Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-26
MRS. RORER TELLS WHY
WOMEN SHOULD VOTE
Cooking Expert Makes Spicy Address
ON Subject of Equal
Suffrage
BOUND Up wITH STATES RIGHTS
Miss Winginger Tells How Chicago
Women Broke Over Party Lines
and Voted for Man They Believed
to BE Best Qualified.

Women came TO suffrage headquar-
tors Yesterday. They Hllcd tho rows
OF chairs set out for them More came.
and they nllrn the aislcs. then the
window lodges, and finally the hall out :
SID" OF the room. where the meeting
was being held. and they henrd what
they came to hear. That was II woman
voter and woman cOok--Miss Mar
saret Winaingcr, who recently voted
IN the Chicago elections. and Mrs.
sarah Tyson Rorer--and the topic OF
each was practically the same-the pre-
servation Of the home: the care OF
the child through the medium of the
ballot
Women have not progressed along
with the men," Mrs. Rorcr asserted.
Women try To conduct their homes
ms their srandmothers did, and do not
progress with the times II your men
ala business as their fathers did. YOU
comfortable women would all be out
scrubbing the pavemen,s
by progressing with men, do not
mean to be like men: he 'womaply
but not 'womanish.' Those ants who
stay at homo are not always attending
to their homes. Don't he misled by
IN" woman who shys she always STAYS
at home. There is more opportunity
for sin behind high walls than there
Is out in the sunlight"
URGES WOMEN TO TAKE
INTEREST IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS
She urged women to broaden out: to
read-not how to sit at home and look
pretty, but To learn something about
TN" country In which they livc-to be
Intelligent: to see that tho schools ar.
doing their full duty to their own and
10 other womcn's children: to he cordial
10 women. whether they arc I'm the
same social set" or not
They tell me-" she said. that there
ar" many social sets in this country.
| don't know. ] prefer to know In
! tcIiigent persons who know how 10
| converse. Never get into sets for
their conversation is a lost art"
Mrs. Rorer's epiErams are az sharp
as the condiments in her cooking re-
cipcs. and her address was plentifully
| bcsprinkled with them.
II can't imagine why nny one shuuld
| object to woman having the ballot
How could woman be lowered by eleval
ing herself?
Your grandmother set wonderful
I table some one told her. Yes. the
| latest In the land" She replied Her
| whole family died before ffty." She
hates fat
SAYS Virginia WOMEN ARE: bound
uP WITH STATES RIGHTS IDEAS
She told the women that business
is progressing: that men are progress
| ing. and that they cannot afford to
{ hoih OdcN ana cog the wheels oil prog
rcss. Speaking OF suffrage specifically
she said that the Virginia women were
I terribly wound up with States rights
ideas She said She was born a
southern woman, and the loyalty OF
people to their own states was all
very we'll, ana as ii should be, but
not to forget that tho United States
also needs the loyalty and interest of
it's woman citizens
Miss WinGinger as voter. went
more into the question of how the
women OF Chicago used the ballot when
they did get il. One point she made
was that women voted for the best
ana most efficient men, regardless of
party. She said that was probably
the most notable thing about the
woman's vote throughout the country.
When. for instance, the Democratic
party candidate was man not up To
the standard demanded by woman
voter. the women OF his party re-
manned away from the Democratic pri-
inarics and voted for the Republican
candidate at the general election.