WELL-KNOWN WOMAN SUFFRAGE PIONEER.

White Ribbon, Volume 35, Issue 409, 18 August 1929, Page 10

WELL-KNOWN WOMAN SUFFRAGE PIONEER.

HONOURING URB. OATT. On January Ith, fifty ~i .sixty women made their way auietly to the home ot Mm. Cnnie Chapman Catt at Men Roehelle, to offer eongrutulutions on the 0 I of lor ■OTOnttetb birthday. They were women hound to Mn Cat by the Hoi of work together for li. at can • women to whom she had been Lender or- ft Mow work.?- in CrUaadOl for inffmgo, prohibition and pence, a roprencntatree of each of the organisations CO-OPenllng in the OattOC and Cure of War Conference, of which Mis. Catt is Found* r and Chairman. Paid her brief, tender tribute Then the birthday party took on an International aspect. That morning i hemlock tree had been planted ■ the lawn, in the afternoon | bfOnno tablet for the tree wen preeented, on behalf of tin- International women, /whose Lender Mrs. Catt was. as Founder and PrOOldOWt of the International Woman Suffrage ftlllnnro Then Rone Manus, prime mover and boat em of the surprise party, brought other tributes from abroad. Miss Manus. a Vice-President of the International Woman Bttffrt \lliance. came from Holland for this occasion. She brought from the women of the Int< rnational Board alonu with a Charming story of how the plan urew —(11 a fiscinatin: mod banket,

with th< flag* oi Dianj nations, in wliioii wi ie assembled I >f Ml > Catt di tion the Ie gardeua ol her friendi o\ • \ collection of recipes, also interna tionnl in range; <ll :. ani ■ beautifulh-illuminated album, pt Ing the tribute! of all th< tions with which Mrs (\,n worked oi works ],.,:., a fn r p of love, admiration, gratitude, a andled birthday cake of onormoui pronortioa, done in inffrage ri lion and blue, was the c, atTO Of ' prflee U i table, and tku tanl touch was the preeentntlofl <>t* i mo\ |< taken last ■ummor, to show Mn, Catl Pence Leader, in her home and in the midst ot" Conference activity - "Woman's Journal."