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Show uu i FIRST WOMAN ' SENATOR. When Mrs. W. H. Felton of Georgia took the oath of office as United States senator Tuesday afternoon and was given a seat in the upper branch :of congress, those who have been watching official progress since women's wo-men's enfranchisement recorded another an-other forward step. The honoring of the Georgia woman brought a hundred per cent record for women's participation in legislative affairs. af-fairs. Women have become city coun Ml men, commissioners, school board members, legislators, state senators, congressmen, university regents. Their votes had been recorded in every ev-ery legislative hall, excepting the 'United States senate, before Tuesday. When the aged Georgia woman took her oath of office and participated, even though quietly, in the sessions of the upper house, she completed that 'record of feminine participation and I achieved that distinction which she desired, her plan to "blaze the patli for American womanhood oo |