The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-16
WOMEN VOTERS
 A WONDER SHOW
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 tions of men. They ride with him
 and pass the time of day on their
 way to this or that office. Of course
 he sees women but never in such
 numbers before in the City Hall. They
 sail into the elevator-some with all
 the assurance and aplomb in the
 world, others with an air of t1mld1ty,
 but all of them armed with firm
 determination to avail themselves or
 the right which came so suddenly ar- ter seventy years of struggle.
 Many in fact the majority Of the women have never been in the City Hall before. A few of them fancled they were headed for the City Court instead of the Council Chamber. Perhaps a few of them looking ahead vision themselves as members of the Board of Aldermen, for that poss1o1!. ity is by no means as remote as II may sound. Perhaps one day Wo- man will be mayor of this city stranger things than that have hap pened.
 In the line that waits to be admit ted within the rail you see al! sorts and kinds of women. Whiteha1red women. grandmothers, young women with tiny babies in their arms, Wo- men typical of the so-called "soclety circle'' in smart street frocks, rubplng elbows with poorly dressed women oi men, clerks in banks, private secre- taries, clerks from the big dry goods stores, girls that work in the 1aclof- 1 ies. Every class is represented rom that of the woman Of leisure Who rolls up to the door in her limousine | to the poorest woman who has per- l haps walked a great distance Tn or der that she too may cast her Note- express her opinion. All these women have in common an expression that shows they feel the responsibility of this new pr1vll- ege. They do not go about tnas pro rr>nd n | light facetious way. They are serlous. They are not taking the matter as | joke by any manner Of means: w he1i 1 they are required to swear to cast their vote in the manner that Will best serve the interests Of our state ] there is no levity. Every eye is firmly 1 fixed on the administration of the l oath and there is a response. a pledge. l that is taken in full understanding Of l the solemnity and the real meaning 1 tha. lies behind it all-
 | In one group that took the oath l there was a woman dressed In the height of fashion. Close at her etpoW stood a little old woman, wrinkled and bent, one whose every ineament i showed hers to have been a life of ] hard, unremittipg toil. Next was a young woman evidently an office i worker. Standing next young moth CT who had to shift a, 1uSty youngSter from one arm to the other as she stood waiting for the required num- Der to fill up the group Next was a ]; man well along in years. He looked as if in the years of war he would have been classed as an enemy alien i There was also a young man evident fly just passed his majority, also o1 foreign birth. Both of these men act ed as if they too were fully apprecia- i tive of their privilege for their faces literally beamed.
 | Workers who have been making l these women voters have found then to be intelligent. They answer al
 questions quickly and correctly. Few
 of them there were who did no
 know in which district they belong
 ed. And despite all the fun that ha
 Il been poked over woman and her re
 1uctance to disclose her age there ha l been no trouble over this point. Tn,
 ! process of making voters has moved Hike clockwork, and what woul,
 otherwise have been a terrible tasl