The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-24

 SUFFRAGE NEWS
GA. G. Porr1tt. )


 The Congressional Union Conven- ton which will be held in Hartford June and will be attended by a number of noteworthy people Miss Alice Paul and Miss Lsoy Burns will be preseit to speak on the past work and future plans of the Congressional Union. Most of the active suffragists of Connecticut will be present, and there will be speakers from New York and Washington as we'll as from local Hartford and New Haven wo- men The convention is being or gantzed by the Connecticut mem bers of the Advisory Council of the Con sresstonal Union-Mrs- George H Day of HartfoFd: Mrs. Edward Por- rftt, also of Hartford, and Miss Edythe VVynne Nathison, the we'll known ac- tresss who makes her summer home In Connecticut and lives in New York in the winter. Mss Mathison is the wife Of the playwright-Charles Ram Kennedy. She Is an English woman and was very successful on the stage In London, playing Portia, and Rosa lind with Sir Henry Irving. Miss Math1son takes a deep interest in the work of the Congressional Union, as she considers that It's policy promises most speedily to secure votes for wo- men. It is expected that she will be present and will speak at the Hart ford convention.
 The Hartford Equal franchise league contributed a notable float to the Fire Prevention and Clean Up Week parade in Hartford last Satur- day. It was entitled t1SpotIess Town Where women Vote" This title was set forth in large letters along the side of the float. while the horses car rfed blankets with Votes for Women in the coIors Of the league The float had on 1t little white cottage oversrown with vines. set in a gar den planted with bushes and flower ing shrubs. In this neat and four dauSh Of the president of the Connecticut Woman Sunrage asso- ciatIon and the president of the Hart ford Equal Franchise leagIe Ie-Kathe Inc Hepburn and Katherine and Fran ces Bennett. The little girls held household utensi1s--as broom and pan and duster-and the pretty picture was very well received all along the line Of the parade
 Mrs. Edward Porritt, the press sec retary Of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage association is today in Bos- ton She has gone at the urgent request of the Massachusetts Equal Suffrage association to help in the organization of a press bureau whose special object will be to reach the papers of the small towns of Massa- ehusetts. Much excellent press work has been done in Boston and in Nthe other large cities of Massachusetts by the slIffragfsts but there has been 10 system of reaching the small towns such as has been in operation In Connecticut.
 The importance or good press work l n Massachusetts this year can hard 1 f-r fs.-r si the popular vots will be taken on the suffrage amendment which has twice passed through the legislature The | newspapers all over the state recog- nize that woman suffrage is vital I question in which everybody in Mass achusetts is interested and there is 3 very general willingness to print l suffrage news if 1t is regularly sup piled in proper form. All the sum rner months are to be. devoted to the l most active campaigning that has vet | been done in any New England state, l and there will be no lack of suffrage 1 news to supply to the newspapers Mrs. Mary 8utchison Page is taking the lead in the movement for more extensive newspaper publicity.
 All through New York and Penn women are sowing suffrage gardens The suffrage, color of many 1 of the league and associations is vel l low and there has been a surprising demand for yellow posies, and yellow blossoms that will flower early and 1 keep on lowering all through the summer months. The crocuses and Ecrsythia have already begun to do their part, and nature is helping the suffragfsts with a showing of dande- ions4 primroses and buttercups The sufragists are determined that mol one shall see a yellow blossom without l being reminded of votes for women. In both New York and PennsyIvania. l here will be a popular vote on "a. l state constitutional amendment giv- ng votes to women in November. Tn he neighbordng stateTNew Jersey