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Show lllfil TO SUFFRAGE" TO BE PORED MM Senator Sutherland One cf 1 1 I j Speakers at Boissevain 1 i Memorial Exercises. By International News Service. WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 24. Inez MiUmlland Boissevain, martyr to the sutf-rn&n sutf-rn&n cause, will bo honored tomorrow with the lirL commemorative exercLse-s ever accorded a woman in the United States capitol. Men and women from all over the United Stales will gather in the Rrent rot unci a at i o'clock in t he a ftt r-sioon r-sioon to do homage to tlu- memory of the beautiful 'society gir- wlio snerilircd belli bel-li fe to tho "votes- for-women" movement and who for the past decade has been recognized rec-ognized anions Die loaders of Hip partismis of equal su tirade. .Mrs. Boissevain died in California as the result of exposure and exhaustion following her arduous labors la-bors in the recent campaign. For a half hour preceding the ceremonies in the capitol cap-itol there will be a voluntary of triumphal music by the string quartette. Then the vested choir of .St. David's Episcopal church of Baltimore, the finest choristers of the southern states, will enter the. rotunda ro-tunda slnin.ar as a processional, "Forward Be Our Watchword." The, Mendelssohn quartette of Washington, Washing-ton, directed by Sidney Lloyd Wrifhtson and Miss KHz ifooth Howry, will sing. , On behalf ol' the Woman's party, Chairman Chair-man Ann Martin of Nevada, will describe the last work of Mrs. Boissevain. Senator George Sutherland of Utah, author of a suffrage amendment to the federal constitution, consti-tution, will follow with an address on the work of women in politics and Miss Maud Younger of California will provide the memorial me-morial address devoted to Mrs. Boisse-vain's Boisse-vain's career. The last speaker will be Mrs. William Kent of California. As the auditors file out of the rotunda "The Marseillaise" will be sung as the triumphal tri-umphal conclusion to the memorial. |