New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-24
Parader's Shivery Impressions
Of Suffrage Cause on Foot
Tuneless Tramp OF Rear Rankers One OF fierolsm
Relieved Only by Tea, Soup and Com
ments of the Crowd

denly backward from Fifth Avenue al
most 20 Sixth IN a painful tumble Of
every division that left YOU wondering
whether you were dancer or dentist,
but chiefly feeling like the latter. Now
and then We caught tantaliZlng echoes
of q band a long way of. II got colder.
No one left the lines One girl with
fascinating dinner and dance appoint
ment called 10 q friend in the side lines
20 telephone for her that she wouldn't
be able 20 be there.
"Why don't you go?" / asked. ! was
imrert.ncnt. but ! wanted to know.
But J wished hadn't when ! saw he
startled expression with which she re-
garded me.
Miss the PARADE" she said. Half
am hour before ! should have suggest
ed that she was missing a red nose and
a long walk and sea of curious or
lockers. Now ! didn't say anything
OF q sudden ! had gotten the viewpoint
o. the marchers and was one of them.
We weren't doing 1t for fun. and IT
wasn't "a parade Of ourselves, but Of our
belief i'm womanhood, ID was start
ling idea 20 me. though ! was probably
the one person in the vast parade who
hadn't felt that way about il from the
beginning.
Tea was served in the trenches. That
was how Miss Edith Brownell eX-
pressed IL, as she headed her ranks
with "a sandwich I'm one hand and the
big blue Journalist" banner in the
other Women dashed for a moment
from the lines into little restaurant
near by. which sold more hot soup IN
am hour than il ordinarily would in a
A .ft oh Frtn &c lot 60
passSd from ono mouth 90 another. in
a SOY, Of a communion Of shiveriness.
The rear guard had almost decided that
. u was entirely omitted from the suf-
/ frage outlook. when the lavender Hufis
Of the dentists, 1sthetically substituted
for imitation forceps, waved forward
the mercst inch. The rear guard was
on its way
Anti Breaks Through Line.
+ when do you think you'll be home.
Grace ." a mans voice called from a
/ third story window. There was q visit
/ full suggestion Of fancied but feared
I for French frieds IN his tone.
Don't know" called back Grace.
from her place in the line. Grace
sounded hungry, too. but determined.
She meant 10 stay in that parade till
IL came 20 its destination on Fifty
ninth Street. | was beginning 20 un-
: derstend why.
IL was really march OF heroism
that of the rear guard Not one OF the
thirty bands was near enough 20 he OF
any help in keeping step. IL is hardly
inspiritiug. either, 20 feel yourself
freezing into cartoon with red nose
and ,vispv hair But the crowd AS
heroic. too. cor sidCrately and deter
minedly awaiting the passing Of the
last marcher. And police Intervention
was instant and efficient.
"Sce the little author personsl"
called some one az Twenty-third
Street. and was Immediately and Sc
verely forbidden 20 follow the editorial
precedent Of shifting al writer's. A.
Thirty-frs, Street the line was broken
for q moment by large and militant
snti-suifragist. who crossed the street
withou, regard for the rank and file.
Get out Of my way. you lunatics,"
she repeated as she wavered from
one side OF the street 70 the other.
But she also was suppressed. Il seemed
that nobody had time Just then to lis
ten 20 anti-sufragis' opinions.
Going on Forever"
There's TO end 10 thcm," heard
some on the pavement say. as they
gazed upstroct ard downstreet.
They're going on forever" And
thrilled 20 the sudden certainty that
the woman suffragists would do just
that until at the end Of the vista they