The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 8, 1896, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1896. 11 Mrs. Heury Krebs Jr., Who Read a Paper Before the Congress Yesterday After noon on the “Heroines of History,” and Who Is Prominent in This City Both as a Suffragist and as a Whist-Player. Convention yesterday feel like embracing the men.”’ Then be continued with his subject, +*Our Foremothers,” and spoke in part as follows: T fecl that in fulfilling your assignment to speak ©f our foremothers distinctively 1 am invested with the importance of an epoch-maker, for I doubt if in this public manner they bave ever been differentiated from their grim partners. We have, of course, known that we had foremothers, and from our knowledge of the permanency of human nature have felt sure that their virtues were not less than those_that distinguished the forefathers. I think it was Beecher who wittingly said that he felt a great sympathy for the wives of the pilgrim fathers, since they not only had 10 bear all the privations and sufferings that _their husbands did, bat were also obliged o bear them. This must have been no small matter it we read history aright, for however much we may respect the adamantine and heroic uprightness of our pro- genitors, we know that unalloyed virute is often a trying article to live with,and there are some historical incidents that throw a powerful search- light on contemporaneous character as revesled by ers und customs and confirm this conclu- X opinion that would en- act and enforce a law by which a man returning irom a sea voyage who kissed his wife on his own doorsteps was put_in the stocks or “lewd and un- seemly conduct on the Sabbath.” Here was a sailor, who, after his kind, had a hear:. Fortune brought bim home on Sunday, but bis straight- laced neighbors inflicted an ignominious punish- | ment for an act that ought to be uncon:rollable. One gains entrance into good society of the early part of the seventeenth century when he is intro- duced to John Winthrop and’ household. A fine sample of a Puritan gentleman, pious aiter the | manner of his time and class, his piety was not the conventional veneering of a hard and sour na- ture, but a vital part of a genuine man. Marriage was not deferred in those days to the period of | bald heads, when the attructions of the club began to paill. The future Governor was but 17 years and 3 months old when he led to the altar & bride of 21. I would not be understood as commending quite 50 early & launch on the matrimonial sea. OF even to hoid up for emulation the bravery of & boy who would dare to marry & woman. We have no doubt deteriorated in some respects, but T am glad to think that in this importa of to-day has aitained s sens things that preciudes such ma: Their married life was happy, however, which 1s, after all, the main thing. Jobn wrote of her as “a right godly woman,” and her four chilaren rose up and catled her blessed. Of his second wite, Thomasine, who.lived but & year and a day after her marriage, John Winthrop wrou he was & woman wise, modest, 10ving and patient of injuries. Sbe was truly religious and indusirious thefein; plain-hearted and free from guile, and very humbie-minded; never so addicted 1o any outward thungs (in my judgment) but that she could bring her affections o stoop to God’s will in them.” Of Margaret Winthrop, the third wife, we gain a £00d knowledge and & high opinion through her letters and those of others who knew her. The sturdy Puritan found in her a veritable helpmeet, and the love that each bore the other, so qualntly expressed In their letters, made their conjugal re- #ation ideal. Allowance must be made for form of expression, but happy is the man of any age who can inspire such affection and respect as breathes through her somewhat formal epistles, and per- haps bappler stiil the woman who feels them as the central joy of her life. Margaret reveals her deep religions nature when she places thelove of God in her husband before the loving of her. 1 fear that both our forefathers snd our foremoshers far surpassed us in this stead- fast allegiance 1o God, with its consequent sel:- surrender. Lucy Hutchison, another Puritan woman, ex- presses high ideas'of this supreme love of God in describing her own husband’s love. “He loved Ler better than his life, with inexpressibie tender- ness and kindness, had' a most_obliging esteem of her, vet considered honor, religion and duty above her’” There isno cant in this. It is the gennine outflow of the religious nature. There is a rare mobliity in these consecrated women. They were more than content tha: honor, duty and religion shouid be first. When one feels how deep and true was their piety one can see tha: severity and narrowness were merely a fashion of the hour and the result of prevailing methods of thought. They were borne on the current and did not retard it. AWere there no special records of the doings of our foremothers, had none of their letters come down to us, we might safely have concluded that, thelr lives bore about the same relation to those of our forefathers that the wives of to-day do to their husbands’. Of this we have also direct testi- mony. A traveler in America wrote in 1745 to the London Magazine: “The women are very bendsome in general, and most notable house- wives; everything wears the marks of cleanliness and industry in_their houses, und - their behavior to their husbands and families is very edifying.” If this is Dot equally true in 1896 S0 much the worse for '86. 'L he traveler goesonto say: “Girls under such good mothers generally bave twice the sense and discretion of th boys.” Women in the earlier days were less to_the fore, Some of them were Slaves and some of them wers dolis, but not & few were strong and masterful, and then, a8 now, capable of taking care of them- selves, and also of giving good advice and valuable absistance to their husbands. I think we are in- clined toegive too little crealt to the business ability of the women of the olden times and to picture all our foremothers as simply domestic. tion the woman of the fitness of Te Many of them were, no doubt, hard-working drudges, snubbed by unsppreciative husbands: but there were many forerunners of the great army of workers who now occupy S0 important a place in the world of affairs. In 1701 one Elizabeth Haddon, an English girl of 19, whose father had become possessed of a tract of land in New Jersey, came alone to the colony and managed her land with fine judgment and discretion, founding a town that took her name. She married a Quaker later, but evidently because she wanted to and not_because she was obliged to. Iu Pennsylvania, Mary ‘rewer, the widow of a Huguenot, took up 2600 acres of land and cultivated {t successtully. The thriviog town of Taunton, Mass., was founded by an ancient maiden of 43 vears. The number of women successful as printers and pub- lishers of-papers is quite remarkable. Mrs. Surah Goddard conducted the only paperin Providence, R. 1., before 1775, and_her daughter was the prin- cipal manager of the Maryland Journal, as well as Postmistress of Baltimore. Widows had a way of carrying on the business left by the husband. From 176701775 Aun Katherine Green published the Maryland Gazette and did the printing for the colony. Women were often prominent in public affairs. The letters of Rev. Joun Davenport of New Haven show that his capable wife not only managed his household. but almost wholiy conducted the busi- ness aftairs of Governor John Winthrop Jr. Now And then s woman made herself felt and heard in a way that reminds us_afresh that there is “noth- ing new under the sun.” Ve certainly err if we picture our foremothers as wholly absorbed in their manifold household nomian doctrines, and such was her power to stir up controversy that the whole community was set by the ears, resniting in a change of government for the colony. She was finaily banished, but she demonsrated the power of the human Spirit, whether it be clothed in a body male or female. There were other preachers and reformers who stirred the people greatly. Now and then there was & fraud, the forerunner of our too plentiful crop of foriunie-teliers and miscellaneous healers. Our foremothers were home-stayers. Travel was otically unknown. A woman who made the journey from Boston 10 New Yorc was the talk of the colony. Life was gencrally stmple, with few of the distinctious that now divide us. In Heber's “Life of Jeremy Taylor” he remarks: “In the time of our ancestors the interval berween the domestic and the Other members of the famil was by no means so_great or fenced with 5o hars or impenetrable & barrier us in the present days of luxury snd excessive refinement. The Servants of the manor-house were usualiy the humble friends of the master and ' mistress, whose play- mates they had been during childhood and under whose protection they hoped to grow ola.” In Pepys' diery we are told tuat house servants jolned their mistresses in music and card-play Ing. In New England there was much the same inti- macy and equality. Young men and women found n e in_working out. They were treated kindly and kept the respect of others and their self-respect. Iam persuaded that we are generally disposed 10 think of our foremothers as & body of hard- working and austere matrons with few pleasures and many cares. This probably characterized & majority, but I am sure if we knew all the facts we would find that generalization {s dangerous and that there were about as mauy different kinds of people per huudred then as now. One finds in the historical and biographical frag- ments that are access:ble mauy accounts of quite hilarious merry-makings. The Puritans were no less demonstrative than _the cavaiferish Southern- ers, but L am sure that human nature burst out now and then, if only in the mild dissipation of & corn-husking. and that on the sly the singers in the church choir indulged in the gentle flir.ations that still stigmatize them. The fashion of the time modifies_expression, but the feelings of the heart are permanent forces. Not all our Puritan ancestors were Severe of aspect nor stiff in de- meanor. We catch glimpses of roguish fun among the eirls and rather rough humor among the poys. We may take courage in thinking that some of our ancestors sat in the stocks. There is one regard in which our foremothers were wiser in their day and generation than many of their descendants. They seem (o have kept very close to their children. There is great peril inthe neglect that often comes with weaith and luxury, The woman who must take care of her children does s0. Many there e whose love is strong, who are wise epough o care for Lheir chil- dren personally when they are not opliged to. But there are others, and [ fear many, who are fond of ease, or who are slaves 0 sociely, who leave to ignorant, coarse-natured nursegirls (he 1utimate companionship and care of their children. In judging of our foremothers we can bardly give too much importance to the changed condi- tions of life brougnt about by the inventions now in daily use. The housekeeper of to-day is a changed person necessarily. The Puritan mother must bave had full days. An iuteresting hour might be spent In recouuting her duties. ‘I hink of the daily food as related 10 its source of supply, now and then. Recall the brick oven with its bread and beans and myriads of pies. The barrels of carefully corned beef or pork,the patiently smoked bacon, the humble sausage, the firkins of hard-churned butter, the odorous cheese, the few vegetables coaxed from tne stony heartof the garden,the jams and preserves,the dried apples,the tearful onions, the pickles,the sauce, the b.ackberry wine, the cider, the beer—all of which her hand nad prepared or her care had directed. Think of the horrors of trying lard, running candles and making soap! Cousider the monthly wash-day and the home-made starch ! "Turn then to clothing, trace the burred and un- clean wool from the back of a lhet‘}; to the back of 8 boy'; or worse yet, the obdurate flax with its rot- tings and rinsings and_scrapings, its heckling and spinning and untold bleaching unuil it became the ancestral table-cloth, now 8o prized and priceless. Think of & house without a sewing machiue, with- out a bathtub, or gas, or electricity. or even coal- oll, with n0_dumb-waiters or speaking-tubes, nor furnaces, nor telephones. Think of & foremother sleeplugon a bed filied with festhers picked from the reluctant breast of & home-raised goose, cOV- ered by a marvelous quilt of her own device and construction. in & room carpeted by a fabric made from her own rags by her own hand, rising at the undertake the never-ending duties of her house- hold, rewarded sometimes with a grumbling of an nnreasonable man, but sometimes, thank God, sus- courage. And these women and these men met their life uncompla.ningly and bore well thelr part. They lived ana loved and attended to their own affairs. crowing of & cock she had nursed from egghood, to | { tained by the love of & husband of equal virtué and | ALWAYS IN ADVANCE st Cato~ g PORNCETR, o p 0 ot @ oradles i ew b speaker in one sentiment he had ex- pressed. She said: “While admiring the paper very much I was thinking that for 150 years there was not a school in all New England where a woman could learn to write, and conse- uently we have no diaries of those times. &‘ne records of the courts in old New Eng- land show that nine-tenths of the women made their marks.” But Mr. Murdock interposed and ex- plained that the women of that time were not illiterate, but, contrary to reputation, could spell as well 8s the men of that time, whatever that may stand for. Mrs. Andrews of Los Angeles said she had heard of a man in Hatfield, Ma: whose boys were all deformed—*‘that is, they were girla”” He tried to get them into ths grammar school, but the School Trustees refused them admission. The irls, however, secured an education by fiook or crook, and one of them lived to found a famous female academy in the had been closed to her. Judge E. V. Spencer of Lassen County, who has been so gallant a lieutenant in part in the matters of business, but they felt and expressed & strong interest In pablic affairs. In the later colonial days they wero as spirited as the men in resenting the trranny and injustice of the mother country. When & woman wears home- spun from principle, refusing the more becoming imported goods, she gives strong proof of her ear- nesiness. Not content with this individual pro- test the women formed patriotic bande—the first women societies in_America—and pledged them- selves 10 drink no more taxed British tea. These “daughlers of liberty” were numerous in New England; 300 mistresses of families in Boston | signed the compact. When they met they some- times spun all day for the public benefit; at one meeting seventy linen wheels were employed. The same buzzing may be hi when women meet, to-day, yet they “toll not, neither do they spin.” If they have wheels, they leave them out- side. though calumniators aver that there are those Who carry them in thelr heads. Women did more than mect and spin. There were instances of very effective public speaking. Speech was not to say free in those days, for the fréquent use of the clefi- $iick and the ducking-stool wers rather strong hints that it was no: judicious to scold in public. It is recorded that in Long Island & woman had a cleft- stick placed on her tongue for ssying that her hus- band *“had brought her to 4 place where there was neither gospel nor magisiracy,” and in Salem a woman suffered the same ignominy “for reproach- ing the elders.” Let not this severity be charged exclusively to men. The last woman hanged by law in Massachusetts was condemned by & jury of twelve discreet matrons. and it was found after her execution that the judgment was wrong. Woman's spirit then as now was not quenched nor quieted by law or public opinion. Ann Hutchinson held weekly meetings in Boston, where sixty or more women listened to her ex- pounding of scripture and the heretical anti- A CrepiT TO THE CITY, ffig//‘/a/pé—gm L e Zeo il flaieol- W__ duties. Not only did they take a not unimportant » They worked hard, playedlittle, were true to_their consciences. They thonght more of their duties than they did of their rights. They were not ashamed to raise Jarge families, and they raised them well. 1honor & grandfather who spent his forty years of married life in the house he built on bis Tather's land and supported his family on a farm of twenty acres, supplemented by his labor at a trade, transmitting an inheritance of honor to the six children who grew to maturity and bearing with patient resignation the loss of Aix who were taken from them. Notlessdo I honor my grand- mother, who fn all things was his equal—whose gentleness and goodness, whose faithful devotion 1o duty, whose trust in God made his life blessed and stretches down through the gemerations in benediction on me and mine. When we reflect that the energy and sctivity necessary to sustain life in the time of our fore- mothers has been set free through the changed conditions of to-day, and being iiperishable must find new modes of expression, we do not wonder tiat there has béen a movement of woman look- ing to fuller economic and political participation the common life. There is no question bnt a woman who has a home owes it her first and best powers. If a woman Deglects her home or her children for any other pursuit or occupation she Yyrongs herself, giving up that which is highest foe that which is Iower. It is an exercise of that privi- lege of choice given for our moral education and must bring the inevitable penalty that follows any transgression of o 1f the emancipation of woman is carried so far that it takes her from her natural life, it passes from gain to degradation. The bars set by God for the welfare of his creatures may not be tran- scended. They are merciful, not cruel. The lion may not fly, the lark may not swim, but each has scope for fullest possible life within its limitations. The woman who iries to be more than & woman only sucoeeds in peing less than a woma. On the other hand there has been unending twaddle sboul the sphere of woman, and an assumption that because woman is the queen of the home and the mother of children that she has 0o right to do anything eise butstay at home. and that {f she does anything else than bear children is unsexed. Now, it must be borne in mind s that there are women, not & few, Who have no homes and have no children. 1t may not be their fault: some of them are widows. some of them would be widows or wives if he husbands they might have won had not been killed in the war and consequently never met them. In some instances it may be the faultof the croaking bachelors who know so much about woman theoreticaliy—either that they never gave them a chance to be wives, or that_they were uot yiorth the taking when they gave them the ohauce. Many of the noblest and most womanly women in the world are unmarried. Shall they be told that they have no oiher vocation than homemakers and mothers? Again there are many married women who &re quite equal to discharge faithfully every duty of wife and mother, who have large murgins of time and ability. The surplus energy must be used in some way, and if turned into proper channels it may do much 10 help the State. ‘The last generation chrocheted and turned out ‘much fancy work that, like some men, was fearfully and wonderfully made, but of no manner of use or ornament. e the women of to-tny T 1o study soclolog and political economy and. by organization ean T duce Bupervisors to give us good sew ers, or school directors to venillate the rooms where our chil- dren are being poisoned, who is t0 say they are exceeding their priviieges? And going s siep far- ther, is there any just reason why 4 woman who wants (o vote should not have the privilege? I feel that the practical value of the franchise will be small compared with the expecations of those who. or it, but that is no argument against their right to find out for themselves. I have a hope that this step will, either in its success or its fallure, tend to settle this eternal woman guestion. I confess to being somewhat weary of It A woman once praised Starr King for what he had done to break down the barriers be- tween the sexes. She meant the sects. I think the reformer the world now walts for is the one that this Partingtonian accidentally hit. There is 00 much sex distinction, too much agitation of the difference, 100 much trumped-up antagonism, too much ridicule of the one and ralling at the other. Let us have peace. Let us realize that both ‘are human belngs, with possible souls, and that this likeness far exceeds auy difference, Man, the inclusive man, is a morai being, whose highest life springs from and ends in love. God loves his children, and he has made it possible for them to rise to love of him tbrough Iove of one anotber. Iu the breast of man be planted love of woman, 1n the breast of woman he planted love of T ural divisio m on thi e e line ‘What God has joined together, let nelther man Dor woman dare to put asunder.” [Great planse. ] Miss Agnes g differed from the ALWAYS THE FAMILY PAPER. the woman's fight at Sacramento, was said to be in the audience. He was called to the platform and said: “Upon my honor I did not expect to be cnllmf upon_to-night. I just thought I would steal in here to-night and hear all the good thiugs said on behalf of the cause of gaining for women her God-given right. l‘;'I have seen the young man start out in life led on from step to step up the ladder, and he was climbing all the time nearer to greatness and nearer to bonor, and at the same time 1 have seen obstacles put in the way of his sister. “] have heard it said that patriotism was becoming weaker in the mansions of the rich and losing its force in the cottage of the poor. - There will be a change when equality with men. “That victory of yesterday at Bacra- mento was not a matter of a few or a fac- tion, it was a great, unanimous victory for woman suffrage. “There was just one man who voted the other way. I do notknow what I thought about that man, but he seemed to me the smallest thing on earth as he stood alone before that great congress and puled out his pitiful ‘No.” ”’ The question box was then opened and Miss Shaw took the center of the stage as the oracle to be consulted. “THE CALL" To the Editor of THE CaLL: s ;fl X oy S }4./—- J Urece H" S Pldenk Loy catlny’ QW Caver %/'n»vw" e T very town Where the fountains of learning the mothers are given their recognition of 2z F o A;{ e Sowihn~ 57 J Aan e W “/Zw/rt.;.y&m - -fiw e ;L- “The questions are generally along the same lines,” began Miss Shaw. “Proba- bly because you women are all of the same mind. If we could get the sinners here! “I was in the car the other evening wken one woman remarked to another, ‘There’s Miss Shaw,” ‘Where?’ asked her companion. ‘Over there in the corner. I guess she’s been at the Woman’s Con- gress.’ ** ‘Have you been there?’ whispered the other. ¢ “Naw.’ “1Going? *“‘Naw.’ “‘Well, I'd like to go,’ concluded the questioner, ‘but I'd be ashamed of my life to be seen in that company.’ ’ *‘What should a woman do, what would a woman feel, locked up with eleven men in a police station?”’ was pne of the ques- tions. “That is not a new question in this State,” answered Miss Shaw: ‘‘it seems to be worrying all you men. The question is never asked what would one man do 1f | locked in a cell with eleven women.” “Now, Senator Ingalls is_an admirable man; he parts his bair directly in the middle, but he patts his figures on the side and will not equalize them.” A question in a lady’s handwriting asked for a reply to a man who objected to woman nugnge since it would unduly in- crease the number of vyoters. “It is a mistake to have too many voters,”” Miss Shaw answered. ‘“But we cannot have too many good voters. Op- ponents of this movement say there are over 3,000,000 iiliterate women who would vote if allowed. Let them vote say L Whether they vote right or wrong there are 12,000,000 intelligent women who will neutralize any ill effects which the in- considerate voting of the ignorant women ma{ cause. “Would women not be too extravagant in the affairs of Government? I think we would be. The only reason we have not pressed our claims before is on account of the economic administrations. Every mar- ried man knows that his wife can run their house on about half as much money as he could run the kitchen. Men are used to buying by wholesale. You couldn’t send out a man to buy two chops, one artichoke and a few vegetables. “No, women will not lay themselves lia- ble to insult in campaigns any more than they do now_ in going down the street. And why? Simply because under both circumstances they will meet the very same men. In all my experience in cam- paigning I was never treated with more courtesy by men than [ was with my fel- low-workers yesterday at the Sacramento convention. “Why was the referendum a failure in Boston? They never had any referendum in Boston; it was a sham. It was simply to make women a laughing stock. Of the ballots that were cast 95 per cent were in favor of woman suffrage. And tben men said, ‘Look at the overwhelming number of women in Massachusetts that don’t want the ballot.” Miss Shaw read amid much laughter an ill-spelled and worse composed challenge to herself from a Los Angeles man tosa public debate on the question of ‘‘wimen sufferag.” She omitted to state whether she intended taking up the ““gage,’’ but she intimated that she was just a trifle afraid of so formidable an adversary. “How are the expenses of the campaign to be met? Will Miss Anthony answer that question 2" “My dear friends,’’ began Miss Anthony, *‘the expenses of this campaign are to be met just as the expenses of campaigns have been met elsewhere—by friends of the movement contributing. Now, I ap- peal to you, every one of you here to- night, to contribute Iour mite, be it little or great. 1t1s your du “I used to be told: ‘Miss Anthony, you should not attempt this until you get the funds.’ If I had never done anything until I had the money in hand I should never have accomplished snything. I might Was FIRST. 1527 Pork STREET, SAN FRrANcIsco. You have done nobly in so grandly espousing the cause of woman’s enfranchisement. The day will come, and in the not far distant future, when you will say with pride, “TEE CALL was the first daily of San Francisco to champion the cause of woman.” The men and women of the coming generation will rise up and call you blessed. My congratulations may be a‘little late, but my exultation was early and earnest and should have found expres- sion before, but the labors of the week at Sacramento as a Re- publican and suffragist is my excuse, and now that the victory won was so complete I more than rejoice and know that the glor- ious stand THE CALL has taken in behalf of woman’s freedom had the effect of bringing the other dailies into line, and with such a trio entering the homes of all California, educating the masses—for that is the province of our papers—what cannot they accomplish ? All honor to TrE CALL. Neruie HoLBrook BLINN, Vice-President State Suffrage Association. Thursday, May 7, 1896, say that the greatest deeds I have ever at- ;emgted were begun without money in and. *“If the history of my experience were recorded it would be a story of going in debt to undertake different things. Even after all the parties have put suffrage planks in their platforms I still want all you people to contribute funds for the campaign, for the fight will even then be only just begun. want to say to you a word of encouragement in regard to the stand of the press of your State. “Last Sunday, as all of you know, your grand daily, TaE CALL, came out boldly on the side "of woman suifrage. [Great lpylnuug. All that I could say would fall far short of what I oughtsto say in grateful recognition of the gracious, noble position taken by a great journalon a great issue. Heayen prosper and bless a paper which stands up for justice and right! ‘I want to say to you that it is the first time in the past twenty-eight years that either of the great parties has come out at the tirst of the campaign in indorsing the woman suffrage movement; the first time that the dominant party has ever taken the stand in advance. ““When is your Democratic convention, June 16? Isthatit? Are there nc Demo- crats in this great audience? I want to The Examiner, while it did not come out at first boldly as did Tue Caun, has since followed its example; and the Chronicle, not to be outdone, has, at Mr. De Young’s personal order, offered its columns henceforth for the cause of woman suffrage. Now, cheer the morn- ing papers. And I have no doubt the evening papers have done likewise, but have not had a chance to see them. “Now, my dear friends, with the press on our side, THE CaLw 2t its head, with the political parties on our side, with so many kind souls in sympathy with us, we must succeed, if we will only work w,i‘ether and with a will.” hen Miss Shaw resumed her answers: “In the Utopian era of women-free who will pay for their bonnets? The women, as to-day, who earn their bonnets a hun- dred times over for what they do. “Men say women have been discussing woman suffrage for the last fifty years and they are tired of it. Why, men Lave been discussing themselves from time imme- morial and we women are not tired of them yet. ‘“The greatest evil that men suifer in not rmitting women to vote is in being un- just to himself. No human heing can be unjust to another and be just to himself. I have traveled over Kansas for ten con- secutive years and visited every town where there were 1200 people, and I can say that as carefully as I have watched and studied the woman-suffrage move- ment there in !l that time I have notseen a place where it was not a success and an advantage to women.” “How about women's efficiency as jurors?” ran another guestion. “In Washington, when it was a Terri- tory,” replied Miss Shaw, ‘“when it was a Territory, women served on juries. The Manitoba pavers complained that all the sharks, tramps and sharpers of Washing- ton had been driven over into Manitoba. That looks as though woman could hold her own on a jury.”’ *1f woman had the ballot, would she not sell her vote for a new bonnet?’ “Perhaps she might. Who knows? A new bonnet is a fine thing, and most women hanker afterit. Buta good bonnet costs more money than a glass of whisky, and that, they say, is the market price of male votes nowadays.” “‘Here’s another question,” continued Miss Shaw, “and I'll answer it, thongh it’s rather personal: ‘You said a home was offered you in California if you would stay. Was that all?’ [great laughter.] I answer, it was not all. I was offered as much good oak wood as I could burn in my stoves during the remainder of my life. “*Some one hassaid 1n heaven there will be no marriages. And how is that?' Well, 1t has been said that there could not be, as there would be no men there. “ “Will women, it they get the ballot, stuff the ballot-box?' Noj; the opportunity is not given now for stuffing ballot-boxes as it was. hat we mean by the ballot is not that the ballot will make us absolutely use in securing just and equitable laws and the enforcement of them. “It is time men were made fun of a lit- tle. For half a century Susan B. Anthony and great and good men have been held up to ridicule, sarcasm and cutting satire. I remember once a Bishop turned the keen shafts of his ill-timed wit upon the woman suffrage movement, keeping his audience in roars of laughter. “The next night,”” continued MissShaw, “I held him up before my audience, and they laughed until they nearly keeled over. The Biuhor reprimanded me se- verely for thus holding him up to ridicuie. 1 only answered : ¢t Bishop, if vou are a just man, you must concede that wit is oftentimes a two- edged sword, and wielded without judg- ment cuts both ways.’” g e To-Day’s Programme. Following is the order of exercises to-day: Morning session, 1 Great Queens,” Miss :30 o'clock—“America’s rryet R. Strong, Ran- chito del Fuerte, Cal.; “The Queen Dowager,” Mrs. Sturtevant-Peet, San Jose, Cal.; *“The Power Behind the Throne,” Miss A, M. Fulton; “Mothers of Great Men,” Mrs, Ada Van Pels, Oakland. Afternoon session, 2:30 o’clock—*Heroines of History,” Mrs. Henry Krebs Jr.; “The Slave as Ruler,” Mrs. George T. Gaden; “Woman in War Times,” Mrs. E. O. Smith of San Jose, Cal. Evening session, 8 o'clock—*“The Modern Change in Ideals of Womanhood,”” Professor Edward H. Griggs of Stauford University; “Woman’s Stake in the Country,” Miss Sarah M. Severance of College Park; ““I'ne Mother— 0id and New,” Mrs. Harriet W. Russell Strong, president Ebell Society, Log Angeles, Cal. PRESS CLUB DELEGATES, C. M. Coe and F. C. Roberts to Attend the League at Buffalo. The Financial Report Shows Only a Vestige of the Former Debt. The Big Jinks. The Press Club held its third quarterly meeting of the year last night, the object being to hear the reports of the various committees and elect delegates to the Na- tional League of Press Clubs, which meets at Buffalo, June 3. Some time since the club renewed its membership with the League of Press Clubs, from which it with- drew a few years ago, just after the meet- ing of the league here. The various reports submitted showed that the club was in a very prosperous condition. O. M. Coe, the presidentof the club, in some brief opening remarks told that nine months ago, when the present administration took hold, the indebted- ness was about $3000, where it was now only about $1000. He added that now the club was like a well-oiled machine. Eighty new members had been admitted and the club was making plenty of money. The statement was received with applause. The club is on June .6 to give a jinks, robably the greatest ever given by it. . 8. Myrtle of the entertainment commit- tee told that Superior Judge Hunt would “sire” the jinks and that excellent club talent had already been secured. He pre- dicted that the entertainment would sur- pass anything ever before given. Hugh Hume gave notice that at the next quar- teily meeting he would move an amend- ment to the constitation for the admis- sion of members of the business office other than the heads of departments. C. M. Coe and F. C. Roberts were then unanimously elected as delegates to at- tend the annual meeting of the National ‘I"aubgne. of Press O":l;bc. h‘; :luufinz of jub mém bers was ane Tflpflcfi enthusiastic. 2 speak of other papers besides THe CarL. | iree; it is simply an implement for our HONORS ON THE STAND, Three Superior Judges Called to Testify About Frank Schilling, ARE QUESTIONING HIS SANITY. Juige Coffey Makes Some Caustic Re- marks to the Erratic Atterney. Frank Schilling, who has been prepar- ing contempt proceedings for himself by writing contemptuous letters to and about Judge Coffey, was before Judge Slack yes- terday on an order to show cause why he should not be removed from the guard- ianship of Peter Owen Matthews, over which position the whole fight has been going on. Francis Pope, who atked for the cita- tion and who was appointed attorney to assist the guardian, was present, and he asked that Judge Coffey and Judge Heb- bard be called. Mr. Schilling, not to be outdone, asked that Judge Hunt be asked to attend. Messengers were sent for their honors, and pretty soon the Judges ar- rived. Judge Coffey was first examined. He told how he had apyointed Mr. Schilling as guardian of the estate of Peter Owen Matthews, an incompetent, on the request of Matthews himself. Judge Coffey was then asked what he thought of Schilling as a guardian, and he said he thought him eccentric—very eccentric. Schilling’s presence in the courtroom was disgusting to him, but he had always tried to treat him properly. “What'do you think of his knowledge of the law?’’ asked Pope. “I do not like to impugn the judgment of the Supreme Court,” answered the Judge. ‘‘He was passed there. But Iwill say he often, before me, greatly embar- rassed the actions of the court.” After more questions as fo Schilling’s method of conducting a case, Judge Coffey was asked what he thonght of the attor- ney’s sanity. He said he did not know. He had not examined an insane person for ears, and so was hardly able to judge. e thought Schilling eccentric, however, and would not reappoint him as guardian of any estate. Mr. Schilling then took a hand and com- menced to cross-examine. “Do you base your opinion of me on that letter?’ he began. “Partly,” replied the Judge. “That let- ter was a reprehensible efiusion, grossiy personal and elaborately faise.” *Did you not break your promise to me as your brother attorney in not being in Judge Hebbard’s court, where you said you would meet me?”’ *‘You are not my brother attorney in the first place,”’ said "his Honor quietly. “I was in Judge Hebbard’s court waiting fully ten minutes, and then I had to go back to attend to my own business.” “Could you tell what ten minutes it was —ten minutes to 2—20’clock ?”’ | “I’Xguve made my statement, Mr. Schil- ing. *‘But are you sure it was ten minutes?’’ “I have made my statement, Mr. Schil- ling,” repeated the Judge with some em- hasis, “‘and if you say anything else it is alse. If you are sworn and then make any different statement you wili be com- mittinfi perjury.” Schilling” made a short apology for writing the letter which caused all the trouble, and Judge Coffey gave place to Judge Hebbard. Judge Hebbard was called as an expert on insanity, for every second month the insanity commission meets before him. Judge Hebbard described Schilling’s ac- tions while trying a case before him. He said Schilling” was excited. Judge Hunt was also called in for an opinion by Schill- ing and then followed a number of the attorney’s friends. The case was taken under advisement. ‘Wracked Sallors at Satre’s. Next Saturday and Sunday the wrecked crew of the burning ship Republic will appear at Sutro Baths and give a realistic representg. tion of the destruction of their vessel and the rescue by the ship Hollinwood in midocean. Both vessels will be rerroduced exactly in all details in the laree tank of the bath, and all of the exciting scenes of the four days and nights previous to the rescue will be faithfully depicted. ——————— More than one-half of the vapor in the atmosphere is within 6000 feet of the sur- face of the earth. NEW TO-DAY. Substitute! Pethaps you will be offered a substitute for Scott’s Emulsion. Sub- stitute? There are so many of them that it would be laughable if the question were not a setious one for you. There can be no sub- stitute for Scott’s Emulsion. It differs from every other emul- sion in its scientific preparation. When Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil with Hy- pophosphites has been used for over twenty years, and when thou- sands have testified to its benefit, why experi- ment with some new preparation of Cod- liver Oil, even if you do save a few cents? Ask your Doctorwhich is the best emulsion of Cod-liver Qil for you to take,