New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-24
BY BLANCHE BRACE.


Probably the other 1899 yellow
faggers who marched in the parade
Yesterday afternoon moved only from
Washington Square TO Fifty-nlntn
Street. But covered more ground
than that. Straight from conservative
nesr-neutrality to ardent belief m
votes for women / marched, astounded-
reluctant. then convinced.
II had been the most ardent anti
in all Manhattan. I think that shollo
have done no less. Ii wasn't voluntary
At all In fact. / was holding myself
back with both hands and digging my
heels into the ashphalt, SO to SPEAK.
Yet slowly. unavoidably, ] arrived at a
sense Of vastness and the Triumphant
inevitableness Of the thing for when
we were marching.
And IL wasn't the glad blare Of thirty
bands, IL wasn't the pRans Of victory,
Il wasn't the miles and miles o. gold
and white ribbon, 1t wasn't the acres
Of chrysanthemums that transformed
me from a derelict forced into service
70 a front rank soldier needless OF
bullets. IL wasn't Father kmckerhock-
er In mis- dignity, or the proud convic-
ton of the white and gold Victory flag
II wasn't even the world OF interested
faces along Fifth Avenue. though they
stood for public opinion and public
hope. II wasn't the impressive assem-
blage on the reviewing stand, though
the knowledge that many Of the chief
thinkers in New York believe IN woman
suffrage did 80 long way toward re.
s,arehing our spinal columns anC
straightening our lines and producing
the hallucination that We could hear
the distant band
4 Three-Ilour Wait.
It's easy. OF course, 20 tell you wha
IL wasn't Perhaps the difficulty vii
be in making you understand what j
wss-a big. simple, Unspectacula'
thing that you might not notice unless
you marched behind the Victory flag
and felt II. too.
Quietly and coyly and with reluctan
feet | slid was abOunt 10 say slunl
into the suffrage ranks in Eleventh
Street had never marched in
parade In my life. and | had a feelini
that In a line Of only 10000 or so
was going 20 feel unduly conspicuous
The idea Of leaving footprints upoi
the Fifth Avenue sands lett me un
touched by enthusiasm. ! was Their
for the divine reason that my cit
editor had told me 90 be there. and 70
10 other one.
Whoever IL was that said that "al
you have 20 do 10 march is 10 lift on
foot after another" was doubles
moved by friendly desire 20 comfor
persmbulRting pedestrians. But Their
Is nothing more absolutely certain tina
that he had never taken part in sui
frsre parade. He forgot the Difficult
intervals between lifting one foot an
the other
II was 2 o'clock when hurried {
Eleventh Street, passing the line
where Marjorie Benton Cook WAS mar
shalling her authors, and somewha
obviously falling into line behind th
Journalist" banner. beng all unaecus
toned 20 the dignity Of the title. 70
more than three hours we stood wait
ing our place IN the parade. as thou
sands and thousands Of women wer'
waiting on other streets. There ha.
10 be a rear guard OF a procession. o.
course, OF there wouldn't be any van
But il wasn't spectacular. There Is
nothing spectacular about standing or
first one foot and then the other. IN or.
der 10 prevent some person who hasn't
half as much right ae yourself from
standing uvol ''r~' 'F'-
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