The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-08-26
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, AUGUST g. 1915.

what effect the ballot in the hands
of women would have on this and
other laws concerning the sex. Do
you think, says Mrs. White, that IL
the women of Mississippi or Georgia
had the ballot and were wide awake
to its value, that there would be
among their statutes law making the
age of consent so UNANIMOUSLY low as
ten years, or would the women of
Kentucky stand for such at twelve
years, when with the use of the bal
lot they could readily remove from
the legislative halls the men who re-
fuse to repeal said measures, making
it 81. At present l do not think 1t
is this in more than two or perhaps
three states. Mrs. White was elected
president of the Kindergarten Asso-
citation in 1902. Much of the success
of this movement was due to her in
defatigable efforts. The said associ-
alton made it possible for colored
girls to graduate as said teachers.
The Women's improvement Club, of
which she was vice president, sup
ported the first kindergarten placed
in Negro school, the board of edu-
cation giving the room only, the club
paying $45 monthly to teacher and
furnishing all material. Thus the
club and the association combined
blaZed a way for the placing of kim
dergartens in Negro schools. Mrs.
White was presented a handsome sill
yer sugar spoon by the graduating
class of kindergarteners of 1904. She
was also presented a silver butter
dish by the Women's Improvement
Club. In 1905 she was elected vice
president of the first Play Ground
Association of Louisville, and during
the most important season she was
practically president, as Prof. Perry
was in Chicago, taking a medical
course. So interested was she in this
movement that she with Miss G. A.
Moore personally superived the play
ground. Mrs. White is a member of
the A. NJ. E. church, a charter mem
Der of the Addie Allen Chapter, Or
der of Eastern Star, and a member
of the Golden Rule Temple, S. NJ. T.
She came to this city after having
suffered nervous breakdown, due to
grief, worry and mental strain, so
following the advice of her physician
she has done work of various kinds
calculated to bring physical exhaus-
tion, keeping the mind as free as pos
sible. Even that did not bring the
much craved for sleep, but Christian
Science did. This coupled with the
fact that she felt that being in new
city, away from ali relatives, her chill
dren needed her presence at all times,
she thought it best to do anything
that would leave her at home AL
though Mrs. White gave her children
the most attentive care, she never
theless appeared from time to time
during her entire married life not
only in the churches of her home city
but in nearby states, either in recital,
lecture or speech, advocating some
cause touching on human rights. AS
result of her many sided expert
ences she hopes some time in the
near future to give the reading public
a social work, dealing with the prob
lens of today. The book will be ded-
icated to her daughter, Mrs. Sallie S.
White Harris, who died in this city
one year ago. Mrs. Harris was
graduate from the Lincoln High
School class 1912. Immediately after
her graduation she took the teachers
examination, making an average of
79, with rs in arithmetic, which was
considered remarkable for one just
out of the High School. She taught
two years, was married October, 1914,
and died September, 1915. Her death
was a sad blow to the family and also
to friends.
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