HOME AND EDUCATION

...Our Life Saver," as we have called him ever since our little visit on the sand, seemed inclined to put a charitable interpretation upon the master and to lay the difficulty to the necessarily unenlightened condition of Westerners who "don't even know that there is sech a thing as life savin' stations...

...I looked up in surprise for I had supposed that we had left such matters as interest in bills and legislation all behind us in the city from which we had come...

...Before very long the fisherman, who proved to be a member of the life saving crew, which is off duty during the months of June and July, evidently thinking that folks were better company than fish, drew his boat up on the shore and joined us...

...Most of the older houses are covered with shingles and when unpainted they offer a soft, gray, velvety background for the shrubs and flowers with which they are surrounded...

...SUMMER BOARDERS, numerous as they are, seem to have affected very little the simple standards of living in Chat ham...

...Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT To the Citizens of Wisconsin GREETINGS By OLYMPIA BROWN WISCONSIN has arrived at an epoch-making period...

...Perhaps in time some wise architect will restore to us the beauty and the homelikeness of the little old-fashioned house without restoring to us also the rheumatism which usually went with it...

...Just before nightfall we took advantage of a lull in the storm to go down to the sia, and there by the water, lifting itself out of the mist, we saw a high granite shaft erected to the memory of twelve men who perished nine years ago on Shovelful Shoal, which lies just beyond the town...

...The greatest artistic need of the Cape, as of many other place: seems to be a kind of stain which, while preventing decay, will a the same time preserve the beautiful color and texture of weath ered wood...

...But if elaborations exist, they are nc obtrusive and the spirit of the place favors simplicity...

...There may be elaborations of life in the town...

...The women operatives are subject to the same influence of panic as school children—more so in some cases of newly arrived immigrants.—Survey...

...hardly an auspicious beginning and likely to be a trifle dispiriting to those who are just about to set forth on a holiday trip...

...The parent who ought to have a doll instead of a child is sufficiently abundant in our world to dominate the shops, and there is a vast traffic in facetious baby toys, facetious nursery furniture, 'Art' cushions and 'quaint' baby clothing, all amazingly delightful things for grown-up people...

...as a certain man had a large hole cut in his barn-door for the cat, and another smaller one for the kitten...

...That small houses lost in beauty when they were set up on high basements to keep them dry and healthful, there can be no doubt, but now very much they lost we never realize until we visit quaint old towns like Chatham...

...Men had their struggles to secur their independence—and now women are pressing forward realizing the necessity for the ballot as a means of self-protection...

...The older houses nestle close to the ground...

...there may be even six-counrs dinners in evening clothes...

...And yet these sombre opening pages form a fitting introduction not only to the book but also to a sojourn on Cape Cod, for life on the Cape is passed within the shadow of the perils of the sea and those who do not realize that even the joys of the people are tempered by the dangers which lurk so near, fail to grasp the spirit of the place...

...The parent does the shopping and has to be amused...

...as a penalty for nc doing it he shall not be married until he obey this order...

...Never before has there been a time when it has been possible to submit this question of Woman's Enfranchisement to the Voters of Wisconsin with any hope of a successful result, but at lest the psychological period has arrived, made possible by the spirit of progress and an awakened conscience among the thinking people of our State and reflected through our State Legislature which has put upon the Statute books laws which have attracted the attention of our entire country because more just and equitable than any that have preceded them...

...To quote our sixty-year-old guide-book again: "The great number of windows on the ends of the houses, and their irregularity in size and position * * * struck us agreeably, —is if each of the various occupants * * * had punched a hole where his necessities required it, and, according to his size and stature, without regard to outside effect...

...THE DOMESTIC architecture of Chatham is worthy of study particularly by those who are interested in little homelike houses...

...Witness the progress in our own State...

...Whatever the rest of Cape Cod has done, Chatham has ev dently fulfilled Thoreau's prophecy, that it never would be agreeable to the fashionable world, and that those who can more for wine than for brine or, in other words, those who can more for excitement and noise than for quiet and restfulnes and for the "poetic recreation" of watching the sea would problam ably always go elsewhere...

...In that campaign also were John Hutchinson and Hurza Viola...

...The question of Popular Government is before the Voters of this Commonwealth...

...Thus will the Voters honor most themselves...

...A few years since, men knew little of freedom...

...But civilization does advance...

...He was a picturesque figure as he stood upon the sand, his form lithe and erect, his face bronzed and his little black eyes looking as if they had been specially sharpened for the purpose of searching out ships in distress...

...There is a strange lack of symmetry in these houses, doors which seem plainly designed to go in the middle being often a foot or two nearer one side than the other...

...HIT IS COMING to be understood that fire drills aTe as important for factories as for schools...

...To fully realize this eternal march of progress, my mind goes back for nearly a half century when the old abolitionists advocated the freedom of the negro slaves...

...But listening to the conversation which followed I was still further amazed and not a little ashamed to learn that while the United States pensions those who fight for it by land and by sea, it makes no provision either for the old age or the disablement of its life savers...

...We cannot turn the wheels of civilization backward...

...They had promised the women leaders of the Suffrage Movement, if we would but cease our activities to secure woman suffrage, until after the slavery question was settled, they in turn would do battle for our political freedom and thus when "the cruel war was over," we looked to these great and good men to "make good",—but looked in vain...

...While not prepared to accept his explanation as final, we decided that the best possible preparation for voting on a life savers' pension bill would be to spend a inght in a gale on Cape Cod, even though safe on shore...

...Tho-reau said of them that they seemed "like mariners ashore, to have sat right down to enjoy the firmness of the land, without studying their postures or habilaments...

...Cape Cod, Sixty Years After THE FIRST CHAPTER of Thoreau's Cape Cod, that delightful record of journeyings afoot on "the bared and bended arm" which Massachusetts stretches out in defense against her "Atlantic adversary," is devoted to the story of a shipwreck in all its grewsome details...

...Let us all work earnestly to keep Wisconsin in the lead and in being the first among the Middle States to recognize Woman's right to full citizenship and remove her political barriers...

...W were not troubled by blackbirds or crows during our stay o the Cape, but we were somewhat annoyed by flies which sug gests—but a word to the wise is sufficient...

...All day long the rain fell and the wind blew...

...The thriftier inhabitants, however, have painted their shingles...

...The early settlers seem to have cared more for comfort than for appearances," my friend said, "They planned the insides of their houses to suit themselves and let the doors and windows fall where they would...

...After a little general conversation, which turned chiefly upon the weather and the scarcity of fish, my friend said to him: "How is your bill coming on...

...some white which is not very objectionable, but others, pea green, lemon color or, if the whole truth must be told, lavender...

...Arriving after dark in Chatham, which lies on the elbow or, as Thoreau calls it, "the crazy bone" of the Cape, we woke the following morning to a tempest of wind and rain...

...If the voters of Wisconsin do their duty in November, 1912, I shall be grateful that my life has been spared to witness the result of my own and my co-worker's efforts for a better civilization...

...But while beer flows sparingly, books flow freely After a two days stay in town, we stepped into the beautiful public library expecting to be allowed only to read the maga zines and periodicals but to our surprise we found, that by merel giving our names and our home addresses and the name of ou hotel, we could get cards immediately and we departed with ou arms full of books...

...THE SECOND morning of our visit was bright and sunny and Cape Cod proved the sandy quality of its soil by looking as if it had never been rained upon...

...Let me urge upon all citizens of this Commonwealth to study this question of Popular Government...

...There are no saloons in Chatham and no policemen, an Saturday night on Main Street seems like a pleasant family gathering...

...Our country cannot claim tp be a True Republic so long as the "Special Privilege" of the ballot (or the control of all public affairs) is given to one sex, when the effects of all political leg'slation rest as heavily upon one sex as the other...

...It is our hope and belief that she will continue to lead in all progressive measures...

...Looking out to sea, we wondered and yet feared to know what lay beyond the fog in which it was enveloped...

...The march of progress is forever onward and upward...

...A day or two afterward we learned that only a few miles from the coast a lumber schooner had lain all that terrible night disabled, its masts snapped off by the wind and its only passengers, the wife and child of the captain, strapped to the deck to keep them from being washed into the ocean...

...and thus I, when a girl, was one of that Quartette of Women, which included Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who took part in the first educational campaign for Woman Suffrage ever carried on in the history of the World...

...I was appointed by Lucy Stone to travel through Kansas, over its rough and rugged plains, in springless wagons, in rickety stage coaches, often the teamster being my only companion for a sixty mile drive, riding night and day, speaking at cross roads, at school houses, in churches and log houses, interesting the already excited people (for this was soon after the war) in the cause of woman's liberty...

...She can soon show to the world that she honors her women and that the Voters of Wisconsin are not less just, wise or gallant than the Voters of Washington, which State has just enfranchised her women by a vote of nearly 3 to 1. This question of "Votes for Women" will never be settled until it is settled right...

...throw aside all prejudice and decide the question from the standpoint of right and wrong...

...It was looked upon with great astonishment that so small and young a Miss should come alone so far to teach the populace the fundamental principles of a True Republic, where every human being should have ALL the rights and opportunities possessed by any other human being, "for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

...There were windows for the grown folks and windows for the children,— three or four apiece...

...In 1867 we had at last concluded the time had arrived for us to work for our own freedom politically, especially since the negro slaves were soon to become Voters...

...THOSE WHO have seen a baby fix his affections on an old box cover or umbrella handle in spite of an abundance of costly toys with which his admiring relatives and friends have supplie him, will appreciate the following from H. G. Wells' "Mankin in Making...

...and with their sweet singing they stirred the hearts of all...

...A bill providing for pensioning them was introduced into Congress some time ago but it is still classed as "pending legislation...

...In the path of civilization there is no resting place...

...All progress is the result of slow and painful growth...

...I would not like to say there are n< for fear of injuring the trade of some who may be catering t the rich and fashionable...

...My friend's observation on this point was that the do not stay long enough to do much damage...

...Wisconsin has shown herself confident and unafraid...

...In Champlain's Voyages it is recorded that in 1695 a certai town on Cape Cod, fearing for its crops, issued an order tha "every unmarried man in the township shall kill six blackbird or three crows while he remains single...

...Sitting upon the beach we watched a solitary sail boat as it moved back and forth in a sheltered bit of water between the mainland and a long sand-spit which runs parallel to it...

...Our visit to Cape Cod, like Thoreau's, began in a storm...

...Ceaseless Education is Winning THE PROGRESS gained since those days has been the result of ceaseless education...