The sun., 1916-12-17

she was hailed as their greatest ac-
QUESTION In a long time. To the public
her connection with suffrage was a
series of dramatic appearances. but
never was there SO unselfconscious q
central figure.
When her horse in the big suffrage
parade OF 1912. or maybe 1913. became
unmanageable and she had to retreat
to a Side street. where she subdued
him and returned TO the line II wasn't
her fault that just there there was a
gap in the parade so hat on her white
steed she rode alone and got as much
applause as II she were tho whole
parade. II wasn't by any intention
of hers that when during the Taft
parade soon after she left Eassar Mrs.
Batch put her in "a window on Fifth
avenue she had rented n decorated
with votes for women banners and the
men below yelled Speech" and Mrs.
Blatch said. Give them IA speech. Inez"
it wasn't by any intention Of hers
that the parade was nearly broken up
and the police had to interfere.
She couldn't help It that she was
made 80 that men liked TO see her and
listen TO her. but she made good use
OF h opportunity for the cause. The
speech from the window was her first
New York appearance In behalf of
suffrage. by the way. rs It aleo marked
her first encounter with the police.
1t wasn't her fault that one night
when she went by invitation to a po-
litical meet. looking lovely in a pale
blue gown with a rose opera cloak
she had been to a dinner-the fourteen
men on the platform deserted the little
woman who was speaking about set.
Element work or something and went
down IN a body 10 meet this new guest
and escort her to the seat OF honor and
beg her to speak as long as she liked.
No one would have been more grieved
than Miss Milholland about the little
woman II her eclipse hadn't been hid
den by the surge OF men.
II was. by the way. unusual for Miss
Milholland to dress up. Her mother
tried vainly to get her to pay the at
tent!on TO clothes that other girls with
well to do fathers do.
Dear me, Inez. II you will 20 out to
speak at hat meeting do put on m
thing TO make yourself look nice" she
"puAu say, LII lHtZ WOulu TptOTI,
Mother. ! don't want them to look
nj me: I want them to hear what ]
say"
A woman's clothes should above all
be efficient. was the creed she ex-
pressed to mo once in an interview.
Her main interest in garments was
trying to weed out from the household
closets attire for the various human
derel!cts h always had on her list.
1t was a common thing for the family
10 come home and find q couple OF for
Torn men or a rusty woman or two
waiting In the kitchen while a search
would reveal her burrowing in some
closet, trying to select some suit that
her father wouldn't miss or a dress for
the woman.
"Now. don't interrupt; I've got such
n good chance to get Jobs for those
people II only I can At them out in
decent Clothes" she would plead.
For suffrage was only one of her
many interests. The unenfranchise.
ment OF her sex was but one Of the
many injustices against which Inez
Milholland's spirit famed before 1,
burned itself out.
That she was battling In tho service
or suffrage when she died wa the
chance OF fate. II might have been
the cause of world peace, or OF under
paid labor. or Of some prisoner un.
justly accused-she was never known
70 fail when human need or her ideals
called. She was but a year out OF
Vassar when she went down 10 dc
picket duty with the factory girls In
the great strike Of garments workers
and was arrested and hailed to Jail, &c
the horror OF her mother.
Maybe II was that she might be bet
ter able to defend tho oppressed that
she decided to be n lawyer, maybe II
was her strong conviction that every
woman ought to have n profession OF
trade. but anyhow she became a law.
yer. Every n knows how she tried
to break down the traditions of Har.
ward and induce them to admit q
woman to the law school there, and
falling, took her degrees in the Uni.
terslty OF New York law school. But
the typical thing IL the way she useG
her knowledge of the law. Ono OF he,
first cases was the successful defence
~ "A Door Chinaman accused OF PARTED.
patton In n Mott street murder.
like, too. the story of the frat in.
terview sho gave after her law ex
aminations. a girl student In the
School of Journalism called her uI
and said she had been told to set an