Show EQUAL SUFFRAGE TO MANILA Mrs W H Cowles Will Slake the Change When Fourth Leaves Chicago Inter Ocean Mrs Grace Espy PattonCowles superintendent su-perintendent of public instruction in Colorado arrived in Chicago yesterday from Denver Mrs Cowles came east to mot her husband Captain Warren Hayden Cowles who leaves this week for Manila with the Fourth My term of office expires tomorrow she said when seen at the Wellington soon after her arrival I will be quite a change to leave public duties in an equalsuffrage state to retire to Manila Ma-nila but perhaps the change will be not altogether unpleasant You see I may become an equalsuffrage agitator agi-tator out there among the native omen who I understand are untrammeled untram-meled by fashion and therefore beyond i dressreform I yond the reach of the movement Mrs Cowles is a slender little woman barely five feet tall When elected she was professor of English in the state agricultural college She stumped the state and by her witty speeches secured a big vote She was elected as Grace Espy Patton but when the war began she was married to Captain Cowles who was ordered to Cuba Her change in name presented an amusing problem for the attorney general to solve It was the first time in the history his-tory of the country that the name of an officeholder had been changed After a long period of reflection the attorney general gave out tne opinion mat uie state could not recognize the existence of Mrs Cowles Therefore since her marriage the state superintendent has had two names Every day when she crossed the threshold of her office she became Grace Espy Patton until the end of official business when she again assumed her right title Mrs Warren Hayden Cowles layden |