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Show Woman's Franchise. In Chicago not only are The Tribune, The Inter Ocean and other leading daily dai-ly papers hearty in their approval of women's voting, but nonpartisan and religious papers also. The Northwestern Northwest-ern Christian Advocate says: We heaf of no place being selected as a room for registration worse than a cigar ci-gar store. One well known lady said that the store was not horrible, "it being be-ing like any other place for merchandise." merchan-dise." Another woman said that her visit to the registry was "like going to the postoffice. " In all instances the judges ceased to smoke when the ladies entered. At one place the official in charge "handed to each woman a fine large white rose." These experiences are quite in contrast with the lugubrious lugubri-ous propheoies of the social ruin to follow fol-low the gift of franchise to our sisters. If the women are treated so handsomely handsome-ly when they go to the polls to select only school officers, what will be their welcome when their suffrages are sought on all controlling issues? The woman's franchise means more human peace and not war. ' |