This year is the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, ratified on August 18, 1920,which declared "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Wyoming was the first to formally allow women to vote in 1869, as a territory, and then as a state had the first woman governor. Esther Hobart Morris, an early promoter for women's voting rights, was appointed the first female Justice of the Peace in the US in 1870. One statue of Morris is on the front lawn of the State Capitol building and a second is on of Wyoming's two state statues in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall. Illinois Constitutional Law stated that "
neither idiots, lunatics, paupers, felons nor women shall be entitled to vote."
Several Suffragist cookbooks are online.
Burr, Mrs. Hattie A. The Woman Suffrage Cook Book. Boston: c1886
Jennings, Linda Deziah. Washington Women's Cook Book. Seattle: 1909.
And from the
Suffrage Cookbook by L.O. Kleber. Pittsburgh, 1915:
Pie for a Suffragist's Doubting Husband
1 qt. milk human kindness
8 reasons:
War
White Slavery
Child Labor
8,000,000 Working Women
Bad Roads
Poisonous Water
Impure Food
Mix the crust with tact and velvet gloves, using no sarcasm, especially with the upper crust. Upper crusts must be handled with extreme care for they quickly sour if manipulated roughly.
©2010 Patricia Bixler Reber
hearthcook.com
There will be two terrific free events on Saturday, Sept 25.
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