Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-02
campaigning in Mississippi for the
federal amendment

In 1916 MISS Amldon was campaign
ing in the west with other Woman's
Party speakers. and was holding a
mass meeting in Los Angeles with
Mrs. Boissevain, when the latter col
lapsed. at the climax of her appeal.
How long must women wait for lib
erty" were her last words. At the
word liberty" she fell fainting to
the floor. There was a Mortified
silence as. the inert form Of that
lovely and gifted young crusader.
was tenderly carried from the hall.
Then. a s the audience hesitated, Miss
Amidon stepped forward, took charge
of the meeting. and finished the. ap-
peal to the voters on her own part, on
Boissevain died q month later and
Of the other unenfranchised women
of the country. Six months later she
carried in the march Of a thousand
March 4, the Second inausuration day
of President Wilson, the banner
borne by Inez Milholland in the first
woman suffrage procession in New
York city.
Husband IN Prison Camp.
The rest of that year was spent by
Mr.. Eatliff In an. Austrian prison
camp. and by his fiancee In picketing
publicity department at the Woman's
what comfort she could from the let
tiers which reached her at heart
hEeshetpsslZ in II intervals
end Of the war brought Ratliff back
to her they were married and went
south to his home in the delta coun-
try Of Mississippi. They have one
child. baby daughter.
that there began the romance that
eliminated last November in the mar
riase Of Doris Stevens and Dudley
Field Malone, a few days after the
announcement of his divorce year
before from his first wife. one of the
man of New York. They sailed short
ly before Christmas, and are still
abroad. making their home for the !
present in Paris.
Miss Stevens graduated from ODER |
lin College and the Oberlin Conserva-
tory of Music. giving up her music |
study in 1914 to join Miss PauTs fly
ing squadron in its work for the ma
tional amendment. She has spoken
and organised in thirty states, ard
fenced to the workhouse at Occoqua an,
Va, that phase OF the campaign be- !
ing graphically described in her !
book, "Jailed for Freedom" It was in !
protest against the attitude OF the !
administration at that time that Mr.. |
port of New York.
Many Times Arrested.
Hazel Hunkins of Montana, who in |
rapid succession picketed, tended |
suffrage watch fires, and was many
times arrested and imprisoned in the |
most hectic stage of the amendment !
campaign, served aftecward on the
War Labor Policies Board and then
went to London. She was followed
by Charles .;I r. Hailinan, publicity
itarism, whose wife divorced him,
within year after which he and
Miss Hunkins were married in Lon
don, whore they are still living. They
Katherine Mercy Of Boston. who
with her mother, Mrs. Agnes Morey,
and other organizers and speakers Of
the Woman's Party, has campaigned
the country and been arrested in
Washington and Boston in the course
ried about a year ago to Herbert
Nathaniel Pinkham. a former news
paper man OF Boston, now associated
with her father, Walter 8. Mercy, In
business. Mr.. Pinkham had been
fore entering for a third time upon
the great adventure" with Miss
Morey.
Married In Berlin.
Only a few weeks ago their friends
received announcements Of the marriage
in Berlin Of Miss Betty Gram of Port
land, Ore6., who took an active part In
the ratification campaign. especially in
New Jersey and Tennessee, to Raymond
Swing. correspondent Of the New York
Herald. Mr.. Swing had been divorced
from his first wife,, to whom he was
married In 1912. in Paris. shortly before
he met Miss Gram in Washington In
1919. After the suffrage amendment
was ratified Miss Gram went to Berlin
for music study, and they met again
when M. Swing was assigned to the
Berlin bureau of the Herald. Their
engagement and marriage followed. \
Elsie Hill has declared her intention
Of keeping her own name, but Mr..
Swing has taken an even more adj
vanced position by adding his wife's
name to his own. His articles since his
marriage have been signed Raymond
Gram Swing"
Rebecca Hourwich, who accompanied
Miss Maude Younger on a speaking tour
Of the southern states to tell Of the ar
rest and imprisonment Of the suffrage
pickets, and who later took part IN the
1918 campaign. is now the wife Of Fer
dinand de Reyher. novelist and short
story writer, and the mother Of Faith de
Rsyher. aged two years. Mr.. de. Rey-
hef - ut present In Berlin. and his wife,
VINO remained in New York, is dividing
and the equal rights amendment now
pending before the New York legisla-
- Iov Young of W. sN;netoy, s-,onal ~ The