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LOVERS AND CHIVALRY

Men and Women Passing in Procession Furnish Fun and Food for Reflection, and Give Courage for Establishing Innovation In All Towns and Cities.

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When Mrs. Pankhurst was in America she said that at the time English women began to sell their newspaper, “Votes for Women," on the streets of London, some of their menfolk went and stood with them to make it easier. I remember that at the time I was very jealous of those menfolk. Since then I have been so busy that I forgot all about it.

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Now I think I can point to an equal chivalry on the part of American men. For did net a descendant of one of America's sreatest patriots stand on the street corner all one Saturday afternoon recently to “make it easier" for a young woman to sell Journals on the street for the first time? And did not two other stalwart young men sell The Journal “upstairs and down-stairs" in one of the largest auditoriums recently? And does not one of our high school boys pine for a newsy's license to sell Journals on the streets every week? (He lives in one city and wants to sell in another, and the law forbids.) Then, too, we have a letter from a ten-year-old boy who insists on selling Journals all day Saturdays in a country town. Another boy writes for informaticn about selling, and we have a faithful newsy of fourteen who sports a newsboy's license proudly and sells Journals on Saturdays for the sake of the cause. We are duly appreciative of all this chivalry.

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Perhaps the next best thing to selling papers yourself for the Cause is to buy papers to encourage the newsy. Certainly no one sgets a heartier blessing (though silent) than the man who is lavish with his money in buying Woman's Journals when you are selling on the streets and your toes are tingling with the cold. There is nothing like the sale of a five-cent

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LEGISLATIVE HEARING HELD IN VIRGINIA

impressive Scene, Record-Breaking Attendance and Many Able Speak-

The hearing granted to the Virginia suffragists before the Committee on Privileges and Elections made a deep impression. The Harrisonburg (Va.) News says:

“For the first time since John Smith and his band set foot on the soil of the new world, there to found a great Commonwealth, the women of Virginia came officially to the Capitol of the State, asking for political privileges and responsibilities. In the most conservative of all the States, with its heritage from an ancient civilization of enduring institutions, was re-echoed the Henry cry for political freedom.

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“Whether the listener were for or against woman suffrage, he could not fail to be impressed with the solemnity of the moment, nor could he help but appreciate the possible importance with which the movement is fraught. The scoffer may not have remained to pray, but he left with no sneer on his face.

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A Day That Made History

“The seriousness of the occasion, the feeling that here might be an hour to make history for the Commonwealth and to mark the beginning of an era, was in the air. It was in the voice of Chairman Martin Wil liams, as he called the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the House of Delegates to order; it was in the tone of Hill Montague, the patron of the joint resolution proposing the amendments to the Constitution.

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“The meeting may have changed no votes in the committee or in the General Assembly—probably did not. The joint resolution may not be approved —probably will not. But everyone who spoke iterated and reiterated the cry that he or she had enlisted. not for the first skirmish nor for the battle mor for the campaign, but for the war, and that, if denied at this time, they will knock again and again and again at the doors of the General Assembly until they get what they seek.

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THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 3, 1912

paper to warm your chilling blood, unless it's getting a ten-cent piece for the same and being told to “keep the change for the Cause." Our first customer last Saturday was a boy of kindergarten size. As he trudged off with his mother, holdins his new purchase fondly under his arm, I began to think of Mrs. Pankhurst and the dawn of the new chivalry which Votes for Women is heralding. Before the afternoon was over I had another example of the nmew chivalry. It was negative to be sure, but no less significant.

A young man and woman were passing a newsy. He spied the yellow Votes for Women bag, and, grabbing her arm, said half in earnest and half in jest, “Let's get out of here; there's one of those Suffragettes!" sShe wrenched her arm away from him, looked at him in indignation, looked at the newsy, and back at him. He locked at the newsy, grinned sheepishly, and they went on; but she did not allow him to take her arm again! What the sequel was can only be guessed, but I think he was her lover, and that Votes for Women has a vital meaning for her. I have no doubt but that he has a better and more serious understanding of the movement after that small episode than he ever had before. At least, he has learned that he cannot scoff at it and keep her respect. The quicker the young men of the country learn this from the young women of the country, the better off they and the country will be. As I saw that young couple go down the street 1 thought that doubtless it would not be hard for her to sell papers for the Cause. I had a hope that he was worthy enough of her some day to stand with her “to make it easier" the first day she sold. AGNES E. RYAN.

who have nothing else to do, pleaded for the ballot. Men who believe their cause is just stood with them. Miss Mary Johnston and Mrs. Kate Lansley Bosher added their voices. Ministers of the gospel and representatives of laboring organizations helped.

A Grandmother Speaks “If a mere male of the species should dare to draw a distinction in such a gathering, he might award the palm to Mrs. John H. Lewis, of Lynchburs. Boasting of ten grandchildren to whose future she is devoted, broad with the tolerance of years and the knowledge of human nature, her appeal was at once touching and effective. She reminded the men of the women who have made their sacrifices for them all, and, besides the sentiment, made a logical argument for legislation to suit the unfolding meeds of the people of Virginia, the investment of political liberty.

Biggest Crowd of the Session “The committee heard all the arguments with patience, as did the immense crowd, probably the largest which ever gathered in the hall of the House of Delegates. Spaces in rear of seats, aisles, galleries, were packed, and hundreds failed to gain the desired admission. Many stood throughout."

The women urged the committee to report either for or against them, so that the question might come before the House, and not to smother the suffrage bill in committee. The committee has reported adversely, with two or three dissenting votes.

JOINT GUARDIANS HIP

Mrs. McCulloch Gives List of State

Editor Woman's Journal: It is to be hoped that you have an office devil on whom cne can put all blame. In my item in The Woman's Journal of Jan. 20, I wanted to add Oregon and Washington to the list of joint guardianship States, and so stated in the first paragraph. But in the last sentence, by some mistake Washington was spelled thus—"Mississippi"—not recognized by any spelling authority as the proper way to spell Washington. Let me here give again the complete list of joint guardianship States Colorado, Connecticut, District of

tucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washinston. No mention is made here of Idaho and Utah, though their guardianship laws are excellent, but not joint. Catharine Waugh McCullech. Jan. 23, 1912. RHODE ISLAND WOMEN HEAR DR. THOMAS

hree Hundred College Women Listen to Powerful Suffrage Address From President of Bryn Mawr

The Rhode Island branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae gave a reception and luncheon for Dr. M. Carey Thomas on Jan. 27, at the Churchill House in Providence. Mrs. Sara M. Algeo writes:

“The College Luncheon for which we have been preparing so long in honor of President Thomas far surpassed, in numbers and interest, our highest expectations. Three hundred college women with friends sat down at a real suffrage banquet, and as many more filled the salleries and doorways. It is the first time that equal suffrage has been presented to Rhode Island collese women en masse, and the wonderfully inspiring address of Dr. Thomas was heard with keen interest. A profusion of daffodils did honor to Bryn Mawr and suffrage at the same time."

On Jan. 31, the Rhode Island W. S. A. and the College Equal Suffrage League had a house-warming in their new Headquarters in the Butler Exchange with Mrs. Susan W. FitzGerald as the guest of honor. They are delighted to have rooms of their own, and the money for the rent was secured with unexpected ease.

WILL MEND ITS WAYS Boston School Board To introduce Some Long-Over-Due Reforms

Our recently belabored School Committee has been commendably busy profiting by the lessons of the campaign. It carried to the Legislature bills providing a special appropriation for the extended use of school buildings; transferring the appointment and control of school physicians from the Board of Health to itself and pro viding for an appropriation through which 300 new teachers can be appointed, so that classes may be reduced by an average of six pupils, and principals of elementary schools be given clerical assistance. But without awaiting this extra money the Committee has passed ah order to reduce the number of pupils in each room from 44 to 40, and in the ungraded classes from 35 to 30. Other advance steps are promised, amons which we hope will be the addition of two women to the Roston Common.

WESTERN WOMEN FAVOR IMPROVED ROADS The first Women's Good Roads Convention ever held met in Tacoma last week, with 148 women present, every one of them a voter.

AN UNDESIRABLE JUDGE

Mrs. Florence Kelley Shows Up the Record of Julius H. Mayer at the National Child Labor Conference in Louisville, Ky.

Mrs. Florence Kelley, general secretary of the National Consumers' League, blamed Julius H. Mayer, former Attorney General of New York for the impotency of New York's child labor law. His influence, she said, was responsible for the amendment of the bill so that it is made legal for children of nominally 10 years old to begin work as early as they or their parents wish in the morning and work until 10 o'clock at night. Speaking of the enforcement of the street trades regulations she said;

“It is one of the ironies of our American politics that the man who deprived that bill, (New York law regulating street trades) of all value for our newsboys and who has made it impossible since for us to get a valuable newsboy law in the State of New York, is now proposed for a very important Federal Judgeship.

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“It will be a scandal and an cutrage it a man who has done the things to the working women of the State of New York that have been done by former Attorney General Julius H. Mayer is honored by our President with an appointment to a Federal Judgeship."

Women Will Fight Appointment His appointment, she declared. would be opposed by the women of New York. Not only was his influence on the form of the bill contrary to the child workers' interests, but his administration of the law in the Juvenile Court tended further to nullify its provisions. He set the precedent of leniency for offenders. Now, said Mrs. Kelley, when a new child labor law is sought it will be necessary to combat what should have been the stronsest influence in favor of progressive legislation.

Mr. Mayer is also an advocate of the State Regulation of Vice, and upheld the notorious “Clause 79." Visiting New York last year, the editor of The Woman's Journal asked a prominent and highly-respected social worker, “Who is Julius H. Mayer?" She answered, “Julius H. Mayer is the special emissary of Satan on all occasions.' Let us hope that we shall not have to see Satan on the bench.

WOMEN IN PUBLIC SER- VICE

The first woman in the United States to hold a Federal Court clerkship, Miss Adelaide Utter, will retire from Government service, not to give place to a successor, but because the office she holds will be abolished. She was a stenographer when she first became connected with the clerk's office. For six years she was Deputy to Warren Watson, clerk in Kansas City. At his death in 1892 she was appointed to fill the vacancy, and has held the office continuously since that date. During her nearly twenty years of service Miss Utter has achieved a prominence in legal circles as one of the most capable of United States court officials.

The Woman's Prison Association of New York City has retained Miss Helen McKeen as its attorney at the Night Court at Jefferson Market. She is to prepare, plead and appeal the cause of any woman whose case may come within the province of the Association. Miss McKeen was graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1904 and two years later from the New York University Law School. Upon her admission to the bar she became a clerk in her father's office. She does not pose as a philanthropist, she is paid as a lawyer, but she brings to her work a human interest and certain ideas whereby she hopes to accomplish results that will eventually benefit her sex.

The New York State Labor Commissioner, Mr. Williams, fias appointed p the following women as factory inspectors, at an annual salary of $1200: Rose Deimling, Rockaway Beach;

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Mrs. Mary G. Schonbergs and Mrs. Carrie P. Houser, New York; and Minnie J. Van Zandt, Rochester. The two latter will serve as mercantile inspectors. — — At a recent town meeting at Greenwich, Conn., Mrs. Edward P. wWilliams was appointed a member of a committee of five to confer with the school committee as to the best means of providing new school accomodations. This is the first time the taxpaying women have been recognized in such a manner by the voters of Greenwich.

Miss Geneva Graham, twenty-one years cf age, has been appointed City Clerk of Whittier, Cal., to fill an unexpired term. She has been employed as deputy in the office and is familiar with its duties. F. M. A.

IN THE MAGAZINES

Barit, Marcel. Les groupes feministes universitaries. Grande revue. Paris. Dec. 25. Dorr, Rheta Childe. The twentieth child. Hampton-Columbian Magazine. New York. Jan. An article on child labor. Isaacs, Edith J. R. What Jewish women are doing for Jews. Twentieth Century Magazine. Boston. January. Hard, Willlam. When the law calls the children “his" not “hers.' Delineator. New Yerk. February. MacDowell, Mary. Mothering a municipality. Designer. New York. February. The Lady Mayor of Oldham, England. Van Norman, Louise E. The spread and meaning of feminism. Pictoral Review. New York. January. Whetham, W. C. D. and Whetham, C. D. Decadence and Civilization. Living Age. Boston. Jan. 20. An attempt to prove, through the examples of Sparta and Venice, that the entrance of women into public and industrial life will destroy the race. Elizabeth J. Sherwood.

TORONTO WOMEN SEEK FRANCHISE EXTENSION hey Go Before City Council and Ask That Municipal Suffrage Be No Longer Limited to Widows and Spinsters

Controller McCarthy spoke briefly upon his own motion. Present-day civilization does not allow, he said, taxation without representation. The spirit of Toronto to-day is that those paying taxes should have the right to vote. Ninety per cent. of those men, he said, who qualified to vote would like to see their wives votins, too.