Bridgeton pioneer., May 20, 1915, Image 6

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Afternoon Toilette in “Midnight” Blue
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Here is an afternoon toilette in
Which the graceful gown is made of
"midnight” blue taffeta and is worn
■with a neckpiece of ostrich feathers
/and crepe. The hat of blue straw is
trimmed with velvet ribbon and big,
full-bloom garden roses and their deep
green foliage. Every detail of this
costume is up to date and tasteful—
therefore, ■worth consideration.
The gown shows a skirt having sin
*le box plaits joined to a yoke, of easy
adjustment to the figure. It is not as
short as skirts for tailored gowns, but
reaches to the instep. The plaited
portion of the skirt is set on to the
yoke with a piping of the silk, and the
bottom of the skirt is finished with a
-narrow binding.
The bodice is draped, giving the ef
fect or a sleeveless coatee. Ail edges
and seams are finished with pipings,
,• and there is a widely flaring collar
• with wings wired to hold Its curving
*■ outlines. This, and the remarkably
.. attractive sleeves, bestow much of its
» distinction upon this refined and beau
vtiful design. In truth collars and cuffs
■appear to be the arbiters of fate for
those gowns that aspire to originality
this season.
The sleeves are long, -with flaring
cuffs extending over the hand. Their
decoration with small buttons and em
broidered arrowpoints (somewhat
elaborated) could not be improved up
on.
A separate collar and guimpe of fine
batiste with narrow silk binding is in
line with the season’s vogue, but de
signed especially for the chic gown
with which it appears.
The laced boots, with light cloth
tops, and the smart millinery, pro
claim a costume selected by an ex
pert whose taste was reliable. All are
the last words in matters of fashion,
but the finished toilette is, neverthe
less, quiet and refined.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
Varied Waist Lines.
There is a waist line to suit every
type—the empire for the slight youth
ful figure, the natural waist line for
the conservatives and straight ones
for the stout figure.
| Novelties in Dress Accessories j
New shopping bags fancier than
ffbose of leather, and new combs in
>odd shapes are among the latest of
novelties in accessories of dress that
'are alluringly displayed in the shops,
jin the picture given here two of these
bags are shown, together with a
'comb. The bags are mounted on
bhe aew c lasp, which has been chris
ttened the "Panama Gate.” It spreads
(when pulled out to open the mouth
-of the bag, and when pressed to close
ft fits under a cap of metal.
At the left the long bag is made of
igolcl colored moire ribbon of a heavy,
soft quality. This is gathered to a
flat bag made of gold beads, having
a flowered pattern in beads of vari
ous -color and finished at the bottom
with a tasseled fringe of beads. The
clasp is of French gilt and the cap is
*>f the same.
At the right the bag is made of
black moire ribbon in a fine quality
bn minted on a clasp of gunmetal. It is
uined with a flowered silk in lavender,
and the cap which confines the clasp
:5s of gunmetal set with an amethyst.
jThe small coin purse of silk is at
itached to the bag by a fine chain of
gunmetal. The bag is suspended by
a handsome silk cord. The gold-col
ored bag has handles made of folds
of the silk run through small gilt
slides.
The comb is an excellent imitation
of tortoise shell in a composition of
celluloid. The curved teeth are set
on to a back which is scroll-like in
shape and set with small rhinestones.
The shape of the scroll has given the
comb its name—it is ambitiously
called ‘‘The Eternal Question.” It is
cleverly curved both in the back and
the teeth to fit well to the head and is
intended to be worn with the new long
roll in which the hair is arranged at
the back and over the top of the
head.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
An Every-Day Gown.
A pretty little "every-day” gown is
of mouse-colored cloth trimmed with
graduated bands of deep sapphire vel
vet; it has the yoked skirt and full
hem of today, and a quaint high belt,
also an exceedingly pretty high collar,
in striped mauve and sapphire faille
j and satin.
WOMAN SUTFHACE BATiLE
OPENS IN NEW JERSEY AS
ANTIS UNllliEii BIS SUNS
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MONSTER MASS MEETING 'HELD IN TRENTON.
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Predictions ot Coming Victory-Aggressive State Campai
Outlined—Prominent Women Opposed to Voting—Anni
Election ot New Jersey Association Opposed to Worn
Suffrage-Former Mrs. Grover Cleveland Contributes
Fund-No Liquor Money Used or Wanted—Campait
Opens Auspiciously For Opponents to Votes For Wome
T IE battle is now on!
For the coming live months
and more New Jersey will be
the scene of one of tne most
soul stirring campaigns ever waged in
the political annals of the state—a cam
paign not between party and party and
man and man. hut a conflict between
woman and woman, woman and man,
and man and woman—a campaign
which from present indications already
promises to he one of aggressive war
fare—nf struggle, strife, contention,
bitterness, heartburning excitement
and agitation—which even now looks
as if it will put to blush every political
conflict that lias been fought within
or without its borders.
The question of woman suffrage is
now squarely before the electorate. The
legislature of New Jersey has fixed
Oct. Hi as flic day uiKin which every
man of voting age will lie given an op
portunity to moot tlie issue at tlie bal
lot box. and to then decide whether
or not the cares of national, state,
county and municipal, borough or
township government shall be added to
the cares of womanhood
The two contending hosts have al
ready set up their camps. The war
fare which for tlie past few months
lias been waged in a desultory and in
termittent manner on the part of the
anti-suffragists lias now been set in
definite lines, and a plan of offensive
campaign has been outlined and
adopted.
Mobilization at Trenton.
Anti-suffragists mobilized on Monday
in the city of Trenton and set in mo
tion their drive to crush forever “votes
for women'’ in this state. Under the
colors of tlie New Jersey Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage they held
an all day council in Masonic hall and
welded together their forces for an of
fensive warfare which is chartered to
reach the furthermost corners of the
state.
The meeting was the “antis’ ” first
formal thrust in tlie campaign. The
anti spirit was at flood tide through
out the day. Victory was talked of
only in figures of how the majority
against “votes for women” was going
to lie on Get. 19. Every anti was san
guine that tlie nieu of New Jersey
would send up the majority against
woman suffrage to the extent of 100.
XtO. and Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge of New
York, president of the National Asso
ciation Opposed to Woman Suffrage,
struck a responsive chord, which
brought forth an outburst of cbeers,
when she declared:
"if you will roll up 100,000 majority
in New Jersey we will meet you with
2o0.000 each in Now York and Pennsyl
vania and a large majority in the
state of Massac husetts,” which, by tlie
way, are the four eastern states that
will decide this great question this fall.
Annual Meeting.
The day's proceedings were opened
with the annual meeting at 10:30,
when reports Were heard from the
presidents of the twenty-one county
organizations. This was followed by
a luncheon at 1. o'clock, during which
there were brief informal talks by
members of the association. The day
was rounded out with an enthusiastic
mass meeting, attended by a mixed
audience, which filled the spacious
hail, who heartily echoed the senti
ments of the different speakers and
voiced their sympathy with emphatic
applause.
The spontaneous expressions were
interpreted by the speakers and work
ers as pledges of unfailing support
and tlie prosecution of a campaign that
would bring home a victory of which
the “antis” could be proud.
Every county of the state had its
delegates on hand for tlie three meet
ings. and tlie gathering, considered as
a whole, comprised tlie most represent
ative women ever assembled to map
out a campaign on political issues.
Every phase of American citizenship
was present—the wealthy, the middle
and the working classes—and they
were all a unit in declaring they did
not desire the ballot and that a large
majority of the women of the state
were also of ti e same opinion respect
ing tlie right of suffrage.
Mrs. Prfston Contributes.
Not only was the need of driving,
persistent, offensive effort impressed
upon the workers, but their attention
was called just as emphatically to the
fact that money was required. The
.'tatement that tlie vice and liquor
rings of the country were behind the
anti-suffrage movement was stigma
tized by Mrs. Breese as an unqualified
falsehood, and (he books of the treas
ury were thrown open with the chal
lenge to find one penny that could not j
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be accounted for as coming from con
tributors whose character and bust
ness were unquestionable of any man
or woman In the state.
-Mrs. Breese announced that Mrs. T.
•>. Preston. Jr., formerly Airs. Cleve
land, hnd sent a large contribution.
The annual meeting was character
ized by deep interest and optimistic
feeling.
Airs. E. Yarde Breese of Trenton was
re-elected president, and Aliss Anna E.
Dayton, also of Trenton, was elected
honorary president.
Other otticers elected were as fol
lows: Vice presidents, Airs. Thomas J.
Preston, Jr., of Princeton; Airs. Garret
A. Hobart of Paterson. Airs. John Em
ery of Alorristown. Aliss Anne AIcI 1
vaine of Trenton. Aliss II. O. Alagie of
Elizabeth. Airs. Thomas J. Craven of
Salem. Airs. William Libbey of Prince
ton, Miss Clara Vezln of Elizabeth.
Mrs. Karl G. Itoebiing and Airs. Wil
liam S. Stryker, both of Trenton; Airs.
Sherman B. Joost of Plainfield, Airs.
Henry AI. Darcy of Newark. Airs.
I lieodore C. Woodbury of Orange; re
cording secretary, Airs. B. C. Alax
vvcll of Trenton: corresponding secre
tary. Airs. Ellsworth A. Corbett of
Trenton; general secretary, Airs. O. D.
Oliphant of Trenton: treasurer, Airs.
George B. Yard of Trenton.
Aliss Clara Vezin of Elizabeth was
appointed campaign manager, Airs.
Constance Aloore of Plainfield chair
man of the finance committee and Airs.
Henry AI. Darcy of Newark chairman
of the press committee.
Interesting Facts.
Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr., Is
known the world over as Mrs. Grover
Cleveland, wife of the twenty-second
and twenty-fourth president of the
United States.
Mrs. Garret A. Hobart is known the
world around as the widow of the
vice president of the United States
who swept the country in 1S0G— Mc
Kinley and Hobart.
Miss Anna L. Dayton is the sister of
the former ambassador to The Hague.
Mrs. John Emery is the wife of the
well known Vice Chancellor Emery.
Miss Anne Mcllvaine Is the vice
president of the National Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage, vice pres
ident of the New Jersey Ited Cross so
ciety and member of the executive
committee of the National Association
For the Upbuilding of the Nation's
Wards.
Miss H. O. Magie is the daughter of
the venerable and honored William J.
Magie, former chancellor of New Jer
sey.
Mrs. William Libbey is the wife of
the well known Colonel Libbey, confi
dant of President Wilson.
Mrs. Sherman B. Joost of Plainfield
is a well known society leader and
charitable worker of Union county.
Mrs. Karl G. Roebling is the wife of
one of the well known members of
Roebling Sons, whose father built the
Brooklyn bridge.
Mrs. O. D. Oliphant is a famous
writer and lecturer.
Branch Presidents Report.
Branch presidents — Dr. Theodora
Kriehbaum, Montclair; Mrs. Theodore
C. Woodbury, Orange; Mrs. Stockton
Colt, Elizabeth; Mrs. Sherman B.
Joost, Plainfield; Mrs. John R. Emery.
Morristown; Mrs. Robert W. Smith!
Spring Lake; Mrs. Abram Cooper. Bel
mar; Miss Emma L. Bridges, West
field; Mrs. A. S. Higgins, Manasquan;
Mrs. Ksnry M. Darcy, Newark; Mrs.
Robert C. Maxwell, Trenton; Mrs.
Frank M. 'Stillman, Rahway; Mrs.
Thomas P. Graham, Paterson; Mrs. E.
J. Waring. Perth Amboy; Mrs. C. How
ard McFadden, Hackensack; Miss Me
Keen, Moorestown; Mrs. Alan L. Mc
Dermott. Jersey City; Mrs. J. C. Hutch
inson, Sewaren; Mrs. E. G. Williams,
Frenehtown; Mrs. L. S. Read, Camden;
Mrs. Burton Hall. Fanwood; Mrs. T.
H. Adams. Summit; Mrs. Thomas J.
Craven, Salem; Miss Mary Bergen.
Haddonfield.
Luncheon.
Luncheon was not allowed to inter- :
fere with the work of the day. and I
while it was being served the guests ,
heard vigorous talks on the movement, i
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Mrs. A-thur M. Dodge.
They heard Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge,
president of the National Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage, who is
also .the president of the National As- I
sociation of Day Nurseries, and a mem- !
her of the executive committee of the
Civic Federation, and of the Public
Education Association of the United
States, assert that woman suffrage is
going, not coming; that in actual !
practice woman suffrage has not oper- '
uted to effect any of the anticipated
State* bureau oi labor. to investigate
the conditions of labor of women and
children. 1907 9: special agent Unit
ed States department of the interior,
Alaska exhibit. Seattle exposition.
Mnrch-Juiy, 1900: special agent United
States bureau of labor, to report on the
strike of shirt waist makers, January
June. 1910.
Miss Bronson said in part:
“One of file most forcible arguments
advanced by the advocates of woman
suffrage is that it would lead to a
fairer treatment of women in industry
and to better laws for their protection
The claim is made that the laws on
our statute .books are unjust to flu*
wage earning woman and that her only
redress from this discrimination is in
the ballot.
“So often has this view been urged
that it has come to be accepted by
many wage earning women, who have
for this reason become advocates of a
cause otherwise distasteful to them.
A study of the laws of the various
states of the United States will show
that these conclusions are as fallacious
as the premise is untrue.
Wage Earning Women.
"Reference to the laws governing the
labor of women shows that our law
makers. far from enacting laws which
discriminate against the wage earning
woman, are constantly enacting new
and better laws for her protection:
that these laws are constantly im
proved not because women have the
ballot or want it, but because women
are entering more and more, into th
industrial life of our country. And be
cause of her great function to society,
because of her physical disadvantage
and above all because she is not her
self a lawmaker, public opinion de
mands that her rights and her inter
ests shall be doubly conserved anil
safeguarded from any probable in jus
tice by man and that she shall be
given the opportunity to become what
ever her abilities, natural or acquired,
permit. And in obedience to this de
mand the laws enacted for the protec
tion- of wage earning women are more
beneficent and farreaching than the
laws for the protection of wage earn
ing men.
Night Labor Laws.
“Sixteen states regulate the employ
ment of women at night and specific
ally state the hours between which a
woman may not be employed. These
states Include the male suffrage states
of Nebraska, Indiana, Massachusetts,
where night work for women of any
age is forbidden: the states of Connecti
cut, South Carolina and New Hamp
shire, where night work in mercantile
establishments is forbidden; the states
of Minnesota, New York and Ohio, for
bidding night work for women under
twenty-one. and the states of Wiscon
sin and Delaware, regulating the con
ditions and hours of night work. None
of these states are equal suffrage
states.
"Suffragists claim that an eight hour
day for women exists in woman suf
frage states. There are four states
where women vote that have eight
hour laws. In two of these the law was
passed before women had voted and
cannot, therefore, be claimed as a vic
tory of woman suffrage. They do not
add that a law recognized by all social
workers as a sine qua non of remedial
legislation for working women—name
ly, the prohibition of night labor—is not
found on the statute books of any suf
frage state. And it was not until 1913,
twenty years after woman suffrage
came into Colorado.
Suffrage States Lag Behind.
“The history of labor legislation
shows invariably that suffrage states.
Instead of being in the vanguard of
remedial legislation, have usually
lagged behind and have only enacted
labor laws when the majority of male
suffrage states have pointed the way.
“If so much has been accomplished
without the votes of women and so lit
tle has been done with this vote it
would seem to behoove the wage earn
ing woman to inquire carefully into the
specious promises of the advocates of
equal suffrage. Neither the wage paid
to woman nor remedial legislation in
her behalf depends upon her political
status.
“It is hardly conceivable that equal
suffrage would reverse the remedial
legislation already enacted, but the
constantly reiterated demand that wo
man shall be allowed to stand on ex
actly the same footing as men may
render ineffective much of the law
which now gives her an advantage.”
Mrs. uooawin Speaks.
Mrs. Goodwin said that certain ele
ments were trying to inject religion
into the suffrage agitation. She declar
ed that the issue was not of a religious
nature, but purely political—a question
of whether the number in the elec
torate should be doubled. Reviewing
briefly the recent meetings of the
antis, she declared that the entire
state was beginning to see the mis
representations of the pros.
The suffragists, she declared, do not
“treat us fairly and squarely,” and
told of being heckled by planted ques
tioners who were superficially in
formed.
Quoting from an article written by
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the speaker
said that it showed that Dr. Shaw
wanted suffrage, regardless of conse
quences. Mrs. Goodwin characterized
the suffrage leaders’ doctrine as false
and destructive, and she could not see
ho-7 men could trust power “in hands
so irresponsible.”
“There is no need for woman in poli
tics,” declared the speaker, “but there
is infinite need for her at her own
task.”
Finally she pleaded with the women
“to go home and help" the anti cause
in every way that they knew.
Mrs. Oliphant’s Remarks.
Mrs. O. D. Ollphant, state secretary
and one of the most powerful of anti
speakers, spoke orieily. -n.'li.
there was a change <*f sentiment r -
Barding wmnnn suffrage in Hus suite,
that many men who would have voted
for suffrage a year ago now see the
true situation and will vote against it
She urged the women to work in their
"home communities to Increase the
sentiment against suffrage.
Luncheon Guests.
Among the many prominent men and
women seen at the lWheon were
Secretary of State Thomas Martin of
Jersey City: Hon. Franklin Murphy
Newark: Senator Thomas Barber, rhil
lipsburg; Hon. William E- Tuttle.
Westfield: Senator Waiter Edge. Ab
lantic City: Senator William r Bead.
Camden: Senator Samuel L. Munson.
Franklin Furnace: Senator Barton ..
Hutehlnson. Trenton: Senator I eter
j, McGinnis. Paterson: Colonel W il
liam J. Libhey. Princeton; Hon. E C.
Stokes, Trenton: former Senator Harry
I). Leavitt. Trenton: Hon. William E.
Runyon, Plainfield; Hon. O. Dayton
Oliphant, Trenton; Hon. Charles W.
Ostrom. Jersey City: Hon. Charles
Anderson. South River; Hon. Arthur
N. Pierson, Westfield; lion. William F.
Leonard. Elizabeth; Vice Chancellor
Mrs. Sherman B. Joost, president of the
Plainfield Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage, pinning an anti-suffrage button
on the Hon. William J. Magie, former
chancellor of the state of New Jersey.
Chancellor Magie is vigorously opposed to
"votes for women."
John R. Emory, Morristown; T. B.
Adams, Summit; Stockton Colt, Eliza
beth; L>r. James S. Green, Elizabeth;
Thomas J. Preston, Jr., Princeton;
Alexander F. Jamieson, Lawrenceville;
Right Rev. James A. McFaul, bishop
of Trenton; Right Rev. Paul Matthews,
bishop of New .Jersey, and Mrs. Mat
thews; Horace N. Nixon. Woodbury;
Norman Grey. Woodbury; Newton A.
K. Bugbee, Trenton; James Dayton,
Trenton; George B. Yard, Trenton;
Francis Mcllvaine, Trenton; Karl G.
Roebling, Trenton; Sherman B. Joost.
Plainfield; E. Yarde Breese, Trenton;
Orville D. Oliphant, Trenton; George
B. Yard, Jr., Trenton; Robert C. Max
well, Trenton; Barrett L. Crandall,
Elizabeth; Marvin A. Riley, Trenton;
Frank D. Schroth, Trenton.
From New York-—Miss Hidden, Mrs.
Warren, Mrs. K. B. Taphorse, Mrs.
Benjamin F. Nicoll.
Woodbury—Mrs. Horace N. Nixon.
Elizabeth—Mrs. James S. Green, Miss
Caroline S. Simpson. Mrs. H. O. Magie,
Miss Clara Vezin, Miss Florence Still
man.
Morristown—Miss Campbell and Mrs.
John R. Emery.
Plainfield — Mrs. John Constable
Moore. Miss T.aura E. Osgood, Mrs. Jo
seph O. Osgood, Jr.; Mrs. S. B. Joost,
Mrs. William Murray, Miss Walter,
Mrs. Sykes, Mrs. Edgar S. Hyatt, Miss
Florence Tweedy, Mrs. William W.
Coriel!. Mrs. E. E. Pumanger, Mrs. N.
Pendleton Rogers, Mrs. George A. Bo
mann, Mrs. William A. Coner and Mrs.
A. F. H. Streuli.
Frinceton—Mrs. Sarah G. Duffield,
Mrs. John TL Coney, Mrs. S. L. Ed
munds and Mrs. W. R. Mason Field.
Spring Lake—Mrs. E. H. Cross.
Trenton—Mrs. Orville D. Oliphant.
general secretary of New Jersey asso
ciation; Miss Mcllvaine, national vice
president: Mrs. Karl G. Roebling. state
vice president; Mrs. William E. Green.
Colonel W. S. Stryker, Miss Anna L.
Dayton, honorary president; Mrs. R. C.
Maxwell, recording secretary; Mrs. Wil
liam S. Stryker, state vice president;
Mrs. Henry Platt Perrins, Mrs. George
R. Yard, state treasurer; Mrs. William
J. Bowman. Mrs. Robert K. Bowman.
Mrs. Neil Robert Montgomery. Miss
Ressie Van Syckle, Mrs. E. Yarde
Breese, president; Mrs. Rudolph V.
Kuser. Mrs. George B. Yard. Jr.; Jo
seph Bartine. Mrs. R. M. Sutcliffe. Mrs.
WellinagC,. Titus. Miss Helen Reading,
Miss Lida Wakefield. Mrs. Arthur E.
Pendergast. Mrs. Willis R. Doyle, Mrs!
Adele Vastn. Mrs. Edmund Wood. Miss
Dorothy Clark. Miss Elizabeth V. Oil
pliant. Mrs. Joseph R. Ashmore. Mrs.
McCullough. Mrs. Burk. Mrs. C. Ed!
ward Murray. Mrs. Harvey McLean
Voorhees. Mrs. Richard Stockton. Mrs.
John A. Lambert. Mrs. John R. Mont
gomery. Mrs. D. A. Corbett. Mrs. Bar
kor G Hamid. Mrs W. M. Dickinson.
Mrs. Robert V. Whitehead. Mrs. Irwin
W. Rogers. Miss Atterbury. M>-s. ,T. w
Foster. Airs. W. A. Foster. County So!
licitor Samuel C. Kulp. Mrs. Samuel C
Kulp. John Kulp. William S. Kulp
Mrs. Walter Slack. Mrs. Lewis rVrrine’
Mrs. George Howard McFadden
Hackensack; Mrs N r. pnv
Carolyn Day and Mrs. Thomas r
Adams. Summit: Miss Marlon T Ten
ny, Roselle; Mrs. L. S. Read. Camden
Miss Bridges. Westfield; Mrs. Theodore
C. Woodbury. Orange; Miss Caroline
W. Stewart. Glen Ridge; Mrs Heerv
M. Darcy. Newark 7