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WASHINGTON 677 terviews, letters or return postals. Every woman personally so- licited her neighbor, her doctor, her grocer, her laundrywagon driver, the postman and even the man who collected the garbage. It was essentially a womanly campaign, emphasizing the home interests and engaging the cooperation of home makers. The association published and sold 3,000 copies of The Washington Women's Cook Book, compiled by the suffragists and edited by Miss Linda Jennings of LaConner. Many a worker started out into the field with a package of these cook books under her arm. In the "suffrage department" of the Tacoma News a "kitchen contest" was held, in which 25O-word essays on household sub- jects were printed, $70 in prizes being given by the paper. Suf- frage clubs gave programs on "pure food" and "model menus" were exhibited and discussed. Thousands of leaflets on the results of equal suffrage in other States were distributed and original ones printed. A leaflet by Mrs. Edith DeLong Jarmuth containing a dozen cogent reasons Why Washington Women Want the Ballot was especially effec- tive. A monthly paper, Votes for Women, was issued during the last year of the campaign with Mrs. M. T. B. Hanna pub- lisher and editor, Misses Parker, Mary G. O'Meara, Rose Glass and others assistant editors. It carried a striking cartoon on the front page and was full of suffrage news and arguments, even the advertisements being written in suffrage terms. 1 State and county fairs and Chautauquas were utilized by ring a W r oman's Day, with Mrs. DeVoe as president of tin 4 day. 1 . xcellciit programs were offered, prominent speakers se- cured and prizes given in contests between various women's other than suffrage for symbolic "floats" and reports <>rk during the year. Space was given for a suffrage booth, from which active suffrage propaganda went on with the sale r Women pins, pennants and the cook book and the nrollment cards. The great Alaska-Yukon- Tacit ic- on of 1909 at Seattle was utilized as a medium for publicity. A permanent suffrage exhibit was maintained, open inc the year following the winning of the franchise Mrs. Hanna published lirr paper under the name of Tht New d ,1 Parker published twelve numbers of a monthly paper called The Western Woman Voter, from the files of which much valuable data baa been gleaned for this chapter.