on for being one of forty women in front of the White House protesting women's exclusion from the electorate. (Miller 24) Arriving at a rural workhouse, the women were roughly handled. The women responded with a hunger strike. Finally they were freed by presidential order.
             Returning to New York, Day felt that journalism was meager response to a world at war. (Coles 29) In the spring of 1918, she signed up for a nurse's training program in Brooklyn. Her conviction that the social order was just changed in no substantial way from her adolescence until her death. (Coles 28-32)
             Her religious development was a slower process. As a child, she attended services at an Episcopal Church. As a young journalist in New York, she would sometimes make late night visits to St. Joseph's Catholic Church on Sixth Avenue. The Catholic climate of worship appealed to her. (Day 30) While she knew little about Catholic belief, Catholic spiritual discipline fascinated her. She saw the Catholic Church as "the church of immigrants, the church of the poor." (Day 30) In 1922, while in Chicago working as a reporter, she roomed with three young women who went to Mass every Sunday and holy day and also set aside time each day for prayer. It was clear to her that "worship, adoration, thanksgiving, supplication ... were the noblest acts of which we are capable in this life." (Day 30-31) Her next job was with a newspaper in New Orleans.
             Living near St. Louis Cathedral, Day often attended evening Benediction services. Back in New York in 1924, Day bought a beach cottage on Staten Island using money from the sale of movie rights for a novel. She also began a four-year common-law marriage with Forster Batterham, and English botanist she had met though friends in Manhattan. (Kent 49)Batterham was an anarchist opposed to marriage and religion. In a world of such cruelty, he found it impossible to believe in a God. By this time Day's belief in God was unshakable. It gr...