It Hasn't Even Been a Hundred Years...

Hello, all, long time, no post. And here I was, swearing up and down, I'd be updating every ding-dang day of my vacation!

To the left is a picture of Esther Hobart Morris, the first woman to be appointed state justice of the peace (for the state of Wyoming). She was a suffragette who brought the vote to Wyoming (1869-the first state or territory as it was then to have suffrage). This portrait has to be one of the more intelligent and expressive photographed portraits from that era.

Usually folks just look uptight in pics from the late 1800s/early 1900s because they had to hold so still, she looks...rabidly intelligent. Fascinating, the fine line between genius and madness -- Please note -- that is MY interpretation of the picture -- she looks blazingly intelligent. I'm thinking one had to be just this side of crazy to be a suffragette back when women were considered to be feeble-minded and the vote WASN'T a sure thing not so many years ago.

All I can say is hats off to Esther Morris and blessings upon this ancestress for having the courage she did! In her honor, let us not backslide. After all, female suffrage was not granted in the constitution until the Nineteenth Amendment -- 1920, it hasn't even been a century yet.

Let us never forget those who have blazed a path before us.






Keep in your prayers all those places that do not yet offer suffrage:

Bhutan-One vote per family in village-level elections

Kuwait-Female suffrage at the municipal level only.

Oman-limited to 175,000 people chosen by the government, mostly male

Saudi Arabia

Vatican City-Voting restricted to all-male College of Cardinals.


Introductory Sentence of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States (ratified 1920):
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.