The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-21
P0POlABI1IO
Washington
NOT WANING.
"Hatctets' and lnnun,eralle
Other Souvenirs on Sale
In National Capital.

WARRINGTON, Feb. 2p.-The popu-
larity Of the tather OF his country evil
IDENTITY has not waned In all the years
since the good man passed away at
Mount Vernon, his charming country
home on the Potomac Judging from
the innumerable souvenirs in the
Washington shops. There are not
only the popular .fhatchets' with their
handles filed with candy for the little
folks but there are plates ana pieces
of china OF all kinds ON which are
splendid views Of the patriot and his
good wife. as well as exquisite little
miniature repiicas OF Mount Vernon,
which are not only patriotic but ar.
tistic.
The truly magnificent George WASH
ington memorial, which it Is propos-
ed to erect in Washington, accordins
to the design OF Tracy and Swart-
won't, the architects, IS a building Of
great size and beauty. The facade has
most impressive classical portico.
upheld by sixteen stupendous Corin-
THAN columns, and on completion II
is believed the building viii rank With
the Lincoln memorial, the beautiful
Grecian temple now being erected iri
Potomac park. as the two handsome
est public testimonials in America.
1t is most fitting that these splendid
structures to the two great patriots
should be in Washington. the capital
OF all the people Of the United States.
Natal Day Celebrated.
Last Tuesday evening about thirty
snftragist SITS, admirers Of Susan B. An
thony, attended an enjoyable banquet
given at the Hotel Brighton In honor
OF their leader, whose life long eff
forts for the .amelioration Of the
wrongs suffered by women are sbeconi-
ing more fully appreciated each year,
as her inrunterable followers begin
TO reap the ibounteo,is harvest she so
patiently sewed through long years
of persecution, ridicule and oppro-
brium,
n Or. Ellen Spencer .AIussey, dean lot
the Washington School of Law, Mrs
Carrie B. Kent and Miss Virginia
Watrous' all responded to the toast
Susan 3. Anthony,n in happy ven.
Miss Jeanette Rankin, the Charming
little dark eyed spresidentnwh led. the
campaign for suffrage in Montana;
made an enjoyable address to the
toast, DR. Anna Howard Shaw" in
which she told some amusing anec-
dotes of hersrecent experiences viii
DIR. Shaw An their whirl wind cam
paign in Montana.
81 New Feminine Activities.
Women are constantly being heard
from in new occupations. Reports
made public by an automobile school
IN New York City disclose the fact
that during the month of January.
more than one-fifth of the pupils en-
gagged In studying the intricate mech
antsm of an automobile and becom-
ing expert chauffeurs, were women.
The New York Herald publishes a
picture showing eight women taking
practical lessons from male in
structor in the running mechanism
Many OF these fair students are veal
thy women OF the metropolis, who own
their own cars and desire practic-
al knowledge of how to run them
while others admittedly are women
who have become interested in self
ing cars for the different manufac-
Isturers on a commissions pleasant
business and one with excellent prof
| its.
Reasons Why Women Work.
A bright newspaper woman has
compiled ten reasons why women
work, which is or particular interest
just now when New York City Is in
the throes Of the great discussion of
the acknowledgements OF women In the
empire state. The suffrage question
from being scoffed at and made the
butt OF every paragrapher, is now
looked upon as being the supreme is
sue in both New York state and city
in this years campaign. Both branch,
es oftthe state slegislatu5e having TAX
en- favorable action, the woman sufi-
rage amendment Z to, the constitution
of New York is now squarely before
the voters of the state. Already the
great metropolitan dailies are filled
with sreasons for or. against granting
women their rights as citizens, The
opponents of women who object to
their being taken from the voteless
category Of Criminals, lunatics, al
lens and women are coming forward
once more with the moss grown old
| contentious, now supremely absurd
when none Of the lawful. calamities''
they progiiosticate have occurred in
the states where women already act
ually vote. II rs B J, &.
t.. 1T lis well. to remember, when the
ainiable, well fed, we'll sdressed ladies
of leisure, who have SO muh time to
protect woman in the. llo1. s'-:wom-
en-. who. like Mrs. Afthur, Dodge, state
calmly that sex iss a distinction, im-
posed by nature which precludes men
and women from doing similar work
equally well"- that 1T ii. not difficult
now 10 prove to Mrs Dodge, and other.
apllable ladies twho know and care
nothing for the wage earner's "strug-
gle for existence'D 4 that women .'nn-
SEEKING themselves" by deserving their
homes to compete with men In mas
culine semployments, Is. not lnatter
of choice, but of stern necessity. OF
the women who work, II has been
found that more than IS per cent are
forced 10 leave home by being COM
PEELED to support themselves and 9th
lic1s. Every woman who does not need
to earn a .liveli hood, has a RESPONSE
hility to every one. OF her sisters who
4 has to work. That Responsibility is
certainly nothing less than to look
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