NAWSA Gen. Corresp. Yates, Elizabeth Upham Jan 20 1931 Providence Plantations Club Abbott Park Place Providence, Rhode Island My Dear ASB. I gave Mrs. Allinson (or rather loaned her) the copy of "Lucy Stone" which I gave Mrs. Misch Xmas- She is president of our Club, as well as a newspaper woman. She reviewed your translation of Spanish forms. I should be pleased to convey to her your thanks. How I wish we were near enough to have a "talkie" once in a while at least. I am reading Fosdick's "A Pilgrimage in Palestine" A wonderful interpretation of ancient history in modern terms. I am about as usual, that is, a lame old lady in a wheel chair gazing towards the setting sun. Yours muchly E.U.L. 1-20-31 Letters from the People WOMEN AS SEEN BY A WOMAN To the Editor of the Providence Journal: How thankful we should be to Mr. Gilbert Chesterton, the distinguished British novelist who is here to tell us all about modern women. We have "lost all our power of creative thought and culture" because "we live in apartment houses and do not do our work by hand." We have "lost the inspiration in sweeping steps and hanging out clothes. Making pies in the kitchen made our grandmothers have superior opinions," and, finally, "the army of stenographers"– the pitiful sight "whose letters and documents have added nothing to the progress of the world, but whose career has been chosen in preference to making homes," is cited in none to chivalrous fashion. Does the gentleman know that eight and one half million women in this country are in industry–out of the kitchen, away from piemaking! Nor do I see an army of chivalrous men stepping out to offer them old-fashioned kitchens. As for the stenographers–"the pitiful sight." The stenographers,–but for whom there would be no home,– the stenographers who are sending their younger brothers to college, taking care of the old folks, after the brothers have married, paying off the mortgage on the farm! Have we not women who can not only make pies as good as their grandmothers, but at the same time can run church bazaars, raise funds for orphans, help clean up the slums, and clean out grafters in public life? Was Joan of Arc, who led the armies of France, canonized for pie making? Would Mr. Chesterton wear the clothes of his grandfather or ride in his grandfather's one horse shay? Would he, in cold blood, take away the jobs of the men piemakers, men dressmakers, men corset makers, men laundresses, men milliners who long ago took away from the women the kitchen, the clothesline, the sewing machine and the flatiron? Of course they have left us the English Channel to swim, and the ocean over which to fly, but some of us would prefer to be allowed to make our own world. With all due respect to the gentleman of the ancient past, whose outworn motheaten theory of "Women's Sphere" belongs to the days of the Dodo. SARA L. G. FITTZ. Providence. Nov. 19, 1930. The Distaff BY ANNE C. E. ALLINSON. –––––– Pleasant Surprises About The Heroine Of Old Battles–The Admirable Biography Of a Persuasive Woman "She was the eighth of nine children. Her mother, a farmer's wife, had milked eight cows the night before Lucy was born, a sudden shower having called all the men of the family into the hayfield to save the hay. When told the the sex of the new baby, she said sadly, 'Oh, dear! I am sorry it is a girl. A woman's life is so hard!' No one then could foresee that the little girl just born was destined to make life less hard for all generations of little girls that were to follow." This is the beginning of the recent biography of Lucy Stone written by her daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell. The date of that new baby's arrival was 1818, so that her mature activities began before the Civil War. In whatever period her life had fallen–if it had been now instead of then–she would have displayed originality, courageous independence, a passion for justice and an ardent desire to secure it for everybody else. When she did live, the causes that impelled her to action against the grain of public habits and prejudices were the enslavement of Negroes in the South and the unjust status of women the country over. *** Lucy Stone was, of course, not the only pioneer of the period, but her unusual gifts made her a conspicuous coadjutor in the reforming movements of the day. Here, however, I am going to take for granted those old battles whose victories we nonchalantly enjoy. Ungrateful and forgetful we must often seem to the veterans who won them, but such is life, and I am sure that if Lucy Stone were still alive, she would be in the van of a new march. This biography is a vivid and direct story rather than an analysis of a life. For me, it has changed a somewhat formidable personage of history into a delightful, appealing woman. I find myself as surprised as the contemporary observer who strayed into a suffrage meeting and discovered that the public character was a fresh, round, rosy little woman whose very aspect suggested a husband and a baby. With this domestic appearance, however, went a speaker's asset, a very beautiful and far- carrying voice. For a woman who smashed every tradition by even appearing on a public platform, this was an invaluable gift. Lucy Stone's own mental enlightenment saved her from putting any value on the limelight. She was singularly modest, and really lost in AS I READ BY ANNE C. E. ALLINSON This is the Protest read at the weding of Henry Blackwell and Lucy Stone in 1855. (See today's Distaff) "While we acknowledge our mutual affection by publicly assuming the relationship of husband and wife, yet, in justice to ourselves and a great principle, we deem it a duty to declare that this act on our part implies no sanction of, nor promise of voluntary obedience to, such present laws of marriage as refuse to recognize the wife as an independent, rational being, which they confer upon the husband an injurious and unnatural superiority, investing him with legal powers which no honorable man should possess. We protest especially against the laws which give to the husband: "1. The custody of the wife's person. "2. The exclusive control and guardianship of their children. "3. The sole ownership of her personal and use of her real estate, unless previously settled upon her, or placed in the hands of trustees, as in the case of minors, lunatics, and idiots. "4. The absolute right to the product of her industry. "5. Also against such laws which give to the widower so much larger and more permanent an interest in the property of his deceased wife than they give to the widow in that of the deceased husband. "6. Finally, against the whole system by which 'the legal existence of the wife is suspended during marriage,' so that, in most States, she neither has a legal part in the choice of her residence, nor can she make a will, nor sue or be sued in her own name, nor inherit property. "We believe that personal independence and equal human rights can never be forfeited, except for crime; that marriage should be an equal and permanent partnership, and so recognized by law; that until it is so recognized, married partners should provide against the radical injustice of present laws, by every means in their power. "We believe that, where domestic difficulties arise, no appeal should be made to legal tribunals under existing laws, but that all difficulties should be submitted to the equitable adjustment of arbitrators mutually chosen. "Thus, reverencing law, we enter our earnest protest against rules and customs which are unworthy of the name, since they violate justice, the essence of all law." *** Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who married them, sent the protest to the Worcester "Spy" with this comment: "It was my privilege to celebrate May Day by officiating at a wedding in a farmhouse among the hills of West Brookfield. The bridegroom was a man of tried worth, a leader in the Western Anti-Slavery Movement; and the bride was one whose fair name is known throughout the nation; one whose rare intellectual qualities are excelled by the private beauty of her heart and life. "I never perform the marriage ceremony without a renewed sense of the iniquity of our present system of laws in respect to marriage; a system by which 'man and wife are one, and that one is the husband.' It was with my hearty concurrence, therefore, that the following protest was read and signed, as a part of the nuptial ceremony; and I send it to you, that others may be induced to do likewise." THE EVENING BULLETIN, PROVIDENCE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, ` 1931 The Sport By Grantland THE ROUND-UP Harvard-Yale - Here are two teams that have been much stronger de- fensively than they have been on at- tack. Against Army, Dartmouth and Princeton, three leading rivals, Yale has scored only two touchdowns. Against Army, Dartmouth, Michigan and Holy Cross, Harvard hasn't scored any touchdowns. So the two teams together have scored only two touchdowns in seven important games, which is hardly to be listed as heavy artillery, Either team tomorrow that can put on an attack, combining speed and deception, can win. If neither at- tack is any stronger than it has been all year, there should be no scoring, except by a long pass or a fluke play. [Outside of Harvard's college] tory into a delightful, appealing woman, I find myself as surprised as the contemporary observer who strayed into a suffrage meeting and discovered that the public character was a fresh, round, rosy little woman whose very aspect suggested a hus- band and a baby. With this domestic appearance, however, went a speak- er's asset, a very beautiful and far- carrying voice. For a woman who smashed every tradition by even ap- pearing on a public platform, this was an invaluable gift. Lucy Stone's own mental enlight- enment saved her from putting any value on the limelight. She was sin- gularly modest, and really lost in her cause, a quality of character not even today credited by the reaction- aries to a public-spirited woman. . . . It was at the close of her college course at Oberlin - and what per- serverance and courage went into obtaining that education! - that the young Lucy announced her in- tention of lecturing. Her mother felt very badly about it - pioneer women have always found their own sex conservative. But one of her brothers wrote to her: "If you think you have got brass enough, and can do more good by giving public lec- tures than any other way, I say go to it." And another brother wrote: "I believe Sarah (note, another woman!) said in her last letter that if you intend lecturing she hoped you would not come into this State. I wish you to do what you think is your duty." But the supreme example of mas- culine aid and support in Lucy Stone's life was the attitude of her husband, Henry Blackwell. Benevo- lent neutrality would have been more than many women gave, but heart and soul he was a fellow-sol- dier in the war waged for the rights of his wife's sex. When Lucy hesi- tated to marry him because of her abhorrence of the legal status of a married woman at that time, he per- suaded her with a fine reasonable- ness that the true mode of protest was to assume the natural relation, and in mutual trust, to reject the unnatural dependence. It was the husband who suggested the famous articles of Protest which were read at their wedding, with the hearty concurrence of Thomas Wentworth Higginson who married them. I quote them today under "As I Read." Here I have inadequate space for thanking for Alice Stone Blackwell this admirable book, which makes history into life, and leads us to like and enjoy a reformer! rence G. Knowles, Mrs. Russell Knowles, Mr. and Mrs. Mason L. Gross, Miss Esther Merriman, Mr, Howard R. Merriman, Mr. John Hunter, Miss Anita Hinckley, Miss Bettina Hinckley, Miss Edith D. Mac- kinney, Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Trow- bridge, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Matte- son, Mr. and Mrs. Fredric L. Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Fanning, Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. J D. E Jones, Mr. and Mrs. J. DE Jones, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. William W. Ingraham of Woonsocket, Miss Katherine Lee Jones, Mr. and Mrs. G. Edward Buxton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Kilvert, Mr and Mrs. John W. Knowles, Mr. Walter R. Callender, Mr and Mrs. Benjamin Tully, Mr. and Mrs. Ormand Saart, Mr. Ells- worth Gale and Miss Ethel Merriman. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Chafee, Mrs. Charles W. Lippitt, Mr. and Mrs. Albro N. Dana, Mr. Stanley McLeod, Mr. Nor- man Baker, Mr. Howard Baker, Mr. and Mrs. John Winthrop De Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Allan B Colby, Mr. and Mrs. Bevans W. Colby, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Til- linghast, Major and Mrs. Dwight T. Colby, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wilson of Cro- ton, N.Y., Miss Alice D. Greene, Miss Sara C. Greene, Mr. Joseph W. Greene, Jr., Mrs. Robert F. Noyes, Mr. Frederick Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Trow- bridge, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. A. de Russy Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Trowbridge, jr., Mr. H. Gar- diner Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Earl R. Davis. Mr and Mrs. Newton Graves, Miss Sheffield Smith, Mr. E. Brainard Graves, Dr. and Mrs, Bertram H. Buxton, Dr. and Mrs. William P. Davis, Col. and Mrs. William F. Hoey, Mr. and Mrs. George Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Man- ville of New Haven, Conn., Mr. and Mrs. John W. Little of Pawtucket, Mr and Mrs. James Meiklejohn of Pawtucket, Mr. and Mrs. Myron Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. W.E.S. Tanner, Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Keeney, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Knight, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Dickey, Mr. and Mrs. [er, Miss Helen Hackney, Mrs] Nightingale, Jr., Mrs. Denison Greene. Among the dinner given preceding the ball were two large Dutch treat af- fairs at Agawam Hunt. Those who enter- tained at home were: Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Nicholson, Mrs. Harold J. Gross, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dyer Lisle, Mr. and Mrs. Lytton W. Doolittle, Mr. and Mrs. W. Harold Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. John K.H. Nightingale, Jr., Mrs. John R. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Trowbridge, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Graves, Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Whitmarsh, Mr. and Mrs. Ed- mund S. Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Barrows, Jr., Miss Margaret Hall. The entertainment committee, whose efforts contributed to the success of the ball, included: Mrs. Frank Mauran, Jr., ex-officio; Miss Kathleen Fielding-Jones, chairman; Mrs. Leonard B. Colt, vice chairman; Miss Eleanor Wood, treasurer; Mrs. Maxwell Huntoon, tickets; Mrs. Kenneth Shaw Safe, boxes; Mrs. Robert Beede, publicity; Miss Hope Watson, supper and ushers; Mrs. Emerson P. Smith, program; Mrs. Denison Greene, assistant program; Mrs. Charles E. Trow- bridge, booths. Officers of the league are: President - Mrs. Frank Mauran, Jr.; Vice President - Miss Anne Zell; Secretary - Miss Frances Freeman Cocroft; Treasurer - Miss Ellen De Wolf Preston. The board of managers are Mrs. Arthur H.W. Lewis, Mrs. Robert O. Read, Miss Betty Watson, Mrs. Robert W. Pratt, Miss Marion Hazard, Mrs. Law- rence Lanpher, Miss Kathleen Fielding- Jones, Mr.s John B. Lewis, Jr., Miss Bettie Stearns, Miss Elizabeth Richardson, Mrs, Gordon MacLeod, Mrs. Gilbert Mears and Mrs. Norman MacColl. SAVED HIS BURIED TREASURE Springfield, Mass,. Jan. 17 - (UP) - When a steam shovel began operations nearby recently, the pet dog of nurses of Springfield Hospital visited several points in the shovel's path, unearthed [ENING] BULLETIN, PROVIDENCE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931 Upper Photograph Shows Demers of Five Yards in First Period of Cra[?] day at the Cranston Recreation Field Lower Photograph Shows Burt of C[?] Yard Gain in Second Half, When t[?] Touchdowns, to Win the Game an[?] The Sport By GRANTLAND THE ROUND-UP Harvard-Yale--Here are two teams that have been much stronger defensively than they have been on attack. Against Army, Dartmouth and Princeton, three leading rivals, Yale has scored only two touchdowns. Against Army, Dartmouth, Michigan and Holy Cross, Harvard hasn't scored any touchdowns. So the two teams together have scored only two touchdowns in seven important games, which is hardly to be listed as heavy artillery. Either team tomorrow that can put on an attack, combining speed and deception can win. If neither attack is any stronger than it has been all year, there should be no scoring, except by a long pass or a fluke play. Outside of Harvard's coll... RADIO TALKS TELL OF WELFARE WORK Sponsored by Women Voter's League to Inform Rhode Island Residents. To acquaint Rhode Islanders with efforts of State departments and private agencies to solve child welfare problems, the Rhode Island League of Women Voters has begun a series of weekly radio broadcasts at which experts on various [?]hases of the subject will speak. Under the general heading. "A State's responsibility to Its Dependent, Delinquent and Defective Children," this series will be a feature of the third annual General Assembly Review, sponsored by the league during the present legislative session and broadcast every Friday from 6:15 to 6:45 p.m. by Station WJAR, the Outlet Company. The first 1931 program was broadcast an. 9 with Dr. Clarence A, Barbour, president of Brown University, as guest speaker. In the second broadcast last night Miss Virginia H. Heal, State director of the league and chairman of the General Assembly Review, outline the nature of the remaining 13 programs of the series. As a regular feature of the General Assembly Review, Miss Martha R. Newton, secretary of political education for the league, summarized events of the week at the State House. Miss Heal announced that Dr. Frederic J. Farnell, chairman of the State Public Welfare Commission, will speak at next Friday night's broadcast on "The Future of Our State Institutions." Other who will speak on subsequent programs include Dr. Alice B. Elliot, chairman of the Rhode Island League of Women Voters Committee on Child Welfare; Miss Mary S. Gardener. director of the Providence District Nursing Association; Miss Matty I. Beattie, executive secretary of the Rhode Island Children's Friend Society; Dr. Marion R. Gleason, director of the Division of Child Welfare, State Board of Health; Donald C. North, superintendent of the State Probation Department. Leroy A. Halbert, director of State Institutions; Miss Esther Green, general secretary of the Rhode Island Society for Mental Hygiene; Mrs. Isabelle Ahearn O'Neill, Senator from Providence; Representative John E. Bolan of Cranston; Charles L. Burt, general agent, Rhode Island Society for the Preventation of Cruelty to Children; Dr. Richard D. Allen, assistant superintendent in charge of research and guidance, Providence public schools; Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles, superintendent of Butler Hospital, and Henry F. Burt, executive secretary, Providence Community Fund. MARINE INTELLIGENCE PORT OF PROVIDENCE Arrived Saturday, Jan. 17. 1931. Steamship Portreath (British) Proctor, Swansea, Wales, Dec. 23. with 5162 tons of anthracite to Curran and Burton: vessel to Goff and Page. Anchored in lower harbor. Steamer City of Lowell Oll[?] New York [?] Lawrence G. Knowles, Mrs. Russell Knowles, Mr. and Mrs. Mason L. Gross, Miss Esther Merriman, Mr. Howard R. Merriman, Mr. John Hunter, Miss Anita Hinckley, Miss Bettina Hinckley, Miss Edith D. Mackinney, Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Trowbridge, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Matteson, Mr. and Mrs. Federic L. Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Fanning, Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. JD. E Jones, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. William W. Ingraham of Woonsocket, Miss Katherine Lee Jones, Mr. and Mra. G. Edward Buxton, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Kilvert, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Knowles, Mr. Walter R. Callender, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Tully, Mr. and Mrs. Ormond Saart, Mr. Ellswortj Gale and Miss Ethel Merriman. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Chafee, Mrs. Charles W. Lippitt, Mr. and Mrs. Albro N. Dana, Mr. Stanley McLeod, Mr. Norman Baker, Mr. Howard Baker, Mr. and Mrs. John Winthrop De Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. Allan B. Colby, Mr. and Mrs. Bevans W. Colby, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Tillinghast, Major and Mrs. Dwight T. Colby, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wilson of Croton, N. Y., Miss Alice D. Greene, Miss Sara C. Greene, Mr. Joseph W. Greene, Jr., Mrs. Robert F. Noyes, Mr. Frederick Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. A. de Ruddy Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Trowbridge, Jr., Mr. H. Gardiner Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Earl R. Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Newton Graves, Miss Sheffield Smith, Mr. E. Brainard Graves, Dr. and Mrs. Bertram H. Buxton, Dr. and Mrs. William P. Davis, Col. and Mrs. William F. Hoey, Mr. and Mrs. George Cummings, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Manville of New Haven, Conn., Mr. and Mrs. John W. Little of Pawtucket, Mr. and Mrs. James Meiklejohn of Pawtucket. Mr. and Mrs. Myron Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. S. Tranner, Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Keeney, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Knight, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Dickey, Mr. and Mrs... er. Miss Helen Hackney, Mrs. [?] Nightingale, Jr., Mrs. Denison Greene. Among the dinners given preceding the ball were two large Dutch treat affairs as Agawam Hunt. Those who entertained at home were: Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Nicholson, Mrs. Harold J. Gross, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dyer Lisle, Mr. and Mrs. Lytton W. Doolittle, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hoffman, Mr. and Mrs. John K. H. Nightingale, Jr., Mrs. John R. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Trowbridge, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Graves, Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Whitmarsh, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund S. Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Barrows, Jr., Miss Margaret Hall. The entertainment committee, whose efforts contributed to the success of the ball, included: Mrs. Frank Mauran, Jr., ex-officio; Miss Kathleen Fielding-Jones, chairman; Mrs. Leonard B. Colt, vice chairman; Miss Eleanor Wood, treasurer; Mrs. Maxwell Huntoon, tickets; Mrs. Kenneth Show Safe, boxes; Mrs. Robert Beede, publicity; Miss Hope Watson, supper and ushers; Mrs. Emerson P. Smith, program; Mrs. Denison Greene assistant program; Mrs. Charles E. Trowbridge, booths. Officers of the league are: President-Mrs. Frank Mauran,Jr.; Vice President-Miss Anne Zell; Secretary-Miss Frances Freeman Cocroft; Treasurer-Miss Ellen De Wolf Preston. the board of managers are Mrs. Arthur H. W. Lewis, Mrs. Robert O. Read, Miss Betty Watson, Mrs. Robert W. Pratt, Miss Marion Hazard, Mrs. Lawrence Lanpher, Miss Kathleen Fielding-Jones, Mrs. John B. Lewis, Jr., Miss Bettie Stearns, Miss Elizabeth Richardson, Mrs. Gordon MacLeod, Mrs. Gilbert Mears and Mrs. Norman MacColl. SAVED HIS BURIED TREASURE Springfield, Mass., Jan. 17-(UP)- When a steam shovel began operations nearby recently, the pet dog of nurses of Springfield Hospital visited several points in the shovel's path, unearthed... [?] BULLETIN, PROVIDENCE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931 [*photo*] Upper Photograph Shows Demers [o] of Five Yards in First Period of [Cr] day at the Cranston Recreation [Field] Lower Photograph Shows Burt of [C] Yard Gain in Second Half, When [t] Touchdowns, to Win the Game [and] [*headline*] The Sport By GRANTLAND THE ROUND-UP Harvard-Yale---Here are two teams that have been much stronger defensively than they have been on attack. Against Army, Dartmouth and Princeton, three leading rivals, Yale has scored only two touchdowns. Against Army, Dartmouth, Michigan and Holy Cross, Harvard hasn't scored any touchdowns. So the two teams together have scored only two touchdowns in seven important games, which is hardly to be listed as heavy artillery. Either team tomorrow that can put on an attack, combining speed and deception, can win. If neither attack is any stronger than it has been all year, there should be no scoring, except by a long pass or a fluke play. Outside of Harvard's [college] Leroy A. Halbert, director of State Institutions; Miss Esther Green, general secretary of the Rhode Island Society for Mental Hygiene; Mrs. Isabelle Ahearn O'Neill, Senator from Providence; Representative John E. Bolan of Cranston; Charles L. Burt, general agent, Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; Dr. Richard D. Allen, assistant superintendent in charge of research and guidance, Providence public schools; Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles, superintendent of Butler Hospital, and Henry F. Burt, executive secretary, Providence Community Fund. [*headline*] MARINE INTELLIGENCE. FORT OF PROVIDENCE Arrived Saturday, Jan. 17. 1931. Steamship Portreath (British) Proctor, Swansea, Wales, Dec. 23, with 5162 tons anthracite to Curran and Burton: vessel to Goff and Page. Anchored in lower harbor. Steamer City of Lowell, Ollweiler, New York, with passengers and freight to Providence Line. Steamer Concord, Cobb, New York, with passengers and freight to Colonial Line. Steamer Tennessee, Enos, New York, to tie up at Providence Line. Steamer Pawtucket, McVay, New York, with freight to Pawtucket-New York Line. Steamer Sagamore, McVay, Fall River, with freight to Dyer Line. Motorship Sagamore, Boyce, Block Island and Newport, with passengers and freight to R. I. Marine Transportation Company. Tug Julia Howard, New York. Tug Perth Amboy, New York. Barge Quincy Adams, Port Reading, with 862 ton anthracite to National Coal Company. Barge Buck Ridge, Port Reading, with 705 tons anthracite to McDuff Company. Sailed Steamship Volusia, Rishaw, Philadelphia. Steamship T. A. D. Jones, Sullivan, New York. Tug Perth Amboy, New York, with Bee Line barges Nos. 782 and 784. Tug Julia Howard, New York. OTHER PORTS Arrived Cristobal Colon, New York, Jan. 17, from Corunna. Antonio Lopez, Cadiz, Jan. 16, New York. Conte Grande, Genoa, Jan. 17, New York. California, Glasgow, Jan. 14, New York. Sailed Lancastria, Havre, Jan. 17, for New York. [Orattaingholm], Gothenburg, Jan. 17, New York. [Laurentie], Liverpool, Jan. 17, New York. [Statendam], Cristobal, Jan. 16, New York. [Duchess] of York, Liverpool, Jan. 16, St. John, N. B. [Aquitania], New York, Jan. 17, Southampton. [*headline*] RECREATION MEET POSTPONED Springfield, Mass., Jan. 17---(UP)--- The first National Recreation Exposition to be held here has been postponed from 1931 to the spring of 1932 by the trustees of the Eastern States Exposition. The change resulted from requests from foreign countries, United States government departments and individuals. [*advertisement*] BILLINGS', INC. 46 SNOW STREET Chemcraft, Erector Magic Tricks, Meccano [*advertisement*] BROWN GABLES RESTAURANT Over The University Pharmacy 135 Thayer Street "Where discriminating people eat" LUNCH 50c---DINNER 75c Blue Plates and a la Carte EASY PARKING [*advertisement*] APPLES Fancy McIntosh and Baldwins SWEET RUSSET CIDER 59c a Gal. Also Honey, Home-made Jellies and Mince Meat W. R. BROWN (1st house on) Pleasantview Ave. Greenville, R. I. [*advertisement*] [e] Making Reservations at [INDEN] [AN STREET] [lay] Dollar Dinner [o] 2:30 P. M. [mato] Soup Fresh R. I. Chicken Mushroom Sauce [pring] Lamb with Apple Sauce Frappe Fresh Green Peas Mashed Potato Hard Sauce [en] Mince Pie Squash Pie [esh] Crushed Strawberries [e] Milk SERVICE- [t] 12:30 instead of 1 P. M. Demand necessary for us to open our private Round Pond. Me. June 24. 91. My dear Mrs. Stone: Your kind favor at hand. In reply to your cordial invitation to "come and help" & would say, I should be pleased to, but cannot afford to on the terms offered. I would come for $100.00 per month - and expenses, but in consideration of those financi-ally dependent upon me cannot afford to forcese. The R.E. Asso. offered me $75.00 and expenses to return, and this still hold it out with - addition-al enducements. But I make much more to lecture by the night, and the demands of a lecture tour plan-nid and arranged for me are much easier than, than the work of an or-ganizer and agent combined with platform effecte. But I will come as stated and [fl??] in every possible way, if I can arrange to do so - I am already in correspondence with - [fuartrie] in Canada and [?] here in regard to tries this autumn, but smile I can defer that work , until later. Will endeavor to do [?...] & hear early from you that my terms are accepted. Will you be able to arrange a lecture every evening? They are not able to do so at P. F. and the second month -I remained with them on condition that such dates as are not engaged I should be at liberty to speak For the W.C.T.U. &tc. and on days that I made such engagements. Charge them nothing for service. As I spoke for the W. T.C.U. at my regular price it made it better - for me - and to the advantage of the Asso. also. for taking the month through their were a number of days so employed for which they were credited with the amount which otherwise they would have paid. For instance, not counting the Sabbaths which would be at my disposal, reckoning 26 working days a month - at $100.00 would be $3.86 - per day and on such days as my lectures were arranged and I made outside engagements that amount would be saved to the Association and accredited to it. If there were unoccupied evenings would such an arrangement be agreeable to the Mass Asso.? The Journal in R.I. [?] that is opened the way for Suffrage in some places With kind regards to you and yours. I am - very Sincerely. Elizabeth U. Yates. Miss Yates June 24 - 1891 With all good wishes for S.M.A. & E.M.A. - E. U. Yates Mrs. Algro 894 Angell St. City MERRY CHRISTMAS 1900 My dear A.S.B. I was most gratefully pleased with my "sonnet". I know I am quite undeserving of your gracious praise - but all the same I am glad you were minded to send such an appreciate - "What I would be and am not comforts me." My political adventure, all unsought, was to say the least, very stimulating, I helped to blaze the way for others. I am a political philosopher, rather than a politician and the arena of practical politics is not congenial to me, but the time is at hand when women will hold administrative offices, and [?] too. With all good wishes for your health and happiness - I am every faithfully & affectionately E.N.Y. The Left tenant A.R.D. 1922 My dear Miss Blackwell: - Among my blessings today, I count my friends - and among the choicest is A.S.B - whose [?] rememberances bring such loving cheer - I have to confess that there is much in the universe that I fail to recognize as [?], but surely that friends grow old together and pass their common stages of experiences in company unto the end, seems wisely and kindly ordered. We fought a great fight - and no doubt you share my conviction that it was worth while, although the up-to-date fruition leave much to be desired. I never of dreamed of holding office, and yet I have had a unique career in practical politics. Quite unexpectedly, and altogether unsolicited I was nominated for Lieut. Gov. of R.I. by the Democratic party in in 1920 - without financial outlay, and only a dozen speeches. I ran thousands ahead of my ticket - all of which is ancient history. But the [manel?] is that I might now be Lieut. Gov. Elect. had I been willing to accept the nomination offer- ed me again this year. I cannot imagine such unsolicited honors justified by Fate, save in Alice-in-Wonderland or some other fairy tale! The Democrats in R.I. this year won out by a large majority, which, is claimed by some, would have been augmented had I been nominee for Lieut. Gov. Too bad someone who craved such a position and was equal of it could not have had my opportunity. But as a matter of fact I have no liking for practical politics. The "game" as played irks me. Yet I do believe one should sacrifice personal feelings to public good, but I feel quite justified in decline of office as my health is increasingly precarious and as some Russian novelist said of me, of his characters my soul has reached a stage where it longs for its dressing gown & slippers! 2 There was also another reason why I did not wish to go on the Democratic ticket. I was definitely opposed to the U.S. Senator Gerry who failed to represent my convictions on all important questions and if one is on the ticket, said ticket must try to aid in full, according to party ethics. But neither could I try for the Republican candidate for that office - So on the senatorial issue I joined with the Law & Order League that put up a worthy candidate - & gave us an opportunity to record our principles & advertise our convictions although we knew he could not possibly win. Both the Democrats & Republicans were "scared" by the uprising - and we were misjudged & maligned accordingly. I enclosed an open letter to the G.O.P. sisterhood, who, in fact, accused me of being a secret agent of Democrats to draw off dry voters from the Republican candidate - Really some women in politics could give points to the Devil in fairness. But you & I never worked for woman suffrage because we failed to recognize such capabilities on the part of some of our sex. Too bad women should support Lodges' It disgusted me to hear him invited to address the Mass. F. W. Clubs - & to be received with such eclat! Yes woman are "home critters" made to match the fateful convincible such like [?] With all good wishes Faithfully & affectionally E. U. Y, Thanksgiving - 1922 S U Yates Political Advertisement Political Advertisement --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Open Letter to the Women's Republican Club of Rhode Island My attention has been called to statements said to emanate from your organization to the effect that the mass meeting that I am arranging for the Law and Order League at the Opera House Sunday evening, Nov. 5th, is financed by the Democratic party in the interests of its candidate for the United States Senate. Such assertions are without any foundation in fact. The initial fund of the undertaking was furnished by a generous check from Mrs. Mary Greene Chapin. This has been supplemented by contributions resulting from 25 letters sent to friends of the movement in both political parties who have responded liberally. It is very regrettable that a charge of such perfidy should have been made, when the facts of the case could have been obtained by simple inquiry. That the true animus of the Law and Order League may be fully understood by the Women's Republican Club of Rhode Island, you are invited to attend the mass meeting Sunday evening. Reserved seats will be furnished to the president and members of the club upon application. Elizabeth Upham Yates, Independent Democrat. 1c Thermax Electric Toaster Made by Landers, Frary & Clark, manufactures of the famous Universal line. Strongly constructed of metal, nickel-finished, with ebony finish base. Special at $4.10 When you accept our advice in selecting Electric Appliances, we become responsible for their service to you. Deferred Payments if Desired (Slight Additional Charge) $1 down, 25c weekly. The Electric Shop [*S U Yates Dec 1928*] Providence Plantation Club Abbott Park Place Providence, Rhode Island Ma cherir (accent on the last syllable-) A.S.B. Some poetry that! but I will not go further - because I cannot - [presume?] in that line in correspondence with my friend of so rare poetic gifts - I appreciated the sentiments printed on my Xmas card by your clever relation - that I, as ever, did much enjoy your sonnet to this Bird with Broken Pinions or was it an order? I congratulate you that the life work of your dear devoted parents and yourself is to be perpetuated for all time in the Woman's Journal - And surely it has a great work yet to do. It seems indeed that "the times are out of joint" and one may wonder if our civilization 2 Providence Plantation Club Abbott Park Place Providence, Rhode Island will endure -- or pass out or under the soil of this planet that has already covered human institutions as great & grand as those of which we toast, & cultures that dreamed they were eternal - I have recently read that so dreadful book - The President's - Daughter - by the mistress of President Harding - (or rather one of his mistresses). It seems to me we never again can decline to admit any one to our shores on account of moral turpitude - Unless it be on the grounds that we have a saturated solution of moral turpitude of home manufacture! Well dear Alice, we will still gander on the lovely & good [?] still in evidence - & make the best of a world we have tried our best to make worthy of its resources & opportunities. I no longer take an active part in [p?o] affairs - but am still interested How I wish my eyes might serve us both. It would be delightful to read aloud & discuss our common interests together - Faithfully & affectionately E.U.Y. [*E.U. Yates w biog.*] [*1930 Dec*] Providence Plantation Club Abbott Park Place Providence, Rhode Island My dear ASB - So glad to see your handwriting in my mail this morning & thanks for that notable article on Sir Walter Scott & his special fondness for all "critters." As I read it & the marvelous familiarity it showed on your part - with - his works - I realized fully why Boston University admitted you as one whom they could not teach anything more in English Literature!!! Quant a moi - I am feeling very much like a broken down old lady, who cannot recall that the girl did any thing worth while. 2 Providence Plantation Club Abbott Park Place Providence, Rhode Island My infirmities are on the increase. Having been in [ste?] [?] for years arterio sclerosis has developed to a serious degree - I do not go out, but go down to café in my wheelchair With the excessive heat, humidity & high blood pressure I have been in a "stew" all summer - I have tried to recall a few facts about myself, but they do not seem to me worth - recording - My birthday was July 3, 1859 (about midnight) so my birthday with "day light saving comes on the 4th!!! But it will be "born July 3. 1859" on my tombstone. I am greatly pained by the distressing news from China, & more & more perplexed by the riddle of the armistice. Your's amicably E.U. Yates [*Eliz Upham Yates*] Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association. Honorary President, Mrs. Ardelia Cook Dewing, 92 Keene Street, Providence. President, Miss Elizabeth Upham Yates, 209 Butler Ave., Providence. First Vice-President, Mrs. Ardelia C.D. Gladding, 92 Keene Street, Providence. Second Vice-President, Mrs. Mary F.W. Homer, 270 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence. Third Vice-President, Mrs. Annie B.E. Jackson, 16 Union Street, Bristol. Recording Secretary, Miss Mary M. Angell, 1 Congdon Street, Providence. Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Clara L.G. Fittz, 631 Public Street, Providence. Treasurer, Mrs. Helen N.B. James, 80 Carpenter Street, Providence. Auditors {Miss Mary B. Anthony, 72 Manning Street, Providence. {Mrs. Alice F. Porter, North Scituate, R.I. Providence, R.I. April 9 1913 [*Answered, APR 14 1913*] My dear Miss Ryan: Will you kindly send me the names & addresses of the - Presidents' - of the - Suffrage Association of the - New England states. Yours with thanks. Elizabeth Upham Yates April 15, 1913 Miss Elizabeth Yates, 209 Butler Avenue, Providence, Rhode Island Dear Miss Yates: So far as I know the Presidents of the New England states are as follows. Maine - Miss Helen N. Bates, 63 Reid Street, Woodfords, Maine New Hampshire - Miss Martha Kimball, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Vermont - Mrs. Julia Pierce, Rochester, Vermont Massachusetts - Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Monadnock Street, Dorchester, Massachusetts Connecticut - Mrs. William Hincks, 152 Park Place, Bridgeport, Connecticut Hope to see you soon. Yours sincerely, AER.SEH Enclosure Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association ------- Honorary President, Mrs. Ardelia Cook Dewing, 92 Keene Street, Providence President, Miss Elizabeth Upham Yates, 209 Butler Ave., Providence. First Vice-President, Mrs. Ardelia C. D. Gladding, 92 Keene Street, Providence. Second Vice-President, Mrs. Helen R. Parks, 123 Waterman Street, Providence. Third Vice-President, Mrs. Mary Van E. Ferguson, 57 Arlington Avenue, Providence. Recording Secretary, Miss Mary M. Angell, 1 Congdon Street, Providence. Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Sara L. G. Fittz, 197 Longfellow Street. Treasurer, Mrs. Helen N. B. Janes, 80 Carpenter Street, Providence. Auditors Mrs. Mary R. Ballou, 61 Congdon Street, Providence. Mrs. Alice F Porter, 596 Smith Street, Providence. ANSWERED, NOV 26 1918 Providence, R. J. Wolf 1913 My Dear Miss Blackwill, - This hour a splendid member Miss Gertrude Lawson, who is very anxious to go to Darlington - if she can by any means raise the money - She is going to be an effective leader, in fact I regard her as the "Granny Woman" of our R.I. work- but she like some of the rest of us is of limited means. She is good on selling paper - Sold 40 in 50 minutes one day. She intends to write -asking if you could advance money on conditions she worked it out selling papers & getting subscriptions. I write to assure you she is reliable & I think is worth the venture if you wish to do it. I would gladly help her if I had the ready money - Cordially yours E U. Yates Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.