Show l z 50 S 2 1 J t 1 1 r I 1 1 i d t 1 ie ii o jt n j 1 j i. i 7 1 f 1 l 0 4 i 6 en era osa l Ie ones r t About Faces Famous lS Feminist Leader Who o Hiked It t Alone for Suffrage By y Lora Lor K Kelly e eHE ry HE Little tittle General h ha has THE J- J as right about faced Rosalie Roalie Gardiner Jones famed for her suffrage hikes has forsaken the single line of march and is no now w keeping step with an allied commander Senator Clarence C. C Dill DiU of Washington to whom she was married in the village church at Cold old Spring Sprang H Harbor L L. L L I. I.- I. several sever weeks ago f It is a romance from real life with all the elements that a fiction writer writer would dote date upon Here is an attractive heroine with ith a background of pf wealth social position and h an American ancestry which dates back thirteen generations on on ohe one esta estate te The hero is s a a youthful United rafted States States' Sena Senator from Spokane Wash one of the two bachelors in the upp upper r house with witha a notable political record behind hi him in As for the future nobody knows vs what a Democratic National Convention m may r bring forth in the of way pres- pres s. s OO f A A I v h. h y r s' s w kM t f c 7 Y y t and Equal Rights R Falls Into St Step p With a frize Prize Bachelor From the United States Senate and Promises to Love Honor Donor l I. I v V i t ti and Cherish but Cherish h. h but Not Obey VV V- V i to y the tIle Ion Hon G G. C. C Dill I t. 4 J ll of of him him as a person at all aU So we gathered at the appointed d' d hour hout in his office And he wasn't there It lIt was my moment to to say I told yo you so sol then flounced out I 1 ha had more profitable le uses for my time But as I reached the bottom of the Senate Office Building stairs somebody haled me back for the gentleman had arrived Our case was stated bri briefly fly and the Senator although known to be favorable to our cause started to argue some somer r tl 4 ty a aZ Z Y w i tt ray N YA rr y r rf ss x I f Jr t. t Se Senator tor C. C C. C Dill and nd Representative Wallace Vallace H. H White h holding an impromptu concert on the Capitol steps after the passage passage of their Radio Bill nominees nomine s And h he was born in in Ohio The couple met in Washington three years ago when the vivacious little suffrage suffrage suffrage suf suf- frage leader accompanied a delegation of women to the Senators Senator's office to learn his views on the peace movement Rosalie hadn't wanted to go I told my friends it was useless to talk to Senators she said as we sat in the great paneled oak-paneled living room at Jones Manor on her estate near Syosset on t the e north shore of Long Island 1 BEYOND the form formal l landscape which h J- J surrounded the manor house the rolling fields field stretched away to the waters of the Sound This land has been in possession of her family since the he seventeenth century received as asa a grant from the English throne The first of r her ancestral line in this country was I Lyon Gardiner Gentleman who was was was' an English engineer sent from the Netherlands Netherlands Netherlands Neth Neth- erlands to build Fort Saybrook Gardiners Gardiners Gar Gar- diners Island which is still owned by him her relatives was purchased by from the Indians The original Colonial home now now adjoining the manor was mentioned in the first United States c census of 1790 Scar Scarcely ely 5 feet tall with a mass of bobbed brown curls and and blue eyes eyes so eo often mistaken for brown dark they are busily away the Little LittIe General stitched at that most feminine of tasks the fashioning of a bit of or finery She smiled smiled- radiantly at the recollection tion ton when asked about her first mee 4 ng I s not sure with the Senat Senator am whether to describe it as a a meeting or an encounter she said I X felt sheer waste of time to call on it was a had he old Senators You see I still fhe shoulder I recalled recalled re re- suffragette chip on my those innumerable and and and futile futile- futile called when we went to lobby in behalf sessions suffrage I remembered ed that of woman mock-courtesy mock and suavity with which of the Senate received us the gentlemen little ittIe they baited us to o make our how then us no satisfaction tion gave speeches I wh whatever upon to prevailed upon But I was finally hard it t was coaxed so i ig My associates g go o. o easier to go g o than to 10 o r resist any longer of what I hadn't the remote remotest t idea Dill was like I probably Senator old gentle gentl gentleman gentleman thought of him hire as a grumpy t didn't like women if f I thought man who point I wasn't slated to SP speak k b but u t I didn't like his attitude so I ar arose Ce and d told him him so in no uncertain terms term i Im I'm m afraid I raked him over th the coals rather thoroughly My Iy law training in addition addition to my experience as a soap-box soap orator for suffrage enabled me to speak readily an and ad I thought I saw a suspicion of a twinkle le in his eyes That made mo me angrier angner than ever so 80 I left rather abruptly I I hadn't been announced as one of the speakers of the occasion so he didn't know Inow who I was I learned afterward that no sooner had our delegation left tha than he he had set his secretary to work finding out the identity of the girl in pink A few days days days' later I was summoned to another conference and I found to tomy tomy tomy my amazement that the rest of the committee committee com com- hadn't been invited The Senator said he wanted more details concerning my views on peace and here she paused to thread a ne needle that needle dle- dle that was the beginning of our friendship HE committee to which she hc referred T THE was a delegation from the conference conference conference confer confer- ence Jane Addams called in the National Capital Capit l several years years ago It represents enthusiasm enthusiasm enthusiasm the feminist leaders leader's present in humanitarian c causes uses now that the ballot has been won She and the Senator discovered that their ideas on the pea peace e question were no not so divergent after all and that there were many other interests in c common Thus the meeting meeting that began in a blaze of re rese resentment resentment re- re se tI on on h her r part and a flash of admiration on his for lor the spirited girl girlin in pink who had dared to challenge him progressed into a love affair Its my my first real affair too sh she went on I ICI have often been asked why I didn't marry but I always replied that I was too busy to bother with matrimony matrimony matrimony matri matri- mony I even ven implied as much to the Senator who wasn't at all impressed by that excuse as I s secretly hoped he wouldn't be But nut it if is isI I true that none of the men menI I knew had succeeded in engaging my my interest as he did These rhes who come out ut of the West have a way with them you I know know she added merrily Because of my seemingly seemingly seeming y wholehearted wholehearted wholehearted whole whole- hearted adherence to the suffrage ge c cause use some some of friends my used to accuse me But I of being a man I w was s simply indifferent I I have always led an exceedingly exceed exceed- i busy life and there were so many things I wanted Canted to do Somehow glutting married was one of the few th things that did not 5 interest me I had s seen en so many fine edged fine edged feminine m minds minds' bec become me blunted by bythe a athe the th dull routine of ot domes domes- domesticity M so s many unhappy J i l fJ v l iJ r t 4 l J if It A i o i t lii li f I i t Ii 7 r k I i i y t t I t td tI d T iAZ S fi Y St. St Johns John's Episcopal Church at Cold Spring Harbor L. L I. I where the ceremony was performed per per- performed formed marriages so soh much discontent or on the par part of women women After all I valued my independence my freedom to to come coine and go as I liked without having to to consult consult consult con con- sult anybody else about my plans Added years to oneS one's age nowadays ys means added achievement and no no woman should be accounted a failure simply because she doesn't wear the label of a wife She should be judged solely upon what she has ac accomplished as an individual Speaking of titles the Senators Senator's wife will retain her maiden name for lor business business business busi busi- ness and pr professional purposes purposes As manager manager manager man man- ager of the vast properties she and he her hen brother and sister have inherited she will still continue continua to sign checks and legal papers as Rosalie G. G Jo Jones es But the Senate ladies of Capitol Hill will receive their invitations to social affairs from Mrs C. C C. C DillI DillI DillI Dill I Stone she am not a Lucy Leaguer continued d but it seems a a. sensible course to to retain my maiden name on legal documents except perhaps where the Senators Senator's int interests rests are concerned and there is is' likely to be confusion Why drag his name into business u in ss affairs that affect me exclusively I am not so sure that it wouldn't be a good idea for men mento mento mento to have both a public and a private name too On the other hand I think it absurd to insist upon being called Miss in ones one's social relations While I do not expect to entertain ext extensively in Washington I shall try to discharge whatever duties are required of m md mo as the wife of the junior Senator from Washington I 1 am not going to help my husband in his is political affairs because I dont don't believe he ho needs any help I dont don't want to inject myself into his political affairs simply because I am his wife though I Ishall shall be do so if he needs me But I ref refuse seto to be an echo Young people who are hig highly ly ily ro romantic romantic ro- ro mantic rush into marriage expecting t too o I 1 s. s Fly 0 1 Mj l t T t n Y wY T- T Tf f f yr Y A n JM yv p i ron Ny 9 6 r. r i r Y Z r e f. f v a'S r i na y r NA S rw i N yr Jt 4 la 74 W fYr I f Cf w Z J h i J if l 7 I Z G J l S rg T w. w 1 r a r ar a f ft j A Sf f Y t rr A i. i i I Yr r S T r yd r r if I f s ir v ft v fl v rY t 11 Il I i V 1 l' l I n r a 3 k w Fn p 4 v is y Y 1 rasa f I iJ i- i J t aa br Yr a rte Z pv 4 4 n M T L 0 1 ti r t t t J i l' l hank r k v 1 w 1 Tx r 1 its 5 t Y Yr 1 w hi r I i TX I. 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J i I C t iJ u hp I I c. 11 r III T prof CSC c I A i a 1 h A q C M The Senator and his bride briCIe on the i ro steps of the village church just F after the wedding I t c j a C r u r i G General Ros Rosalie liet as she apps she he hiked with her pilgrims ii I ington in iri the suffrage C car cui r much of each other ther When the inevitable inevitable inevitable table disillusionment comes they feel that life has cheated them But the more mature folk realize that tha after all aU none of us is perfect and minded broad-minded people people peo peo- pie ought to be bo able to work o oat t their difficulties difficulties' I calmly and sensibly THE Little General blaz blazed d aI I THE a spectacular spectacular ular trail through the suffrage c camp campin mp in ih the winter of 1912 13 when she organized or- or or organized hiking trips to Albany and Washington b bearing petitions Rosalie's friends in in the Long Island hunting set gasped when they saw her picturesque activities regularly chronicled chronicled chronicled chron chron- on the first page but the Little General knew what she was about She thought the question had been discussed long enough around society tea tables with the usual cream or lemon lemon attributes attributes and nd she wanted to bring it out in the open literally and figuratively It took courage to leave the soft ease of a a luxurious Long Island home in the f face ce of family opposition to plod many weary veary miles on foot in the dead of winter win wiri- ter ter through storms and blizzards all for the sake of f an an abstract cause As one ne of the original war correspondents corre correspondents corre- corre who trudged by her side on th that t famous trek to Washington I can testify to the tho difficulties that she faced the problems that tha arose constantly all aIl of which she solved smilingly and with marvelous tact A A stout h heart art and a serene serene faith were needed to carry carry that sort of ot enterprise ent t to its successful conclusion but Rosalie e t ir I Jones lifted her small v f Jones 4 rf 4 head high above the seething sea sea of criticism cism Like Lik a Crusader of old with her brown pilgrim cape flying she clutched her long staff and marched triumphantly triumph triumph- y k antly into the capital President t on the e eve eoe e of Wilsons Wilson's fir first t r ration tion She and fourteen four tour fourteen teen f followers 0 11 0 w e r shad had walked every step of 01 the way from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York to Washington Older and more ore conservative conservative conservative con con- leaders in the suffrage suffrage m o 0 v v vem em m e e n t t. t dis- dis disapprovingly shook their heads disapprovingly disapprovingly dis dis- approvingly over her methods but they could r not not deny their v In In Inthe the great suffrage M parade parada down Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania avenue the following following following fol fol- when the thet lowing day daYt marchers were attacked t by hoodlums the Pilgrims Pilgrims' Pilgrims Pilgrims' Pil Pil- Pilgrims grims grims' section section was marked for special at at- at J Banners and torn the v sash sashes s were walk rioters closed sid sidewalk ired d when Ii Lt 7 W en in and the police were nto w Wash Wash- i powerless But the plucky y young ung commander commander commander comman comman- der emerged smilingly demonstration later as s' s usual The mob subject of a congressional was made the investigation West they talk talked d df Middle Out in the yellow wagon certain f for r months about a which invaded the countryside one summer summer summer sum sum- mer and made the rounds of old old home home home- week celebrations T Through rough the rural sections of Ohio Ohio Ohio- where Senator Dill hailed from originally originally nally the ally the little yellow wagon attracted much attention for even then flivvers flivvers' were plentiful Day after day in the hot broiling sun Rosalie J Jones onEs accompanied accompanied accompanied by her worl co-worl worker co-worker er Elizabeth Freeman Freeman Free Free- man an English militant drove over the dusty roads spreading the gos gospel el elof of woman suffrage and leaving behind her a trail of yellow leaflets The bay nag trotted confidently around th the race racetracks racetracks racetracks tracks at county fairs It was put u up for the night in the the village livery stables while its mistress mistress' exhorted the curious populace from a soap box in the public square P pOSSIBLY Senator Dill saw in some A of her activities a parallel to his own political campaigning when he learned more about the girl in pink Born in Fredericktown 0 he he- began with the birthright of every Buckeye child an intense interest in politics In Inthe the State which has furnished as many Presidents as ns any other in the Union they learn the game early and Senator Dill was no exception He was in his early arly when Tom Johnson w was s' s introducing g a new note into Am American rican city politics cs with his rad radical al civic reI re re- re- re I f. f J 1 forms in Cleveland the metropolis of Ohio Johnsons Johnson's ideas appealed to the young man from down State who was making v I good as a reporter on the Plain Dealer a Democratic newspaper ardently supporting sup porting Johnson Mayor Toms Tom's campaign campaign campaign cam- cam for re-election re included a red devil aut automobile mobile as one of its properties and in this machine the candidate was s whirled from one tent meeting |