The sun., 1916-08-27
1ERE ARE EXHIBITS TO PROVE THAT MOTHERS WANT TT

HEN Al
Just a Few Of the Photo.
graphs the Suffs Have
Collected Of Delegates
toTheir NationalC Con.
vention at Atlantic
City Next Week
~HE infantile paralysis epidemic.
which has interfered with 40
/ many things. 10 going to cut
down representation Mt tho Mothers
Congress. which begins in Atlantic
CITY September 6. Anxious mothers
are afraid to leave their babies lest the
deadly germ set in It's work in their
absence. and even the Importance Of
Tho matters to be considered at the
congress Is not enough to make them
desert home for the duties Of a dele
uts there. However. It u going to be
a big affair all the same. The num-
Der Of women panic or necessity IL
keeping away 10 not large compared
with the number who are able to ar.
range their domestic matters 30 they
can b absent for the I'VE days the
dsfberations are 70 last. Thus the
first wednesday in September will see
more than one thousand earnest dele.
rates tesieglns the gay city BY the
90.
what's that? You haven't heard OF
any Mothers Congress scheduled for
that date? Oh, we'll. maybe 1t isn't
called q Mothers Congress officially.
TO b exact, the National Woman Suf-
frass Association. under whose aus
picss L u held. refers to It a. the regu-
lar annual convention Of that body.
pushed two months ahead Of their ira
ditionai meeting time. in order that the
honorary president. DR.. Anna Howard
shaw, and the president, Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait. and their coworkers
may decide what part TO take in the
political campaign that will shortly
hays.the United States In the throes
Of the hysteria which attacks the coun-
try every four years.
But 30 to the national suffrage
headquarters at III Madison avenue
and cast an eye on the sheaves and
shsaves Of photographs Of delegates
which IN industrious press agent has
prepared for the newspapers and you
viii understand why II seems natural,
almost inevitable. to call this thing a
Mothers Congress. There's hardly a
suhrs s!st in the bunch who hasn't got
we'll perhaps. not nine small chill
dfea and one In the arms. like the
wife Of the Puritan pioneer. John r e
ere. for even among those child loving
women. the s~uffragists. such large
families are not the custom; but
there's scarcely one Of those delegates
whose picture doesn't show q dirhpled
baby In her arms and any number Of
children. UP to six. grouped around her.
What? No. ~ astute press agent
did not influence those delegates to
borrow those children for the purpose
Of confuting the we'll known anti-suf-
frass argument that votes for women
II persisted In will break up the home
snd In time make this a childiess land.
They are their own honest to good
children, and the specimens on
,As page we're selected at random.
A list Of the mothers who will take
PAT in the proceedings at Atlantic
City would require several columns at
least. But to mention just . few. there
are Mrs. Norman De r. Whitehouse.
chairman Of the New York State
Woman Suffrage party. with her little
daughter Alice: Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid.
treasurer Of the same body. who has
two babies; Mrs. II. Edward Dreier.
Brooklyn head Of the party. whose
young family numbers four: Mrs.
Frank A. Vanderbilt. wife Of the presi-
dent Of the National City Bank. who
has a baby. and-how many other chill
dren has she? Well. there are cer-
tainly not less than four hearty boys
and girls rqmpins around the summc.
home Of thu Vanderlips at Scarboro.
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw. that
wheelhorse Of the legislative work Of
the State sufYs. has one child. Louise.
but there are always two places laid at
breakfast besides those Of the adults in
the l.aidlaw home. The extra n Is
for John. Louise's cherished dol. who
has joints to his legs and looks 80 like