RECRUITING—I9I7
As the re«ult of action by the Legislatures of New York, Maine and
South Dakota, voters will pass upon woman suffrage. In the first two states
the referendum will be held next fall and in South Dakota the decision will
be recorded in 1918.
INCREASING FOOD 1
SUPPLY OF NATION
IS AiMJtf WOMEN
Suffragists Receive Call to Mo
bilize for Farming and Gar.
denmg Throughout the State
UNIFORM MAY BE ADOPTED
A new national defense force is tc
make its advent throughout the coun
try—a force which is described bj
Assistant Secretary Carl Vrooraan oJ
the United States Department ol
Agriculture, as one which will be of
as much value in times of peace as ir
war. It will operate under both fed
eral and state supervision.
This new force will be feminine ir
gender and suffragistic in efficiency
In addition it will have an important
integral part in Pennsylvania. In fact
it will carry women back to the land
wherever that land is—in rural, urbar
or suburban districts.
State Bureaus
In brief, the movement describee
is the mobilizihg by the Nauona
American Wonfan Suffrage Associa
tion, the Pennsylvania Woman Suf
frage Association and other state suf
frage associations of their entin
membership to work under a "Depart
ment of Suffrage Agriculture" to in
crease the national food supply bj
gardening and farming and the elimi
nation of waste. Members,- in all
probability, will adopt a simple uni
form, and, following an enrollment
which is to take place immediately
will inaugurate in detail a great de
partment having a central unit ir
every state in which it will operate
and local bureaus in various sections
of the states.
The new "department" is the direct
result of a note sent to the President
and Government. February 25, which
was accepted by the Secretary of War
This note was forwarded by the ex
ecutive council of the National Asso
ciation, and offered the entire machin
ery of that organization to the Presi
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| 25 Children Disprove An Anti j
j Story Concerning Suffragists j
=E
As a refutation of an assertion made by anti-suffrage workers j
| at the state capitol to the effect that members of the board of the fg
| Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association have no children, a poll p
| was taken at the last meeting of suffrage executives.
This revealed that of the 13 members of the board, two of whom ij
t are not married, 10 are mothers, having in all 25 clrldren. The
| youngest of the : ufi'rage children is Roberta Bedford, daughter of Mrs. g
f j. Claude Bedford, of Media, who is just eight weeks old. and who =
| one of four daughters in the Bedford family. f§
it was revealed that one member of the board, Mrs. Edwin Linton. g[
U of Washington, Pa., is a grandmother. Other members are mothers |j
| of married daughters or sons already making their way in the busi- y
| ness or professional world. 3
The mothers among the suffrage executives are: Mrs. George B. jf
1 Orlady, of Huntingdon, president, three children; vice presidents. Mrs. y
1 J. O Miller, of Pittsburgh, two; Mrs. George A. Dunning, of Phila- y
i delphia, five; Mrs. Lewis Lawrence Smith, of Strafford, three; Mrs. §
| E. E. Kiernan, of Somerset, two; Mrs. James P. Rogers, of Warren, two: j|
I Mrs. Edwin Linton. ;f Washington, two; auditors, Mrs. H. Wilford g
| DuPuy, of Pittsburgh, one; Mrs. Gifford Pinchot. of Milford, one. and |§
I chairman of finance committee. Mrs. J. Claude Bedford, of Media, four %
§j children. Ij
Other members of the board are Miss M. Carey Thomas, of Bryn y
ft Mawr, vice president of the suffrage organization and president of =j
i Bryn Mawr College; Miss Helen C. Clark, of Harrisburg, secretary, y
1 and Mrs. Robert Mills Beach, of Bollefonte, treasurer.
In addition. Mrs. Antoinette Funk of the legislative committee of g
| the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, who has been active g
I in the capital, is the mother of two children.
Anti-suffrage workers also spread the report, according to mem- y
1 hers of the House of Representatives, that members cf the executive gt
| board receive salaries. No official of the board, it is stated, ever has g
ft has received remuneration for her services.
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dent in event of hostilities between
this and any other country.
Units of Plan
The general plan of organization in
cludes:
Chairmen for each state to have
charge of suffrage agriculture with an
executive committee to assist her.
Co-operation with State Department
of Agriculture to map out and put de
tailed plans into effect.
Organization of local leagues to
have suffrage agricultural chairman
who will enroll women into non-dues
paying farm - garden - and - vacant - 10l
clubs.
Pledging each woman member tc
farm or plant a vegetable garden or
her own lot or on land to be secured
Co-operation in a movement for cul
tivating vacant city lots.
Studying courses in gardening and
farming.
Distribution of national and state
agricultural bulletins.
Public lectures with speakers from
county farm bureaus and State Agri
cultural Department and colleges.
Suffrage agricultural booths at
county fairs.
Agricultural automobile campaigns.
Prizes to be awarded for best vege
tables.
Canning centers in charge of tra-ned
women from agricultural schools.
Instruction of canning volunteers.
Already In the Ranks
Farming and gardening as directed
by the "Department of Suffrage Agri
culture" throughout the country will
not be a novelty so far as nearly two
million women are concerned.
The census of 1916 shows that an
■army of women farmers and garden
ers already exists, listed as follows:
Farmers 257,706
Farm Laborers 1,514,423
Farm Foremen 7,765
Gardeners 7,334
Gardeners' Laborers 7,474
Miscellaneous 7,000
1,802,202
At least two board members of the
state suffrage association are- alreadj
familiar with the arts, advantages
and profits of gardening. These are
Mrs. E. E. Kiernan, who has an ex
tensive place .in Somerset;
county, and Mrs. Lewis Lawrence '
Smith, who I makes tlie soil of her
farm in Chester county produce rich
returns under her own direction.
LITTLE Anna Harley stood by
her mother's side, intently
watching the lacelike needle
work she was putting into the hand
kerchief. The threads had been drawn
with the greatest exactness and the
cambric carefully basted over a bit
of enamel cloth to keep it from draw
ing, and the needle and gossamerlike
thread went in and out, leaving be
hind them the daintiest lace stitches
shining like frostwork. Anna won
dered if she should ever do anything
so beautiful. Then she asked her moth
er if she might try.
"This would be too difficult for you,
dear," said her mother; "but you may
try a piece of hemstitching. Here is
a bit of linen in my basket you may
begin on. I will start the tirst thread,
and you may loosen ten more and
draw them out."
When this was done, Anna learned
the stitch and soon showed a very neat
piece of work.
"Now," said her mother, "how would
you like to hemstitch a dress for baby
Lillie for a Christmas gift? I think
Aunt Anna would be very proud of
some of your work."
"Oh, I'd like it so much, mamma!
Lillie is such a darling!"
Day after day the little fingers
stitched away, and by the middle of
December the hemstitching was done,
and her mother made the little dress.
Christmas morning it was sent with
the card of "Anna Santa Claus." Aunt
Anna kept the box open on the table
'all day to show to all visitors. She
was sure there never was such a love
ly piece of work done before by a
I child only eight years old.
The 2d of February was Anna's
birthday, and Aunt Anna and Lillie
were invited to tea. Lillie wore her
little Christmas dress in compliment
to her cousin Anna, and with a warm,
fleecy white sacque over. Anna thought
her darling baby cousin was never so
pretty before.
"She has the right name Aunt Anna;
she's white as a lily, and her golden
hair is just like a lily's heart. Oh,
you sweet thing!" she exclaimed,
catching her up. "You look just like
an angel!" Ami the happy baby laugh
ter rippled back her delight.
Just then the bell rang, and the
florist's man handed in a large, care
fully wrapped par-
Scel for Aunt Anna.
She called Anna,
who was so taken
up with her dar
ling Lillie she had
not ifoticed it.
"Here is another
L kir ; l of Illy, dentin,
tor your birLhday
-1 thought you
-• Lke it bo
cause it lias the
naine y° ur pet."
Anna ? Oh, thank
Ej&Pjfejg you so much !" put
ting a hand on
FY J each cheek and
kissing her over
t and over. "That
was so sweet in
you! Now I'll have
\nna Wondered. :l as as
you."
"Yes, and the florist assured me it
.vill bloom for Easter. He timed it
for that when he set it out."
"How lovely that will be!" said An
aa. "I'll take the best of care of it."
And she did. It was placed in the
sunniest spot in the bay window, the
water was made tepid before she wa
tered it, the leaves were brushed every
ilay with a very soft feather duster,
and each new leaf watched with the
greatest interest.
In the early days of March she grew
a little anxious; the stalk seemed swol
len. She called her mother's atten
tion to it.
"We can only watch it and see what
xnwes of it," said her mother, knowing
veil what it was.
Anna did watch it every half hour
n the day. Finally, one morning about
the middle of March, she found a point
ed bud beginning to peep out. When
tier mother told her what it was, she
fairly danced for joy. Day by day the
oud unrolled and whitened and grew
.vaxlike. At last its golden heart be
jan to show. Its beauty grew more
ind more, and her mother told her she
.*ould send it to the church on Easter
Sunday to stand right by the side of
che pulpit; the ladies were always glad
jo have lilies to decorate with at
Easter.
Anna thought how proud she should
oe to have her lily so honored.
Friday before Easter came, and the
fa dies were busy putting up evergreens
in the church and arrauging designs
for flowers, and the singers practicing
their anthems, and Anna, living just
across the street, was as interested
n the beautiful preparations as they.
But Aunt Anna, whose inquisite taste
was always in demand, had brought
Lillie to stay with her. and that was
setter still.
"Oh, mamma/' she said, when they
were called in to tea, "I was 'most
tempted to give her my lily. She put
up her hands and said, so cunning:
Anna, baby wanted >r'ty f'ower.' I
told her she shou i have it after
Easter."
"She would spoil it, dear. But here's
, her mother coming for her. Bring
her things."
She was wrapped up and taken
home, but the treacherous April air
was too much for her. By bedtime
croup had set in, and at midnight her
throat was closed. In a little while
she was dead.
Anna thought no more of the church
and Easter till someone spoke of send
ing her lily.
"No, mamma," she said. "It's for
Lillie. It was the last thing she asked
! me for. and now she won't be here
after Easter. I want to put it in hei
little hand to take with her."
When they told Aunt Anna, she said:
"Yes, just that, and nothing else. The
other flowers the dear friends sent
can be laid over her at the cemetery."
And so it was. She was dressed in
the little hemstitched dress as white
and as soft as a summer cloud, and a
cradle-wrap of
, finest cashmere
lined with soft, HPT
white silk folded I
1 about her, in the l ™ ,r
little white vel- Y
vet casket, the
lily in her hand. AJM
On Sunday aft- {£'4s
ernoon a few lov
j ing friends gath- i
ered about the M !
little sleeper, and I /1 [ \ \
Osmond talked w~j I |\
to them tenderly M "I [ Vi '
of this joyful res- "" "L.
urrection day, "^1
and how Christ Ss
had made the
world glad when
he rose from the
dead, and had "Anna, Baby Wan
given the prom- Pr'ty F'ower."
ise after he went
home to heaven that those who slept
in him shall rise again also, and
be with him. Then he spoke of tht
lily so wondrous fair that grows from
the unsightly bulb, and said the heav
enly body will be as much more beau
tiful than the earthly body as the
flower is more beautiful than the root
"We cannot imagine," said he, "an
angel fairer to look upon than this
lovely baby, but God will give us teome
ilay to see the perfect loveliness that
he can bestow. When this glorious
resurrection day returns year by year,
you will also think of this lovely flow
er given back, and growing far more
beautiful in the garden of God. And
it will be yours to keep forever."
Anna treasured these precious
thoughts, and when she went to kiss
her mother good night, with her cheek
laid gently against hers, she said, soft
ly: "Always when I see the Easter
lilies I shall think of our Lillie so
beautiful in the garden of God. And
I shall keep for my Easter verse the
one that Mr. Osmond read: 'lf we be
lieve that Jesus rose from the dead,
them that sleep in him will God bring
with him.' And he said he will have
her again to keep forever."
Both Old Forfns of Celebration.
There is nothing modern but the
modes in the celebration of Easter
Sunday with new apparel. The Easter
egg which is to amuse the children of
today is older than the records of the
oldest antiquarian. The two forms of
celebrating secularly a day which is
so honored in the churches will doubt
less survive as long as the religious
ceremony.
Queer Town.
Margaret Illington was making a
coast-to-coast tour as the star in a
new play. She had reached the far
land of the one-niglit stands out in the
Southwest. To break a long jump
she was to play in a new community
that expects to have 50.000 inhabitants
some day.
As the actress, in the early morn
ing, dismounted from the through
train, wi'h her maid and her manager
and the supporting company, an aged
darky laid hold of her hand baggage
and led the way, bowing and scraping,
to where the hotel 'bus waited. Fol
lowing him, Miss Illington emerged
from the station shed on an expanse
of .one-story stores flanked each side
of a dusty road,
i "Uncle," she asked, "is this the prin
cipal street?"
"Dis yere one? Nome," he said.
"Pis yere town ain't got no principal
street." —Saturday Evening Post.
The "Nelson Touch."
Who invented the phrase the "Nel
son touch," which is being freely used
again in connection with the North
seat battle? Admiral Mahan states
that it probably originated in Nelson's"
family circle at Merton, and the first
froquent use of it occurred in the great
seaman's correspondence with Lady
Hamilton, as where, writing just be
fore reaching the fleet, he remarked:
"I am anxious to join, for it would add
i to my grief if any other man was
j to give them the Nelson touch, which
we say is warranted never to fail.''
1 There was a quaint allusion to it also
1 in the motto which he told Rose he
had adopted—"Touch and Take." —
London Chronicle.
Earache.
j Dip a piece of cotton wool in sweet
oil, then into black pepper; putting
this in the ear proves a quick remedy.
Nose Bleed.—ltoll a piece of soft
paper quite hard and pack hard be
tween the upper lip and the gum. air!
in a few minutes the bleeding will
stop.
Hoarseness. —Beat the white of an
1 egg, add the juice of a lemon and
sweeien with sugar. A teaspoonful
1 at a time. I
Voter's Catechism.
D. Have you read the Consti
tution of the United States?
R. Yes.
D. What form of Govern
ment is this?
R. Republic.
D. What is the Constitution
of the United States?
R. It is the fundamental law
of this country.
D. Who makes the laws of
the United States?
R. The Congress.
D. What does Congress con
sist of?
R. Senate and House of Rep
resentatives.
D. Who is our State Senator ?
R. Wilbur P. Graff.
D. Who is the chief executive
of the United States?
R. President.
D. For how long is the Presi
dent of the United States elect
ed?
R. Four years.
D. Who takes the place of
the President in case he dies?
R. The Vice President.
D. What is his name?
R. Thomas R. Marshall.
D. By whom is the President
of the United States elected?
R. By the electors.
D. By whom are the electors
chosen ?
R. By the people.
D. Who makes the laws for
the State of Pennsylvania.
R. The Legislature.
D. What does the Legislature
consist of?
R. Senate and Assembly.
D. Who is our Assembly
man?
R. Wilmer H. Wood.
D. How many States in the
union ?
R. Forty-eight.
D. When was the Declaration
of Independence signed ?
R. July 4, 1776.
D. By whom was it written?
I R. Thomas Jefferson.
D. Which is the capital of the
United States?
R. Washington.
D. Which is the capital of the
state of Pennsylvania.
R. Harrisburg.
D. How many Senators has
each state in the United States?
R. Two.
CARUSO SUBSCRIPTION WEEK
IN PITTSBURGH MARCH 19
Great Tenor Will Sing to Accompani
ment of the Cincinnati Sympho
ny Orchestra.
Owing tp the groat interest in the
Caruso Concert, which is to be given
at Shriners' Mosque, Pittsburgh, on
Saturday evening. May 5, it has been
found necessary to open subscriptions
at once, and the week of March 10
is known as "Caruso Subscription
Week." Beginning this week and con
tinuing thereafter, mail orders with
remittance and return envelope will
be received and filled if addressed.
"Caruso Concert." 119-121 Ninth street.
i
jit
' ; I
. • e.>.
Caruso as the Duke In "Rigoletto."
Pittsburgh, thereby enabling out of
town to secure a desirable lo- '
D. Who are our U. S. Sena
tors ?
R. Boise Penrose and George
T. Oliver.
D. By whom are they elect
ed?
R. By the people.
D. For how long?
R. Six years.
D. How many representa
tives are there?
R. 435. According to the
population one to every 211,000,
(the ratio fixed by Congress af
ter each decennial census.)
D. For how long are they
elected ?
R. Two years.
D. Who is our Congressman ?
R. Nathan L. Strong.
D. How many electoral votes
has the state of Pennsylvania?
R. Thirty-eight.
D. Who is the chief execu
tive of the state of Pennsyl
| vania ?
R. The Governor.
D. For how long is he elect
ed?
R. 4 years.
D. Who is the Governor?
R. Martin G. Brumbaugh.
D. Do you believe in organ
ized government?
R. Yes.
D. Are you opposed to or
ganized government?
R. No.
D. Are you an anarchist ?
R. Nc.
D. What is an anarchist?
R. A person who does not be
lieve in organized government.
D. Are you a bigamist or
poligamist?
R. No.
D. What is a bigamist or po
lygamist?
R. One who believes in hav
ing more than one wife.
D. Do you belong to any se
cret society who teaches to dis
believe in organized govern
ment?
R. No.
D. Have you ever violated
any laws of the United States?
R. No.
D. Who makes the ordinances
for the City?
R. The board of aldermen.
D. Do you intend to remain
permanently in the U. S.?
R. Yes.
cation well m advance. An cany res
i ervation is advised, for indications are
that the desirable locations will be
taken at once and the house sold out
long in advance of the date of con
cert. Caruso will sing to the accompa
niment of the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra, which will enable him to be
heard to tho l>est advantage in the fa
vorite arias with which his name is al
ways associated. The Cincinnati Or
chestra will also be heard in several
orchestral numbers, and the entire con
cert will, doubtless be the most note
worthy musical event ever given in
this district.
'
Finding the Range.
It is one thing to spot a hosti!' 'lat
tery and another problem altogetlu v to
hit it. The locality may be well kno\vn,
but the range difficult to determine. To
simplify matters in this respect,
"tracer" shells are used. Into the base
of the shell a metal case is screwed
containing a material which is self-ig
niting as the projectile rushes through
space. For night operations the ma
teria i used in the "tracer" bursts into
a brilliant flanie, but by day the
"tracer" haves a trail of dense black
smoke. By this means the gunners are
able to watch and time the shell right
up to the moment the explosion takes
place, and by knowing the locality in
which the shell bursts, the adjustment
to the range of the target is compara
tively a simple matter.
Hard on the Burglar.
"I hear that the home of Scrlbblns,
the writer, was entered last night and
a number of manuscripts stolen."
"Is that so? I suppose Scribbins
has set the police on track of *he
thief."
"Oh, he says that if fellow has
any better success in placing the staff
rhan he iris had himself, he's only too
glad to let him try it." —Farm Life.
A Humane Person.
"What do you think of the move
rhent to ameliorate the living condi
tions of gold fi<h in captivity?"
"I'm strongly in favor of it. I
never go out arid leave the cat in the
room where my gold fish are that 1
| don't imagine they look at me through
| the side ot their giobe with appealing
eyes."