TOP 10 REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE - #1

- In the 90th anniversary year of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, is there any better way that we could celebrate - THAN TO VOTE !!!!!

TOP 10 REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE - #2

- despite arrests and violent treatment in prison, women continued to picket the White House during 1917, until President Woodrow Wilson agreed to support the "right to vote amendment." Remember these women and their courage. VOTE TOMORROW!

TOP 10 REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE - #3

- in a country where we can travel to the polls and vote in perfect safety, it is silly not to!

TOP 10 REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE - #4

- in the 72 years it took to achieve the right to vote many invested blood sweat and tears. Remember them as you vote on Tuesday.

TOP 10 REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE - #5

- It is completely non-fattening to vote on Tuesday!

TOP 10 REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE - #6

- There is a lot at stake. Weigh in and VOTE!!!

TOP 10 REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE - #7

- It is something you can do completely on your own, with no one looking over your shoulder!

TOP 10 REASONS FOR WOMEN TO VOTE - #8

It is more fun than paying taxes! - of the 2 responsibilities we have as citizens.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR WOMEN TO VOTE - #9

- YOU CAN INFLUENCE the makeup of your Congressional District for the next TEN years by who you vote for.

TOP 10 REASONS WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE - #10

- It is a stake in YOUR future!

COURTED BY PRESIDENTS, Part 3

At the age of 2, Jane Addams lost her mother. At 4 she contracted tuberculosis of the spine, which caused a curvature in her spine and health problems the rest of her life. She was inspired by those who worked with the poor and wanted to be a doctor. After graduating from nearby Rockford Female Seminary at 21, her father died. The following fall, she along with her sister Alice, her husband and their step mother went to Philadelphia so the 3 young people could attend medical school. They only managed a year before the step mother’s health required them to return home.
The next year, her brother in law, already a doctor, did surgery to improve her spine. She traveled for 2 years and then returned home, struggling to find focus for her life. She strongly resisted the expectation that the role for all women was to marry and devote their lives to their family, as set forth by John Stuart Mill, in his book “The Subjection of Women.”
She'd had a nervous breakdown after her father’s death and at this point she struggled with depression. But reading had always given her strength. She became a Christian at 26, and set about exploring how religion and her interests might enable a life worthy of her. It took three years, but when she came home from Europe, she knew where her life was headed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams

COURTED BY PRESIDENTS, Part 2

Jane Addams,of Hull House, was the first President of a group called the International Women's Congress for Peace and Freedom, organized in 1915 to call for suffrage for women, and mediation to bring about the end of wars. At “their 2nd international congress, held in Zürich in 1919, ICWPP denounced the final terms of the peace treaty ending World War I as a scheme of revenge of the victors over the vanquished that would sow the seeds of another world war.”
The group moved to Zurich to work with the new League of Nations, and changed their name to Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. It was because of this work that Jane Addams was the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_International_League_for_Peace_and_Freedom