The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-06
"Tve Married More Men Than Any Other Woman In
 The Country, and Yet I'm Spinster" Says Dr. Shaqp
By DOLLY MpLE

Dr. Shaw isn't so terribly down on men.
 She does maintain that suffrage is a fight; but she doesn't set out ito tear mere man. into shreds and ribbons on account of it.
 One even suspects that Dr. Shaw al lows that there is some vestige and trace of humanness in man.
 In other words, she isn't half so intent upon tearing down man she is on set ting up woman, and she doesn't call our President a tyrant. though she does ob- viously consider some of our law makers hopelessly and exasperatingly stupid
 She isn't half as much against the men who won't let us vote as she is against the women who don't join in convincing them that we ought to have the right to do it.
 In short, pr. Anna Howard Shaw the eminent president of the National Equal Suffrage association, has the saving grace in all of her intensified efforts to pro- mote the cause of women-a sense of hu- nor.
 She is leader, but she is also an ex- ample.
 Although 1 have never heard her on the platform, I feel sure that Dr. Shaw couldn't be more vividly plausible. more delightfully."- interesting and more logical and convincing than in a mere drawing room chat which was 6 pleasure which she accorded me when she spent a few hours in Birmingham the past week, on her Way to Tuscaloosa, where she was the principal speaker before the Alabama Equal Suffrage association in session there
 It is quite as possible to be interested in pr. Shaw, not as a suffrage leader, but as a type of woman
 Her speeches may be read in nearly any or all of the papers in the country, show ing her splendid reasoning and intelli- genee, but aside from that how many ly too, the exponent of a most wonderful compelling phaze of womanhood-one that is an honor to nation and a country?
 Without yielding one feminine charm or womanly quality, but retaining sym pathy and adding humor. Dr. Shaw has but her woman's brain through it's paces, and stands today the exact equiveant sex feminine, of the equally sincere and brany human being, sex masculine.
 Women have little compensation in life Dr. Shaw said as we sat in the torey Of the Tutwiler and chatted for few moments before it was time for her 10 leave the city, ito offset the suffering and sorrow they endure. Most of the suffering in the world is done by women. Women have borne the brunt of the suffering of ages Sometimes 1 think 1t is stupidity again l thing it is the inev- itable; but anyway, if women had the courage to lead their own lives as each sees fit and has the right to do, there would surely be greater happiness in this world of ours.
 Then the patient Griselda' type has no charms for you?" l suggested
 Patient Grselda was a fool and also immoral she smiled back instantly.
 Any woman who goes around as she did allowing herself to be treated as she was treated is undoubtedly simple mind ed. II is certainly immoral to overdevelop selfishness in another person, and con duct of that self-effacing kind leaves no doubt in my mind of it's wrong"
 After this arraisnment of the lovely, TO- mantle Griselda, l concluded that it was not inapropos to ask pr. Shaw about the statement which has been accredited to her concerning the omission of the word