New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-07

Uay /, Mrs. Norman der. Whitehouse.
the Young leader of the New York State
suffrage forces. Mrs. Whitehouse was
social favorite only few years ago.
Then she marched in a suffrage parade
and went home flaming 70 do something
for the great cause which the thou-
sands Of women had represented that
afternoon. At first she did dlstrict
work, and was so successful tnat IN
1915 she was made chairman OF the
state party. Mrs. Whitehouse has the
Empire state at her finger tips, and
whether you're country woman doing
rural suffrage work upstate, OR whether
you're making street speeches IN Koch
ester and Buffalo, Mrs. Whltehouse is
Your directing genius in the last an
alysis.
II you're suffrage organizer, how
ever. It's Mrs. Raymond Brown with
whom YOU come in direct contact. AND
il ANYBODY really wants 10 know what
Mrs. Brown is like. there's the printed
word Of her husband. Ray Brown, the
illustrator for reference. Mr. Brown
got tired Of being asked how 1t feels
10 be the husband OF q Sutfragette,' so
ne lust sat down and wrote DOCK
about it in which he says;
personally. ! believe that lady
with a well worn latchEey. who has
healthy interests outside her home, is
better company than one whose view
~ III. 10 circur scribed by the four
wills that the landlord refused TO pa
ner last spring. Ard that pretty
clothes as an accidental habit are
cheerier 70 live with than swell raj
rent as an engrossing topic OF con-
yersation and a financial holocaust at
the end Of the month.
Brown Praises the Boss
"Nv own pet boss doesn't know how
10 play bridge. When a friend urges
her to learn, She always says sho hasn't
time. Mind you, she has time 10 study
the economies Of Australia and the pol!-
tics OF China; she understands the
workings of the Gutenberg liquor law,
and she has gone pretty thoroughly IN
10 street cleaning problems with one OF
the engineers OF the department. she
also has time 20 go on long, lazy nsh-
ing trips with me, when we rustic our
own grub and forget what day OF the
week il is. And she drives a car a LOT
better than the lad who draws pay for
the job.
"The fact that she goes out OF an
occasional evening and makes SIM
ple. logical li.tle talk 20 collection
OF hard headed. often hard-handed.
men does not break up our home life.
/ sometimes go out of an evening my
self. but I don't always have as much
TO show for it on my return as she
does"
And so goes the rolcall. Mrs.
John Blair. publicity chairman Of the
state organization. the blithest young
woman you'd want TO meet; Ars.
Charles Noel Edge, corresponding sec
rotary. with her delicious sense Of
humor that doesn't even stop when she
finds herself in a predicament; Mrs.
Laidlaw, with her faithful suffrage
husband, and her untiring energy; Mrs.
John Humphrey Watkins, chairman Of
the Borough of Manhattan, and all the
scores Of others who work day and
night, cheerfully, enthusiastically, and
very, very hard. That's the KIND OF
women they are.
Il know said DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw once when a stranger expressed
his surprise at finding her ouch hu-
man sort of person, 81 know, We suf-
fragists are all supposed TO have
horns and cloven hoofs, but you'd find,
sir, IL you stayed around US much, that
we're just folks, after ALL