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olection appealed to the suffrasists for the use of these very lists. The important thing is to set the names of registered voters on the petition, and then to classity them accordins to election districts and inform the signers before election as to who is and who is not a suffrase candidate, and then, when the vote is counted, the candidates will learn of the petition, even if they did isnore it. Our Sales Committee

Under the able management of Miss Margaret Carey, one of Maryland's youngest and most ardent suffragists, a new department of work in connection with the suffrage meetings has been organized this winter. Instead of sgiving suffrage literature away gratis, three or four members of the Sales Committee supply themselves with large willow trays, decorated in the colors and suspended from the neck by ribbons, and from these trays they sell literature, badges, pennants, valentines and other novelties, at all of the suffrage meetings.

The Committee goes about amons the audience before the meeting begins, just when the people are looking for something to occupy their time, and it is surprising to see how much literature can be disposed of to advantage in this way. At the last meeting over $4.00 worth of literature was sold, with a guarantee that all of it would be read.

Next summer we mean to use this method in connection with the openair meetings and the sounty fairs, for the display trays make it possible for those who are interested to look over the stock quickly and to select what most appeals to their personal taste.

NOTES AND NEWS

The legislative hearing on woman suffrage in Massachusetts is set for the evening of Feb, 26. Those who want to read a good comic paper should buy “Judge." It stoutly upholds votes for women, and is running a regular suffrage page. Mrs. Florence Kelley and Mrs. Glendower Evans will address the anmual meeting of the Consumers' League of Massachusetts, to be held at 3 Joy street, Boston, next Tuesday at 3 P. M.

This edition of The Journal is a Maryland number. A quantity of additional material, relating to Mrs. Funck, Miss Maddox, Miss Beveridge, Lavinia C. Dundore, Baltimore City, etc., arrived just as the paper was going to press, and too late for insertion.

Gov. Chase S. Osborn of Michigan told, at the annual banquet of the Michigan Society in Chicago, how he finally decided to favor suffrage for women. A delegation of antis convinced him last winter. “You cannot extend too much influence in public life to women," he says.

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The Pennsylvania suffragists are to be congratulated on the style of argument used at the Anti meetings. Nothing better could happen for the suffrage cause than for all the opponents to state their reasons. The oftener the objections are brought out and aired the more evident their flimsiness becomes.

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Miss Mabel Willard will address the Study Class of the Boston E. S. A. for Good Government, 585 Boylston street. next Tuesday, at 3 P. M. Subject, “Objections: 'Women too Emotional Wemen's Special Function. 'Women Unduly influenced by Church. “Indifference of Women."

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Better men than ever before are standing for office in the coming city election in Seattle, says the Western Woman Voter. The non-partisan primary, the “recall" and woman suffrage all contribute to bring about this result.

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Morgan W. Shuster, formerly Treasurer-General of Persia, in a cabled interview declared that “the Persian women were ready to shed the last drop of their blood to free their country from ignominious subjection to Russia."

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Mrs. J. W. Bengough, wife of the cartoonist, is touring California with ber husband. She is one of the leaders of the suffrage movement in Canada, and is doing her utmost to bring it to success. Mr. Bengough is an ardent advocate of votes for women, and they are both taking great interest in the California elections.

THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL., FEBRUARY 10, 1912

CATCHING THE SPARK

Some Women Ask, "What Can I Do?" Others Say, “Is it Dignified? What Will My Friends Think?" And Others Do Whatever is Set for Them to Do

Last week a woman of fully twoscore years came to the suffrage rooms and said she wanted to work for the cause, but did not know what to do. She was asked if she would fold circulars, address envelopes, make out membership cards, etc. She replied that she hated that kind of work. Then she was asked (gingerly) if she would like to. sell The Woman's Journal on the streets. To the amazement of everyone she became enthusiastic and wanted to know all about selling. She joined she selling corps on Saturday and was even more successful than some of the experienced workers. She is to sell papers on the street every Saturday. She is one type of suffrasist. Another type of suffragist said recently to a newsy, “I do not believe in selling papers on the street in the cold. I think it hurts the cause." When asked how it hurts the cause she said, “The newsies look cold, and who wants suffragists to be objects of pity?" One of her friends answered, “Girls look cold when they are skating and coasting, but no one thinks they should stop on that account." Another said, “Well, suppose they do look cold and pitiable? What ef it? Women without the vote are pitiable, aren't they? Don't you ever pity women when they want to do good work and are hindered simply because they are women? I think the mothers of this country are in very fact a pitiable lot because they have

NEW ENGLAND'S GREAT- EST PURE FOOD COOK

In Winthrop by the sea, a beautiful little city just without the limits of Boston, lives Norah Johnson Barbour. A wife, a mother, a home maker for her husband and two happy children, she yet finds time to guide, with the force of her indomitable enthusiasm, the destinies of a great business. Today, more than ever before, woman's work is being recognized. In literature, medicine, law, philanthropy, politics, religion, and in many great business enterprises, her influence as a power for good is felt. In fact, she is making herself indispensable in almost every walk of life.

in Norah Johnson Barbour's work, business as a means of financial gain is a secondary consideration. She realizes, as perhaps does no other woman, the vital importance of proper nourishment. So her whole thought and energy are centered in a business, the object of which is to supply the world with pure, wholesome, nutritious food.

Many years ago, Dr. Willlam L. Johnson practised his profession in cultured, historic old Boston. But Dr. Johnson saw beyond the limits of his office. He thought not so much of the dollar that came from a patient as of the patient's welfare. He was what might be called a practical dreamer whose vision reached whereever man lived.

During his practice of forty-two years, he came into daily contact with people suffering from lack of proper nourishment. Thousands of such cases convinced him beyond a doubt that the great majority of men and women give too little thought to how and what they eat. Dr. Johnson saw the folly of this tendency. He realized that, if continued, it would sreatly lower man's physical and mental efficiency.

So he resolved to remedy this unfortunate condition. He knew that whole wheat is the most nutritious food known to science. But he knew aiso that it should be prepared so as to compel mastication, since this is mecessary to perfect digestion and assimilation. After years of thought and study he gave to the world Educator Crackers and Foods. Working with her father, twentysix years ago, was Norah Johnson. Coming into daily contact with this sreat human benefactor, she absorbed his ideas and enthusiasm.

Another kind of suffragist is the kind who does not question whether it is dignified or pitiable or whether she likes to do it, but just gsoes ahead and does the thing that is needed. Such a one sells Journals on the street corner every Saturday afternoon. I had been told that she would not do it, and that I need not ask her. 1 did ask her and she joined the corps, and all these weeks I have been wondering what led her to do it. Last week I found out by accident. She said, “I heard Mrs. Pankhurst tell how the Englishwomen do i

She had heard Mrs. Pankhurst and had caught from her the spark of enthusiasm that has kept her selling papers on Saturday afternoons during the most severe days we have had this winter! Would that Mrs. Pankhurst had repeated that one speech of hers to every audience of suffragists in the country! Would that her sparks of enthusiasm had kindled such fire in the hearts of a hundred women that they could not stop short of action! Perhaps she has done just that, and perhaps I shall soon hear of other women who were made active by that wonderfu. speech. If it is a proud thing to be a suffragist, isn't it a shameful thing not to be an active one? There are three kinds of suffragists everywhere, but there is always room on the firing line!

Agnes E. Ryan.

the reward of his great work, but his principles are being maintained as strictly as though he were here to guard them. So it is. The originators of great ideas in time pass away. But if there are those to follow who live as they lived, think as they thought, and are saturated with their great enthusiasm, these ideas, in a constantly developing state, will pass down through the centuries to the everlast ing benefit of mankind.

Columbus gave to the old world the new. This was his life's work. But the new world weuld have meant little if later generations had not conquered its wilds and developed its unlimited resources. - Benjamin Franklin with his kite brought down from the heavens the electric spark. But how unavailable would this power for industrial development have been had not men of Edison's type adapted it to presentday needs

Norah Johnson Barbour is siving her life to the carrying out of her father's ideas. Her enthusiasm and energy are behind a great business undertaking. Her tactful diplomacy, her keen thought is evident in every move. She guards sacredly the standard of pure food excellence laid down by her father, and personally samples each day's bake to make sure that everything is just right. She does this so that everyone may obtain Educator Crackers that are just as gocd as those her father originated.

Norah Johnson Barbour has been called New England's greatest pure food cook—a cook who feeds humanity with Nature's perfect food. And at the same time she does not forget her social, religious or household duties. As she feeds her own children, so is it her desire to feed all mankind because she knows that man thus fed will reach a state of greatest intellectual, moral and physical efficiency. Surely, Norah Johnson Barbour is setting a standard for the thinkinsg, working, ambitious young women of today.

“The poetry and philosophy of Tennyson" is the title of an interesting course of six lectures to be given at Jordan Hall, Boston, on Wednesday evening beginning Feb. 21 by Prof. Edward Howard Grigsss. Prof. Grigss is a good friend of the suffrage cause and the suffragists who attend his course of lectures will enjoy them all the more because of this fact.

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