The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-28

The congresswoman gave a slight
shrug of her shoulders.
There you go-asking my opinion
on a big question. I have this to say
of the cigaret habit. such as was the
comment when the woman kissed her
COW: Every one to his own taste
But don't misunderstood. 1 am so
strongly in favor of the American Le-
gion and everything it does that 1 can
not take a stand against any move
they make.
II saw women, many of them,
smoking in a cafe in New York. 1t
is suggested that men lay aside their
cigars in places where women are
present. If women smoke in mems
presence, why should men be asked to
abstain from tobacco when women
are present? ?"
Miss Robertson's affection for the
:; the affection of the boys" for her,
according to reports. The Muskogee
boys had always known Miss Alice"
as they called her. had patronized her
cafeteria in Muskogee, had known her
as postmistress in the Roosevelt ad-
ministration in their home town, but
when she became chairman of the Red
Cross canteen committee of Muskogee
and baked thousands of pies for them
and their comrades in wartime, her
position in their regard was impregna-
| BILE. It was literally thousands of pies,
toned over the report of her canteen
work.
A Unique Advertising Campaign.
| No candidate ever had such cam
paign advertising as did Miss Robert
4 son. She was owner Of the Sawokia
cafeteria in Muskogee and in daily ad-
lvertisements in the MuSkogee Phoenis
and Times-Democrat, both Democratic
papers, Miss Robertson combined her
political and cafeteria propaganda. NO
lcampaign issues were ever discussed
in the advertisements. One of the ad-
Iveftisements concluded with this sem
itence. I'VE are glad that people like
our brand of food whether they vote
for me or not"
| I've always done a mans work, y
Miss Robertson said, in a tone of apol-
fogy, rather than of boasting.
| when my father died and I had to
help mother keep that little missionary
cabin of ours warm, / didn't think it
fright that women should have to go
iout in blizzard and carry water and
wood. But we woman can do What
we must do. That's the way l feel
JUS Snow.
Shc Fought Suffrage.
i IL fought suffrage. 1 still do not
believe that it should have been given
L do not think it was meant to be.
Il do not like the ranting methods wo-
men workers used for the cause. dc
think, tho. that if all suffragists had
4 been like Susan b. Anthony, the
cause would have been won more cas-
lily. She was a quiet, -rantine
4 soul, whose heart was in the work, ou1
who was never obnoxious about it.
4 Miss Robertson was born in Okla
homa. Her father was the Rev. w
is. Robertson, missionary to the Greek
Il Indians, and her mother was the
daughter of a missionary to another
tribe. Her grandfather had been 6
missionary to the Indians in Georgia
and had been imprisoned for foul
years in that state for being a mis-
sionary. He came in prairie
schooner" to Arkansas and then hi:
son carried on his fathers worl
, among the Indians in Oklahoma. Mis-:
Robertson taught school in crude lit
tie Indian villages, and went thru in
describable hardships to further hel
) work.
81 have swan Oklahoma streams il
winter with the cold water up around
my ears. 1 have crouched in a ha,
. stack in an Oklahoma blizzard will
, ertson said.
Supervised the Schools.
} The advancement of the Indians il
that district came largely thru thu
efforts of Miss Robertson. In 190'
: she was made United States SchOo
supervisor for Creek schools, aftel
having had charge of all types of In
dian schools from the little huts il
: the woods to the Henry Kendall col
lege for Indian girls of the five tribes
where she taught several subjects
Miss Robertson has been a vice-presi
: dent of the National Education asso
| citation.
Miss Robertson would not announc
her topic for the address tl.is eve
ming before the Political Science club
, She never makes a set speech, sh
said, and whatever she said tonigh
would be of extemporaneous nature
The only public appearance of Mis-
e Robertson in Topeka will be at tn
e banquet tonight at the Chamber O
Commerce at $50 o'clock.
Ninc Cent Milk for ST. Louis. 4.