Show f iF I WERE MAYOR Lill Lillian ian Russell Tells What She Would Do I 1 By MARGUERITE MOOERS j MARSHALL MARSHAI-I- H Her r Honor the Mayor M buss 19 Lillian nu Russell eU Nho Who knows but well we'll all nil have havo the chance c to voto vole for her It seems ms too obvious and unnecessary rY to toi toray f ray i that wo we all WILL vote voto for lor her If It the chance chanc Is ours Who ho knows but cut cli hall h will m bur burgeon eon with blu ribbons and blo som as a oscan an Os an n American beaUty allt rose Who knows knoW's but r ew York wUl will actually Uy possess poses tho the most beautiful N woman mayor Who ho nos no's Yes I thought the so-the o tho ayes aes have 11 It iles Lillian Russell announces herself her her- when the self as S n a candidate for lor mayor get the tho vote Hair Ir rippling r I had Jt it thus yesterday esterd and raid aId d daman a aman man mn to me the best suf suffrage ut- ut frage frake argument Ive I've heard he yet ct GuenIll Guess Guen Ill I'll vote Note yes U for tho the amendment next posters te s shAve Lill falli Several new u campaign have 0 already ady been a suggested such fluch as asA asuA A uA vot vole voto for torr the suffrage amendment means A A. vote vote ote for tor Lillian and nd Suffrage Suffrage Suf frage 1915 1910 Lillian 1917 d Do Co Thing Things That Mother Would Y yet t when I 1 caught Miss Il Russell at atI atthe atthe I the Made blade In the U U. 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S A A. show Bho and andI I Inquired eagerly as to the details of or orI I her hen candidacy she was as coy aa as a pre president asked naked midway of his first term If he will stand a second one that woman womans woman's 8 Sh didn't t exactly say sw t a place was In the home but she Intimated Intimated Inti Inti- mated broad broadly that her ambitions are not poll political I I have never looked forward to h political office she he depre depre- I 1 1 wouldn't think of or setting my- my myself II self Kelf I up UI a a. candidate for lor mayor I idel Jik like m my mother who In was asked by a a. reporter If f she sho wouldn't t run for Cor mayor of New York Who ho would nominate me she u hed I I 1 will ill nominate you ou cried tho ho re reporter rt re- porter And he did and she he really ran admitted d MI Miss M Russell It If there Is la an nay any reporter 1 In the tho city of or New York who wouldn t nominate theo the tho daughter of Lillian m many mother for foran o an any old office I have hare yet ct to moot meet him u My ly mother was among the first workers worker's for women women's s rl rights and had a wonderful l platform Miss Russell was going on when I 1 Inter Inter- What would yours be I 1 asked lust Just suppose that you ou were mayor of New ew York What would you oft 1 like to do dOT The red Ill lips pursed In sudden I th thoughtfulness and when their Ir owner spoke again it was W quite seriously I would do everything in my un power t to nake inake It Impossible Tor for an any child In Inthe Inthe the city of or New York to work l before ra reaching the tho age aKe of 15 IS That was ono one of the reforms reform my mother ad advocated at d thirty years ears n ago o. o I would tr try to save fave little tittle boys and girls from having their I brains and bodies overtaxed In shops I and factories or In tenement work work- t rooms rooms I 1 would follow up and siz the Evening Worlds World's splendid campaign campaign cam cam- 01 P for tor school lunches for poor children chil chil- I dren dron until there thero wasn't a n single hungT hungry hungry hun hun- gT gry child In any school In tho the city te Medical Dental Cental and Optical Attention I I I 1 would go further r than that t. I Would have the city d do as M thC they do In California where the women already te Ever Every rl school hool child gets medical dental and optical attention absolutely fret Cret Thus no matter h liow w poor or careless the parent ml may bo bo be the child Isn't allowed to overstrain Its eyes or suffer with the toothache che or develop tuberculosis I While we wo talked we stood In the center con cen t ter r of or the railed off square where Miss I cen-I tI 8 Russell sells l pretty retty boxes and bottles bottler I Ite to te make mako people prett pretty Fresh h and blooming and blond and fair with azure eyes ees and aureate hair hall she recalled to not ne-not not for the tho first time her time her fictional fic- fic prototype Kipling's Venus Venue AnI An- An I nl er E Every now and then a amah amah amati mah mati or woman stopped short and fixed ht-H ht with a a. glittering eye Others Othen w witched watched out of the tall tail of theirs their while apparently fla rapt In tho contemplation contemplation of ot lamp fixtures fixture or linoleum There Therel l' l ed a general s If unspoken n a ree- ree n as to the most perfect product product li et I Make In the U. 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A l 1 Jf If you were mayor what would you OU do for women I naked asked Id keep on with Mayor Mitchel splendid attempt to teach women how to buy cheap nourishing food and to provide markets where It Itcan Itcan Itcan can be bought she replied prompt ly Iy My mother foreshadowed that too She said there ought to be free markets all over the city where poor women might purchase good food at af cost cOlt Of course coune they should be shown hown how to select elect wholesome f food od and how to prepare It most mOlt tastefully and economically Then wh why cant can't nt there there bo be places where I h re persons with only a little m money ncY can cnn bu buy stout shoes and warm cloaKS at ot cost Tho The problem of un- un is one which ought to be lS tiled settled by the city If It I l were mayor of New Nework York ork I 1 should like to see sec that that ever every person who wanted a Job had one Among the Issues for or which my mother stood tood was that of ot dean clean streets At that time of ot course tho the streets were a ft great Brent deal worse than they are arc now Much has b been en done dono In it 11 tho way of Im Im- Im provement pro Theres There room for tor more I was guilty guilt guil guil- t ty of Interrupting For Clean Streets Streett and Clean Clenn Women If I were mayor Miss Mias Russell said laid sweetly I should like to feel that the streets were literally and metaphorically clean enough not to soil Mil II any women's skirt J J 1 think It would be a fine fino plan to have o more more women In the tho courts and ir Jails or f In trouble Wherever here other women women are should In prison on be bo there therA to help The They are ro only nailing waiting for tor the chance now nowadays Look nt t th the cubs splendid WA way In which the women's clubs have taken u up the cases of ol un un- un f and fortunate girls and think of the tho fine work 1 ark done don b by women In tho the night ni night ht court f My bey I mother spoke repeatedly In favor favor lavor o of prison reform refo-m. Her have hav en b-en carried out to a R considerable de degree ca during the tha last Jut thirty years r f but ut I ID ll v that more might be done and and I am nm In favor or of ot doing It However do not tremble taxpayers N M vI Miss p as Russell understands your ur pol point t or of f w. w I If I were I mayor would do m my beat best est to give the city a a businesslike business business- like administration conducted on onI lines line Of strict economy she de- de tie tie- I Blared As As a business woman m mi self elf I know what whit that me mean means The The Chief reason realon why I want to vote Is because I t pay three kinds of taxes taxes- I on en my property my Income and my business and business and I think I ought to have hive something to say aay about about what is la done with that money Jl l I think the the- mayor and every other of New York ou- ou ought hl to boom t th lie tho city on every occasion I 1 know I couldn't live anywhere else IM My I huerd hus hue band rd w would like to have havo me mP live In burg u g smiled Lillian but I couldn't the climate Th The people outside Nf New w w York ar are silly to call can It H wicked It l I. I not so EO JU naughty as other American cities because J It Us Its more mora honest rAu As a mayor Id I'd work for tor the things thing I J am nm now working for as 8 n a woman and andr r c Id I'd try to keep my and smile at nay iny critics and not ot to abuse abua tho the news news- I 1 papers But I really dont don't think women woman ought o to be presidents and mayors just justy n 1 y QI U. U Men office hold holders ere will do what w want If It wo we ask them dangerously like an n frage argument I reminded her Oh 1 I want to be bis n. n citizen I want to cast cal it tl ballot implored Ilea nu Russell lI with her best hor ninety horsepower pou smile Ir Ir Voter arent aren't you ou going to havo a n h heart rt 1 |