Evening star., 1915-06-24
BATH AND A MEAL
BEST PART OF TRIP
Suffragists, in Dusty Prairie
Schooner, Stop Here
to Freshen Up.
ENDING PILGRIMAGE TO
HOME OF MARGARET BRENT
Party Left Baltimore May % and
Visited Several Counties in State
in Interest of Cause.

the home of Margaret Brent. hailed as
the first suffragette, may be fine and get
you whole loads of the darlingest kind
OF publicity, but, really, girls, there isn't
anything, short of votes for women, that
is as refreshing as bath with real water
in real white tub. And, judging from
the way Miss Trax spoke to a reporter
for The Star who held up the prairie
other real bath the party has seen since
leaving Baltimore, May %, was the i'm
promptu bath which Miss Trax received
when she fell into the Patuxent river
while helping a mere man load a hesitant
calf upon a fiatboat
The so-called prairie schooner plowed
into Washington late yesterday, piloted
by Miss Mary O'Toole of this city, sec
retary of the College Equal Suffrage
League. They took on the pilot some
where out in Maryland and the schooner
drlfted across the shoals of Pennsylva-
MIA avenue easily until it reached the
statue of Benjamin Franklin, at 10th
street. where Miss OfToole and Miss
Trax broke into speech, to the edifica
ton of a large number of people who
were thus detained from seeing the
first parts of several good moving pic
ture shows advertised along the Ave
nue. last night. Along with Miss Trax
was Miss Marjory Matthews of Balti-
more, whose prairie Schooner clothes
were just as sweet as they could be,
the most prominent feature of her pio-
neer outfit being lovely silk dust
coat and a pair of little white shoes.
The other regular pioneer was Miss Ida
Blatt. Russian student, who speaks
English better than most people you
meet
Anchors at Burlington Stables.
The prairie schooner anchored in the
Burlington apartment stables last
night. while the pilgrims rushed to
bathtubs in the apartment. Miss Trax
confessed this morning that that was
the real purpose of coming to Wash
ington-to bathe. A trip through five
dusty Maryland counties with nothing
but the Patuxent river-well, baths
for women were. a heap more impor-
tant than votes for women Just at
that time.
This morning the schooner was re-
fitted and revictualled by a colored
person with shuff1ing feet. The men
around the stable called him Hen
and perhaps that's why they picked
looked with awe upon the paper
streamers of yellow. the "Just Govern
ment" signs and flags, and declared to
the motion picture man who was there
to get few dozen feet of films:
Desc yer women amt got no use
fer men at all: you all bettah. git outen
de way, kase dey amt got no use fer
men at ALL
But Hen" was wrong. When he had
led Susan B. Anthony and Little Miss
Muffett and the prairie schooner
around to the Vermont front of the
apartment ne found a large collection
of young and old men. photographers,
idlers and icemen. Susan B. and Little
archaeological specimens OF the horse
family attached to the pilgrimage
Those suffragettes are not taking any
chances on runaway. They may lose
Miss Muffett from old age or some
thing like that: but this pilgrimage
isn't going to be messed up with a
fractious equine. Not much,
However, "Hen'' Was Wrong.
However. Hen" was wrong about
them having no use for men, because
when Miss Trax surveyed the schooner
prov, sides and stern, she gave little
votes-for- women gasp and cried out:
"Oh, they have taken away our
cracker box. We can't get in the
wagon without our cracker box"
Whereupon eighteen men rushed to
the rescue of Miss Trax and her silk
coat. The moving picture men bribed
tat boy to rush up the alley and get
box in hurry, promising the boy to
take a moving picture of him. When
the box arrived. newspaper reporter,
hat in hand. approached Miss Trax:
"Of course, you're averse to public
itE, he said, but would you mind tell
ing us what it's all about?"
This is pilgrimage to the home of
Margaret Brent at st. Marys, Md She
lived In 1910, or thereabout and is of
hallowed memory, because she first de-
nanded voice in the government. We
travelled all through this Immediate
nelshborhood, going into the county
seats everywhere and getting the love-
liest kind of publicity. We are not
averse to publicity"
Il thought you were, judging from
the way you cover up this wagon with
a big schooner top" replied the inter
viewer.
That's to keep off the rain," she said
In low, vibrant tones.
Cover $40 Miles.
We passed through Anne Arundel
Calvert, st. Marys. Charles and Prince
Georges counties" she continued, Gov.
ering 80 miles and made speeche.
everywhere. We had letters from the
mayor of Baltimore and that helped
us in the various counties. At one
place I fell in the river. man wal
| trying to get calf on a flatboat and
| we had to help him with that | slip.
| ped In and the newspapers printed my
picture. One photographer arrived late
| and wanted me to fall In again. but
| didn't
| Why did you come here?"
| ITO get d bath and beefsteak We
are now going home to Baltimore"
| With that Miss Trax swung aboart
with the help of the soap box Mis-,
Glatt clambered up on the hubs anc
| tires, Miss OToole swung over the sid.
1 like a sailor and Miss Matthews used
camp stool and sat upon one at tn,
rear end of the wagon. Inside thu
schooner were several folding cots, {
champagne basket full of stationery
one trimmed fall hat. several packages
of suffragist literature and a bucket
Outside hung regular prairie schooner
| lanterns and the cutest little pint cal
of kerosene that could be purchased il
Baltimore.
| AS the battery of cameras lined up il
| a convenient spot one of the suffragis
leaned over and asked the reporter fol
| The Star II he. cared to ride with the
pilgrimage to the District line, as HI
could get an awfuly good story from
some of the clippings they had in the
| champagne basket.
| NO. thanks. My wife belongs to thu
| lAnti-SuffrsRe League" he replied. and
hastily grabbing his notes, he ran fol-
a street car.
Canadian Casualties at Front.
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