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THE ILLUSTRATED WEST SHORE.
Fifteen ladies of Lombard, III, went to the polls and voted on Monday,
January 13th, under the law which says that "citizens" can vote, without spec
ifying sex. The leader of the women was Miss Ellen A. Martin, of the firm
of Perry & Martin, attorneys and counselors at law, Chicago. When Miss
Martin demanded to be allowed to cast her vote, the judge expostulated with
the lady and delicately intimated that she was not entitled to deposit a ballot.
She asked if she was not a citizen. Judge Marquardt replied that she was in
the sense that she made her home in Lombard, but not in the sense that she
had the right to vote. Miss Martin then read section six of the charter elec
tion laws of 1869, wherein it b set forth that : "All citizens of the state of Illi
nois above the age of twenty-one, actually residents of the town of Lombard
for ninety days before an election for municipal officers, shall have a right to
vote at such election."
"Now," asked the petitioner, "don't I live here?"
" You do," was the affirmative male chorus.
"And am I not over twenty-one?" The judges had to admit that she
was.
"Then I invoke the majesty of the law and demand that my vote be re
corded," said Miss Martin. After the formality of challenging her vote was
gone through with, Miss Martin swore her own vote in and departed. In the
afternoon fourteen other women voted. The report says :
And so they voted, and then the judges closed the polling place and put
up the shutters and went off to the corner grocery to lay the whole matter be
fore the "judge," who derided them and called them a pack of old women,
and asseverated that they knew less about elections than his pointer dog.
But the votes went, all the same, and those judges counted those fifteen votes
for the candidates for whom they were cast, and there were more votes cast
than were registered, and the lucky candidates were happy and became con
verts to the cause of woman suffrage. The names of the women who voted
are as follows : They were Miss Ellen A. Martin, Miss Margaret Towne,
Mrs. Cushing, Mrs. Thurston, Mrs. C. B. Vance, Mrs. H. B. Rand, Miss
Reade, Mrs. Williams, Mrs. W. R. Plum, Mrs. Issac Claflin, Mrs. Allie
Rand, Mrs. B. P. Reynolds, Mrs. C. L. Towne, Mrs. H. W. Plum.
Mrs. Williams is an old lady of seventy-five and all are over twenty-one.
GREETINGS FROM ENGLAND.
. The following address, handsomely framed, was sent from England to
the recent convention of the National-American W. S. A., at Washington,
and, after some hesitation, was allowed to pass free of duty at the custom
house :
Tt lit Wma'i Stmr Convntim, WaMHtfm, U. 5. A.;
We, the executive committee of the woman's fninchie league, offer you our heartiest
greeting on the lmKrtant occasion of your convention. We beg to assure you of our
warm and frlen.lly sympathy with the great objects you are met together to promote, and
to testify our belief that the woman's cause Is the cause of peace, of JusUce, of temperance,
of purity, and of the sisterhood and brotherhood of humanity all over the world.
Although we. who now address you, are old workers In this came, the woman's fran
chlse league is a new association, and we venture to call your attention to the fact that we
ham made a fresh departure In Kngllsh politics, trusting thai, as this new departure is on
the lines already established in one state of your great reiblic. you may feel a special
Interest In 111 successful iuue. The suffrage societies In Omit Britain have hitherto con
fined their efforts to the claim for direct parliamentary representation, and the programme
of our league Is the first Instance of b. demand for that perfect justice which Is Implied in
alwlule equality In aU civil and political relations of men and women. We are asking in
fact, for what you have already gloriously obtained in the brilliant success of Wyoming.
Friends and slstenl With heartfelt thankfulness and sympathy we congratulate you
on your great vk-lory, and on the n!le example you have given to the world of a state
governed equally by men and women with the happiest and most satisfactory results
Nothing can deprive you of the proud pre eminence you hare attained In Wing he first
nation to recognise the equal rights and duties of our sex. W. rejoice In the privilege ac
corded to you and gratefully acknowlcilge the service America has rendered to civilisation
anil morality by this re-asserlkin, on behalf of women, of the principles of the declaration
of lndcendcnce. In laying More your convention this brief expression of our good will,
we are happy to tell you that your own distinguished and much loved countrywoman and
presklent-lovcd and nnircclatcd here as well as in America-Mrs. Cady Stanton, is asso-
. ..in la, aim net uaugmer a memtwr 01 our executive committee.
In the earnest hoK that American and Knglnh women may always be found working
heart to heart and hand to hand in maintaining a cordial understanding never to be broken
between your country and ours, we remain,
Yours In lull hope and faith In the future, and In honest friendship,
Utsi'U M. Ukiisht,
Ocmi'liK, CoVNTKSlSCHACK.
Signed by onler of the executive commiitee of the woman's franchise league,
january ;th, 1891,
heating and plumbing apparatus and sanitary improvements as any man on
the force, recently addressed the Massachusetts labor committee on the ques
tion of appointing women as inspectors of factories and workshops. She out
lined some of the evils she had encountered. Inadequate sanitary arrange
ments, indecent pictures, and lack of mechanical safeguards, were some of
the things remedied. Women are willing to talk to her as they could not to
men inspectors, and when they dared not, under the lynx eyes of their fore
man, present their grievances, they came to her home in the evening to tell
her of wrongs that needed righting. The committee on labor has reported a
bill authorizing the governor to increase the number of members of the inspec
tion department of the district police force by the appointment of two women
inspectors, at an annual salary of $1,000 each. The bill should pass. Mrs.
Bremer also conferred with the committee on public health with reference to
the sanitary evils of the " sweat shops." !
Miss Antoinette Knaggs, a young woman with a good collegiau educa
tion, owns and manages a farm of 200 acres in Ohio. She says sie made
money last year and expects to make more this year. " I have triet various
ways of farming," she says, " but find I get along best when I mtnage my
farm myself. I tried employing a manager, but found he managed chiefly
for himself. Then I sublet to tenants, and they used up my stocc and im
plements, and the returns were unsatisfactory. So I have taken tht manage
ment into my own hands, planting such crops as I think best, and i find that
I am a very good farmer, if I do say it myself."
A young attache of one of the foreign legations in Washiruton created
consternation in the official society circles by taking to a recotion at the
White House the daughter of an avenue tradesman. When he resented her
at a " breakfast," given to the diplomatic corps by the secretary 1 state at his
residence, it almost created a riot among that puncrillious set ail was apolo
gized for by the members of the corps. She was young, beatiful, accom
plished, but these virtues counted for nothing when it was kown she was
only the daughter of a tradesman. Midland Mechanic. j
The wise Quaker wrote, says George Jacob Holyoake ; j expect to pass
through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindess I can show
or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, letme do it now,
Let me not deter or neglect it, for I shall not pass this wayigain. Let this
be my epitah : .
What 1 spent, I had;
What I saved, I left behind;
What I gave away I look with me.
Miss Kate Field has been examining some statistics finished her by the
Chicago board of pharmacy, and finds that American wonn spend sixty-two
million dollars a year for cosmetics, most of which are tide of sine oxide,
mercury, and other poisons. This leads her to ask thisiertinent question :
" How can women, vain enough to paint and dye their br, bring forth chil
dren stalwart enough to resist temptations that lead to allianner of vice?"
The first woman in the state of California to take Ivantage of the new
bw passed by the last legislature allowing women to .1 as notaries public
has filed her official bond in the clerk's office of Marin ounty. That lady is
Miss L. E. McEInoy, niece of Warden Hale, of San uentin. Miss McEl
noy, comm.ss.on dates from April 6th. Her office U be located at San
Quentin, where she intends to do business.
Mile. Louise Gautier, a young French girl who born deaf and dumb,
has kelypthee, a( fa
high honors, and receded not only her diploma but .appointment as teacher,
sne has been taught to read the lips and to speak b'he Grosselin system.
F J"??'' ?,b f R0CheSter' N" Y- womtn Several riant ""Gees.
Emm. E Lambert was recently elected president Ada H. Kent, secre
lary. The v president and treasurer, as well asree trustees, are' men.
Mrs, Alexander Bremer, one of the deputy factory Inspectors of New Mrs. C W Hanev of Heir . m
York, who knows as much about machinery, elevator, and ventilating shafts, business house, dealing b mentctahing VlT! MaMser'of