Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-14
Highways and By-Ways
of Liz OF New York
lconxrght 1922. by Ledger CompsRxl
Copyright, 1922. by the Pubic Ledger C
BY RAYMOND CARROLL

NEW YORK, Mach 14.-There are a
score or more women in New York
City who are desperately seeking at
tention by marrying men, and then re-
fusing to be addressed by their mar
ried names. When signing hotel regis
ters they use their maiden names and
then hunt up the hotel publicity agents to
arrange for the spreading of the details
of their emancipation. Occasionally they
get two stick mention in some news
paper with hungry columns, for remem
Der the old saying: "a blind pig will get
a chestnut now and then"
This fOster-child of the women's suf-
frage movement has even attained the
dignity Of an association. 1t is called
the Lucy Stone League. The other eve
ming the "leaguers" banqueted at New
York Hotel, an affair at which female
unknowns" and others arose from their
seats after noting that reporters were
present and chirped of the advantage
to be gained by the scheme Of putting
husbands in their places husbands who
support them, but whose names and more
often than seldom whose children they
refuse to bear.
The majority Of these se-your-maiden-
AhAiiAS IL ASANS pOHc dS lllEIdIy pEESOIAEGs.
although a search of the shelves Of the
public libraries or the pages of the cur
rent newspapers fails Of reward in find
ing their producth. few are actresses
or mediocre ability, and some are "whis-
pered geniuses" at musical composition.
As for the men to whom they are married
and who sun in the reflected glamour of
it all, they are chiefly average workers
trying hard to arrive at the dizzy heights
even with their ball and chain handi-
caps.
To load all this upon poor Lucy Stone
who died twenty nine years ago respected
as a leading nti-slavery and woman's
rights leader, is one Of the sorrows OF
the metropolis. It is true that Lucy did
enter into compact with her husband,
DR.. Henry b. Blackwell, himself prom
inent aboliuonist Of pre- Civil War days
that she retain her maiden, name, but
that name at the time, was well estab-
liShed in the public mind. Miss Stone
was 81 when she married DR.. Blackwell
in 1885 and he was six years her junior
However, Lucy Stone had two sisters
in-laws whose life work more than
made up for what DR.. Blackwell lost
through marital submersion. Eliza beth
and Mary Blackwell were prominent New
AbIh pUySlClduS OF QdiL q century ago.
Elizabeth was. graduated from the medi-
cal college at Eeneva, n. Y, In 1910, and
was the first woman In the United States
to receive a physicians degree and prac-
tice medicine. She also studied medicine
in Philadelphia, Paris and London. Mary
Blackwell was graduated from the medi-
cal department Of the Western Reserve
University In 1854. The two Blackwell
women founded the New York inhrmary
for women and children and the woman's
medical college, they died In the SAINT
year, 1870
A hotel register IS not going TO put
brains where they are not Really
famous women get on without this sort
Of silly publicity. Marion Harland has
always been proud to be known in her
private life as the wife OF the Rev.
Edward Payson Terhune. and Their son
Albert Payson Terhune, IS almost as
noted a writer as his gifted mother In
Buffalo Anna Katherine Green. is every
where known as Mrs Charles Rohlfs. and
Amelie Rives would not give up her title
Of Princess Troubetskoi gained through
her last marriage for anything in the
world
Then we have the woh1en whose fame
has pierced the name levels OF many
marriages-Lillian Russell. Nora Bayes,