over Fasslfern Farm has been joined bj her son-in-law and P. Rowland. Baltimore; Mra, W. T. Har I i I 'l 1 it -Meei--Se---SMSjM-asSweSJSSBBSBBBSBBBS CHINESE WOMEN TO PARADE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE In of th he in a H. D. B. H. G. McCdn- 'J. E. CHINESE women, whose role used to V. lie in! being i prettily conservative. are planning to ride on horseback through the town In the parade on May 4J to i proclaim their belief In woman's right to votai f- A months ago Miss Jim. Chinese girt who la studying here. Joined the Woman's Political Equality: League. Last week she received a request from Mra Harriot Stanton Blatch. its presi dent. Since the women of, China had gotten ahead of the' English and Ameri can women: In gaining the vote, iwouldn Miss Jha organize ja brigade of Chinese women-who were living in New Tork. to ride la the parade! Wouldn't the Chines women help along their more restricted American sisters! I shall try- to organize this said Miss Jim. 1" She speaks in charming, precise English. Ton know she Is a foreigner by the very nerfectnesal the- lmmaculateness of her English. Her vole is very soft. Her manner Is timid, prettily amlabla Tou hav to pun yourself up to remember that you are talking' to a little i Chlni girl whose life Is lovingly concentrated In some man. -I A- This Is a Suffragette. A Chinese Suf- fragetta ri do not think shall go Into what you call Chinatown i for it- Thar ar too few chines girl' them It. seems to Chinatown 1 inhabited: -mostly by Jews and Itallana But hav about eight girl friends to Greater New Tork who, bortrs. believe la Woman Buf-ras-e. I shall ask them to rid In th paradeJ think they wllL" mouirea or -aaisswim or wut means ths Chines women had gotten th vote. Xt seemed queer that; judged socially Inferior and1 shut out from taking, any; part in business, as they ar. they should be conceded th privilege to help decide questions of gov ernment. English snd American worn en are. In comparison, so free, yet they ar having a hard tussl for that same concession. Si Suffras-' for women. -cam about through th recent revolution. Incidentally. Miss 'Jim remarked that that revolution resulted largely from American Influence. Th rebellion, she said, was Incited by the young; blood of China, who bad absorbed new Ideas from foreign, countries. 1 There ar eight hundred Chinese students to-day In America, China And TTiese Fair Representatives of; an Old: Gonseravtive Nation Will Uphold Their Opinion on iA.AA"y' Af fH "ft- 4: a1 A' -a lj a 4 i A Ail IV- i S. V. 'A "AK A-. )a. A ef Chines Women' Address New Meetlns. 'i-Ki j- "A-''. A'A The woman speaking Is Miss Mabel Lee, who told her American sisters pf th fight' that the women of China will soon be educated to make for. the right to vot. On th Speaker's platform Is Dr. Anna i Shaw, the suffrage leader, and Mra Loo also made an. address oa suffrage, In -the 'Chines Republia A profllelew ef Mrs, O. H. P. Belmont, probably thai wealthiest, suffragette in the world, was 'caught by. th photographer who took the picture. Mrs. Belmont la seated Justr a UtU to he, right of the speaker's platform. Revolution Is not yet Probably the leaders themselves of ten, had to pay is a yearly Indemnity fund am Xl I ever since the Boxer troublea A couple of years ago, America gave Dae tne fund to China on condition mat sne uaa It to Sena ner Tonnt- nu mau women to this country to college. When the revolution broke out women slkover the country were Inflamed. They wanted to help directly. On thousand girls, between th ages of eighteen and twenty-five, formed themselves into regiment. -was sailed the Woman's Regiment. I v- I A. number of the girl had flea rrom schools and colleges to: join It. They were rich glrla They had led sheltered, one might almost say pampered, Uvea The stronghold of th old dynasty was Nanking. If Nanking feu th Conserva tives would be whipped. Miss Jim told this drsmatlo stsryt One' th rebels charged ths fortresa Th garrison! held Its own. Twfcs the attack was repelled. Th ranks of the reformers wavered. Then then General called "out for th Woman's Brigade. He placed It In the front. The first and the tottest fire would fall on t. Th enemy ould hav to plow down the women to get at th men. ''( I Th General; gave the conmand ad- anca without a whimper or cry the omen led th third attack. Enthused, Inspired. Inflamed by their example, the Tien backed them The fortress of Nanking fell. Th backbone of th dynasty was broken, -A few months later th reformers were masters of th whole field. They wer no longer rebelai They were th Govern meat. Then those at th Woman's Brigade wh Iwere still alive petitioned this Government for woman suffrage. They got It. I i- Down at th. Chinas Reform XVsws, os ef th editors said that the Woman's Regiment had been created merely to hick up the off ort of th men. If matters reached a desperate stage, and to encourage th men, la any ease. With vivacity; and many gestures, he explajned th role of the brigade in this way: Man know If army beaten, sister behind him. She get killed, i Man fight hard. He win; sure. He got to." The "Regiment Is a till' In existence. Whether directly, or Indirectly, it undoubtedly played a big part In gaining women According to the Chinese Reform Editor, a part of China la still governed by men only, A woman named Tig Tuk TlSg is; trying -to "bring light into this part by means of Carrie Nation tactics the Mrs. Fankhurst of China, she is called. That Chinese territory1" which does enjoy woman suffrage, however, -already has one woman representative -la its I assembly. Chinese news, nowadays; la about as' flickering as a moving searchlight. Th Several things, however, are definite. One of them Is jthat there has been a tremendous awakening of Chinese women, whatever particular territory the old empire they hat so far succeeded In converting to their beliefa Miss Jim attributes this awakening to 7 our students. She got -off thee wo words with such an air of -gentle; pride that asked heir Just what she meant by a student. I 4 i 82 answered la 'her caraful, slowly deliberate diction. Tt was Ilk an exercise from Murray's English Grammar. iW call a man or girl a student If he is Investigating things In some' foreign co an try so that he may teacU wnat ne learns to Chinsl If hs Is just selfishly studying, he Is sot then a He is then simply a-pupil. My friends' whom I think will rl4e with me In the parade and I are students. When we have learned, we will -go jback: to. Chlna. will bo i teachers orj doctors whatever each on wishes. wlU always teU others what havis here absorbed, was not a suf fragett before I came to America. At heard nothing but of making jthose around me happy. I came here and saw In the papers so much discussion about women. What truly wis their work should theV' dot exactly1: how. should they get from their husbands the money on wnicn to liveT these aftd similar quesuons- Protecting the Pastor Y'0UWm nvr know whether your parishioners really adore you until reu set a chance to observe their behavior toward yon during- an epldemlo of oontaglouo said xperl- sneod minister to i ths divinity grsdsats, Anyhow. i Several cases of malignant fever were reported in myj parish. As sooa ss heard of a case! I called, but th family was always reluctant to admit m. took my dismissal philosophically enough until I found that religious consolation had' been administered by a curat from a neighboring parish; then I exercised my authority asja pastor. 1 1 A "'But It was be cause we thought too much of you that we wouldn't let you in. everybody explained. This disease Is contagious, and we couldn't afford to hav anything happen to you. fTbey seemed! to think It didn't matter 5 If the other; man did get sick and die; I was too precious to be sacrificed. And I hay found, always the attitude of a pariah toward a pastor the)- really love. When danger la In- you solved they prsXar th strangsr." "These problems seem to bo te th sir. Do you not think so? notJood tt strongly! when cam from China, I My friends and talked all over. We wer here, you know, to study, to ln-vestlgat. We talk-, among ourselves a great deal about economics and women suffrage. We sead many books, hav read very-much for and against woman suffrage." Mlaa Jlm-mada a wfda aeatus wttnfhar viands. i i. hav con throojrh many aowspaper I articles and 8b looked so demure. So pretty. Tou half expected her to stick a Cower to her hair and cat ut and daao. Instead of that, a be went oni 'VWhen came to this oecmtry, saw how much Government and business naa to do with on another. Miss Jim, la naively stating her as they seem to her. perhaps gives us an Involuntary dig. I thought It would well tt th horn and th wer als SJned." She said that she wanted th Tot most her friends and she for two psrtloular reasons. Tou will notice that th Chinese women's desires for suffrag spring directly from the fact thetr. place Is SDecificany and absolutely. In th horn. Oddly enough, the very weapon ox the American Antt-Suffragist famishes) th Chines suf frsiiit with TnTnnnttJnn. -Tou see, In China." said Mis! Jim. our women do not go int tradet it is not': even liked that they wSXk Touch upon ths streets. Their live ar trsty; spent In their homes. There is no such thin dSvoroe. Tou can understand that It 1 absolutely desirable that a Chines woman sad her bustsnd should friends. 1 Otherwise she Is so very lonely. woman may net hav smother man besides her husband even eall upon hexv "There Is a pleasant itmsi am to this said Miss Jim, tn grav paren-t heals. "One's husband may at visit another. A. Ws aS ttv la th vmag tn wWdh we were born. Though may travel, that is our hem. We ars registered there. There ark our dear relatives and friends. Ton can perceive that a huaband or his wife may not seek happiness ever so Innocently, with somebody, els, under these con dition, vi I If every one tn a town Is your rela tive or. pour friend, or, at th least, a warm acouaintanc, and knows your wife and your children, and your parents, and perhaps your grandparents, it Is difficult not to act as you are expected to, no matter how Ton wish to act. I asked her what all this had with making, her' and her Chines girl friends suffragettea "I thought I had made It plain. our Uvea la It not wise that we try to Inform ourselves upon' all our husband's pursuits 1 It Is pleasant to be able to talk to one's husband upon many things In such a way as to hold his Interest i Th loneliness that you feel when you ar living with another person." said Miss Lee gently. Is th most terrible loneli ness of aU." I Th vision roe before me of genera- Itons of Chinese women who had crip pled their feet for life so as to make them selves attractive to men, who had de nied themselves half the Interest and the fun of Uf In. order to seem sweet and gentle aad very, very womanly, and thus appeal to husbanda: ooutd Imagine the loneliness, the boredom Of home life under these conditions th waning Interest of the Chinese hus band, (his rather cotitemp the way he would not talk to hla- how. perhaps, when' a ma end VlsRad the house, from her husband's sudden burst of spontaneous, unhampered the wife would team more of -what he) doing and thinking than ah the previous week of eonnublsXj atlon, i Ml The pain of hearing one's busbaad to somebody else more eae(lr mor frssTyj than he doee to youl Tbatjdoes makn lonely. The whole situation lllumtnaesdl the Chinese woman's Wish for suffiragsj ss fuel toward the flame of i 'tnt homes Being very much lri th homa" ssH tlnued Miss Jim. makes us be tflssiljl tnat there are many things tht that ought to be better. The' law make them Tet such laws Baaaad. i i A Mea do not know much That, is my second reaea Ing womaa suffrage." .1 Miss; Jim complained that; sa women ar considered socially Infirtonj But now she hoped 'a different rder sj things would gradually be brought abewV When, a woman syk she thinks 1 -Hi n' fer fkisM so, her husband will no longer atnU terestad and be Impatient. He will be respectfuL I lit tone became tinged With "Even now there are In China husbands who ar what do jywsi aa fsf 1 I. She nodded her head up an. henpecked." grav fleasura Then a thought that marred, bar satIsfsoton. i I II -It Is so everywhere. 1st it riotT'she queried ruefuUy. 1 1 At present Miss Jim snd hW frlenda ars particularly Interested la oxarninlnaT Into different systems of govefnmenV Woman suffrage Is rather a back sum ber. That was settled In the afflrmatre a year or so And hav looked upon th Eastern women 4s human domestic peta j'i Th coterie hav a leaning toward 004 clallsm. It wou'd be a stronger on ii they hadn't gotten lnt thetr haads that under Socialism they would run th, risk of having their, babine I torn from) their arms and clapped Into sotn Stat Institution to be raised. The ruling pas Ion of-a Chinese woman's Hfe.t has feeUns; toward her chlldrenj I Nl Queerly enough Chines women, tn their former stage of acut womsn'tness, wore trousers, and now thy don any lhore. I I 1 i A matron of the old school appear la what looks like a black suit of pajamas, At the end of them little pointed deform ltles stick out, the remain of what Ood crested feetl These ar decked La gUdedi brilliantly colored I slipperg. I tt almost seems Ironical to so emphasis slokssx log lit h. The modern Chines woman loose garment that, is some this IfJcs ldmono.1 Her feet are untampered wtQh "I think," said Miss Le. thM pew haps because we were helq back strongly, for so many years' the Is now) a great awakening, i Is that net natural 1 The accumulated need of; centuries 14 bursting out. la our recenxperi "For the Woman Who Care EVENING WHITE Mi; i if 13 50c mm i -Iaah i i J.f-.k rvv-- t--w quantity bat been purcnasea rrom as new laoeis placed on oar tube and under another name) la beicj old for 0. I I WEemng White lg well worth $1.50, bttt on account of the Uxz croantitiet we make we are able to sell it at Do not seT Our husbands must play a great, gush a very great part la -v- FIFTY CENTS PLEXO EVENING WHITE i used by the most particnlar society and professional women as the sgrntl rmtahrftw trsaA far ayrgning Wear. It -Wall ji not rob off on clothes and cannot be rubbed off by jjt lavelief of other jewels. Send cs 10 cenU and We wSl send yen tubes of Plexo Erenlnj Plexo Qeanslnt; Creamy rlexo isreaseless vream and rleo Dental Creme, .1 i Plexo Preparations. 14-lG Vesey Sl; U. Y. r. if '''if -k-t 1
