The Woman's Journal, vol. 43, no. 8, February 24, 1912, p. 61

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SUFFRAGE FAIR AND COUNTY MARKE

New York Suffragists Have a Good Time and Make Money

The Suffrase Bazar and County Market, held in New York City last week under the chairmanship of Mrs. W. M. Ivins, proved a delightful afrair. Feb. 14 was Anna H. Shaw day and Feb. 15 Susan B. Anthony day. Miss Shaw had brought back from Florida a quantity of oranges and pineapples, which found a ready sale, as did the array of delicious jellies and preserves contributed by the upstate suffragists.

The attractive and interesting features were too nmumerous to mention, but nothing sot so much attention from the press as the little pig contributed by Mrs. Ruth Litt, and brought in a bag from Mrs. Litt's farm on Long Island by the vallant State Pesident, Miss Harriet May Mills. Before the end of the Fair the motherly hearts of the women in charge had so warmed to the little creature in his pen by the window that they hated to think of his beins xilled in his babyhood, and were rejoiced when Herbert Carpenter bought him and carried him off to be raised to a good old age.

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Suffragists Are Taking Time By the Forelock—Great Campaign for Membership—Meetings Held All Over Des Moines Mrs. Frank S. Shankland, president of the Des Moines Political Equality Club, writes:

The suffragists of Iowa are entering into the campaign with a zeal and enthusiasm never before displayed. Heretcofore we have waited until members of the General Assembly sathered at the State House in regular session before presenting our cause. We are now organizing the State for the purpose of bringing about the nomination and election of Representatives and Senators favorable to equal suffrage, regardless of their party amliation. We expect to do effective work before the primaries.

The Men's League and the Suffrage Clubs are co-operating to further the cause. A campaign for new members is now on in and near Des Moines. Meetings are being held all over the city. Many of the best and most influential families are throwing open their homes for these meetings. There is always a program of good music, and entertaining and convincing speakers make short addresses. People of the neighborhood are invited in for the evening, and suffrage sentiment is thus created.

The death of our beloved Mary J. Coggshall, the pioneer suffragist in Des Moines, has resulted in arousing many who were heretofore suffragists in a passive degree, to be enthusiastic workers. Victory will soon be ours, and the one sad thought is that Mrs. Coggshall was not spared to rejoice with us when that time comes. Every suffragist in the State feels 'that the loss of Mrs. Coggshall calls for greater effort.

The Suffrage Clubs and the Men's League of the State maintain permanment Headquarters in Des Moines, and the campaign is being directed from their offices. A large streamer bearing the slogan of suffragists extends across the principal street, and points the way to the Headquarters. All the daily papers devote much space to the cause and are favorable to the movement. All the arguments against suffrage have been exploded. PROF. GRIGGS'S LECTURES

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Prof. Edward Howard Griggs began last Wednesday, in Jordan Hall, Boston, his course of six lectures on “The Poetry and Philosophy of Tennyson, with a discourse on “The Life and Barly Work of Tennyson." Next Wednesday he will discuss “The 1dylls of the King." The third lecture will be given to “The Holy Grail and the Passing of Arthur." “The Period of Grief and Strugsle" is the special theme for the fourth lecture, and “The Cantos of Faith and Love" for the fifth. The course will close with lecture upon “The Expression of Tennyson's Spiritual Message in

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THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 24, 1912 ——————— Poems.Prof. onis FORM OF BEQUEST been giving this course to crowded — — AE Yol houses this winter in Brooklyn andI hereby sive and bequeath to the in Philadelphia. He recognizes the National American Woman Suffrage it r educaticnal effect not only of poetry Association, being incorporated under but of political duties. He says: the laws of the District of Columbia, sion is “The ballot is an educator, and wo- the sum of $.........principal to any a men will become more practical and and interest to be applied by such aswise in using it." sociation for the support and promo- 1 WAY 10 HEl

NEW HAMPSHIRE NOTES Anna Shaw to Address Seven Meetings—Other Distinguished Speakers —Labor Men Endorse Suffrage Rev. Anna Shaw, President National American Suffrage Association, will speak at Claremont March 1; Newport, March 2; Keene, March 4; Nashua, March 5, Manchester, March 6, Dover, March 7, Hanover, March 8 or 9, and Lebanon after Hanover.

A meeting was held recently at the home of Mrs. John Gile, Hanover. Mrs. Gile is the wife of Dr. Gile, a counselor of Gov. Bass. Mrs. Gile and Mrs. Nichols, wife of the principal of Dartmouth College, both joined the association. Many of the wives of the professors were much interested and a Suffrage League -was formed. There was a meeting of the State Campaign Committee of the Concord Equal Suffrage Association at the Headquarters in Concord, on Feb. 17 at 2 P. M.

At a meeting of the Executive Board of the State Federation of Labor in Manchester, Feb. 7, a resolution was passed in favor of equal suffrage in New Hampshire. A principal of one of the New Hampshire secondary schools, to whose school the negative side was assigned for a woman suffrage debate, has stated that he has been unable to find any oppesing arguments!

There is much activity at Portsmouth. At the home of Mrs. William Judkins a meeting was held Feb. 14, at the close of which it was annmounced that Mrs. Florence Kelley will come and aid in the campaign. Mrs. R. Y. FitzGerald and Miss Alice Carpenter will also give their help. IN THE MAGAZINES

Castbers, J. The legal position of women in Norway. Nineteenth Century and After. London. February. Hard, William. At last a program: a law to make the children “theirs." Delineator. New York. March. Hegman, E. H. The wemen's auxiliary to the business body; what the women of Norfolk have done, what the women of Macon are plannins. American City., New York. February. Love, Currie. The British woman in Canada. United Empire. London. January.

pPage, Arthurr. Woman suffrage. National Review. London. Febru ary. Anti-suffrage arguments. Scheffauer, Herman. Human grist; women and children toilers in Eng land's underworld. London Magazine. London. February. Elizabeth J. Sherwood. THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.

Between the dark and the daylight When night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupa tions, That is known as the children' hour."

Our beloved American poet helps in the good and just cause. At the Woman Suffrage Bazaar and Exhibition at Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, on Feb. 27 and 28, from 11 A. M. to 11 P. M., “The Wreck of the Hesperus" and other shadow pictures will be shown to the audience. Mrs. John Clarence Lee, president of the Browning Society, has kindly consented to read the descriptive poems. Miss Julia Williamson will tell three “Little Stories for Little People," and songs will be sung by Mrs. Percy Wynkoop, accompanied by Miss Dorothy Joline.

A child elocutionist, Ethel Harrison, will recite "Baby's Practice Hour." Another attraction will be Folk Lore stories by Miss Elizabeth I. Green, a well-known story-teller from Readins. These will be illustrated by lantern slides. There will be Negro sonss, popping partfes (corn, not leap year). and other exciting and amusing “stunts" for boys and girls. : Grab bags, an orange tree, toys and acandy table, conducted by the

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I hereby give and bequeath to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, being incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, the sum of $...........principal and interest to be applied by such association for the support and promotion of the cause of woman suffrage.

Landsdowne Equal Franchise League, will be among the inducements. A 5 and 10c. table will draw forth the pennies. Some working girls in a box factory are giving up their few leisure hours to dressing dolls for the children's table. Little and bis people are ursed to come for at least a part of the two whole days from 11 to 11 to hear and see all the unique and attractive things offered. Afternoon tea will be served by aids in Martha Washington costume.

Committee for the children—Miss Alice Isabel Norris, chairman; Mrs. Henry Pemberton, Mrs. Christopher Fallon, Miss Caroline Hoffman, Mrs. Emma Epley, Mrs. H. Allen Winsor, Mrs. Paul McConomy, Mrs. Philip L. Spalding, Mrs. Oswald Chew, Miss Mary Winsor, Mrs. John Clarence Lee, Miss Elizabeth D. Green, Miss Julia Williamson, Mrs. John De Coursey, Mrs. J. C. Gabriel.

MRS. CATT HAS TROUBLES IN THE HOLY LAND

She and Dr. Aletta Jacobs Meet with a Series of Misfortunes, But Are Now Happy Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt writes in Jus Suffragii:

We arrived at the end of our month-long trip up the East African Coast on Nov. 18. We found the little city all excitement over its preparations for the reception of the British King and Queen, who would pass by next day, en route to India. The Khedive was coming, and there were to be processions and illuminations. Already the streets were gay with brilliant scarlet Turkish flags bearing the crescent, and the curious had begun to gather. A kins is not to be seen every day! The hotels had booked every bed and even floor space, and there was no place for us.

Bound for Jaffa Making our arrangements hastily, we feund ourselves, within a few hours, on a ship bound for Jaffa, the port of Jerusalem. The next morning, under blue skies and bright sunshine, we were anchored in the picturesque, rocky harbor made famous by the Biblical story of Jonah cast over to still the sterm, and the legendary tale of Andromeda chained to a rock and rescued by Perseus.

We were rowed ashore in boats which tossed about like corks, and were landed on a small stone pier, crowded with men who, to our unaccustomed eyes, looked like figures that had just stepped ferth from the flies of a theater. We climbed up narrow stony paths and through tiny, queer little streets, still leading upward, for Jaffa lies upon a steep hillside, until we came to our hotel. We were charmed, enchanted. Journey to Jerusalem

Our delight continued on our fourhours' journey by rail to Jerusalem. Men, quaintly garbed, were plowins, sometimes with camels, sometimes with donkeys, and always with an archaic single-handled plow. Modern Davids in plenty, with picturesque striped coats, could be seen tending their flocks, and it was through David's country we were passing. A cave was pointed out where Samson made love to Delilah, and the very spot where Goliath fell! Indeed, we could readily imagine the leaves of the Bible parting and its historic characters stepping forth, quite as they really were. We could believe what we wished as our dragoman pointed out this or that spot as the scene of some famillar Bible story. Alas, the Holy Land is a Land of Disenchantment! For instance, a beautitul Rebecca, barefooted, lithe, graceful, clad in a blue flowing sarment, stood outlined against a stone wall. A water jar was poised upcn her head and another was in her hand. No picture could be prettier. We drew nearer, and discovered that her face was much tattooed, her hair

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unkempt, and her dress a mass of unspeakable filth! These women are mearly all tattooed, and, as they have discovered tattooing on the faces of the mummies of Egyptian women, it is probable that it was a general custom in Bible days, and that the Rebecca of old was no exception.

This sort of disillusion was our hourly experience. No country in the world can be more picturesque, and no people in the world can be more appealing to the artistic sense than these graceful, well-bullt men and women in their bright-colored flowing raiment; but also no country can be dirtier, more unsanitary, more moisome to the smell than this. Our delight at its quaintness sradually gave way to an uncomfortable conviction that we were catching something! As crawlers of all the breeds known to torment man have increased without discouragement since the old historic days, and as our poor, much-bitten bodies testifiea profusely to their presence and their industry, we had some srounds for our change of feeling. The discovery of the microbe has not added to the peace of mind of slobe-trotters, whatever it may have done for science.

A Change of Route

We were about ready to return when the news reached us that the cholera had broken out in Jaffa and that people embarking at that port must go into quarantine for five days. We decided to go through Syria, via Nablous, the land of the Samaritans, Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee, Damascus and Balbek to Beyrouth, a clean port, and from which a line of French ships went direct to Port Said without stopping at Jaffa. The additional trip was exceedingly interesting, and was needed to complete the impression of the Holy Land, but as the roads led up one side of a mountain range, then down the other side, across a valley, and acress mountains again, and as all of them were extremely rocky, it was a woefully fatiguing experience.

Put in Quarantine

Imagine our sensations when we found that we had run into the very trap we had tried so hard to avoid! An old woman died of heart failure in the night on our boat. The autherities of Port Said declared it might have been cholera, and they therefore refused to receive any passengers. We were carried on to Alexandria, and, having spent one day under the yellow flag on the ship, six hundred passengers were taken ashore to the “Lazaret,' where four indescribable, mever-to-be-forgotten days finally came to an end. A double, high picket fence, guarded by armed soldiers, made us understand that we were prisoners. For our keeping here, five persons to a room, we paid sixteen shillings per day. Like other prison-

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Now, after a few days in the best hotel we have seen in five months, we feel restored to innocence and respectability. We have been scrubbed, fumisated, disinfected, laundered, and are clean. Only scars of the unholy bites of the Holy Land remain to remind us of what has been, and the rear of the microbe has lost its terrers. Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 26, 1911.

The New York News-Letter, the organ of the State Suffrage Association, is running a series of photegraphs of suffrage babies. They are a handsome and healthy lot, and show no signs of being neglected.

Senater Overman of North Carolina has introduced a resolution asking the Senate to authorize the Committee on Woman Suffrage during this Congress to hold hearings on this subject, and that the testimony thus taken be printed. The resolution allows the committee to employ stenographers to report the hearings, and it further provides that all witnesses must be put under oath. Sigrid A. Johnson

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