Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-01-01

confidence reposed in her by the Coun-
Gil of Defense and Red Cross in all
war activities, the leadership of which
she has undertaken. Early and late
she has organized her workers and
working with them. has accomplished
that which other women did not dare
dream could lie accomplished in the
way OF gathering in the dollars for
war work in this community.
En- PEASANT, let us not forget among
woman's activities for 1918 those
angels of mercy, many of whose
names are unknown, who gave freely
of their time and strength and at
great risk from Infection. nursed and
attended the sick in hospitals and in
homes during that fearfuls plague that
swept our fair city in September and
October. Leaving warm, comfortable
homes, forsaking beds. to watch by the
sick and relieve the tired. overworked
nurses, these women gave their best,
and perhaps saved many lives. They
were not trained nurses. but they could
fill hot water bottles. they could an
swer telephone calls, they could bring
glass of water to quench parched
threats. they could smooth feverish
brows. and they did all this and more,
night after night, in the local hospital,
watching at sick beds to relieve the
trained nurse, that she might snatch
a few hours sleep. When. the Record
ing Angel writes in the Great Book
the deeds of women for 1918, the
names of these, like that of Abou Ben
Adhem, will lead all the rest.
Civic League Plans Active Year.
The woman's Civic league, now an
old established local organization. has
been working quietly, but effectively
the past year, and while little, of late,
has been heard of it, plans for an ac-
tive campaign of work are being ar
ranged for the coming year. Its men,
bers, under their president, Mrs j. C.
Cresap. have been active in all
branches of war work
Keenly alive to every phase of war
work, in sympathy with every move
ment, has been the Mothers Circle,
Mrs T. j. Linthicum, president, dur
ing the year just closed. 1t was the
Mothers Circle that conceived the
idea of celebrating Mothers day by
holding ceremonies at the monument
in memory of French soldiers and sail
ors who gave their lives on this soil in
the Revolutionary war, just as Amer
lean boys have given theirs on French
soil in the world war, and it was the
Mothers Circle who placed a wreath
at the monuments base in honor of
the French mothers bereft of their
sons given to the cause of humanity in
the war for democracy.
What has the Mothers Circle not
done? This is difficult question to an
swer They have entered into the
spirit of every civic and religious move
ment that was for betterment and
progress. They have taken active part
in every branch of war work. Theirs
is that intending labor of love, for
Father works from sun to sun, but
Mothers work is never done"
Suffrage League Achievements
Among the active organizations of
women in Annapolis, the bracnh of
Woman's Suffrage league, must not be
forgotten. With that able, talented
and cultured leader, Mrs. A. c. Hill,
this organization has carried on its
work in dignified way that is silent
ly, yet persuasively bringing leaders
among men and women to believe that
woman has won her place in the
world as mans equal. that she de-
serves the right to be made his equal
at the polls and to have her say in the
voice of the governmental affairs, and
no longer to be classed with criminals,
the insane and the lunatics who have
not he right of franchise. To the
suffragists who have fought for their
cause so untiringly throughout the
year 1918, it may truly be said like the
army of the Lord, 1T is coming, it is
coming, not ten thousand strong but
millions strong" and it is not far dis
tant
Women Knitters Never Failed
While the number of the committees
of the Red Cross activities, is legion,
yet there is no committee that has
done greater work than the knitting
committee under the leadership of
Mrs. l.. d. Gassaway Hundreds of
sweaters, socks, muffiers, helmets have
been made and passed through the
hands of this committee. Great de-
mand has come for specified num-
Der of sweaters to be completed in
given time and women have pledged
themselves to knit SO many, never
failing in a single instance to come up
to the requirement, or fulfill their
pledge. 1t is safe to say no commune
ty the size of Annapolis has accom-
plished more in knitting for the serv-
ice men than this.
Mrs. Gassaway also heads the Board
of Managers of the Emergency hospi-
tai, which body of women has fought
many battles at great odds the past
year to keep things &c ing at the nos
pital, which, despite ,carcity OF coal.
high cost of living and its doctors
and nurses going to the war zone and
to camps and cantonments, has kept