ABSTRACT
The Liberal Club was, of course, kept in almost constant turmoil by its most ardent member. This was still Henrietta Rodman, the Candide with bobbed hair, meal-sack dress, and sandals who had moved the club downtown. Miss Rodman espoused dress reform, women's suffrage, equal rights for women, and a hundred other feminist causes. Her group of militant young followers, many of them high school teachers and a few high school pupils, vociferously proclaimed that tight corsets, long hair, and general subordination to men gave women the rawest of contemporary raw deals. Returning from daily toil to Village apartments, Henrietta's group would don emancipated attire in emulation of their chief and head for the Liberal Club, the upstairs location of which offered them a special advantage. At street-level restaurants, Village girls often experienced trouble of the kind Harry Kemp pictured on the day he looked to find a group of urchins in the doorway, jeering—
