Whenever I have been urged as a petitioner to ask equal suffrage for women a kind of dazed, bewildered feeling comes over me. CLARA BARTON. In making an appeal to her soldiers for “votes for women” Clara Barton said: “When you were weak and I was strong, I toiled for you; now you are strong, and I am weak. Because of my work for you, I ask your aid; I ask the ballot for myself and my sex. As I stood by you, I pray you stand by me and mine.” THE AUTHOR. Clara Barton advocated “Votes for Women” on the platform of the First National Suffrage Convention in this country. Buffalo (New York) _Courier_. LOOKING FOR A JOB—EQUAL SUFFRAGE Among the ancients, controlling the certain affairs worthy of man, were many goddesses; of these, Venus, Ceres, Juno, Diana, Pomona, Minerva. Such man’s inherent respect for femininity that feminine names in classic days were given to temples of worship; to the continents, Europe, Asia, Africa, and later to America.[4] Feminine names with few exceptions, also, have been given to all countries,—“she” and not “he,” likewise the word used to identify great things mechanical and useful. Long and hard has been the contest for woman to achieve in fact what in spirit seemingly comports with womanhood. In this contest through the last half of the nineteenth, and the first half of the twentieth, century Clara Barton was conspicuous. Footnote 4: In 1507, by Martin Waldseemuller, the name of America was given to the then newly discovered continent. [Illustration: THE SCHOOL HOUSE Built of brick, in 1839, where Clara Barton taught school in 1853. See page 47. ] [Illustration: THE DESK USED BY CLARA BARTON See page 47. ] HISTORIC IN EDUCATION Bordentown, N. J. [Illustration: THE CLARA BARTON MUSEUM The old school house reconstructed. See page 47. ] Alone in the world, dependent upon her own efforts for a living and looking for a “job,” the following is what in letters Miss Barton says of herself in 1854 and 1860 respectively: In a letter to her friend Miss Lydia F. Haskell, Washington, D. C., January 20, 1854, Clara Barton said: “Well, I am a clerk in the United States Patent Office, writing my fingers stiff every day of my life.... The truth is, I have written nights until one or two o’clock for the last two weeks. I shall not be so very busy long. I am just now fitting the mechanical report for the press; that off my hands and I shall be quite at ease, I suppose.” In a letter to Frank Clinton, Bordentown, New Jersey, dated January 2, 1860, Clara Barton said: