HOME AND EDUCATION

...And now for the second impression: Women are going to make better public speakers than men...

...MY NEXT impression was that woman's suffrage is appealing to people more and more as a social need...

...My first impression, therefore, was that through the failure of cities to provide halls where conventions of this sort may be held, the public is being shut out from great educational opportunities...

...Were they those whose lives bring them into association chiefly with women of ease...

...Who, for example, were the men.who spoke at the convention...

...She showed also that the presence of "undesirable" members in a group had never been successfully urged as a reason for excluding an entire group from the electorate...

...This reminds me that one of the greatest of our dramatic readers who happened to be in Washington at the time of the convention said to me that as her contribution to the cause, she was going to teach women how to use their voices in open-air meeting...

...that the maid always wants the gas "full on...

...There is a movement afoot for presenting the subject of suffrage in the vaudeville theaters by means of monologues ond moving pictures...

...They know what underpay and unsanitary surroundings mean to working women and they know what the ballot in the hands of women could do for their improvement...

...L. H. A Neglected Friend By ISABEL BEVIER Professor of Household Science, University of Illinois...

...In New York City a suffrage party is being organized along the lines of other political parties...

...PROBABLY the best means of propaganda at present in use is the open air meeting...

...LABOR-SAVING devices seem to be very popular in these days, if we can judge by the prominence given to them :n the cooking school magazines, the programs of women's clubs and the daily press...

...It is the writer's opinion that equally gratifying results in the reduction of the gas bills will follow an intelligent use of the simmering burner...

...The procession of automobiles decorated in yellow, the color of the association, was very picturesque, and was, I suppose, a good means of advertising, but I protest against the loss of time involved in the collection of the names and the preparation and presentation of the petition...

...The first was as to the meeting place...

...which will save more than half the time...

...The principles of the screw and the lever are in urgent demand...

...It is true, as Mr...

...THE NEXT impression was that this social need is being recognized as urgent...

...I have been coming to this conclusion for a long time and this convention convinced me...

...So clear is the call for greater intelligence in the work of the home...

...Russell, by Martha Gruening, a Smith College graduate, who had allowed herself to be thrown into a cell with a drunken woman and a prostitute rather than give up her right to help the girls who were on strike...

...Fitz Gerald and Mrs...

...And since the number of those who take active part in the work of the organization is very rapidly increasing, the indications are that from all points of view people are coming te Bee that conditions exist which affect disastrously the work of women, and which women's votes can remedy...

...She has been engaged to make a four weeks' trip through South Dakota during the campaign next fall...

...As it is obviously impossible to give a detailed account here of the proceedings, I am going to content myself with giving a few of my impressions...

...that it will mean nothing short of a revolution in many a kitchen to have the simmering burner used two hours...

...ON MONDAY morning the Suffrage petition, signed by 404,000 people, was taken to the Capitol by four representatives of each state...

...This play is now being read by Miss Fola La Follette, who took a leading part in it when it was presented on the stage...

...Miss Beatrice Forbes-Robertson, the actress, who made one of the best addresses of the convention, said that in two generations English women have by exercise added six inches to their height...

...Catt showed that no group of people has ever been forced to prove that every member of it, or that even a majority of its members, wanted the ballot before the ballot was given to them, thus puncturing the argument that "When all the women want to vote, the ballot will be given to them...

...Political settlements are being established in New York and other large cities, from which suffrage work of all kinds is being carried on...

...The housewife who has not secured at least one of these "contributions to the family comfort" feels that she has been remiss indeed...

...No, they were men like Raymond Robins and Charles Edward Russell who have chosen to live where the struggle for life and for the common comforts of life is fiercest...

...Hints to Home Makers Paraffin paper, which is very cheap and which besides is often found in cracker-boxes from which it can be taken for use in the kitchen, may be made the means of saving much work...

...Robins, President of the Woman's Trade Union League, whose winter was spent in helping the girls of the Shirt Waist Makers' Union in their splendid fight, or with the speech made at the dinner in honor of Mr...

...The despised and forgotten lesson in physics has appeared in an entirely new guise...

...After the women had spoken very cleverly and effectively, a young man in the audience, who proved to be a law student, said he would like to add a word about the effect of woman's suffrage in his own state, Utah...

...If they can add to their stature, they can also develop their voices and they are doin£ it...

...He had never been able to understand, he said, why men who were never tired of telling how good their mother's influence had been in the home should be so afraid of woman's influence in the larger home, the state...

...A bread board covered with it before biscuits are rolled out is left unspotted when the work is over...

...After a symposium at the convention on this subject, several women used to outdoor speaking, Mrs...

...Incidentally, women, quite involuntarily, are taking lessons in mechanics and discovering that if it takes skill, brains and fine workmanship to make a goad appliance, it also requires intelligence to secure good results in its use...

...that new things, noisy things, things in a hurry are of the present order...

...I got this impression from the growing variety in the people and the interests represented at the meetings...

...It was admitted by all who had the privilege of attending these meetings that the addresses were of exceptional interest and value...

...It is possible for them to get what they have lacked in the past, _volume of voice...

...Nevertheless, she believes it will pay and she imagines there will yet appear on the woman's page: "Recipes to be used for the simmering burner...

...This was indicated by the new methods of work that are being adopted...

...THE greatest speech of the convention was by Mrs...

...Fireless cookers and vacuum cleaners are doubtless the advance guard of a long procession of new and useful appliances for housekeeping...

...His testimony, coming as it did from experience, gave a fitting close to the meeting...

...She also wonders if anybody really knows the full merits and possibilities of the simmering burner...

...Advertising columns make the most startling announcements about the ability of pieces of apparatus to do the work that formerly required at least three different utensils am...

...For use in egging and crumbing it is invaluable...

...The subject has always appealed to many from the standpoint of natural rights but this kind of appeal has never led people to organize and go to conventions...

...And what does the appeal of the Anti-Suffragists to President Taft to refrain from speaking for suffrage, coming as it did by way of a woman who had lived a life of ease and of luxury, mean as compared with the address of Mrs...

...and that the churches, in being exempted from taxation, were prohibited from renting their buildings even though the rental were only enough to cover the expenses of keeping the buildings open and lighting them...

...And she suggests that the woman who has one, before she spends money on a fireless cooker, shall devote some time and energy to finding out how many of the marvelous achievements ©f the fireless cooker can be obtained by the use of this burner with no outlay for new utensils...

...She realizes that the spirit of the age is against it...

...Meanwhile the writer of this article wonders if some ingenious individual during this crusade, will not discover some new truths about that old friend, the gas range, and if an instrument shall not result that will utilize more than one-tenth sf one per cent, of the fuel it consumes...

...A week's suffrage revival was recently held in Springfield, Massachusetts, and similar revivals are to be held in other cities and towns of the state...

...The work formerly done by the maid had, therefore, fallen to the lot of the mistress aided by the machine...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Impressions of the Suffrage Convention THE National-American Woman Suffrage Association—and I, being rather new as a member though not new to the belief in woman's suffrage have just discovered that the length of the name is due to the fact that our organization is a combination of two societies, one founded by Lucy Stone and the other by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton—met in Washington April 14, 1910...

...Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance...

...Russell said, that those who are opposed to the suffrage for women are one with the aristocrats of all ages who have stood in the way of freedom...

...Everything indicates that it is going to be easier for the average woman to gain the necessary physical strength than for the average man to come into the possession of the responsiveness to an audience and the sympathetic quality that characterize woman's public speaking...

...She showed by a masterful presentation of facts that there is no objection now urged against granting woman's suffrage by national action that has not been by some means set aside in favor of some group of people...

...It occupies less space than plates and may be thrown away after it is used...

...Rounds of the paper may be kept on hand for covering food in the ice-box...

...With the exception of the Sunday mass meeting, the sessions were held in the auditorium of the Arlington Hotel, a room wholly inadequate in size...

...Stanley McCormick of Boston, Miss Ray Costelloe of England and others, went to a transfer point on Pennsylvania Avenue and held a meeting as the employees in the various departments were going home...

...And when my Senator arose in his place and said, in presenting the Wisconsin petition, that he hoped the time was not far distant when women would no longer be obliged to spend their time petitioning for something which was their right, I broke the rules of the Senate and applauded.-—c...

...Out of all this excitement and discussion much real good has come...

...Suffrage plays are being given...

...I asked why a larger room had not been secured and was told that with two big campaigns before us this year, in South Dakota and Oklahoma, where amendments have been passed providing that the matter of woman's suffrage be submitted to the people, we could not afford to hire a theater or a large public hall...

...One woman whose husband had surprised her with a labor-saving device said thus far in its history in their family it had given her additional labor because the ignorant maid could not be trusted to use such expensive apparatus...

...The suffrage societies were founded and are today maintained by the efforts and the self-sacrifice of those who see in the ballot for woman a social need as well as a natural right...

...How the Vote was Won" given on March 31 under the direction of Miss Forbes-Robertson in New York City netted $1,000 for the cause...