A Woman for Mayor: A Novel of To-day

by Helen M. Winslow

LIST OF CHAPTERS

CHAPTER			PAGE
I		An Unprecedented Proposal	[11]
II		A Perplexed Reformer	[23]
III		Learning the Ropes	[35]
IV		Practical Politics	[55]
V		The Opposition Candidate	[65]
VI		A Political Trick	[77]
VII		An Unusual Ride	[90]
VIII		Modern Journalism	[102]
IX		Election Day	[112]
X		The New Mayor's Policy	[125]
XI		At Work	[140]
XII		Skirmishing	[152]
XIII		An Important Appointment	[166]
XIV		Graft	[177]
XV		Setting the Trap	[191]
XVI		Divided Interests	[207]
XVII		A Dumbfounded Populace	[220]
XVIII		A Futile Search	[230]
XIX		The Boodlers Score	[240]
XX		An Enforced Vacation	[247]
XXI		Word From the Missing	[261]
XXII		A Daring Escape	[273]
XXIII		The Hearts of the People	[284]
XXIV		An Honest Confession	[295]
XXV		The Old, Old Story	[310]
XXVI		Retrospect and Prophecy	[326]
XXVII		A Heart's Awakening	[338]

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FOREWORD

"Chimerical!" the average man will exclaim when he reads the title of this book.

"But why not?" his wife will answer.

"Worth trying," the reformers and philanthropists will add.

"One of us," the suffragette will conclude.

And there may be a grain of truth in every answer. But the idea is not absolutely new. At this writing, there is a woman-mayor in one of the smaller cities of the middle states in America; while over in England there are, I believe, two women doing good work in the municipal chair.

And again, "Why not?" Housekeeping is a woman's business. It is the primeval instinct at the bottom of every woman's heart. The average American and English home is a clean, sweet, sanitary and well-governed institution,—made and kept so by some woman. God made women to be wives, mothers and home-makers; and if our modern conditions have sent some of us out into the world to earn our own living and perhaps to support somebody else, the instinct remains—as witness the thousands of tiny flats or cottages where these women dwell and maintain a home, "be it ever so humble." And so, if we are the natural housekeepers, the conservators of health and morals and civic pride, why not a woman at the head of municipal affairs?