GINEVRA September 1915
Our numbers had risen as had our hemlines, a true tapestry of crinoline to cotton. Alva had brought us together, the cause kept us there.
“I want all who can afford to do so to subscribe immediately,” Alva instructed as Doris Smith, who had been introduced as her assistant, began passing out copies of The Suffragist, a weekly newspaper first produced by the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, now an affiliate of the NAWSA.
On the cover of the eight pages dedicated to our cause lay a beautiful illustration. Lady Liberty herself had climbed off her perch where I last saw her so many years ago when Papa and I had made it to the shore of New York City still alive, though barely. Here she stood before the capitol building in Washington D.C., arms reaching out besee
