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!

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

COURTED BY PRESIDENTS, Part 1

An avid reader from childhood and scholar in many fields, Jane Addams, founder of Hull House in Chicago, was a Christian, an advocate for human rights, and could hold her own in local, national and international affairs.
“Addams worked with labor as well as other reform groups toward goals including the first juvenile-court law, tenement-house regulation, an eight-hour working day for women, factory inspection, and workers' compensation. She advocated research aimed at determining the causes of poverty and crime, and supported women's suffrage. She was a strong advocate of justice for immigrants and blacks, becoming a charter member of the NAACP. Among the projects that the members of the Hull House opened were the Immigrants' Protective League, the Juvenile Protective Association, the first juvenile court in the United States, and a Juvenile Psychopathic Clinic.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams

BALANCE IN MARRIAGE Part 2

In the 19th century, there was a full spectrum of marriages from ones where the wives were literally servants, needing to account for every minute of their time and little more than sexual slaves, to husbands like Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s who were loving and supportive, a real partner to thei...r wives in every sense of the word.The suffragists, who knew they were fortunate in their lives, were fighting for the improvement of the lives of the “marriage slaves” or others only slightly better off. They were fighting for the right of women to make decisions about their own lives, not just the right to vote.

WOMEN AND LEISURE TIME IN EARLY 1800’S

Those who lived in cities and towns might work a 10 hour day for 6 days a week. Then at home there was a full complement of household chores including cleaning, cooking, shopping for food, and making and repairing clothing. Sunday was the only relief in long hours of work, and that had its own requirements for those in God fearing households. Along with attending worship, there were people who were sick or in need in other ways to visit. Those in authority in the communities knew there was little likelihood of crime. Women had no time to be independent or worry about their rights.

Lizzie Stanton and other suffragists had a hard time ahead of them to convince most women that things could be different.

TWO ANNE PARRISHES

The first was born in 1760, a Quaker who out of gratitude for her parents surviving yellow fever, opened the first charitable organization for women in the US, in Philadelphia in 1795. It was The House of Industry which supplied jobs to poor women. The next year she founded the Aimwell School for needy girls. She was its first teacher and it continued until 1923.
The second Anne, a writer, came from a family of writers. She was born in 1888 and wrote both children’s books and adult fiction until her death in 1957.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/444579/Anne-Parrish

AN ENTERPRISING WOMAN

Mary Katherine Goddard accomplished several firsts – in Providence Rhode Island in 1766 she, along with her mother, became the first woman publisher; in 1775 in Baltimore, she became the first woman postmaster; and in 1777, one year after the Declaration of Independence was signed, she became the first printer to make available copies of the famous document with the signers names. In 1789 she opened a book store, also in Baltimore. She was a very enterprising woman, at a time when woman did not take on those roles in society. She made it a little easier for women after her to do the same.

http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/goddard-mk.html

FIRST WOMEN RELIGIOUS IN THE STATES

Maryland was home to a number of firsts in the history of accomplishments by women. In 1790 the first convent was established by Mother Bernardina Matthews, a Carmelite nun. These cloistered nuns settled near Port Tobacco at the southern end of the Chesapeake and southeast of Washington, DC. Think of the courage it took these praying sisters to come to a very young country, and live a life of prayer in a closed community.

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/womensfirsts1.html

SINGLE WOMEN WERE REALLY NEEDED

Men had been struggling in overseas missionary work for over fifty years, and they had to admit that it was not going as well as it should. A missionary in China admitted that the need for work among women was necessary to help their predicaments of childbirth, childhood arranged marriages and prevention of any education. Meanwhile women had organized their own Missionary groups to support single women in the mission field. Women in the field did not threaten pagan men, and they were thus more open to listen to the Gospel message. Their humility and benevolence won the day in foreign lands, like men could not.

http://www.ucc.org/about-us/hidden-histories/womens-work-and-womens.html

TODAY MARKS 200 YEARS OF FOREIGN MISSIONS

When the General Association of Massachusetts listened to a group of young seminary students, the course of the Congregational Church [a combination of Puritans and Pilgrims] took a revolutionary turn. Three days later, these young men dedicated their lives to God and foreign missionary work. The church required them to be married before they went. Many of the wives invested themselves as much as they could and still care for their husbands and children, but by the 1860’s it was even obvious to men that the work was not going as well as it might.
Since the beginning of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, local women’s groups had financially supported the work. They were not content to just pay for the work. There were those who also wanted to make it their own life’s work. [more tomorrow]

http://www.ucc.org/about-us/hidden-histories/womens-work-and-womens.html

WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND ABOLITION TOGETHER

Many of the women and men, who worked for the establishment of women’s rights, were also committed to abolition and the establishment of human rights for slaves. [See 6/13 &14] So it is appropriate and poignant that the 14th Amendment advanced the rights of both groups. However, during the work for the 15th Amendment there came a time when some women had to choose between women’s suffrage and advancing the rights of former slaves. Unfortunately, the climate was not right for advancing the rights of both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

THE FIRST WOMAN MISSIONARY, Part 2

Today is the anniversary of the arrival of Ann Hasseltine Judson and her husband Adoniram in Calcutta, India, in 1812. They were not welcomed by the government, and having been asked to leave, instead went to Rangoon, Burma, now Myanmar. She was a writer and felt she was living out her own calling to ministry. She helped her husband translate the Bible into Burmese, and strived to educate women, who had no rights other than the ones their husbands would grant them. The Baptist’s Judson Press and a number of Judson Colleges are named after her husband but one is named after Ann. Their Bible translation is still used today in that country.

http://www.historyswomen.com/womenoffaith/AnnJudson.htm

THE FIRST WOMAN MISSIONARY, Part 1

Ann Hasseltine, born in 1789, grew up in my husband’s home church, First Church of Christ, Congregational in Bradford, Massachusetts, where her father was a deacon. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the first group in the US to send missionaries overseas, began in that church building in 1810. She was a part of the event because her father was the host. Attending were young seminary students from Andover Theological Seminary, [where my husband also went.] Probably Ann and her future husband met then, because on Feb. 5, 1812 they were married and left for the mission field of India. It would take them more than 4 months to make the voyage. [More tomorrow.]

http://www.judson.edu/content.asp?id=84653

She Tried To Vote

If you read the second sentence of the 14th Amendment below you may think, as Susan B. Anthony did, that it at last allowed former slaves and women the right to vote. So as a test she voted in the presidential election of 1872. She was promptly arrested, tried before a judge, and convicted. She refused to pay the fine, and the case was never taken to a higher court.

“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Ratified in 1868.


http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am14.html