The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-20


 ed hole. Two c~lored persons were hurriedly clean.Ag up, but all they had succeeded in doing was heaping the dirt in the middle. The Senator did not like 1t here. He had a sheaf Of telegrams of protest.
 'When he greeted me, he said lauHhingly, T suppose this is all may faul-,' and I answered. Why, cer- tainly, isn't 1t You can supply the one vote needed to pass the amend ment, and that's the only way the matter can ever be ended I took him about and introduced him to all the suffrage prisoners. He urged my letting him take me away at once. He said l owed 1t to the com munity and to my family and friends not to endanger my hfe. But there was nothing he could do except take me away. What use to take me away, when I would surely return, what use to open the doors to any one, unless we were assured that nc woman would ever after be forced to return the Senator, as he went away, in response his re- mark that he was glad that he had SSiiAN' DLI 9CAI that jlN CouIN uO | nothing about 1t. Don't ever forget that you can end the whole mis- erable struggle with one vote" He laughed. Then he said, you would stop burning the Presidents words | and I don't object to that at all I think 1t ts fine thing to I0. Moreover you are in for five days | and that wouldn't help the present situation" There you are Why
 can't they understand
 Jan. II - Dr. Cannon came to zee Dubrow and Emory today-took temperature and pulse. Enquired when they came and for how long. They told him why they were hun l ger striking. He was rather decent and nice. Sent liniment for back. l He is worried and watching them. | They told him they would not break 1 their strike.
 Bed bugs, cockroaches, spiders and rats worse"
 1 Such is the story that Mrs. Ben | nett jotted down while in jail. Is ! there anyone who thinks that the l ladies who are making this protest | enjoy foul air and fouler language, | that they feel happy to have cock 1 reaches dancing over the walls and 1 covers of their beds, and bed bugs
 as much more intimate companions? l Does anyone believe that the women l enjoy the nausea, the fairness, the 1 increasing weakness Of the hunger 1 strike, and the long irksome hours 1 of idleness?- But the women volun- | teer eagerly to go to Washington | for jail service. After going once, | they are ready to again, sustained l in the conviction that their mar | tyrdom will bring it's reward and
 that their suffer:ngs will bring about
 the speedy enfranchisement of all the women If the United States.
 Miss Rankin Telephones.
 Miss Rankin Representative
 Rankin of Montana) called Mrs.
 Evans on the phone. Zinkham asked i her to come downstairs to speak to her. She felt too weak and sent
 word to that effect Mrs. Evans
 would like to have Miss Rankin visit the Jail"
 The entries become shorter as the days went on and the hunger strike produced its natural effect in depriv-
 ing Mrs. Bennett of her customary
 energy The hunger strike was sus-
 tained to the end and when Mrs. l Bennett was released on Monday
 morning she was quite unfit to travel.
 She was taken to Suffrage headquar-
 ters and put to bed. By Tuesday she
 was sufficiently recovered to be taken to Dr. Donald R. Hooker and Mrs.
 Hooker to Baltimore, where she was
 carefully tended for another day be-
 fore leaving for New York. Even on
 Wednesday when she spoke at the
 Suffrage luncheon in New York, nothing but her indomitable (. ur-
 age and energy sustained her
 through the ordeal. which certa nly
 was an ordeal in view of her weak
 ness from the suffering she had gone through.
 Five Bridgeport Women
 The five Bridgeport women who
 took part in the demonstration on
 Monday, January 13, and were ar
 rested then and sentenced the follow
 ing day in the district police court
 were Mrs. Elsie Yer Vane, Mrs.
 Helen Chisaali, Mrs. c. Weaver and her daughter, Miss Eva Weaver. and 1 Miss Ruth Scott. Another woman sentenced at tlIs same time was Mrs. , Katherine Boyle of Newcastle, Del Mrs. Boyle, in her anxiety to help { the country during the war, opened her large and beautiful home to men working in the powder factory. Dur ing the influenza epidemic 27 of these men who had come down with . the disease were nursed by her when } no doctors could be obtained. The 7 speech of President Wilson's which . she burned was the address to the } British wounded, in which he said 3 T want to tell you how much hon. > or you who have been wounded ir l this fight for freedom"
 Dr. Caroline Spencer of Colorado 8 was still another of this batch of sui g fragfst prisoners. Dr. Spencer ha:
 been a pract!cing physician for many ) years and it is a great sacrifice fol 2 her to come to Washington to aid 1T s the women's protests. She burnet . the words of President Wilson wher l he toasted the King at Buckingham !: Palace and said: We have used tho = words right n7d justice and nov |, we are to prove whether or not w ? understand these words
 2 Palys L. Chevrier. now of New c York city, is a Canadian, but sh' s joined In the demonstration to show
 her sympathy for her disfranchiseC c American sisters. Her father is Sen s ator N. Chevrier Of the Dominion V parliament from Winnipeg, Man. Tn 0 Canadian women obtained their en 4. 1 fra y,fl,{ sayoopt ,uI+bn,,t tba J,,r,