Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1913 — Canvassing and Suffrage. [ARTICLE]

Canvassing and Suffrage.

If you should happen to meet a handsomely gowned woman carrying what looks like a mop handle in one hand and a lot of tinware in the other do not Imagine she Is moving. She is merely working fox the cause, according to the New York Times. One of these workers who was encountered by an acquaintance explained the system. In order to get Inside the homes she was selling a vacuum washer and while she explained its saving qualities Bhe put in a word foi woman suffrage. In the Fifth avenue and West Side homes she talked to laundresses, but on the East Side she Baw the women of the house. All ol the profits made on the washer are turned over to the organization. Thic particular worker, who lives in the, fashionable part of the city, said she had five lieutenants out working other districts.