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Show dow Mrs. Grannis Toted. ' The New York woman who always tries to vote was ut the polls last election elec-tion morning at exactly 9:30, and the remarkable thing about it was that she did vote too. It was Mrs. E. B. Grannis, and she was accompanied by another woman who wanted to see just how it was done, and if any of the terrible things which men are always predicting will happen would really come to pass when a woman wom-an voted. Mr. Bartlett, brother of Mrs. Grannis, also went along. The woman expected that jeers, cat calls, inBults and jostlings would be her lot. But instead thereof every man stepped aside respectfully for the small, determined woman" to" pass, and there wasn't a loud word that referred to a woman uttered. The polls where Mrs. Grannis went were on Fourth avenue, between Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets. Once inside the charmed inclosure in other words, the barber shop Mrs. Grannis politely preferred her request for the privilege of casting a vote. 1 am very sorry," said one of the men, "but as a servant of the public I am here to obey orders. I think, though, that women ought to vote, and if I had my way would help them to do so." "If all the women would do as you are doing," spoke up another, "I think they would have the ballot in a short time. They would convince men that they were in earnest and really wanted it." Then Mrs. Grannis voted her ticket. She didn't put it in the Blot herself. Her brother did that. But it was her ticket from beginning to end, and her brother did not know what was on it till he put it in. "My brother," said Mrs. Grannis, "has agreed to giva me his vote every other year because he knows that I am a property prop-erty holder that I want the right of the ballot, and he feels keenly the injustice of the thing. We are opposite in our politics, which makes his unselfishness in the matter very apparent." New York Recorder. |