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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Diard and Miss Nina Bertini Humphrys, who has come on from New York to join the company. Mlle. Diard was received with remarkable demonstrations of enthusiasm Monday night and is established a favorite already. Miss Humphrys is petite, demure and very charming. She is the product of the best foreign schools and has been the prima donna of the Tavary and Gustav Hinrichs opera companies...
...desirable continuity is given to the Senate by legislative election.- (A) The present method tends to reelection-two-thirds of all elections to the Senate being re-elections (Bryce, 192).- (B) It affords the legislative department of our government greater experience with important affairs, especially our foreign policy.- (C).- election would be less frequesnt by popular election.- (1) The people believe in the rotationof office (Bryce, 128-9); as illustrated in the case of our governors and congressmen 9Bryce...
...partly in the castle and grounds of the estate of Lucy's brother, Sir Henry Ashton. The chorus are costumed as ladies and knights, followers of Sir Henry. The prima donna soprano part of Lucy Ashton will be taken by Mlle. Fatmah Diard. Mlle. Diard's natural abilities and foreign training are directly in line with this part, and she may be counted on to be seen at her best. The many patrons of the Castle Square who were entertained by her singing in "Mignon" will look forward with pleasure to her appearance next week. The part of Lucy...
...testimony of the century has been in favor of municipal suffrage for women.- (a) In many foreign countries she already possesses the power.- (1) England, Scotland, Wales.- (2) Australia and New Zealand.- (b) She possesses municipal suffrage in many States of the Union.- (c) Its extension has been favored, notably in Massachusetts, by many of the most eminent statesmen: W. S. Leaflet, Vol. I, No. 3 (Sept. 1888).- (d) It received 107,000 votes at the late referendum in this state...
...Clarkson, W. S. Leaflet, Vol. No. 6, p. 4.- (4) Brothel keepers would not allow their inmates to register.- (x) Registration would furnish evidence as to the character of the houses without the necessity of a raid.- (e) The objection that honest women, because ignorant or of foreign birth, would vote detrimentally to municipal interests, fails.- (1) The strongest instinct in every woman is the protection of her children from evil.- (2) This instinct may be trusted to vote.- (x) in the interests of the family, for good public education, improved sanitary conditions, the reduction to a minimum of evils...