Evening star., 1935-03-10
WOMEN'S VOTE GROWING
ISSUE FIFTY YEARS AGO
CARPENTER Describes Work of Susan B.
Anthony in Interview With Famous
Suffragist Leader.

day you may hob-nob and chat, If you
will, with cabinet minister.
rode home from the Capitol list
night in car in which there we're a
half dozen justices of the Supreme
Court, and when of the bench you
will not find jollier set Of fellows
anywhere. They had left their gowns
in the disrobing room, and came into
the car in overcoatS and muffiers.
Stanley Matthews led the procession;
he took his seat away up near the
fare box, where during the trip he
bobbed up and down putting in fares
and getting change for the people be-
hind him.
Just opposite Matthews sat Judge
Miller, beside him the Chief Justice.
At one stop a little ruddy-faced boy
of perhaps 6 years of age got into the
car but failed to find a seat. Chief
Justice Waite took him by the hand
and said. How do you do, my little
man, let me have your fare and
will pass it up" Stanley Matthews
put the boys fare into the box while
Justice Miller took hold of his little
hand and, drawing him up between
his fat legs, gave him a seat on the
edge of the bench.
Confederate Money.
In street car the other day saw
1ne looking, gray-haired. white
Whlskered Congressman giving away
$40 bills to his fellow travellers. More
than this. I was one of the men who
received two Of them. The giver was
the Hon. Otto r. Singleton of Mis-
sissippi, and the bills bore the stamp
of the Confederate government. 1t
was stated on their face that the
Confederate government would pay
them two years after the signing of
the treaty of peace between the
United States and the Confederacv.
Mr.. Singleton had been in Congress
SIX years before the war broke out:
he had left Washington in 1861 to
take seat in the chamber of the
confederate Congress at Richmond:
after the war he was again elected 10
the House; and he is now serving his
sixth term since then. I had asked
Mr.. Singleton a question about the
Confederate Congress, and while an
sWer1ng 1t, he drew forth a great roll
OF these Confederate bills from one
OF the outside pockets of his overcoat.
Like many another noted southern
er, Mr.. Singleton had a lot of Con-
federate money when the war ended,
and a short time before the final
crash, he sold fine plantation for
$4,000 in this money. He has pre-
served these bills well and he has
them now in the same fresh $500
bills which he received away back in
1864 or '65. Mr.. Singleton is not the
only man in Washington who lost a
fortune by investing in such Con-
federate money. I doubt not but of
the score of Confederate soldiers now
in Congress, there are many who have
trunks full OF this paper which was
once worth so much and is now worth
nothing
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell has been here
during the past week talking TO the
Senate on the need of an internation-
al copyright. I watched him closely
as he spoke to the Senate committee.
He is a round well-formed man of
medium height with big head COW
cred with broWnish gray hair which
he parts in the middle and combs rs
carefully to either side as if he were
a society belle. He has a remarkably
long face. almost rectangular in
shape, the most striking feature of
which is the silky iron-gray beard of
a curious cut that covers the lower
part OF 1t. This beard is bushy and
the muStache has been so trained that
1t covers Mr.. Lowell's upper lip and
Juttlng out at each side moves on
downward 1t pushes its way down
to the beard and extends for 2 inches
below it, each end kissing. as it were,
the notch in Mr.. Lowell's coat collar.
These vhiskers of James Russell
Lowell are as wavy and curly as
though the crimping irons had been
used upon them. and Mr. Lowell is. on
the whole, a not unhandsome man.
He has a broad, high, full forehead
which rises from his eyes to his hair
in the shape of an almost perfect
half moon, and which has four lines
of wrinkles running diagonally across
1t. The eyebrows at the base of the
forehead are bushy and the twinkling
eyes which shine out of them are full
OF the fun which was given to the
world in the Biglow papers.
Mr.. Lowell was dressed in black,
and his coat seemed to fit badly. He
talked easily in a low. soft tone with
a slight English accent. gesturing a
little and urging by all means the en-
actment of an international copyright
law.
Though he does not look to be over
so, James Russell Lowell will see his
66th year on the 22d of this month.
He was born on Washington's BIRTH
day and AZ years ago was the class
poet at Harvard College. The Biglow
papers made him famous away back
in the days of President Polk, and
since then he has been one of the
literary lights of Washington. In
England, as Minister, he has been
feted and honored and he received
similar treatment when he was our
Minister to Spain.