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Show SAVE Till! MONEY I TOIJTWE" n New York Suffragists Will Ob- I serve the Week of Self-Denial, U Wkich Begins August 15. U GREAT ENTHUSIASM SHOWN I Entire Sisterhood Pinching and H Scraping, Some Even Retrim- I ming Their Old Hats. II By Leased Wire to The Tribune. NEW YORK, July 22. Three thousanc New York suffragettes have already signified sig-nified their intention to observe oelf-de-nlal week, which begins August 15. These devoted women are pledged to deny themselves everything except the barest necessities of life, and to donate the money saved to the cause Mrs. William Warner Penfleld. the tall, distinguished looking woman who now fills the place of Mrs. Carrie Chapman i Catt as chairman of the woman suffrage Bj party, today told about the week of self-denial. self-denial. "We are undertaking It for two reasons." rea-sons." she explained. "The most obvious one Is that we need a lot of money As most people know, j the amendment to the atate constitution giving the woman the vote has passed the California legislature, and will go to ! the people this coming autumn. It Is h a tremendously Important event In the History of suffrage, and the California women are meeting tho situation noblj. Thousands of them have boon making a ' summer of self-denial, giving up their vacations and even week-end trips In, 1 order to devote the time and money to' forwarding the cause among the people Much Money Needed. "But still they need more money, not for the buying of votes, but. for legitimate campaign purposes for education of the people to the issue. They have sent an ; appeal all over the country, and we New i York women feel thxit we must not let it go unheeded. So half the funds collected col-lected during our self-denial week will be sent to our sisters in California, The j, other half will be kept In our own treas. ury for, of course, we, too, are alwava j needing money. "All the women who have heard of the self-denial v'eek are thoroughly enthusiastic. enthusi-astic. Women who have almost no money that they can call their own. mothers of large famlller, on tho east ! aide, have told us they will go without ji the occasional car rides and the ploas- ; ant Sundays which are their only solace It this torrid weather and give all their few cents saved to the cause, "On the whole, lawyers, doctors and ! other professional women who belong I lo the party are pledging ua a half oV t two-thirds or even seven-eighths of their ') income during the week net apart. Each j woman will reUUn for hersolf, of the I money she earns, just enough for baro living expenses. ; j Real Self-Denial. j "The rank and file of us will probably ' amass our contributions by sheer saving : and self-Menial. A friend told me the ' I other day that she had rotrlmmed her ( hat Instead of buying a new one, and put & aside thc money saved for thc self-denial S fund. Jp "During the week of August 15 manv 1 women will do their own laundry work. They will drink no sodas, oat no ice I cream or candy. They will not leave tho city for week-end visits. They will polish their own shoes, clean their I glovos. They will take their shampoo at j home Instead of going to the halrdress- j ers. ; "Our women will go to no theaters or i concerts or bench resorts. If some of H them have been hiring a woman to assist as-sist In the housework they will dismiss her. The one who lives in nn apart- ' roont house for this week will dismiss I the maid. "Of course, we shall have to eat. but j we shall be as saving as possible. I a fancy some of us will dispense with lunch I altogether, and we shall not buy a flow- ji er or a popular magazine or a summer novel In all thc week. If we wish lo ; ; road there aro always the fico public libraries." J . i |