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BROOKLYN LIFE. 22 A Recently Announced Engagement. New York State will not be won by the suffragists without A recently announced engagement is that of Miss Mabel more of a fight than they anticipate. Applegate Handy and the Rev. Dr.

Harry Jevins Fenwick of. -r San Antonio, Tex. Miss Handy, who is the youngest daugh- Those Present. ter of Mrs. Jane Handy of 103 St.

John's Place, has been a Conversation at the various tables had a tendency to drift lifelong resident of the Park Slope. Dr. Fenwick is a well- toward the mooted question, for a number of suffragists had known clergyman in the diocese of Texas and prominent in come as guests and, while they were decidedly in the minority, southern social circles. He is a graduate of the Theolog- upheld their side of the question with vigor. Seated at the ical Seminary of Faribault, Minn.

president's table were Mrs. George, Mrs. Putnam, Mrs Fritz Achelis, Mrs. Robert Low Pierrepont, Mrs. Thomas B.

Hew- Charity Ball Tickets Procurable in Brooklyn. itt, Mrs. Henry A. Haines and Miss E. Helen Hannahs.

Oth- Anyone desiring tickets for the Charity Ball at the Waldorf- ers present included Mrs. Camden C. Dike, Mrs. Seth Low, Astoria next week Thursday evening may secure them through Mrs. William Gilman Low, Mrs.

Parker D. Handy, Mrs. Mrs. J. Eliott Langstaff of 19 Seventh Avenue.

Mrs. Lang- Charles W. Ide, Mrs. Henry EIde, Miss Isabel F. Ide, staff's son, Mr.

B. Meredith Langstaff, is a member of the Willis Ogden, Miss Alice Ogden, Mrs. John Nos- floor committee, which further includes Mr. Theodore P. trand.

Mrs- Theodore Pratt, Mrs. William A. 0. Paul, Mrs. Dixon, Mr.

Stowe Phelps and Mr. Theron R. Strong. Daniel Chauncey, Miss Florence Chauncey, Miss Mary Miss Julia Du Val, Mrs. William E.

De Forest, 'Mrs. John A Recently Announced Engagement. Capen Eames, Mrs. George White Field, Miss J. Christina Mr.

and Mrs. Edward H. Unkles of 79 Downing Street Whitehouse, William L. Moffat, Miss Litchfield, Mrs. have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Emily James L.

Morgan, Mrs. Francis L. Hine, George E. W. Unkles, to' Mr.

Charles E. Rice of Manhattan. Rice Hite, Mrs. Augustus F. Holly, Miss Lois Low, Miss Har- formerly made his home at Hudson, N.Y.

Low Mrs- Donald S. Lee; Mrs. John Van Buren Thayer, Mrs. James Guthrie Shaw, Mrs. Spencer A.

Jennings, The Anti-Suffrage Luncheon at the Bossert. Mrs. Thomas O. Callender, Mrs. George W.

Chauncey, Mrs. That femininity on the Heights is awakening to the im- Simeon B. Chittenden, Mrs. William H. Cary, Mrs.

James H. portance of taking a decided stand either for or against the Callender, Mrs. Horatio M. Adams, Mrs. Reese Alsop, Miss enfranchisement of women was very clearly evidenced by Alice Brinsmade, Miss Bertha Stockwell, Mrs.

Robert Gair. the gratifying success of the luncheon held at the Hotel Bos- Mrs. Morris U. Ely, Mrs. David H.

Lanman, Mrs. Henry sert on Friday of last week by the Brooklyn Auxiliary of the F. Noyes, Mrs. Louis H. May, Miss Van Anden, Mrs.

Phil-New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage. So Hps Abbott, Mrs. Henry Day Atwater, Mrs. George Abbott, numerous were the responses made to the invitations that Miss Mrs. D.

Bi Abbott, Mrs. J. Q. Bauer, Mrs. both the private dining-rooms on the second floor were used Ernest Benger, Mrs.

Nehemiah Miss Grace M. and even then many had to be seated down stairs, joining Boynton, Mrs." Joseph Bates, Mrs. M. H. Beams, Mrs.

James the other guests later -for the speeches. William Put- T. Beckwith, Miss Marjorie Brown, Miss Theodora Bulkley, Ulllll, lUdlllllcUl Ul IUC CACLLUAYC WVU111H1.1.CC, piCSlUCU UU gaVG AA s. xjiav.iv, iviia. iVlCUlU JJISllUp, 1VX15, ricuciiCK.

J. a word of greeting to the guests, 'after which she read brief Bezowa, Mrs. Campbell C. Broun, Miss Blanke, Mrs. Walter extracts from articles by Felix" Adler and Dr.

Max Schlapp, H. Crittenden, Mrs. Dwight P. Clapp, Mrs. Henry Coffin, Miss two men who regard the tendency toward over-exertion, both Caroline Cuddeback, Miss Eleanor Cuddeback, Mrs.

Constant, mental and physical," on the part of modern woman as a Mrs. George H. Courts, Mrs. Paul Dudley Chase, Mrs. Rich-racial menace.

Dr. Schlapp, whose work in the medical world ard S. Childs, Mrs. George P. Conard, Mrs.

Eversley Childs, is wiuciy tviiuwii, lino wi incii mum un uns suujcli, ctiiu, hkc xviia. iciguiuu vuicnictn, mi s. masun iarKe, jvirs. most' of those who have studied woman's relationship to the George. W.

Crary, Miss Anna Cutter, Miss M. G. Dexter, human family from the physiological standpoint, thinks that Mrs. William M. Dean, Miss Irene W.

DeWitt, Mrs. Francis man's task and. woman's lie in divergent fields. Miss Alice D. Dodge, Mrs.

Horace Dickinson, Miss Hermine Eschen, rim Vviiuieiiueii, uic picsiuciu in uie oiaic asouauuii, who xviis. jrncsi r.uon, ivirs. -cuwara r.veril, Mrs. narry sr. 1 ..1 I T.

A t- T- nas omy recently received tnis uisiincuon, was given a very ruruess, mrs. t. rraser, jviiss juna A. risn, Mrs. jonn o.

cordial welcome by her many friends in the gathering. A Frothingham, Mrs. William J. Forbes, Mrs. Lewis W.

Francis, year ago, said Miss Chittenden, there were organizations, op- Theodore L. Frothingham, Mrs. Benjamin Flint, Mrs. posed to suffrage in only seven states, while in a twelvemonth Henriette Ficken, Mrs. Francis Fitzpatrick, Mrs.

Kenneth opposition has become so strong that now the antis; have Fowler, Miss Marie Gelpcke, Miss Anna C. Gelpcke, Mrs! associations to fight enfranchisement in fifteen states and Robert S. Gould, Mrs. George F. Gregory, Mrs.

H. S. Glad- the District of Columbia. Miss Chittenden made a very earn- win, Miss Dorothy Gibb, Mrs. John W.

Hollenback, Mrs. Ed- est plea that those present do what they could to prevent ward Hatch, Miss Mary Hunter, Miss Anne H. Halsted, Mrs. the hampering of woman's power for moral uplift by forcing Frederick E. Haight, Mrs.

Frank Healy, Mrs. Cornelia Hood, the ballot upon her, placing her among the partisans instead Mrs. Howard S. Hadden, Mrs. Jennie Hughes, Mrs.

Clarence of permitting her to stand, like Xht" church, outside of petty E. Hubbard, Mrs. Edward Hinman, Mrs. Crowell Hadden, wrangles for. temporal power.

She cited, the case of Jane Mrs. Henry M. Hume, -Mrs. Charles M. Heminway, Mrs.

Addams, who once, when she stood on a platform, spoke for. H. M. Halsted, Mrs. F.

S. Haines, Mrs. Ralph Hickok, Miss humanity and as a disinterested woman but who now, when Hubbard, Miss Adelaide Haxtun, Miss Anna C. Hohorst, she makes an appeal, represents the Progressive Party, her. Mrs.

Hubbard, Mrs. G. A. Jahn, Mrs. Martin Joost, Mrs.

Eu- scope, instead of being bounded by 'the height, of sky, nice C. Kenison, Mrs. Gustav Kehr, Miss R. King, Mrs. being limited by the tenets of those who fell at Armageddon! T.

Livingston Kennedy, Mrs. W. Ryerson Kissam. Mrs. Otto Miss Chittenden spoke of the suffrage amendment to the Koch, Mrs." John E.

Leech, Mrs. Julius Lehrenkrauss, Mrs, K. state constitution upon which the men are to vote in 1915 Lapham, Mrs. Frank Little, Mrs. Luke V.

Lockwood, Mrs. and also mentioned the colors adopted by the antis, white and Frank M. Lupton Ella M. Lane, Mrs. Frederick W.

black and American beauty. Mrs. A. J. George of Brookline, Moss, Mrs.

William Murray, Mrs. Richard P. Merritt, Miss who is a very forceful and alert speaker, was then in- Lilla Merritt, Mrs. W. Clinton Mumford, Mrs.

Albert Ma-troduced by the. president and took up the argument along son, Mrs. Lindley Murray, Mrs. E. M.

Millard, Mrs. E. D. the lines of. the logic of fact vs.

the logic of theory, giving Miller, Mrs. E. Megill, Mrs. J. J.

Mclnerney, Miss Edith numerous figures from the bureau of statistics in Massachu- Notman, Miss Charlotte Nesmith, Mrs. F. Noble, Miss Oak-setts to substantiate her statements. She touched with humor Mrs. Clough Cosby Overton, Mrs.

Herman B. Ogden, Mrs. upon the attitude taken by many fine women that they are Roy Otis, Mrs. J. Overbeck, Miss Elizabeth H.

Packard, Mrs. "called" to politics-r-as though, in fact, some divine insight Francis H. Page, Mrs. Henry U. Palmer, Mrs.

Frederic T. had been given them to ride forth with' the ballot and right Parsons, Miss Carolyn E. Putnam, Mrs. George Phillips, Mrs. the.wrongs of those toiling and pitiful, sisters who work in Richard T.

Pullen, Mrs. William P. Poot, Miss Mary Per-mills and factories settling, by unintelligent zeal, those kins, Mrs: Charles E. Perkins, Miss Peck, Mrs. Henry Allan economic problems which wise men for centuries have sought Price, Miss M.

V. Putnam, Mrs. Edward A. Quinn, Mrs. to solve.

Incidentally, Mrs. George mentioned that forty per Frank Reynolds, Mrs. Clarence H. Robbins, Miss Robbins, cent of the women workers of the country are employed in Mrs. Remsen, Mrs.

Otto Reiner, Mrs. H. J. Riedel, Mrs. H.

personal service and in our own homes and if the American Clarence Riggs, Mrs. G. W. Rasch, Mrs. Bernard Rentrop, woman cannot solve the servant problem with this forty Mrs.

William Frothingham Smith, Mrs. Alden S. Swan, Mrs. per cent, wny does sne tnimc sne could give such valuable Francis S. Sinclaire.

Miss Lucv T. Sinclaire. Mrs. Herbert Sco- assistance with the city budget? And while men may fail and ville, Mrs." Edgar S. Shumway, Mrs.

Frank Sniffen, Mrs, fail again at their tasks, the answer is not for women to fall Scanlon, Miss Virginia" Sawyer, Mrs. J. Shaffer, Mrs. Robert to and endeavor to do their work for them as many seem to H. Turle, Miss Eleanor Tweedy, Mrs.

Silas Tuttle, Mrs. John think Public opinion, said Mrs. George, is the great lever T. Underwood, Miss Caroline C. Uhligl Miss Katrina von which uplifts the morals of society and public opinion is large-.

Voigt, Mrs. Van Cleef, Mrs. James H. Williams, Mrs. John ly controlled by women.

When eighty-five per cent of the O. Williams, Mrs. Henry A. Walton, Mrs. Francis A.

Wilson, patrons of theaters are women, who is responsible for the Miss Florence Mrs. Alfred T. Wise, Mrs. Herman moral tone of plays? That Mrs. George's points told was Weber, Mrs.

Edward A. Wood, Mrs. Henry D. Watson, Mrs. evidenced by the interested attention of her hearers and the Edwin C.

Ward, Mrs. Whitcomb, Mrs. Timothy S. Williamj frequency with which they applauded. The antis are plan- Miss Caroline Witte, Miss Emily S.

Wood and Mrs. J. L. Za-ning a very active campaign in the next two years and if briskie. the success of the luncheon be any criterion, the ballot in (Society continued on page 27).