The patriot. (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, February 24, 1917, The Patriot, Image 3

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    At the Coffers of the State
News Note: of thts cost of a
•econd referendum (?) (Ask any trust company official what proportion of
taxpaying estates were bequeathed or are owned by women!)
WOMEN DECLARE
LEGISLATURE WILL
PASS AMENDMENT
Leaders Say Objections Have
Softened to Whisperings Now
and That Lobby Shows Fav
orable Situation
"REASONABLE CERTAINTY"
After almost seven weeks' contin
uous work during and between ses
sions of the Legislature at Harris
burg, suffragists of the state through
their executive board have announced
themselves as "reasonably certain"
that their woman suffrage amendment
will be passed by the House of Repre
sentatives.
Suffragists say they base this "rea
sonable certainty" upon pledges made
before the May primaries of 1916, prior
MRS. J. O. MILLER
to the November election of the same
year and assurances given recently at
Harrisburg by members of the House.
Counter Strokes.
In addition, the suffragists declared,
after a .three-days' session of their
executive board at state headquarters,
that all objections raised have been
countered with the result that there
remains no ground for logical opposi
tion.
Even politicians, according to Mrs.
Lewis Lawrence Smith of Strafford,
vice president of the Pennsylvania
W T oman Suffrage Association, who has
been lobbying at the state capitol, ad
mit the suffragists have the most
nearly complete poll of members of
the Legislature ever prepared. This,
the votes-for-women workers assert.
ha*s been added to materially as the
result of work this year.
Concerning objections raised and
met. Mrs. J. O. Miller of Pittsburgh,
chairman of the legislative committee
of suffrage, said:
Objectors Hushed.
"We no longer hear more than whis
pers concerning objections to the cost
of another woman suffrage referendum,
that it is too early to introduce another
amendment and that we must show a
sentiment demanding another vote
£ 1917 LEGISLATURES GIVE $
$ VOTE TO OHIO 3
X AND N. D. WOMEN i
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*:* If the Pennsylvania Legisla- 7
ture fails to *pass the woman «5
X suffrage amendment now in the *|
«jjj» Committee on Constitutional *f
Reform of the lower branch it X
v will be in a minority among the |
.*♦ states where similar bills have $
*x* been introduced. •j"
Ijjl Already, in 1917, the North X
*:* Dakota Legislature has passed
♦j* a bill granting the women of
*:* that state the right of presiden
tial and municipal franchise.
*:* The bill has been signed by ♦>
Governor Frazer.
*:* In Ohio, too, both the House
•j* and Senate have passed a br'll X
*£ granting the women of the Buck- |
♦j* eye State the right to vote at X
( presidential elections. Gover- £
v nor Cox has intimated he will X
sign the bill. £
*j* In other Legislatures from
Maine to Texas, where bills X
*:* have been introduced, they, for
«]♦ the most part, have been ad- X
*£ vanced steadily toward the point
•> of granting a referendum or X
A presidential or municipal suf- V
V frage. X
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WOMEN WILL AID COUNTRY
IF HOSTILITIES OCCUR;
COUNCIL IS CALLED
I Suffragists of Pennsylvania, repre
j sented by three delegates, will confer
i with the national suffrage organiza
| tion, February 23-25 inclusive in
Washington, D. C., at a special meet
ing of the Execut've Suffrage Council
called to consider possible entry of the
United States into the world war and
the part women will play in such an
event. The delegates will be Mrs. J.
O. Miller of Pittsburgh, Mrs. George
A. Dunning of Philadelphia, and Mrs.
Lewis Lawrence Smith of Strafford.
The subject to be discussed by the
council is, "The National Crisis and
Women's Responsibility Toward It."
State suffragists already have had
acknowledged by President Wilson,
Governor Brumbaugh and their nation
al president, Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt, an offer of their entire re
sources in event of hostilities.
WHAT MOTHERS KNOW
,
Only a mother knows what a man
■ costs —and mothers have no voice in
j "Council of War."—John J. Mullow
! ney.
"The women of New Zealand secur
ed the franchise by only two votes.
! Now it is doubtful if in the whole
House there would be two members
opposed to it."—Sir Joseph Ward,
premier of N. Z.
-
' upon the question. These were only
pretexts, not seriously advanced, cer
tainly. because since we have called
attention to the $50,000,000 roads bond
; issue amendment having been re-in-
I troduced immediately after defeat in
1913, opponents hushed their conten
tions quickly and sought other ground
upon which to stand. What was right
; for .the roads measure certainly is
right for the suffrage measure for it
must always be remembered that wom
en who are large taxpayers and con
tributors to the state's coffers certain
ly are paying a large part of the com
paratively small cost involved.
"If many were surprised at the
-trength of the suffrage movement reg
j istered in 1915 after only two years'
work, certainly they will be more in
terested in our increased strength.
"We have no doubt that legislators
representing the more than 355.000
J constituents who voted for the suf
frage amendment in 1915 and carried
; 33 counties will give heed by passing
K ■ *
The Effects of a j
Club Breakfast
By EDWARD T. STEWART
I m
Dowling left his sleeping room at his
! club and went downstairs to breakfast.
Scanning the menu, lie saw, what he
had seen every morning, that if he or
dered a breakfast made up of different
ilishes he would have enough for half
a dozen persons and at a great cost, so
he gave his usual order, "Oatmeal and
coffee." He ate a quarter of the oat
meal and left the table unsatisfied,
muttering anathemas against the man*
agement for not serving a different
kind of breakfast.
"I'm going into bachelor quarters,"
he said to himself, "and keep a cook."
Going to his office by a different
route from the usual one, he passed a
house on which was a sign, "To Let"
It was a dainty edifice and would
furnish him with just about the room
he needed. Pushing the bell button,
the summons was answered by a wo
man just as dainty as the house- She
was in mourning. Dowling told her he
was thinking of taking a house and
was invited inside. After he had been
informed as to the number of rooms,
rental, etc., he remarked:
"I wonder that you can bear to part
with such a pleasant little home."
Tears stood in the lady's eyes as she
replied that she had been married a
year before and her husband had died
soon after the expiration of the honey
moon. She had not been able to tear
herself away from the home in which
she had been so happy and would not
do so now, but she had found living
alone unprofitable.
"The rental would be satisfactory to
me," said Dowling. "May I look
through the premises?"
The widow led him from the living
room to the dining room. On the table
was a breakfast that made his mouth
water—a dish of fruit, a sliver of ba
con, an omelet, with a little parsley to
garnish it, and slices of toast. The cof
fee urn was of artistic and the
cups were Dresden china.
"I was just sitting down to breakfast
when you called," said the lady.
"Isn't it an elaborate breakfast for
one person?"' asked Dowling.
"I eat little or nothing between
breakfast and dinner," was the reply.
Dowling looked longingly at the vi
ands.
"Madam," he said, "I have just break
fasted at my club. I have had my
first course of oatmeal and am ready
for the rest. If you will permit me to
finish the meal here of these viands 1
will rent your house at the price you
ask, with a liberal bonus."
The widow, seeing the hungry look
on Dowling's face, assented and, set
ting a plate for him, seated herself be
fore the coffee urn. There was no
bountiful supply for a healthy man of
thirty, but everything was. so delicious
that the quality made up for the lack
of quantity.
"I supposed," she said, "that a club
table comprised every delicacy, no mat
ter how costly."
" 'No matter how costly' is correct,"
replied Dowling. "As to delicacy, you
have been misinformed."
Dowling spent an hour at the table,
but the principal part of it was in
chatting with the widow. When he
arose to go he_said_ that he would caJJ
GETTING ITALIAN WOUNDED DOWN
A BIG PROBLEM FOR WAR ENGINEERS
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TROLLEY FO/e CONVEYING WOUNDED iTfiU&N SOLDIERS
again in the evenfng with a lease and
the transaction would be completed.
"But you have not seen the upper
part of the house," said the lady.
"I've seen the breakfast room and
eaten in it," replied Dowling. "With
such a delightful lower story those
above cannot need an examination.''
"When will you require possession?"
"That depends."
The widow would have asked "On
what?" had not Dowling's look be
trayed what was in his mind. She dared
not go further, for his expression said
plainly, ".Just as soon as you will con
sent to remain with me here in wed
lock."
Dowling called in the evening with a
blank lease, which he filled in and
signed, and the widow signed it, and
then he handed her a check for the
first month's rent, with an additional
|lO.
"What's the $lO for?"
Dowling didn't like to say that It
was for the breakfast, so he said that
It was to bind the bargain.
"I suppose," said the lady ruefully,
"that I must move out at once."
"Remain as long as you like."
The terms did not suit the widow at
all. She had no idea of remaining in
her house while receiving rent for It,
so she handed back the check. Dowl
ing persuaded her to let the lease
stand, payment of rent to begin when
possession was given.
Meanwhile he spent most of his even
ings calling on his landlady and within
a fortnight proposed to her. She spent
a week looking up his credentials, then
threw off her mourning for her first
husband and began work on a trous
seau for the second. The lease that
had been drawn up between them was
torn up, and a document was drawn by
an attorney to take its place. In mar
rying the widow relinquished a por
tion of the property left her by her
husband. But Dowling was wealthy,
and his wife retained the house in
which he had found her.
When the invitation list for the wed
ding was prepared it was found that
the pair had many mutual friends.
After the wedding Dowling was in
vited to breakfast with a friend at the
club.
"Thank you very much," said Dowl
ing. "I can get a better breakfast at
home. It. was a club breakfast that
forced me out of club life."
Right For the First Time.
One winter a masquerade party was
given at New York, at which practi
cally all the great musical lights in
the country were present. Very few
knew who any of the others were, but
in some way Josef Hofmann, the fa
mous pianist, knew one of the dis
guised men to be a leading musical
critic in the city. During the evening
the latter, grasping the hand of the
pianist, said:
"I don't know who you are, but this
hand strikes me very much as the
hand of a pianist."
"Quite right," answered Hofmann,
"and it is the first time I have ever
known you to be right in a musical
criticism."
And as no one unmasked during the
evening the critic is still wondering
who said it.
What Held Them.
"Mrs. Flubdub and Mrs. Wombat are
a couple of haughty dames, yet they
seem to get along with each other."
"They have to get along. Mrs. Flub
dub's children are the only ones in the
neighborhood good enough to play with
Mrs. Wombat's children, and vice ver
sa."—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Animals Used to Teat Drug*.
Use is made by chemical manufac
turers of various animals, such as
chickens, dogs, cats and frogs, to test
tb;* efficacy of drugs.
Ergotine. for instance, is tested on
chickens in an extremely simple way.
Should it fail to turn a chicken's
comb black, it is at once known by
the experimenter that the drug Is
worthless.
Dogs are used to test hashish. This
is manufactured from female buds of
hemp, the male buds having no par
ticular medicinal value. Hashish ad
ministered to dogs induces a peculiar
pathological condition if the drug is
correctly prepared, which is seen in no
other animal save man himself.
Digitalis, the heart stimulant, is best
tested on frogs. Injecting a drop of
the drug into the stomach of the frog,
the chemist by means of the kymo
graph or heart recording machine
studies the changes of the frog's heart
action, thus obtaining accurate knowl
edge as to the effect of that particular
kind of digitalis.—Exchange.
When Thermometers Differ.
Why does a weather bureau ther
mometer show lower temperature in
hot weather than the thermometer at
the corner drug store? asks the Popu
lar Science Monthly. When discrepan
cies exist they are due chiefly to the
fact that the official thermometer is
Installed In a wooden cage, where it* is
open to the air, but screened from both
direct sunshine and the heat reflected
from surrounding buildings, etc. Only
under such conditions does a thermom
eter measure accurately the tempera
ture of the air. A thermometer in the
sunshine becomes much hotter than
the air around it, and its reading sim
ply tells us how hot the instrument is,
not how hot the air is. In large cities
the weather bureau thermometer is of
ten installed on the roof of a high
building, where the temperatures differ
somewhat from those prevailing at the
street level. The object sought in this
arrangement is to obtain a record of
the natural temperature of the locality
in general rather than the artificial
temperatures of the city.
Ruffed Grouse.
Civilization is abhorrent to the ruffed
grouse, king of American game birds.
It seeks the depths of the forests
where the wild grapes and winter
green berries grow thickest; where
clumps of laurel offer security from
prowling wildcats or foxes; where
mighty trees supply roosting places.
There is no prouder bird in appear
ance than the ruffed grouse, none so
majestic in flight. The hunter who can
find him and after finding can make 50
per cent of hits may be classed as an
expert. When flushed this grouse
springs into the air with a roaring
noise; there is a flash of brown hurling
itself through the forest, and in an in
stant the bird is lost sight of.—Boston
Journal.
Caste System Among Ragmen.
Japanese ragmen have a caste sys
tem going from the lowest class, com
posed of men with no capital, who go
about picking up bits of paper and
rags with pointed sticks, to the high
est class, in which there are some men
who are quite well off. There is an
intermediate class composed of men
who can pay for what they get, the
products they deal in depending large
ly on the amount of money they may
have. Among the higher class of rag
men there are divisions of trade, some
dealing in woolen rags, some in cot
ton and others in different kinds of
paper.—,Tapan_ Society Bulletin.
I ,
A Collapsible
Method
by SADIE OLCOTT
j in -
Summer Is the time for outdoor
sports, winter the time for indoor
games. Yes, they are sanies—not
sports—the l>est that can be done to
pass the time when we are housed.
Yet they may serve another purpose.
Phillis and I were in the library. We
had fixed a table for pingpong. called
by some parlor tennis. The name is
an aspersion on the real tennis, which
is one of the finest games played. Phil-
I lis was at one end of the table batting
a little celluloid ball with a tiny wood
| en racket. I at the other doing the same
1 thing.
"Forty love," said Phil on making a
point.
"What did you call me?" I asked.
"I didn't call you anything."
"You said forty something. It didn't
sound like Bob, but you may hare in
tended it for Bob."
"Dear me. how you do hear things!
You'd better get an ear trumpet"
She won the game, and we proceeded
to the next. 1 had gained nothing fcy
my attempt to introduce a lore scrim
mage and had given her a lore game.
We each made the same number ef
points and Phil cried;
"Deuce!"
"That's like a girl," I said. "One
moment you call me love and the next
devil."
"I've called you neither!"
She made a point and said, "Van
: tage!"
"It's all advantage with a girl," I re
marked. "She can call a fellow 'love'
and not mean It, whereaß if the fellow
does any spooning he's held to a strict
accountability."
"That's only when he's a desirable
parti."
She enforced the words with a ball
that lilt me in the face.
"I have made no such pretense."
Whether it was the sting of her
1 words or of the miserable little globe,
; there was some asperity in my dis
claimer.
t "Who accused you of making a pre
' tense?"
Though I was endeavoring to turn
. the subject from the game to souie-
I thing very near my heart, I could not
seriously accuse her. so I made uo
refcly.
"That's the end of the set." she said.
"Shall we play another?"
"I'd much rather sit by the fire."
She tossed her racket on the table
and, going to the fireplace, stood be
fore it. rubbing her hands as If they
were cold. They were not, as I soon
learned. She knew what was coming,
and it rattled her a bit Rather, I
should say, she hoped for what was
coming. I bad worked up to the decla
ration point a number of times and
stuck there. It's one thing to tell a
girl you love her when she has been
struck by lightning and falls into your
arms in a critical condition; it is quite
another to do the deed in cold blood.
At any rate, my efforts had all been
failures.
"Why did you intimate," I asked, go
ing to her and leaning against the man
tel over the fireplace, "that I am not a
desirable parti?"
"I didn't"
Stuck again.
I looked through the window at the
snow piling up in drifts. If one finds a
task difficult under certain circum
stances he thinks it would be easier
under other circumstances. I was in a
comfortable room with a cheerful open
fire before me,'but I thought I could
get out what I wanted to say out in the
snow.
"Let's go out and snowball," I said.
She looked disappointed, but acceded
to my request She donned a warm
jacket and a woven hood, and we sal
lied forth.
. "You stand there." I said. "I'll stand
here. You throw the first ball at me."
How I w 7 as to make a proposal while
pelting her I didn't know. I hoped
something would turn up to help ine.
It did, but Phillis .turned it up; I didn't
Phil made a snowball and threw it at
me. I dodged It. I threw one at Phil.
It went wide of the mark. She hit me
on the chin. Something—perhaps it
was the sting—put an extra amount of
force into my arm as I threw the next
ball. I couldn't see that it had hit her,
but she put her hands to her eye and
sank down on the cold snow with a
moan. I ran to her.
- "Phillis, dear! Sweetheart! Forgive
me! I am a beast to have hurt you!"
I pulled away her hands, and she
looked at me with inexpressible sweet
ness. I kissed the wounded eye.
Now, that eye should have been
either iufiamed or cold or snow wet
It was neither. A few bits of snow
were on her shoulder. The snowball I
had thrown was squashed against the
fence directly behind her.
"Phillis. dear, let us go back to tlte
library."
I supported her into the house, and
we stood again before the fire.
"Oh, Phillis!" I exclaimed. "Suppose
I had darkened that dear eye .forever!"
She shuddered. ,
"If I had 1 shotild have devoted my
life to you. Would you have let me?*"
"Yes, Bob."
I drew the sofa before the Are, re
moved her wrap, and we sat down to
the happiest hour of my life. The deed
was done.
There should be a school for maidens
who are troubled with balky lovers.
They should be instructed to collapse
and collapsible methods should l>e giv
en them.