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That is a Christmas Eve mem of three quarters of a cenry agoand as It takes form in ords the voice of the speaker re Cynthia A Axtell of 1221 ast Eighth street who nears togenarian honors thrills ith the excitement of those And Christmas rnornin14 Bath-knew well his little flock here was no waitingfor a luxuous breakfast and careful for the day In fact ere was no waiting even for arm bathrobes and slippers for very good reason that there as none But at 4 o'clock in the orning father had a roaring re in the fireplace and figures roiled from snug atherbeds and warm blankets bare feet scampered across floor to reach the Christmas 'ire low 77704 'We i I WO YM 1 ottiV7 7 rreA rereZe ctritvar ze Zs(4 0'z---: 4r' tan P' ref' 704 17004j Irez-47 Pir v72en1 40 --0-- lf wip: v7 Pe-mi ilw i pimp ----4: rfilrfnzei db orAmmrfmror ff 1 2-ir fftglrIV7ef- Y- r' grrdle40e i 7470474 7 t1110 2 )Illy A N't WILL wra 1 7 2- ----4-f '--------1---'1 4 epclkex zorse40511(Ns' 4fr viiez A 41 PPffrollea AftV14 1 417 1 fit I 1t i I tir-1Vzo7 Ls4 7Att 'ivIIIiii111211149711 1 1 1 ri 11k i it 1 NIA 7 4rP 11 111114 r74 '721: -7 Mt 41or- 11 I grdlreeAKZC ih ff-- In AK' dBmoa- L-- w- but one apple Cynthia was the baby so she always received the first piece the rosy cheek and the restwas divided among the -other 'children Her own first trip to town was made when she was eight years old She went a chopping Her cur rency was a two-cent piece and a bag of red peppers For this she secured enough calico to make an apron Money was almost an unItc known article "I don't suppose father had iidollar a year in his pocket except taxpaying time then we would sell a cow or something to get the tax money These childhood days were as primitive as colonial days Cook- Ig 5g rit le r- Its to its Le or 5y AS k- but one apple Cynthia she always re the baby sc the first piece the rosy and the restwas divided a the -other children Her first trip to town was when she was eight yeart She went a shopPing Bel rency was a two-cent plea a bag of red peppers Fol she secured enough calk make an apron knMowonneayrtwieasie: almi odnotnlagnu father had idollar a year In "atr --maybe a popcorn ball and joy of Joys sometimes there was a red and white striped stick of candy This was luxury indeed Not even an Ipp le did those siockings contain ofor in that new country of Illinois they were not to be had "Were we disappointed at not getting store presenter repeated Mrs Arts It" Not a bit- We were happy and looked forward to Christmas breakfast for we were to have wheat bread This was a Sunday morning and boll day morning treat Other days we ate cornbread Then after breakfast we would skate elide downthe hill on homemade sleds throw snow ballc make a snow mane CO the whole day was gone and tired and happy we gathered around the broad fireplace and crawled back into the beds from whkh we had scampered so eagerly in the early morning" Those happy Chriatmases were in central Illinois near Macomb where land now loll at $600 an acre where spacious homes now stand and where children as elsewhere ever clamor for more 'where the intricate mechanical toys the elaborate dolls and their trappings dainty trinkets and beautiful garments bring not the joy of the autumn gathe'red nuts and the striped candy Mrs Axtell's father secured his land for a dollar and a quaretr an acre The little house he built for his family WWI one of the first hewn log structures in that section He opoorn bait and somefimes there white striped stick his was luxury in- men an Ipple did Is contain ofor in of Illinois disappointed at not untTy to be had presents repeated Not a bit- We ad looked forward breakfast for we wheat 'bread This morning and boll treat Other das rtad Then after would skate elide II on bomemade snow belle make so the whole day tired and happy around the broad crawled back into eagerly in the ear- whkh we bad 1 4 6F 7 6or where the blackbArds ang in the hickory grove The first dolly which Mrs octet calls "pretty" was made for be by an auntie made on the sly for grandmother thought them foolish This doll was made in 3 made de on made in where the blackbirds lang the hickory grove di 1 i Re? 1010i totifidroed00 'catching the balls 'lers'afatly0---arfalog vvolbm amob and we9t some place to read Ante Over 'cati My uncle who lived next t0 girl-fashion in ti had a deer park with big trees little girls alway In IL One I chose bad big fl years ago broad curving branches and I and home was always loved to go there and where each chil read" for ht nven one( A Ante Over girl-fashion in little girls always Me years ago and home was a where each child for his own -MINE1M MMi E1M-- ia AWWNI 7- 7- 1Lw cbco- of cloth and was a prised POOSell' sion for many years One Christ- mas present which made her happy when she was Quite a big girl was a picture which her cousin carefully steamed from tbe end of a bolt of muslin and placed it in a little home-made frame ing was done over the open fire The fire also furnished the light in that room but there were-candles and later lamps with cloth wicks in lard Scrubbing brooms were made front hickory poles which were stripped at the end and folded back Later they grew broom corn and tied it Into They had the wool from their own sheep from which they made the cloth for the new linsey Woolsey dresses with one ofwhich each was outfitted once a year re ng ory at ter ted he ep tth on and a brother who Is eighty four Sundaye were not days of wild restless longing and rstrained fretfulness days of rushing hither and thither Da days of peace and quiet baoytnese We never thought of going any place or of romping and playing "mid Mrs Artell "Of schooilhouse Then we had a which has held in the little log course we went to Sunday school rary stocked with books for children of all ages After Sunday school we took our books cultivated bisjand raised the things the family needed kept sheep cows and pigs taught the little school was mother and father to his little family of five for many years taught them to obey him reverence God and keep the Sabbath "I think it Is because of our teaching we are spared so long" said Mrs Astell who although near eighty has just returned from a five months' trip to the old Illinois home during which she visited a sister wbb is eighty cirri AND JOYS the aprons which wore seventy Between school young orchard choose a tree special horse Store dolls were unknown in that section of the country then but long-necked cashaw squashes were talked to cuddled carried around and proudly wheeled In the doll buggies big brothers made from boxes They formed the play camp meeting audiences GAMES OP OW A RARE TREAT Eager lingers searched tor the dden treasures and grasped em with joy What were they? lack walnuts shell bark hick -y nuts bazelnuts and perhaps There were play days for these pioneer children At school they played Old Black Man Pussy Wants a Corner and when the boys wohld let them the little girls delighted to join them in Father sometimes went to Macomb the little town twelve Comb the little town twelve miles illwar and as a special' treat be would take home an apple not a peck or a sack full 11 I MAKING IT A HOME MAKI andtohlhitionhaL ap9tohlhitiAo ffonhaliki commtNrry EVENT Butchering was always an occasion for a neighborhoodgathering Everybody helped and everybody shared Wool pickings and husking bees were festive occasions and by the time Mrs Axtell was a young woman apple orchards had been planted and come to production and there were apple parings Fruit was not canned in those days but always dried School days were those that have been pictured in history and romance Mrs Axtell's home was near She had only three-quarters of a mile to go There were woods and brooks and flower carpeted meadows in the spring time hazy autumn days where great brown nuts tempted little feet from tkp beaten path winter days when fingers and toes were frozen stiff before the school house was reached and Seth- tnd lye Nos Lnd uIt ys tat )rY me ee- ere nil the ted th Lnd the Lnd -vs z' I pt er t'' 4 'I c' I WrTotle ep mitt tttz 4 I "1 fil 54 fC -1hiyart to trale 1 4 44' 4L 4-' 'Ar i '4 A4 1 dei s' t' 30 idaf 1110 arq4 'k 4k11' r''v 4 I ilitk 1 1 1 R- $c7 A 1 4 1 1---3 i 'A e4 topior 1001 i --N' 'J: 114 a c-'-' tr I 1 i 4 40 it 3 ige- 4N Je tOr ko 1111111111111111111111111111111111 7-- it 0 000041 1 s4 lit III ----)- NH A oo piTri es c's i tia By MARY WILSON HOPKINS )nce upon a like stories might be always and this is just as it begin that way don't you? different from her room at school as I could mace it II once upon a time a bride was "You know her old bedroom set Acipating the visit of a relative of furniture was simply outgrows log young and enthusiastic sho When we got her that bird's eye a in a state of pleasurable ex- maple set years ago it was just nt over the visit So she right for a litle girl but it has been absurdly ght lovely cretonne and draped childish for her of late and it is badly batteted too SO I dressing table Over this she got this prety aingle four-poster ng a mirror It was very dainty anti made a chintz cover for it pretty The guest room was with a valance around the bottom be the prettiest room in her and hung little valanced curtains of the mime material at the win-se so she worked early and late flows king curtains to match the "I didnt know what to do about ssing table and craPWeszi a big a dressing table didn't chair with the same lovely want to buy a new are terial It was a feeling of real so sort bar41-looking So I bought a round drop-leaf pine de that she ushered the expected table in the house-keeping depart at into the dainty room But ment of one of the big shops at happened? Nothing! No dropped the back leaf down against pliments nothing said about the wall and raised the front leaf attractive room! She a as die- As you see I've tacked plain gray chambray to the top of it and ointed but decided that the made full curtains of the gray and St was tired after her journey rose chintz with a little pleated next morning she prepared a ruffle at the top I found a plain pting breakfast and carried the wooden stool and I've handled that in the same way Isn't it all prstI to the visitor's room Still ty and girlish was said batit the pretty "You see she has plenty of drawtains and dressing table Later er space in her closet with its the day the relative went shop cupboards and shelves so she didn't yr and sent to the house a bed- need a regular large dressing table I've shaded the electric lights with set that was the acme of bad rose too and put a black and rose tel Her only explanation was rug on the floor She will be cc cold statement that she "hated static I am sure" willing" So the poor little Some bowls really are fascinat de lived unhappily forever after log Especially the large imported that ugly bedroom ones of opaque glass with bright relative might at any time de flowers for a decoration These a to make another visit and she come from France I believe If they are placed on a wrought iron Id not hurt her feelings! There stand they appear more dignified a good many common Piece and decorative They would look nce upon a tirr Lt begin that II once upon a icipating the vi ing young and a in a state of ment over nu ght lovely cret dreasing table ng a mirror 11 pretty The be the pretti se so she wort king curtains 'Being table an chair with terial It was de that she ush at into the dt at happened? pliments not attractive roo ointed but de at wee tired a next mornim pting breakfat I to the visit fling was said tame and drea the day the re It and sent to rit set that watt te! Her only cold statemen witting" So de lived unbar that Ugly relative migh to make ano Id not hurt he a good mar the thawing out was a regular part of the routine Pupils were seated en plain benches so high that little feet did not reach the floor Later homemade desks were added to the equipment Spelling was the subject of greatest effort and he or she who was skilled in that subject 'was the glory and pride of the school and known in all the country round The last period of the day was given to the study of spelling and the study was done aloud tar ere Igh the oks of 5he ect the the tod the tcly fused the privilege granted so grudgingly Mrs Mann did not start out with' an ambition for a public career She wanted to teach school and she did for ten Then she married a minister Rev St John and was the assistant that a minister's wife usually is until once during evangelistic services his health failed and she stepped in She rode fourteen miles and preached every evening and three times on Sunday until the end of the meeting then continued his work for two months until he recoveredhis health In 1880 they began an evangelistic work which they continued together until 1904 during which they preached in every large city from San Francisco to New York IThey worked together for the cause of temperance in the days when 'Ite they drove through the streets her husband handled the lines with one hand and held his re volver in the other In 1884 she then Eugenia St John was called to the national board of lecturers of the This consisted of thirty-six men and women at this time "1 don't think most people realize what a wonderful work the has done In the development of women" said Mn Mann "It has forty-two departments each like a club which give women an opportunity to study end to put organizetion work into practice It educates inside and out" In addition to her and evstigelistic work she held pastorates in ten churches retiring from active work in the Kansas City church of her denomination two years age She was known over the entire country as a gifted orator and a musician of ability and corn-posed bar own songs for her evangelistic work In addition to her great list of friends in suffrage temperance and ministerial work she bas bad the pleasure of knowing many of the great statesmen and writers of thin and other tibt and oilier 0 ROM the days when 'jilt they evoked scorn and ridicule to the final It I victory of constitu tional amendments two women now residing in Long beach gave time and talent to two great women movementi equal suffrage and prohibition They are Mow Eugenia St Jain Mann'of 1132 Pacific avenue and Mrs Laura Johns of Kennilworth hall Both number among the privileges of long and interesting public careers the memories of friendships with the women whose name are inseparably associated with these and other movemepts for women in the last half century Both were among the members of the first international gathering of women to unify and forward the work for women Mrs Mann for forty years an ordained minister and Chautauqua lecturer concluded religious services for the gathering and Mrs Johns attended as president of the Kan- sas Equal Suffrage association The meeting was calledin Washington in 1388 by Susan Anthony Representatives of eighteen nation responded "It was to bring together women of Europe and America in an effort not only to (outranchise all women of the civilised world but also tol secure to them all constitutional rights equal ownership in the child and equality beldre the law generally" said Mrs Johns in discussing the historic event Treasured possessions of Mrs Mann and Mr Johns are the pictures of this delegate body Among them were Susan Anthony who presided FrancesE Willard founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union Julia Ward Howe author of "The Battle Hymn of the Re- Mary A Livermore who! during the Civil War raise money and established a wet of nursing for soldiers Zereida Wallace stepmother tist (- General Lew Wallace and the type from which he drew the mother in "Ben Elitiabetli Cady Stanton Dr Anna H(mard 1 auy CitaU11111 111 4LILIIII SW' 1111-1A i1RODit the days when rill they evoked scorn and ridicule to the final lvictory of constitu- re tional amendments two women now residing in ng Beach gave time and talent two great women movements ual suffrage and prohibition ey are Mrs Eugenia St Jain tnn'of 1132 Pacific avenue and Laura Johns of Kennil- 1 rth hall Both number among the privi- res of long and Interesting pub- careers the memories of endships with the women lose name are inseparably as- Mated with these and other womepts for women 'in the it half century Both were song the members of the first ernational gathering of women unify and forward the work women Mrs Mann for forty an an ordained minister and Chautauqua lecturer ncluded religious services for gathering and Mrs Johns tended as president of the Kan- Equal Suffrage association rhot14Itt Eugenia St John Minn coworker with Frances Willard national lecturer for the Wonia0 Christian Temperance Union and for more than forty 'ears in et angelistic work Laura Johns coworker with Sumn Anthony 'also has helped campaign tor woman's Suffrage in every state in the Union in which such campaigns were waged Victoria Richardson delegate from the Western Women'e tartan association Caroline MerCrioit May Wright Sewall Elizabeth Lisle BUXOM 111'E WORK cially significant and the convention responded uproarious''' for it was the beginning of accomplishment Mrs Johns has done lectureiand organization wofic in everi state in the Unibm and has campaigned in every state when the suffrage fight was on including Cidifornia Now after more than a quarter of a century of active work she says she ham come to California to play Mrs Eugenia St John Mann was the first woman to be seated In the national conference of the SCII0014 LIFE Whea she had finished the district schciol Mrs Axtell and her sister went to'the academy Their brother" had promised to see them through school if the girls would make their clothes so the girls Apun sewed and knitted both for themselves and their brothers When the time to go away to school came they ranted a room for which their brother paid and took from home the food they prepared tor themselves After she had completed the academy course Mr" Axtell became teacher For her first school she wag paid a month For the second she was paid ilf and finally she was able to draw the munificent salary of 40 a month The years have brought many andvaried experiences She has seen liar -own children rejoice in the sensible store bought gifts and her grandchildren revel in the marv-Is of a modern Christmas with gifts assembled from every part of the globe but no joy has been greater than those Christmas morning of her own childhood when eager fingers sought and found the treasures of love and joy and peace at lave and Jay and peace the 5nd to the hes 5nd yes the me ich )olt be- Irst well filled with fruit on a pining table or they might have a tiny miniature fountain and grasses or fluffy feather jr end be more dietinctive Some of the smaller bowls of the same kind save electric lights which fit over the tope and make small lights Any woman would adore one of the after dinner coffee sets on a tray with a handle and the cups set in tiny holders that re mind one of en ice cream soda fountain To go back to the bowls are those made in Italy of majolica or paghettiware or something of the are lovely examples of the artistic pottery made in the Italian towns one bowl was filled with softly colored fruit all baked in the same dish as one might say! The glass fruit with an electric light underneath is always tempting to the eye but makes one wonder what would happen if a baby should swallow a delicious looking glass grape or cherry! Now near Christmas the shops are "so full we should all be as haunt as kings!" kingai" openings that are real tragedies! was getting toward the middle the holiday month and the ond of tacking was heard It oceeded from aaunny room on second floor and when the ce the Howie followed it corn-home a bit early to dinner he Ind his wife kneeling on the or beside a dainty piece of frilly niturs hung with flowered curna in rose and gray 'What on earth are you Inquired of the flushed and ary workwoman the sat down and proudly cur red her handiwork re been doing over Nancy's she announced "She is ning home early next t-eek for Chriatznas holidays and I want room to be ready for her as a demos gift Boarding school omit aren't as dainty as they m8 aren't aa dainty 88 they penings that was getting the holiday nd of tackini eded from second floor 411' the Howie home a bit ad his wife or beside a dal raw hung NI in rose and 'What on cart Inquired of workwomi he sat down her bandim re been do room" she an ing home eal Christmas hol room to be mai eft Inc arent as Shaw Carrie Chapman Catt Matilda Joyce Gage pioneer suffrage workers Pundits Rama' bal who founded tbe school for the little widows of India Mary Hunt who introduced mien-title temperance in the schools and issued the first series of books on the subject Margaret Bright Lucas president of the world and sister of John Bright author of the famous English corn laws Laura 'Ormiston English delegate from the National Society for Women's Suffrage and seven associations Margaret 44 of Ireland Mrs Ashton 14ao latbsA lt England delegate from 1 he a II Isabella 13 11g ot 1Irance delegate from 1 thi loon Workers St Legere 1and)tlio otber women's associa- 'Aili TrYgg and Alex Grip- sti)r rk of Finland representing the -'Finnish Women's Ilnionl tile IIIIIIMU a vulva Ity Dli Ste-F140 4tktr8 Johns has devoted her life to the suffrage cause She served Me Kansas 'Equ'al Suffrage 'asiociation as its president from 1885 to 1895 was the association legislative representa tivo for three sessions and had just secured the passage of the woman's municipal suffrage bill in Kansas when the international gathering was held in Washington Kansas was the first state to grant this privilege The address of "Fellow Citi- setts" today evokes not a comment but when Mrs Johns addressed the Washington meeting In that way it was new and wipe 111 1-nat WILY IL Wan 1111W sePe- Methodist Protestant church and ihis only after a strenuous fight This was in ISSIS at Westminster Md At the same time Frances Willard was seeking permission of the Methodist Episcopal conference to address' it After a two and a half hour debate she was granted ten ate 8he thanked them but re''' DIM IIIIMILett t88111 DUt TIP 1 i i4-'-s- -c-' i''! 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