Womens Political Union, severed its
connection with the National Woman
Suffrage Association recently, because
Of a difference Of opinion about the
suffrage amendments now before Con-
gress, came to shake hands with the
Nationals head, TO show that there was
no Ratchet between herself and DR..
Shaw. The two were photographed 10
gether.
chairman of the reception. and intro
duced the speakers when the time came
for the oratory. DR.. Shaw IN her
speech dwelt on the great growth Of
suffrage sentiment when she MAD
found in the South.
"Never have / seen such change
in any country or part OF country
as there has been in the South since
| was last there, seven years ago she
declared. 1--WE shall have 20 work hard
here in the North or one Of those
Southern states will be getting the
vote before we do. | travelled and
sroke in Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky and
other states which we have been wont
TO regard as the hardest nuts suffrage
has to crack.
"And everywhere | found the men,
the voters, the persons who count IN
our fight, coming over TO suffrage IN
marvellous way. | have any number
OF letters from Southern men telling
me that they see absolutely no argu-
ment against giving the vote 70 women.
"All the South needs is a wedge. All
over the world they are talking about
wedges now. Well, if we can win IN
one Southern state it Will prove a
wedge that will push suffrage right
through the solid South, which isn't
solid any more. however"
Dr. Shaw said she was glad to come
home, but she found it rather trying
TO encounter the "Gospel-hardened
sinners" here in the North.
"They are sinners in the South" she
said. "but they aren't Gospel hardened.
Up here everybody has heard so much
suffrage argument, and yet some peo-
pie still stand out against IT,"
DR.. Shaw asserted that the chances
were splendid" in New York. Everett
Colby. who made a brlef speech, as
enfranchise its women when the cues
ton comes TO the voters in Septem-
Der.
in a silk gown of pale lavender, with
wb;te lace. Mrs. Herbert Carpenter,
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw and other
s,,frro ~ ioolnrs acted Nower ~'rle