Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1892 — The Woman’s Crusade. [ARTICLE]

The Woman’s Crusade.

The Chicago women have now organized to compel the city to clean the streets. Women w&e always handy with brooms and they may make aclean sweep in this case. —Minneapolis Journal. Chicago women held a mass meeting recently to decide on some plan for cleaning the streets of the city. These women will find there j*”ndthing equal to a trailing skirt. It does the work every time. —Toledo Blade. Chicago women have organized to clean the streets. They don’t propose to manipulate the sweepers, shovels and carts themselves, but will see that the work is done. Why don’t they all wear trains?—St. Louis Chronicle. The women of Chicago have formed an association the object of which is to keep the streets of the city clean. The women have been sweeping the streets for a year past, and unless there is danger of fashion decreeing shorter skirts the need of an association is not apparent. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The women of Chicago have attacked the dirty streets and are doing free of cost what the city paid a contractor thousands for not doing. A number of Omaha women thought seriously of doing the same thing, but after looking the streets over concluded the job was too great to undertake.—Omaha WorldHerald.