MISCELLANY CLIPPINGS Rights of Women, 1893-1952 6 [2-10-00] BOSTON EVENING TRANSCR STATE REPORTS HEARD Today's Suffrage Meeting in Washington Mrs. Mary C. Terrell's Address Able and Brilliant "Woman Journalists," by Ida H. Harper She Affirms That the Profession Is Highly Desirable Paper on Annexation by Isabella Beecher Hooker Rev. Ida C. Hultin Discusses Women in Ministry Mrs. Catt Says Optimism Should Be the Chief Object Special to the Transcript: Washington, Feb. 10- A report of press work opened the morning session of the National Woman Suffrage Convention today. Harriet Taylor Upton, chairman of the press committee, told how each State was securing material for Dunkirk and placing it in many newspapers. Each year the newspapers even of cities are more receptive of suffrage literature. The sum expended last year was $889.74. Reports of State presidents were then resumed. Hala Hammond Burt is the first representative ever sent by Mississippi. She said that in her State the property rights of women were well safeguarded. The Legislature has just appropriated one million for education, of which $91,000 went to a woman's industrial school. Mrs. Burt declared that at the constitutional convention recently held it would have been easy to secure an equal suffrage clause if the national workers had not kept away because the convention was called to disfranchise the Negro. This disfranchisement she stoutly defended. The Crumpacker bill promised to bring suffrage to the women on the groups of expediency, but that bill does not seem likely to pass. But with good work Mississippi is good ground for labor. Miss Ella Harrison reported for Missouri. Two women are on the State board of charities and actually hustling on passes, and the work is progressing well. Mrs. Hayward of Chadron, Neb., said that by the aid of national workers many new clubs have been founded in that State, and State headquarters had been established at Omaha. Mrs. Colby told the convention "Mrs. Hayward is the proprietor of the largest wholesale millinery and drygoods store between Omaha and Denver, and never sells a bird or a bird's feather." Mrs. I. M. Bond told of the organization of the New Mexico Suffrage Association in 1896, and of the many positions filled by women there. The Territory hopes for women's suffrage when statehood comes. Mrs. Crossett spoke for New York. Helen Morris Lewis reported for North Carolina and Flora Blackman Naylor for North Dakota. Mrs. Naylor said that North Dakota was more ready for suffrage than any other State. One of the delegates from Nebraska is Mrs. Spirk of Wilber, a Bohemian, and very bright. It is announced that Miss Shaw will not be a candidate for presidency. The chances now for Mrs. Catt are best. Mrs. A. J. Marble of Table Rock, delegate from Nebraska, has brought into the suffrage society every leading woman so that no other club or organization of women can be formed there. The members give a banquet every year, and invite in all the husbands of the members. To offset, the husbands have organized a H.H. (Happy Husbands') Club, whose sole mission is to give [?] club. The husbands [?]ments, and perform all the [co????] usually devolve upon ladies entertainment. LAST EVENING'S SESSION The Friday evening session of the suffrage convention brought before a very large audience a woman of whom few present had ever heard, but whose address was one of the ablest and most brilliant to which a Washington audience may listen. The women was Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, a member of the School Board of the District of Columbia, a graduate of Oberlin College, and president of the National Colored Women's Association. Her topic was "The Justice of Woman's Suffrage," and she combatted the old objections with earnest argument, biting sarcasm and delightful raillery. At her close the applause lasted several minutes. The other addresses were of great interest and excellence. Ida Husted Harper of California read a paper on the "Women Journalists," showing the trials of the life, but affirming emphatically that as a profession it was highly desirable for women as compared with other occupations. It gave to woman an especial opportunity for helping all woman kind. Mrs. Howell of New York read a paper prepared by Isabella Beecher Hooker on "The Present Political Crisis." She declared against the annexation, but not against the acquisition of the Philippines." The constitution, however," she said, "permits this annexation, and it would be calamitous to make their non-annexation a precedent." She recommended a petition to Congress that an independent government be set up in the Philippines under the supremacy of the United States; she demanded that wars cease, and cited as lessons for all statesmen Rosebery's recent address on Oliver Cromwell and Webster's Bunker Hill oration. "Women in the Ministry" was the title of the address which created fine impression by Rev. Ida C. Hultin, pastor of the Unitarian church at Moline, Ill. "Humanity," she said, "is a unity of man and woman; before either man or woman was there was the human; they are of the same sort; men must ask of women the same things that women demand of men; the same rule of life and code of morals for both. Out of the fine depths of spiritual conception comes authority; thus Jesus was the supreme authority. Women for years after the advent of Jesus became gradually possessed of authority as teachers and preachers, but about 400 A. D. the ban was placed on their power, and it was not until the Reformation that they became free. During the past forty years women have grown to be powers in the pulpit, and now fitness and not sex is the test." FRIDAY AFTERNOON'S SESSION Friday afternoon's session was a work conference with Mary G. Hay, secretary of the committee on organization, in the chair. She opened with a brief talk on "The Need of Organization." The next topic, "How Obstacles to Organization May be Overcome," was taken up informally. Mrs. Blake said that a good way to start a club was to have some special work in view like propositions to the Legislature. Miss Hay told of a member of a certain Legislature who told her he was going to vote for a suffrage proposition because a suffrage club in his town had been working for fifteen years and he was convinced that public sentiment had been stirred up for the measure, although he was personally against suffrage; "and yet," said Miss Hay, "I happened to know that that club had only two members, but they were faithful and kept themselves before the people." An Illinois club was cited which consisted of but one member. Mrs. Merrick, widow of the chief justice of Louisiana, protested against shutting out of anyone who wished to become a member of a club. Arguments for and against voting members in were made. Miss Shaw urged more advertising, and Miss Blackwell spoke of personal solicitation. Addie M. Johnson of Missouri, who has been travelling over four Western States recently, told of a model woman suffrage club in Table Rock, Neb. It was the fashionable club of the town and belongs to the civic federation. She told how she heard a Nebraska judge deliver a lecture on the property rights of women, and before he had finished he had delivered a rousing suffrage speech, although he did not know before he began that he was for suffrage. Miss Hauser of Ohio said it was chiefly a question of leadership, the right man or woman for president. Miss Mills, State organizer of New York, spoke on "The Value of the State Organizer." It consisted of agitation (the stirring up of sentiment for laws), education in the same direction and the financial benefit, collecting money. The last topic of the afternoon was "The Laborer Is Worthy of His Hire," by Miss Shaw. 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With the smoothness that always marks gatherings of women who have Susan B. Anthony as their guiding star, three sessions of the thirty-second annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association were conducted yesterday at the Church of Our Father, Thirteenth and L streets northwest. The first meeting began promptly at 10 o'clock, the afternoon session at 3, and the evening part of the programme at 8 o'clock. Miss Anthony presided over the morning and evening meetings, while Mary G. Hay, secretary of the committee on organization, was in charge of the delegates during the afternoon meeting, which was devoted to conference work. A number of tardy delegates reported to the credentials committee yesterday and there are still quite a number who are expected to reach the city this morning and Sunday. From various causes a number of the speakers who were assigned places and topics on the programme have been unable to appear. Miss Anthony, however, is equal to the occasion, and where these papers are not read to the convention by proxies, she calls upon her corps of able lieutenants, and at no time is the interest of the meeting allowed to drag. All three of yesterday's sessions were both instructive and interesting. Well-informed and witty women, thoroughly alive to everything, not only where the advancement of woman is concerned, but in all things and events which are under discussion throughout the whole world, addressed the meetings when they were thrown open for that purpose, and delivered their opinions with great force of logic and intelligence. There is nothing about the woman suffragist to-day to remind one of the agitator of a quarter of a century ago. The mannishly-attired, short-skirted, short-haired woman who, for so many years, was the butt of the satirist and the cartoonist, has been shoved off the board, and in her place stands the cultured, womanly woman of the twentieth century. In her dress she keeps pace with fashion. She is in many instances a mother, and she boasts of it and the home which she ennobles. Summing up the new conditions and the evolutions which have taken place in the ranks of the suffragists, one of the delegates said yesterday that the suffragist of to-day realizes that more can be obtained by perfect organization than by agitation. Throng at Evening Session. Another large audience attended the evening session. Every seat in the church was taken before the opening hour arrived. Miss Anthony made a short address, and then introduced Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, of California. The title of Mrs. Harper's paper was "The Training of the Woman Journalist," and her discussion showed marked ability and versatility. She has been an extensive traveler and has been employed on a number [illegible] [Illegible] A. Dana's [Illegible; page torn on lower left] Woman Suffage." Her effort was a scholarly and logical argument for woman suffrage, and at the cost her address was greeted with prolonged and merited applause. She said in part: Mrs Terrell's Address. "As a nation we professed long ago to have abandoned the principle that might make right. Before the world we pose-today as a government whose citizens have the right to liberty, life, and the pursuit of happiness-and yet, in spite of the lofty professions and noble sentiments, the present policy of this government is to hold one-half of its citizens in legal subjection to the other, without being able to assign good and sufficient reasons for such a flagrant violation of the very principle upon which it was founded. "The founders of this republic called heaven and earth to witness that it should be a government of the people, for the people, and by the people; and yet the elective franchise is withheld from one half of the citizens, many of whom are intelligent, culture, and virtuous, while it is unstintingly bestowed upon the other, some of whom are illiterate, debauched, and vicious, because the word 'people,' by an unparalleled exhibition of lexicographical acrobats, has been turned and twisted to mean all who were shrewd and wise enough to have themselves born boys instead of girls, or who took the trouble to be born white instead of black. Even if it be true that the majority of American women are so ignorant of the full significance of their political disenfranchisement that they are willing to remain in subjection, such ignorance and apathy could not justly be used as an argument in favor of perpetuating a system of injustices. Neither could it be any feat of logic or legerdemain of reason to be construed as an argument against granting full suffrage to the few women who have sufficient intelligence to desire it. "The argument that it is unnatural for women to vote is as old as the rock-ribbed and ancient hills. Whatever is unusual is called unnatural the world over. When the world takes a step forward in progress some old custom falls dead at our feet. Nothing could be more unnatural than that a good woman should shirk her duty to the State, if it were possible for her to discharge it." In introducing Rev. Ida C. Hulton, of Illinois, Miss Anthony referred to the clerical profession, which Rev. Hulton had chosen to follow, by saying that she held a position in the world that good ministers of long ago had declared God never intended a woman to fill. Rev. Hulton began one of the most powerful arguments in favor of the woman's enfranchisement heard thus far in the session, although her subject was "Woman's Position in the Ministry." The speaker held the closest attention of her audience throughout. She traced the labors of women in religious fields from the time when Paul gave them permission to preach through the ages when men denied her that privilege to the present time. Before the greatest achievement for the sex can be solved once and for all, she insisted, man and woman must work in harmony and together. Woman to-day, said Rev. Hulton, are not only asking for recognition, but they are taking it. They have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them, and they will open them without asking consent. An Informal Conference. Conference work and organization was taken up during the afternoon meeting, which began at 3 o'clock. The gathering was presided over by Mary G. Hay, secretary of the committee on organization. The usual song service and prayer opened the meeting, which was informal. A paper was to have been presented by Laura A. Gregg, national organizer of Kansas, on "How Obstacles to Organization May Be Overcome," but on account of a business engagement at Omaha she was unable to appear, and the time which was to have been devoted to that paper was taken up by short addresses by the various delegates. Mrs. Blake told of her labors before the State legislator of New York. At first she said the men who were elected to make the laws resented her presence, and resorted to many schemes to frustrate her efforts. By persistence, however, she at last overcame their opposition, gained recognition, and was able to secure the passage of many laws which benefited humanity generally and women especially. [Illegible] the Georgia W. S. A. Her paper dealt with the history of the organization, which was formed in 1890. By invitation the State conventions of the association were held in the hall of the house of delegates, and were always largely attended. Like many other State organizations, the report stated, Georgia is breaking away from the old prejudices and many of the obstacles which were once thrown in the paths of the suffragists are no longer in evidence. In all parts of the State women are earnestly at work endevoring to prevail upon the legislatures to have the world "male" stricken from the constitution. Report of the Treasurer. The financial condition of the State organizations was reported to be excellent. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, reported as follows: "From January 1, 1899, to January 1, 1900, your treasurer received $10,339.71, and disbursed $9,386.08, leaving a balance of $953.63, In the year 1899, forty-two States and Territories paid auxiliary dues, being a gain of five States over last year. The four States paying the largest dues this year are New York, Massachusetts, Iowa, and Pennsylvania. Nebraska is the State showing the largest gain, having nearly doubled its membership since the last convention, and having established headquarters at Omaha." She also reported that, although some of the States do not show financial gain, that all of the work is in better condition, on a more stable basis than it ever has been. One of the most delightful features of the daily sessions is the "experience" talks with Miss Anthony, in order to lessen tension and provide a short of recess, gives between the announcement of the different subjects. Innumerable events have been crowded into her long life, and she recounts them to her audience in a manner always sure to create mirth and at the same time emphasizing some important feature of the paper previously read. Work in Illinois. The Illinois association was accounted for by Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch. Mrs. McCulloch is one of Chicago's' brainiest women. In order to be more thoroughly equipped for the work which she had set her heart upon, that of woman suffrage, she studied law and was admitted to the bar, and is now in partnership with her husband. No woman in the State has worked more ardently than has Mrs. McCulloch. Several years ago, when the woman suffrage advocate was considerably less respected than she is to-day, she held meetings and talked to timid women on the West Side of Chicago. Mrs. McCulloch's report told of the growth of suffrage through the State. Good speakers had been employed by the State organization to tour the counties and cities, and the result obtained was flattering. Through a press bureau syndicate letters containing the important news and movement of the association were sent to twenty-five newspapers. Mrs. McCullock said she looks upon the press as a powerful ally, and she counseled all suffragists to always find time to give interviews and to talk to newspaper men. She said that the suffrage sentiment was growing in Illinois. An effort would soon be made to have all the State libraries place upon their shelves all of the leading works pertaining to suffrage. After Mr.s McCullock had concluded some little time was given to discussion of the leaflet and circular literature of the association. Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Oregon, Nebraska, and Louisiana, through their respective presidents, spoke on the great good which had resulted from this method and the incalculable value of the documents. Delegates Who Have Registered. Among the delegates who have registered and presented their credentials to the committee are: California-Mary Howard Swift, Ida Husted Harper, Mrdy G. Hoy, Mrs. Moore. Connecticut-Elizabeth D. Bacon, Alba Starr Cressy, Caroline E. Buell. District of Columbia-Ellen Powell Thompson, Mrs. Hellen R. Tin[illegible], [illegible] Noerr, Mrs. M. L. [illegible]bot. Georgia [illegible] WONDER WHAT MER[illegible] WILL SAY TO DAY This is the season of Dr[illegible] and ours is the place to leave [illegible] order, if you want style, cor[illegible] and notification. Oure Dress [illegible] of Real Worsted dress refine, [illegible] lined throughout with sild, at [illegible] $25, Is all you could desire. Mertz and Mertz 906 and 908 F. St. N. SUPPORT FOR NEW 'PHONE COM[illegible] Subscribers' Association to Urge G[illegible] of a Charter. H. I. Paar, James Bond and George Webb, of Baltimore, and the other app[illegible] last night before the executive committee of the Telephone Subscribers' Association at its meeting at the Riggs House for [illegible] purpose of convincing the committee [illegible] the financial standing of the Washington Telephone and Telegraph Company, wh[illegible] proposes to install a plant in this city [illegible] opposition to the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. The special committee, consisting of Thomas W. Smith, Dr. H. L. [illegible]. John [illegible] and Col. R. G. Rutherford, reported favorably as to their findings in regards to the ability of the company to fulfill [illegible] contracts and promises. The representatives of the company also satisfied committee as to its standing and agreed to give a bond in the sum of $100,000 for the faithful execution of its contrac[illegible]. The concern was recently chartered [illegible] New Jersey, with a capital of $1,500,000 and its leading stockholders are said to [illegible] Baltimore men. The new concern proposes to provide [illegible] service fully equipped with metallic circuits and latest improved instruments [illegible] rates of $36 yearly for residences and [illegible] yearly for business houses. The committee, however, in discussing the matter last night, expressed the belief that the bill now pending before Congress authorizing the incorporating of the Washington Telephone and Telegraph Company in the District of Columbia is not sufficiently binding. Amendments were suggested which will prohibit the company from ever consolidating with or selling out to any local telephone company, and from raising its rates. The representatives of the company agreed to these conditions, and in turn, the committee pledged its support to the company in an effort to secure the passage of the bill with these amendments added. The new concerns proposes to have its plant fully installed within eighteen months after Congress provides for its incorporation. It was also stated last night that the new company has made contracts with more than 2,000 persons in Washington for the use fo their 'phones, as soon as they are ready to be installed at the rates named. This number it[illegible] stated, is equal to the total number[illegible] present subscribers to the Chesapeake and Potomac Company. Col. O. G. Staples presided at the meeting last night and Henry F. Wooda[illegible] [illegible]ed as secretary, Col. Staples donated use of the large dancing all at [illegible] [illegible]tional Hotel as a place for the h[illegible] the mass-meeting [illegible] to be held next[illegible] See Page ? ? []gton Post. []y 10, 1900- Twelve Pages. three Cents. Weather Forecast for To-day. District of Columbia and Vicinity- Fair, colder; fair to-morrow, night north- early winds. Nation's Hero At Rest Arlington's Hallowed Soil Re- chives Laton's Remains []tal pays the last tribute. ent and C[]net, Diplomats, Legis- [] the Dead Officer, Te- before the services began, and a few minutes afterward President McKinly and members of his Cabinet were escorted to their seats. The President sat in the front pew, on the right, and immediately opposite the coffin. On his right were the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Navy, the Postmaster General, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Agriculture. Close by were Mrs. Lawton, little Manley, and the others of the family, and to the left Gen. Miles, Gen. Merritt, Gen. Brooke, Gen. Shafter, and their staff officers, all in uniform, and Gen. Lawton's comrades, who at one time or another had camped and fought with him. In the body of the church was a scarcely less not[]assistant secre- [] the military Features of To-day's Paper. Pages. 1- Buller's Army Repulsed. Legilsature Meets at Louisville. Funeral of Gen. Lawton. Turbulent Night Session of House. 2 - Sessions of Women Suffagists. Brightwood Citizen's Needs. 3- Molineu's Wife as the Motive. 4- Treaty Problem in Senate. Economical House Republicans. War's Lessons for Naval Powers. 6-Editorial Comment. Gossip of Other Lands. Views of Capital's Visitors. 7-In the Social World. District Guard Affairs. 8-Gans Defeats Sullivan 9-In Virginia and Maryland. 10-Edict Against Christian Brothers Among the City Churches. 11-Financial and Commercial. 12-District Government News. Claims All Canal Rights New York Syndicate Says It Cont- tools Nicaraguan Concessions. Cragin-Eyre-Grace Investors Hold that Nicaragua Cannot Concede Anything to This Government, Having Nothing Left to Give. New York, Feb. 9 - The Tribune to-mor-row will publish the following: "The progress which the Ncaragua Canal bill is making in Congress, and the announcement of the terms of the treaty which Secretary Hay has negotiated with Great Britain, have revived interest in the oft-discussed claims of the Maritime Canal Company and the Cragin-Eyre-Grace syndicate, and the concessions which they have obtained from the Nic-araguan government. It is asserted by the shareholders in these companies that when the United States comes to treat with Nicaragua for the right to construct a canal across that republic, Nicaragua will be found to have no such rights to concede, because she has already disposed of them to these companies. Report places the cash value at which these concessions are now held by the guarantees at $5,000,000. Among the men interested in the Craigin-Eyre-Grace syndicate, David McClure, lawyer, said to-day, are Levi P. Morton, John Jacob Astor, John A. McCall, George G. Williams, George Westinghouse, John D. Crimmins, James Stillman, Ed-ward F. Craigin, E. Eyre, and William R. Grace. "Some of these men, notably Mr. Eyre and Mr. Grace, are also stockholders in the Maritime Canal Company. Notwithstanding the fact that certain men hold stock in both companies, there seems to be a well-defined difference of opinion as to whether the Maritime Canal Company now holds any actual concessions from Nicaragua. The officials say it [] report [] Democrats in Uproar Chairman Hepburn Retailiates Upon Mr. Talbert, Outcome of Pension Blockading Mr. Talbert Objected to Passing Individual Claims In the Absence of a Quorum, and Get What He Aimed at, but the Commit- tee Chairman Gave Him and the Minor- ity a Bad Few Minutes - A Very Lively Scene in the House Last Night. There was a scene at the night session of the House last night which momen-tarily recalled the stirring and exciting days of the Fifty-first Congress. An irate member rushed down the main aisle, brandishing his arms and shouting for recognition, while half the Democratic members were on their feet execrating the occupant of the chair for what they termed his arbitrary course, and from several places in the hall came loud hisses. Last Friday night Mr. Talbert (Demo-crat), of South Carolina, blocked private pension legislation because there was no quorum present, and treated to continue to do so at every subsequent Fry-day night session unless a quorum were present. His warning had its effect, and there was an unusually large attendance when the House was called to order at [] o'clock last night. Speaker Henderson was in the chair, and the galleries, usually empty at night sessions, were crowded in anticipation of a lively time. Mr. Talbert made good his treat, as soon as the motion was made to go into committee of the whole; but the roll-call showed the presence of [] score or more members in excess of a quorum. The friends of private pension-bills were jubilant. Mr. Hepburn (Republication), of Iowa, was called to preside over the committee of the whole, and the clerk read the first bill. Mr. Talber arose, leisurely, while the bill was being put through the legislative stages, the adoption of committee amendments, engrossment, third reading, and final passage, and addressed the chair. He was completely ignored. Minority in an Uproar. Another bill was read, engrossed, read a third time, and passed, all in the space of a minute, with Mr. Talbert still clamor-ing for recognition. A third bill was pass-ed in the same way. By the time the whole Democratic side was aroused. A dozen members were on their feet. Mr. Talbert, thoroughly angered, started down the main aisle shouting, "Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman," as he approached. He reached the area in front of the Sprea's rostrum, all the while roaring his denun-ciation of the chairman's arbitrary course before the chairman condescend to recognize him. Democrats all about were also shout[] their disapproval, while the Republi[] seemed to be enjoying [] the chairman[] Talbert [] ALL THE NEWS OF THE WORLD. THE POST is the only morning newspaper in Washington that receives the Associated Press dispatches. The Washi[] NO. 8,646. WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, FE[] BRITISH FORCED BACK Third Attempt to Relieve Ladysmith an Utter Failure. SLOW TO ACKNOWLEDGE DEFEAT London War Office Assumes a Tone of Ignorance Regarding the News from Boer Sources, While Mr. Balfour Makes a Carefully Guarded Statement in Parliament -- Details Limited to Bare Announcement that Buller Recrossed the River. London, Feb. 10 -- 4:30 a.m. -- London accepts as true a dispatch from Boer headquarters on the Upper Tugela that Gen. Buller has failed again. The dispatch in question was passed by the British censor at Aden, and is read in the light of an announcement made in the Commons tonight, when Mr. Balfour, the government leader, replying to a question as to whether any information had been received from the seat of war, said: "Our information points to the fact that Gen. Buller is not pressing an advance from the position he has occupied. We do not consider it right to press him for details of the operations which are in progress, nor if he gives such information, do we deem it proper to make this public until such operations are complete. "The government has no information as to whether Gen. Macdonald has retired." Mr. Winston Churchill wires that Vaal Krantz was impracticable for the guns, which were needed to support a further advanced. His cablegram leaves Gen. Buller on Tuesday night sending a fresh brigade to relieve the tired holders of Vaal Krantz. Prepared for Bad News. The descriptive writers with Gen. Buller were allowed a rather free hand again in explaining the ugly position which the British held and the natural obstacles which had to be overcome. So it is easy to infer that with Boer riflemen and artillery defending them, these hills, ra[] and jungles have not been over[] and thus the public is prepared in [] for bad news. [] Boer statement of Buller's retire[ment] was from the head iaager, near []mith, under date of Thursday, as []ws: [] the British, who were in possession of []kopje at Molon's Drift, abandoned it []r a bombardment by Boer cannon this []ning, and retired across the Tugela []ver to their former position. A desultory []nonade is proceeding at the Tugela this [[ning, but otherwise everything is []t." [] news spread rapidly, and naturally []ointment was visible on all sides, []gh the long silence from the Upper [] had already aroused apprehension [] Buller might have found it im[] go forward, in which case he [] no option but to recross the [] []rance. []midnight dam, firing alternately all day, and in the evening were answered and silenced by "Long Cecil," which fired beautifully. The garrison's casualties were one child injured, two men hurt, and a billiard table wrecked. HINTED AT INTERVENTION. Emperor William Broaches the Subject to the British Ambassador. Berlin, Feb. 9. -- During Emperor William's visit yesterday to the British Ambassador, Sir Frank Lascelles, his majesty expressed sympathy with Great Britain and touched upon the feasibility of friendly intervention. The Kaiser also expressed regret at the recent utterances of Duke Regent Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg-Schwerin to the correspondent of the Eclair, adding that he had telegraphed the duke regent reproving him for the indiscretion he had displayed. SORTIE FROM CHIEVELEY. Boers Cross the River at Colenso and Drive the British Back. Head Laager, Ladysmith, Wednesday, Feb. 7. -- An armored train yesterday made a sortie from Chieveley toward Colenso and landed 2,000 British troops on the right of the Boer position. The Boers immediately crossed the river and made an attack with rifles and artillery, forcing the withdrawal of both the train and the troops to Chieveley. Firing at both Colenso and along the Upper Tugela has been proceeding since 5 o'clock this morning. CONSUL HAY PERSONA GRATA. Boer Government Recognizes Our Representative and Fears Are Quieted. Secretary Hay yesterday received a cablegram from Adelbert Hay, United States consul at Pretoria, stating that he had received his exequatur Wednesday, and that matters were very satisfactory. This effectively disposes of the apprehension that existed in some quarters that the Boer government might decline to receive Mr. Hay because of the failure of Col. O'Beirne to receive recognition from our government as diplomatic representative of the Transvaal. RETREAT OF GEN. M'DONALD Conflicting Reports as to Movements on the Modder River. Some Doubt About the Safety of Gen. Babington's Command, Which Was Sent to Re-enforce the British About Koodoosberg. SPECIAL CABLEGRAM TO THE POST. (Copyright, 1900, by Chicago Tribune Company.) London, Feb. 10--4:30 a.m. -- The Times has the following from Koodoosberg, dated Thursday: "The position at Koodoosberg Drift was important, as preventing Boer re-enforcements from coming by the chief drift from Douglas to Magersfontein. Gen. McDonald intrenched his position on Monday and encountered the Boers on T[]ay. They [] summit of Kood[] BECKHAM TAKES HOLD State Government to Be Set Up at Louisville, QUORUM OF DEMOCRATS ON HAND The Democratic Governor Declares that He Will Protect Members of the Legislature from Arrest -- Two Sessions Held in the Court House--Democratic Factions Reconciled in a Measure, and They Find Their Strength Increased in Both Houses. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 9.--The Democratic legislature met here to-day, having present in each house a quorum of the total membership. Gov. Beckham made the announcement this afternoon that he is prepared to protect the legislators from arrest. These developments of to-day mark the first steps toward carrying out the plans announced Sunday last by the Democrats to set up a State government here that have been taken since those plans were interrupted by the peace negotiations. Some commotion was caused among the legislators this morning by reports from London and frankfort that warrants were about to be sworn out for the arrest of enough Democratic members to make a quorum for the Republican legislature now meeting at London. When told of this, Gov. Beckham said: "No member of the legislature who comes to Louisville need fear arrest. I shall not allow any member of the general assembly to be arrested." When asked what measures would be adopted to prevent such arrests, should they be attempted, Gov. Beckham replied that he was fully prepared to protect the legislature and to arrest any persons who interfered with its members. Further than this he would make no statement. It is known, however, that since the appointment of Gen. Castleman as adjutant general arrangements have been made to provide a defensive force ample for the safety of the Democratic State officers. The legislative sessions to-day were held in the court house, the senate meeting in the Chancery Court room and the house in the County Court room. Twenty senators, one more than a quorum were present when Lieut. Gov Carter called that body to order. Regular business was taken up where it was dropped at Frankfort. resolutions from the general assembly of Texas in memory of Gov. Goebel were read, and an appropriate response was made. Resolutions on the death of Gov. Goebel were then adopted, and, in respect to his memory, the Senate adjourned until to-morrow. Two sessions of the house were held during the day without a quorum. In the evening, however, fifty-three members, two more than necessary, responded to their names. The Texas legislature's resolutions of sympathy were read, and a committee was appointed to draw up resolutions on the death of Gov. Goebel. A resolution was adopted instructing the sergeant-at-arms to ord[] ent members to []t here at [] which the hou[] []djourned ur[] The [] of the [] served [*IN FRONT OF THE PULPIT*] [*INDIANA DUTY DONE REST WON*] Republicans to arrest [] to London. They wer[] Weatherford and Egbe[] during the afternoon th[]diers had been sent to [] such members as might [] to town, but this was [] Gen. Collier and Col. W[] WARRANT FOR L[] Gov. Taylor Authoriz[] Absent Members [] London, Ky., Feb. 9.-- [] sage from Gov. Taylor [] day by a member: "Have warrants issu[] the House and put [] geant-at-arms to ser[] The warrants we[] []day of specialization the successful journalist must have some definite training. A fair education, an understanding of spelling, punctuation, syntax, and construction of sentences are essential. An additional knowledge of rhetoric, the laws of correct writing, will produce purer and stronger English. "The woman reporter," said Mrs. Harper, "must be willing to toil from eight to fifteen hours a day; take any assignment; brave inconvenience, rebuff, bad weather; give up the frivolities of dress and the pleasures of society; eliminate the 'ego;' expect no favors on account of sex; submit her work to the same standards by which a man's is judged. "The editorial writer must have literary style, a new way of saying things, conciseness and strength of expression. She must be willing to subordinate her own ideas to those of the managing editor. She will need a knowledge of history, literature, current events, and prominent people. There will be necessary also a cool head, balance of mind, self-control, tact, judgment, perception, discrimination." Mrs. Harper considered journalism a desirable occupation for women, and urged them to strive for positions of control that their ideas may not always be subjected to masculine supervision. She especially impressed upon women journalists their obligation to be true to the best interests of their own sex in every line in which they write. New Professions for Women. Following Mrs. Harper, Miss Anna Barrows, of Massachusetts, read an interesting paper upon "New Professions for Women Centering in the Home." Miss Barrows is the literary editor of a magazine devoted to cooking and kitchens. She is a clever talker, and handled her subject in a manner both pleasing and entertaining. "The objection has been made," said Miss Barrows, "that definite professions for women would tend toward the destruction of the home, but surely a woman may as well do something for her neighbor, and employ her neighbor herself, when both are skilled in special crafts, as for each to spend all her time and strength, a jack-at-all-trades, in her home. The customary comment on the desire of women for a share in municipal and national government is that they have not yet succeeded in governing the home--the servant problem is unsolved. Through occupations outside the homes, women are learning business methods which they may apply in their homes. When once she has learned the duties of an employe, she will know how to deal with employes, should she at any period of her life hold a position of trust and business management. "By such a division of labor enough time may be saved in a community that men and women can do their share of the world's work. After this bright paper had been completed, Miss Anthony amused the meeting a request of the women present to remove their hats. "I want you to take off your hats," said Miss Anthony. "If some of you will insist upon wearing bonnets as large as bushel baskets upon your heads, you must expect to be asked to remove them." The announcement convulsed those present, and for the space of several seconds there was a general removal of hatpins. An anti-Imperialist. Isabella Beecher Hooker's address, "The Duty of the Woman Citizen of the United States in Present Political Crises," was read by Mary Seymour Howard. The paper included a severe arraignment of so-called imperialism. The first part of the address was in the form of a petition, which the convention was asked to present to Congress. The petition reads: We, woman citizens of the Unites States, being deeply impressed with the great idea of the Constitution of the United States, as well as that of the Declaration of Independence, that the "consent of the governed" lies at the foundation of all just governments, do urge upon Congress the duty of assisting the people of the Philippines to form such government. And to that end we ask that the people of all the islands be invited, through such representatives as they may, in some satisfactory manner, appoint, to open negotiations with the United States for the purpose of organizing and establishing an independent government under the supervision and protection of the United States, this government maintaining its military control until such government is firmly established, and thereafter retaining it only for its protection. Mary Church Terrell, of this city, president of the National Association of Colored Women, spoke upon the "Justice of [] gates. Mrs. Swift, the delegate from California, said the greatest difficulty she had found was that women generally refused to be organized. Miss Shaw said this was due to the fact that most women did not pay enough attention to advertising and the value of printers' ink. Women have yet to learn, she continued, that every dollar spent for advertising, if judiciously spent, means two dollars in retrun. Twenty minutes were devoted to "How to Render Organizations Permanent," by Addie M. Johnson. Mrs. Johnson told of her journey through the State of Nebraska, inspecting and forming permanent organizations. Among those who took part in the conference work and the discussions were Mrs. Harrison, of Indiana; Mrs. Upton, Ohio; Miss Kayer, New York; Mrs. M. Mack, Baltimore; Mrs. Merrick, of Louisiana; Mrs. Gordon, New Orleans; Mrs. Langhorn, Virginia; Mrs. Root, Michigan; Mrs. Ward, New York; Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston, and Rev. Anna H. Shaw. The Day Sessions. The morning session was devoted to reports from the different States. Miss Anthony started the proceedings with one of her quaint speeches, which set the delegates to laughing heartily. A number of potted palms stood between the speakers' platform and the audience, and Miss Anthony insisted upon their removal. Not because she did not love them, she said, but she wanted them moved because she did not wish to talk to her friends over a forest of trees. The Delaware Equal Suffrage Association, Martha S. Scranton as president, made the first report. The paper gave an encouraging account of the work being done in the State, and showed that the sentiment in favor of suffrage is steadily growing in Delaware. Yet, the speaker continued, there are many in the State who need to be convinced of the importance of suffrage for women. A new law has given the women of Delaware school suffrage, with property qualification. This has added interest to the cause in the State, and the women are taking advantage of it by urging complete suffrage. Adella Wilson presented the report of BISHOP MCCABE. The Famous Minister's Experience with Coffee. The well-known bishop said to one of his friends, some years ago: "I was a great sufferer from severe headaches, and at times after traveling many miles to dedicate a church or perform some other important duty found myself confined to a bed when the time came, and was unable to carry out my work. I finally discovered that when I left off coffee for a few days, the headaches disappeared, and by further experiment, discovered that the coffee was undoubtedly the cause of the difficulty, which finally entirely disappeared when I left off coffee altogether." The person to whom this remark was made is Mrs. Amy K. Glass, wife of a Methodist minister at Rolfe, Iowa. She says: "My own experience with coffee was very convincing. I was grown up before I ever drank coffee, but was advised by a friend (who meant it kindly) to use weak tea and coffee, because a warm drink aided digestion. I soon thereafter commenced to have nervous and sick headaches; could not believe it was the coffee. "My husband, who had suffered from dyspepsia while a young man in college, and found relief by leaving off coffee, often told me he was satisfied my headaches were caused by coffee, so I gave up the coffee and took up Postum Cereal Food Coffee. The change taught me in a most convincing manner that coffee was the cause of the headaches, but now I have an equally good coffee in Postum, and its health-giving properties are simply undeniable. Our little children use Postum regularly and go off to school as healthy and happy as children should. If ever husband or myself take a drink of weak coffee at an evening gathering or church social, we are ket awake until past the middle of the night. Yours for health." Iowa--Mrs. Nettie L. Resous, Mrs. Anna B. Crawford, Mrs. W.F. Connell, Rev. J. O. Stevenson, Mrs. Elia G. Cline, Mary Mason Clark. Kansas--Annie L. Diggs, Mrs. Antoinette Haskell, Mrs. Mamie Garrett, Mrs. Lucy Johnson, Mabel Laporte Diggs, Mrs. L. L Loothoker. Kentucky--Miss Laura S. Bruce. Louisiana--Caroline E. Merrick, Miss Kate J. Gordon. Maine--Lucy Hobart Day, Mrs. Wesley G. Smith, Abby M. Fuller, Miss Ann Burgess, Mrs. J. W. Dye[], Mrs. C. A. Turmby. Maryland--Mary Bently Thomas, Mrs. Anna R. Lamb, Annie W. Janney, Emma Maddox Funk, Sarah T. Miller. Massachusetts--H.B. Blackwell, proxy; Ellen G. Garrison, Sarah Hudson, Diana Hirschler, Hon. S. J. Barrows, Isabel C. Barrows, Maud Wood Park, Helen Adelaide Shaw, Mrs. Ella F. Powers, Levina A. Hatch, Mrs. Agnes G. Parrett, Mrs. M. A. P. Neall. Michigan--Mrs. Martha E. Root, proxy; Mrs. Sarah E. Smith, Frances S. Mosher, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Willard, Mary A. Doe, Mrs. Emily B. Ketcham. Minnesota--Dr. Ethel E. Hurd. Missouri--Ella Harrison, Addie M. Johnson, Mrs. Alice Mulky, Sarah E. Turner, Mary Wade Calkins. Mississippi--Helen Hammond Butt. Nebraska--Mary Smith Hayward, Clara B. Colby, Mrs. Anna L. Spink, Mrs. A. G. Marble. North Carolina--Helen Morris Lewis. New Jersey--Florence Howe Hall, Dr. Mary D. Hussey, Mary Philbrook, Florence De Hart. New York--Ella Howley Crosset, Lillie Devereux Blake, Miss Emily Houland, Eliza Wright Osburne, Theodosia C. Goss, Harriet May Mills, Ada M. Hall, Mary N. Howard, Mary S. Anthony, Harriette M. Keyser, Cornelia K. Hood, Jeanette R. Leavitt, Mary Thayer Sanford, Frances C. Lewis, Emma B. Sweet, Ella S. Hammond, Annie F. Miller, Martha Prather, May H. Loines. New Mexico--Mrs. Fannie Baco. Oklahoma--Mrs. Maggie O. Rhoades. Ohio--Harriet Taylor Upton, Elizabeth J. Hauser, E.E. Root, Helen R. Smith. Pennsylvania--Lucretia L. Blankerbury, Louise Mosher James, Rachel Foster Avery, Anna C. Pennick, Elizabeth D. Green, A. Isabel Bowers, Katherine J. Campbell, Mrs. J. L. Koethen, Mary B. Luckie, Esther A. Powell, Ida Porter Boyer, Alvira Moorhouse. South Carolina--Virginia D. Young, Miss C. Garden Harris, Miss Martha Scofield. Vermont--Hon. James L. Hutchinson, Mrs. Clinton Smith. Washington--Mrs. Francis W. Cushman. West Virginia--Mrs. C. M. Morgan, Mrs. Jessie G. Manley, Mrs. George E. Boyd. HER FACE ON WEATHER MAP. Profile of Miss Susan B. Anthony Outlined by Storm Area. The map artist at the Weather Bureau paid an unintentional and perhaps little appreciated compliment yesterday to the Women Suffragists who are convening in Washington this week by presenting each subscriber to the weather map with a life-sized profile of Miss Susan B. Anthony. The silhouette of the great leader of the would-be female voters was plainly outlined upon the map in the representation of a storm cloud which covered the entire New England, Ohio Valley, and North Atlantic States, Miss Anthony's coiffure protruded over Rhode Island and Massachusetts Bay, while the outlines of her nose crossed the border line of the Buckeye State and scented the fresh footprints of the passing storm in Indiana. The perfectly formed shoulders rested upon the bosom of the peaceful Potomac. Persons who caught a passing glance at the weather map issued at 8 o'clock yesterday morning at once observed the picture, and many considered it a joke instead of the most singular co-incidence or accident that it was. Many inquiries were sent to the Weather Bureau yesterday concerning it. When Miss Anthony's attention was called to the profile at last night's session of the suffrage convention she stopped for a moment, then her eyes twinkled merrily and she said, upon looking over the audience: "Yes, the storm is coming. It is not strange that at last I should be the center of a storm, or the lines tracing the path of a storm should resemble a profile of me, for I have been the cause of many a storm. I shall take it as a good omen. It is the storm of suffrage coming--and it will start right here in Washington before the convention is over." The Weather Bureau's authorized cold wave, secured from the West, in undated Washington by degrees last night. The mercury by 8 o'clock was 24 degrees lower than on the previous night. It is predicted that this morning it will go as far down as 25 degrees. The wave will soon begin to ebb, however, and by Sunday afternoon it is predicted that the weather will have moderated to between 35 and 40 degrees. M[]S[] Locked in Sal[] Army H[] Through a Skylight. John Hellman, a fireman on the [] Dolphin, lying at the navy yard [] Thursday night in an unusual m[] He was brought into No. 1 police s[] about 1:24 o'clock yesterday morning [] was held on a charge of being drunk [] til shortly after 5 o'clock, when he [] become sufficiently sober to be reie[] He was arrested by Policeman E. [] phy, who found him in a half-dazed []dition lying on the floor of R. F H. []vey's Sons' undertaking establishment [] 928 Pennsylvania avenue, which is un[] the headquarters of the Salvation Army [] Numerous fragments of broken [] were scattered around the floor [] Hellman lay and above his head v[] broken sky-light, through which the []toxicated man had fallen. The [] caused by the crash awakened person[] the undertaking establishment, [] thought burglars were at work. It [] stated that Hellman "jumped the w[] at the navy yard early Thursday ni[] came to the center o the city, and [] tended a meeting in the Salvation A[] Hall. He is supposed to have fallen as [] and was locked in the building thro[] failure to observe his presence. A [] midnight he woke up, and in trying to [] out crawled through a window and through the skylight, while under dual influence of drink and sleep. ABRAM G. MOUNT DEAD. Once Prominent in Michigan, and Lo[] District Resident. Mr. Abram G. Mount, who for the [] twenty years had resided in Washington died at the home of his son-in-law. J. [] Smith, U.S.N., 1330 Whitney aven[] northwest, yesterday morinng, and fune[]al services will be held at the home [] o'clock Sunday afternoon. Mr. Moun[] born in Ontario County, N.Y., [] one years ago, and settled in the []ern part of Michigan in the early [] the State. Although past middle [] the breaking out of the civil war. []ed as recruiting officer by direct[] Gov. Blair, and was instrumental [] ing the quota of the State. Much [] also passed through his hands while []ing in this capacity. After the war he moved into Culp[] County, Va., and some years therea[] came on to Washington, where he lived since with his son-in-law. He lea[] a widow and a son, Owen Gordon Mo[] and two grandchildren. One, Dr. Cha[] G. Smith, is assistant resident physi[] at the Emergency Hospital. Rev. [] Pitzer, pastor of the Central Pres[] Church, will perform the funeral servi[] and internment will be made at Rock Ci[] Cemetery. Dr. Clark to Speak at Y. M. C. A. Rev. Lucien Clark, D. D, pastor [] Foundry Methodist episcopal Church[] lead the Men's Meeting at the Y[] Men's Christian Association to-m[] afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Men's [] Class, led by Dr. Merrill E. Gates, [] at 3 o'clock. Men are cordially invit[] both of these services. Contributions to Charity. Mr. Beriah Wilkins, treasurer o[] Citizens' Relief Association, has re[] for charity fund: Heretofore acknowledged...........................$[] Fredericka L. Rodgers....................................[] Mrs. Julian James............................................[] Total............................................................$[] TO-DAY'S AMUSEMEN[] Academy--"The Gunner's Mate," [] evening. Bijou--May Howard Company and Vaudev[] ernoon and evening. Columbia-- "Mr. Smooth," afternoon and e[] Grand--Vaudeville, afternoon and evening. Kerman's--Dixon-McGovern pictures and T[]Tigers, afternoon and evening. Lafayette--"How Smith Met Jones," afternoon[] evening. National--"The Tyranny of Tears," afternoon [] evening. Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a [] one day. No Cure, No Pay. Price, 25 cents [] When does Miss Jones, of London arrive? [?DAY], FEBRUARY 10, 1906. [?RK] AT FORT STEVENS Brightwood Citizens Want the Site Improved. [?]HERE GEN. EARLY'S RAID FAILED [?] Spot on Brightwood Avenue Where President Lincoln Was Under Fire and Lee's Well-planned Dash for Federal Capital Was Checked - Would Have Land Secured to Connect It with Rock Creek Park-Railway Extension. At the regular monthly meeting of the Brightwood Citizens' Association last night, the matter of preserving a historical site for Fort Stevens, which is in the immediate vicinity of Brightwood, was considered. Mr. W. V. Cox spoke at length upon the subject. He said he had procured full data on the subject, and read a paper of considerable interest [?ving] the history of the old fort. It was built in 1862, he said, by the Massachusetts [?] who named it after the old Bay [?ort] Massachusetts." On April [?e] name was changed to "Fort [?] in honor of Gen. Issac Stev[?] [?f] Massachusetts, who had lost his [?] Chantilly, VA. In 1864 there came [?] end in front of Fort Stevens one [?] the cleverest plans conceived by Gen. [?bert] E. Lee, by the defeat of Jubal [?rly] in his effort to capture Washington. "In gratitude," said Mr. Cox, "let [us] save all that remains of those silent [reminders] of the terrible days of war, as [a] monument to the bravery of the American soldier." He offered a resolution, which is in part as follows: "Resolved, That the Brightwood Avenue [Citizens'] Association recommends that [property] from and including Fort [?] and the old rifle trenches to [?k] Creek Park be obtained by the [United] States or the District of Columbia, [properly] marked and sacredly preserved. "Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the Commissioners of the District." The resolutions were unanimously adopted. Would Dedicate Land. In conclusion, Mr. Cox stated that he would dedicate a portion of the old [earth-?] [...] to the United States or the District [...] on the condition that the other owners [...] joining the fort do the same. 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Miss Musson gave several illustrations to show that woman suffrage would not raise the wages of women in legislative positions, except through decreasing the wages of the taxpayers. There can be no true increase of wages unless there is an increase in the aggregate amount of wages, the speaker said. Wherever there is idle lad there are idle hands, and no amount of political liberty will free men and women from the industrial slavery of to-day until they recognize that a single tax on the rental value of land, exclusive of improvements, is the key that will open the way for the industrial emancipation of men, women, and children. Mrs. Southworth, of Cleveland, made a very earnest plea for the anti-imperialist movement, which was most heartily indorsed by those present. The third session of the league will open at 10 o'clock this morning at 516 Ninth street northwest, and will be addressed by Miss G. Colles, of New York; Dr. Mary Husson, of New Jersey, and Judge McCreary, of Washington. 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Wm. Shoemaker will sell a load of extra good, young, sound Horses. 50 head of Horses and Mules by other shippers. All will be sold for the high dollar. MAGRATH & KENNELLY, Auctioneers. TRUSTERS' SALE OF TWO VALUABLE BUILDING LOTS, SITUATE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF O STREET, BETWEEN TWENTY-FIRST AND TWENTY-SECOND STREETS NORTH- WEST. WASHINGTON, D. C. By virtue of a certain deed of trust, dated January 13, 1897, and recorded in liber 2,186, follo 183. ht seq, one of the land records of the District of Columbia, and at the request of the holder of the notes socured thereby, we will sell at public auction, in front of the premises, on MONDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, A. D. 1900, AT 4:30 O'CLOCK P. M.. The following-described real estate situate in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, to wit: Lots numbered one hundred and forty-three (143) and one hundred and forty- four (144), in William L. Bramhall and others' subdivision of lots, in square numbered sixty-nine (69), as per plat recorded in liber No. 18, follo. 24, of the records of the office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia. Terms of sale: One-third of the purchase money to be paid in cash. balance in two equal installments, in one and two years, secured on the property sold, with interest at the rate of six (6) per centum per annum, payable semi-annual [?] until paid, or all cash, at the option of the purch[...] deposit of $100 on each lot will be re[...] the time of sale. All conveyancing, reco[...] revenue stamps to be at purchaser's cost. [...] sale to be compiled with within fifteen [...] day of sale, or the trustees will resell [...] risk and cost of defaulting purchaser, a[...] days' previous advertisement of such resale[...] JOHN TAYLOR AR[...] SAMUEL A. DRURY Truer [...] THOMAS J. OWEN, Auctioneer. [...] SPECIAL NOTICES. Now's the Season You Should Have Some "Tennessee." Winter's a time prolific of [...] A small do [...] a good [...] our Tennesse [whiskey] -- [...] of sorted [...] [...] [...] [...] were deep in the valleys at [...] Cemetery at fifteen minutes to [...] last evening when a trumpeter [...] Fourth Cavalry sounded taps" [...] the grave into which the casket con- [...]ng the earthly remains of Maj. Gen. [...]ry W. Lawton had just been lowered. [...] last long note wailed out into the [...]thly stillness and found a hundred [...]es across the ravines and along the [...]ing shores of the Potomac. To the [...]diers' "good night" call the President [...] the United States and the people represented in him stood bareheaded in the [shadow] of the great trees--awed and [...]mpathetic in the presence of grief [...]er than all human sympathy can [...]--for the woman on whom the great- [...]oss has fallen was there--a soldier's [...] and a soldier's widow-- saying her [...] farewell. With such ceremonial as was becoming [...]grateful people and the memory of he- [...]c deadl with observance and respect [...]ing the occasion and the man; with [...]p and display worthy a nation, the [...]eral of Gen. Lawton was conducted [...]terday. Thousands thronged the streets [...] lined the route along which the pa- [...]e of honor passed. Great Popular Demonstration. It was a magnificent popular demonstration of respect. Between three and four thousand soldiers were in the waiting lines that formed between 12 and 2 [...]lock outside the Church of the [Covenant], before the commencement of the [services]. Three great bands played the [...]emn marches at the long procession, [...]vided by the flower and flag-laden [casket], wound its slow length through the [...]ty, over the river, and on to the resting place of the army that sleeps at Arlington. High and low, rich and poor, young [and] old, by tens of thousands, paid a [...]te to the memory of the soldier as [...]nt to his long rest. From the bosom [...]e river the guns of the country's [...] mournfully boomed, and the echoes [...]oined with sympathetic answer from [...]lltop at Fort Myer. [...]ing was left undone that might be [...] of the realization of the honor [...] the memory of the soldier or carry [...]er and overflowing measure of sympathy to those whom, next to country, he [...]ed better than his life. The sergeant of forty years ago who [en??] [...]ed the soldier still, and major general of [...] army of a greater union, was laid [...]ay, while the President of his country, [...]gress, Supreme Court, the ranking [...]cers of army and navy, and the diplomatic corps representing the nations of [...] earth stood with bared heads beside [...] grave. The Morning Preparations. During the morning hours yesterday, be- [...] the services, orders were given to [...] the doors the church, in which the [...] had lain through the long watches [...] night. Mrs. Lawton and a number [...]dy friends, and some of the party [...] had accompanied her from Manila, [...]ed shortly after 10 o'clock. She re[...]ed beside the bler until 12 o'clock. [...] the first evidences of preparation [...]he ceremony were to be seen outside. [Meanwhile] the police and a detachment of [...]ry were on guard at the doors, while [...] faithful sentries who had acted as [...] from Manila stood motionless be[fore] the casket. The finishing touches were [...]d on [?] decorations, and the last of [...] designs and tributes were put in [?] [...] [arrangements] at the church were in [...]nds of Col. T. A. Bingham and a [...] of army officers as ushers. The [...] were opened at 1:30, and those hold- [...] tickets were admitted. The church [...]ly filled, and when, at seven minutes [...] o' clock, the hour set for the services [...] [commence], the first low notes of Han- [...] great masterpiece, the dead march [...] [Sat?]," stole from the organ loft, [...]ling into deeper and grander tones, [...] dying away again, every heart was [...]ned to overwhelming sympathy and [...]ion. Lawton and two of her children, [...]ted by Adjt. Gen. Edwards, of Gen. [...]on's staff, entered the church shortly [...] must see Miss Jones, from London. [cor]respondent in decorations, prominent among them the Spanish Minister. There were delegations from the Loyal Legion, the Grand Army, the Spanish war veterans, and other patriotic societies. Chaplain Pierce, of Lawton's old command, read the beautiful chapter from the epistle to the Corinthians and the service from the burial for the dead. At its close the male quartet of the church sang "Still, Still With Thee," and Dr. H. M. Stryker, president of Hamilton College, N. Y., rose to deliver his oration, clad in his divinity robes. The tribute to the dead and the lesson to the living spoken by the eminent divine fully justified the choice of an orator for the occasion made by the Secretary of War. President Stryker said: President Stryker's Oration. "Under the broad seas and across the land of his love and loyalty, seven weeks gone, the heavy tidings whispered o'er the world's diameter that on the 18th of December, 1899, Gen. Henry W. Lawton, of the United States army, had 'given the last full measure of devotion,' and under that peremptory shot which was all but the last bolt of the retiring storm, upon the very wave of victory, had fallen, instantly dead. The tears that gullied the cheeks of his brave men, as they lifted their hero's body to a temporary shelter, have been answered by the passionate sympathy and proud recognition of a republic that is not ungrateful and that remembers, and will remember, those who in its supreme tasks have loved not their own lives. "Over the width of the earth a soldier's household has brought its warrior home. The dust that the nation gathers to its guarding is that of no common man. We are met to celebrate and to mourn him. But while we recall the record so compact with manliness, and which the white blossom of modesty crowns withal; while we recite the story of one who personified the best American traditions, first this day do we regard her sorrow who treads that 'solemn aisle of pain,' the sanctity of whose shadows are accessible only to her God. And with her, we remember, too, for his true sake who begat them, these four dear children--daughters of the army, wards of the people, and son whose best possession shall ever be his father's sword. Orphaned of him, indeed, his children are, but endowed, too, with the immutable heritage of a gallant name. It is an estate which with all that appropriately pertain to it this land of pure domestic love will thoughtfully and thankfully administer. " 'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort where with we ourselves are comforted of God.' "Hither we have come--the people's chosen head and all authorities else from their high several sessions--to pay our poor but tender alms of love to an unblemished memory, to thank Him who is our dwelling place in all generations that the stout tree of liberty still yields such manner of fruitage and to pledge ourselves, considering the issue of the lives of our renowned dead, to imitate their unblenching and unblighted faith. His Life a Conquest. "Station is secondary, humanity is primary. And, whatever else any is, to-day we all are only men and women, brothers and sisters, lifting as children our wet faces toward the consolations of God. The stars of the spangled flag, covering now this shape of its noble warden, shine multiplied upon the dews of grief. But with a solemn joy, it beseems you, his comrades of the army, to give thanks for the life whose end must (after this parenthesis of difficult farewells) be viewed not as a calamity, but as a conquest. 'Men unapt to weep' are smitten by the pathos of that courage we commemorate-- courage, most touching of all human graces; but let them also smile with exalted hope as they lay upon this soldier's sepulcher the chaplets of their homage. "He was born March 17, 1843. Ohio rock- CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE. NORFOLK AND WASHINGTON STEAMBOAT COMPANY. Delightful Trips Daily at 6:30 p.m. To Old Point Comfort, Newport News, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach. For schedule, see advertisement, page 11. [...] counsel for William R. Grace, to be true. At the office of William R. Grace & Co. no information could be obtained. E. Eyre, who is vice president of that company, said that there was nothing new in the situation, but E. E. Cragin declared positively that the Maritime Company had no rights at all, because it had allowed them to lapse on October 9 last by non-fulfillment of the conditions on which they were based. Mr. Cragin says he is strongly opposed to the building of the interoceanic canal by the government, and is an earnest advocate of constructing it in about eight years, while it would take the government at least twenty years, and the cost, through waste and red tape, would greatly exceed what was actually necessary. The question whether the Craigin-Eyre- Grace syndicate has "secured" all the rights of the Maritime Canal Company, or whether the Maritime Canal Company has been snuffed out by its own neglect, and all the concessions have fallen into the lap of the Cragin-Eyre-Grace syndicate, is more importance to the stockholders than to the general public, which is only interested in the fact that exclusive concessions to construct a canal across Nicaragua are held by a syndicate under decree of the Nicaraguan national legislative assembly, dated "National Palace, Managua, October 31, 1898," and signed by Zelaya and Jose C. Munoz, sub- secretary of public works. The decree grants to Edward Eyre and Edward E. Cragin exclusive rights to construct an inter-oceanic canal across Nicaragua, provides that they may negotiate with the Maritime Canal Company for its concessions, permits them to carry on any business enterprise in connection with the canal, and provides that they must deposit in cash $100,00 at once and $400,000 within four months with the government as security. The $400,000 has not been deposited yet, but Mr. McClure says it will be whenever it is demanded, and that Nicaragua or some one for her must purchase those concessions from the syndicate before the right to build a canal across that country can be granted to any one else. MATAAFANS USE THE TORCH. Malietoans Forced to Flee and Their Homes Destroyed. San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 9.---Samoan advices received by the steamer Alameda to-day are to the effect that the agreement between the three powers as to the division of the Samoan group has caused but little trouble, though the Malietoa and Mataafa factions were somewhat discontented, the Mataafans blaming the Malietoans for causing the trouble which brought about this result, and vice versa. Reports were received in Apia that at Aana and Savaii the followers of Mataafa, chagrined at the news of the division of the islands, resolved that the Malietoan adherents who had returned to their homes must be driven out of those districts. A large force of Mataafa men attacked the homes of the Malietoans, routed the residents out, set fire to the buildings, and later drove the inhabitants to Saliemoa. On December 6, Capt. Tilley, of the United States Navy, notified High Chief Faivae, of the island of Tutuila, that under the terms of the agreement between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany, the Samoan group would be divided between the United States and Germany, and that the island of Tutuila, Manula, and the other islands east of Upola would come under the protection of the United States. Capt. Tilley assured the chiefs, through Faivae, that the United States would protect the natives and give them a good government, and that it would hold the chiefs responsible for any trouble that might occur. Capt. Tilley's proclamation was received with quiet and order, and no apprehension is felt that trouble will follow the inauguration of the new regime. Funeral of Col. R. W. Thompson. Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 9.--The funeral of Col. Richard W. Thompson, who died early this morning, will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. $1.25 to Baltimore and Return via B. & O., Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 10 and 11, good for return until following Monday. Tickets good on all trains except Royal Limited. [...] the Federal side in the civil war, but he was opposed to loose, reckless, unconstitutional methods. He suggested that the House set aside a day each month for pension legislation and discontinue the night sessions. Mr. Sims (Democrat, Tennessee), who is interested in Southern war claims, made some caustic remarks in criticism of the Republican leaders for side-tracking those "just obligations" of the government in favor of pension bills. "Does the gentleman contend that the government owes the old soldiers nothing?" interposed some one on the Republican side. "Oh! oh!" jeered the Democrats. The committee then proceeded with the consideration of pension bills, and thirty- five were favorably acted upon. At 10:30 the House adjourned. Before adjournment, Representative Gaines, of Tennessee, called the attention of the House to section 4716, Revised Statutes, under which no widow, child, or heir of any person who engaged in, aided, or abetted the rebellion can be given a pension, and the Pension Committee signified that it would look into the matter and take suitable action. CAPTURE OF BOGOTA A CANARD. Report of the Surrender of Colombian Capital Declared Untrue. Colon, Colombia, Feb. 9.--The report circulated in the United States that Bogota, capital of Colombia, had fallen into the hands of insurgents, is without foundation. The insurgents are still in the department of Santander, where a big battle is momentarily expected. Each day brings news of the defeat of small bodies of insurgents in other departments. WEATHER CONDITIONS. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Washington, Friday, Feb. 9--8 p. m. During the past twenty-four hours the cold wave has continued its progress eastward, and now extends nearly to the Atlantic coast. On Friday morning the line of zero temperature extended to the Missouri line, and that of freezing temperature to the West Gulf coast. During Friday, however, there was a decided rise in temperature from the Mississippi Valley westward, and as a consequence seasonal temperature again prevails over this district, except in the Mississippi Valley and the Southwest. There has been rain in the Atlantic and Gulf States, and snow or rain from the Ohio Valley and Lake region eastward. Snow and rain have fallen over the middle and northern plateau and Pacific coast region, while in the southern portions clear weather has prevailed, with heavy frosts Friday morning in portions of Southern California. It will be colder Saturday in the Atlantic States generally, and continue moderately cold Sunday. Frost is indicated Saturday night over extreme northern portion of Eastern Florida. In the central valleys, the Upper Lake region, and the Northwest rising temperature is indicated Saturday. Fair weather will prevail, except showers, with rising temperature Saturday, near the West Gulf coast. On the Atlantic coast fresh winds, mostly northerly, will prevail. LOCAL WEATHER REPORT. Temperature--Midnight, 61; 2 a. m., 59; 4 a. m., 58; 6 a. m., 55; 8 a. m., 52; 10 a. m., 46; 12 m., 41; 2 p. m., 42; 4 p. m., 43; 6 p. m., 41; 8 p. m., 38; 10 p. m., 35. Maximum, 61; minimum, 35. Relative humidity--8 a. m., .69; 2 p. m., .55; 8 p. m., 58. Rainfall, 0.00. Temperature same date last year-- Maximum, 10; minimum, --7. Sun rises, 6:57; sun sets 5:32. High ride, 3:05 a. m. and 3:52 p. m.; low tide, 9:15 a. m. and 10:40 p. m. TEMPERATURE IN OTHER CITIES. [...] Max. Min. 8 p.m. Rainfall Atlanta, Ga... 68 38 46 0.00 Atlantic City... 54 38 38 0.00 Bismarck, N. D.... 8 -34 6 T. Boston, Mass... 32 28 28 0.12 Buffalo, N. Y.... 54 24 24 T. Chicago ... 20 4 16 0.00 Cincinnati ... 56 18 16 0.00 Cheyenne, Wyo ... 38 23 28 0.00 Davenport, Iowa... 16 0 16 0.00 Des Moines, Iowa... 16 -6 14 0.00 Galveston, Tex... 48 32 46 0.00 Helena, Mont...34 4 34 0.00 Jacksonville, Fla... 78 62 68 T. Kansas City, Mo... 26 2 24 0.00 Little Rock, Ark... 38 18 36 0.00 Memphis, Tenn... 28 22 36 0.00 New Orleans, La... 66 42 48 T. New York, N. Y.... 52 38 38 0.00 North Platte, Nebr... 24 -8 18 0.00 Pittsburg, Pa... 58 30 32 0.00 Salt Lake City, Utah... 38 24 34 0.02 St. Louis, Mo... 28 12 23 0.00 St. Paul, Minn... 0 -16 -2 0.00 Springfield Ill... 24 8 24 0.00 Vicksburg, Miss... 50 26 44 0.00 Have you heard Miss Jones, from London? [?]. Gen. Buller's [?] announcing Monday's and Tuesday's movemnts was particularly hopeful. He described the position gained as effective, so the news of another retirment is exceedingly bitter to the British. A special dispatch from Spearman's Camp, dated yesterday (Friday) noon, says that owing to the Boer cross-fire and the impossibility of intrenching Vaal Krantz, Gen. Buller's force withdrew. The Financial News, which publishes this dispatch, siggests that Gen. Buller has not yet actually recrossed the Tugela. May Not Try It Again. The Times, dealing with the military situaion, says: "If Gen. Buller has failed, it seems unlikely that another attempt will be made. The terrible initial strategic mistake of abandoning the principal objective for a subsidiary operation still overweights the campaign; but the time approaches when its baneful influence will cease to fetter our action. The great issues of the war will not be decided in the Natal." Gen. MacDonald's retirement the Times considers inexplicable. Heliograms from Ladysmith, dated Monday, descirbe the effect Gen. Buller's cannonade had on the worn garrison. Hope ran high that the long period of inactivity and tedium was drawing to a close. The crash of guns was almost continuous for ten hours, and at times it seemed as if as many as twenty shells burst in a minutes. The Boers, preparing always for the possibility of defeat, were driving herds of sending long wagon trains toward the Drakenberg passes. Intense darkness and silence followed, broken only by the frogs' croaking and the occasioanly blaze of star shells, surrounding the town with a circle of light to prevent the unobserved approach of the enemy. A series of British mines, laid for the Boers, exploded accidentally, shaking and alarming the city. Statement from Dr. Leyds. Dr. Leyds has issued in Brussels a statement for publication in England, denying purported interviews in which he is represented as predicting the intervention of the powers in the event that the British invade the Free State. He says he is convinced that the war will continue as long as the two republic have arms and ammunition. If the Mauser cartridges give out the Boers, he asserts, will fall back upon Martini-Henry rifles, for which they have a supply of ammunition that is practically inexhaustible. The first lord of the admiralty, Mr. Geroge J. Goschen, is preparing estimates [?] a large increase in the navy. It is thought not improbable that Parliament will be asked for £20,000,000 for new ships. The war office has reduced the minimum standard of height again, this time to 5 feet 3 inches for infantry and 5 feet 2 inches for artillery. Mr. Henry W. Lucy says that the health of Sir Alfred Milner, governor of Cape Colony, is suffering from the prolonhged strain, and his friends fear he will break down. Lord Salisbury's son, Lord Edward Cecil, is responsible for Mafeking being so well provisioned. At the outbreak of the war he learned the amount of army stores about to be sent to Mafeking, and on his own initiative pledged his privated means and had the stores quadrupled. He is now in Mafeking, and one of its boldest [??enders}. [?] parlimentary paper, issued this afternoon, estimates that £13,000,000 ($65,000 000) additional will be required for the war expenses of the year ending March 31. Boers Report Defeat of Plumer. Pretoria, Monday, Feb. 5.- Col. Plumer's [?] Feburary 2 attacked the Boer position near Ramonsta, and after heavy [???ting], including an endeavor to take the [?] by storm, the British were repulsed. Their loss is unkonwn. No Boers were injured. Put out of Action by "Long Cecil." [?] CABLEGRAM TO THE POST. Copyright, 1900, by Chicago Tribune Company.) London, Feb. 10.- The Times correspondance telegrams under date of Thrusday [?] the Boers' big guns opened fire on [?own] on Wednesday from [Kampers???] [??] west and north, Gen. McDonald sent for four regiments of cavalry and two batteries of horse artillery. Wednesday. When the Boers occupied a position at the west end of the kopje with a gun, we silenced the gun temporarily, and with the Sixty-second Battery of field artillery held Painters' Drift, which previously was held by the Boers. Gen. Babington, with the calvalry and horse artillery, arrived in the afternoon and the fight continued all day. The Highlanders behaved with the utmost gallantry throughout. It was reported that Boer re-enforcements were arriving from Magersfontein, and, although our postion was easily tanable, the entire force was ordered to return to Modder River to-morrow." (By the Associated Press.) London, Feb. 9.- Gen. Macdonal's retirment puzzels the military commentators. The theory that finds acceptance is that it was ordered by Lord Roberts, and that both Gen. Buller's and Gen. Macdonald's operations were by the direction of the commander-in-chief in order to occupy the Boers at widely separated points so they would be unable to transfer any portion of their forces to oppose the projected central adyance. Mr. Charles Williams, a military writer who is understood to be in confidential relatinos with Lord Wolseley, says that beyond doubt the most authoritative opinion in London regards it as probable that an endeavor will be made to force the line of the Orange River before Wednesday nect, possibly by Monday. The news from Koodoosbery caused considerable excitement in the House of Commons, where the government leader, MR. Balfour, had just previously announced that there was no news from South Africa. Koodoosbery Drift, Thursday, Feb. 8.- In order to enable Gen. Macdonald to completely surround the Boers, Gen. Babington was dispatched from the Modder River with a large force of cavalry and two batteries of Horse Artillery, but failed to reach here, although he stated early enough in the day to enable him to get here early this afternoom. This morning Gen. Methuen ordered that the commined forced should retire upon the Modder River, which movement is now proceeding. The British losses in the fighting on Wednesday were fifty men killed or wounded. The Boers are making a determined effort to drive the British from a bill commanding the dirft. Mounting two seven-pounders at the northern extremity, they shelled the position intermittently the whole day. The Seaforth Highlanders gained a position on the rocky summit and kept up a sustained riled fire, but suffered somewhat from the Boer's shelling. A battery was sent, and succeeded in silencing the Boer fire. Menwhile two companies of the Argyll Highlanders, advancing along the plain in a westerly direction, found the Boers intrenched at a small drift. A sharper engagement followed, lasting the whole day. London, Feb. 9.- The dispatch from Koodoosberg Drift does not say whether Gen. Babington finally joined Gen. Macdonald, but the word "combined" seems to indicate that he did so. MESSAGE FROM LORD ROBERTS. Commander-in-chief Sends News of Gatacre's Success at Pen Hoek. London, Feb. 9.- A war office dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated Thursday, February 8, confirms the reports that Gen. Gatacre has repulsed the Boers at Pen Hoek and Birds River and that the security of both outposts is established. In regard to Geb. Macdonald's operations, Lord Roberts does not mention the former's retirement to the Modder River. He says: "Macdonald was dispatched to prevent the Boers blocking the man drift at CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE. $1.25 To Baltimore and Return via Pennsylvania Railroad. Tickets on sale Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 10 and 11, good to return until Monday, Feb 12. All trains except the Congressional Limited. [?] who has been classed as anti-Goebel men, and who on several political issues have voted with the Republicans. BLACKBURN CALLS ON TAYLOR. Results of Their Conference Could Not Be Learned- Other Secret Deliberations. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 9.- Gov. Taylor did not sign the Louisville peace agreement to-day. He announced, moreover, that he had no intention of doing so for some time, and did not know whether he would sign it at all. On the other hand, the Democrats were confident that he would affix his signature to the document. This has been a day of conferences in Frankfort. They were in full swing from 10:30 o'clock in the morning until 5:30 o'clock at night, and outwardly nothing tangible resutled from them. The situation to-night is, to all appearances, exactly where it was when the peace agreement was first submitted to Gov. Taylor. On the morning train from Louisville came the Republican attorney, David W. Fairleigh and Judge John W. Barr, both of whom were members of the Louisville conference on the Republican side. Immediately upon arrival, Mr. Fairleigh called upon Senator Blackburn at the Capitol Hotel, and after a few words went with him, in company with Judge Barr and Gen. Dan Lindsay, to the office of Gov. Taylor. A conference was held there from 11 o'clock until 1 o'clock, when an adjournment was taken. Later in the afternoon Samuel J. Roberts, of Lexington, internal revenue collector for this district, came to Frankfort in response to a telegram from Gov. Taylor, and was closeted with him for some time. Shortly after 3 o'clock Gen. Lindsay, Judge Barr. Attorney Fairleigh, and T. L. Edelen called at the executive office and at once went into a conference with Gov. Taylor, a conference which latered until 5:30 p. m. In the mean time Secretary of State Caleb Powers, Attorney General C. J. Pratt, and later Adjt. Gen. Collier entered the governor's office and took part in the deliberations. About 4:30 p. m. Gov. Taylor and Secretary of State Powers came out of the governor's office and held a long whispered conversation outside the door. Gov. Talor then reentered the room and Mr. Powers left the building. "The governor will not sign the agreement," said Mr. Powers, as he walked out of the door. Furhter than that, however, he would say nothing. At 5:30 p.m. the conference came to a conclusion. It was impossible to learn the result of the protracted debate. Every one of those who took part in the conference preserved a sphynx-like silence in regard to what transpired behind the governor's door, absolutely refusing to discuss the matter in any way. From the governor's office Gen. Linday, Judge Barr, Attorney Fairleigh, and Mr. Edelen went at once to Gen. Lindsay's office, where a brief conference was held, and the course of action to be pursued discussed, anda shortly after 6 o'clock Judge Barr and Attorney Fairleigh took the train for Louisville. This evening Gov. Taylor held a long conversation over the telephone with W. C. P. Breckinridge at Lexington. Later he repeated his asseration made during the afternoon that he would not take any action on the peace agreement for the present. Late to-night the situation was somewhat changed. Adjutant General Collier was again called into Gov. Taylor's office about 8 o'clock, and was in consultation with him until a late hour to-night, but would say nothing as to what transpired. From toher and authoritative sources, however, it was learned that a decision had finally been reached, and that the preace agreement probably would receive the signature of Gov. Taylor inside of twenty-four hours. Two Democratic members of the legislature put in an appearance this afternoon, the first that have been seen in Frankfort since the word was given, nearly a week ago, for all of them to keep where they could not be readily reached in case it was determined by the Where is Miss Jones, from London? The house went into [ex???] almost immediately upon [co??] o'clock, and was still [conven???] senate met two hours later. [?] the senate was called to order, [?] sent in a resolution requesting [?] executive session. The message from Gov. Taylor [?] the warrants was recieved just before [?] house convened. The intelligence [?] passed secretly to members, and a suppressed excitement became visible. The effect of Gov. Taylor's sage was apparent. Senator Cox said: "We mean [?]. We will have a quorum in the house [?] a quorum in the senate. We will [?] working order and ready to [transac??] ness by Monday. Furthan than [?] have nothing to say." Late in the afternoon the house [?] rants were issued and the [excit??] quited down with the sudden [cal?] that indicated the approching storm [sec??cy] that had marked the [proce?] of the executive sessions [covere??] names contained in the warrants. [?] of a number of members to be [bro?] London had been prepared, but [wh?] warrants were issued for all of them [?] not be ascertained. CLEW TO GOEBEL ASSASINATION Silas Jones, Arrested at Frankfort, Ma[?] Important Disclosures. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 9.- Two men, [?] pected of complicity in the murder [?] Gov. Boebel, were arrested in a boarding house to-day. Their names are [S?] Jones, of Whitley County, and {[G?] schalk, of Nelson County. The men [?] said to have slept in the executive [?]ing for a time, and they will be kept [?] confinement until something more [def?] is known as to their whereabouts at the time of the assassination. Both strongly deny any knowledge of the murder. The authorities expect to obtain important evidence regarding the assassination of Gov. Goebel from Silas Jones, who was arrested this morning. Jones has already made a partial confession.. He delcared that he prsonally knows nothing of the crimes, but says that Harlan [Wittan?] who was arrested immediately after the shooting while rining from the executibe building, from which the shots were fired, knows a great deal about the crime. It is believed that Jones gave more information than that regarding [Whittak?] and that what he told the police [?] lead to further arrests in the neightborhood of Richmond, Madison County, Ky. Nelson has been released. Injunction Proceedings Postponed. Georgetown, Ky., Feb 9.- Gov. Taylor was not represented when Judge [Cantr?] called the injunction proceedings here to-day. On request of Judge Pryor, for the plaintiffs, the hearing was postponed till Tuesday next. This is the action in which the Democratic members of the legislature ask for a restraining order preventing Gov. Taylor from removing the legislature from the capitol at Frankfort. MASSING ON THE FRONTIER. Persistent Reports of Russian Military Activity in Western Asia. SPECIAL CABELGRAM TO THE POST. (Copyrifht, 1900, by Chicago Tribune Company.) London, Feb. 10.- "According to the local press, an order has been recieved from [S?] Petersburg," saus the Odessa correspondent of the Times, "reducing the number [?] each Coassack regiment to 106. This order, it is believed, will apply to all Cossack regiments throughout the empires, [th?] making a great reduction in this arm [?] the service of light cavalry for the Russian empire. Numerous reports are constantly arriving here of the activity displayed at the present time by the Russian army in the Caucasus. "Some of these rumors are to the effect taht a freat massing of men is taking place along the Persian and Afghan frontiers. I give these reports with all reserve, although there seems to be an undoubted movement of Russian troops toward the frontier of Persia and Afghanistan. Who is Miss Jones from London? February 8, 1900 Rev. Anna Howard Shaw to Preach. Rev. Dr. Anna Shaw, vice-president-at-large of the Woman's Suffrage Association, will preach at the Church of Our Father Sunday night at 7:30 on "Strength of Character." The pastor, Rev. John Van Schaick, jr., will preach at 11 a. m. a sermon, in commemoration of Lincoln's birthday. [Pacific and Atlantic Photo.] KILLS HUSBAND AFTER ROW OVER BRIDGE WHIST. Mrs. Myrtle Bennett of Kansas City, Mo., who used revolver when slapped after making losing bid of four spades. BOMB THROWN FROM A CLUB. Crowd around broken after explosion occurred in sw [Pacific and Atlantic Photo.] WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN THE INDEPENDENT STATE REPUBLICAN CLUB (Continued from page 1) less minorities, in spite of their great voting strength. The way to stop this wholesale disregard of our constitutional rights is by ORGANI- ZATION. 3. The old line political organiza- tions have been torn asunder time after time by the insistence of their master that they support certain laws and amendments to the consti- tution that satisfy the organized minorities. The leaders of such minorities are protected from the penalties of such laws, etc. by virtue of their dictating the appointment of those charged with the enforcement of their pet laws. If the old line politicians must deliver their consti- tuency up to the will of organized minorities, the answer of the ma- jority must be ORGANIZATION. 4. The words "Democrat" and "Republican" can mean nothing if the party platforms are identical. This tacit agreement indicates that both parties are controlled by the same sinister influences that have been so disastrous to the welfare of the unorganized majority of the voters. The way to make profession- al politicians respect the will of the majority is by ORGANIZATION. 5. Personalities, not parties count today. Parties are too much alike in their promises. It is to the outstand- ing personalities that dominate the conventions, etc. that the voters must look for their temporal salvation. Such individuals often win an elec- ion by pluralities that express the will of about ten per cent of the qualified voters. Why? The ans- wer is that the political machines got what they wanted— the oppor- tunity to plunder the public treasury whilst the unorganized majority slept at the switch. The cure for such conditions is ORGANIZATION. 6. The Independent State Re- publican Club was organized to pro- mote the welfare of the majority, which should control as was intend- ed by the founders of this govern- ment. Government of the people, for the people and by the people be- comes a sham and pretense when the will of the majority is flouted by professional politicians who take their orders from organized pussy-footers and professional lobbyists. 7. The Independent State Repub- lican Club reserves the right to give its lyalty and support to those can- didates who, in the opinion of its members, deserve such loyalty and support. This club is not dominated by an boss or candidate of either of the present-day Republican fac- tions. This freedom from entangling alliances makes it easy for the club to select the candidate and banner under which it will work during a political campaign. 8. The Independent State Repub- lican Club is in favor of all public improvements that have for their ob- ject the betterment of the condition of the majority of the people. All pork barrel "improvements" will be opposed at all times. 9. The Independent State Repub- lican Club is in favor of equal justice for all of the people before the law, as well as a more equitable distribu- tion of the burden of taxes, which is matter of concern to all of the peo- ple. 10. The Independent State Re- publican Club does not assess its members or in any way impose its will upon those who dissent from its program. It is a purely voluntary organization of those who believe in the principle of majority rule in the political life of the commonwealth. Its membership must in the nature of things receive first consideration in matters that have to do with the in- dividual requirements that are part and parcel of all political activities. This organization is endorsed by many reputable citizens who believe in its principles and purposes. [*THE*] CAMPAIGN MANAGER OF THE COLORED DIVISION Leroy M. Hardin, campaign man- ager of the Colored division of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormicks campaign for United States senator, was bor[n] in Chicago, and has spent the great er portion of this life in this cit[y] [*Th[?]*] [*six*] [*to [?]*] [*fini*] [*and*] [*He*] [*Cor*] [*tee*] [*spe[?]*] [*the*] [*Mc[?]*] [*His*] [*per[?]*] [*cess*] [*mar*] [*is [?]*] [*abi*] [*G*] [*time*] [*the*] [*may*] [*later*] [*T[?]*] [*outst*] [*histo*] [*en t[?]*] [*dence*] [*in th[?]*] complishment. Many a man owes his success in life to the inspiration he received from this mother or wife, the latter being content to bask in the reflected glory of her husband's achievements. Today, a woman whose qualifica- tions are above those of any male seat warmer in the senate, aspires to take a part in the deliberations of the highest law making body in the country. Her opponents dare not make themselves ridiculous by at- tacking her intellectual qualifica- tions, so they rake up the old em- balmed lie about women being the in- feriors of men and cite as evidence the lines of endeavor that require at best a strong back and a weak mind. BUSINESS NEWS WHERE TO TRADE Dr. White, Druggist, 51 W 95th St. Dr. Gibbs, Physician and Surgeon, 9432 So. Michigan Ave. Mr. Dillard, Fruit Market and Light Groceries, 16 W. 95 St. Mr. Lamb, Ice, Coal and Expressing 9421 Wentworth Ave. Loyed Lewis, Moving and Expressing 12 East 95th Street Mr. Blair, Grocery and Market, 9438 So. LaSalle Street Mr. Robinson, Old Style Barbecue and Refreshment Hall, 101 W. 95th St. Mr. Weaver, Neighborhood Barber Shop, 40 W. 95th St. [*answ*] [*Se*] [*that*] [*ment*] [*Negr*] [*to v*] [*dom*] [*that*] [*votes*] [*them*] [*tor D*] [*Jews*] [*big a*] [*We*] [*neen*] [*ENE*] [*PLE.*] [*ate th*] [*nothi*] [*to se*] [*not o*] [*Coun*] [*shoul*] [*joriti*] [*wards*] [*him o*] [*a rea*] [*Sen*] [*the g*] [*of po*] [*are c*] [*him in*] [*double*] [*name*] [*Col*] [*man*] [*by CO*] [*SECO*] [*GON*] [*OPPO*] Great Women of History by Eugene P. Sewell The opponents of women suffrage are parading the old lie about women being unfitted to assume the duties that devolves upon the holder of such a political office. To such muddled thinking, it is hard to charge anything but a complete lack of acquaintance with the facts of history. In almost any age which we find ourselves in the study of history, we shall see that women have played their part and almost invariably, played it well. It is to their credit that whetehr reigning as queens or perishing at the stake in cause they believed to be just, they have shown a devotion to duty and a sublime self-sacrafice that would put to shame the efforts of many men we have been taught to revere as heroes. That their intellectual qualifications have ever been of the highest, we have but to mention Aspasia, the women philospher of Greece. Aspasia was a native of Miletus. Her home was an intellectual center for the elite of Athens, and even Socrates often called himself her disciple. Plutarch, who refers to Plato's "Menexenus" as his authoritym says that many Athenians visited her because she was skilled in the art of debate and public speaking. Many authorities agree that she composed part of the famous funeral oration that Pericles pronounced over the Athenians. Cleopatra, whose name and fame must ever remain a part of the turbulent history of Roman conquests and follies, was na Egyptian queen, celebrated for her personal charm, many accomplishments, and her dramatic history. She was one of the best linguists of her time, being mistess of seven languagees besides her mother tongue. Joan of Arc, surnamed, "The Maid of Orleans", is the most illustrious heroine of history. While her male "superiors" were cowering in fear, she placed herself at the head of the French army and delivered her land from the oppression of the enemy. Death at the stake was the reward she reaped for her efforts in behalf of her country. Catherine de Medici, though perfidous and cruel and charged with corrupting the morals of her sons, as well as being the instigator of the infamous St. Bartholomew massacre, was the greatest politician of her (Continued on page 2) Sunday Star Washington, DC Aug. 2 '36 B—4 FAMED FEMINIST PRAISES EDUCATOR Carrie Chapman Catt's Tribute to Mrs. Terrell Appears in Magazine. The following appreciation of Mary Church Terrell of Washington, written by Carrie Chapman Catt, famous feminist leader, appears in a recent number of the Oberlin College Alumni Magazine. Mrs. Terrell, prominent as a colored educator and lecturer was for 11 years a member of the Board of Education in the District By Carrie Chapman Catt. There is one graduate of Oberlin that I may know better and admire more than most of her fellow alumni. Mary Church Terrell, class of 1884. by exceptional ability has brought honor to her college, her sex and her race. In 1898, 38 years ago, she spoke upon the program of the annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. It was a long and illustrious procession of men and women who marched through the years across that platform. Speakers were invited because their presence lent influence to our cause, or because they could make a telling, convincing address. For the latter reason Mrs. Terrell had been invited. She presented a pleasing appearance and possessed what the world calls a "platform presence." Add a musical, well-modulated voice and any audience might have been prepared for an enjoyable half hour, but the convention was astounded by her logic and eloquence. Her address was pronounced the gem of the entire program. No one who heard her then ever forgot the occasion or failed to note her after career. In 1904 she was invited, at the request of the American auxiliary, to speak at the great Congress of the International Council of Women held in Berlin. She spoke in German, French and English (having studied in Europe for three years after taking her second degree at Oberlin). So thoroughly did she know these languages that she was eloquent in all three. Again she won the unanimous approbation of the convention and, in addition, became the favorite of the European press. I heard both of these remarkable speeches. Popular Lecturer. Meanwhile, she was continuously a popular lecturer in this country, speaking in all parts of the Nation, at chautauquas, forums and lecture courses. She addressed the students of most women's colleges and of many men's colleges. She spoke to all well-known colleges and schools for colored youth in the South. At the same time, she was a prolific writer as well, her articles having been published in many magazines and newspapers. In 1894 women suffragists of the District of Columbia, after six years of effort, succeeded in gaining consent to the appointment of two women to the Board of Education. Mrs. Terrell was one of the two first appointed, a position she held for 11 years, a longer period than any other member had enjoyed. She helped to organize the National Association of Colored Women and was its first president. She was also a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Served Good Causes. Thus she lived an exceedingly busy life. For 40 years or more Mrs. Terrell expended her entire energies in serving good causes. Especially did she serve the welfare of her race and her sex. Both have profited much by her devoted and practical aid. Oberlin was the first college in the modern world to open her doors to to women. It was, however, clearly demonstrated that even Oberlin had not interpreted women's education very liberally since, for several years after the first graduation of women, in 1841, the essays of women graduates on commencement day were read by a member of the faculty instead of the student herself. Neverthless, Oberlin did lead the way and women all the world around are grateful for her early courage. Oberlin opened her doors to colored men at the same time. In Mrs. Terrell her race found a bold friend and a tireless defender. Her race and her sex appreciate the value of her never-pausing helpfulness in their respective evolution, so nobly inaugurated by Oberlin more than 100 years ago. I hope the long line of distinguished Oberlin graduates are as proud of the contribution to human liberty made by their college and are as appreciative of the service of Mary Church Terrell to Oberlin's immortal causes as are many of us who have never stepped upon her campus. FRUITFUL TREES BEND— WISE MEN STOOP— A DRY STICK AND A FOOL CAN BE BROKEN BUT NOT BENT— Ching Chow Copyright 1929 by The Chicago Tribune 000014 29 - I GUESS BE ANNIE'S HT, AT THAT- E- IT MUST VE BEEN NTA CLAUS- YEAH- Death Notices In Memoriam. Barnett–In loving memory of our dear husband and father, Robert Barnett, who passed away 2 years ago today. A happy home we once enjoyed; How sweet the memory still, But death hath left a loneliness This world can never fill. How often do we tread The path that leads to the grave, Where rests the one we loved so well, But whom we could not save. Rose Barnett and Children. Wiersig– In loving memory of our husband and father, Rudolph Henry Wiersig, who passed away two years ago, Dec. 28, 1927. Our lips cannot say how we love you, Our hearts cannot tell what to say, God only knows how we miss you, From our home that is lonesome today. Loving wife and children. Women Voters Oust Defender Reporter Groups of women, who hith- erto have been exceedingly antagonistic towards one an- other, have come together, temporarily, at least. Of the many things on which they disagree there is one thing which they conclusively con- sider a common grievance. And against which a majority of them have agreed to fight. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, congresswoman at large for the state of Illinois, announced two weeks ago that she is in the race for United States senator against Senator Charles S. Deneen. In selecting lead- ers for the various units for the pro- motion of her campaign Mrs. Mccor- mick chose Mrs. Mary Church Ter- rel of Washington, D.C. to head the Race women in Illinois. Some women folks here became vexed. Some because they were not the chosen one and other because they sincerely believed that a woman should have been selected from the state in which the campaign is to be fought. A sufficient number are em- bittered enough to cause much dis- turbance in an already muddled sit- uation. At the request of a committee of women representing several clubs, a meeting was called last Thursday night at 3522 Michigan Ave. Mrs. Bertha Montgomery and Mrs. Susie Myers, apparently, were responsible for the get-together. the former presided. The theme of the meeting, obvi- ously, was an objection to Mrs. Ter- rell's presence here to lead Illinois women. One of the speakers very formally referred to her as "the lady from Washington," much after the fashion that senators address their colleagues on the senate floor. Sounds Keynote Mrs. Montgomery, in sounding the keynote of the meeting, sought to make it clear that there was no fight against Mrs. Terrell, not were the women behind the movement seeking to injure Mrs. McCormick's chances of winning. "We wish our position to be clearly understood." she said. "It is our opinion that there is a woman some where in the state of Illinois who is capable of directing Mrs. McCor- mick's campaign for senator, and we therefore protest against her bring- ing a woman from another state. The fact that it is Mrs. Terrell is inci- dental," she added. "Our protest would be registered if the individual were anyone else from another state." One speaker, in recalling instances to justify the action of the group, referred to the last campaign of the late Senator McCormick, husband of the candidate, who was defeated by Senator Deneen, whom his wife is now trying to dethrone. She pointed out that Mr. McCormick brought Walter H. Cohen of New Orleans here over the protest of Race leaders to direct his senatorial campaign. Then at the conclusion of her remarks rather significantly added, "and McC- ormick lost." Mrs. Grace Outlaw insisted that nothing be done to hurt Mrs. Terrell's feelings, inasmuch as her being here was by invitation and not of her own volition. It was recalled by a member of the group, who asked that her name be withheld from public print, that Mrs. Outlaw had been quite active in Mrs. MCormick's behalf during the last election, and that come consideration should have been shown her. At this point Mrs. Effie Hale rather vitrolically put in, "How do you know she hasn't been shown consideration? Mrs. Outlaw is here, she can speak for herself." Chooseth Not to Speak Mrs. Outlaw was pressed for an answer, which, it was plain, she did not care to give. She finally arose and after several minutes aserted, "I do not choose to answer." Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, veteran clubwoman and participant in many battles, was introduced as the prin- cipal speaker. In opening her talk she observed: "Anyone who knows me knows well that I would be among the first to protest against the bringing of a woman from another state to lead the women of Illinois in a political cam- paign. I have made protest before, but have found it difficult to get other women to stand with me." Mrs. Barnett went right into he speech and as a Defender reporter reached for a piece of paper to re- cord a statement she made with reference to Congressman Oscar De- Priest, the speaker, who had just become aware of the reporter's pres- ence, offered a motion that he be asked to withdraw. The motion was put and carried unaniomusly, but not until the gist of the proceedings had been well catalogue in the reporter's brain. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1935. CAPITAL HONORS SUSAN B. ANTHONY Mrs. Roosevelt Sends Wreath and Organizations Join in Tribute. _____________________________ The 115th anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony, pioneer suffragist and champion for women's rights, was observed throughout the city yesterday under auspices of various organizations. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a wreath to the Capitol to be placed on the Anthony-Mott-Stanton statue. Mrs. Roosevelt also sent a letter to Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, presiding at the funeral services last night in the Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets. Bedecked with flags and buntings of the various Anthony forums and foundations, the Congregational Church was the scene of impressive services that climaxed a day of solid tribute to the woman who blazed the trail for woman suffrage. Many Leaders Pay Tribute. Tribute to Miss Anthony were paid by Carrie Chapman Catt, Janet Richards, Adelaide Johnson, Mary Chruch Terrell, Mrs. Elwood Street, Representative Catharine O'Day, Marion T. Sawtelle, Jesse C. Suter and Theodore W. Noyes, who wrote: "The indomitable spirit of Susan B. Anthony, the emancipator, did not die with her body, but lives and today inspires the women of America to press forward irresistably to full completion of her labor of emancipation. She fought for political equity of all of the women of the Nation, and not for all except those of the District of Columbia. Fight for All Women. "She fought for political equity for all of the women of the Nation and not for all except those of the District of Columbia. Who believes that her labor of emancipation is complete if the women of the District are abandoned to the status of a Voteless League of Women Voters, after they had fought side by side with the women of the States to win for them the sovereign right of voting representation in Congress and the Electoral College? "There has been no such shameful abandonment. The most enthusiastic, the most fervent, the most determined, the most effective advocates of voting representation for the people of the District in Congress and the Electoral College are the organized women of America, locally in the District and nationally in every State of the Union. When our campaign to win political equity for the women (and men) of the District is won and final victory is as certain as the rising and setting of the sun—then only will our tribute of honor to Susan B. Anthony be perfected." In keeping with this thought, that the women of the District also should have suffrage, Miss Anthony's great-grand-niece, little Miss Nancy Winchell of Severna, Md., stepped to the stage and announced that she is getting signatures to a petition to be presented to Congress asking national representation for the District of Columbia." __________________________ COLORED NUNS CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF ORDER BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 23—The 100th birthday of the Oblate Sisters of Charity, America's first Negro Roman Catholic order, was celebrated here last week by Catholic churchmen all over the city. The order was founded in 1829 by the Roman Catholic diocese of Baltimore to provide educational and social advantages for free Negroes who were denied those advantages by the city and state governments. The idea was advanced by Sisters Elizabeth Lange, and Mary Magdelaine, two colored nuns from Santa Domingo, who came to the city in 1820. Archbishop Whit-field appointed Father Joubert director of the mission, and funds were raised for the erection of a school and convent. Since the founding of the institution, more than 500 colored nuns have been consecrated and prepared for educational work throughout the country. ____________________________ Members of Family Attend Five members of the Anthony family were present at the services: Florence E. Mosher, Marion D. Mosher, Wendell Phillips Mosher, Mrs. Mary Mosher Wendall, and Susan B. Anthony, a grand-niece of the of the suffrage leader. Miss Anthony and Mr. Mosher presented sketches from the life of their kinswoman, facts based on the three-volume biography by the late Ida Husted Harper. Invocation and offertory were said by Dr. Allen A Stockdale, pastor of the church. Benediction was pronounced by Dr. Bartlett B. James. The musical program was under direction of Ruby Smith Stahl. One of the features of the evening was the impersonation of Miss Anthony by Mrs. Clestelle M. Lewis, who portrayed "the woman with the little red shawl." Copeland Pays Tribute. Paul de Long Gable was at the organ. A letter from Ellen Spenser Mussey recalled seeing Susan B. Anthony at a meeting in old Lincoln Hall, Ninth and D streets, in the Winter of '69-'70. Representative Virginia S. Jenckes, scheduled as the principal speaker, was unable to attend. Wreath and Organizations Join in Tribute. The 115th anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony, pioneer suffragist and champion for women's rights, was observed throughout the city yesterday under auspices of various organizations. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a wreath to the Capitol to be placed on the Anthony-Mott-Stanton statue. Mrs. Roosevelt also sent a letter to Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, presiding at the memorial services last night in the Congregational Church, Tenth and G streets. Bedecked with flags and buntings of the various Anthony forums and foundations, the Congregational Church was the scene of impressive services that climaxed a day of solid tribute to the woman who blazed the trail for woman suffrage. Many Leaders Pay Tribute. Tributes to Miss Anthony were paid by Carrie Chapman Catt, Janet Rich- ards, Adelaide Johnson, Mary Church Terrell, Mrs. Elwood Street, Represen- tative Catherine O'Day, Marion T. Sawtelle, Jesse C. Suter and Theodore W. Noyes, who wrote: "The indomitable spirit of Susan B. Anthony, the emancipator, did not die with her body, but lives and to- day inspires the women of America to press forward irresistably to full completion of her labor of emancipa- tion. She fought for political equity of all of the women of the Nation, and not for all except those of the District of Columbia. Fight for All Women. "She fought for political equity for all of the women of the Nation and not for all except those of the District of Columbia. Who believes that her labor of emancipation is complete if the women of the District are aban- doned to the status of a Voteless League of Women Voters, after they had fought side by side with the women of the States to win for them the sovereign right of voting repre- sentation in Congress and the Electoral College? "There has been no such shameful abandonment. The most enthusiastic, the most fervent, the most determined, the most effective advocates of voting representation for the people of the District in Congress and the Elec- toral College are the organized women of America, locally in the District and nationally in every State of the Union. When our campaign to win political equity for the women (and men) of the District is won and final victory is as certain as the rising and setting of the sun--then only will our tribute of honor to Susan B. Anthony be perfected." In keeping with this thought, that the women of the District also should have suffrage, Miss Anthony's great- grand-niece, little Miss Nancy Win- chell of Severna, Md., stepped to the stage and announced that she is "get- ting signatures to a petition to be pre- sented to Congress asking national representation for the District of Co- lumbia." Members of Family Attend. Five members of the Anthony fami- ly were present at the services: Flor- ence E. Mosher, Marion D. Mosher, Wendall Phillips Mosher, Mrs. Mary Mosher Wendall, and Susan B. An- thony, a grand-niece of the suffrage leader. Miss Anthony and Mr. Mosher pre- sented sketches from the life of their kinswoman, facts based on the three- volume biograph by the late Ida Husted Harper. Invocation and offertory were said by Dr. Allen A. Stockdale, pastor of the church. Benediction was pro- nounced by Dr. Bartlett B. James. The musical program was under di- rection of Ruby Smith Stahl. One of the features of the evening was the impersonation of Miss An- thony by Mrs. Clestelle M. Lewis, who portrayed "the woman with the little red shawl." Copeland Pays Tribute. Paul de Long Gable was at the organ. A letter from Ellen Spenser Mussey recalled seeing Susan B. Anthony at a meeting in old Lincoln Hall, Ninth and D streets, in the Winter of '69-'70. Representative Virginia S. Jenckes, scheduled as the principal speaker, was unable to attend. In the Senate Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York paid tribute to Miss Anthony. Representative U. S. Guyer of Kansas spoke in the House. At the Corcoran Art Gallery a paint- ing of the suffrage leader was put on exhibition, to remain until the end of this month. Other tributes were paid by Repre- sentative Isabella Greenway, Mrs. Ernest Daniel, Mrs. Lucie Hannan Hadley, Mrs. Henry Fenno Sawtelle, Anita Pollitzer and Mrs. Karl Greene. Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou instructed all principals of junior and senior high schools in the city and the presidents of the two teachers' col- leges to set aside a school period for study of the life and works of Susan B. Anthony. Students were referred to books and periodicals setting forth the activities of this famous woman. Motive Is A Mystery One of the most ghastly crime recorded in the police annals of th south side occurred Tuesday morn ing about 2 a. m., when Ned Glis- , 41 E. 42nd place, entered the bedroom of Ruby Jackson, of the same address, and without warning or apparent provocation, riddled the girl's body with bullets as she lay asleep. After slaying the girl, Glisper, frantic with fear, climbed to the roof of the building, and with the same gun he had used to murder the girl, sent two bullets crashing into his own breast, from the effects of which he later died. Cause Unknown The exact cause of the slaying and suicide is cloaked in mystery, as none of the friends or relatives of the dead couple are able to supply a motive. Glisper was a roomer in the house of his sister, Mrs. Bertha Poole, where he lived with his 11-year old daughter, Wil- lie Mae Ruby Jackson, also was a roomer in the household, living in another room with her sister, Mrs. Effie Mack, and her two-year- old daughter, Alice. Both had liv- 11 [???]EPHONE, 1118-18TH ST, [?]tenaea for Mr Tarrell "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see ousel's as ithers see us." A. Henry Romeike, 110 Firth Avenue, NEW YORK. Cable address, "ROMEIKE," NEW YORK. The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World., Cutting from COMMERCIAL Address of Paper BUFFALO, N. Y. Date JUL 11 1905 Speeches by Distingui[???]d Dele- gates to the National C[???]ention -Ohio Federation F[???]ed Last evening's session of the [??]tional As- ssociation of Colored Women [??]s taken up by speeches by well-known [??]lored wo- men who are attend the [??]nvention. Nearly all of the speakers we[??] graduate of Oberlin College. The spea[???]s included Mrs. Terrell, president of the [?]ssociation; Mrs. William H. Talbert, pre[???]ent of the Buffalo Phyllis Wheatley Club [?] Mrs. J. C. Napler of Nashville, Tenn., M[??] Josephine Bruce of Tuskekee, Ala., and Mrs. Anna Sprague. In the afternoon, the de[??]gat[?]s from Ohio met and organized a state [???]de[?]ation of col- ored wonem with the follo[???]g officers: President, Mrs. Carrie W[???]iams Clifford, Cleveland, O.; first vice-pr[???]dent, Mrs. J. L. Bolden, Cleveland; sec[??]d vice-presi- dent, Mrs. A. Sellers, Clevel[???]d; third vice- president, Mrs. Fannie Ben[??] Cleveland; recording secretary, Mrs. [???]y, Toledo; corresponding secretary, M[???] Emma A. Tolbert, Cleveland; chaplain, [?]rs. J. M. Jackson, Cleveland; chairman [??] executive committee, Miss Dora Johnson [?] Norwalk. French Popular Front in Retreat Eclipse of Blum New Deal Attributed to Failure of Leaders to Control and Direct Demands of Workers for Quick Social Reformation By Robert Marjolin DAY AND NIGHT PREMIER DALADIER DOMINATED FRANCE Under the Republic No Man Has Had More Power Mondial, Acme An absorbing question of the day is what happened to the coalition of French radical and liberal blocs known as the Popular Front, since it represented a technique that had possibilities of becoming widespread. M. Marjolin presents one view of the reasons behind the defeat of the Popular Front. FRANCE'S POPULAR FRONT has come to an end, receiving its quietus at the recent convention of the Radical Party in Marseilles, and its final conge with the failure of the national strike. At the convention the Radicals--who in France constitute the most moderate of the parties of the Left--decided definitely and almost unanimously to break with the Communists. This decision was later translated into action in the form of a strongly worded letter stating that the Radicals "refuse to sit at the same table any longer with the Communists." Thus came to a full stop what, I believe, was the greatest progressive movement France has known since the beginning of the Third Republic. Its disappearance leaves in many hearts as much regret as its appearance had provoked enthusiasm. How is this conclusion of an experiment which in the beginning was hailed as a triumph of liberty and justice to be explained? As an enthusiastic adherent of the Popular Front from the beginning, and, in fact, as one who from June, 1936, to June, 1937, was in a position to watch its workings from the inside. I shall attempt to analyze objectively the principal factors within the movement which led to its collapse. The simple truth is that, if the Popular Front finally expired at Marseilles, it had really been moribund for a long time. Only during the first three or four months of the original Blum Government, in fact, did it exist in the fullness of its force. By the autumn of 1936 economic difficulties were beginning to accumulate. Against its own will the Government was forced to devaluate the franc. In March, 1937, it became necessary to call in several orthodox financial experts to avert a monetary catastrophe. Finally, the fall of the first Blum Cabinet in June, 1937, marks the end of the active period of the Popular Front. Since then there has been a series of radical governments not differing very much in essentials from the cabinets that were in power before May, 1936. M. Blum's second Cabinet, early in 1938, was so short-lived it need not be taken into consideration. It is necessary to recall that the Popular Front drew its life and strength from two principal factors which had contributed to its formation: 1. The popular reaction against the fascist peril within France, against the violation of Republican legality of which the leagues of the Right were guilty in February, 1934; 2. The refusal to accept as indispensable to the deflation policy practiced by the Laval Government in 1935, and the will to find a solution to France's social, economic, and financial difficulties without having recourse either to the compression of incomes or to devaluation. Now, the elections of May, 1936, registered, not only the triumph of the Socialists and Communists, but at the same time the defeat and virtual disappearance of the Right as a political power. The real reason for the disappearance of the Popular Front must be sought in the failure of its economic policy. Not only does the present franc represent a bare 40 per cent of the franc of 1936, but even at this low level, at the end of November, when this was written, it is constantly menaced. The deficit of the nation's budget has grown continuously. It may be expected to read 53,000,000,000 francs in 1939, out of a total estimated expenditure of 102,000,000,000 francs. We must keep in mind these two characteristic traits of the Popular Front: 1. It was a spontaneous movement of the French masses, without any really precise program, and without any positively determined will. The Popular Front Governments, and particularly the Government of M. Leon Blum, never freed themselves, even in the technical part of their work, from this domination of the masses. They followed much more than they led. 2. The ideology of this mass movement took form eventually in opposition to any slightest notion of sacrifice or constraint. Its profound phychological root was a sentiment of generosity; its dominating idea, that of abundance. I should like to survey briefly the three essential points where mistakes were made: devaluation, hours of work, the unbalanced budget. First, I believe, every informed person, in May, 1936, was convinced of the necessity of devaluing the franc. Yet the Popular Front Government put off devaluation until nearly four months after it took office. Why? Simply because none of the political parties, and especially none of the parties of the Left that constituted the Popular Front, had the courage to say to the public--still obsessed by the memory of the inflation of postwar years--that devaluation was indispensable. I do not contest the rightness of most of the social reforms of the Popular Front; the paid holidays, most necessary of all the reforms, which was carried out without difficulty; the guarantees and collective bargaining rights accorded to the workers within the factories, which gave to the workers a proper sense of their own dignity. Nor do I protest against the salary increases in themselves. They were necessary, for the level of pay in certain industries and in certain regions of France was intolerably low. But the great fault of the Blum Government was to raise wages without having first devalued the franc. Now for the 40-hour week. In France in 1936, the Blum Government found itself in this situation: 1. The Popular Front had promised the electors--and its electors were demanding imperatively--an immediate increase in income, that is to say also an increase in the production of merchandise of all sorts destined for the consumer. 2. The international situation made a massive armament effort unavoidable. This meant an ever-increasing quantity of labor must be devoted to the production of guns, ammunition, airplanes, etc. 3. Unemployment in France was relatively slight. Less than half a million people in all were without jobs. Those who had jobs were working an average of 44 hours a week, though the legal maximum limit was 48 hours. 4. The active population of France is constantly declining. It dropped by more than a million between 1931 and 1936. 5. Immigration of foreign labor, so important during the postwar years, had ceased. On the contrary, 150,000 foreign workers left France during the crisis. 6. French industry in equipment was 10 to 15 years behind the best equipped industries of other European countries. In these circumstances it is easy to understand that the sudden reduction of working hours from 48 to 40 a week was a grave error which had to be paid for dearly. It was paid for by the failure of France to experience any standard of economic recovery, because of labor shortage. As for the last point, the state of public finances: a budgetary deficit is not necessarily an evil in itself. It can be borne without danger when the public debt has not reached an unbearable total, and when confidence in the nation's currency has not been shaken. But despite this situation, the Blum Government let loose a flood of new and apparently useless expenditures. The result was the continuous depreciation of the franc. It is because I ardently wished for the success of the Popular Front that I now allow myself to say that the men who were responsible did not display the necessary competence. They permitted themselves to become the playthings of mass movements which they had helped to unleash but did not know how to direct and control. Wide World THE FRENCH PEOPLE ARE STILL RESTIVE They United During the Munich Crisis, Now Millions Suspect the Settlement THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, DECEMBER 28, 1938 Page Three CERTIFICATE INCORPORATING THE WORLD WOMAN'S PARTY IS SIGNED Louise Pote Seated Left to Right: Miss Jeanne D'Estimauville (Pa.); Mrs. Amy C. Ransome (Calif.); Miss Laura Berrien (Ga.); Miss Alice Paul (N. J.); Mrs. Sarah Thompson Pell (N. Y.); Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley (D. C.); Mrs Helen Hunt West (Fla.); Miss Naomi Wheeler (Mich.). Standing Left to Right: Mrs. Caroline Lexow Babcock (N. Y.); Miss Anita Pollitzer (S. C.); Mrs. Burnita Sheldon Matthews (Miss.); Miss Martha Souder (Pa.); Mrs. Helena Hill Weed (Conn.); Miss Nina E. Allender (D. C.); Mrs. Helen Robbins Bitterman (Ohio); Miss Marie Moore Forrest (D. C.); Miss Ellen LaMotte (D. C.); Miss Alice Matthews (D. C.); Mrs. Rebekah Greathouse (N. J.); Mrs. George Mesta (Okla.). Promoting a World Crusade National Woman's Party by Means of a World woman's Party Will Strive to Extend Hard-Won Victories for Equality By Mary Hornaday UNDETERRED by high waves of isolationism, the National Woman's Party is launching a new venture in international co-operative activity among women. With organizations like theirs being dissolved in many nations and women leaders forced to flee, America's most militant group of feminists are branching out into a World Woman's Party, dedicated to preserving and extending the progress made since the Middle Ages in sex equality. "The world is now so closely knit that it is no longer possible for any movement which concerns women all over the world to be localized in any one country," Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the new party, declares. "We must work internationally," she says, "because the field of action has become international. We did not choose an international battleground. It has been created for us by the course of events, and we must govern ourselves accordingly." The World Woman's Party, as its founds describe its scope, will not attempt to interfere with the fascist nations' treatment of women, but will provide a common meeting ground in the center of Europe to warn all nations to think twice before they take away women's rights. The party's charter states its object as "educational to the end that public sentiment throughout the world may be brought to recognize and establish liberty and equality without distinction to sex." Under the leadership of Mrs. Sarah Thompson Pell, its chairman, the National Woman's Party has started off the new organization with a $10,000 donation. Money to finance the new party is coming in, sometimes in modest amounts from nations where the woman's movement has virtually been annihilated. Who are these feminists who dare to expand across the seas when many Americans are advocating withdrawal from Europe in every way possible? Alice Paul, their leader, is a Quaker, in whom burns devotion to the equal rights cause. When a young woman, just out of Swarthmore College, she got a job in an English factory to study the industrial position of women. When the militant suffrage movement developed in England, she joined and was sent to prison. Then she returned to the United States to arouse American women to recognize their right to vote and to demand it. In 1913 she founded the National Woman's Party and for the next seven years, as its national chairman, worked indefatigably, putting the suffrage issue before the nation by means of parades, demonstrations, hunger strikes and picket lines that again sent her and her loyal band of workers to jail. The suffrage battle having been won in 1920, Miss Paul and her followers began what they consider just as important, if perhaps less dramatic--a campaign to write into the Constitution an amendment putting women on an equal footing with men throughout the country in relation to existing legislation. Because of a disagreement among constitutional lawyers as to the effect of such a mandate and a division in women's organizations on the wisdom of such a sweeping move, the amendment has not progressed far in Congress It still remains, however, a project close to the hearts of the Woman's Party, which has not been discouraged by Congressional apathy. Meanwhile, since 1930, Miss Paul has been engaged in carrying feminists' views to international conferences. A treaty involving discrepancies between men and women workers in a number of nations, drawn up at The Hague in 1930 without the consent of the United States Government, convinced members of the Woman's Party that the time had come to extend their vigilance beyond the Capitol at Washington. With the United States taking part in more and more international activities, they felt it conceivable that standards in this country might be pulled down by co-operative action with other nations. In their international endeavors, members of the Woman's Party became friendly with leading feminists from other nations, many of them visiting at Alva Belmont House, the party's Washington headquarters, from time to time. Miss Paul became a member of the board of the Equal Rights International, a member of the legal committee of the International Council of women and the Women's Consultative Committee at the League of Nations. "At first," says Miss Paul, "we thought we could carry on our international program through these existing organizations, but we find it unwise to put too much reliance on groups that may vanish overnight." As the position of women has become more and more precarious in foreign nations, many of the leading workers in these international groups have appealed to American feminists for aid and moral support. So the World Woman's Party has been devised under American leadership. The enthusiasm with which it has been greeted by feminists abroad has [*A STURDY HOME FOR THE WORLD WOMAN'S PARTY--Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland*] heartened its American sponsors. Helen Granitsche, former leader of the Woman's Party of Austria, foremost women's organization in central Europe, and now a refugee, writes: "If we can all get together and build up a great solidarity for the rights of women, maybe this thing won't come over the earth." Erica Butler-Bowdon, English feminist, calls the party's establishment "an event of great international significance' in the history of our cause, while Mrs. Emmeline Pethick Lawrence writes, "At a time like this nothing could be more encouraging to all who have the status of women throughout the world at heart." Miss Paul sees a possibility that women's groups in the United States may bury their differences on such questions as protective legislation and the proposed equal rights amendment and unite to salvage and protect what is left in the world of the women's movement. In the United States there have grown up two apparently irreconcilable schools of thought as to whether minimum wage laws, anti-night work laws and other social reforms are beneficial when they apply to women alone. The Woman's Party and certain other groups hold that such measures put women at a disadvantage in the labor market. Rather than meet these protective laws, they say, an employer will dismiss women workers and hire men in their place. The League of Women Voters and the Women's Trade Union League, on the other hand, have led a group of women's organizations sponsoring protective legislation for women. They take the position that half a loaf is better than no bread when it comes to improved working conditions. These two schools have also had long-standing differences as to the best method of removing laws discriminatory to women from the statute books. The National Woman's Party would erase them all with one constitutional amendment declaring, "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction." Opponents of the amendment hold it would only result in endless confusion. They advocate instead of gradual removal from state and national lawbooks of statutes that put women at a disadvantage. In view of the present emergency, Miss Paul believes, American women should forget factional differences and stir themselves to combat the back-to-the-middle-ages beliefs threatening women's status in other nations. Otherwise, she warns there may, in the future, be no women's organizations in the Unites States to hold varying views as to how equal rights may best be achieved. "In throwing our power into a unified world organization, we are not only strengthening the defenses of women in all countries but are bringing their strength into our own struggle against the perpetuation of injustices upon American women through international treaties," says Miss Paul. Attempts to take away nationality rights, rights to employment, and even the right to contract when married are among the "injustices" in international treaties exposed and combatted by the Woman's Party. Mrs. Katherine Boyle, of Nejeve, France, treasurer, and Mrs. Amy R. Ransome, Washington, D.C., assistant treasurer, have been elected to serve with Miss Paul during the coming year. Great Britain will be represented on the Board of Directors by Mrs. Pethick Lawrence and Erica Butler-Bowdon, France by Mme. Marie Lenole; Sweden by Mrs. Rickard Sandler, wife of the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Hannah Rydh, head of 38 Swedish organizations of women; Mrs. Margaret Cousins, of India, member of the executive committee of the All Asian Conference of Women; and Mdame Emilie Graizier, of Geneva, noted Swiss woman leader, Membership of the board will be completed at the first meeting of the new party to be held in Geneva early in the new year. Representatives of the new feminist group expect to arrive in the Swiss capital in time for the Jan. 3 meeting of the League of Nations Committee on the Status of women. About April 1 they will take over their new headquarters on the banks of Lake Geneva and will begin to plan for a mammoth demonstration to be staged in June. Founders of the World Woman's Party included, in addition to Miss Paul and Mrs. Pell, Jane Norman Smith, of New York; Anna Kelton Wiley, Laura M. Berrien, Abby Scott Baker, Queene Ferry Coonley, Burnita Shelton Matthews, Martha Souder, Anita Pollitzer, Helena Hill Weed, and Nina E. Allender, all of Washington; Helen R. Bitterman, of Columbus, Ohio; Pearle S. Mesta, of Oklahoma; Marie t. Lockwood, of Delaware, and Alma Lutz, of New York. All are members of the National Woman's Party. Page Four THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, DECEMBER 28, 1938 inst D. C. Bias [*Pittsburgh Courier Sept 13, 1952*] Mrs. Annie Stein Is Sparkplug of Group with Mrs. Terrell By REVELLA CLAY What white woman in this city of conventions, taboos and jim crow would risk her children's future to work side by side with Negroes in a fight against racial discrimination? Well--Annie Stein, of course! Since 1950 the friendly executive secretary of the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D. C. Anti-Discrimination Laws has walked miles in picket lines... lugged heavy protest signs... organized and has spoken at mass meetings... made and answered hundreds of phone calls... written as many letters. She has composed and distributed pamphlets... converted the bedroom of her Trenton Place, S. E., home into a semi-office complete with mimeographing machine, desk, files and typewriter... has called on business executives ... begged money and sat down unfed for hours at lunch counters. And all in a determined effort to break down restaurant jim crow in the nation's capital! NEEDLESS to say, she's been showered with brickbats. Vicious racist letters have been thrust in her hand while she's picketed--like the one wishing in badly spelled and worded English: "An atom bomb would come over and kill you." Young white girls with "pretty faces and narrow minds" have heckled. Her young son, eleven-year-old Philip, has been beaten up by a gang of kids who called him a "Red." But the brickbats, as rough as they got don't stop Annie Stein--because she believes as Booker Washington believed, "You can't keep Negroes in the ditch without falling into the ditch," because she believes that what she is doing is going to help her children live and grow up as "decent human beings," because she believes "there isn't going to be any real freedom for anybody until we lick this problem" and because "we always win"! The committee has always won. Its victory last week at Murphy's G Street, N. W., meant that since 1950 the committee has caused every five and dime store in the District to change its policy of not serving Negroes at its lunch counter. It was a tremendous victory for Annie Stein and the woman she calls "my inspiration," Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, chairman of the committee. WHAT GOT Annie Stein started? What makes her tick? Why is she fighting racial discrimination? "Frankly, I'm a Progressive. My husband, as you know, is chairman of the District Progressive party. We are not humanitarians. We simply believe we've got to lick this problem of racial discrimination here at home." Mrs. Stein came to Washington in 1934 when she was twenty years old and got an early start in labor and the trade unions-- organizing a great many as an organizer of the Women's Trade Union League. "I always had the feeling then, that if the opportunity ever arose for me to smash this thing (discrimination) directly that would be a sort of dream." MRS. ANNIE STEIN ...she's a fighter! WELL, Annie Stein's dream came real in 1949 when as a secretary of the Anti-Discrimination Committee for the Progressive party, she discovered some mention of the "lost 1872 law." Joseph Forer was designated to investigate this anti-discrimination law, and then the Lawyer's Guild made its now famous report, holding the laws which ruled against discrimination in eating establishments valid. A committee was then organized and Mrs. Terrell accepted the chairmanship of the committee, Mrs. tSein the executive secretary post. With the assistance of a steadily growing public support, the two have been functioning as a terrific team ever since, and Mrs. Stein calls her service with Mrs. Terrell the "most amazing, rewarding and exciting experience of my life." The two, with valuable assistance from other committee members have so dramatized the fight of the committee that its now well-known negotiations with five and ten cent stores launched on Mrs. Terrell's eighty-seventh birthday, Sept. 23, 1950; Kresge's refusing, starting the first picket line; Kresge relenting Jan. 12, 1951; Hecht's picketed and its policy changed following that store's famous "Brotherhood Week Ad"; and now finally Murphy's! IN BETWEEN, other battles have been won. All Seventh Street, N. W., stores with the exception of three -- Peoples, Whelans and an independent drug store now serve all; other stores have changed their policies. Meanwhile, the committee's court case, seeking a ruling on the Anti-Discrimination Laws is still pending in the United States Court of Appeals, where it has been since Jan. 7. "We hope the case will be decided soon, but in the meantime we are working, because we feel the city is more than ready for a change," Mrs. Stein said. 14 Montreal's [?] By Sam Maltin (Special to the Courier) MONTREAL - For the first time in the International Baseball League history, a Negro player captured the Most Valuable Player Award. The 1952 honors went to Jim (Junior) Gilliam, starry second-baseman of the champion Montreal Royals. Receiving 19 of the 28 first-place votes of league baseball writers, Gilliam came through as predicted by the Courier last week. He was given 175 points, with veteran Baltimore outfielder, Roy Weatherly, next in line with 138. Only three short years ago the same Gilliam was Wendell Smith's Sports Beat Jersey Joe Says This Will Be an Easy One... Jersey Joe Walcott makes his second title defense against, Rocky Marciano ten days hence, and the odds-makers will give you an 11-to-5 bet that he won't be heavyweight champion when it is over. Those odds may produce the heaviest betting of any bout in years. Because of the wide divergence of opinion among the ordinary fans and the betting mob, this is a bookie's gold mine. It is a bout in which every man feels he is betting on a sure winner. The guy who lays his dough on Marciano knows he can't miss. The Walcott supporter is a diehard, he knows Jersey Joe can't lose. Meantime, the two fighters await impending battle with directly opposite attitudes. Walcott is supremely confident. He infers that this will be one of his easiest fights. Marciano, on the other hand, views his chances of victory cautiously. The challenger, speaking from his Grossinger, N. Y., training camp the other day, said: "This is by far the most important fight of my career. The chance I have been waiting for ever since I started fighting is now at hand. "Walcott is a tough problem. I've fought tough fighters before, like Joe Louis. But none compare even remotely with Walcott. He can hit with the best of them and is as smart as they come. I'm looking forward to a very interesting evening in Philadelphia the night that we meet. "I'm sure I can win, but I know that I'm in for a tough evening. Walcott is a cagey old man, who knows what he is doing every second." The Champ Isn't Worried at All ... There is a smattering of modesty in Rocky's summation of this chances against Jersey Joe. He won't go too far out on the limb. He refuses to predict victory by a decision or a knockout. Jersey Joe, however, is confident to the extreme. He says: "Marciano is just an ordinary fighter. I have beaten many fighters of is caliber. He is rough and tough, but knows nothing about the fundamentals of fighting. "I know that he plans to win the title by knocking me out. He intends to land a knockout punch some place along the 15-round route. "But that is just an idle who swings as wildly as he don't intend to be the victim punch. (9-30-99) Our Club Women as Others Saw Them National Association of Colored Women Impresses the country with the Faith and in the Vast Possibilities in the Future of the Negro Mrs. Mary Church Terrell's Admirable Leadership Cordially Supported by Her Sister's Throughout the Land--Summary of Convention Work Presented at University Park Temple in an Address both Elequent and Convincing--Press Comments that Speak Volumes. The Afro-American woman is the prime factor in the progress and development of the race. No one thing in this generation has gone so far to demonstrate her worth, influence and primacy than the recent convention of the National Association of Colored Women at Chicago. This body, representing nearly every state in the Union, assembled in serious spirit, and the business-like manner with which they addressed themselves to the work in hand, showed that they combined an unusual degree of intelligence with unmistakable earnestness. Is was to listen to a report of the results growing out of this splendid convention that a large audience gathered at University Park Temple last Sunday evening. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell president of the National Association, was the speaker, and for more than an hour this brilliant and deservedly honored leader of her sec, told in her most eloquent, entertaining and convincing style, the story of woman's struggle for a loftier civilization, for more positive achievements, and for a purer and sweeter social atmosphere. It is no wonder that the fashionable and cultured audience was charmed and edified, for in the speaker was embodied, perhaps more perfectly than in any other woman on the continent, the ideals, the aspirations, and possibilities of the race. Her life is in itself, a vindication of her plan for the advancement of her sisters, and in her happy family relations she sets a standard that cannot but inspire and dignify every grade of society. __ Though needing no introduction to an American audience anywhere, Rev Sterling N. Brown presented Mrs Terrell, and fittingly took advantage of the occasion to express the pride which Washington felt in her success as a promoter of the better impulses of humanity, and the creditable manner in which she had sustained our reputation abroad. Mrs. Terrell always appears to marked advantage upon the [ros?um], for not only does she compliment her audiences by thorough preparation, but is so full of her subject that she carries the [?] heart, reason and imagination of her hearers with her b a sincerity disingenuous quality that admits of no question. Mrs Terrell explained the aims of the Colored Women's Association, and gave statistics that placed in a clear light just what had been accomplished. She outlined the work for the future, and described the beneficial effects of the kindergarten system of education, the mothers' meeting, the reading club, the sewing circle, the industrial training of young men and women, protection of working girls the welding of womanly [?nergy] in the preservation of racial interest and a number of other objects that make for elevated character [?] citizenship. She read at some length from [?] and special comments from Chicago and Milwaukee dailies, and while modestly [on?t??ga??] reference to herself, found much satisfaction in the excellent impression created by her organization upon all the people with whom its members came in contact. Below we have a few of the more significant utterances of the Caucasian press and the race will certainly find in them much room for encouragement. The praise is [wholesou?ed], and every line is praise for every member contributing to the grand sum total of useful labor which the convention as she pursues her novel investigation, and continues: 'But after all the change in dress was the least of the surprises [h?t] that convention of colored women offered outside visitors. I was the merely the symbol of much more important things. It was the convention itself, its discussion, its speeches and its deliberations that was the greatest surprise of all. There were gathered there from [slip?r??] of the country--North East, South and West--the Negro women who are giving of their lives and strength and brains to the uplifting of their race, and they came together to take it over. There were no rhapsodies at our Wagnerian motifs, no interpretations of Browning, not even a proper Shakespeare, but instead there were earnest talks in grave problems that affect the colored people. There were women who handled the labor question in relation to the colored people. Other women who spoke of the effect in convict [??sse] system on child nature, other women who talked of the 'Jim Crow' and the lynch laws, of prison work, social purity and kindergardens, discussing these subjects not in a general way, but as each related to their ra[??] race. It was that which [n?a?e???] convention unique among club women." There were many notable figures in attendance upon the sessions, and the S[???ne]'s pen artist saw some of them in this [?igh?]: "Back of the whole gathering was a woman who said out little and [?] ok no prominent part in the gonvention so faces could be discerned from the out side, but w[?]s fi [??] in the pulse of the meeting from beginning to end. This ws Mrs. B. T. Washington, of Tuskegee I[??s?ue] just back from Europe where she attended the International Council of Women and where she had been with the rest of the '[???]' by the queen. Her speech was listened to attentively, for his splendid type of the new Negro woman of the day is one of their acknowledged leaders, guiding simply by the force of her personality. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell was placed before the [palette ?]; and after tracing her in dainty colors along the lines of our introductory remarks, the Sentinel [??] a contrast, saying: "Mrs. Terrell was of a different type from Mrs. Washington, but quite as interesting in her win[???] way, with her quick, nervous [???], and a certain dash of manner. Mrs. Terrell is an Oberon graduate and exceptionally clever speaker, while a thorough mistress of parliamentary law." Continuing the sketching: "One women who attracted much attention was Mrs Josephine B Bruce, of Indianapolis the widow of Senator Bruce, of Mississippi. Mrs. Bruce in feature and complexion could scarcely be told from a white woman, and she has had the advantages of travel and [?] with cultured people. She is interested in the commercial reci procity system to procure employment [?] [?] clerks in stores where Ne- groes trade, and her address on [?] phase of the labor problem was one of the best during the entire meeting." -- That the convention was an "eye- opener"- an unequivocal success i- [?] stressed by the [?] [?] estimate and striking admis sions by way of conclusion: "Behind the convention with its fa- millar machinery, lay a greater in- spiration than that which usually fur nishes [?] [?] [?] [?] meetings No one watching these women acknowl edging with dignity the great need for [?] ideas, better standards and [?] [?] among their race, facing the future without hope, working in the present with faith, but felt respect and admiration for them. One lost what- ever sense of patronage one had carried [?] along with the prejudice and dis like, and came away with new ideas And it is worth a much greater journey than the eighty miles between this and Chicago to get rid of prejudice, even [?] a kindly star against a * These excellent and u in the cause of humani tion have addressed the wiser course. They seek gro by purifying his b nobling his environmen body ought to encourage -Washington Post -- Off all the conventions in the country this [?] none that has taken hold ness in hand with more judgment than the N ation of Colored Wo Daily News -- That within a single g the war which gave [?] race such a gathering as possible, means great de what freedom the pub educational advantages o grades. * * * Could Ab have looked in upon th thousand people crowded Chapel and seen the repr the race he emancipated, to the address of the P convention, Mrs Terrell, Mrs. B. T. Washington, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Mrs. [?] others, and observed t dignity, evident refineme and noted the breadth of for their race and for the not difficult to imagine s emotions which would have especially in view of their prehension of the real cou problem before them--Chi -- From the very first, th were practical. The spe idealists They were pr of experience and they helpful. The situation w over, and the difficulties were not ignored. Only t ferences of women meet i cal spirit.-- Chicago Inter[?] -- If but one kindergarten the result of their meeting of one the number is lik hundred--they would h ished more for their kin whole much-trumpeted Congress of Women in Chicago Inter-Ocean. 000022 told in her most eloquent, [] and convincing style, the story of woman's struggle for a loftier civilization, for more positive achievements, and for a purer and sweeter social atmosphere. It is no wonder that the fashionable and cultured audience was charmed and edified, for in the speaker was embodied, perhaps more perfectly than in any other woman on the continent, the ideals, the aspirations, and possibilities of the race. Her life is in itself, a vindication of her plan for the advancement of her sisters and in her happy family relations she sets a standard that cannot but inspire and dignify every grade of society. Though needing no introduction to an American audience anywhere, Rev [?Sterling] N. Brown presented Mrs Terrell, and [?fittingly] took advantage of the occasion to express the pride which Washington felt in her success as a promoter of the better impulses of humanity, and the creditable manner in which she had sustained our reputation abroad. Mrs. Terrell always appears to marked advantage upon the rostrum, for not only does she compliment her audiences by thorough preparation, but is so [ful?] of her [?s?] [] hear[?], reason and imagination of her hearers with her by a sincerity disingenuous quality that admits of no question. Mrs Terrell [expisi?ed] the arms of the Colored Women's Association, and gave statistics that placed in a clear light just what had been accomplished. She outlined the work for the future, and described the beneficial effects of the kindergarten system of education, the mothers' meeting, the reading club, the sewing circle, the industrial training of young men and women, protection of working girls the welding of womanly energy in the preservation of racial interests and a number of other objects that make for elevated character[?] citizenship. She read at some length from [col?oria?s] and special comments from Chicago and Milwaukee dailies, and while modestly [on?tug?al] reference to herself, found much satisfaction in the excellent impression created by her organization upon all the people with whom its members came in contact. Below we [??ve] a few of the more significant utterances of the Caucasian [p?e?ed] the race will certainly find in them much room for encouragement. The praise is wholesou[?ed], and every line is praise for every member [?co?nt??ing] to the grand sum total of useful labor which the convention brought forth. Those who believe that there are any radical differences between white and colored women of similar opportunities should read this extract from the Milwaukee Sentinel: "To find a body of women discussing grave problems affecting their race--[o??ssing] them too with an earnestness and depth of feeling that only come with deep rooted sentiment, to see them [?e?ding] their way through the labyrinthian maze of the previous question about the amendment to the 'amendment' to discover even that they, like the rest of the woman's club [wo?d] can [e?ectioneer??r] favorite candidates and lay deep schemes and dark plots for victory--to find in fact that a convention of colored club women is very much like a convention of white club women is the most inspiring thing after all. " Speaking of the Negro's penchant for bright and often incongruous colors, the writer points out a few "horrible examples" of the riotous taste, but saves herself by adding: "The first impression one gets of the new Negro woman --she dresses in quite taste, befitting the season in style, quality and combination making [?c] casually but [ders?aga??s ?e] eternal fitness of things but [?l??er] to worse that one sees repeated year after year at any gathering of women from small country places * * * As a general [?] she is decently shod, veiled and gloved" The writer grows quite enthusiastic [] [] then [?] race. It was that which made the convention unique among club women." There were many notable figures in attendance upon the sessions, and the [?Sennnr's?] pen artist saw some of them in this light: "Back of the whole gathering was a woman who said out [?li?le] and [?"ok] no prominent part in the convention so far as could be discerned from the outside, but whos finger laid on the pulse of the meeting from beginning to end. This was Mrs. B T. Washington, of Tuskegee Institute just back from Europe where she attended the International Council of Women and where she had been with the [?best ?esta'?] by the queen. Her speech was listened to attentively, for this splendid type of the new Negro woman of the day [?] one of their acknowledged leaders guiding simply by the force of her personality. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell was placed before the palette; and after tracing her in [dainty?] colors among the [??ues] of our introductory remarks, the Sentinel [?tio?es] a contrast, saying: "Mrs. Terrell was of a different type from Mrs. Washington, but quite as interest[?] is her winning way, with her quick, nervous [?e??e?s]. and a certain dash of manner. Mrs Terrell is an Oberlin graduate and exceptionally clever speaker, while a thorough mistress of parliamentary law." Continuing the sketching: "One women who attracted much attention was Mrs Josephine B Bruce, of Indianapolis the widow of Senator Bruce, of Mississippi. Mrs. Bruce in feature and complexion could scarcely be told from a white woman, and she has had the advantages of travel and association with cultured people. She is interested in the commercial reciprocity system to procure employment for colored clerks in stores where Negros trade, and her address on [?] phase of the labor problem was one of the best during the entire meeting." That the convention was an "eye-opener" -- an unequivocal success is convincingly attested by the Sentinel's [?frank?] estimate and striking admissions by way of conclusion: "Behind the convention with its familiar machinery, lay a greater inspiration than that which usually furnishes the impetus for club meetings. No one watching these women acknowledging with dignity the great need for higher ideals, better standards and nobler living among their race, facing the future with hope, working in the present with faith, but felt respect and admiration for them. One lost whatever sense of patronage one had carried down along with the prejudice and dislike, and came away with new idea- And it is worth a much greater journey than the eighty miles between this and Chicago to get rid of a prejudice, even when it seems an inborn part of oneself." COMMENTS FROM THRE PRESS. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell who was re elected president, is a woman who has had advantages. And what is more she has improved them. Her parents, to begin with, were people of means. This enabled them to giver her a splendid education. Not only did it include a course at Oberlin but post graduate work in Paris * * * For a fact she seems to have "a heart to resolve, a head to contrive and a hand to execute." -- Chicago Sunday Times-Herald. Miss Jane Addams of Hull House did a nice thing. She is a white woman, but gave the convention an unmistakable stamp of approval by entertaining in a social way some of the prominent club women of color. The thirteen delegates who were invited to luncheon received her "most distinguished consideration" Mrs. Addams' [h??] social departure may be characterized as the [?wisest?] thing she ever did" Commented one white club woman: After watching these capable colored women for three days, I never want to hear another word about there being no hope for the Negro. [?Tasks?] with club women in Chicago Times Herald. The woman's Convention shines like [] especially in view of their [[prehension of the real cou[] problem before them-Chi[] From the very first, the [] were practical. The sp[] idealists. They were pr[] of experience and they [] helpful. The situation wi[] over, and the difficulties [] were not ignored. Only t[] ferences of women meet i[] cal spirit.--Chicago Inter-[] If but one kindergarten [] the result of their meeting [] of one the number is lik[] hundred -- they would h[]dished more for their kin[] whole much-trumpeted [] Congress of Women in [] Chicago Inter-Ocean. National Association of Colored Women. ...Officers... President. MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, Washington, D.C. Vice Presidents. MRS. JOSEPHINE B. BRUCE, Indianapolis, Ind. MRS. LUCY THURMAN, Jackson City, Mich. Corresponding Secretary. MISS ANNA V. THOMPKINS, Washington, D.C. Recording Secretary. MRS. CHRISTINE S. SMITH, Nashville, Tenn. Treasurer. MRS. SILONE YATES, Kansas City, Mo. National Organizer. MRS. JEROME JEFFREY, Rochester, N.Y. Chairman Executive Committee. MRS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Tuskegee, Ala. Chairman Ways and Means Committee. MRS. LIBBIE ANTHONY, Jefferson City, Mo. Local Committee. Arrangements, Mrs. Agnes Moody, Music, Mrs. Albert Hall, Transportation, Mrs. Douglass. Social, Mrs. R. E. Moore, Entertainment. Mrs. M. L. Davenport. Ushers, Mrs. Taylor. Bureau of Information, Mrs. S. J. Evans. ments. Women wear gold and jeweled purses at their waists and hang themselves about with pearl and diamond chains. Hot-house flowers scent the air of rooms, and electric light plays the part of sunshine. Luxury has increased: it has crept in everywhere--in the clubs, the restaurant, the boudoir, even the stables--until the love of it has become an ingrained part of women's nature." LAPSES OF MEMORY. Among the curious freaks which the brain is given now and then to exhibit, lapses of memory stand out prominently. One of the most typical of these cases is that of a person who is found appealing to the police for guidance, having forgotten not only his place of residence and the address of his relatives, but even his own name. One might understand why in epilepsy there should be a disorganization of memory. A seizure of this kind is really a "nerve-storm," which tends to disturb the equilibrium of the brain at large, and which is bound to affect memory and all the attendant phases of mind which make up the sum total of the conscious life. It is known that a frequent result of concussion of the brain is to obliterate entirely all memory of the events which occurred for a certain period prior to the accident in question. Many cases are recorded in which men having sustained head injuries, found on recovery that they had no recollection whatever of their happenings before they sustained the severe shock to the brain. That which the cases of accidental injury seem to prove is the probability that every impression which is destined to be recorded as a "memory" requires a certain period after its reception by the brain cells in order that it may be duly registered, as it were, and incorporated into one's stock of ideas and recollections. It is as though the mental photographer, after taking his negative, required time to fix it and develop it. Finally, there is the incident of the loss of memory for recent events and the recollection of the events of the past. This is a feature illustrated frequently in the mental history of the old. They will "babble of green fields" of their youth, while they forget the events of the past day. Does this depend on some condition which, affecting the brain cells that have been doing duty in middle and later life, causes failure of their powers, and allows the cells which may have been active in early life to come to the front, bringing into the foreground of life the memories of the days and years that are gone? Such a theory is not so fanciful, perhaps, as it might seem. The brain cell is a wondrous unit of the bodily state, and each cell may be a perfect microcosm of memories. VANITY FAIR. News comes from the south of Europe that the photograph industry is suffering seriously fro the competition of illustrated post-cards. Indeed, the knick-knack industry generally is affected and certainly some of the cards made in Germany for other countries are very elegant. Although the duchess of York has already fallen a victim to the post-card collecting craze, which on the continent has developed into a perfect passion, the fad has not taken a very firm hold in England up to the present But it is now expected that it will spread with alarming rapidity, since Queen Victoria has begun to make a collection. The young queen of Holland has sent her majesty a fine assortment from Holland, and from Ger[] FED PENNIES TO THE CHICKENS. A little girl who lives in Evanston was given six pennies by a gentleman admirer the other day. She was very proud of them and carried them in a toy purse. The next day she was allowed to play in LOOKED AS IF THEY WANTED THEM. the yard of a neighbor who kept chickens. Toward evening, after she had returned home, her mother accidentally opened the little purse and discovered that the pennies were missing. "Where are you pennies, dear?" she asked. "Why, mamma, the chickens looked as if they wanted them, and so I fed the poor things with them," was the reply. As no trace of the pennies have been discovered about the chicken coop it is supposed that the hens are preparing a surprise for some egg purchaser. [* TOUGH ON THE YOUNG MAN.*] The practical joker is ever present and in a large city like this he is particularly manifest. A young fellow on the south side of town has a friend who is a practical joker. The [*WHY THEY LAUGHED.*] friend is also an artist. One hot night last week the south sider and his artist friend went to a picnic in one of the suburbs. A fair young woman among the guests captivated the south sider and he informed his friend, the aesthete, that he was going to see her home. Whereupon the artist and another acquaintance got into the same car with them and the south sider wondered what every[?one] was laughing at. []he got home and took off his co[?] COLORED WOMEN TO COME Chicago Will Greet Representative Club Delegates at the National Convention. BEGINS AUG. 14 AT QUINN CHAPEL Topics of Interest to Be Discussed by the Members of the Association-Notables Who Will Be Present The National Association of Colored Women will meet in Chicago in a national convention Aug. 14, 15, 16 and 17. The convention is expected to be the most notable gathering of colored people ever brought together in the history of the race in this country. Representatives from every section will be in attendance and the local committee of arrangements has already been put to its wits' ends providing hotel and boarding accommodations for the great number who have signified their intention of being present. One Thousand Delegates Expected. The convention will be comprised of nearly 1,000 delegates, representing about 400 organizations engaged in women's club work among the colored people. Among the women of national repute who are coming are: Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, the national president; Mrs. B.K. Bruce, wife of the late ex-United States Senator Bruce, who is one of the association's vice-presidents; Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Mrs. Frederick Douglass, Mrs. Josephine Silone-Yates and Miss Anna Jones of Kansas City, Mo.; Miss J. Imogen Howard of New York city, who will be remembered as the only colored woman on the woman's board of managers of the Columbian Exposition; Mrs. J. St. Pierce-Ruffin, wife of Judge Ruffin, the first colored man to sit on the judicial bench in the state of Massachusetts; Mrs. Anna J. Cooper, author of "A Voice from the South"; Mrs. Fanny Jackson-Coppin, regarded as the best platform speaker among the colored women of this country; Mrs. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, wife of the well-known colored poet; Florence T. Ray, H. Cordelia Ray, held to be the best poet the colored people have produced; Mrs. S. J. S. Garnet, widow of the late Henry Highland Garnet; Mrs. Lucy Thurman, the great temperance advocate and friend of the late Frances Willard; Mrs. Jerome Jeffrey, who has won fame as the national organizer of the association; Mrs. Josephine Turpin-Washington of Mobile, Ala., who is called the "Brave Woman of the South" because of her fearlessness in discussing the race problem, and others of lesser note, though none the less active workers in the association's efforts to better the condition of colored women throughout the land. The local Colored Women's Federation [?] [?] preparations to [read???] [session??] training in the public schools and supports an old people's home; the St. Louis women support an orphans' home; the Sojourner Truth club of Birmingham, Ala., has succeeded in wiping out the color line in the public library of that city; at New Bedford, Mass., the Woman's Loyal union maintains a home for the aged; the Loyal union of New York maintains and conducts successfully free kindergartens for poor children without regard to race or color; the Afro-Americans union of the same city owns a beautiful summer retreat where colored women of limited means may find a week's rest during the heated term. In the cities of Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia and in the cities and towns of twenty-seven states work of this same character is being carried on by the clubs and federations of the National association. Chicago Colored Women in Line. The colored women of Chicago are in nowise behind their sisters in other sections of the country. Under the auspices of the various branches of the local federation a Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People is maintained; the Phyllis Wheatley supports a free kindergarten and school for embroidery and plain sewing and lecture courses are provided by the I.B.W club and the Woman's Civic league. Illinois is regarded as one of the best-organized states in the union. The larger number of the cities and towns throughout the state have clubs, which were organized by Mrs. L. A. Davis, the state organizer. They are engaged in the same character of work as the local clubs and will send delegates to the national convention. The officers of the local federation are: President, Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams; vice-presidents, Mrs. L.A. Davis, Mrs. Agnes Moody, Mrs. C. Curl, Mrs. M. Curl and Mrs. M.L. Davenport; recording secretary, Mrs. Fanny Hall Clint; corresponding secretary, Mrs. M. Carmichael; treasurer, Mrs. R. E. Moore. The officers of the National association are: President, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D.C.; vice-presidents, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, Indianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. Lucy Thurman, Jackson, Mich.; recording secretary, Mrs. C. S. Smith, Nashville, Tenn.; corresponding secretary, Miss Victoria Tompkins, Washington, D.C.; treasurer, Mrs. J. Silone-Yates, Kansas City, Mo.; national organizer, Mrs. Jerome Jeffrey, Rochester, N.Y.; chairman executive committee, Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Tuskeegee, Ala. [?] conducted in regard to [children?] attending school, the purpose [to?] furnish the teachers information [?] individual study of pupils. She [?] that an examination of the eye [?] of school children showed that [de?] [?] vision increased with the advance [the?] grades. Treatment of the eyes and also care in regard to the seating of children with reference to the light had resulted in an improvement in many cases. Attention was called to the presence in the audience of the child whose picture appeared on the program, and who, it was said, was really the inspiration of the congress. This reference was made to the little girl of the president of the congress, Mrs. Birney, and one of the delegates stated that thanks were due to the grandmother, Mrs. McClellan, whose care of the child had made it possible for Mrs. Birney to give so much time to the work of the congress. A vote of thanks to Mrs. McClellan was adopted and the little girl and a younger sister were brought to the platform by their grandmother. The proceedings went on and the little ones remained as spectators, finally however, going to their mother, and the youngest one climbed upon her lap. The scene was looked upon as appropriate in a congress of mothers. Kindness to Animals. A pleas was made by Mrs. A. L. Barber for the training of children to show kindness to dumb animals. She spoke of the Bands of Mercy, an organization composed of children, and said that there was a recognized connection between cruelty and crime. As a representative of the Humane Society of this city, Mrs. H. B. F. [Macfarland?] made an effective address in opposition to the practice of vivisection. Forms of Cruelty. Mrs. Macfarland said, in part: "It sometimes appears that humane education is [??] as much needed among grown-up people as among children, though perhaps not along the same lines. One would scarcely think it necessary to impress upon mothers that it is cruel to pull off the wings of a fly or to torment the cat, and yet there are forms of cruelty to which these minor offense are as nothing, which mothers the world over are condoning in one way or another, either by inexcusable ignorance of them or silence in regard to them. "In this day of wide information and altruistic effort it is no longer respectable to hide behind that selfish proverb, 'Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.' We have no right to the bliss of ignorance of the great wrongs of the world through which our fellow creatures, man or beast, are suffering. This is especially true of that vital subject, cruel vivisection. "How many women have said to me, 'Oh, I cannot read about those dreadful things. I could never sleep if I did!' Well, some of us have spent wakeful hours over these horrors, but they have been well-spent hours, in which the determination to do our share in sweeping off the face of the earth this practice, so unjust to God's defenseless creatures and demoralizing to man, has rooted itself into our inmost beings. The men who are performing the almost indescribable cruelties of vivisection today were once the little children of mothers such as you. "If these mothers had had burned into their souls a hatred of such iniquities; if they had not been among those who were ignorant on this subject (perhaps preferring the "bliss" of ignorance), might not the minds and hearts of their sons have been turned to better, more ennobling pursuits. "It ma be [?] the line of education on this subject to inform some of this [audience?] that a bill for the humane regulation of vivisection in the District of Columbia has been before the Senate of the United States for three sessions of Congress, waiting for consideration. This bill simply provides that the worse forms of cruelty shall not be practiced at all; that chloroform or ether shall be used in all 'necessary' experiments (with the exception of innoculations); that experiments in medical colleges shall be limited, and that there shall be none in the public schools; that experiementers shall be licensed and their places registered, and that the President of the United States shall appoints inspectors of [?] than is the case [?] Finance. [?] Mrs. Birney [? that with?] Hearst had been behind the congress during the opening years, yet she had wisely decided not to have it dependent on one or more persons. So the congress had been relying on its own funds, and the efforts to meet expenses had resulted, she thought, in bringing the workers closer together. The report of the committee on resolutions was presented by Mrs. Hillis and was adopted. The resolutions indorsed the resolutions passed at the second congress of mothers, and expressed complete confidence in the war policy of President McKinley and in the army and navy in carrying out this policy; also thanks to Mrs. McKinley, Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, the officers of the congress and the press; also a resolution favoring the appointment of a standing committee on household economics, and to prepare a petition to Congress for the establishment of a health bureau. When the resolution in regard to the war policy came up a delegate suggested that, as there was no war now, perhaps that reference might be omitted, and so the resolution was adopted as thus amended. A resolution was also adopted deprecating the infliction of punishment that causes mental and physical suffering, and that the attention of mothers be called to this matter with the view of disseminating better ideas on this subject. Also resolutions favoring the league of good citizenship. Resolutions Adopted. Resolutions were adopted indorsing humanitarian education in the home and school. Also the following resolution: "Whereas the election of a polygamist to Congress threatens the sacred institutions of monogamous marriage, that the third national congress of mothers request the national Congress of the United States to repudiate the result of the November election in Utah, either by refusing to allow the name of Brigham H. Roberts of Utah to be placed upon the roll or by expelling him from his seat." The report of the treasurer showed the total receipts since last May to be $984.44 and the balance on hand $285.17. The congress then adjourned for lunch. The closing session of the congress was held this afternoon. The program was as follows: Rev. E. Laurence Hunt, "The Duty of the State in Training Children for Citizenship;" 3 p.m., Mrs. Herman H. Birney, Philadephia, "Literature for Children." Unfinished business. Pictures of Mrs. Mary E. Mulford, who delivered an interesting address at the session yesterday morning, and of Mrs. Cassidy, the corresponding secretary, appeared in the report of the proceedings of the Council for Women in yesterday's Star. Religious Training of Children. At the session yesterday afternoon there was discussion of the topic, The Religious Training of Children, which was opened by a paper written by Rev. Charles Wood of Philadelphia. The subject was discussed by Rev. W. L. Worcester of Philadelphia and Mrs. D. O. Mears of Albany, N.Y. Reports were made by Andrea Hofer of the Philadelphia auxiliary, and Mrs. Murray, a representative of the colored race. Mrs. Thomas S. Kirkbride of the Civic Club, Philadelphia, read a paper on "Civics in Education." At the evening session one of the topics considered was "Does the Curriculum of Schools and Colleges Fit Young Men and Women for the Duties of Life?" Prof. Mary Roberts Smith, Ph. D., assistant professor of sociology at Leland Stanford University, California, read the first paper. The speaker said she welcomed the changes, which are gradually being made in the [college curriculum?] signs of distinct progress in [?] [duction?] of [scien?] [istry?] was [?] [innovation?] that progress demanded. She firmly believed in a college course for everyone, but maintained that parents should be cautious about forcing a college education upon a child that was not willing to take it. Miss Janet Richards of Chevy Chase, Md., followed with a suggestion and throughtful speech. A call for three-minute speeches brought out many bright and interesting responses. Mrs. Helen Boice-Hunsicker of Philadelphia, sang a number of child songs, and the proceedings of the evening were brought to a close by the singing of America. [] a big sleigh fo[] the mourners were a [] friends of the deceased [] moved slowly up the [] tain the vehicles sta[] roadway moved aside [] the last sleigh had passed. Up the wi[?nding?] road the little procession moved slowly through snow, until the handsome new church edifice was reached. The trip had been a tiresome one, and dangerous in some respects, but the body was consigned to the grave, and those who had followed the body of the loved one to its last resting place returned to their homes on the Maryland side of the river. Another Funeral Delayed. Tuesday afternoon a funeral party on its way down the valley reached here from the west. Of course, it was impossible to get through, and there was nothing to do but wait. During the two days' stay of the party watch was kept over the corpse on the railroad platform. Those who had charge of the body finally became tired of this condition of affairs, and went from here to Shenandoah Junction, hoping to obtain some relief. Even there they found it an impossibility to get through, and another painful delay was caused. A young colored man and his sister were among those who were disappointed yesterday, and, like many others, they were loud in their denunciation of the railroad company for selling them through tickets when it was known that the road was blocked. The young man's sister had died at a place near Harrisonburg, and his mother was also in a dying condition. All day long he paced the railroad platform, and would have started on foot had there been the slightest chance of his being able to make the journey. Few Cases of Suffering. There has been very little suffering among poor people because of the storm. Only two cases in which there was actual suffering were found by the relief workers. One of these was on the Maryland side of the river. In this case a family of two women and six little children were found in a shanty near the river side. The window panes had long since disappeared from most of the windows and the children were found huddled together in the chimney corner, while the women were doing their best to keep up the little fire that was in the house. Another case on the Shenandoah river, about two miles from here, was found. During the past five nights the hotels here have done a good business on account of the snow-bound trains on the Valley branch of the Baltimore and Ohio road, which goes to Winchester and other points. Yesterday it was thought the road had been cleared as far as Charlestown, and a car drawn by three engines started from here with the delayed mail. At Bull's Falls a snow slide was encountered, and this evening the engines returned with their car, having failed to get through. Laborers Clearing the Tracks. Large gangs of men have been employed to shovel snow along the lines of the Baltimore and Ohio tracks, both east and west of here. Laborers were in great demand when it was found impossible to move trains on the road, and this work was of great assistance to many poor people, especially those living along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal. Railroaders Become Hilarious. Tuesday night a gang of railroad men stopped here. They were accommodated at one of the hotels and they took possession of the town. Although they had been working so hard, many of them became intoxicated and it was 2 o'clock in the morning before they were all in bed. These gangs of men are still at work along the road. Through this section the snowfall Thursday covered the tracks that had been cleaned so well, and, fearing another storm, this snow was cleaned away. The big engines that made an effort to get through the snow drifts on the [?valley] branch today [] afternoon. [] Engineers had [made?] a desperate attempt the day before [] get his engine through a mountain of snow. He had his fireman leave the engine, and when he had closed his cabin he started down the track at a fast rate. Into the big pile of snow the engine went, but there was not force enough for it to get through. The snow drift was deeper than the height of the engine. As the road are getting in much better shape, farmers, it is thought, will be able to reach town tomorrow with butter and eggs, as well as other produce. T.H.B. []tween 13th and 14th streets. [] thing hurts the trade of the av[] much. While everybody else is, very [] erly, made to clean his sidewalk, and [] vide a comfortable path for pedestria[] these long stretches are left untouched and their difficulties tend to make people avoid the avenue. After the great storm of Monday nothing was done to them until late on Tuesday, although everybody that went to the Capitol had to struggle over them. Yesterday, during the sleet, they were very dangerous of passage, but the only attempt to mitigate their perils was made by the stalwart policeman at the corner of 7th street, who had the forethought to get a bag of sawdust and sprinkle for short distance around. Yet this was the main passageway for the city, and should have received earliest and closest attention. The neglect costs every merchant on Pennsylvania avenue many customers daily. What was true of the present storm has been true of every storm which has visited the city of late years. JOHN McELROY. February 17, 1899. Fine Art at Auction. Ruggieri Bros. of Rome, Italy, will sell, through C. G. Sloan & Co., 1407 G street, Thursday and Friday next, by catalogue, a rare collection of Antique Furniture, Ivories, Paintings, Bric-a-bac, ets., etc. Exhibition Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. See auction columns for particulars. --Advt. Death of Joseph Nash. Joseph Nash, who died at his home near Nashville, Tenn., February 14, was the father of J. C. Nash and Mrs. Glassie, both residents of this city, the only two surviving children. Mr. Nash was one of the best-known citizens of Tennessee. F[] years he had resided at the historic Ha[?] wood place, near Nashville. He was tw[ice] married, each time to a daughter of Tho[] as Haywood of Tennessee. One Reason WHY SCOTT'S EMULSION CURES weak throats, weak lungs, makes rich blood, and strengthens puny and delicate children is because all of its parts are mixed in so scientific a manner that the feeble digestion can deal with it. This experience has only come by doing ONE THING for 25 years. For sale by all druggists at 60₵ and $1. Bock on the subject sent free. 2 SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. CITY ITEMS. That Last Battle at Manila was not as startling as our prices for fine Painting. NOLTE, 810 8th st. 1t Chr. Xander, 909 7th St., keeps Ramsay's, $4 gal., $1 qt.; Sherriff's, $6 gal., $1.50 qt., and Dawson's Curio Scotch Whiskies, the latter $2 bottle. The last named two are said to be too good for hot Scotch, but excellent with soda. Well, Chr. Xander's old Reserve Rye, Bourbon and Tennessee, all over 8 years old, at $4 gal., $1 qt., and likewise his Special Family Rye, Bourbon and Rolling Fork Malt Whiskies, all 6 years old, at $3 gal., 75c. qt., will take no back seat, for with soda they show the clean, etherous fragrance and taste that supremely distinguish aged American whiskies free from fumigation flavor. 1t Jas. D. Cumming, 1334 H st. n.w., just received an invoice of Kippered Herring, Salmon, Haddie & Bloaters from Scotland. 1t Our 26th Annual Linen Collar Sale. Greater than ever: 400 doz.--a manufacturer's sample line--men's, ladies' and boy's to go at 4c[?9 for 25c??] doz. Finest in the land, including some 25c. qualities , 6c.; 5 for 25c. C. Auerbach, 7 & H. Domestic Sewing Machine agency. 1t Bachbrach & Bro.'s NEW PHOTO STUDIO. 1331 F st., will, for a limited time, in order to introduce their work, MAKE ONE LONDON PANEL, SUITABLE FOR FRAMING. CARBONETTE FINISH, OF FINEST QUALITY, ANY POSE, FOR ONE DOLLAR. Baltimore Establishment, s.e. cor. Eutaw and Lexington sts. Take elevator to studio. fell,18,25 DR. R. A. J. CROSSLAND, Missouri Conference (lay). ing of a certain committee: therefore, be it Resolved, That hereafter all committees holding meetings in this auditorium will, upon the sounding of the gavel, cease or adjourn their meeting and resume their seats and pay their respects to Almighty God. Bishop Arnett announced the appointment of these ADDITIONAL COMMITTEES: Reception of fraternal delegates--Chairman, W. D. Johnson, sr.; Bermuda. Austin Richardson; Baltimore, Daniel J. Hill; North Ohio, J. H. Jones; Iowa, Timothy Reeves: North Missouri, John Sexton; North Georgia, W. D. Johnson, sr.; South Florida, R. D. Lewis; Northeast South Carolina, J. H. Gowdy; North Mississippi, F. W. Lampton; West Kentucky, T. A. Thompson; Texas, B. W. Roberts; California, J. E. Edwards. Southern Christian Recorder--Chairman, H. Y. Arnett; Nova Scotia, H. Y. Arnett; Baltimore, George W. Nicholson; Pittsburg, G. G. Skinner; Illinois, Charles S. Smith; Colorado, P. E. Spratling; Southwest Georgia, J. B. Layton; South Carolina, A. J. Price; Kentucky, H. R. Williams; North Louisiana, P. W. Williams; Florida, Thomas Moore. Preachers' Connectional Aid society--Chairman, J. H. Collett; Philadelphia, N. D. Temple; Baltimore, J. H. Collett; North Ohio, C. W. Price; Iowa, R. C. Ranson; Kansas, A. M. Ward; North Alabama, A. W. Atwater; Northeast South Carolina, I. W. Johnson; East Arkansas, D. W. Crump; Tennessee, J. W. Pickett; Northeast Texas, W. E. Johnson. The committee on rules reported through its secretary, Rev. Monroe Gilmere, and, in the main, the rules governing the last were undisturbed, and were received and adopted. The committee on credentials made a partial report on the Seventh district, which, by request of the chairman, was withdrawn and recommitted. The order of the day was called for, and the secretary of missions, H. B. Parks, D. D., proceeded to make his report, which is contained in a pamphlet of 75 pages, illustrated with pictures of the 25 African students at the various schools and colleges connected with the church, native missionaries, and church buildings in West Indies and Africa. It shows that during the quadrennial there has been raised for missions $58,812.59 to April 30, 1900, leaving the balance on hand of $5064.22. Report referred to proper committee. Upon reassembling, Dr. Beckett, with Rev. B. F. Watson at the organ, sang "Savior, More Than Love to Me," and then the hymn, "Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?" Then came the report of C. S. Smith, D. D., secretary of the SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION. He made an excellent report of one, if not the only one, of the auxiliaries of the church that is self-sustaining. The report, dealing with an array of figures, is carefully prefaced, showing that the receipts for the four years were $77,159.46 and the expenditures $75,862.86. The report was referred to the proper committee. The secretary of education, John R. Hawkins, A. M., in his report, showed that the amount of money handled in []of the A. M. []orchestra; res[?] to add[] come, by Mrs. Mary E. Chu[?] M. A., of Oberlin, Germany and [] music, Orpheus orchestra; an [] "Wilberforce University--Her P.[] the Educational System of the []try." William D. Johnson, D. D., of [] coin university, class of '68, ex-secretary of education of the A. M. E. church [] music, Orpheus orchestra; rollcall of the colleges and universities represented in the general conference, by Rev. B. W. Arnett, jr., A. M., class of '86, Wilberforce university: music, Orpheus orchestra; intercollegiate introductions and reception. Rev. B. F. Watson of the Illinois conference has been a delegate to the general body for the last 16 years, is genial and whole-souled, and without his presence, often aided by Dr. Beckett, the proceedings would not be enlivened by the soul-stirring music furnished by Dr. Watson. In response to an address of welcome, Mrs. Mary Church Terrill, A. M., of Washington City said substantially: "The emancipation of the negro and his career in this country since the war are miracles just as great and astounding as was the conversion of water into wine. One has only to review the history of the negro in this country to drive away despair. In spite of opposition relentless and obstacles almost insurmountable, the negro can present tonight such a record of progress in education, industry, finance and trade as has never been made by any people in the same length of time, under such discouraging circumstances since the world began. "Forty years ago as a race, it was greatly deficient in education. Tonight one of the foremost poets of American is [*DR. B. F. WATSON, Illinois Conference.*] the son of a slave. Nearly every month int he year some of the best magazines in the country contain articles written by representatives of the race. Today nearly 2,000,000 are receiving instruction in the public schools, while 90,000 of our youths [] the various institutions taking classical, scientific or business courses. "Forty years ago slaves were penniless. According to the estimate of some they and their descendants are worth $4000,000,000 today. Other statistics which are just as interesting and reckoned quite as much to the negro's credit might be given, did time permit. As obstacles disappeared in the part, so the future will see them removed. Vices we have, to be sure, but our virtues are stronger than these. Through oppression sadden the heart, though injustice stalk abroad in the land, retribution comes apace with a strong avenger's hand. From adversity men sometimes grow strong, but of evil good often has sprung. In the fire gold is purged of its dross. "Then forward with brave hearts and true: As we climb, let us lift from below; Let no soul be left in the dark, As onward and upward we go" Rev. W. C. Cox, D. D., of Argenta, Ark., secretary and treasurer of Shorter university and editor of The Voice of the Twentieth Century, is acting as secretary to Bishop W. B. Derrick, and has charge of issuing the meal tickets to the delegates of the general conference. Saturday night Miss Hallie Q. Brown, M. S., will give a dramatic and humorous recital. The Liverpool Daily Post says: "The aim of her work and her personal gifts manifested in the prosecution of it, alike commend her to admiration and confidence." The committees on universities and colleges for the reception of Admiral Dewey and the soldiers and sailors' reunion will hold a meeting this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the office of the secretary of the board of trade. []ultorial. []ngton paper is congratulat-[] that Clinton county is prac-[]the whole thing in Sixth district []es this year. Wilmington had the []ublican congressional convention []d furnished the candidate, and will [li]kely get the Democratic congressional nominee, while the convention will be held at Blanchester. ------------- C. V. Rumbaugh, appointed a deputy oil inspector by Oil Inspector Baird of Toledo, is the member of the Republican state central committee from the Allen county district, and chairman of the Allen county executive committee. He is one of the hustling Republicans of the northwest. ------------------ The Hocking Sentinel is out with an editorial boom for Maurice Donahoe of Perry county as the man to go up against General Grosvenor. ------------------------ It is said there is quite a determination in Marion, Crawford, Erie and Wyandot counties to choose their delegates to the congressional convention at Bucyrus, in their own way, regardless of the instruction of the Norton committee. It remains to be seen whether the Democrats of these counties have the nerve to stand out against the Norton machine. -------------------- One of the political landmarks of Lorain county has passed away in the death of "Uncle Jerry" Van Wormer, just announced at the age of 88 years. The deceased knew the Whig party in its most prosperous days, saw its decline and successive births of the Free Soil and Republican parties, each of which in turn he espoused. Statesmen and politicians arose, fell and were forgotten: Calhoun stood with Cleveland and Webster jostled McKinley in his recollection, whose magnificent span covered the greater part of our nation's history. He was by no means a passive spectator of all these events. In the ante-bellum days, he was an earnest worker in the anti-slavery cause, and took part in the triumph of Lorain county free soilism which repealed the black laws and placed Salmon P. Chase in the United States senate. Mr. Van Wormer also took pride in telling how he was in a large measure responsible for the first nomination of James Monroe, one of the ablest representatives the district ever sent to congress. This was before the day of congressional machinations and deadlocks. The delegates of the Fourteenth district gathered in Elyria to talk it over and decide who was the best man. There were no candidates. Mr. Van Wormer was there. A delegate asked him of his preference for the office. "If I were to decide it," he answered, "I should name James Monroe." The suggestion was at once greeted with enthusiasm, and Mr. Monroe became the unanimous choice of the convention. -------------------- John J. Lentz's name was presented for vice president in the Sioux Falls Populist national convention, but the balloting nominated Charles A. Towne of Minnesota, a free silver Republican and a blatherskite of Lentz's wind power. -------------------------- The Union county Democratic convention will be held next Monday to choose delegates to the state convention, and O. S. Kibler will act as chairman and Editor A. J. Hare of the Marysville Journal will officiate as secretary. ------------------------ The Democrats of the Fifteenth district will hold their congressional convention in Caldwell, June 5, and Senator William Lawrence of Zanesville will be the temporary chairman. There is some talk of nominating Lawrence for congress, unless Banker Cosgrave of Zanesville can be beguiled into standing up for a defeat. ----------------------- The Logan county Democrats are whooping up things for Hon. John P. Bower for the congressional nomination. --------------------------- The defeat of Hon. F. O. Phillips for a second term in the Twentieth Congressional district is something almost unprecedented. In the recent history of Ohio congressional politics there are few cases where members have been denied a second term in cases where they were fair representatives of the district, unless a change has been made in the shifting of the district by a new con- []the door of the Senate. The legislat[] had met Dec. 3, 1849, and the senate balloted until the 28th of that month before it elected its speaker, when on the 300th ballot Blake won. -------------------- Mr. Blake's resignation as speaker never hurt his political record, as 18 months afterward his constituents sent him to congress for two terms. He was a strong friend of the father of Governor Nash, the latter being a native of Medina county, from which he went into the Union army in the civil war. The governor's father was a New Englander by birth, like Mr. Blake, having come from Massachusetts at an early day as a pioneer into the Western Reserve. ---------------------- FRENCH LICK SPRINGS Via B. & O. R. R. The B. & O. is the short line and direct route. Only $11.15 round trip. Three trains every day, call at 207 North High, B. & O. Ticket office, or write D. S. Wilder, D. P. A. for descriptive pamphlets and full information. ---------------------- NOTED CONVICT Recognized at Penitentiary -- Short-Term Men Received. John Jones, received at the penitentiary from Jefferson county April 19 last, has been identified as a noted criminal, who has worked under the aliases of John Thomas, "Buffalo Red" and "Piggy" Thomas, and is well know in Mahoning county, where he escaped from the jail in February, 1899. He is wanted in Youngstown for four burglaries. Superintendent Davis of the Bertillon room recognized him by two scars on his neck. Joseph Reumpling's sentence expired Friday, but he is very low in the prison hospital with gangrene of the lungs and it is not likely that he will be able to enjoy his freedom. His relatives have been notified of his condition. Charles Williams was received from Allen county to serve one year for burglary. John Conners was received from Hamilton county for one year for larceny, and Daniel Mahoney, alais Daniel Welsh, was received from the same county to serve one year for burglary. Mahoney was recently awarded $4500 by the courts agains the B. & O. railroad for the loss of a leg. -------------------- $10.35 CHICAGO AND RETURN $10.35 Via Baltimore and Ohio R. R. May 1st, 2nd, 7th, 14th and 21st. Tickets good for return to June 1st, inclusive. Write D. S. Wilder, D. P. A., or call at 207 North High St., Columbus, O., for full information. ---------------------- DAMAGES Of $7000 Awarded Hester C. Myers on Friday. The jury in Judge Williams's court on Friday brought in a verdict of $7000 for Hester C. Myers against the Columbus Railway company for injuries received in a street car accident in January, 1894. Miss Myers is 7 years old and is the daughter of Charles F. Myers. In January, 1894, while standing within [ ] 10 PLAN FOR A RACE Afro-American Council [ ] [ ] Opens Annual Convention Here. MEETING IN BETHEL CHURCH Deportation Not Approved -- Cheers Follow H. S. Taylor's Tribute to Negro Soldiers' Bravery. Influential colored men from all parts of the country met yesterday morning in Bethel Church, Thirtieth and Dearborn streets, for a three days' convention to discuss the wrongs of the negro and devise ways and means for the amelioration of his condition. The delegates are representatives of all the leading clubs of colored men in the United negro question. He denied that he ever advocated wholesale emigration of the colored people to Africa, or anywhere else. [ ]that enough colored people [ ] out of the South to re[ ] and teach the [ ] the v[ ] be taken [ ] white capitalists of the South [ ] of the labor that they were losing through their mistreatment of the blacks. President Walters' Address. During the afternoon session President Walters made his annual address. Of the organization he said: The former meetings of the National Afro-American Council, which were held at Rochester N. Y., and Washington, D. C., were for the purpose of effecting a strong racial organization, which would command the confidence and respect of Afro-Americans and fair-minded Anglo-Saxons everywhere. In this we have succeeded admirably. The National Afro-American Council is to-day the recognized national protective negro organization in America. It is so recognized by the President of the United states, leading members of congress, some of our ablest jurists, and many of the chief officials of the states throughout the Union, also by our religious denominations, press and benevolent societies. Upon the subject of lynching he declared: Whenever the authorities of the southern states wherein heinous crimes are said to have been committed by negroes can and will assure the leaders that Afro-Americans who are accused will be given fair trial, they can count on the leaders of the colored race to assist them in the apprehension and conviction of negro criminals. No self-respecting negro will turn over to an angry mob a man of his race to be mutilated and burned. We ask for a fair trial by a competent and legally constituted tribunal. We are not altogether responsible for the immoralities with which we are charged. It was the master who ruthlessly entered the cabin and forced the wife to disregard her marriage [ ] children. He [ ] SHATTUCK SCHOOL The most attractive boys' school in the West. In the schoolroom, the drill hall and chapel the training is thorough, practical, efficient. Its equipment, number and character of instructors, results of training, and class of boys admitted invite comparison with the best secondary schools. The dry, bracing atmosphere and absence of malarial influences are every way favorable for vigorous physical development. Boys who are to be western men have great advantage from being trained in a first-class western school like Shattuck. Investigate it before deciding. Thirty-fourth year opens Sept. 12. Terms, $400. For catalogue address JAMES DOBBIN, D. D., Rector. FARIBAULT, MINN. Howe Military School, Lima, Indiana, Prepares thoroughly for collect, scientific schools, government academies or business. Best advantages at moderate expense. Manual training (elective). Personal attention given to each boy. Fine athletic field and beautiful lakes. Convenient to Chicago. For illustrated catalogue address REV. J. H. McKENZIE, Rector. The Rector of the Howe Military School will be at the Auditorium Annex from Aug. 17th to 26th, from 10 to 2 o'clock each day. NORTHWESTERN MILITARY ACADEMY A select school preparing thoroughly for College and Government Academies or business. Four courses of study. Limited numbers. Christian surroundings. For catalogue and full particulars address COL. H. P. DAVIDSON, A. M., President. CHICAGO OPERA SCHOOL, 606 STEINWAY HALL. Vocally superior to any Conservatory or Musical College, verified by hearing advanced pupils. Voice culture, acting, classic and modern repertoire, artistic training for concert, oratorio and opera by the famous artists, Marie Biro de Marion and Ernesto Baldanza. Operas given monthly. WATERMAN HALL, Sycamore, Illinois. A school for girls, will enter upon its eleventh year. Sept. 20th. Preparatory. Academic. College Preparatory. Musical and other courses. Catalogues furnished. Rector at Church Club, 510 Masonic Temple, Mondays, 11 to 1 o'clock. REV. B. F. FLEETWOOD, D. D., Rector. SORELLE SCHOOL OF SHORTHAND STEWART BLDG., 92 STATE ST. Directed by RUPERT P. SORELLE, formerly of ARMOUR INSTITUTE. New methods: new equipment: most thorough preparation in shortest time. Students hold best positions. Day and night sessions. Fall Term begins September 5th. Write for full information. American Conservatory Kimball Hall, Chicago. The leading school of Music and Dramatic Art in the West. Fifty eminent instructors. Many free advantages. Fall term begins Sept. 11, '99. Catalog free. John J. Hattstaedt, Director CHICAGO CONSERVATORY Auditorium Building. "America's Leading School of Music." The highest grade of advanced or primary instruction in music or dramatic art provided by any American institution. Distinguished faculty of forty. Illustrated catalogue free. BERNHARD ULRICH, Manager. WARD SEMINARY, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. For Girls and Young Women. College Preparatory. Seminary and Special Courses. 34th year Sept. 21. Catalogue. KENILWORTH HALL, Mrs. Babcock's School for Girls. Send for Illustrated catalogue to MRS. MARY KEYES DAB-[ ] Racine College Grammar School 46th Year, Sept. 14th, 1899. Rev. H. D. ROBINSON, [?M. ?] Racine, Wis. THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, Notre dame, Ind.--Full courses in Classics, Letters, Science, Law, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. Preparatory and Commercial. 110th term begins Sept. 5th, 1899. WINEMAKERS HELD FOR FRAUD Large Missouri Concern Charged With Selling Untaxed Brandy. (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES-HERALD.) ST. LOUIS, Aug. 17.--United States Marshal Bohle at midnight arrested at this residence George C. Starck, president of the Stone Hill Wine Company of Hermann, Mo., and this morning brought him to this city. His son, Ottmar G. Starck, secretary of the company, who had come to the city on business, was also placed under arrest this morning. The Starcks' concern is the largest winemaking firm east of California and father and son are among the most influential and respected citizens of Missouri. They are charged with defrauding the government by making and disposing of brandy on which the revenue tax had not been paid. Both prisoners were taken before United States Commissioner Gray for examination and at the conclusion of the preliminary hearing he held each in bonds of $5,000 to the federal grand jury. The bail was furnished and the prisoners were released. Skin-Tortured Babies CRY FOR CUTICURA. Instant relief and sleep, in a hot bath with CUTICURA SOAP and a single anointing with CUTICURA Ointment. A blessing to skin tortured infants and worn-out, worried parents. Sold everywhere. soap 25C.: Ointment, 50C. POTTER D. AND C. CORP., Props., Boston. Send for [?C4p.?] book, free. Brentano's Sell All BOOKS at Liberal Reductions from Publishers' Prices. 281 Wabash Avenue. MICHIGAN MILITARY ACADEMY. ORCHARD LAKE, MICHIGAN The foremost fitting school for young men west of the Alleghanies. Founded in 1877. Nine large buildings on a campus of 150 acres among Michigan's most beautiful lakes. For catalogue address J. SUMNER, ROGERS, Superintendent. MR. FREDERICK WHITTON, Principal, is at the Auditorium Hotel during the present week and may be consulted by appointment. WHAT SCHOOL? The Chicago Times-Herald and The Chicago Evening Post have joined in establishing a Bureau of Information, which answers, without charge, all questions regarding schools and colleges. The Bureau will furnish you with information concerning any School or College on application. Explanatory and descriptive booklets free. Times-Herald and Post Information Bureau, Room 215, Times-Herald Building, Chicago. SAINT MARY'S HALL. DIOCESAN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. FARIBAULT, MINN. Established by Bishop Whipple in 1867. Number limited to 75. Prepares for colleges. Terms $350. Fall term opens Sept. 13th. Rt. Rev. H. B. Whipple, [?D. D. H. D.?] Harcourt Place Seminary A school for the highest class for girls. Unusually thorough and practical academic courses, college preparatory and special finishing courses. Catalogues and local views mailed on request. MRS. ADA I. AYER HILLS, Principal, Gambier, Ohio. Anna Morgan School of Expression Elocution, Voice Culture, Pantomime, dramatic art, Fencing, and Fancy Dancing. GYMNASIUM FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Equipped with dressing-rooms, lockers, and shower bath. Catalogue mailed free. 8th floor Fine Arts Bldg., 208 Michigan-av. SCHOOL OF ACTING --OF THE -- CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE, 202 Michigan Boul. HART CONWAY - - DIRECTOR FALL TERM BEGINS SEPT. 11. CATALOGUE MAILED FREE ELEGANT HOME AND SCHOOL FRO BACKWARD BOYS AND GIRLS AT KALAMAZOO, - - - MICHIGAN DR. C. T. WILBUR, Supt. Select school, elegant home, fifty years experience, limited number of inmates, moderate terms, few vacancies. Admission at any time. THE HARVARD SCHOOL 4670 Lake-av. Chicago. will reopen Wednesday, Sept. 20th. Oldest college preparatory school in Chicago. Primary and higher department. Boarding pupils received. Apply to Principals JOHN J. SCHOBINGER, JOHN C. GRANT ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF LAW Open All the Year. Day and Evening Classes. Fall Quarter Opens September 4th. LEADING LAW SCHOOL IN CHICAGO. Call or write for catalogue. 112 Clark Street. Todd Seminary for Boys -- 52d Year We educate the Whole boy. Send for prospectus, and come and see us. NOBLE HILL [?SOPE?] SCHOOL OF ORATORY opens 22d year Set. 6. Elocution, Delsarte, Literature, Physical Culture, MUSIC. 17 Van Buren-st., Steinway Hall, Chicago. MONTICELLO Opens the 62nd year Sept. 28. Full and Superior Faculty. Departments for English, Latin, Greek, German, French, Science, Music, ARt. Address MISS [?H. N. HASKELL] Prin. Godfrey, Ill. HOTELS AND RESORTS. WHERE TO GO. A Bureau of Information regarding summer resorts and winter resorts. The Chicago Times-Herald and the Chicago Evening Post have joined in establishing a Bureau of Information, called THE AMERICAN OUTING CLUB, which answers, without charge, all questions regarding: Where to go for the summer vacation. Where to go in the winter. Where invalids should go to get relief. Where well people should go to enjoy a rest. Free information, booklets, railway time cards, etc. Times-Herald and Post Information Bureau. Room 215, Times-Herald Building, Chicago. VACATION TOURS BY STEAMER AND RAIL TO ALL SUMMER RESORTS OF THE U.S. AND CANADA Staterooms, berths and tickets for all boats and trains. Call or send for Summer Tour Book. THOS. COOK & SON, Passenger Agents. No. 234 SOUTH CLARK STREET. Fall tour to Egypt and the Holy Land, Sept. 30th, $800, including all expenses. A Luxurious Trip AROUND THE WORLD to all principal points, including Paris Exposition, Programs free. Exceptional party already formed starts September 27th, by the famous World Travel System of HENRY GAZE & SONS, 220 South Clark St., Chicago. Attractive Europe and Palestine late-summer program, 50 days, $300 and up, also ready. Gaze Summer Tour Book. Call or send stamp for same. It shows Routes and Rates via Lake, Ocean, River and Rail to all Principal Resorts in United States and Canada. Fifty pages, with 5 maps: European travel, personally conducted parties. Write for programmes and particulars. GAZE TOURIST AGENCY. 220 S. Clark-st. EASTERN. DELIGHTFUL FALL RESORT, VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS. The Allegheny Mountains. The Homestead. The magnificent new hotel, accommodating 600 guests, and connected by covered passage with the Bath House. The baths are the most curative known for rheumatism, gout, nervous and stomach troubles. Fine Golf Links. Music daily by the Royal Poinciana Orchestra of Palm Beach, Florida. Excellent roads and bridle paths for riding and driving. Reached by the C. and O. and Big Four Ry's. Only twenty hours from Chicago. FRED STERRY Manager. HAIR Dressing, Manicuring, Chiropody, Facial Massage. Electrolysis. Ladies' Turkish Baths, Wigs, Scalp Treatm't. E. BURNHAM, 71 & 73 State-st. The color line was given another good run yes[ ] Hull House, who entertained at luncheon a party of colored women. The guests included in this little "social departure" were for the most part the prominent out-of-town delegates to the convention of the National Association of Colored Women, which has just closed in this city. The invitation having been extended by Miss Addams, the arrangements, as far as the colored women were concerned, were carried out by Mrs. Ida Wells-Barnett. There were thirteen guests, all told, including the president, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington: the vice president, Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce of Indianapolis; Mrs. Dr. M. P. Phillips of Nashville, Mrs. Mary Lynch of Salisbury , N. C.; Mrs. T. Silone Yates of Kansas City, Mrs. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee, Ala.; Mrs. Jerome Jeffries of Rochester, Mrs. Lillian Coleman of Omaha, Miss Carrie W. Clifford of Cleveland. Mrs Lucy Thurman of Jackson, Mich.; Mrs. Connie E. Curl and Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams of Chicago. After luncheon, at which Hull House residents were also present, another party of twenty-five colored women came to inspect this social settlement. They were shown all about by the residents, evincing a great interest in every department, as the colored women of the South have undertaken a similar work in the old plantation districts. "We were impressed," said one of the residents later in the afternoon, "with the intelligence of these colored women. They inspected the settlement understandingly and poured in on us as many interested questions as we could answer." This is the first time in Chicago that the colored women have been decided recognition in a social way by a woman of the lighter skin. States, and are here to attend the first annual session of the National Afro-American Council. The delegates number only fifty-three, but during the three sessions of yesterday the church was packed from pulpit to gallery, many of the spectators being prominent colored men from other states [ ] During the day a number of speeches were made, and each speaker dwelt at length on the lynchings which have taken place in the South during recent years, and many plans were proposed for their prevention. Incidentally nearly every speaker severely criticised Bishop H. M. Turner of Georgia and his proposition for the wholesale deportation of American negroes to Liberia, the black republic in Africa. Deportation Not in Favor. Judging the delegates by their applause after each of these hits, Bishop Turner's idea is deemed by them not only impractical but undesirable. The prelate from Georgia defended his position and in a measure retaliated on those who spoke slightingly of his scheme. Probably the wildest enthusiasm shown during the day was caused by the address of City Prosecutor Howard S. Taylor, who, representing Mayor Harrison, extended the freedom of the city to the members of the convention. During his speech Mr. Taylor recounted many of the deeds of heroism of the colored troops during the war of the rebellion and the war with Spain, and concluded by saying: Were I this minute the all-powerful adjuster of things, I would certainly lose not time in plucking a few feathers from the man who has received more advertising for a little fighting than any man I ever heard of -- I say I would pluck some of the assumed glory from "Teddy" Roosevelt and his rough riders and place it where it belongs -- to the credit of those swarthy-faced heroes who charged irresistibly up the hill at San Juan, and were the first to carry the glorious Stars and Stripes into the earthworks of the Spaniard--the colored heroes of the Twenty-fourth Infantry. It was fully five minutes before the cheering and shouting ceased sufficiently for Mr. Taylor to proceed, and as he was about to do so someone in the audience proposed three cheers for the Twenty-fourth Infantry, which were given with a will, and again the audience broke into tumultuous applause for Mr. Taylor. Welcomed by Dr. Carey. [ ]sey City, N. J., the president of the council. After the address of welcome by Mr. Taylor, Dr. A. J. Carey, pastor of Quinn chapel, made an address welcoming the delegates on behalf of the pulpit of Chicago. In his address Dr. Carey referred to the southern lynchings, the ability of the government to look after the welfare of people in far off islands and its apparent inability to protect its colored citizens at home. Dr. Carey said in part: Upon me devolves the very pleasant duty of extending to you in behalf of the Chicago pulpit the heartiest, warmest and sincereset of welcomes. Hearty because it is characteristic of Chicago hospitality to open the doors of her homes only to those to whom she may also open the portals of her heart. Warm because among your number we behold many a battle-scarred hero as well as the young and gallant knight who has done valiant service both by tongue and pen, not only in the uplifting of our own oppressed but progressive race, but who by force of their strong characters and the light of their brilliant intellects have done much toward the work of solving the world's problems, whether they be social, industrial, political or religious. Sincere because we behold in you an organized body of earnest, intelligent, aggressive men, a body in which exists those elements necessary to the growth and perpetuity of any body politic, the elements of fidelity, order, system and enthusiasm; a body already noted not only because of the brain culture and refinement represented in your organization, but also by reasonn of your firm convictions and dauntless courage; a body bound to no particular creed save that "American must protect Americans," whether they be missionaries in China, merchants in Africa, sailors in Havana harbor, miners at Pana and Virden or humble black postmarters in South Carolina. American Life Sacred. The Chicago pulpit believes that it is the conviction of the Afro-American council that the American nation must teach the world that American life, however humble or obscure, abroad or at home, is a thing sacred and inviolable, and that every honest, industrious american, whether white or back, should have the assurance that behind him and caring for him are 75,000,000 American free men who in his danger will guard him, and on his death will see that justice is done his murderer. Such being your convictions, Mr. President and members, the Chicago ministry with open arms welcomes you to this great city, the most truly American on the continent, the metropolis of the hemisphere and the capital of the world. The Chicago ministry is further persuaded that ability is the measure of responsibility. And as America has the ability to drive Spain, with her countless crimes, out of Cuba, the ability to plant the Stars and Stripes upon the islands of the Orient, and wrest from Spanish misrule and barbarity the inhabitants of the fair islands, it is her right to do it. And if it was her right it is her duty. And if she had that ability she also has the ability to restore peace, prosperity and happiness to those disturbed islands, the ability to aid a struggling people to obtain self-government and independence, religious as well as political, and it is her duty to do it. If it is her duty to do this for those on foreign shores how much more is it her duty to protect the lives and defend the rights guaranteed by her Constitution unto her people at home. Bishop Turner Explains. A. H. Roberts, a well-known colored attorney, welcomed the convention on behalf of the colored people of the city, and was the first to refer to the Liberia deportation scheme advocated by Bishop Turner, which he did indirectly, but in such a manner that all present know what was meant. Bishop Turner responded to the address on behalf of the convention, and after thanking Mr. Roberts for his welcome defended his advocacy of deportation, which he asserts is the only solution of the American He first tainted our blood, and now he holds us wholly responsible for our immoralities. To education, character, industry and wealth we must add agitation. Color Prejudice and Expansion. In conclusion Bishop Walters touched on the subject of expansion. He said: If to be expansionist is a desire to see one's people and to add prestige to the nation, then I am an expansionist. But while I believe in expansion I do not think that America is prepared to carry on the work of expansion at this time, especially if it be among the dark races of the earth. The white man of America is impregnated with colorphobia; he has been taught for centuries that the black man, no matter where is dwells, has no rights which the white man is bound to respect, hence he is not prepared to grant to dark skinned peoples the most favorable opportunities for development. No matter how intelligent or cultured a man may be, if his skin is dark it is a sufficient reason at any time why his rights should be ignored. Had the Filipines been white and fought as bravely as they have the war would have been ended and their independence granted long ago. To subjugate and govern a people without their consent is contrary to the Declaration of Independence of the United State. For these reasons and others which I have not time to enumerate, is it strange that Afro-Americans are not enthused over the President's Philippine policy? Indeed, we are against it, and especially the methods used to advance it. What the Negro Desires. To President McKinley we now appeal to use his influence by word and deed to secure to all American citizens, in all parts of the country, a fair and impartial trial by jury, and to grant promotion to commissioned officers in the regular army and to Afro-American soldiers who have won consideration by their fitness and valor. To the congress of the United states we appeal to enact such laws, and give the President the power to enforce them, as will insure protection of life and liberty to all citizens of America, regardless of color. To the governors and other state officials we appeal to give law-abiding and intelligent Afro-Americans a place in the National Guard. To the authorities of the South we especially appeal to repeal all discriminatory laws enacted to humiliate us, to give the negro a fair chance at the ballot box and a fair trial by jury. To white trades unions of America we appeal not to refuse any worthy applicant on account of his color, but rather make character and intelligence the pass to your shrines. To Anglo-Saxons throughout the nation we appeal to liberate themselves from color prejudice and give the negro an equal chance in the race of life; and if after a hundred years (which is a short epoch in the life of any race), we have not [ ] [ ] of the Evening. Long before time for the evening session to open the church was crowded, even the aisles being filled with interested spectators who were unable to secure seats. The delegates to the convention are nearly all churchmen Among the religious leaders who occupied seats last night on the platform were the following, in addition to the president, Bishop Walters, of New Jersey; Bishop B. W. Barnett of Ohio, Bishop A. Grant of Texas, Bishop G. W. Clinton ofNorth Carolina, Bishop H. M. Turner of Georgia, Bishop J. W. Hood of South Carolina, Bishop L. H. Holsey of Georgia and Rev. A. J. Carey of Chicago. The evening session was opened by Professor W. E. B Du Bois of Atlanta, Go. Professor Du Bois read a paper on "Business Enterprises of the Race and How to Foster Them." He was followed by Isaiah T. Montgomery, Mayor of Mound Bayou, a town near Vicksburg, Miss., which is populated and governed exclusively by negroes. Mr. Montgomery is one of he wealthiest colored men in the country and considered one of the shrewdest business men in the South. He was born a slave, and for many years was in the family of Jefferson Davis, his father being a secretary to the president of the confederate states for many years before the war of the rebellion. Mr. Montgomery told of the progress of the race in his section of the country and of their ability to govern themselves as illustrated by the management of affairs in the town in which he lives. His talk was received with enthusiasm. Among the other speakers of the evening were Bishop Holsey and Bishop Turner. The second day's morning session will open at 10 o'clock this morning, when routine business will be discussed. Women Delegates at a Banquet. The National Association of Colored Women closed its convention last night with a banquet in the parlors of Quinn Chapel, nearly all of the delegates being present. During the afternoon many of them looked in on the men's convention in Bethel Church and not a few will remain in the city until Saturday and watch the deliberations of the other delegates. ---------------- STOUGHTON BANK GETS HELP. Wealthy Men Aid the Wisconsin Concern to Tide Over a Run. (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES-HERALD.) MADISON, Wis., Aug. 17.--The run on the Stoughton State Bank of Stoughton, this county, is reported to have been stopped. It lasted four days. Yesterday State Bank Examiner E. I. Kidd issued a public notice that the interests of the depositors were in danger. He found that the liabilities were over $400,000 and that the bank was carrying a large quantity of bad paper, and has overdrafts of more than $40,000. Several wealthy men are reported to have come to the aide of the bank and furnished the money to tide it over the crisis. No legal steps have been taken and it is now expected the bank will pull through. --------------- Look Through the Times-Herald Classified Columns. Use them and do business. June, 3, 1893 The Colored AME Among Our Women (First Column) The paper read by Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, before the Woman's Congress, has received ecomiums from some of the most able and distinguished critics. While it was not a wholesale exaggeration of the work accomplished by colored women, it was a comprehensive, just review of their phenomenal progress made under many discouraging circumstances. Mrs. Anna J. Cooper, of multifarious knowledge, clear logic, fluent, forceful elocution, engaged in the discussion of the paper. The statistics, which she had carefully prepared, proved conclusively the statements previously made concerning the rapid advancement of colored women. On account of Mrs. Cooper's vast and varied experience in school, church and society, her utterances and suggestions are invested with a dignity and importance which demand the respectful consideration of all thoughtful people. Mrs. Fannie Jackson Coppin, whose labors as a teacher, of Philadelphia, have been so richly crowned with success, added many important facts, and offered valuable suggestions as to methods and plans of work for the future. The perspicuity, liveliness and cogency with which Mrs. Coppin explains, her views are potent to command and rivet the attention of any audience she may choose to address. These speakers were in every sense representative women, and have reflected great credit upon their race. ** Miss Ida. B Wells has met with marked success in England and Scotland, where she has addressed crowded houses on Lynch Law in the Southern States. A society for the furtherance of the brotherhood of man has been formed, whose members promise to make it their aim and study to secure to every member of the human family freedom, equal opportunity and brotherly consideration. Great surprise is everywhere expressed that ministers of the gospel encourage Southern mobs by their silence and acquiescence in crime. ** The daughters of the Princess of Wales are very skillful with the needle and are especially fond of fancy work. They have mastered the science of cutting and fitting, and could give the average dressmaker many valuable points. ** In one of the New York dry goods stores, it was recently proposed to reduce the wages of the women that those of the married men might be raised. But investigation proved that the single women were supporting more people than the married men, and the proposed change did not take place. It is a popular fallacy that industrial men support the aged, orphaned and helpless. Since women have gained independent livelihoods, men shirk family ties, throw off their parents, marry rashly, and often disappear when an heir is born. ** Nowhere else in the world do so many well-bred women, bankrupt and bereft of male providers, labor at manual callings as at the South, pursuing without loss of caste, vocations which elsewhere involve social ostracism. ** Some philosopher advances the idea that a woman who does not marry and make some good man happy, is likely to turn philanthropist and make some bad man unhappy. ** Purple veils, which are unbecoming almost without exception are quite fashionable. Empire green, with chenille dots, make most women look ghastly. The rose-colored veil, which softens the face and brings out the brightness of the eyes, finds few admirers. Black veils are said to bring out every line and intensify every defect. ** Woolen goods, furs and feathers should be wet with naphtha and folded in old cotton and linen, before they are laid away for the summer. If there are indications of insect life in the bed, naphtha or gasoline poured into every crack and crevice will destroy them. Be generous in the use of these fluids, for they are not at all expensive. If once using does not accomplish the desired result (and it generally does), the second or third application will not fail to rid the bed of the little pests. ** Gloves made from the glace or smooth kid wear better and longer than those made from the suede or undressed material, even though they are both of the same make and price. Good black kids are white inside and free from black, purplish stains which indicate weak spots, where the dye has penetrated. Black glace kids, which wear white or purple at the fingers, may be easily rejuvenated with little [page torn here] (Second Column) will be unable to get her luncheon or dinner at the regular hour, a few raisins, which have been carefully stowed away in the pocket for such an emergency, should be eaten. Although raisins are indigestible, they will give an empty stomach plenty of work, while their stimulant effect upon a tired, exhausted person is quick, effective and pronounced. ** Women who wish to be graceful must wear corsets. So saith Loie Fuller, and she ought to know; for this light-footed fairy makes $30,000 a year being graceful, and has a contract for three years at that. According to this high authority on the subject a well-made corset fits the body exactly and supports instead of confines it; in short, it is a help rather than a hindrance to grace. "I do not think I could dance without a corset or a boned waist," she says, "and I am quite sure I could do all my dances in the snuggest street gown I own." It is easier for a woman to be graceful, if her dress fits her, than if she is wearing a loose rag of a garment. For dancing purposes La Fuller, as she is called in Paris, recommends a plain satin slipper, because it gives to the foot, and being with ornamentation makes the foot look smaller. ** In twenty-one of the firms engaged in the practice of law in this country, husband and wife are professional partners. ** Princess May of Teck is the most popular person in England at present. Every page of every paper contains some reference to her betrothal to the Duke of York. Great preparations are making for the approaching wedding. Rumors of presents fill the air. The young ladies of England are going to unite to give her something rich and rare. The City Fathers of the corporation of London, propose to give the young couple an elaborate service of silver, as this was the gift they had not only planned, but had made for Princess May and the Duke of Clarence. When he died about eighteen months ago, the corporation put the silver service into the melting pot. Now it is to be recast for his younger brother. Princess May is intelligent, amiable and public-spirited. She has founded several charitable institutions for poor girls at her home and is fondly loved by all her countrymen. May her life as bride and as the future Queen of England be a happy one. ** Nothing finds more favor in the domain of fashion than the loose, comfortable blouse waists. There never has been such diversity of styles or variety in materials employed to make up this useful article of dress. Every woman must have at least three of these waists or her summer wardrobe is not complete. [page torn here] women. On account of Mrs. Cooper's vast and varied experience in school, church and society, her utterances and suggestions are invested with a dignity and importance which demand the respectful consideration of all thoughtful people. Mrs. Fannie Jackson Coppin, whose labors as a teacher, of Philadelphia, have been so richly crowned with success, added many important facts, and offered valuable suggestions as to methods and plans of work for the future. The persoicuity, liveliness and cogency with which Mrs. Coppin explains, her views are potent to command and rivet the attention of any audience she may choose to address. These speakers were in every sense representative women, and have reflected great credit upon their race. Miss Ida B. Wells has met with marked success in England and Scotland, where she has addressed crowded houses on Lynch Law in the Southern States. A society for the furtherance of the brotherhood of man has been formed, whose members promise to make it their aim and study to secure to every member of the human family freedom, equal opportunity and brotherly consideration. Great surprise is everywhere expressed that ministers of the gospel encourage Southern mobs by their silence and acquiescence in crime. The daughters of the Princess of Wales are very skillful with the needle and are especially fond of fancy work. They have mastered the science of cutting and fitting, and could give the average dressmaker many valuable points. In one of the New York dry goods stores, it was recently proposed to reduce the wages of the women that those of the married men might be raised. But investigation proved that the single women were supporting more people than the married men, and the proposed change did not take place. It is a popular fallacy that industrial men support the aged, orphaned and helpless. Since women have gained independent livelihoods, men shirk family ties, throw off their parents, marry rashly, and often disappear when an heir is born. Nowhere else in the world do so many well-bred women, bankrupt and bereft of male providers, labor at manual callings as at the South, pursing without loss of caste, vocations which elsewhere involve social ostracism. Some philosopher advances the idea that a woman who does not marry and make some good man happy, is likely to turn philanthopist and make some bad man unhappy. Purple veils, which are unbecoming almost without exception are quite fashionable. Empire green, with chenille dots, make most women look ghastly. The rose-clored veil, which softens the face and brings out the brightness of the eyes, finds few admirers. Black veils are said to bring out every line and intensify every defect. Wooden goods, furs and feathers should be wet with naphtha and folded in old cotton and linen, before they are laid away for the summer. If there are any indications of insect life in the bed, naphtha or gasoline poured into every crack and crevice will destroy them. Be generous in the use of these fluids, for they are not at all expensive. If once using does not accomplish the desired result (and it generally does), the second or third application will not fail to rid the bed of the little pests. Gloves made from the [?] or smooth kid wear better and loner than those made from the suede or undressed material, even though they are both of the same make and price. Good black kids are white inside and free from black, purplish stains which indicate weak spots, where the dye has penetrated. Black [?] kids, which wear white or purple at the fingers, may be easily rejuvenated with little pains and skill. Attach a small sponge to a hair-pin, so as to improvise a brush which, moistened with ink, should be applied to the worn parts of the glove. The glove must be on the hand during this artistic operation, unless you may possess a form upon which chamois gloves may be washed, and which may be purchased at any glove or dry goods store. After the ink has thoroughly dried, rub the dull, dead marks which will be left, with a little vaseline or sweet oil applied with a flannel, and behold, you will have shiny, black fingers looking as nice as new. Suede gloves may be improved by this treatment of ink, but they will not bear oiling. All gloves may be easily cleaned with gasoline. As a quart, which costs only five cents, will clean two pairs, and as the operation will consume but little time and involve but little trouble and labor, this home industry is worth a few trials at least. Pour sufficient quantity of the gasoline into a basin, which is thoroughly dry, to cover the bottom, wash the glove in the gasoline as a pocket handkerchief is washed in water, paying particular attention to the spots especially soiled, draw the glove quickly on the hand, rub with a clean cloth, and in less time than it takes you to tell it, you have a clean article before you. The odor of the gasoline disappears quickly if the gloves are hung in the open air. If the soiled places are not entirely removed, rinse the glove in some fresh gasoline, and treat as before. Each glove should be washed separately in clean gasoline. Care should be taken not to use gasoline or any other volatile in a very warm or very light room. Nothing is more injurious than to go too long without eating. When one knows she [column 2] hindrance to grace. "I do not think I could dance without a corset or a boned waist," she says, "and I am quite sure I could do all my dances in the snuggest street gown I own." It is easier for a woman to be graceful, if her dress fits her, than if she is wearing a loose rag of a garment. For dancing purposes La Fuller, as she is called in Paris, recommends a plain satin slipper, because it gives to the foot, and being without ornamentation makes the foot look smaller. In twenty-one of the firms engaged in the practice of law in this country, husband and wife are professional partners. Princess May of Teck is the most popular person in England at present. Every page of every paper contains some reference to her betrothal to the Duke of York. Great preparations are making for the approaching wedding. Rumors of presents fill the air. The young ladies of England are going to unite to give her something rich and rare. The City Fathers of the corporation of London, propose to give the young couple and elaborate service of silver, as this was the gift they had not only planned, but had made for Princess May and the Duke of Clarence. When he died about eighteen months ago, the corporation put the silver service into the melting pot. Now it is to be recast for his younger brother. Princess May is intelligent, amiable and public-spirited. She has founded several charitable institutions for poor girls at her home and is fondly loved by all her countrymen. May her life as bride and as the future Queen of England be a happy one. Nothing finds more favor in the domain of fashion than the loose, comfortable blouse waists. There never has been such a diversity of styles or variety in materials employed to make up this useful article of dress. Every woman must have at least three of these waists or her summer wardrobe is not complete. [T?] D. C., JUNE 3, 1893. of selfishness. The Presbyterian Church has accomplished a great deal in impressing its Christian and educational influences upon the race, more perhaps, than any other church. It has sustained splendid churches and schools at vast expense to itself, even when the returns appeared hardly to justify it. There is an evident disposition now to push this work further ahead. The General Assembly, in its discussions on the work among freedmen, gave not uncertain sound on this point. Another evidence that the church is sincere in this work is found in the disposition to place colored men in charge of the work among themselves as fast as they prove competent. Already the white preachers and teachers who gave their services up to this work so freely immediately after the war have been almost entirely displaced. We are inclined to think that there is not now an average of one white preacher in each Southern State where the Presbyterian Church is conducting its mission work among freedmen. The schools and colleges are rapidly coming into the hands of colored faculties. Biddle University, at Charlotte, N. C., is an example of what a colored faculty can do with an institution of learning, and its efficient president, Rev. D. J. Saunders has been received with every mark of consideration when he appeared before the Assembly. The Presbyterian Church has done genuine work in the building of race character, and the lesson of the 105th General Assembly teaches that there is no disposition to take any step backward in this worthy cause. ----------------- The Atchison (Kan.) Blade has a very keen edge, as this paragraph shows: "In our opinion THE COLORED AMERICAN comes nearest being the ideal of any American journals. What does us much pride is, when it wishes to illustrate by cuts it is so propitious as to have black faces. It is racial from columns 1 to 40. THE COLORED AMERICAN is broad-guage, however, and will not hesitate to print the cuts of white faces that ought to appear in the columns of all race journals. A Rain-Bow Over Howard University. The reunion banquet of the Alumni of the Law Department of Howard University, described in another column, seems to have a significance beyond that of the ordinary "movable feast." All the usual observances were conducted with care and nicety. The supper was dainty and deftly served. The guests were well-bred and well dressed. The atmosphere was permeated with refinement and gentle good-fellowship. The presiding officer of the occasion, Prof. Richards, fulfilled the delicate task with the modesty, the dignity, and the repose of manner which mark the perfect gentleman. The presence of Dr. Rankin, President of the University, is always welcome and inspiring, and his announcement that the Andrew Evarts Rankin Chapel would shortly be added to the college buildings marked the fact that the name of Rankin is as inseparable from the future as from the past and present of the University. Mr. Waring, the handsome and brilliant young lawyer of Baltimore, still felt the elation of his applause of the previous evening, and of the honor received later from authorities of the University. The attendance of Rev. Wm. Waring and Dr. Julia Hall, a gifted and beautiful woman, was an evidence that the Law Department was glad to recognize the equality of the other professions. The rare sincerity and pathos of the remarks of Prof. Thomas indicated that the labor of the teachers in this Department is no half-hearted and perfunctory service. The sonderful rhetoric of Prof. Hart met an appreciation which was an evidence of the fine intelligence of his audience, and in itself would not have disgraced the man who is the example and inspiration of his life, William W. Evarts. The rich, wise sentences of Mr. Terrell, a "silver-tongued" orator, fell like the cadences of sweet and solemn music. The honesty and hope in the words of Mr. Campbell meant volumes for the reputation the students will reflect upon the University. The high compliment paid to the business talents of Mr. Hilyer evinced that the charge of volatility may be relegated to the past. The enthusiastic utterances of Mrs. Chambers and Mrs. Havens in behalf of liberty and equality for all were received with a respect which could have had no smaller basis than faith in the cause they magnified. The closing words of Dr. Ranking were full of hope and encouragement and inspiration. But these were not all the tokens which distinguished the evening. Under, above, around all the eloquence, the oratory, the logic and the mirth, shone the true university spirit, the unity, the whole-heartedness, the loyal brotherhood, the pride of oneness with an honored, revered beloved Alma Mater. Howard University, in all her remarkable history has never known such an ovation, has never felt the line of the "charmed circle" drawn so firmly and tangibly about her, as on this occasion. The Law Department has set an example which can not be overlooked or ignored. Howard University has stood for years, bearing aloft the beacon light of a high liberty, a broad equality, a peaceful unity. Toward this light have moved the procession of students of several races, of both sexes. They have been intellectually warmed and fed, and have gone out full and eager into the field which is the world. Whether they would or not, their honors have been the honors of their Alma Mater and their fame her starry crown. But it has been left until now for this light, long borne bravely aloft, so to set on fire their very hearts that wherever they go, the pure standard of Howard -- liberty, equality and Christian unity -- will shine in their lives and reflect such light upon the university that her high grey dome will glow with a new and a perpetual glory. ----------------- HOWARD GRADUATES LAWYERS Much Advice Given Graduates and Evarts Hall Given the College. Advice and flowers were showered on the graduates of the Howard University Law School Monday evening, and at the conclusion of the commencement exercises, which took place in the First Congregational Church, twenty-six fledgling attorneys at law were graduated. They were a good-looking class of young colored men. In the background sat the members of the faculty, headed by the dean, Mr. B. F. Leighton. The great organ was draped with American flags in brilliant profusion. The Rev. Mr. Jenifer, the new pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, opened the prayer. The valedictorian, Arthur S. Gray, of Kansas, then delivered an address on "The Ideal Juror," who, said he, should be well informed if not highly educated; of keen, logical mind, superior to prejudice, passive to argument, and above all conscientious. The Republic had more to fear from poor judges and juries than from usurpation of power by the executive. Dr. J. E. Rankin, president of the University, conferred degrees upon the following post graduates: James W. Brown, Cornelius C. Fitzgerald, William A. Joiner, John K. Rector, and Robert H. Terrell. Seniors -- Henry W. Bass, Robert G. Brown, Thomas Campbell, George A. Cochran, William J. Curry, Abraham L. Dalton, Edward V. Davis into the hands of colored faculties. Biddle University, at Charlotte, N.C., is an example of what a colored faculty can do with an institution of learning, and its efficient president, Rev. D.J. Saunders, has been received with every mark of consideration when he appeared before the Assembly. The Presbyterian Church has done genuine work in the building of race character, and the lesson of the 105th General Assembly teaches that there is no disposition to take any step backward in this worthy cause. The Atchison (Kan.) Blade has a very keen edge, as this paragraph shows: "In our opinion The Colored American comes nearest being the ideal of any American journals. What does us much pride is, when it wishes to illustrate by cuts it is so propitious as to have black faces. It is racial from columns 1 to 40. The Colored American is broad-guage, however, and will not hesitate to print the cuts of white faces that ought to appear in the columns of all race journals. Premises. of the teachers in this Department is no half-hearted and perfunctory service. The wonderful rhetoric of Prof. Hart met an appreciation which was an evidence of the fine intelligence of his audience, and in itself would not have disgraced the man who is the example and inspiration of his life, William W. Evarts. The rich, wise sentences of Mr. Terrell, a "silver-tongued" orator, fell like the cadences of sweet and solemn music. The honesty and hope in the words of Mr. Campbell meant volumes for the reputation the students will reflect upon the University. The high compliment paid to the business talents of Mr. Hilyer evinced that the charge of volatility may be relegated to the past. The enthusiastic utterances of Mrs. Chambers and Mrs. Havens in behalf of liberty and equality for all were received with a respect which could have had no smaller basis than faith in the cause they magnified. The closing words of Dr. Rankin were full of hope and encouragement and inspiration. But these were not all the tokens which distinguished the evening. Under, above, around all the eloquence, the oratory, the logic and the mirth, shone the true university spirit, the unity, the whole-heartedness, the loyal brotherhood, the pride of oneness with an honored, revered, beloved Alma Mater. Howard University, in all her remarkable history has never known such an ovation, has never felt the line of the "charmed circle" drawn so firmly and tangibly about her, as on this occasion. The Law Department has set an example which can not be overlooked or ignored. Howard University has stood for years, bearing aloft the beacon light of a high liberty, a broad equality, a peaceful unity. Toward this light have moved the procession of students, of several races, of both sexes. They have been intellectually warmed and fed, and have gone out full and eager into the field which is the world. Whether they would or not, their honors have been the honors of their Alma Mater and their fame her starry crown. But it has been left until now for this light, long borne bravely aloft, so to set on fire their very hearts that wherever they go, the pure standard of Howard--liberty, equality and Christian unity--will shine in their lives and reflect such light upon the university that her high grey dome will glow with a new and perpetual glory. HOWARD GRADUATES LAWYERS Much Advice Given Graduates and Evarts Hall Given the College. Advice and flowers were showered on the graduates of the Howard University Law School Monday evening, and at the conclusion of the commencement exercises, which took place in the First Congregational Church, twenty-six fledgling attorneys at law were graduated. They were a good-looking class of young colored men. In the background sat the members of the faculty, headed by the dean, Mr. B.F. Leighton. The great organ was draped with American flags in brilliant profusion. The Rev. Mr. Jenifer, the new pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, opened with prayer. The valedictorian, Arthur S. Gray, of Kansas, then delivered an address on "The Ideal Juror," who, said he, should be well informed if not highly educated; of keen, logical mind, superior to prejudice, passive to argument, and above all conscientious. The Republic had more to fear from poor judges and juries than from usurpation of power by the executive. Dr. J. E. Rankin, president of the University, conferred degrees upon the following post graduates: James W. Brown, Cornelius C. Fitzgerald, William A. Joiner, John K. Rector, and Robert H. Terrell. Seniors--Henry W. Bass, Robert G. Brown, Thomas Campbell, George A. Cochran, William J. Curry, Abraham L. Dalton, Edward V. [D?], George A. Douglass, Robert L. Fitzgerald, Arthur S. Gray, Edward H. Hunter, Henderson F. Jones, Walter H. Land, William A. Robinson, Benjamin E. Smith, William G. Smith, Marcellus M. Smith, Osborn T. Taylor, Charles A. Tucker, J. Emerson White, Gustavus W. Wickliffe, and John A. Wilson. In conclusion Dr. Rankin offered a few words of what he termed "Layman's advice to lawyers." It was in brief: Do not take every cause that is offered, and do not advocate a wrong cause; discourage useless litigation; impress clients with the fact that the wrong is in the crime, not in the discovery. Prof. W. H. H. Hart read an encouraging letter from Collis P. Huntington, the New York capitalist, after which Mr. Leighton told how, through the assistance of this gentleman and ex-Senator William M. Evarts, the Law Department had at last been provided with a permanent home in Evarts Hall, at 420 Fifth street northwest, where accommodations for 150 students are provided. Prof. W. H. Richards then awarded the faculty prize for the best essay to William J. Currey, of Mississippi, for his "Modes of Trial." Honorable mention was also made of the essay of J Emerson White. The address to the class was delivered by Everett J. Waring, a graduate of Howard Law School eight years ago, now a prominent attorney at Baltimore, Md. Mr. C. A. Johnson, who has been visiting in the West, returned home last Sunday. Mr. G. L. Blackwell, of Boston, Mass., and Rev. J. B. Colbert, of Providence, R. I., passed through the city on their way home. They attended the commencement exercises of Livingston University, at Salisbury, N.C. D.C., JUNE 10, 1893 War Department. --- A Sketch of One of the Most Important Branches of the Government. --- The Standing Army - Pay of Officers- Work of the Record and Pension Office Recently Established. Located in one of the finest government buildings in the world at the corner of 17th street and Pennsylvania avenue, is one of the most important branches of the government, that of the War Department. Next to it is that of the Navy, for upon these would devolve the responsibility of defending the Republic in the eventof international difficulty and also in case of any internal difficulty and also in case of any internal disorder that would make necessary the marshalling of the armed power of the Republic. This department came in to being contemporaneous with the formation of the government and the inauguration of the first President, George Washington. Since that time there has been sixty-one heads of that department including those who did not serve full terms, but acted only ad interim until proper heads were appointed. The first Secretary of War being Henry Knox, of Massachusetts, the present incumbent being the Hon. Daniel Lamont of New York, who assumed the duties of his office March 4, 1893. The Secretary of War must be a man of splendid executive ability considering the manifold duties that he must perform. Besides being responsible for such duties concerning teh military service as the president may enjoin upon him, he has the supervision of all the estimates of appropriation for the expenses of the Department, of all purchases of Army supplies, of all expenditures for the support and transportation of the Army and of such expenditures as are by law placed under his direction. He also has supervision of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., where cadets are trained for service in the Army as officers, entering with the rank of lieutenant and advancing by promotion to Major-General; National cemeteries where rest the soldiers whodies in serviceof the Nation or by virtue of such service, are entitled to be buried therein; also the publication of the official records of the War of the Rebellion and the Board of Ordinance and Fortification come under his control. He has charge of all matters relating to river and harbor improvements; the preventionof obstruction to navigation; the establishemnt of harbor lines, and approves the plans and locations of bridges authorized by Congress to be constructed over the navigable waters of the United States. To assist him in the performance of numerous duties, he has the following bureaus over which responsible and capable officers preside: Assistant Secretary of War; the Adjutant-General's Office; the Inspector-General's Office; the Quartermaster-General's Office; the Commissary-General's Office; the Surgeon-General's Office; the Paymaster-General's Office; the Chief of Engineers' Office; the Chief of Ordnance Office; the Judge Advocate General's Office, and the Chief Signal Officer. Ranking next to the assistant secretary is the adjutant general in whose office are all the rolls relating to the service of the soldiers in the field. During the year the pay rolls of the regular army which are made out every two months, amount to a vast accumulation of records in the course of time. These records are invaluable to the soldier and to the Government, and consequently must be very carefully preserved. The adjutant-general propulgates all order of a military mounted, $2,000; captain, not mounted, $1,800; regimentral adjutant, $1,800; regimental quartermaster, $1,800; first lieutenant, mounted, $1,600; first lieutenant, not mounted, $1,500; second lieutenant, not mounted, $1,400; chaplain, $1,500. Of the twenty-five infantry and regiments, two are colored, the 24th and 25th. As officers we have two first lieutenants, namely, Alexander and Young. The one branch of the War Department that has attraced most attention and is of invaluable benefit to veterans and soldiers of the wars of the Republic, is that of the RECORD AND PENSION OFFICE. This office was formerly only a branch uncluded under the Surgeon General's office; but, by act of the last Congress, it was made a distinct offices, and od which Col. F.C. Ainsworth, of the regular army, has charge. The work of this office has been made by Col. Ainswirth the most complete in systemization in whole Government and it is due to the sole work of this energetic and executive officers. The Record and Pension Office is no part of the Pension Office proper, as that office is under the Interior Department, and has only to do with the adjuducation of pension claims. To show of what advantage teh work done by Col. Ainsworth has been can be illustrated by a striking example. Congressmen and Pension attorneys make calls for their clients who served in the late war, and are now seeking pensions asking for a record of the claimant's service. To get this information the Pension Office official must call on the Record and Pension division, where the records are searched and information returned. To do this necessitates a search through the records of the regiment and company of which the claimant was a member. After twenty-eight years the muster rolls, by contsant handling, have become very much worn. There was a great delay and liability to errors, costly to the Government, to be made under the old system. A claimant could hardly hope for a retuen of his call under a month, and frequently not under six months, but now this information can be obtained with complete accuracy in aday, and without any unjury to the records from handling, so the system is a wonderfully saving one in all ways. HOW THE WORK WAS SYSTEMIZED One thing that the Government must be careful to avoid is fraud on the part of the claimants, and the least confusion in the records is an opening for fraud; and agian, as the records of the Government are most valuable of its posessions, they must be preserved. Secretary Endicott's attention was brought to these growing difficulties, and, after consultation with Adjutant-General Drum and the late Surgeon-General Baxter as to the proper man to staighten out matters, they recommended Colonel (the surgeon) F.C. Ainsworth, who was on duty in New York, after an absence of eleven years on teh remote frontier. The first measure of relief from the confused condition was that of an index to the records. That system would only have made it possible to located the name called for and the records would have to be handled to obtain the information, so it did not relieve the records from usage or tend to preserve them. Colonel Ainsworth's idea, the index record system, that was put in operation most successfully by him, is that now being completed, the transferring of the entire records of the wars of the Republic to cards about eight inches long and three inches wide. From the muster rolls the name of each soldier is transferred to a card, beginning with the muster-in and ending with the muster-out roll. The soldier's rank, regiment, company and [????][????] until proper heads were appointed. The first Secretary of War being Henry Knox, of Massachusetts, the present incumbent being the Hon. Daniel Lamont of New York, who assumed the duties of his office March 4, 1893. The Secretary of War must be a man of splendid executive ability considering the manifold duties that he must perform. Besides being resposible for such duties concerning the military service as the president may enjoin upon him, he has the supervision of all the estimates of appropriations for the expenses of the Department, of all purchases of Army supplies, of all expenditures for the support and transportation of the Army and of such expenditures as are by law placed under his direction. He also has supervision of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., where cadets are trained for service in the Army as officers, entering with the rank of lieutenant and advancing by promotion to Major-General ; National cemeteries where rest the soldiers who died in the service of the Nation or by virtue of such service, are entitled to be buried therein ; also the publication of the official records of the War of the Rebellion and the Board of Ordnance and Fortification come under his control. He has charge of all matters relating to river and harbor improvements ' the prevention of obstruction to navigation ; the establishment of harbor lines, and approves the plans and locations of bridges authorized by Congress to be constructed over the navigable waters of the United States. To assist him in the performance of the numerous duties, he has the following bureaus over which responsible and capable officers preside : Assistant Secretary of War; the Adjutant- General's Office; the Inspector- General's Office; the Quartermaster- General's Office; the Commissary- General's Office; the Surgeon-General's Office; the Paymaster-General's Office; the Chief of Engineers' Office; the Chief of Ordnance Office; the Judge Advocate General's Office, and the Chief Signal Officer. Ranking next to the assistant secretary is the adjutant general in whose office are all the rolls relating to the service of the soldiers in the field. During the year the pay rolls of the regular army which are made out every two months, amount to a vast accumulation of records in the course of time. These records are invaluable to the soldier and to the Government, and consequently must be carefully preserved. The adjutant-general pro- [?]ulgates all orders of a [??????] [?????] [????] work of this energetic and executive officer. The Record and Pension Office is no part of the Pension Office proper, as that office is under the Interior Department, and has only to do with the adjudication of pension claims. To show of what advantage the work done by Col. Ainsworth has been can be illustrated by a striking example. Congressmen and Pension attorneys make calls for their clients who served in the late war, and are now seeking pensions asking for a record of the claimant's service. To get this information the Pension Office official must call on the Record and Pension division, where the records are searched and information returned. To do this necessitates a search through the records of the regiment and company of which the claimant was a member. After twenty-eight years the muster- rolls, by constant handling, have become very much worn. There was great delay and liability to errors, costly to the Government, to be made under the old system. A claimant could hardly hope for a return of his call under a month, and frequently not under six months, but now this information can be obtained with complete accuracy in a day, and without any injury to the records from handling, so the system is a wonderfully saving one in all ways. HOW THE WORK WAS SYSTEMIZED. One thing that the Government must be careful to avoid is fraud on the part of claimants, and the least confusion in the records is an opening for fraud; and again, as the records of the Government are most valuable of its possessions, they must be preserved. Secretary Endicott's attention was brought to these growing difficulties, and, after consultation with Adjutant- General Drum and the late Surgeon- General Baxter as to the proper man to straighten out matters, they recommended Colonel (the surgeon) F. C. Ainsworth, who was on duty in New York, after an absence of eleven years on the remote frontier. The first measure of relief from the confused condition was that of an index to the records. That system would only have made it possible to locate the name called for and the records would have to be handled to obtain the information, so it did not relieve the records from usage or tend to preserve them. Colonel Ainsworth's idea, the index record system, that was put in operation most successfully by him, is that now being completed, the transferring of the entire records of the wars of the Republic to card about eight inches long and three inches wide. From the muster rolls the name of each soldier is transferred to a card, beginning with the muster-in roll and ending with the muster-out roll. The soldier's rank, regiment, company, and presence or absence and any other remarks found on the roll appear on this card. The work is first begun on the State, say of New York, and when the rolls of the military quota of the State have been carded, the card numbered so track can be kept of any that might get misplaced, then they are distributed first by State, then by regiment and last according to the initial letter of the sirname which appears in the upper left hand corner of the card. They are again distributed so all the cards bearing the name, say John Smith, are placed together in one pack. If John Smith served in another State, this fact will appear during the copying and collection of the cards, and finally, when all is done, every card bearing any portion of the record of John Smith, finds itself in on collection making up a complete military history of the man. From this collection of cards answers to Pension Office calls can be answered easily and accurately, as under the file system concurrent (Continued on Fifth Page.) THE COLORED AM[??] AMONG OUR WOMEN The wealth, beauty and fashion of upper tendom in many of our large cities depend upon the artistic taste and shill of colored women in the matter of dress. What Worth is to Paris, so is Mrs. Glover to Boston. The name of this estimable artiste upon the belt of a dress is sufficient guarantee of its taste and excellence. Mrs. Glover's clientele is confined to the best and most exclusive women of the Hub. Her luxurious home, a model of art and beauty, attests to the financial success of its owner. There are many modistes in the South who are considered authorities on all matters pertaining to dress. Commenting upon this fact, not long since an ex-governor of Mississippi said with a tincture of surprise in his tone: "Intelligent colored women easily and skillfully adopt the styles and fashions of the leading ladies of society, not only so, but some colored women become expert mantua-makers, and cut, fit and make expensive gowns for ladies of wealth." * * One of the most interesting features of the World's Fair will be a kindergarten conducted by the women of Illinois. One corner of the Illinois State building has been reserved for this precious, enterprising and instructive live exhibit. The children will be brought to and from the grounds in omnibuses, so as to avoid subjecting them to risks and inconveniences. The school will begin as soon as the weather permits. The services of able and successful teachers have been secured. A gallery has been attached, so that visitors may observe without interrupting the work. How such a spectacle would rejoice the heart of Froebel, who has been called the Columbus of kindergartens. He would feel that his efforts had been richly rewarded, could he look in upon the bright, happy faces of these children whose little minds are trained and enlightened by methods which are natural, more humane and successful than those formerly employed. * * Trips to Europe are much less expensive than many people imagine. A tour through England and the continent including only those cities most renowned for size of historical interest may be made for $300, if two people travel together. The expense is then just on-half of the amount required when one travels alone. Two people may take a room together at a hotel and divide the expense between them. At the restaurants an order for one is sufficient for two people whose appetites are normal. Hack fare, which is quite an item abroad, when every minute is as precious as gold, is cheaper when two hire a conveyance together than when a single individual defrays the whole expense. in successfully resisting the attacks of atmosphere and the ravages of smoke, which is a constant, invariable quantity in Chicago. The atmosphere fairly revels in waists and dresses made of was fabrics. It is in league with the Chinese laundrymen and the washerwomen, to whose tender mercies such waists and dresses must be entrusted after an hour's wear. At least one dark silk waist, which may be worn with any skirt, is a necessity. A sailor or a hat with a brim, minus feathers or any material especially sensitive to the rain (for, sad relate, it rains even in Chicago), is indispensable to happiness and comfort. Small toques or brimless hats afford no protection to the eyes. It is absolutely necessary that the shoes should be comfortable. No one wants to suffer from the heartache and nervous depression resulting from tight shoes. While Oxford ties are cooler than high boots, they are no support to the ankles. An umbrella, a pair of high rubbers for hard rains, and sandals for light ones, not forgetting the rain cloak, must not be forgotten. Since the citizens of Chicago must base their title to eternal bliss and glory upon godliness, as the smoke makes cleanliness an impossible virtue, dark gloves are highly recommended. * * If the seams of tinware are greased with lard or sweet oil and placed upon the stove shelf or any other warm place twenty-four hours before the utensils are washed, they will not rust afterward. * * Hoops around the bottom of a skirt are no longer in favor. Narrower trimmings, tiny frills edged with lace, footings and nets run through with ribbons, and in thin materials, flouncings and shirrings are the very latest in the world of fashion. The genteel black gown with a touch of white for trimming is popular once again. There is no more striking or elegant combination for the woman to whom it is perfections in a faultless gown, while it kindly conceals the defects in one less shapely, as no other color can. 000035 THE COLORED [AME?] AMONG OUR WOMEN The Sweet Girl Graduate. "Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet," Soon the sweet girl we shall see Graduated properly; Decked in gown of white or blue, Pink or mauve or soft ecru, She will read her essay, deep As an ancient donjon keep; She will give advice as sage As a women's twice her age: She will stun you by the thought, Out of her experience wrought; She will make you think that she Must her mother's mother be! What a lot she thinks she knows, As from point to point she goes; What a lot we know that she Doesn't know at all, as we, Who have played life's doubtful game; Still we love her just the same, "standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet." --Will J. Lampton. * * The Kansas City League has a membership of 200 earnest workers. Regular meetings are help weekly at present. Mohters' meetings are held weekly at present. Mothers' meetings, as well as those of the juniors, at which important and practical subjects are discussed, are held monthly and are well attended. The League proposes to purchase a building, in which industries or trades, such as cooking, dressmaking, millinery, hair-work, etc., may be successfully taught and conducted on business principles. They have been incorporated under the laws of Missouri, have started a flourishing class in fine needlework, and, according to the last accounts, hoped to establish a dressmaking department before June. Mrs. J. Silome Gates, a graduate of the Normal School of Newport, R.I., is president; Mrs. Bishop Handy is vice-president, and Miss Anna H. Jones, a graduate of Qberlin College, is corresponding secretary The Kansas City League announces that it heartily endorses Mrs. A. Cooper as delegate to the Congress of Representative Women, and invites the various sister organizations to report progress and proceedings through Ringwood's Journal of Fashion. * * Superintendent Porter of the Census Office, pays a glowing tribute to the efficiency and superior worth of the young women employed as vlerks, of whom there are nearly 2,000. In handling the mechanical appliances used in counting nd tabulating, Mr. Porter says the women show more aptitude and dexterity than the men, while in computation he has found them more accurate than their male rivals. As private and confidential secretaries in public office Mr. Porter believes that competent, trained women are far superior to men. They are, as a rule, conscientious, rarely or never betray a confidencem and are not likely to give out office secrets to convivial friends over a glass of wine and a cigar. * * Two English women have distinguished themselves by the discovery of a Syrian text of the four gospels. The Convent of Mount Sinai, where they were found, has been searched and researched for such treasures, but it was ______________________________ women who take enough of the poison every days kill several men. Arsenic gives them a waxy, clear, unhealthy complexion, which is two unnatural to the beautiful or artistic, makes them plump and the skin puffy. The little pills never fail in their fatal mission of assisting arsenic eaters to commit suicide. * * Young women who wish to be thoroughtly English in the use of their mother tongue must observe the following list of Don'ts: Don't say bedspread, but coverlet. Don'ts say blind, but shutter. Don't speak of a bowl when you mean a basin. Don't forget that our crackers are the English biscuits, and that our biscuits are called hot tea rolls by our kinsmen on the other side. Don't speak of anything or anybody as being cunning or cute, but describe them as neat, pretty and winsome. Don't designate a commercial traveller as a drummer, and don't refer to lifts as elevators. Don't call a shopman a clerk, nor fall autumn, nor a pair of horses a span. Don't use clever on describing a good-natured person, but in referring to an individual who is bright and just a little witty. Don't call a stout man fleshy, nor a light tempered citizen ugly. Don't get mad, but just vexed or cross. In going to the World's fair remember not to go by railroad, but by railway. Don't ask where you may find your car, but request to be directed to your carriage. Don't call the guard who collects and punches tickets a conductor. Don't call the station a depot, nor refer to your luggage as baggage. Remember that a shunt is not a switch. By steering clear of these glaring Americanisms, against which you have been faithfully warned, a young women of average ability and an English gown may be surprisingly clever in her little trick of imitation. Remember, that you are all the more English if you wear a number seven-and-a-half glove as does good Queen Vic. * * Full skirts are rapidly losing favor and may be discarded at any moment. Some authority on art and aesthetics has suddenly discovered that they are becoming, neither to the tall nor the short, neither to the slim nor the stout. What a pity that this would-be benefactor of frail femininity had not been vigilant and benevolent enough to make this important discovery long ago. After racking one's brain until her head aches and sense whirl in an agonizing effort to devise ways and means of increasing the volume of some precious last year's gown, it is too aggravating to feel that all this labor was for a fashion so fleeting. * * Passamenterie trimmings were never more magnificent and stylish than they are now, when the success of dress depends so much upon trimmings. Collar and belt pieces are elaborately ornamented with jet colored beads and silk embroidery, while sleeves are just as full as ever, they droop downwards and not up or out. * * Bonnets are for the most part very small, of the lightest, most delicate construction, with simple trimmings and not much of it. Mercury wings in the front or back, velvet bows and a few flowers are charming combinations. Leghorn hats, so dear to the hearts of our mothers and grandmothers, are again firmly established in popular favor Kindergarten conducted by the women of Illinois. One corner of the Illinois State building has been reserved for this precious, enterprising and instructive live exhibit. The children will be brought to and from the grounds in omnibuses, so as to avoid subjecting them to risks and inconveniences. The school will begin as soon as the weather permits. The services of able and successful teachers have been secured. A gallery has been attached. so that visitors may observe without interrupting their work. How such a spectacle would rejoice the heart of Froebel, who has been called the Columbus of kindergarten. He would feel that his efforts had been richly rewarded. could he look in upon the bright, happy faces of these children whose little minds are trained and enlightened by methods which are natural, more humane and successful than those formerly employed. * * Trips to Europe are much less expensive than many people imagine. A tour through England and the continent including only those cities most renowned for size or historical interest may be made for $300, if two people travel together. The expense is then just one-half of the amount required when one travels alone. Two people may take a room together at a hotel and divide the expense between them. At the restaurants an order for one is sufficient for two people whose appetites are normal. Hack fare, which is quite an item abroad, when every minute is as precious as gold, is cheaper when two hire a conveyance together than when a single individual defrays the whole expense. Two [????] went to Europe last year, staid three months and visited fifty cities for $350 apiece, including every expense. They always went to a hotel, had everything they needed and saw everything they desired. They caught a glimpse of Ireland, of Wales, drank in much of the beauty of rural England, spent two weeks in London, three in Paris, went through Genoa, did some Alpine climbing, saw the prettiest Swiss towns. went to Germany, down the Rhine and to Brussels and Amsterdam. From such a trip of three months a better knowledge of History, Geography, Art, and the customs obtaining in the Old World may be acquired than would be possible in three years of constant conscientious study at home. The profit of mind and body is much more considerable than the pleasure derived. And certainly no one who is hungry for a sight of that Old World whose every hamlet and town has been the scene of events fraught with so much interest and importance to mankind, can doubt that feasting the eyes upon the identical spots would thrill the heart with the very ecstacy of pleasure and enjoyment. The route must be well planned beforehand, and it should be strictly adhered to unless strong reasons for modifying it as presented. * * While congratulating themselves upon their present progress along educational, industrial, and political lines, women forget that they have always had representative renowned for their intellect and learning. So far back as the thirteenth century a Florentine lady won the prize in a oratorical contest in which most erudite lords of creation from all parts of the universe were competing. Isabella of Spain acquired her knowledge of Latin from a woman, and there were universities even in the fifteenth century whose doors were open to her both as teacher and pupil. * * The following humorously exhaustive advertisement for a husband appeared in a Southern paper recently: "Wanted--By a young lady aged nineteen, of pleasing countenance, good figure, agreeable manners, general information, and varied accomplishments, who has studied everything from creation to crochet, a situation in the family of a gentleman. She will take the head of his table, manage his household, scold his servants, nurse his babies, check his tradesmen's bills, accompany him to the theater, cut the leaves of the new book, sew on his buttons, warm his slippers. and generally make his life happy. Apply, in the first place, to Miss --, Hickory Grove, Ga., afterwards to papa, on the premises." * * Those contemplating a visit to Chicago, known to some as the Windy city, to others as the White city, are warned against its weather and its smoke. The temperature of Chicago goes to extremes, and woe be unto the foolish virgin who ignores this fact in packing her trunk. In the middle of the day during the summer solstice only a native denizen of the tropics can be happy. At dewy eve, nothing short of a genuine Eskimo can exist with any degree of comfort. In view of this fact, women who intend to remain out after four o'clock should have good warm wraps with or near them, so as to protect them from the lake breeze. A jacket is preferable to a cape, for when the zephyrs of Lake Michigan are at their best, and mean business, as they generally do in their outings, a poor fluttering cape is a mere sport for their graces. The climate of Chicago is fearfully and wonderfully made. Exorbitant hotel proprietors and shameless purveyors of lunches on the Fair grounds may be shunned and frustrated in their wicked schemes and designs by the visitors, but there is no escape from the climate. * * No outfit for the Fair is complete without a dark silk waist. It is the best and safest armor She will make you think that she Must her mother's mother be ! What a lot she thinks she knows, As from point to point she goes; What a lot we know that she Doesn't know at all, as we, Who have played life's doubtful game ; Still we love her just the same, "Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet." - Will J. Lampton The Kansas City League has a membership of 200 earnest workers. Regular meetings are held weekly at present. Mothers' meetings, as well as those of the juniors, at which important and practical subjects are discussed, are held monthly and are well attended. The League proposes to purchase a building, in which industries or trades, such as cooking, dressmaking, millinery, hair-work, etc., may be successfully taught and conducted on business principles. They have been incorporated under the laws of Missouri, have started a flourishing class in fine needlework, and, according to the last accounts, hoped to establish a dressmaking department before June. Mrs. J. Silome Gates, a graduate of the Normal School of Newport, R. I., is president; Mrs. Bishop Handy is vice-president, and Miss Anna H. Jones, a graduate of Oberlin College, is corresponding secretary. The Kansas City League announces that it heartily endorses Mrs. A. Cooper as delegate to the Congress of Representative Women, and invites the various sister organizations to report progress and proceedings through Ringwood's Journal of Fashion. Superintendent Porter, of the Census Office, pays a glowing tribute to the efficiency and superior worth of the young women employed as clerks, of whom there are nearly 2,000. In handling the mechanical appliances used in counting and tabulating, Mr. Porter says the women show more aptitude and dexterity than the men, while in computation he has found them more accurate than their male rivals. As private and confidential secretaries in public office Mr. Porter believes that competent, trained women are far superior to men. They are, as a rule, conscientious, rarely or never betray a confidence, and are not likely to give out office secrets to convivial friends over a glass of wine and a cigar. Two English women have distinguished themselves by the discovery of a Syrian text of the four gospels. The Convent of Mount Sinai, where they were found, has been searched and researched for such treasures, but it was left to a woman to bring the precious manuscript to the light of day. In the library of the Woman's Building at the great Fair there is a case which contains fifty different translations of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," together with a massive silver inkstand, presented by Mrs. Stowe's English friends, in recognition of her services to the cause of freedom. The library was designed and built by the New York State board of woman managers, and contains 2,400 volumes written by women who are either residents or natives of New York. The Press Congress, which recently convened in Chicago, was opened by Mrs. Bonney, Mrs. Palmer, and other leading spirits of the Exposition. Although speeches were made by many distinguished members, a woman's journal declares that "the very brightest speech was made by a black man, a representative from Liberia." A bill, giving municipal suffrage to all women citizens of Michigan who can read the State constitution, has passed both the House and the Senate. Arkansas has passed a bill giving school suffrage to women. The voters of Colorado will decide at the next general election, occurring in November, whether or not full citizenship will be accorded to women. The women of the State have commenced an earnest, vigorous campaign, and will spare neither pains nor money to mold public sentiment and attain their ends. A rose will last longer if you can contrive to wear it with its head downward, but no scientific explanation of this fact has as yet been offered. Roses will retain their beauty longer if wired, though the wired blossom is short-lived and unsatisfactory for the house. The American Beauty just now takes the lead in popular favor for personal adornment, as it blends so harmoniously with the season's colors. Who can tell why flowers look prettier and last longer when worn by some women than by others. The little beauties cling lovingly and gracefully to the bosom of their favorites, but hand in awkward confusion and stubborn rebellion from the bodices of others, for whom they seem to have no natural affinity. One woman carelessly puts the posies together, gives them an affectionate pat, and pins them on with a supreme indifference as to just the spot or position most becoming to her particular style of beauty. But her little floral friends adjust themselves to artistically and bewitchingly as to make the wearer look doubly charming and beautiful. No one can explain the wherefore. Flowers, like the Heathen Chinee, are peculiar, and like the women who wear them have ways past finding out. Perhaps a partial explanation of the natural amity or enmity of flowers lies in the fact, that they possess intellects and souls, so that they know those who love them for their own sweet selves, and those who affect them only to adorn themselves or their possessions. Women who have contracted the habit of arsenic eating die as a rule at forty, while few reach the age of forty-five. It is no secret among physicians and druggists that there are are the English biscuits, and that our biscuits are called hot tea rolls by our kinsmen on the other side. Don't speak of anything or anybody as being cunning or cute, but describe them as neat, pretty and winsome. Don't designate a commercial traveller as a drummer, and don't refer to lifts as elevators. Don't call a shopman a clerk, not fall autumn, not a pair of horses a span. Don't use clever on describing a good-natured person, but in referring to an individual who is bright and just a little witty. Don't call a stout man fleshy, nor a light tempered citizen ugly. Don't get mad, but just vexed or cross. In going to the World's Fair remember not to go by railroad, but by railway. Don't ask where you may find your car, but request to be directed to your carriage. Don't call the guard who collects and punches tickets a conductor. Don't call the station a depot, nor refer to your luggage as baggage. Remember that a shunt is not a switch. By steering clear of these glaring Americanisms, against which you have been faithfully warned, a young woman of average ability and an English gown may be surprisingly clever in her little trick of imitation. Remember, that you are all the more English if you wear a number seven- and-a-half glove as does good Queen Vic. Full skirts are rapidly losing favor and may be discarded at any moment. Some authority on art and aesthetics has suddenly discovered that they are becoming, neither to the tall nor the short, neither to the slim nor the stout. What a pity that this would-be benefactor of frail femininity had not been vigilant and benevolent enough to make this important discovery long ago. After racking one's brain until her head aches and senses whirl in an agonizing effort to devise ways and means of increasing the volume of some precious last year's gown, it is too aggravating to feel that all this labor was for a fashion so fleeting. Passamenterie trimmings were never more magnificent and stylish than they are now, when the success of dress depends so much upon trimmings. Collar and belt pieces are elaborately ornamented with ejt colored beads and silk embroidery, while sleeves are just as full as ever, they droop downward and not up or out. Bonnets are for the most part very small, of the lightest, most delicate construction, with simple trimmings and not much of it. Mercury wings in the front or back, velvet bows and a few flowers are charming combinations. Leghorn hats, so dear to the hearts of our mothers and grandmothers, are again firmly established in popular favor. Everything that went with the costumes of 1830 and 1860, bids fair to dominate the realm of fashion. It is harrowing to dwell upon a possible revival of the monstrous waterfall or chignon. Even now my Lady Modish casts longing, admiring glances at the models wearing these excruciating coiffures and sighs "how sweet, how domestic, how womanly." At present the style of hairdressing is simple and generally becoming. In the evening the hair must be drawn high on the head, and may be piled up in elaborate loops and twists to a height of several inches. While aigrettes of stiff erect bows of ribbon may be worn with it, the most popular as well as the most beautiful ornament is a rose or small cluster of flowers. For the street the hair should be arranged so that all the dressing shows beneath the hat or bonnet. For customers who are going to the theatre, professional hairdressers put the bonnet on, while the hair is down and then arrange the coiffures. The "figure 8" style is, perhaps, more popular than any other for the streets. Every woman whose face will permit itmust wear her hair parted in the middle. Some wave it down the sides, while other pioneers of capillary styles brush their locks down with a smoothness like satin. Bangs are very light and consist only of a thin irregular fringe or a few curls here and there on the forehead. [*Release from Chicago R. J. Nelson*] For Immediate Release From News Dept. Republican National Committee-- No. 8 WOMEN ORGANIZE G.O.P. CLUBS FOR NATIONAL TICKET Mrs. Lethia Fleming Will Be Leader of Campaign to Form Committees Speakers to Carry Message Chicago Sept. -- Mrs. Lethia C Fleming, of Cleveland, Ohio, noted politician and settlement worker, member of the State Advisory Committee, and member of the County Executive Committee, has been designated by the Republican National Committee as national director to organize the colored women of the United States for Harding and Coolidge. Mrs. Fleming has entered upon her directorate with offices in the central headquarters of the committee in the Auditorium Hotel, this city. She will be assisted by Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley, who, for many years was leader of the suffrage work in Missouri. Mrs. Haley was also chairman of the Council of Defense of Missouri during the world war. She will have the direction of central and western activities. Mrs. Mary Church Terell, the wife of Judge Robert Terrell, of Washington, D. C., is assigned to the eastern work with headquarters in New York. It is understood that the activities among the women will include the regular departmental divisions that have been in vogue among the men, the triangular division of organization, speaker, and publicity, and an intensive campaign will be inaugurated among the colored women throughout the country, and particularly in pivotal States where close margins between the parties will constitute the battle-ground. "Our organization is going after the colored women," said Mrs. Fleming in an interview. "It has been charged that there exists an apathy among the women concerning the serious matters that confront the country; that they have not realized their power recently acquired with their new estate. Whether this is true or not of colored women, that they are not alive to the great opportunities presented in this campaign, to be of worth to their race, it is our business to instill this realization into them. If Mahommet does not come to this vast mountain of opportunity, we are going to move the mountain to his front door. "Colored women have done much with organization for good, independent of the suffrage. They have felt more keenly than the men the vast injustice that has been visited upon their race. They stood behind the American armies with sacrifices and prayers. Colored mothers gave 400,000 sons to the defense of the flag. To them the League of Nations is thoroughly understood. It means that their boys shall be sent to Armenia, or to any country that the league may direct, to fight for questions in which they have no concern. No American mother has been made a deeper, more willing or complete sacrifice than the colored American mother. She believes that mandates at home are eminently more necessary than the mandates abroad. "Senator Harding has opened the door of hope by giving the assurance to the race that the wrongs that have been perpetrated against it by the Democratic party will cease with his election. The Republican party, standing as it does for the last word in freedom, began its existence upon the principle of liberty by abolishing slavery, and is living up to its traditions in being the prime mover and largest contributor to the greatest emancipation of the century---granting the suffrage to all womankind. "Realizing the fact that there 2,913,000 colored women of age, we are urging the colored en to organize. [?he] is in a [ ] to make herself [ ] power [ ] and to [...] HARDING'S MESSAGE TO COLORED AMERICANS "Fear not! Here upon this beloved soil you shall have the justice that every man and woman of us knows would have been [prayed] for by Abraham Lincoln. Fear not! Your people by their restraint, their patience, their wisdom, integrity, labor and belief in God will earn the right to that justice, and America will bestow it."---Senator Harding's address to colored pilgrims at Marion, September 10, 1920. WILSONISM RUNNING RIOT IN HAITI VIOLATES OUR CONSTITUTION AND BRINGS MISERY TO NEGRO REPUBLIC Inexcusable Censorship Maintained by Administration Conceals Facts From American People but Explosion Is Imminent In Land Where Natives Are Driven Like Slaves At Point Of Bayonet And Shot If They Rebel Military Funerals at Arlington Tell Tale of Conflict by George. G. Hill Special Correspondent, The ... Washington, Sept. ---It is entirely probable that Senator Harding was himself unaware of the extent in which Wilsonism is running riot in Haiti when he charged, recently, that the Administration was waging and "an unconstitutional warfare" in that unfortunate republic. The highly efficient and wholly inexcusable censorship which the Administration maintains has succeeded in concealing the facts from the American public. But so great is the anger of a wholesale explosion and revolution against American tyranny that Secretary Daniels has dispatched the head of the Marine Corp, Gen. Lejeune, and another high ranking Marine officer, Gen. Smedley [Butler], to Haiti to endeavor, if possible by a brave show of military strength against the largely unarmed [???] the President of Haiti and the more intelligent of the population and to continue that "slavery" of the masses against which they are determined to rebel. While the few who are in possession of the facts believe unlawful censorship, the facts cannot long be concealed, the high officials of the Administration are determined they shall not become public until after the election. They realize that were the tyranny which the Administration the practiced in Haiti in the name of the United States generally known it would prove a shock to every lover of liberty and justice. The Wilson administration of affairs in Haiti is founded on two propositions, one [h??g] that the Haitians being colored [?en] they have no rights which any [???e] man, and especially any "Southern gentleman," is bound to respect, and secondly, that the negroes must be taught to obey every mandate from President Wilson, whether they like it or not. Actuated by these principles, [John] A. McIlhenny, Treaty Official Charge of Finances, has adopted summary measures, to coerce the President and the entire cabinet of Haiti [onto] subordination. For some months the American officials, at the direct [?] of the Administration in Washington, have been trying to induce the President of Haiti to sign a financial agreement, supplementary to the treaty under which the United States administers Haiti's affairs. The Haitian President, with the advice of his entire cabinet [?sed] to sign on the [???] agreement would place [??? ?y] at the mercy of a cer[??] [?? treat] American banking corpora[tion] [??d] that this concern would thus [??] a stranglehold on Haiti for [???e] to come. The refusal of the [???] officials to yield to the desires [??? ?an] officials led the Pres[ident] [???] their [official ?] in [??? ?rs] in the person [???] Louisianian, who, [???] "how to handle McIlhenny was no more successful than his predecessor in coercing the highly intelligent Haitian officials and, accordingly, he stopped the pay of the President and his entire cabinet, on July 31, and in so doing made his order retroactive. That is, he not only notified the President and his cabinet that they would receive no pay in the future, but that they should receive none for the month of July, which, of course, they had already earned. At last reports Mr. McIlhenny was still trying, with the cordial approval of Washington, to teach the Haitian officials the dire consequences of refusing to obey a white man, and especially a representative of the Wilson administration. When despite the strict censorship, reports drifted into the United States from Haiti regarding the grave conditions there, they were denied and ridiculed by Secretary Daniels and other officials. Inquiries as to the whereabouts of Gen. Lejeune were met with the assertion that he was on a tour of inspection in South Carolina. Now, however, Secretary Daniels admits that Gen. Lejeune is in Haiti and says that it will be his effort to ameliorate the "alleged grievances" of the Haitians. "Civilize them with a Crag," would probably be the more accurate term. One of the serious grievances of the Haitians is the "courvee" which, as administered by the Marines, reduces the natives virtually to slavery. The "courvee" is a system whereby every citizen of Haiti must either pay or work out a road tax. The natives have no funds with which to pay, but as long as they were merely required to work out their tax each in his own neighborhood they did the work without complaining. Then the Marines decided it would be wise to compel the natives to work out their tax wherever the roads were in greatest need of repair. The consequences is that it is a common sight to see hands of natives, driven by Marines with fixed bayonets, far from home, living in camps, working under their taskmasters, in every way resembling the convict chaingangs one sees working on roads in the south. The negro who rebels or who tries to run away, is promptly shot. Such shootings have led to numerous incipient rebellions. A number of natives are killed and, occasionally, a few marines, and a report is made to headquarters that another "group of bandits" has been suppressed. If there is any official record in Washington if the number of Haitians killed it is carefully concealed, but the not infrequent burial in Arlington Cemetery of the bodies of marines brought back from there affords silent testimony of the extent and continuity of the warfare and of the cost of teaching the negroes to obey the imperial mandates which emanate from the White House and which Commissioner McIlhenny and his fellow officials are trying to enforce. Officers of the military establishment are made to [?] that for them to disclose, or [?] discuss the outrages they [?] [?nessed] in Haiti would mean [?] court-martial and dismissal [?] service. But some of the m[??] [?ageous] state emphatically t[???] [?tor]. Harding in no wise e[??] when he referred to the "[???] [?tional] warfare" and that, [?] [???] COLORED VOTERS WILL GET SCANT THOUGHT OF COX Democratic Nominee Does Not Intend to Recognize Negro in Appointments Damaging Words Uttered of Race Chicago, Sept. --If there is any difference between Candidate Cox and J. Thomas Heflin in their attitude toward the struggling and aspiring colored American citizenship in this country, it is the difference that the former is subtle, underhand and effective in his practice of racial reprisals, while the latter, being from Alabama, is loud-mouthedly outspoken. Which means they may have this difference: with ends they are identical. If the comparison should go into progression, it might be charged that Cox is infinitely more dangerous than Heflin because of his influence as Governor of a State that has for upward of half a century taken forward steps to protect the colored man's citizenship. Since Cox has been Governor he has covertly and often openly fostered propaganda against the colored man and woman, permitting the exhibition of the Birth of a Nation and applying other insidious ways and means of humiliation for the colored people. Although the employment of colored labor was absolutely necessary to sustain the industrial activities in Ohio during the war, he openly discouraged the migration of this labor from the South, saying in so many words that "the Southern Negro has about as much chance to thrive in Ohio as the cotton blossom has to thrive in the Yukon." Damaging propaganda and official practices against the race can be traced to Cox in such a manner as to leave no doubt that he is in full harmony with the approved methods of the South. Under Republican Governors and their administrations, Ohio was famous for the recognition accorded to colored people. That State was foremost in supplying educational advantages for the race and was always out in front with inducements for its advancement. Under Cox, but one colored man is employed by the State, and he is the messenger in the Governor's office, a menial place that gives full estimate of the Democratic candidate's guage of the worth of the colored citizen. Laws passed by the Republicans according rights to colored people are practically dead letters under Cox. In fact, the best answer to an oft-repeated question as to whether there is a difference between the Northern Democrats and the Southern Democrats is the attitude of Cox himself. He has by some means imbibed all of the prejudice of the South and is permitting it to gain a foothold in Ohio. It is announced in Chicago, from the Democratic headquarters, that Congressman Heflin will take the stump for Cox. This is as it should be because the difference between Heflin and Cox on the race question is just as the difference is between tweedledum and tweedledee. Heflin may be a trifle more demonstrative and melodramatic by shooting colored men who happen to rub against him on street cars, introducing bills in Congress for the repeal of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Ammendments, etc., but he has been none the less a factor in retarding the progress of the race, nor more enterprising against its rights and privileges. Colored men and women have 000038 Chicago Defender, Sat. Aug. 4, 1928. American Club Women Meet at Washington National Clubwomen Meet—The annual session of the National Federation of Women's Clubs, now being held in Washington, D. C., has brought to that city an imposing array of leaders among the women. Every state in the Union is represented in this group. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune of the Daytona-Cookman Institute, Florida, is president. —Photo by Scurlock, Washington. Defender 7-4-28 2d Sheet. The Woman's Journal. MEMORIAL NUMBER OF MRS. LUCY STONE. PLEASE NOTE AND QUOTE. VOL. XXIV. BOSTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1893. NO. 43 The Woman's Journal. Founded by Lucy Stone. A Weekly Newspaper, published every Saturday in BOSTON, devoted to the interests of woman— to her educational, industrial, legal and political equality, and especially to her right of suffrage. EDITORS: H. B. BLACKWELL, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. ASSISTANT EDITORS: FLORENCE M. ADKINSON, CATHARINE WILDE. OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTORS: JULIA WARD HOWE, MARY A. LIVERMORE, MRS. H. M. T. CUTLER, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD, MARY PUTNAM JACOBI, M. D., FRANCES E. WILLARD, MARY F. EASTMAN, DR. EMILY BLACKWELL, MISS MARY E. BEEDY, HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD, DR. LELIA G. BEDELL, MRS. LAURA M. JOHNS, MRS. ADELAIDE A. CLAFLIN, MRS. LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE, DR. ALIDA C. AVERY, PROF. ELLEN HAYES, BOSTON OFFICE—No. 3 Park Street, where copies are for sale and subscriptions received. SUBSCRIPTION. Per Annum, $2.50 First year on trial, 1.50 Single copies, .05 CLUB RATES—Five copies one year, $10.00 Sample copies free. A mark against this paragraph indicates that this is a sample copy of the paper, sent to you for your inspection, free of charge, and that we should be glad to have you become a subscriber. Checks and drafts and post office orders should be made payable to the WOMAN'S JOURNAL. Let ters containing remittances should be addressed to Box 3638, or to the office of the WOMAN'S JOURNAL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Registered letters or Express Co.'s money orders may be sent at our risk. Money sent in letters not registered will be at the risk of the sender. J. B. Morrison, Business Manager. For the Woman's Journal. "MAKE THE WORLD BETTER." By Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford. (A tribute to the faithful labors and cherished memory of Mrs. Lucy Stone, whose last words were, "Make the world better.") The autumn glory to her spirit spoke man's Charity Club, flowers from the Woman's Press Club, a large wreath of pansies from Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, a bank of yellow autumn leaves from many friends, and other floral tributes from the Malden Woman Suffrage League, Miss Amanda M.Lougee, Mrs. Micah Dyer, Jr., Mrs. George W. Williams, Cora A. Benneson, Mrs. A. H. Batcheller, Mrs. Laban Pratt, Mrs. George W.Wilson, Mrs. F. M. Fall, Mrs. S. P. Moreland, Mr. and Mrs. J. Herbert Sawyer, Mrs. Brigham, Miss Annie Heacock, of Jenkintown, Pa., and others. The ushers were John E. May, Warren A. Rodman, Donald E. White, McGregor Jenkins, Charles Garrison and Frank W. Garrison. Rev. Minot J. Savage will preach on "Lucy Stone" at the Church of Unity, West Newton Street to-morrow morning. Rev. W. H. Savage will also preach at Watertown on the same subject. Mrs. Lucy Stone's "Life and Letters" will be compiled by her daughter. Any friends having characteristic letters from her are requested to send them to (Miss) Alice Stone Blackwell, Dorchester, Mass. Such letters will be copied, and carefully returned. Letters written during her early life will be especially welcome. The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, at its recent annual convention, unanimously re-elected Miss Willard president. Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, of Ohio, was elected corresponding secretary in place of Mrs. Caroline A. Buell, and Mrs. Helen M. Barker, of South Dakota, treasurer, in place of Miss Esther Pugh. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, of Maine, was elected recording secretary, and Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman, of Missouri, assistant. MEMORIAL SERVICES. The funeral services for Mrs. Lucy Stone were held in the Church of the Disciples in this city, at 2 P. M., Saturday, Oct.21. They were attended by more than eleven hundred people. The throng began to assemble by noon, and before the appointed time several hundred persons were standing silently in the street, waiting for the doors to be opened. The church was crowded and many stood through the services. The assemblage was noteworthy for the amount of moral and intellectual worth represented there, O silent land to which we move! Enough, if there alone be love; And mortal need can ne'er outgrow What love is waiting to bestow. O pure soul! from that far-off shore Float some sweet song the water o'er; Our faith confirm, our fears dispel, With the dear voice we loved so well! Then followed the reading of the following selections: The eternal God is our refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Blessed be the Father of us all, who hath not left us without a witness of His presence, and who in every kind of trouble is God of all consolation. We will not fear the decree of death; of kindness. She spreadeth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reached forth her hands to the needy. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her, saying, Many daughters have done virtuously; but thou excellest them all. Favor is deceitful and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates. She hath done what she could. And verily I say unto you, wheresoever the Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all this world, there shall this also which this woman hath done be spoken of for a memorial of her. Each silver hair, each wrinkle there, Records some good deed done, Some flower she cast along the way, Some spark from love's bright sun. The very falling of her step Made music as she went; A loving song was on her lips, The song of sweet content. Fold reverently the weary hands That toiled so long and well, And while our tears of sorrow fall, Let sweet thanksgivings swell. She's safe within the Father's house, Where many mansions be; Oh, pray that thus such rest may come, Dear heart, to thee and me! ADDRESS OF REV. CHARLES G. AMES After these readings, Mr. Ames said: What use can we make of this sacred occasion but to strike the keynote of that larger and longer memorial service which will be shared by many beating hearts in many towns and in other lands, and which will also be taken up and continued through many generations! For, indeed, whoever shall write the history of that long hard war of emancipation, that long struggle for justice, by which the wrong that was and is shall pass into the right that yet shall be, will surely mention the name of Lucy Stone as one who represented and wrought for the great transition. Her monument will be in the triumph of the cause she loved and the principles for which she lived. She was incarnate conscience [?] mind went straight to the justice [?] FLORENCE M. ADKINSON, CATHARINE WILDE OCCASIONAL CONTRIBUTORS. JULIA WARD HOWE, MARY A. LIVERMORE, MRS. H. M. T. CUTLER, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD, MARY PUTNAM JACOBI, M. D., FRANCES E. WILLARD, MARY F. EASTMAN, DR. EMILY BLACKWELL, MISS MARY E. BEEDY, HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD, DR. LELIA G. BEDELL, MRS. LAURA M. JOHNS MRS. ADELAIDE A. CLAFLIN, MRS. LILLIE DEVERUX BLAKE, DR. ALIDA C. AVERY, PROF. ELLEN HAYES, BOSTON OFFICE - No. 3 Park Street, where copies are for sale and subscriptions received. SUBSCRIPTION. Per Annum, - - - - - $2.50 First year of trial, - - - - - - 1.50 Single copies, - - - - - .05 CLUB RATES - Five copies one year, - - - - - - $10.00 Sample copies free. A mark against this paragraph indicates that this is a sample copy of the paper, sent to you for your inspection, free of charge, and that we should be glad to have you become a subscriber. Checks and drafts and post office orders should be made payable to the WOMAN'S JOURNAL. Letters containing remittances should be addressed to BOX 3638, or to the office of the WOMAN'S JOURNAL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass. Registered letters or Express Co.'s money orders may be sent at our risk. Money sent in letters not registered will be at the risk of the sender. J. B. MORRISON, Business Manager. For the Woman's Journal. "MAKE THE WORLD BETTER." BY REV. PHEBE A. HANAFORD (A tribute to the faithful labors and cherished memory of Mrs. Lucy Stone, whose last words were, "Make the world better.") The autumn glory to her spirit spoke [illegible] She saw the gleam of brightness which awoke When Duty's call me answers without guile. She heard that call when, like a sweet wild rose, In fairest bloom of maidenhood, she stood Almost alone, and calmly, nobly chose A thorny path which led to human good. How bravely she has battled for the Right! How nobly, always, she withstood the Wrong! How sweetly urged Truth's warriors to the fight, And joined, in grateful hope, each triumph- song! She hath not lived in vain; youth, mid-life, age, All found her active, "faithful as the sun," To aims whose worth Eternity must gauge, To holy sacrifice, to work well done. Now, 'mid the glories of the dying year, We whisper our farewell in love's sweet tone, Then take her dying words as words of cheer, To "better make the world," like Lucy Stone. New York, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1893. EDITORIAL NOTES. The WOMAN'S JOURNAL of the week is a memorial number, devoted to Mrs. Lucy Stone. It contains a full report of the addresses made at the funeral services by Rev. Chas. G. Ames, Col. T. W. Higginson, Mrs. Livermore, Mary Grew, Rev. S. J. Barrows, Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer and Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney; a biographical sketch of Mrs. Stone, by her daughter; reminiscences by Mrs. Livermore, Mrs. E. D. Cheney, and some of the many tributes from the newspapers. More of these will be given later. There are poems by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, and portraits of Mrs. Stone as a girl, a young mother, and an elderly woman. All the usual features of the paper - news, story, poetry, N. Y. Letter etc. - give place this week to the memorial matter The floral tributes were predominantly yellow and white, the suffrage colors. Among them were a beautiful garland of seventy-five roses (one for each year), intertwined among ferns, from the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, a bunch of white chrysanthemums from the Chicago Woman Suffrage Association; a wreath of yellow and white chrysanthemums from the Dorchester Woman's Club; yellow and white chrysanthemums from the Newton Woman Suffrage League; a bunch of palms and yellow and white roses from the office of the WOMAN'S JOURNAL; white chrysanthemums from the Boston Woman Suffrage League; a large and beautiful basket of choice chrysanthemums from the Wo Fall, Mrs. S. P. Moreland, Mr. and Mrs. J. Herbert Sawyer, Mrs. Brigham, Miss Annie Heacock, of Jenkintown, Pa., and others. The ushers were John E. May, Warren A. Rodman, Donald E. White, McGregor Jenkins, Charles Garrison and Frank W. Garrison. Rev. Minot J. Savage will preach on "Lucy Stone" at the Church of the Unity, West Newton Street, to-morrow morning. Rev. W. H. Savage will also preach at Watertown on the same subject. Mrs. Lucy Stone's "Life and Letters" will be compiled by her daughter. Any friends having characteristic letters from her are requested to send them to (Miss) Alice Stone Blackwell, Dorchester, Mass. Such letters will be copied, and carefully returned. Letters written during her early life will be especially welcome. The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, at its recent annual convention unanimously re-elected Miss Willard president. Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, of Ohio, was elected corresponding secretary in place of Mrs. Caroline A. Buell, and Mrs. Helen M. Barker, of South Dakota, treasurer, in place of Miss Esther Pugh. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, of Maine, was elected recording secretary, and Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman, of Missouri, assistant. Mrs. Louise C. [illegible] of Massa[chu]setts, was re-elected National Superintendent of Franchise. In Colorado the Republican conventions of Jefferson and Mesa counties and the Garfield County Populists, and the Prohibition conventions of Mesa and Arapahoe counties have resolved in favor of the woman suffrage amendment. Women bore a prominent part in the World's Auxiliary Congress of Agriculture held last week. Lady Henry Somerset made a short address and presented a message from Miss Willard. "Tell that great congress," said Frances Willard, "that a farmer's daughter sends a farmer's greeting. And tell them that what I have been able to accomplish for humanity was learned on the farm at home on the prairies of Wisconsin." This was received with applause. Miss Jeanne Sorabji spoke for the women of India of the agricultural class who work in the fields as bread winners. A paper was read by the Countess Cora Slocum di Brazza on "The Position of Women in Agricultural Italy," Mrs. Helen M. Barker, of South Dakota, discussed "The Training of Girls for Farm Life," and Mrs. Laura D. Worley, of Indiana, spoke on "Farm Life and Mental Culture." The local newspapers all over New York State are quoting the law passed by the last Legislature which allows women to vote for school commissioners, and are telling how and when women shall register. It is reported that in Michigan the municipal woman suffrage law has been pronounced unconstitutional. If so, the decision must have been influenced more by prejudice than by legal considerations, for the objections urged against the constitutionality of the bill were flimsy in the extreme. Fuller reports will be awaited with interest. The Topeka (Kan.) Equal Suffrage Association has opened new headquarters at 632 Kansas Avenue, where women are instructed in the method of voting by the Australian ballot system. The association will canvass Shawnee County next month to determine just how every voter stands on the suffrage amendment. The National Columbian Household Economic Association held a Congress in the Department of Agriculture at the World's Fair, this week. ing for the doors to opened. The church was crowded, and many stood through the services. The assemblage was noteworthy for the amount of moral and intellectual worth represented there, [large photo captioned "Lucy Stone, In 1893] as well as for the depth of genuine feeling. On the wall behind the pulpit, arranged in the form of a great heart, the base on the ground and the point toward heaven, was a beautiful line of red oak leaves, with a large cross of autumn leaves in the centre. At the left was a plaster cast of Miss Anne Whitney's bust of Mrs. Stone, and below it a life size portrait of Wendell Phillips, both draped with autumn leaves. To the right looked down the calm and benign face of James Freeman Clarke, for many years pastor of the Church of the Disciples, and long intimately connected with the work for woman suffrage. There were beautiful floral tributes from suffrage associations, women's clubs and societies, and from a multitude of individual friends. The coffin was almost buried in flowers. Mrs. Stone's face, under its familiar white lace cap, looked peaceful and serene, and as lovely as in life. A little bunch of lilies of the valley, a flower she loved, had been placed in her hand. The pall-bearers were William I. Bowditch, Miss Anne Whitney, Rev. Samuel May, Mrs. Emily A. Fifield, William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Laura Ormiston Chant, Francis J. Garrison, Mrs. Judith W. Smith, Col. T. W. Higginson, Mrs. Katherine Lente Stevenson, Rev. Charles G. Ames and Mrs. Fanny B. Ames. Mr. Ames said afterwards that the services were "not like a funeral, but like a solemn celebration and a coronation. To some, it seemed a re-consecration of the spot where they had looked for the last time on the faces of Lucretia Crocker, Abby W. May, and James Freeman Clarke." The services, conducted by Rev. Charles G. Ames, pastor of the church, began with the singing, by the whole congregation, to the music of "Federal Street," of the lines from Whittier: God giveth quietness at last! The common way once more is passed, From pleading tears and lingerings fond, To fuller life and love beyond Fold the rapt soul in your embrace, Dear ones familiar with the place. While to the gentle greetings there We answer here with murmured prayer. The eternal God is our refuge, and underneath are everlasting arms. Blessed be the Father of us all, who hath not left us without a witness of His presence, and who in every kind of trouble is the God of all consolation. We will not fear the decree of death; [Large photo captioned: Lucy Stone, in 1893."] for it comes of the wise Lord, who is over all flesh. For it is as much in the perfect order of Providence that we should die as that we should be born; it is a part of beautiful nature, like the setting sun and the falling leaf. The dust shall return to the earth, as it was; and the spirit unto God, who gave it. The issues of death belong unto our God, whose loving-kindness never fails, and whose tender mercies are over all His works. Therefore all the days of my appointed time will I wait, until my change comes. Thou shalt call, and I will answer; thou wilt surely have a desire to the work of thine own hands. My flesh and my heart fail; but God is the strength of my life and my portion forever. Thought I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. We have not received the spirit of bondage to fear, but we have received the spirit of adoption by which we cry, Abba, Father. For the spirit of God beareth witness with our spirits that we are the children of God; and if children, then heirs - heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ. Beloved, now are we the children of God! It doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that we shall be like Him. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure. I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Write: Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the Lord. Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, that seek Him with the whole heart. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled. Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness' sake; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. The memorial of virtue is immortal. When it is present, men take example of it; when it is gone, they desire it. It weareth a crown and triumpheth forever, having gotten the victory, striving for undefiled reward. The worth of a virtuous woman is far above rubies. Strength and dignity are her clothing. She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law [????][????] [????] [????] [????] [???] her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates. She hath done what she could. And verily I say into you, wheresoever the Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, there shall this also which this woman hath done be spoken of for a memorial of her. Each silver hair, each wrinkle there, Records some good deed done, Some flower she cast along the way, Some spark from love's bright sun. The very falling of her step Made music as she went; A loving song was on her lips, The song of sweet content. Fold reverently the weary hands That toiled so long and well, And while our tears of sorrow fall, Let sweet thanksgivings swell. She's safe within the Father's house, Where many mansions be; Oh, pray that thus such rest may come, Dear heart, to thee and me! ADDRESS OF REV. CHARLES G. AMES. After these readings, Mr. Ames said: What use can we make of this sacred occasion but to strike the keynote of that larger and longer memorial service which will be shared by many beating hearts in many towns and other lands, and which will also be taken up and continued through many generations! For, indeed, whoever shall write the history of that long hard war of emancipation, that long struggle for justice, by which the wrong that was and is shall pass into the right that yet shall be, will surely mention the name of Lucy Stone as one who represented and wrought for the great transition. Her monument will be in the triumph of the cause she loved and the principles for which she lived. She was incarnate conscience [...] mind went straight to the justice [...] it. Calm as [...] with a [...] and voice like [...] angel [...] [she] yet stood strongly to affirm that justice is the law of the world, and that the reign of right is the reign of God. Yet had she that fine combination of the old-time domestic womanliness with the most modern and lofty aspirations for purity and liberty and progress. Whatever other women might do, she could not "Dream away the entrusted hours, On rose leaf beds the pampering the coward heart With feelings all too delicate for use." There was a task and a burden. She accepted the task; she bore the burden. And, O my brother men, she was bruised for our transgressions, she was wounded for our iniquities, the chastisement which is yet to purchase our peace was laid upon her, and by such stripes shall humanity be healed. Such a life looks well in the retrospect. She cared little for praise or blame; she heard and heeded another voice. What to her were political customs, social traditions, current prejudices and popular noises-what to her was the pain in her own heart-if so she might keep the trust she felt was committed to her from heaven? Surely she might have said, as she left us, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the trust; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous umpire, shall give me in his own good time." Busy as she was with making this world better, she was not careless of the things that concern the higher life and the larger destiny that looks beyond. She was a great believer, and a great hoper; but, like Clarkson, she had no morbid interest in watching the movements of her own inward life. When he, urging the abolition of the British slave trade, was asked by some one, "Are you looking after the salvation of your own soul?" "Why, bless me," said he, "I had forgotten that I had a soul!" So earnest was he in seeking the welfare of mankind that he had no time to think of himself, and it was much the same with our sister. Yet the interest she felt in certain great themes was never long absent from her consciousness. She believed in God, she believed in a future life, she gave herself over in trust to the invisible keeping. A few days before her departure she said, "Let my funeral be simple and cheerful," and added, "I believe there is work for me to do where I am going." The essence of her religious convictions, I think, was in that spirit of trust which finds a voice in some lines of Whittier, which she herself asked might be repeated in your hearing to-day: I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise, Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. And so, beside the silent sea, I wait the muffled oar. No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. (Continued on Fourth Page.) 338 THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL: BOSTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1893. LUCY STONE. The following story of the life-work of Lucy Stone, written in 1892 by her daughter for the Housekeeper's Weekly, is reprinted from the WOMAN'S JOURNAL of April 15, 1893. Lucy Stone was born August 13, 1818, on a farm near West Brookfield, Mass. She was the daughter of Francis Stone and Hannah Matthews, and was the eighth of nine children. She came of good New England stock. Her great-grandfather fought in the French and Indian War; her grandfather was an officer in the War of the Revolution, and afterwards captain of four hundred men in Shay's Rebellion. Her father was a prosperous farmer, much respected by his neighbors, but fully imbued with the idea of the right of husbands to rule over their wives, as were most men of his generation. Her mother was an excellent Christian woman, who submitted conscientiously. Little Lucy grew up a healthy, vigorous child, noted for fearlessness and truthfulness, a good scholar, and a hard worker in the house and on the farm, sometimes driving the cows barefooted by starlight before the sun was up, when the dew on the grass was so cold that she would stop on a flat stone and curl one small bare foor up against the other leg to warm it. Every one on the farm worked. The mother milked eight cows the night before Lucy was born, and said regretfully, when informed of the sex of the new baby, "Oh, dear! I am sorry it is a girl. A woman's life is so hard!" The little girl early became indignant at the way she saw her mother and other women treated by their husbands and by the laws, and she made up her childish mind that those laws must be changed. Reading the Bible one day, while still a child, she came upon the text, "Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." At first she wanted to die. Then she resolved to go to college, study Greek and Hebrew, read the Bible in the original, and satisfy herself whether such texts were correctly translated. Her father helped his son through college, but when his daughter wanted to go, he said to his wife, "Is this child crazy?" young girl had to earn the money She picked berried and chestnuts, them to buy books. For years and the dusky pupils soon became much attached to her. When the Ladies' Boarding Hall took fire, during her temporary absence, many members of her colored class rushed to the fire, bent on saving her effects. She was told on her return that a whole string of colored men had arrived upon the scene one after another, each demanding breathlessly, "Where is Miss Stone's trunk?" Her first public speech was made during her college course. The colored people got up a celebration of the anniversary of West Indian emancipation, and invited her to be one of the speakers. The president of the college and some of the professors were also invited. She gave her address among the rest, and thought nothing of it. The next day she was summoned before the Ladies' Board. They represented to her that it was unwomanly and unscriptural for her to speak in public. The president's wife said: "Did you uot feel yourself very much out of place up there on the platform among all those men? Were you not embarrassed and frightened?" "Why, no, Mrs. Mahan," she answered. "'Those men' were President Mahan and my professors, whom I meet every day in the class-room. I was not afraid of them at all!" She was allowed to go, with an admonition. At the end oof her course, she was appointed to write an essay to be read at Commencement, but was notified that one of the professors would have to read it for her, as it would not be proper for a woman to read her own essay in public. Rather than not read it herself, she declined to write it. Nearly forty years afterwards, when Oberlin celebrated its semi-centennial, she was invited to be one of the speakers at the great gathering. So the world moves. She graduated in 1847, and gave her first woman's rights lecture the same year, in the pulpit of her brother's church at Gardner, Mass. Soon after, she was engaged to lecture regularly for the Anti-Slavery Society. She mixed a great deal of woman's rights with her anti-slavery lectures. One night, after her heart had been particularly stirred on the woman question, she put into her lecture so much of woman's rights and so little of abolition that her friend, Rev. Samuel May, the agent of the Anti-Slavery Society, who arranged felt obliged to tell platform to recognize faces, would at once exclaim unhesitatingly, "This is Lucy Stone!" Old people who remember those early lectures say that she had a wonderful eloquence. There were no tricks of oratory, but the transparent sincerity, simplicity and intense earnestness of the speaker, added to a singular personal magnetism and an utter forgetfulness of self, swayed those great audiences as the wind bends a field of grass. Often mobs would listen to her when they howled down every other speaker. At one woman's rights meeting in New York, the mob made such a clamor that it was impossible for any speaker to be heard. One after another tried it, only to have his or her voice drowned forthwith by hoots and howls. William Henry Channing advised Lucretia Mott, who was presiding, to adjourn the meeting. Mrs. Mott answered, "When the hour fixed for adjournment comes, I will adjourn the meeting; not before." At least Lucy Stone was introduced. The mob became as quiet as a congregation of church-goers; but as soon as the next speaker began, the howling recommenced, and it continued to the end. At the close of the meeting, when the speakers went into the dressing-room to get their speakers went into the dressing-room to get their hats and cloaks, the mob surged in and surrounded them; and Lucy Stone, who was brimming over with indignation, began to reproach them for their behaviour. "Oh, come," they answered, "you needn't say anything; we kept still for you!" At an anti-slavery meeting held on Cape Cod, in a grove, in the open air, a platform had been erected for the speakers, and a crowd assembled; but a crowd so menacing in aspect, and with so evident an intention of violence, that the speakers one by one came down from the stand and slipped quietly away, till none were left but Stephen Foster and Lucy Stone. She said, "You had better run, Stephen; they are coming!" He answered, "But who will take care of you?" At that moment the mob made a rush for the platform and a big man sprang up on it, grasping a club. She turned to him and said without hesitation, "This gentleman will take care of me." He declared that he would. He tucked her under one arm, and holding his club with the other, marched her out through the crowd, who were roughly handling Mr. Foster, and such of the had able to At the time of their marriage, they issued a joint protest against the inequalities of the law which gave the husband the control of his wife's property, person and children. This protest, which was widely published in the papers, gave rise to much discussion, and helped to get the laws amended. She regarded the loss of a wife's name at marriage as a symbol of the loss of her individuality. Eminent lawyers, including Ellis Gray Loring and Samuel E. Sewall, told her to take her husband's name; it was only a custom. Accordingly she decided, with her husband's full approval, to keep her ow name, and she has continued to be called by it during nearly forty years of happy and affectionate married life. The account of her later years must be condensed into a few lines. She and her husband have lectured together in many States, taken part in most of the campaigns when suffrage amendments have been submitted to popular vote, have addressed Legislatures, oublished articles, held meetings far and wide, been instrumental in securing many improvements in the laws, and have together done an unrecorded and uncalculabe amount of work in behalf of equal rights. A few years after her marriage, while thye were living in Orange, N. J., Mrs. Stone let her goods be seized and sold for taxes, and wrote a protest against taxation without representation, with her baby on her knee. In 1866 she helped organize the American Equal Rights Association, which was formed to work for equal rights for both negroes and women, and she was chairman of its executive committee. In 1869, with William Lloyd Garrison, George William Curtis, Colonel Higinson, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore and others, she organized the Americn Woman Suffrage Association, and was chairman of its executive committee for nearly twenty years. She always craved, not the post of prominence, but the post of work. Most of the money with which the WOMAN'S JOURNAL was started in Boston, in 1870, was raised by her efforts. When Mrs. Livermore, whose time was under increasing demand in the lecture field, resigned the editorship in 1872, Mrs. Stone and her husband took charge of the paper, and they have edited it ever life. She meant to go on; she meant never to stop work at all; but after her little daughter came, there was a time when, if the whole world had needed her, she would have turned her back upon it in her absolute devotion to her baby. She was the most utter mother, the most complete home-maker and housekeeper. Susan Anthony said to her once, a few years after her marriage, 'Lucy, I believe you have lost your power as a speaker for the cause since you married.' And she replied, 'I have lost it since my Alice came, but it will come back.' And every one knows the daughter's devotion to her mother's work. Gilbert Haven - somehow I never could call him bishop - (Mrs. Livermore smiled) was sort of a neighbor of ours, and he used to come to our house here, and talk over people with us. He said one time that he believed Lucy Stone was the one woman in the world who would go to the stake an die for woman suffrage. 'Would you, Mrs. Livermore?' he asked me. And I said I was sure I would not, for it is coming, coming all in good time. But that,' said Gilbert Haven, 'isn't Lucy's way of giving herself wholly to a cause. She would go to the stake and die to get suffrage for women next week.' "Lesser women know nothing at all of the endless duties and calls upon her," went on Mrs. Livermore. "Little gentle woman as the world called her, she could weigh twenty tons when she had a mind to throw herself into the balance for the oppressed. "When her mind was made up, all the world and the Almighty on top of it couldn't have made her budge one inch. But then, the Almighty was always on her side. She had a passion for justice. All her life long it was equal chance she wanted for women, and she could not get it here soon enough. She was the most accurate of women. You could rely absolutely on her statements. If she told me there were four hundred and fifty people in a room, I should not doubt it, but I should know there were exactly 450, and not 449 or 451. She was not to be moved from any act of loving kindness, either, by any reasoning. I remember on one occasion she was about to take up and help a poor woman for whom I believed little or nothing could be done; a woman I had been through the mill with and had not succeeded in helping as I wished. I told Lucy Stone all I could tell her. I begged her not to burden herself. She had cares enough. She heard me through (and I talked, I assure you), and then she said in her soft voice, 'I believe all you say, but I shall do what I intended for her just the same.' Her house was always a home for every woman who needed a home and a friend, who came to ask it. Nobody knows - not even the heartbroken husband, who has lived for her and her cause, in spite of his own sometimes defeated for it - how many most men of his generation. Her mother was an excellent Christian woman, who submitted conscientiously. Little Lucy grew up a healthy, vigorous child, noted for fearlessness and truthfulness, a good scholar, and a hard worker in the house and on the farm, sometimes driving the cows barefooted by starlight before the sun was up, when the dew on the grass was so cold that she would stop on a flat stone and curl one small bare foot up against the other leg to warm it. Every one on the farm worked. The mother milked eight cows the night before Lucy was born, and said regretfully, when informed of the sex of the new baby, "Oh, dear! I am sorry it is a girl. A woman's life is so hard!" The little girl early became indignant at the way she saw her mother and other women treated by their husbands and by the laws, and she made up her childish mind that those laws must be changed. Reading the Bible one day, while still a child, she came upon the text, "Thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee." At first she wanted to die. Then she resolved to go to college, study Greek and Hebrew, read the Bible in the original, and satisfy herself whether such texts were correctly translated. Her father helped his son through college, but when his daughter wanted to go, he said to his wife, "Is the child crazy?" [?] young girl had to earn the money [????lf]. She picked berries and chestnuts, [?] them to buy books. For years [?] [?ing alter?] soon became known as a successful teacher. Once she was engaged to [t?] teach a "winter school" which had been broken up by the big boys throwing the master head-foremost out of the window into a deep snowdrift. As a rule, women were not thought competent to teach the winter term of school, because then the big boys were released from farm work and were able to attend. In a few days she had this difficult school in perfect order, and the big boys who had made the trouble became her most devoted lieutenants; yet she received only a fraction of the salary paid to her unsuccessful predecessor. At the low wages received by women teachers, it took her until she was twenty-five to earn the money to carry her to Oberlin, then the only college in the country that admitted women. Crossing Lake Erie from Buffalo to Cleveland, she could not afford a stateroom, but slept on deck on a pile of grain sacks, among horses and freight, with a few other women who, like herself, could only pay for a "deck passage." At Oberlin she earned her way by teaching in the preparatory department of the college, and by doing housework in the Ladies' Boarding Hall at three cents an hour. Most of the students were poor, and the college furnished them board at a dollar a week. But she could not afford even this small sum, and during most of her course she cooked her food in her own room, boarding herself at a cost of less than fifty cents a week. She had only one new dress during her college course, a cheap print, and she did not go home once during the four years; but she thoroughly enjoyed her college life, and found time also for good works. Oberlin was a station on the "underground railroad," a town of strong anti-slavery sympathies, and many fugitives slaves settled there. A school was started to teach them to read, and Lucy Stone was asked to take charge of it. The colored men, fresh from slavery and densely ignorant, still felt it beneath their dignity to be taught by a woman. Without letting her know this, the committee took her to the school and introduced her to them as their teacher, thinking they would not like to express their objections in her presence. But there was murmur of dissatisfaction, and presently a tall man, very black, stood up and said he had nothing against Miss Stone personally, but he was free to confess that he did not like the idea of being taught by a woman. She persuaded them, however, that it would be for their advantage to learn from anybody who could teach them to read; [?] and unscriptural for her to speak in public. The president's wife said: "Did you uot feel yourself very much out of place up there on the platform among all those men? Were you not embarrassed and frightened?" "Why, no, Mrs. Mahan," she answered. "'Those men' were President Mahan and my professors, whom I meet every day in the class-room. I was not afraid of them at all!" She was allowed to go, with an admonition. At the end of her course, she was appointed to write an essay to be read at Commencement, but was notified that one of the professors would have to read it for her, as it would not be proper for a woman to read her own essay in public. Rather than not read it herself, she declined to write it. Nearly forty years afterwards, when Oberlin celebrated its semi-centennial, she was invited to be one of the speakers at that great gathering. So the world moves. She graduated in 1847, and gave her first woman's rights lecture the same year, in the pulpit of her brother's church at Gardner, Mass. Soon after, she was engaged to lecture regularly for the Anti-Slavery Society. She mixed a great deal of woman's rights with her anti-slavery lectures. One night, after her heart had been particularly stirred on the woman question, she put into her lecture so much of woman's rights and so little of abolition that her friend, Rev. Samuel May, the agent of the [?] slavery Society, who arranged [h??] felt obliged to tell [?] this [woul?] answered, "I know it, but I [????] help it. I was a woman before I was an abolitionist, and I must speak for the women." She resigned her position as lecturer for the Anti-Slavery Society, intending to devote herself wholly to woman's rights. They were very unwilling to give her up, however, as she had been one of their most effective speakers; and it was finally arranged that she should speak for them Saturday evenings and Sundays--times which were regarded as too sacred for any church or hall to be opened for a woman's rights meeting--and during the rest of the week she should lecture for woman's rights on her own responsibility. Her adventures during the next few years would fill a volume. No suffrage association was organized until long after this time. She has no cooperation and no backing, and started out absolutely alone. So far as she knew, there were only a few persons in the whole country who had any sympathy with the idea of equal rights. She put up the posters for her own meetings, with a little package of tacks and a stone picked up from the street. Sometimes the boys followed her, hooting and preparing to tear the posters down. Then she would stop and call the boys about her, and hold a preliminary meeting in the street, until she had won them all over and persuaded them to let her posters alone. Once in winter a pane of glass was removed from the window behind the speaker's stand, a hose was put through, and she was suddenly deluged with ice-cold water while she was speaking. She put on her shawl, and continued her lecture. Pepper was burned, spitballs were thrown, and all sorts of devices resorted to in order to break up the meetings, but generally without success. She travelled over a large part of the United States. In most of the towns where she lectured, no woman had ever spoken in public before, and curiosity attracted immense audiences. The speaker was a great surprise to them. The general idea of a woman's rights advocate, on the part of those who had never seen one, was a tall, gaunt, angular woman, with aggressive manners, a masculine air and a strident voice, scolding at the men. Instead, they found a tiny woman, with quiet, unassuming manners, a winning presence, and the sweetest voice ever possessed by a public speaker. This voice became celebrated. It was so musical and delicious that persons who had once heard her lecture, hearing her utter a few words years afterwards, on a railroad car or in a stage-coach, where it was too dark to adjourn the meeting, Mrs. Mott answered, "When the hour fixed for adjournment comes, I will adjourn the meeting; not before." At last Lucy Stone was introduced. The mob became as quiet as a congregation of church-goers; but as soon as the next speaker began, the howling recommenced, and it continued to the end. At the close of the meeting, when the speakers went into the dressing-room to get their hats and cloaks, the mob surged in and surrounded them; and Lucy Stone, who was brimming over with indignation, began to reproach them for their behaviour. "Oh, come," they answered, "you needn't say anything; we kept still for you!" At an anti-slavery meeting held on Cape Cod, in a grove, in the open air, a platform had been erected for the speakers, and a crowd assembled; but a crowd so menacing in aspect, and with so evident an intention of violence, that the speakers one by one came down from the stand and slipped quietly away, till none were left but Stephen Foster and Lucy Stone. She said, "You had better run, Stephen; they are coming!" He answered, "But who will take care of you?" At that moment the mob made a rush for the platform and a big man sprang up on it, grasping a club. She turned to him and said without hesitation, "This gentleman will take care of me." He declared that he would. He tucked her under one arm, and holding his club with the other, marched her out through the crowd, who were roughly handling Mr. Foster, and such of the [?] catch. Her representations finally so prevailed upon him that he mounted her on a stump, and stood by her with his club while she addressed the mob. They were so moved by her speech that they not only desisted from further violence, but took up a collection of twenty dollars to pay Stephen Foster for his coat, which they had torn in two from top to bottom. When she began to lecture she would not charge an admission fee, partly because she was anxious that as many people as possible should hear and be converted, and she feared that an admission fee might keep some one away; and partly from something of the Quaker feeling that it was wrong to take pay for preaching the Gospel. She economized in every way. When she stayed in Boston, she used to put up at a lodging-house on Hanover Street, where they gave her meals for twelve and a half cents, and lodging for six and a quarter cents, on condition of her sleeping in the garret with the daughters of the house, three in a bed. Once when she was in great need of a new cloak, she came to Salem, Mass., where she was to lecture, and found that the Hutchinson family of singers were to give a concert the same evening. They proposed to her to unite the entertainments and divide the proceeds. She consented, and bought a cloak with the money. She was also badly in want of other clothing. Her friends assured her that the audiences would be just as large despite an admission fee. She tried it, and finding that the audiences continued to be as large as the halls would hold, she continued to charge a door fee, and was no longer reduced to such straits. In 1855 she was married to Henry B. Blackwell, a young hardware merchant of Cincinnati, a strong woman's rights man and abolitionist. In 1853 he had attended a legislative hearing at the State House in Boston, when Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker and Lucy Stone spoke in behalf of a woman suffrage petition headed by Louisa Alcott's mother; and he had made up his mind at that time to marry her if he could. She had meant never to marry, but to devote herself wholly to her work. But he promised to devote himself to the same work, and persuaded her that together they could do more for it than she could alone. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents at West Brookfield, Mass. Rev. T. Wentworth Higginson, who afterwards left the ministry for reform work and the army, and is now better known as Colonel Higginson, was then pastor of a church in Worcester. He came on and performed the ceremony. The account of her later years must be condensed into a few lines. She and her husband have lectured together in many States, taken part in most of the campaigns when suffrage amendments have been submitted to popular vote, have addressed Legislatures, published articles, held meetings far and wide, been instrumental in securing many improvements in the laws, and have together done an unrecorded and incalculable amount of work in behalf of equal rights. A few years after her marriage, while they were living in Orange, N.J., Mrs. Stone let her goods be seized and sold for taxes, and wrote a protest against taxation without representation, with her baby on her knee. In 1866 she helped organized the American Equal Rights Association, which was formed to work for equal rights for both negroes and women, and she was chairman of its executive committee. In 1869, with William Lloyd Garrison, George William Curtis, Colonel Higginson, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore and others, she organized the American Woman Suffrage Association, and was chairman of its executive committee for nearly twenty years. She always craved, not the post of prominence, but the post of work. Most of the money with which the Woman's Journal was started in Boston, in 1870, was raised by her efforts. When Mrs. Livermore, whose time was under increasing demand in the lecture field, resigned the editorship in 1872, Mrs. Stone and her husband took charge of the paper and they have edited it ever since, assisted latterly by their daughter. Of late years, Mrs. Stone was much confined at home by rheumatism, but worked for suffrage at her desk as diligently as she used to do upon the platform. Her sweet, motherly face, under its white cap, was dear to the eyes of audiences at suffrage gatherings, and sometimes the mere sight of her converted an obstinate opponent whom no arguments had been able to move, simply because she was so different from all his preconceived ideas of her. Better than most mortals, she knew how to grow old beautifully. Her life had passed into a serene old age, loved and honored by a multitude of younger women, but loved the most by those who knew her best. ------- Tributes to Mrs. Stone. --- The Boston Transcript prints the following interviews with Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. E.D. Cheney: "I have known Lucy Stone for fifty years," said Mrs. Livermore this morning at her home in Melrose to a representative of the Transcript. "The first time I ever saw her was at an anti-slavery bazaar in Boston. She could not have weighed more than a hundred pounds at that time, a tiny creature with the prettiest pink color, and her girl look was just as sweet as the look of her later years. I thought at the time she was the sweetest thing I had ever seen in my life. She wore a bloomer costume, a very full one, and it was very becoming to her, she was so small. She would have gone on wearing it, if it had not been for the daily crucifixion she had to endure in the streets from rude tongues. I remember how I trotted about after her at that anti-slavery bazaar, admiring her. She seemed up to her eyes in anti-slavery work, but it was really work for women all the time. I remember asking Wendell Phillips once if he did not think that Lucy Stone might lose sight of woman suffrage a little in her work against slavery, and he exclaimed that with her it was always women first. She thought most, cared most to help and uplift women. Wendell Phillips said he told his wife that he must tell Lucy that in this anti-slavery work she must not talk so much about women, and make a little less apparent her thought of women's sufferings. But Mrs. Phillips told him to let Lucy alone, for she knew what she wanted, and what she was about. The black women in slavery appealed to her tender heart in only a different fashion from the appeal of all women suffering from injustice of any sort. "Lucy Stone had made up her mind never to marry, and I am sure she would never have married if the one husband in the world for her had not come. Henry Blackwell loved her so well that he married all her beliefs, and her isms too, and consecrated his life to devoted service to the cause to which she had pledged her [?] He asked me. And I said I was sure I would not, for it is coming, coming all in good time. 'But that,' said Gilbert Haven, 'isn't Lucy's way of giving herself wholly to a cause. She would go to the stake and die to get suffrage for women next week.' "Lesser women know nothing at all of the endless duties and calls upon her," went on Mrs. Livermore. "Little gentle woman as the world called her, she could weight twenty tons when she had a mind to throw herself into the balance for the oppressed. "When her mind was made up, all the world and the Almighty on top of it couldn't have made her budge one inch. But then, the Almighty was always on her side. She had a passion for justice. All her life long it was equal chance she wanted for women, and she could not get it here soon enough. She was the most accurate of women. You could rely absolutely on her statements. If she told me there were four hundred and fifty people in a room, I should not doubt it, but I should know there were exactly 450, and not 449 or 451. She was not to be moved from any act of loving kindness, either, by any reasoning. I remember on one occasion she was about to take up and help a poor woman for whom I believed little or nothing could be done; a woman I had been through the mill with and had not succeeded in helping as I wished. I told Lucy Stone all I could tell her. I begged her not to burden herself. She had cares enough. She heard me through (and I talked, I assure you), and then she said in her soft voice, 'I believe all you say, but I shall do what I intended for her just the same.' Her house was always a home for every woman who needed a home and a friend, who came to ask it. Nobody knows--not even the heartbroken husband, who has lived for her and her cause, in spite of his own sometimes defeated hopes for it--how many [?] those who needed a lift in work of life [?] hope. She adopted a little girl years ago to be a sister to her Alice, but the child died before she reached womanhood, after perhaps ten years in that home. "When Lucy Stone celebrated her seventy-fifth birthday, I wrote her a letter. I told her I didn't know whether she would wish to be congratulated or commiserated on being seventy-five. If she felt that it was good, I wished to congratulate her, and if it seemed too far along the way and she would rather have commiseration, she should have the commiseration with all my heart, for we were old comrades in the fight, and in every way must keep together in the procession until the end. Her answer was like a bugle call!" Mrs. Livermore's face brightened. "She said she would never drop out of the procession. About a fortnight ago I went to see her for the last time, and she held out her hand and repeated some of my words and said, 'And now I have dropped out.' But the words she added were of perfect fearlessness of death. 'I have always believed it is better farther on,' she said; and when I took her hand before I came away, she said: 'We shall shake hands again some time, somewhere. We shall know each other and be comrades still.' "Less than a week ago a member of the Woman's Journal staff went to see her dying friend. She was easier in a sitting posture, and the loving visitor found her propped up near a window where she could look out. After she had seen her, had bade her good-by and had left the house, she turned and looked up to the window. 'Mrs. Stone saw me and waved her hand to me,' she said. 'It was like getting a wave from heaven.'" Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney, in speaking of the personal loss she had sustained in the death of Mrs. Stone, said: "I have known her from my girlhood, and for me she has always stood as the most beautiful and most perfect representative of the woman suffrage cause. She has always held that that was the key which would open the whole career of womanhood, and it has been with her the mainspring of everything; and she has kept through it all sweet and bright, and liberal toward others. Indeed, that has been her strong trait of character. I was with her when she celebrated her sixtieth birthday. Having recently returned from Europe, I told her how, when they spoke abroad in harsh terms of the representatives of the woman suffrage cause, regarding such women as Victoria Woodhull as types of woman suffragists, I had said to them, 'If you only knew Mrs. Stone, you would not speak as you do.' She looked up and asked, 'Why did you mention me? Why not use the names of Mrs. Howe and others, who are such beautiful representatives of our cause?' She was perfectly impersonal in her devotion to the cause. She did not care if others got the credit for what she did, if she only felt that the work was progressing. It is a great grief that she should not have lived to witness the triumph which we feel is so near. A great wrong was committed when she was not allowed to vote on the school THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL: BOSTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1893. 3 question, because she did not take her husband's name. She committed no illegal act in retaining her maiden name, and the fact that her husband did not object to her doing so showed his devotion to the cause. It was an agreement between them before marriage that she could not give up her name. Her life seems to have been a thoroughly ideal one. Her daughter has been a great comfort to her in the sympathy and support she has given to the cause. She is to-day doing as much as any one for its advancement. It is a great satisfaction that Mrs. Stone had that as a reward as well as here public success. It was a pathetic sight to see her go up to the State House, more feeble every year, to plead for the cause she had so much at heart. She said to me one day, putting her hand to her heart, 'It is very hard.' She felt keenly the humiliation to which she had to submit as well as the certainty of failure. Her literary ability was great, but we somehow seemed to lose sight of that in our admiration for her other gifts. As a public speaker she had a charm of expression and a sweetness of voice which was at the same time strong and impressive. She was always easily heard, and her voice was always pleasant to listen to. She was brought up in the country, and she had a great deal of country strength and simplicity. There was nothing formal or conventional about her, but always a quiet simplicity of manner. I never realized until recently the severe struggle she had to get an education. She taught school, and picked and sold berries to pay her way though Oberlin College, which was one of the earliest if not the first college in the country to open its doors to women. She had such power of thought and keen adaptation to the work she had in hand that we thought of her more in that way than of her connection with books and thought. Up to the last time I saw her she was perfectly clear in her mind as to what was being done in our meetings. "Miss Anne Whitney made a bust of Mrs. Stone for the World's Fair and it was put in the Woman's Building, but where if will go when the Fair closes I do not know. I should wish it could go into the State House; not, however, until the suffrage bill has passed. Among the great agitators of the anti-slavery cause there was no death until it had triumphed, and I feel now that she is leading the way to the success of woman suffrage. That we shall have a triumph is certain, and she will be the martyr." IN MEMORIAM MISS CORNELIA McKAY. A very severe affliction has befallen our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Horace McKay, of Indianapolis, Ind., in the death of their second daughter, Cornelia, a beautiful and gifted girl of twenty-two years. Unusually gifted in many directions, and an enthusiastic student in literature, music, art, and she was yet delicate in The following resolutions were passed, and after a grand address by Mrs. Clara Hoffman, of Missouri, the convention adjourned: Whereas the constitution of South Dakota provides for limited school suffrage, and Whereas the last Legislature made provision for an amendment to be submitted to the voters at the next general election which gives women unrestricted school suffrage; therefore Resolved, That this association do all in its power to carry the amendment. Whereas many persons assert that women do not wish to vote; therefore Resolved, That a petition for the ballot be circulated, for the signatures of women through the State, to be presented to the next Legislature. That we extend our sympathy and all the aid possible to our sister States, Kansas and Colorado, who will so soon submit a full woman suffrage amendment to their voters. That we hereby express our regrets at the removal of our past president, Irene G. Adams, from the State, and waft after her our best wishes for her welfare. That we extend our heartfelt thanks to Hon. S.A. Kennedy, Senator J.R. Millikens, Hon. D.S. Hooper, and all others who introduced bills and voted for measures looking to woman's emancipation in our last Legislature. That we express our sincere regrets at the contemplated departure of our faithful Secretary, Mrs. E. M. Wardall, from our State, and assure her that our prayers and best wishes follow her wherever she may go. On motion by Mrs. Hager, seconded by Mrs. Pickler: That we loan Elizabeth Murray Wardall to Kansas for two years, on condition that she be returned at the end of that time. GIRLS IN BUSINESS. But, girls, if you don't mean to make a thorough business of the occupation you have chosen, never, never, never begin to be occupied at all. Half-finished work will do for amateurs. It will never answer for professionals. The bracket you are sawing for a New Year's present can hang a little crooked on its screws, and you will be forgiven for the love's sake found therein by the dear hearts to which you offer it; but the trinket carved for sale in the Sorrento rooms must be cut as true as a rose leaf. You can be a little shaky as to your German declensions in the Schiller club, which you join so enthusiastically after leaving school, and no great harm ever come of it; but teach Schiller for a living, and for each dative case forgotten you are so much money out of pocket. People who pay for a thing demand thorough workmanship or none. To offer incomplete work for complete market price is to be either a cheat or a beggar. The terrible grinding laws of supply and demand, pay and receive, give and get, give no quarter to shilly-shally labor. Old fishing and wishing Are over many a year. O hush thee, O hush thee! heart innocent and dear. With what tender pain does the sweet Irish peasant song sing itself into our hearts: I knead and I spin, but my life is low the while, Oh, I long to be alone, and walk abroad a mile. Yet if I walk alone, and think of naught at all, Why from me that's young should the wild tears fall? The twelve "London Sonnets" ache with the pathos and burden of This too thoughtful ground Sated with human trespass and despair. There is a noble tribute to Gen. Sherman the "early-armored citizen." In plenitude of old control, That asked, secure of his own soul, No pardon and no aid - If clear his way were made. Faith at its loftiest speaks in "Summum Bonum," beauty of the golden twilight shines in the "Nocturne." Blessings on the gentle harper who sends along our dusty ways such strains of melody and peace! C.W. GOSSIP AND GLEANINGS. Miss Frances E. Willard is resting at Somerset House, England. A private letter from Burlington, Vt. says: "Mrs. Livermore at the recent suffrage convention here surpassed herself and delighted her audience. She carried oft all hearts." Wendell Philips Stafford also is said by a discriminating auditor from Kansas to have made a very fine address. Mrs. A.A. Welch, president of the Sixth District for the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, arranged a six days' campaign for Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe, last month, which was carried out satisfactorily. "Mrs. DeVoe is a powerful and impressive speaker, meets every objection clearly and forcibly, and wins the respect even of bitter opposers," says one who has heard her. The November St. Nicholas contains the first of a series of stories of India and the jungle, by Rudyard Kipling. When Kipling was a boy he and his sister used to fight over their St. Nicholas when the new number came to them in India, and now he takes his turn at interesting its readers. An elephant story by Mr. Kipling will appear in the December number. Many of our readers will remember Mrs. Kate Newell Doggett, of Chicago, a scholarly woman, who founded the Fortnightly Club of Chicago, was famous as an (??croscopist), the author of several EDUCATIONAL. WEST NEWTON English and Classical School. Family and Day School. Both sexes. 41st year. College, Scientific and Business Preparation. Send for Catalogue. At home Tuesdays, West Newton, Mass. ALLEN BROTHERS. BERKELEY SCHOOL, Boylston, cor. Berkeley Street, Back Bay. Co-educational. Tenth year Sept. 25. Certificates received at Smith and Wellesley. Has prepared girls for nine higher1 institutions. Open daily from 9 to 3. Catalogues mailed. TAYLOR, DeMERITTE & HAGAR. SLOYD. 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She taught school, and picked and sold berries to pay her way through Oberlin College, which was one of the earliest if not the first college in the country to open its doors to women. She had such power of thought and keen adaptation to the work she had in hand that we thought of her more in that way than of her connection with books and thought. Up to the last time I saw her she was perfectly clear in her mind as to what was being done in our meetings. "Miss Anne Whitney made a bust of Mrs. Stone for the World's Fair and it was put in the Woman's Building, but where it will go when the Fair closes I do not know. I should wish it could go into the State House; not, however, until the suffrage bill has passed. Among the great agitators of the anti-slavery cause there was no death until it had triumphed, and I feel now that she is leading the way to the success of woman suffrage. That we shall have a triumph is certain, and she will be the martyr." ------- In Memoriam. --- Miss Cornelia McKay. A very severe affliction has befallen our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Horace McKay, of Indianapolis, Ind., in the death of their second daughter, Cornelia, a beautiful and gifted girl of twenty-two years. Unusually gifted in many directions, and music and art, she was yet delicate in physique, and in constant danger from overwork and exposure. She was equally skilful with the pen and the carving tools, and was making admirable progress in oil painting and water colors. Her home was beautiful with wood carvings that it would be difficult to excel, and with sketches and studies that were the promise and prophecy of nobler results hereafter. She was intensely interested in portraiture, and had she lived, she would undoubtedly have ranked with the eminent portrait painters of the future. Descended from a Quaker ancestry, and reared in a household both liberal and progressive, she had a vital interest in all the movements of the day that aimed at the uplifting of humanity, and sympathized with those who work for the good time that is fast coming, when life shall be as full of opportunity for women as men. Beloved and needed in her home, where all-encompassing love ministered to her every wish, numbering among her friends the entire circle of music and art lovers of her native city, the world opened brightly before her, and she had everything to live for. It was not possible to detain her in life. All available means were exhausted to restore her to health, and to increase her vitality. She slowly faded, growing lovelier and more beautiful as she passed away, and retaining her mental vigor and interest in the higher things of earth to the latest moment. A flower in God's garden bloomed, And He, who saw its loveliness, Stooped down and plucked it, ere the garish sun Or careless storm should dare abate Its beauty, sweet in spotlessness. Mary A. Livermore. ------- South Dakota Annual Meeting. --- The Annual Convention of the South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association was held at Aberdeen, Sept 21. Officers were elected for the coming year: President - Mrs. Mary A. Groesbeck, Watertown. First Vice-President - Mrs. Alice M. A. Pickler, Yankton. Second Vice-President - Mrs. Emma A. Cranmer, Aberdeen. First Organizer - Mrs. Maris Gaston, Deadwood. Second Organizer - Mrs. Alice Hanson, Mt. Vernon. Executive Committee - Mrs. Florence Loucks, Huron. Member of National American Executive Committee and delegate to National American Woman Suffrage Association, Mrs. Alice M.A. Pickler. [?] templated departure of our faithful Secretary, Mrs. E.M. Wardall, from our State, and assure her that our prayers and best wishes follow her wherever she may go. On motion by Mrs. Hager, seconded by Mrs. Picker: That we loan Elizabeth Murray Wardall to Kansas for two years, on condition that she be returned at the end of that time. ------- Girls in Business. --- But, girls, if you don't mean to make a thorough business of the occupation you have chosen, never, never, never begin to be occupied at all. Half-finished work will do for amateurs. It will never answer for professionals. The bracket you are sawing for a New Year's present can hang a little crooked on its screws, and you will be forgiven for the love's sake found therein by the dear hearts to which you offer it; but the trinket carved for sale in the Sorrento rooms must be cut as true as a rose leaf. You can be a little shaky as to your German declensions in the Schiller club, which you join so enthusiastically after leaving school, and no great harm ever come of it; but teach Schiller for a living, and for each dative case forgotten you are so much money out of pocket. People who pay for a thing demand thorough workmanship or none. To offer incomplete work for complete market price is to be either a cheat or a beggar. The terrible grinding laws of supply and demand, pay and receive, give and get, give no quarter to shilly-shally labor. [?] [??e] excellence of your [?] is [?ing] to the point. The stress of your poverty has not the slightest connection with the case. An editor will never pay you for your poem because you wish to help your mother. No customer will buy her best bonnet or her wheat flour of you because you are unable to pay your rent. When you have entered the world of trade you have entered a world where tenderness and charity and personal interest are foreign relations. Not "for friendship's sake," nor "for pity's sake," nor "for chivalry's sake," runs the great rallying cry of this great world - but only "for value received." It is with sorrow and shame, but yet with hope and courage, that I write it - there is reason for the extensive complaint made by men that women do not work thoroughly. I am afraid that, till time and trouble shall have taught them better, they will not. Is it because they never have been trained? Is it because they expect to be married? That it is not in the least because they cannot, we know; for we know that some of the most magnificently accurate work in the world has been done by women. - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in St. Nicholas. ------- Literary Notices. --- A Roadside Harp. By Louise Imogen Guiney. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Price, $1.00 The many lovers of Miss Guiney's rich and delicate verse will rejoice in the advent of a new collection of her poems. We linger delightedly over the choice little gray and silver volume that holds such tender portrayal of Nature, such haunting thrill of passion, such high calling to great endeavor. Here are our favorites, the exquisite "Song of the Lilac," the "Knight Errant," the martial sounding "Kings." But why does Miss Guiney omit, in this last, the two ringing stanzas that hold the very essence of a conquering spirit? What hands soever have armed them Toward victory still to ride, A meaning left to the rebel, A use to the regicide. So bitter and large a meaning, A vehement use so true, One steady intent to scorn them Doth scorn them and slay them too. The tribute to Izaak Walton is perfect in its soft and peaceful charm: What trout shall coax the rod of yore In Itchen stream to dip? What lover of her banks restore That sweet Socratic lip? [?] ------- Gossip and Gleanings. --- Miss Frances E. Willard is resting at Somerset House, England. A private letter from Burlington, Vt., says: "Mrs. Livermore at the recent suffrage convention here surpassed herself and delighted her audience. She carried off all hearts." Wendell Phillips Stafford also is said by a discriminating auditor from Kansas to have made a very fine address. Mrs. A.A. Welch, president of the Sixth District for the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, arranged a six days' campaign for Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe, last month, which was carried out satisfactorily. "Mrs. DeVoe is a powerful and impressive speaker, meets every objection clearly and forcibly, and wins the respect even of bitter opposers," says one who has heard her. The November St. Nicholas contains the first of a series of stories of India and the jungle, by Rudyard Kipling. When Kipling was a boy, he and his sister used to fight over their St. Nicholas when the new number came to them in India, and now he takes his turn at interesting its readers. An elephant story by Mr. Kipling will appear in the December number. Many of our readers will remember Mrs. Kate Newell Doggett, of Chicago, a scholarly woman, who founded the Fortnightly Club of Chicago, was famous as a [m?croscopist,] the author of several [?] cause, [?] books, a lecturer on literary and art topics, and withal a devoted friend and advocate of woman suffrage. Mrs. Doggett died in Havana, Cuba, nine years ago, and her remains were interred there at the time. Recently, her daughter-in-law, Mrs. George Doggett, has brought the remains to Chicago, where they were buried beside those of her husband and son, in Oakwoods Cemetary. Funeral services were held at the grave. According to Mr. George Johnson, Dominion statistician, the women of Canada are engaged in a great variety of occupations. He writes to the London (Ont.) Advertiser: "They are in beekeeping and gardening, stock raising, laundrying, baking, basket-making, book-binding, box-making, button-making; they are compositors, confectioners, corset-makers, fish-curers, glove-makers, factory hands, government officials, music teachers, college professors, theatre managers, clerks and copyists, agents traders of all kinds, wholesale and retail saleswomen, stenographers and typewriters and telegraph operators. The soft tones of the telephone girl's 'hello' sound through 30,000 miles of wire that were not in existence ten years ago. 'Our girls' have pressed into every kind of occupation." Mrs. U.S. Grant has gone to Chicago to see the Fair. Mrs. Sartoris accompanies her mother. "Nellie Grant's" eldest child is a sixteen-year-old boy named after his father, Algernon. He wants to live in America and study law. As he will inherit the Sartoris estates, this desire is not likely to be fulfilled. 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Her wonderful series of lectures, which began in 1847 on her return from Oberlin College, in the church of her brother, Rev. William B. Stone, at Gardner, Mass., and continued with unabated vigor until the birth of her daughter in 1857. This earlier work culminated in the calling of the first National Women's Rights' Conventions ever held, the greatest meetings of 1850 and 1851, in Worcester, Mass. These attracted public attention throughout the entire country, and the report of the convention of 1850 inspired Mrs. John Stuart Mill to write her remarkable article in The Westminster Review, on the Enfranchisement of Women, which started the agitation in Great Britain, resulting in the establishment, in 1869, of municipal woman suffrage in England. The National Woman's Rights' Conventions from 1850 to 1855 were mainly organized by Lucy Stone, and their proceedings were annually published by her in pamphlet form at her own expense. 2. the calling of the convention, in 1869, in Cleveland, Ohio, which resulted in the formation of the American Woman Suffrage Association. 3. the establishment of the WOMAN's JOURNAL, January 1, 1870, in cooperation with Mrs. Mary A. Livermore as managing editor, and with William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and T. W. Higginson as editorial contributors. In addition to these, were her work during the campaigns for the woman suffrage amendments in Kansas, Vermont, Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado and Rhode Island; her participation, from 1853 on, in the annual hearings before the Legislatures of Massachusetts and other States; her active part in the preparation of the annual meetings of the American Woman Suffrage Association for nearly twenty years; her contributions to the newspapers; her editorial writing for the WOMAN's JOURNAL, which continued until within about a month of her death: [?] professions opened, woman suffrage on school questions established in twenty States, municipal woman suffrage in Kansas, full woman suffrage in Wyoming. Let us hope that next month Colorado will wheel into line, and that the great Northwest will speedily follow. H. B. B. [ LUCY STONE, in 1847.] MARRIAGE PROTEST REAFFIRMED. In behalf of the great principle of Equality in Marriage, I desire, in this hour of inexpressible bereavement, to say, with all the added emphasis of a life-time's experience, that the protest read and signed by Lucy Stone and myself on the first day of May, 1855, as part of our nuptial ceremony, has been the key-note of our married life. After the lapse of more than thirty-eight happy years (how happy, I to-day more keenly realize than ever before),in her behalf and on my own, I wish to reaffirm that declaration. The laws of Massachusetts still "confer on the husband an injurious and unnatural superiority." They still give him "the exclusive control and guardianship of the children." It will remain forever true that "personal independence and equal human rights can never be forfeited except for crime, that marriage should be an equal and permanent partnership and so recognize[?] appointed in our young college women," she sometimes said. She had thought when they came into their heritage of opportunities, that they would take up the work for justice and freedom for women, and carry in bravely to a full fruition. It was a source of keenest sorrow to hear that so many women do not, cannot see that the principle of individual liberty and of equality before the law underlie everything else; that women give so lavishly and work so energetically for secondary things, instead of concentrating their efforts on the carrying of the primary principles; that society, literature, art, and what not, are held more valuable than a mother's right to her child. The world is not yet ready and able to see the measure of Lucy Stone's character and the majesty of her work. In time manhood and womanhood will stand abashed and reverent in recognition that the spirit that animated her from first to last was that the divine love of liberty and humanity which has caused men to lead forlorn hopes, which has sent them to unfalteringly to battle, to prison or to the scaffold, which nerved the heroes who fought at Bunker Hill, and which inspired the long anti-slavery struggle. It was that which caused Lucy Stone in youth to choose the path beset with hardship, poverty, and contumely, and in old age sent her from place to place, through cold and storm, when her own preferences and feebleness would have kept her at her fireside. Once, as were were passing by in the train, we saw the lofty shaft on the Bunker Hill outlined against the sunset glow. She spoke eloquently of all it commemorates, and said in substance: "We are still battling for the principle it stands for. My spirit kindles whenever I see that monument. It is our monument." No one who was privileged to partake of Mrs. Stone's hospitality could fail to note her kindly concern for every one beneath her roof, and for all the dumb creatures belonging to the household. But few knew how far-reaching was that spirit of kindliness, how many her motherliness brooded over. Her name was not prominent on philanthropic and charitable committees, her charity was of the kind that is long-suffering and vaunteth not itself. Flowers and fruits were sent from her garden, boxes of clothing went West, North and South, a host of women who came to her in distress were helped to work for tided over hard places. She [?] MEMORIAL SERVICES. (Continued from First Page. And again: Know well, my soul, God's hand controls Whate'er thou fearest; Round Him in calmest music rolls Whate'er thou hearest. What to us is shadow, to Him is day, And the end He knoweth; And not on a blind and aimless way The spirit goeth. Among those who have been her com- [LUCY STONE, in 1885] rades in arms in the long struggle, who have shared it with her in its delays and in its victories, too, how many may long to bear their testimony and bring their tribute on this occasion, we easily guess. If only a part of those voices are heard, our own hearts will speak the rest. And now we are to hear from familiar and faith-[?] the only person here, with one exception, who was present on that occasion; and I can testify that if there was ever a marriage tied absolutely and indissolubly, not only in substance but in form, it was then and there. Then an impression has gone abroad that another peculiarity of the marriage was that she had to send a great distance for a minister who would leave out the word "obey." As a matter of fact, it was not at all difficult, even then, to find ministers who would leave out that very objectionable word. Civilization had got further than that point, even then. The motive which led to their selection of a minister, was, I suspect, rather that they wished to have one in full sympathy with the protest they uttered; and that protest, itself misinterpreted for a time, stands before us to-day, a singularly perfect statement, as far as it want [?] leaves the hard fought fl[?] to her successors. Whatever value the average woman may attach to equal suffrage, yet sadly restricted though it be, is preeminently to be credited to Lucy Stone. If any woman to-day esteems it a right and privilege to claim the clothes earned by herself as her own, she owes it chiefly to Lucy Stone. It will take generations of coming women to realize the boon bestowed by such a life. It is indeed a worthy study for the whole sex. At a time like this it is pleasant to recall that Mrs. Stone credited the Globe with being one of the best and strongest newspaper friends of woman in the country. Her pen, as our readers well know, has frequently graced the Globe's columns. It has taken the best part of a century to produce a Lucy Stone. But the good she has accomplished for her sex and for humanity will be carried along all the centuries to come. The Boston Daily Advertiser says: Of all those prominently identified with what is commonly called the woman's rights movement, no one was more influential, more indefatigable or more cordially esteemed than Mrs. Lucy Stone. Her death is an irreparable loss, not only to the cause to which she devoted so large a part of her life, but to the community in which she dwelt. The sense of bereavement is widely extended. This distinguished lady possessed qualities that would have won for her a noble fame as well as devoted personal friendships in whatever sphere of life she might have chosen. She was gifted with exceptional talents, and these were developed by such intellectual culture as very few young women were able to obtain in the days when she graduated from Oberlin College. Added to great natural abilities and thorough education were qualities of moral earnestness and high enthusiasm. Withal she was a womanly woman in the fullest sense that those words can truthfully convey. Upon the sacred theme of domestic life it is sufficient to remark that in her was seen a complete refutation of the slander, once common but now happily seldom encountered, that ambition for enlarged privileges on the part of women is inconsistent with the best discharge of duties that pertain to wifehood and motherhood. In the sphere of home this refined and tender-hearted woman was as admirable as she was in the more public realm where she moved with serene and queenly presence. The future historian of the woman's rights crusade will accord to Mrs. Lucy Stone a foremost place. The story of her writings, lectures, journeyings, organizing activities, of her achievements by means of individual conversations, of the converts won to the cause directly and indirectly, of the champions that here efforts secured both among the members of her own and the opposite sex, the prejudices overcome, the barriers that crumbled before her gentle touch, the bitter oppositions; from first to last there was always the burdening sense of seemingly small accomplishment compared with great objects of desire; but as the end drew near, her heart was gladdened by many signs full of encouragement. In her last and lingering illness there came to her tidings which gave inexpressible comfort, because they proved that success was fast crowning her life's unselfish struggle. The words addressed by Phillips Brooks to Whittier not long before they both, poet and preacher, rested from their labors, may be fittingly applied to the wise and sweet and beautiful spirit of Lucy Stone: "I thank God that you have lived, that you are living still, and that you will live forever." The Springfield Republican says: The death of Lucy Stone is an event which cannot be passed without due recognition of a rare and noble spirit, who had done her work among her fellows with an enlightenment, an intellectual power, a courage and a grace which are seldom combined, especially in a reformer --that terror of conventional society in every age. "She," said Mrs. Stanton, "first really stirred the nation's heart on the subject of woman's wrongs." And this great power of hers, thus generously acknowledged by one of the two most eminent of her living fellow-laborers, was due to the singular sweetness of her nature. Others could say what she said, but not as she said it. No one who ever heard the speeches at a woman suffrage convention could fail to note the great difference in the temper of the audience as they listened to the different speakers. After a woman of brilliant talents had spoken with vigor and vehemence, arraigning the tyrant man for the inequalities of the law as bearing upon women--saying nothing but the truth, but adding to that truth a temper which provoked anger--Lucy Stone would arise, and in two minutes would calm the troubled waters, and uttering the same burden, would bring every hearer to assent to all she said. Her gentle and lovable countenance; her musical, low, but clear and searching voice; her gracious and persuasive manner, would steal away every resentful or unpleasant feeling and the man who entered the hall a disbeliever would leave it at least "a hopeful convertite." Lucy Stone's protest against the traditional idea of the marriage relation, by which the woman has ever been regarded as the mere appendage of the man, and which has been the root of all the evil laws that during thousands of years had given all the rights to the husband, and to the wife such privileges as he might allow, was one of the signal advances toward the true idea of marriage and the real position of woman, not only in domestic matters, but in the body politic. Out of that protest, which she and Henry B. Blackwell, her husband, jointly signed, has proceeded more courageous progress toward the rights of man and woman as gave fr ate Lucy Stone are warm and inanied is as they should be. She was a great and good woman. The Sun well says that her "name must be enrolled on the list of illustrious Americans." For half a century she had battled for the elevation of her sex to full political, social and industrial equality, with men. And she lived to see the cause for which she labored so zealously, substantially successful. There was only one college--that of Oberlin--open to women when Lucy Stone was of college age. To-day the doors of but few colleges are closed to them. Women could not own property or keep their own earnings when Lucy Stone began to preach the equality of the sexes. They can to-day. Women had no legal right even to their own clothes when this heroic little woman first began to plead their cause. To-day they have. Few wage-earning employments or profitable professions were open to women fifty years ago. To-day there are but few which they cannot enter. Finally, there was not ballot of any kind cast by women in 1847, the year of Lucy Stone's advent as the advocate of woman's emancipation. To-day in two States--Kansas and Wyoming --they have complete suffrage, voting on terms of full equality with men; and in thirty-two of our forty-four States they enjoy limited suffrage. In the near future they will undoubtedly be enfranchised everywhere and vote at all elections. Yet Lucy Stone did not live long enough to cast a vote. Massachusetts has allowed her women to vote at school elections for many years, but the registration officers of her ward would not allow her to register in her own proper name as Lucy Stone, which she had used all her lifetime, and she would not register or vote in any other. So Lucy Stone died without every casting the ballot which she had done so much to win for other women. It was a matter of principle with her not to lose her own identity or merge her name in that of her husband. Her husband, Dr. Blackwell, agreed with her in this, and the registration officers might well have recorded her name on the voting lists. However, it matters not now, nor will it hereafter. As Lucy Stone she lived, labored and died, and as Lucy Stone the women of America, soon to enjoy full political equality, will some day honor her with a national statue in the Capitol at Washington. History will hail her as one of the "immortal dead who live again" In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn Of miserable aims that end with self, In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge men's minds To vaster issues. Elsewhere, the editor of the N. Y. Recorder says. The death of Lucy Stone of Massachusetts removes one of the most picturesque knew her who did not respect, admire and love her. MARRIAGE PROTEST. Among the events of note in the life of Lucy Stone, not the least memorable was her marriage, and the protest against the existing marriage, laws, which was drawn up and signed by her and her husband. The ceremony was performed by Col. Higginson, of Cambridge, then Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, of Worcester. The protest was published in the Worcester Spy and the Boston Traveller, that the world of 1855 might know the stand that had been taken. The following is Mr. Higginson's letter to the Spy: "It was my privilege to celebrate May day by officiating at a wedding in a farmhouse among the hills of West Brookfield. The bridegroom was a man of tried worth, a leader in the Western anti-slavery movement; and the bride is one whose fair name is known throughout the nation; one whose rare intellectual qualities are excelled by the private beauty of her heart and life. "I never perform the marriage ceremony without a renewed sense of the iniquity of our present system of laws in respect to marriage; a system by which 'man and wife are one, and that one is the husband.' It was with my hearty concurrence, therefore, that the following protest was reach and signed, as a part of the nuptial ceremony; and I send it to you, that others may be induced to do likewise." Here is the protest as drawn jointly by Lucy Stone and H. B. Blackwell, and subscribed to once more by the bereaved husband at the funeral: "While acknowledging our mutual affection by publicly assuming the relationship of husband an wife, yet, in justice to ourselves and a great principle, we deem it our duty to declare that this act on our part implied no sanction of nor promise of voluntary obedience to such of the present laws of marriage as refuse to recognize the wife as an independent, rational being, while they confer upon the husband an injurious and unnatural superiority, investing him with legal powers which no honorable man would exercise, and which no man should possess. We protest especially against the laws which give the husband: 1. "The custody of the wife's person. 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The physician at length told us to give him Hood's Sarsaparilla, which we did. Two bottles cured him. He is now 10 years old and has not had any sign of scrofula since. We recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla to all our friends." MRS. J. C. CLIPPER, S KIDDER St., Cleveland, O. Entirely Cured My Boy Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Prepared only by C I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL: BOSTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1893. 341 mind, not by the sweet voice, but because the clearness of mind and the sweetness of voice were of themselves a part of that perfect quality of womanhood that she had. You could not take it apart, you could not separate it. Being herself, she could not have spoken with any other voice or in any other way than she did. And, murmuring in those sweet tones and in that sunny spirit to the last, she left the world behind her, as we say,--below her, as we might say,--and she might well reply to all of us, in the words attributed to Lady Augusta Stanley, Dean Stanley's wife, upon her death bed: "Why should you mourn for me, for me? I am only removing from a back chamber with back windows into a front chamber where all the windows look to the front." Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, absent in Maine, sent the following poem which was read by Rev. Frederic A. Hinckley: LUCY STONE. Full of honors and of years, Lies our friend at rest, Passing from earth's hopes and fears To the ever Blest. One of the anointed few Touched with special grace, For a life whose service true Should redeem the race. Where is that persuasive tone Welcome in our ears? Still I hear it, sounding on, Through the golden spheres. When we raise our battle cry For the holy Right, We shall feel her drawing nigh With a spirit's might. As the veil of flesh doth part, We behold her rise, Crowned with majesty of heart; There true question lies. ADDRESS OF MRS. LIVERMORE. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore said: On Lucy Stone's last birthday I wrote her a letter. She had had seventy-four birthdays before, but I never had happened to write her a letter on any one of them. She was at Gardner, in the home of her sister, hoping for a little longer life; for she said she should be glad to live, if it were the Divine order. I was ill myself, and after lamenting our demoralized condition, I wrote: "There is nothing for us to do, Lucy, but to put away all thoughts of sickness, and gird ourselves up, and keep on together with the procession to the end." In her reply she said, "Thank you for that. We will do it. We will keep together, and be good comrades straight to the end." She did not realize her expectation, but came back to her home and failed rapidly. Then came a letter that was like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky: "If you want to see Lucy again, you must come soon." I went to her chamber, and found her facing the future, calm, fearless, with much was to be done that was right, all the world united could not include her to turn aside from it. Do it she would, let come what might come. That was her right and her privilege. When you are travelling westward and get into Nebraska, you meet a river, and if it is a wet season it is a wide river, that has no banks, but flows along the prairies. You mark its course by the stunted, straggling, distorted cottonwood trees which spring up here and there along its way. It it is a dry season, the river shrinks to a sluggish stream. It is mostly a nuisance to the farmers. It does nothing; it cannot be relied on for any work or power. But you go on still farther west, and come to a river of a very different character, which comes down from the north. It is a broad river, wide but not so very deep, till it gets a conviction of the work it has to do, and then it narrows itself and deepens its stream, and increases its momentum, and charges its waters with sand, and the mighty Colorado forces its way through lofty mountains, leaving on either side inaccessible precipices that tower up from three to five thousand feet. That was the narrowness of Lucy Stone. I have read a newspaper article within a few days which declared that our friend thought woman suffrage would accomplish everything--that was the end for which she toiled. She never for a moment believed that woman suffrage was the end. She regarded the ballot as a means to an end. After women were enfranchised the real work would begin. And she saw this so clearly that she never faltered. "When I began to work for woman suffrage," she said to me, "it was so hard and so difficult that if I had been put at the foot of the loftiest peak of the Rocky Mountains, with a jack-knife in hand, and had been told, 'Hew your way up,' it would have been pastime, compared to my task." But she never faltered, though she often suffered. I have been her in moments of keenest anguish over a defeat that she expected would be a moderate victory. I have seen her so wrung with anguish over the wrongs of women that she could not weep, and I have seen her weep over them, and then her grief would break us down, and we would weep together. For she had such ability to bear and to hope on, always believing that she would live to see the end, that when she gave away to temporary despondency, we dropped into temporary despair. Single hearted, working for women only, she distinguished herself in this particular above all who have worked for women. All the rest of us who worked with her had other hobbies, and went into other employments. We went into literature, and philanthropy, we worked for the religious organizations in which we had a place and a name, joined clubs, and worked for them, travelled in Europe, went to India, to California, to Florida, travelled through the South, and West, held receptions and attended receptions; but she could not be drawn into anything of the kind. "My one work is for women, and I must do it. This one thing I do!" And that one thing she did for half a cen- window reflected in it on the auction block; and to the American slave's redemption she gave the energy of her youth, the strength of her soul. Thank God, she lived to see that victory, to see that work accomplished, and join in the shout of the slave's jubilee. Then, aye, and before than, she gave herself to the work of the emancipation of a larger class of her fellow beings, the emancipaton of womanhood from the chains which legislation had bound around her. She gave herself to the work of effecting absolute justice in our legislatures and our judiciaries. She heard the cry of the child again. Again she saw children taken from their mothers, not to be sold on an auction block, but taken by the hand of the law. She saw the cruel working of the law, which refused to give to the mother the one thing of her own to which it might be supposed a mother had a right, her infant child, and put it in the power of the father. She heard; and you know better than I can tell you of her faithfulness in all this work. You have heard how she lived. Some of us hoped, as she did, that she would live to see this other work accomplished, to see another victory, and to join in the thanksgivings which will arise from your hearts when this victory shall be accomplished. This was not granted to her. But she saw the dawning of that glorious day. She heard, while her ear yet hearkened, The song of the reapers singing, And she saw, ere her eye was darkened, The sheaves of the harvest-bringing. Will she not see the victory? Will she not join in it? She is living to see it, living far more than we are. She will live forever, and when that triumph shall come, and all the successive triumphs throughout the centuries shall come of right over wrong and truth over falsehood, will not she and those who have gone from us here see and hear and share with all the fulness of their souls in the joy of that victory? I am sure she will. She and we shall rejoice together, wherever in God's great universe we may be at that day. I look over this sea of faces of men and women, old and young, gathered here with full hearts to raise a tribute to her memory, to do her honor, to talk of her in words of eulogy, not for her sake but for our own, and to relieve the feelings of our own hearts. But, my friends, especially my young friends here, would you build a monument to her memory such as she would like? It would not be of marble or of bronze. Build it in your own characters. The monument she would ask you to build, the tribute she would ask you to pay, not to her but to the principles of her life, is to build up such a character as she build up, based on truth and righteousness, unfaltering loyalty and devotion. That is the best tribute we can ever pay to those whom we love, and by whose side we have labored year after year. My younger friends her, the twentieth century is about to dawn upon you, and it is to be your century. You are to mould it. 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Tuesday and Friday nights, RENEE DE MOREY Wednesday and Thursday nights CLAIR Saturday night ARTICLE Evenings at 7.45 Wed. and Sat. Matinees Bowdoin Square Theatr MR. CHAS. F. ATKINSON M Every evening at 8. Matinees Wed. and Sat Touched with a special grace For a life whose service true should redeem the race. Where is that persuasive tone Welcome in our ears? Still I hear it, sounding on, Through the golden spheres. When we raise our battle cry For the holy Right, We shall feel her drawing nigh With a spirit's might. As the veil of flesh doth part, We behold her rise, Crowned with majesty of heart; There true queendom lies. ADDRESS OF MRS. LIVERMORE. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore said: On Lucy Stone's last birthday I wrote her a letter. She had had seventy-four birthdays before, But I never had happened to writer her a letter on any one of them. She was Gardner, in the home of her sister, hoping for a little longer life; for she said she should be glad to live, if it were the Divine order. I was ill myself, and after lamenting our demoralized condition, I wrote: "There is nothing for us to do, Lucy, but to put away all thoughts of sickness, and gird ourselves up, and keep on together with the procession to the end." In her reply she said, "Thank you for that. We will do it. We will keep together, and be good comrades straight to the end." She did not realize her expectation, but came back to her home and failed rapidly. Then cam a letter that was like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky: "If you want to see Lucy again, you must come soon." I went to her chamber, and found her facing the future, calm, fearless, with much thought woman suffrage would accomplish everything - that was the end for which she toiled. She never for a moment believed that woman suffrage was the end. She regarded the ballot as a means to an end. After women were enfranchised the real work would begin. And she saw this so clearly that she never faltered. "When I began to work for woman suffrage," she said to me, "it was so hard and so difficult the if I had been put at the foot of the loftiest peak of the Rocky Mountains, with a jack-knife in hand, and had been told, 'Hew your way up,' it would have been pastime, compared to my task." But she never faltered, though she often suffered. I have seen her in moments of keenest anguish over a defeat that she expected would be a moderate victory. I have seen her so wrung with anguish over the wrongs of women that she could not week, and I have seen her weep over them, and then her grief would break us down, and we would weep together. For she had such ability to bear and to hope on, always believing that she would live to see the end, that when she gave away to temporary despondency, we dropped into temporary despair. Single hearted, working for women only, she distinguished herself in this particular above all how have worked for women. All the rest of us who worked with her had other hobbies, and went into other employments. We went into literature, and philanthropy, we worked for religious organizations in which we had a place and a name, joined clubs, and worked for them, travelled in Europe, went to India, to California, to Florida, travelled through the South, the West, held receptions and attended receptions; but she could not be drawn into anything of the kind. "My one work is for women, and I must do it. This one thing I do!" And that one thing she did for half a century this victory shall be accomplished. This was not granted to her. But she saw the dawning of that glorious day. She heard, while her ear yet hearkened, The song of the reapers singing, And she saw, ere her eye was darkened, The sheaves of the harvest-bringing. Will she not see the victory? Will she not join in it? She is living to see it, living far more than we are. She will live forever, and when that triumph shall come, and all the successive triumphs throughout the centuries shallowing come of right over wrong and truth over falsehood, will not she and those who have gone from us here see and hear and share with all the fulness of their souls in the joy of that victory? I am sure she will. She and we shall rejoice together, wherever in God's great universe we may be at that day. I look over this sea of faces of men and women, old and young, gathered here with full hearts to raise a tribute to her memory, to do her honor, to talk of her in words of eulogy, not for her sake but for our own, and to relieve the feelings of our own hearts. But, my friends, especially my young friends here, would you build a monument to her memory such as she would like? It would not be of marble or of bronze. Build it in your own characters. The monument she would ask you to build, the tribute she would ask you to pay, not to her but to the principles of her life, is to build up such a character as she built up, based on truth and righteousness, unfaltering loyalty and devotion. That is the best tribute we can ever pay to those whom we love, and by whose side we have labored year after year. My younger friends here, the twentieth century is about to dawn upon you, and it is to be your century. You are to mould it. To you will come, as to all pottier, or hang it upon the wall as background for choice furniture or works of art? Our assortment of Oriental Rugs and Carpets, replenished by fresh importations is quite without an equal hereabouts. Not only do we offer some extra fine Antiques, ranging in price up to $1,000 each, but we have also paid special attention to the medium grades, in choice colorings, the prices of which begin at $5 - for which sum a very handsome and durable rug can be obtained, though not, of course, of large size. ------------- Remember these two things: 1st - That owing to our great number of EXCLUSIVE patterns, obtainable nowhere else, it is simply IMPOSSIBLE for a purchaser to really know what there is in the market without examine OUR STOCK. 2d - that, considering quality and style, our PRICES are the LOWEST in Boston. -------------- John H. Pray, Sons & Co., Carpets and Upholstery, 658 Washington Street, Opp. Boylston Street. Boston's Favorite Prima Donna, CAMILLE D'ARVILLE, and 80 artists Souvenirs - 50th Performance - Oct. 30. ------------------------------------- COLUMBIA THEATER, Rich & Harris and Charles Frohman Props. and Managers. MONDAY, October 30th, Second Week Pauline Hall Opera Company, accompanied by Richard Golden A Royal Success, THE HONEYMOONERS. "Truly Eccentric." Libretto by C. M. S. McLellan, Music by William Furst. Evenings at 8. Regular Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. ------------------------------------- GRAND OPERA HOUSE One Week, Commencing MONDAY, OCTOBER 30, CLARA MORRIS In the following repertoire: Monday night and Thursday matinee, CAMILLE. Tuesday and Friday nights, RENEE DE MOREY. Wednesday and Thursday nights, CLAIRE. Saturday night, ARTICLE 47. Evenings at 7:45. Wed. and Sat Matinees at 2 --------------------------------- Bowdoin Square Theatre. Mr. Chas. F. Atkinson ------ Every evening at 8. Matinees Wed. and Sat Livermore's address at Westfield: "Frailty, thy name is woman;" "The earth waits for her queen." The first is a conception pertaining to the past; the second is a prophecy of that grander type toward which the whole sex is moving. The estimate of woman has vacillated between two extremes. She has been a slave or an idol, a drudge or a doll. Girls, who fifty years about aspired to something higher and nobler, met with little encouragement. When about seventeen years of age, I went in company with five or six other like-minded young ladies, to visit President Quincy, of Harvard College, and we asked the privilege of attending lectures in the college, President Quincy replied, "You don't want this sort of education. This is for boys. You would be a disgrace to your friends if you came here, What you need to learn is to make bread, and sew, and keep house." "All these domestic accomplishments," said these girls, "we have learned already from our mothers at home. We ask now for something else." "The time will never come," rejoined President Quincy, "when Harvard will open its doors to women." By that saying he is proved a poor prophet. The disappointed applicants for higher education withdrew and conferred together in the old burial-ground on Copp's Hill. With solemn protests and pledges, they declared that they would ever resist with all their powers the injustice which discriminates against women and bars them from educational advantages to which they are entitled equally with men. Fifty years ago there were but thirteen occupations open to women; now there are three hundred and forty-two. There are at least forty thousand women now in colleges. We asked for the ballot for women in order that the schools and professions might be opened to us. Now it seems we have attained everything, yet are without the right of suffrage. Now having gained so much, women need the ballot that thereby they may help men. The moral influence, which women represent, is needed in the legislation of our country. A thrilling and beautiful illustration was drawn from an incident in the Battle of Gettysburg. Two reserved corps stationed on the heights overlooked the field of conflict. Fog and smoke had hidden the contestants. The wind arose. The mists cleared. One reserved corps was ordered to march. Forward in regular file the brave men advanced against the masked batteries of the enemy, only to fall victims in death. The other corps of reserves upon the hilltop saw the danger of their comrades and felt that if they were ordered into action they could save their friends from ruthless destruction. "O God," exclaimed, "why can we not go down and fight for them!" In the past, men have said to women, "Stay upon the heights. We will fight the battles of life." But women see their husbands, sons and brothers perish, and know they could save, if only they had the power to act. In the fight against the liquor traffic, "O mamma," he whispered softly, "I've found the rainbow, and it comes from up there!" And he pointed to the picture on the window. "Yes," said mamma gently, as she led him away. The rainbow is still one of Jackey's greatest delights, and he always says he "found it in the church, where it came straight down from heaven." - Annie Douglas Bell in Our Little Ones. --------------------- HUMOROUS. ---------- A colored philosopher is reported to have said, "Life, my breddern, am mos'ly made up of praying' for rain and then wishin' it would cl'ar off." "George Washington," said Tommy, in his "composition," "was a man who, if he pointed a gun at a man and told the man it wasn't loaded, the man would not get a bit scared." Realism Impracticable. - Egbert Eausonice - Do you know society has nevah been wepwesented in novels as it really is? Thanis Bight - Certainly not. A novel must be bright enough to be entertaining before it will succeed. - Puck. Reporter (interviewing an aged negress) - And they tell me, aunty, you are 110 years old. Now, how does it happen you have lived so long? 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General Sherman's son Thomas, in the company of a detachment of soldiers, was crossing the pontoon bridge over the Potomac, when the armies were on their way to Washington for their great review in 1865. The boy was then about eight years old. One of the men, to make talk, asked him if he expected to grow up as smart a man as his father. "No, sir," answered the boy, with surprising promptness. "Why not?" was the next question. "Well," said Thomas without hesitation, "there are plenty of other men who have grown up, and why ain't they as smart as my father?" - Philadelphia Press. The Star in the West, by Virginia D. Young. Suggestions of a Line of Study. Suggestions for Franchise Superintendents. Jesus Christ the Emancipator of Women, by Rev. C. C. Harrah. Municipal Suffrage in Kansas, by Secretary Adams. Woman Suffrage a Political Reform, by Henry B. Blackwell. A True Story, by Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman. ----------- Also for sale: Life of Anna Ella Carroll, by S. E. 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[*Page 5- Page 11*] Supplement to the Iowa Homestead Giving Accounts of Meetings of the Third National Congress of Mothers, the Third Triennial Council of Women, and the Eighth Continental Congress of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution, at Washington, D.C. DES MOINES, IOWA, THURSDAY, May 18, 1899. OUR "WOMEN'S WORK" SPECIAL. We herewith present to the reader, and especially to the wives, mothers and daughters on the farms of the West, a supplemental issue devoted to a report of organized work by women in some of its most interesting and important phases during the past winter. The closing years of the nineteenth century, notable for so much that bears witness to the truth of the declaration long ago made by Galileo that the world does actually move, will be specially distinguished, when their history comes to be written, as a period in which the organized influence of women began to make itself felt to a degree theretofore unknown and undreamed of. The annals of all ages are adorned with the names of individual women who have left the impress of their personality, both upon that times in which they lived and upon those that came after. [...] but it has remained of our own times to see women largely move in masses for the accomplishment of good. Only in recent years do they seem to have awakened to a realization of the value of the united and systematic effort that finds its expression in local, state, national and international association for the promotion of moral, educational and social ends. If, however, woman's recognition of the maxim, " In union there is strength," shall seem to have been somewhat delayed, it must be admitted that she has promptly availed herself of it when the light did dawn. All over the land we find women organizing for their own improvement and that of society. Earnestness of purpose characterizes the movement everywhere. If the ferment that is working among the women of our own country, and of all civilized lands, is productive of something of a yeasty froth, as the friends of women's organization admit, the least sympathetic observers must also concede that beneath it there is a large residuum of good influence that is every day working for the betterment of the world. The forms of association vary and the special objects differ but they all have one future in common- elevated aims and an earnest intent to improve the moral, social and intellectual conditions of the land. Their underlying motive is invariably unselfish, benevolent, philanthropic and uplifting, and their methods are, in the main, wise and efficacious. One of the most important of these organizations- important because of the vast influence it may wield in the character building of the men and women of the future- is the National Congress of Mothers, which recently met at Washington, D. C., and contemporaneously therewith was also held the convention [...] the National Council of Women and [...] Continental Congress of the Daugh [...s] of the American Revolution. In the proceedings of the first of these bodies we felt well assured the mothers and future mothers on the western farms would feel a keen and intelligent interest. In modern thought the tendency is to regard motherhood as a profession, and a profession, too, to which 80 percent of the women of the country will devote themselves. As a corollary to this idea, motherhood and its duties deserve and require systematic study. Heredity counts for much, but the plastic age during which the child is moulded like wax by the mother's hand is felt to be the critical period in its life. Characters are ruined by neglect, but they are also marred by too much unselfish devotion on the mother's part. Education that shall train the mind, the hand and the heart is essential to making our children what we all yearn to see them. The physical perfection of the future men and women of the country depends largely upon the enlightened care and watchfulness of their mothers during their childhood. In all these problems, and in hundreds of others of which these are examples, the women on the western farms have the same deep and abiding interest as that which their sisters should feel everywhere, and we have therefore been convinced that a report of what some of the brightest minds in the country were doing and seeking to do, would be helpful and inspiring to the women on the western farms, now or hereafter to be charged with the duties of motherhood. We have also felt that the wives, mothers and daughters on the farms of the West would feel a sympathetic interest in the proceedings of the National Council of Women, an organization composed of representatives from many organiza- tions throughout the country, having a great variety of purpose, but all looking to the betterment of society and the con- ditions which surround it. So, too, we have believed that the patriotism with which women have, in all ages, made much heroic sacrifice, and which [???s] among the women on the farms [??] West to a degree unsurpassed anyw[??] [????] would be gratified, sustained and ins[?]d by some notice of the Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Moved by the beliefs just stated, we determined to give, in a special issue of this paper, a faithful outline of the proceed- ings of these important meetings, and Mrs. Isaac Lea Hillis, a staff contributor of the paper, was assigned to the duty of attending the meetings at the national capital and preparing an account of the transactions of the several associations. The result is herewith given, and with it we feel assured that our readers, and especially our lady readers, will be well pleased. With Mrs. Hillis the work was a labor of love, for she has long been deeply interested in organized work by women and feels especially so in the lab- ors of the Mothers' Congress, of which she is one of the state regents. Her work in this report proves her able, capable and observant and possessed of the happy faculty of selection that brings into prominence those points which most readers woul[d] most like to know. To [th?] [...] added a number of excellent [??raits] of women occupying the chief [??al] positions in the several associations, together with interesting sketches of some of the features about the national capital in which farmers' wives and daughters in the West are likely to feel an interest, ap- propriately concluding with a brief account of what is now to be seen at Mt. Vernon. We say appropriately, because there does seem to be a peculiar fitness in the fact that a special issue de- voted to organized work by women make some mention of Mt. Vernon, which was secured to the country by the efforts of the Ladies' Mt. Vernon Association, one of the earliest important organizations of women for a patriotic public purpose in the land. The mothers of Iowa and the West will rejoice to know that The Homestead's staff contributor invited the National Con- gress of Mothers to select Des Moines as the place for holding the annual session in 1900, and was able to place the attractions, the claims and the generous hospitality of the Iowa capital before the executive board in a light so favorable as to secure an acceptance of the invitation. The Homestead is deeply gratified to have been thus instrumental in bringing to Des Moines an assemblage of such national importance, whose sacred mission renders it second to no other in the land, and whose presence will give renewed in- spiration and impetus to the task of lifting western home life to a higher plane, thus advancing the cause of civilization by making the men and women of coming generations better and more enlightened sons and daughters, and in their turn better parents and citizens. The people of Des Moines and of Iowa will be glad to welcome such a body of [?]nest and devoted workers in so good [?], for whom in the largest, freest [?] liberal sense, the Hawkeye [?] will hang out. 0000 ORGANIZED WOMEN'S WORK. Three Great Phases of Associated Effort by American Women, AS MOTHERS, AS SOCIOLOGISTS AND PHILANTHROPISTS, AND AS PATRIOTS. Described for the Information of the Wives, Mothers and Daughters on Western Farms. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Page Prefatory ... 2 The National Congress of Mothers, its Origin and Originator ... 2 Address of Mrs. Theodore W. Birney, President ... 2 Declaration of Principles ... 3 Officers of the Mothers' Congress ... 3 Its Headquarters and Work ... 4 The Kindergarten ... 4 Duty of Parents to Education ... 4 Suffrage Discussion ... 4 Dependent and Delinquent Children ... 5 National Association of Colored Women 5 Mrs. McKinley's Reception at the White House ... 5 Resolutions of the Mothers' Congress ... 5 National Council of Women and its Personnel ... 6 Notable Women in Attendance ... 6 Discussion of Expansion ... 6 Women as Peacemakers ... 7 Other Leading Topics Discussed ... 7 Women's Relief Corps Work ... 7 Mission Work in the South ... 7 Vivisection ... 7 Dress Reform ... 7 Resolutions of the National Council ... 8 Page International Council of Women and its Programme ... 8 Continental Congress of Daughters of the American Revolution ... 8 Work and Methods of the D. A. R. ... 8 Reception of the Continental Congress ... 10 Attitude of Women Towards Polygamy ... 10 Summary of Results of Women's Work ... 11 Points of Interest at Washington ... 11 Mount Vernon ... 12 PORTRAITS. Mrs. Theodore W. Birney, President National Congress of Mothers ... 2 Mrs. Vesta H. Cassedy, Corresponding Secretary National Congress of Mothers ... 5 Mrs. Maria Purdy Peck, Vice-President National Council of Women ... 7 Mrs. Frances Humphrey Gaffney, President- Elect, National Council of Women ... 9 Mrs. Mary Church Terrel, President National Association of Colored Women ... 11 Miss May Wright Sewell, President National Council of Women and Vice- President of the International Council ... 12 AMERICAN WOMEN IN COUNCIL. What Women are Accomplishing in the Last Days of the Nineteenth Century for the Home, for Society, and for Our Native Land. Three Great National Conventions Described, of Interest to the Wives, Mothers and Daughters on the Farms of the West. OUR OBJECT "One half of the world does not know how the other half lives," is an old and trite expression. One-half the women do not know what the other half are doing, might be said with equal truth. To give the women of secluded lives and meager opportunity some idea of the work their sex is doing in philanthropy education, reform, politics, and religion, is the object of this paper, and to learn the fact in all these avenue of women's endeavor was the mission of the writer to the national capital. While some of the doings of women may provoke a smile, yet the most casual reader will, I think, hardly fail to realize what a power for good the united effort of enlightened womanhood must become in our national civilization. And a sense of strength and dignity in such union will, I trust, be the abiding sentiment remaining with every woman reader, not matter how narrow her sphere or limited her own powers. Let us all, as women, be proud of the noble work other women as able to do, and let us help them with our sympathy and out growing interest and cooperation in the years to come. PURELY PERSONAL In the report of the three great congresses of women which met in Washington, D.C., recently, it must be borne in mind that the representative of this paper had only the normal number of brain cells, eyes, ears, and hands, with which [[?]], assimilate and make [[?]] of all [[?]] and freaks there present. In such [[?]] and widely dissimilar body of men and women it was often, to the uninitiated; a difficult matter to distinguish the crank from the responsible worker along practical lines. While the writer tried to hear everything and see everybody of importance, much doubtless escaped notice, and if some of the follow- ing matter is flavored with the personality of the writer it is unintentional and must be borne with, inasmuch as your correspondent is a small person of decided sympathies and strong prejudices. Recognizing out national love of a "bit of gossip" and personalities about people in any way conspicuous, we shall sometimes give impressions of men, women and things as they appeared to us, but will try not to intrude self more than is necessary to make the connecting link between reader and the story. RETROSPECT. The nineteenth century will go down in history as having given to woman her first large opportunity. The United States as a nation is conspicuous for the universal emancipation of women from the limitations of other nations and other ages. Women for centuries have been content (?) to bake and brew, and spin and sew, and endure with patience, but with a slumbering sense of equality and injustice, the position of infirmity and incapacity accorded to her by common usage. Gradually she has been aroused to a realization of her powers and her ability to stand on her own feet, and, all praise to the manhood of the world, she has had no warfare to wage, no struggle for recognition; for just as soon as she has demonstrated her fitness to use the tools so long man's sole prerogative have they been yielded up to her. Today, at the threshhold of the new century, American womanhood, by right of conquest, through demonstrated ability, stands shoulder to shoulder with husband and brother and feels herself a potential unit among the citizens of the world. The history of the country during the past fifty years reads like a fairy tale. Steam motors, telegraphy, electricity, invention and discover annihilating time and [?] and working daily miracles of [?] day. All this solely a re- [?] brain and muscle. The [?] past fifty years is also a {{column break}} history of movements. From the beginning of the cause of abolition of slavery down the the present plan for the abolition of war, known as the peace conference, women have been more and more active, until today every reform and philanthropy, every scheme for the uplifting of mankind, every plan for the betterment of home and school, of private or public life, has among its supporters a large majority of women workers. WASHINGTON THE MECCA OF MOVEMENTS. The national capital is the mecca of "movements." Every cult or ism, every pioneer or promoter, sooner or later, seeks Washington as the congenial soil wherein the seed of reform, of progress of selfish purpose or universal good is sown and tended, until it attains a sturdiness and strength sufficient to bear rich fruitage, or until from very lack of virile merit i lies buried in oblivion. During the month of February, 1899, there were held in the city of Washington, three notable conventions of women, which called together several thousand representative women as delegates to the various organizations. The Third Triennial Council of Women held sessions from the 11th to the 19th of February. The Third National Congress of Mothers had programmes from February 14th to 18th, inclusive. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution held their Eighth Continental Congress February 20th to 25th. Some idea of the wide influence and importance of these three organizations may be had by a glance at the "backing" they represent. The Council of Women claim one million two hundred and fifty thousand active members in their various lines of work. The Daughters of the American Revolution number nearly twenty-eight thousand members, all engages in one line of activity, that of patriotism. While the Congress of Mothers during three brief years of its existence has reached out until it has brought within the radius of its influence every university in the land, nearly every college and all of the more progressive schools, while thousands and tens of thousands of homes and individuals are directly or indirectly enjoying the benefits of its influence. THE WASHINGTON BLIZZARD. We hesitate to describe the great storm which ushered in the first sessions of the National Congress of Mothers. We are not a descendant of Baron Munchausen, and have a woman's inherent dislike to affidavits and "such-like" documents, but what we tell you is true, and we promise to speak "the truth and nothing but the truth." Now don't arch your eye brows, incredulous reader, when we tell you that we waded, yes waded, to the Congress the morning of February 14th, through snow thirty-five inches on a level, through tunnels on the sidewalk six to ten and twelve feet high, past hills and mountains of snow reaching up over the lower windows of the houses. Trains were blockaded. Provisions fan scarce. The coal supply of the city was exhausted, stores and schools, factories and mills were closed for lack of fuel. Street cars were tied up and the wealthy inmates of stately mansions sat shivering in their frosty rooms and wondering where the next meal was to come from. The Washingtonians lived in the most pitif [?] hand-to-mouth fashion. The larder [?] the most elegant brown stone mansion rarely has more than a three days' supply of provisions. Everything is bought by the pound or the peck. The servants universally sleep out of the house. In fact, there is rarely any provision made for [?] room" in the homes of Washington. The "help" are mostly negroes. The women usually have husbands and children to support and the colored cook ba [?] basket as an indispensable accompaniment {{column break}} when she leaves "her place" at night. Perhaps the hear lest the basket help exhaust the provision supply will explain why a blizzard which stopped the wheels of commerce, should make a Washington millionaire experience for once the pangs of cold and hunger. We met a woman who owned a magnificent house, who spent three days in an attempt to buy coal at any price to save her plumbing from bursting. Finally she bought two bushels at double the price usually paid with a few buckets full contributed by neighbors, managed to tide over the famine. Many persons fell fainting in the streets from exhaustion, from attempting to breast the storm, and in many instances but for timely help would have perished in front of their own homes. Several strong men actually did fall in the storm of the 13th, and, instantly covered by the drifting snow, died before help could reach them. The delegates from the East and South and West were in hundreds of instances snow-bound within a hundred miles of the capital city. Scores of them, where able to leave their enforced blockade, returned to their homes, while many pushed on and arrived in time for the closing sessions of the great Congress of Mothers. Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson said, most beautifully, in her greeting to the Congress, that so large a representation proved that the task of the mothers was "founded on a rock" that the floods and storms could not prevail against it. Washington had the floods as well as the sow, for on Friday, the 19th, the rain fell in torrents, then froze, leaving a glazing of ice on the sidewalks where cleaned of snow, rendering it most dangerous to the passerby. THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF MOTHERS - ITS ORIGIN AND ITS ORIGINATOR. Mrs. Theodore W. Birney first conceived the idea of the Congress of Mothers. We had heard much of Mrs. Birney, and, being most anxious to meet her, called at her home in Washington soon after our arrival in that city. The house was a modest brick on in a long row of twin houses. The parlors were finished [?] neatness was prominent everywhere. Mrs. Birney greeted us with a soft, Southern voice and an air of unmistakable cordiality and interest in a new delegate. She is a small, pale, fair-haired woman, dressed in the sombre garb of her recent widowhood. Two little girls of four and five years, respectively, were playing through the halls, and a girl of eighteen summers sat toasting her toes before the cheery grate fire. Mrs. Birney introduced her as "my daughter Alonsita," and taxed our credulity that so young a woman could be the mother of so old a child. "Tell me all about it," I asked, "how did you happen to conceive such a lovely idea as a Congress of the Mothers?" "Well," said Mrs. Birney, "I have always been an ambitious little person, but for years I felt that, being only a woman, my work in the world could not amount to much. I felt," she added laughingly, "that it was the masculine element only which could be potential for good." "When my first baby came I was so disappointed because she was a girl." Then in a deprecating, rather apologetic voice, "I was more disappointed when my second little one was a daughter, too; it was not until my third little woman-child came to bless my life that the thought came to me that after all 'the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.' If this is true, is it not time that the ruling hand be given special training in order that the world ruled may be made better?" Mrs. Birney thought of this day after day, until she presented the outline of her plan to the New York Chautauqua of 1895. "The great enthusiasm it received made it evident that the thought needed only to be disseminated in order to be accepted and acted upon by a host of thinking, conscientious women throughout the world, and to result in a centralization of their power toward the accomplishment of great and necessary reforms in the interest of humanity. Confiding her hopes to Mrs. Phoebe H. Hearst, of Washington, D. C., a millionairess of most generous and philanthropic impulses, Mrs. Birney received the pecuniary help to push the Congress to its present eminent position. Last year the largest auditorium in Washington was utterly inadequate to hold the people. This year, in spite of the unprecedented storm of February 11th {{column break}} to 14th, the attendance was large and enthusiastic. As Mrs. Birney talks of her work her face takes on a wrapt, absorbed look, her eyes often fill with tears and her voice trembles with emotion until gentle smiles succeed the tears, like the April sunshine after a shower and lighten and illumine an otherwise plain face into a countenance of rare attractiveness. Possessed of great personal dignity and unusual executive ability, she has been been able to call her executive boards and committees some of the foremost men and women in literature, science and education of this country. It was a remarkable thing that during all the sessions of the Congress, during all the debate and discussion of the many papers and addresses, that not once did the gavel fall for order. The very presence of the mother of the Congress of Mothers seemed to emanate an atmosphere of peace and harmony, and for the first time in our experience we saw a room full of people dominated by the gentleness and femininity of its presiding officer. OPENING SESSION. The largest church auditorium in Washington was engaged in anticipation of the numbers who would attend the congress. Had the weather not been so unprecedented, had their not been impassible drifts of snow and continuous sleet and rain to contend with, the great room would have utterly failed to accommodate the crowd. As it was there was a flattering number present and the interest was intense. MRS. BIRNEY'S ADDRESS. On the 17th of this month we shall celebrate our third birthday. Many of you were with us at our first memorable meeting and will recall the spiritual fervor and enthusiasm which pervaded the sessions of that convention. That influence has been far-reaching and practically beneficent, and that we are here today in such numbers and under such definite organization is demonstration of the claim we then made, that there was vital need of a nation with a congress of mothers. With an unalterable conviction that in the hone lies the only solution to the problems which confront the world today, we have striven to reach the mothers of our land, and, through them, the fathers, because it is they who have in their possession the priceless material of which future civilization will be wrought. Are they building on stone or sand? That should be the question of most consequence before the world, and yet it is so re- [?] Every individual club and org- [?] reaps a benefit from any righteous, {{illegible}} movement, and it is, therefore, fitting that they should combine their efforts with those of the national body, in order that the world may be extended in all sections of the country. Since time and distance are practically annihilated, to concentrate upon local work to the exclusion of co-operation with national effort, is like placing salve upon an ulcer, which only the purification of the circulation can permanently cure. National evils require national remedies. I claim, without hesitancy, the greatest evil today is the incompetency, the ignorance of parents, and it is because of this evil that others exist. Most sin is the result of ignorance in one guise or another. When character building begins in the cradle and is given the greatest prominence in all educational work, then will principle rather than policy dominate the lives of men and women, and truth and justice, twin attributes to character, will sit enthroned in human consciousness. Then will cease the wild, mad worship of Mammon, for mere wealth will not be accepted as a substitute for that which is above all price - a noble manhood or womanhood. The question will not be "What has he?" but "What is he?" Co-operation is, indeed, the watch word of the day and hour, and we earnestly ask for the aid of all organizations and of individuals in concentrating national attention upon the education of parents and the possibilities in the home. Some of the great clubs of the country have departments devoted to child study and the home; others, while covering every imaginable outside issue, have so far ignored these great foundations of national well-being, forgetting that no work of permanent value can be effected which leaves out the essential factors of character building and proper development through home life. There are innumerable beautiful services which such women can render humanity without entering upon many of the vocations which at present seem so alluring to them. They can do much toward brightening the lives of their sisters who are compelled to work. They can make of their homes a charmed lace where the weary are refreshed the discouraged inspired to fresh effort, the literary find congenial companionship, the philanthropic co-operation, the children sympathy and interest in their pursuits, in all that concerns them; where educators may meet the parents of the children committed to their care, and where mothers' clubs may grow and thrive. Such a home is one of God's gardens, for in it, in one phase or another, are the sowing and reaping and harvesting of all that makes for righteousness. The closing years of this century mark one of the most extraordinary epochs in the world's history. Great spiritual forces are stirring in the hearts and minds of mankind, bearing fruit in a thousand forms of philanthropy, manifesting itself in Christian tolerance, in receptivity to new thought and in an eager expectancy which presages a new era, the dawn of which is already breaking. No cause is greater than that in which [?] are enlisted, and no misrepresentations. [?] criticisms can daunt us, for we are work [?] for the weak, the helpless, the innocent, trus- [?] ing ones of earth, the little children. Do yo- [?] not hear their wailing cries? They come from [????] {{column break}} 3 asylums for blind, deaf and otherwise defective children, from the slums of our great cities and from the palaces as well, for the misunderstood child of the rich merits sympathy almost as much as the baby in the crowded tenement. And why these piteous wails? Because of the ignorance of parents. And now a word to the fathers! We need your sympathy, your aid in this movement which evolves about the home, for in that home your influence makes for weal or woe; your ignorance or your indifference is as fatal in its way as that of the mother, and without your co-operation her most earnest efforts must fall far short of the results she may be striving to attain. Life is such a brief journey, after all, why not let us endeavor to so pave the way that it may be a glad triumphal march to those who come after us? No truehearted man will shirk his duty in this crusade for the children a warfare as glorious I think, as any man ever waged on a field of battle, and a warfare in which the old and feeble as well as the young, may enlist. DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES. The mothers have a kind of declaration of principles which is as follows: "The National Congress of Mothers is for the benefit of all, regardless of color, creed or condition. It is at the root of all other social and fraternal societies and organizations. Temperance will be encouraged; church work will be supported; true patriotism will ne engendered; kindness to animals will be inculcated. The object of the Association shall be to promote confidence on the part of parents and educators concerning questions most vital to the welfare of their children, the manifest interests of the home, and the general education of mankind. WHY EDUCATED WOMEN SHOULD BELONG TO THE CONGRESS. All educated women should join the National Congress of Mothers, because it is a national and united effort to raise the religious, moral and intellectual life of the country through the homes and because habit, the habits and customs of the upper classes influence the tone of social life in all classes. The fondest hope of these devoted women is that in the not far off future a National Congress of Parents will be the natural sequence of this mothers' organization, and toward that end they are working. THE OFFICERS. The officers of the national congress of mothers are, many of them, well known in Washington. Mrs. Birney, who was the originator of the idea which Mrs. Hearst's Fortunatus purse amplified, has been the president for two years, and she is the best example of a good mother that can be found. She has not neglected her children of her home in her soul ing work for the advancement mothers' idea, but she says have inspired her to renewed her spirits were sometimes MRS. THEODORE W. BIRNEY. (and daughters) President National Congress of Mothers. 4 she saw the enormous task before her Mrs. Birney has attended many state and city meetings of mothers' organizations during the past year, and says the idea grows with wonderful strides, and reaches and ramifies till it has gone clear beyond anything that was ever dreamed for it. "Why I believe," she said, "that even congress will feel our subtle influence before many years. Our children will be come lawmakers, you know, our daughters the wives and mothers of lawmakers. It may take a whole generation for our present influence to be felt, but a generation is but a short span when it reaches from evil to better times" The other officers are: Mrs. Frederick Schoff, vice president, Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. A. L. Barber, second vice president, Belmont, Washington; Mrs. A. A. Birney, third vice president, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Robert Cotton, recording secretary, Falkland N. C.; Mrs. Vesta Cassady, corresponding secretary Forest Glen, Md.; Mrs. Hardin W. Masters, treasurer Lewiston, Ill.' Mrs. Mary H. Weeks, auditor, Kansas City, Mo.; honorary vice presidents, Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, Mrs. Joseph P. Mumford, Mrs. Adial Stevenson and Mrs. Wm. T. Carter; chairman of reception committee Mrs. John R. Lewis; honorary reception committee, Mrs. Garret A. Hobart and Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. COMMITTEES. Finance--Mrs. William F. Holtzman, Mrs. William T. Carter, Mrs. Hardin W. Masters. Education--Dr. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education Washington, D. C.; Dr. Sargent, Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. Mary E. Green, president National Household Economic Association. Charlotte, Mich.; Dr. G. Stanley Hall Worcester, Mass.; Prof Charles Thurber, Chicago, Ill.; Miss Anna A. Schriyver, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Mrs. Mary C. Bourland, Pontiac, Ill.; Mrs. Harriet H. Heller, Omaha, Nev.; Miss Mary S .Garrett, Philadelphia; Miss Lucy Wheelock, president International Kindergarten Association, Boston; Mrs. Helen H. Gardner, New York Mr. James Hughes, superintendent of schools, Toronto, Canada, Canada Educational association U. S. Philanthropy-- Mrs. William Burnham, Philadelphia; Mrs. Alice Robinson, Mt. Washington, Md Mrs. Almov H. Hensley, New York; Mrs. Charles Russell Lowell, New York; Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, New York; Miss Freeman Clark Boston Dr. J Minot Savage New York. Literature--Mrs. Harriet L. Coolidge, Washington, D. C.; Miss Mary E. Burt, Dr. Mary Wood Allen, Mrs. Mary Low Dickinson, Mr F. E. Woodward, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, Dr. Josiah Strong, Mrs. Herman H. Birney, Miss Vinton, Miss Caroline H. Hewins. HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON. Th officers of the congress ers in Washington, and K touch with all the [?]ter- at , bearing upon the great work they are trying to do They have put many helpful things into circular form. which they send out to the clubs and organizations affiliated with them, and are doing everything possible to waken public sentiment to a recognition of the responsibilities of parents and to their need of training in order to properly discharge those responsibilities. They have a well organized press bureau, of which Mrs. Max West is chairman, and keep the newspapers of the country informed of all that they accomplish, for the "mothers" fully understand that unless they have the newspapers and press of the country with them they can hope to accomplish nothing. They have no official organ, because, says Mrs. Birney, "We have almost the entire press of the country as champions of this movement, and we could not, even with an unparalleled circulation, hope to accomplish what the press has accomplished for us." It is the hope of the congress, however, to establish a publication which will be a kind of quarterly review, but it will be confined strictly to the progress of the movement throughout this county and the world. THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED In Chicago, in New York City, in Philadelphia, Boston, in San Francisco and other large cities mothers' clubs have gone into the study of child ethics and the relation of squalid homes to criminal statistics with an energy that must be appalling to evil doers. They have established day nurseries for the children of women who must work to sustain life. They have instituted night schools, whose teachers are bright young women and young men, who take from happy, care-free lives filled with social duties two or three hours daily that help to enrich their poorer, more ignorant and less fortunate brothers and sisters. Cooking schools have been established, sewing schools and schools of domestic science, where everything is as free as the air of heaven to the girl who really desires to better her con- They have set up free kindergar- the children of the slums, started es in the saloon-infested por- me of the large cities--in fact, idea has widened out till it most incongruous lot of or- nable; and yet, when they are all sifted down, it will be found that the basic idea is the "home," and the hope of each is to help the weak, encourage the faint-hearted and strengthen the bond of the family and home. The former Chinese minister was greatly interested in the "mother" movement and attended many of the meetings. He expressed his pleasure in them to Mrs. Hearst and said that such a fine lot of women banded together for the uplifting of mankind, be it young or old, must result in great good. This was considered the very highest praise, coming as it did from the representative of a nation whose women are so cribbed, cabined and confined by conventionalities and custom that they can never engage in philanthropic or any other public work, yet there is no place in the world where the children are taught greater reverence for the parent than in China. Mr. Yu expressed the hope that some day the movement might reach his own country. KINDERGARTEN IDEAS One of the brightest extemporaneous talks was that of Miss Lucy Wheelock, of Boston, Mass., the president of the International Kindergarten Association. The theme of Miss Wheelock's talk, for she spoke in a pleasant, conversational style, was "Froebel's Text Book for Mother's." The speaker explained how Froebel, by visiting the homes and becoming acquainted with children and their ways, obtained the knowledge which he put into his book. The speaker said Froebel's idea was to proved a system for doing what mothers do spasmodically. She said one of the important duties of the mother was to form the habits of the child, and in order to prevent this from becoming mere drudgery the significance of those homely, every day duties ought to be realized. This is what Froebel attempted to accomplish in his book, and to show the influence of such training upon the character of the child and its place in the world. There are two principles underlying the system of Froebel, she said. One was the development of power in the child, and then the use of this power in the work of the world. As illustrative of this the speaker quoted several of Froebel's songs, and described the pictures illustrative of these truths. The training of the hand and eye as leading to mental development was pointed out. She spoke of the importance of encouraging the inquiring state of mind which is natural in childhood, and not by indifference to discourage the asking of questions. The speaker thought that the interest of the child in nature was due to love, and there should be a natural progress from this natural love to nature study. She again emphasized the need of keeping this original attitude of the child fresh and unchecked. Taking up the other branch of Froebel's system, the relation of the child to others, the speaker dwelt on the family relation, and said helpfulness was the important factor of that relation. Then in Froebel's conception of the family each member has some duty to perform, and the child is taught the value of courtesy and of being pleasant and agreeable toward others. The relation of the ideas underlying the Froebel system, the speaker said, were important in solving modern industrial problems, as the truth was emphasized of the interdependence of one member of a community upon the other members. In conclusion Miss Wheelock referred to the religious teachings in the system of Froebel. She also spoke of the influence of mothers, and paid a tribute to the functions and privileges of motherhood. She referred to the modern tendency of modern women to join clubs, so that it seemed their catechism in regard to the duty of women might be said to be to join the clubs and to enjoy them forever. THE SUBSEQUENT DISCUSSOIN. The discussion of this paper was opened by Miss Williams, the superintendent of kindergarten in Philadelphia. In reference to the beginning of regular habits in children the speaker said that uniformity in life contributed to the comfort of infants and had an influence in after years. Her listeners were much amused by Miss Williams' characterization of a child she knew whose mother had never allowed him to fall into the habit of sucking his thumb, and who realized that he was not to smash the bric-a-brac, and yet who was the most perfectly disobedient child the speaker had ever known. In closing she made a plea for preserving the sacredness of home. Wheelock is a very young woman to upy so eminent a position. She is very small, with a thin, plain face, which a lovely smile transforms into beauty. Mrs. McFarland, a representative of the Humane Society, made an effective address against the inhumanity of vivisection, stating that a bill for the humane regulation of vivisection in the District of Columbia has been before the senate of the United States for three sessions of Congress waiting for consideration. The bill simply provides that the worst forms of cruelty shall not be practiced at all; that chloroform or ether shall be used in all necessary experiments (with the exception of inoculation); that experiments in medical colleges shall be limited and that there shall be none in public schools; that experiments shall be licensed and their places registered, and that the president of the United States shall appoint inspectors of these experiments, whose reports shall be published. Rev. Hasting H. Hart, of Chicago, president of the Children's Home and Aid Society, spoke at length on the subject of Environment vs. Heredity. Dr. Hart told a touching anecdote which sent a wave of sympathy over the great audience. A young mother, visiting an orphanage, remarked upon the docility of the little children. "These children do not seem to cry, why is it?" "They have no one to cry to," as the reply. No one to cry to. No one who cared whether they were in pain or whether they were sad. No one to give a smile or caress. Poor little outcasts, deprived of a child's best blessing, a mother's sympathy and a mother's love. Dr. Hart deplored consumptives marrying, and hoped education as to the fearful consequence would in time make it seem a criminal act. Rev. Chas. Wood, of Philadelphia, spoke on the subject of the Religious Training of Children. In the discussion which followed this paper, Rev. Wm. L. Worcester, of Philadelphia, spoke at length. Under the head of the Supreme Peril of Modern Civilization, Dr. Josiah Strong, president of the League for Social Service of New York City, read a most able paper. Dr. W. H. Tolman, secretary of the League for Social Service, gave an illustrated lecture on Industry Idealized. DUTY OF PARENTS TO EDUCATOIN. "The Duty of Parents to Education" Joseph F. Mumford, a member of the Philadelphia board of education. The speaker was introduced by the president, who, in telling the congress about Mrs Mumford, spoke of her co-operation in the work which the organization was doing and said other pleasant things about her --in fact, Mrs. Birney's happy faculty in introducing speakers and her tact in saying just the right word, is one of the attractive features of the sessions of the congress. Mrs. Mumford spoke, in part, as follows: If America education lags behind it is to be traced to the ignorance and indifference of parents. Parents are ignorant of educational methods of necessity. When their children begin to go to school they are themselves a quarter of a century behind the age. Of this they seem never to be conscious; but, on the contrary, are cocksure they understand the whole subject, which a conscientious teacher, after years of study, feels is almost too great for mortal ken. They toss it off as something they've come into naturally, by virtue of having once been children themselves and now having children of their own. They really see little reason for giving the matter much attention, and if you would witness an audience openly and thoroughly bored open up before a chance lot of parents some educational topic. This result from the fact that the ordinary parent usually knows very little of his own offspring. He can usually tell the teacher whether the child has ad the mumps or the measles, and whether he has been vaccinated, but as to physical and moral tendencies, where he should be guarded, there is little suggestion from those who brought the child into the world. Instances of this are given from kindergarten up to college life. Parents are also indifferent. They turn their children into schools and, unless they prove trublesome, never darken the school room doors again. So that the teacher comes to think of parenthood as connected only with trying scenes of complaint and reprimand. This indifference allows poor teaching also, and evil administration of the whole school system. As a beginning of remedy for these parental shortcomings it is suggested that every young women should have at least one year's training in the theory and practice of the kindergarten, as the capstone of her education. This fits her, in some degree at least for motherhood, to which 80 per cent of all women are destined. "Women are the leisure class. Home cares do not press on us as they did on our mothers. This leisure from old-time duties has been given that we may lift the home life into a higher intellectual and moral plane than it has ever known before. We are to be the close companions of our children, both at home and in school, lifting up thought and making a generation of better men and women than the world has ever known. RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE In the course of her paper Mrs. Mumford referred to the lack of interest displayed by women in towns and states where they are given a vote in school matters. She quoted figures showing that in some places but a small per centage were registered of the women entitled to vote, and but a small percentage of the registered voters appeared at the polls. After Mrs. Mumford had finished the reading of the paper Mrs. Lily Devereaux Blake spoke of what had been said of the indifference of women to vote for school officers, and said that in justice it ought to be explained that there were many difficulties in the way. For example, in Massachusetts there was an annoying restriction requiring women to give an inventory of all their property. At the same time Mrs. Blake thought the women did not take as much interest as they should in exercising their rights. Mrs. Lily Devereux Blake is a radical suffragist, yet all through the sessions of the Mother's Congress she was in her seat as delegate, notwithstanding the Council of Women was in session a few blocks away. Mrs. Blake is a plump, white-haired women, always most tastefully and expensively gowned. Said a delegate: "The price of Mrs. Blake's bonnets would keep us in clothing for a year." In the discussion on parental duty Prof. Powell, superintendent of the Washington schools, advocated some advanced methods, which were received with applause. He spoke of the relations of the home to education, and especially of the opportunities mothers have in the beginnings of learning, and said that if such opportunities were made us of and the child came to school having some knowledge and some experience, his progress in the schools would be much more rapid. He said if the school authorities were allowed full sway to teach the children what they can learn at the Zoo, at the gas works, and to give them other similar experience, then, he believed, the child would soon be equipped to write a better book than under the old system was placed in his hands to study. He believed that the child should be given experience and then the books treating of the subjects the child knows about might with profit be placed in his hands to read and study. the physical health of the child set him to acquiring experience, sending him out in the woods and fields, for example, to learn about nature. He thought it was their duty as mothers to stamp out the idea that going into the fields, manual training and clay modeling were fads. What breaks down the health of the school children, he said, was compelling them to learn things in books which they had no means of comprehending. Another contribution to the discussion was made in an address by Miss Edith Wescott, the principal of the Western High school of Washington. Miss Wescott laid emphasis upon the importance to the schools of the co-operation and sympathy of parents. She thought that parents might know but little of the methods of teaching as long as they gave their help to the teachers. She said that in her opinion the main duty of parents to the schools should be to see that the children are properly fed and clothed, and that they are regular in attendance at school and have the right feeling of the importance of attention to school duties at that time of life. She referred to the common complaint of parents of their inability to help children in their work at home, because (as alleged) of a change of methads, and said that teachers did not want the help of the parents in this particular but they did need their co-operation, so that the children are given an opportunity to prepare their lessons at home by the parents seeing that they do not waste the time allotted for study. Then, if children are sent to school after a good night's sleep, and having eaten a good breakfast and are dressed properly and comfortably, the speaker thought such co-operation would be of the greatest benefit even where the school system was defective. Large numbers of delegates took part in this discussion and an added sense of responsibility was aroused in the minds of many parents. IMPORTANT PROBLEM. One evening session was devoted to the discussion of one of the most interesting problems before the parents of this country. As given on the programme, the question was, "Does the Curriculum of Schools and Colleges Fit Young Men and Women for the Duties of Life?" Prof. Mary Roberts Smith, Ph. D., assistant professor of sociology at Leland Stanford University, California, read the first pa- per. She treated the subject from almost every standpoint, giving a view absolutely free from dogma or prejudice. She welcomed the changes, which are gradually being made in the college curricula as signs of distinct progress in educational lines. The introduction of science and chemistry was an innovation that progress demanded. She firmly believed in a college course for every one, but maintained that parents should be cautious about forcing a college education upon a child that was not willing to take it. She said that it was quite true that one cannot stick a $2,000 education upon a 50-cent boy. So many persons wanted to discuss this subject that it was 11 o'clock before it occurred to anybody to move to adjourn. The consensus of opinion was, that college education does help, but that not every one profited by his opportunity. That many young men attained success without the college training, but with it, they would have been better equipped to meet the vicissitudes of life. THE STATE'S DUTY TOWARD DEPENDENT AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN. Most interesting to students of sociologistic problems was the paper by Rev. E. Laurence Hunt on "The Duty of the State in Training Children for Citizenship." His speech was, in part, as follows: "The duty of the state in training children may be summed up in one word, 'education.' Where the state undertakes this at all it should educate the head, the hand, the heart. It should adopt the best known methods. The Junior Republic is the newest and best method of dealing with dependents and delinquents. It is a great republic in miniature, a republic of juniors. There is a boy congress, boy police, magistrate, jury, etc. They are paid in the tin currency of the commonwealth for their work, according to its grade, and with it they must pay for their meals, clothing and rooms. It is considered by legislators and philanthropists to be the best plan for dealing with incorrigible youth. Here they discover the value of labor and of law, and by self-government become industrious, God-fearing citizens. Hunt had with him one of the rep tive citizens of the republic. Ar- ur Anderson. Arthus, who is about fourteen years old, is Attorney General in the republic. Various members of the audience asked him questions about the republic, all of which he answered with great readiness. He spoke of the hotels which are run by the republic, and of how the contracts were given out for running them. He mentioned the means employed to bring to justice those who skipped their board bills. A lady in the audience here asked him if they indicted those who did not pay their bills. "Naw," he replied, with evident contempt for the lady's legal knowledge; "we sues 'em." Arthur is a bright boy, who has been with the republic about three years. He is curious to know about everything he sees, and is continually asking questions of those about him. Dr. Mary Walker occupied considerable of his attention. He followed her about with open curiosity. "Gee," he said, when she went out, "I never seen her before.' He was greatly surprised to learn that the residents of the District could not vote, and remarked that the commissioners must have a "chesty pull." MOTHERS OF THENATION TO BLAME FOR MUCH OF THE SICKNESS OF SOLDIERS IN CAMP LAST SUMMER. If the boys who went to join the volunteer army had been taught by their mothers the ordinary rules of sanitation and hygienic living, many a precious life would have been saved. Dr. Mary E. Green, president of National Household Economic Association, made a most valuable address on some of the needs of the education of mothers. She spoke of the importance of women knowing all about home hygiene and the preparation of foods. She thought daughters ought to be trained in domestic science. In speaking of the ignorance in regard not only to proper foods, but of the care of the body, the speaker expressed the opinion that there would have been little sickness in the military camps in this country during the war with Spain if the men had known how to take care of themselves. She believed, she said, that modern women, members of numerous clubs are familiar with about every art except the of living. Many women take a lively interest in the cleaning of streets of cities, while the sinks at their homes were neglected. She spoke of the encroachments of boarding house life upon home life, and said there was a growing ignorance of how to manage a home. In the opinion of the speaker, the duties of a wife and mother constituted a profession, and there should be a proper education and training before entering upon the life work. At present, the speaker said this profession was entered into without the slightest preparation. She advocated the establishment by congress of a national health bureau, which should be used for the dissemination of information about the care of children; about tuberculosis in men as is now done in the case of animals; the dangers of polluting the streams with sewage and in general the health of the nation. This suggestion about the health bureau [portrait of Mrs. Cassedy] MRS. VESTA H. CASSEDY. Corresponding Secretary National Congress of Mothers. apparently met with the favor of the audience, as it was greeted with the hearty clapping of hands. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN. A good work is being done by educated colored women for their race. They realize the necessity of an enlightened motherhood. They have secured from the congress of the United States, through the efforts of Mrs. Anna Murray, one of their ablest workers, an appropriation of $12,000 for kindergarten purposes. Today they have numbers of free kindergartens, sewing schools and household science schools. They are trying to teach their children to be honest, industrious, to cultivate their minds, to become skilled workmen, energetic and self-reliable. One of the most eloquent addresses at the Congress was from the lips of a college bred colored woman, who plead "in the name of black childhood" that the "trades unions" be not allowed to close their doors in the face of skilled colored labor, and that trades and associations be not shut from him on account of his color. There were three colored delegates in the congress. All of them were college graduates and spoke with the accent of culture and refinement. One of them was very handsome, with snow-white hair, smoothly brushed from her face, which was a rich golden yellow color. She was about forty years old and always most elegantly dressed. They were interested in all that pertained to educational progress. BOOK LIST SUGGESTED. Mothers and teachers will hail with delight the news that a carefully prepared list of books for children of every age, and for parents and others interested in child study, has been prepared by the congress. Any one sending five cents to National Congress of Mothers, Washington Loan and Trust Building, Washington, D. C., will receive a copy, giving valuable classified lists of books and much helpful information as well. Suggestions as to how to organize mothers' clubs also sent on application. MRS. M'KINLEY RECEIVES THE MATRONS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. The gracious mistress of the White House cordially invited the Congress of Mothers to an informal reception, which was largely attended. Mrs. Birney, leading the long line of delegates, passed through the vestibule with its magnificent screen of wrinkled, stained glass Mosaic (by Tiffany) to the central corridor, where palms and tropic shrubs, gleaming crystal and shining brass made a fairy picture, through the family sitting room, furnished in Pompeiian red. In this room are portraits of Presidents Adams, Van Buren, Tyler, Buchanan, Arthur, Cleveland and Harrison. The ladies passed in file two and two, around the center table, and to the door of the Blue Room, where a gentleman in waiting asked the name and announced it to another gentleman, who in turn presented you to the president. Mr. McKinley took each hand, and, carefully pronouncing your name, said: "How do you do?" or "I am glad to see you," and then passing you on to Mrs. McKinley, dropped your hand to grasp that of the next comer, all in a cordial, personal way, as if the president of the United States was really glad you had come. Mrs. McKinley sat in a tall, covered throne-like chair, dressed exquisitely in pale blue satin trimmed with rich lace and holding in her lap a great sheaf of pink roses. She looked very fragile and very sweet. It would tax her feeble strength too greatly to give each caller her hand, as the president had done, so instead she gave to each a gentle smile and an individual bow. But when the three little children in the party passed in line, she stopped them and took each by the hand, asking where they lived and giving them a rose from her bouquet. In this room was a gilt clock, presented by Napoleon I to Lafayette and by him to George Washington. In the Green Room were portraits of the ladies of the White House, those of Mrs. Harrison, presented by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of Mrs. Hayes, painted in Huntington's matchless style, being the most beautiful. The famous East Room was where the ladies lingered longest. The room is eighty-two feet long by forty feet wide, and is softly carpeted in green velvet. The wood work is white, as are the marble mantles and the crystal chandeliers. In the panels on the wall are hung full length portraits of George and Martha Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. Palms and foliage filled every window recess and the mantles were banked with cut flowers and ferns, while boxes of blooming tulips and hyacinths filled every nook and corner. The furnishings of the White House were for the most part simple and tasteful, not richer than seen in many private homes and not challenging attention by their expensiveness. Indeed, except for the East Room, all the apartments seemed small and the entire building cramped and inadequate for the purpose of an executive office and the presidential home. Mrs. McKinley received the D. A. R. Congress in exactly a similar way, the only difference being that the hostess was on that occasion gowned in heliotrope satin and was assisted by the ladies of the cabinet, while the fine Marine Band discoursed martial music from the hall. National Congress of Mothers adopted the following: RESOLUTIONS. Resolved, That each organization represented in the National Congress of Mothers should use every possible influence to effect legislation in each state of the Union, giving to the mother and the father equals rights of guardianship over children. Resolved, That we as individuals, will investigate the existing moral conditions among the young, and will endeavor to cleanse our homes, schools, streets, and places of amusement of all that tends to produce evil thoughts or lead to evil conduct. Resolved, That the National Congress of Mothers recognizes and commends kindergarten, child study, parents' and teachers' clubs, and all organizations already existing in various states having their object the btter comprehension and nurture of childhood and seeks their co-operation. Resolved, That we uphold a single moral standard for men and women, condemning equally the sin of each, yet off each the same sympathetic aid. Resolved, That we ask all upon the members of their raising the age of consent to that of legal majority. Resolved, That the second Congress of Mothers proclaims its belief in the Brotherhood of Man, and it recommends the settlement of all national and international difficulties by mutual agreement or arbitration, as between the brothers of one universal household. Whereas, many years' experience in other countries proves that destitute children reared in institutions are not fitted to successfully meet life; Resolved, That Mothers' Clubs be asked to endorse all efforts to place destitute and homeless children in families rather than institutions. Resolved, that the National Congress of Mothers endorsed all efforts to evolve a more hygienic and artistic dress for women. Resolved, That in order to fit ourselves to be the sympathetic confidants and instructors of the young in the care of the body, we will study life in its origin and maintenance; the tendency of thought, and the influence of conduct on future generations. Resolved, That the National Congress of Mothers repeats its endorsement of the National Training School for Women, and urges the women of the nation to a united effort to secure the establishment of such a school. Whereas, a complete knowledge of the child is a subject vital to all men and women, and Whereas, such knowledge comprises a distinct science; Resolved, That the National Congress of Mothers supports and encourages efforts to establish chairs of Paidology, or the Science of the Child, in universities and normal schools. Resolved, That all efforts to establish the teaching of domestic science in our public schools and state universities receive the hearty support of the National Congress of Mothers. Whereas, all true education must be based on a sound physical development; Resolved, That the National Congress of Mothers use its influence towards effecting the general adoption of physical educational work in our public schools; and further Resolved, That while heartily approving the proper use of athletics, we, as mothers, urge upon educators the abolition of excesses and abuses which cause such training to defeat its own end. Resolved, That the National Congress of Mothers recognizes and endorses all humane educational work, and recommends to Mothers' Clubs the forming of Bands of Mercy for the sake of the children, as well as to the in est of the animal world. Resolved, That as a foundation work coming motherhood, it is desirable that ev girl should have as the cap-stone of her cation, special training in the theor practice of the kindergarten and d science. IN BEHALF OF NEGLECTED CH Resolved, That the first duty of to give every child such environm To this end we give our most port to all reforms which are p ucative and constructive, fa classes of children, even th mentally or morally deficient ergarten and home educatio them for their duties of cit ON THE PUNISHMENT as, mothers and 000 6 dren generally are ignorant of the best corrective methods with the child, and, Whereas, the National Congress of Mothers deprecates that kind of punishment which inflicts mental and physical suffering, therefore be it Resolved, That we ask mother's clubs everywhere to make special study of punishments and rewards in their relation to child training, in order to create sentiment upon this question. ON HOUSEHOLD ECONOMICS. Whereas, There is a widespread necessity for a better knowledge on the part of mothers and home makers as regards hygiene, sanitation, the care and development of the child, and a fuller and better knowledge of food and dietetics as well as those things which tend to the development of the perfect home, Resolved, That a standing committee of five be appointed by the executive committee, to be known as the committee on household economics, for the purpose of considering the above questions and reporting upon the same, also to prepare a memorial to congress petitioning for the establishment of a national health bureau, which shall disseminate knowledge tending toward the health of humanity, fully believing that when this is done there will be a decrease of insane asylums, homes for defectives, criminals, and other reform institutions. HUMANITARIAN EDUCATION. Whereas, the great evils resulting from thoughtlessness and cruelty toward dumb animals are ever before us, therefore be it resolved that we heartily endorse humanitarian education in the home and school, so that our children may not be inconsiderate of the right to life and happiness of the least of God's creatures. BRIGHAM H. ROBERTS. "America looks today, not to legislative enactment nor to public organizations, but to her home, as containing the bud and promise of her future glory." "Men are, for the most part, what their homes have made them; and as men make communities, and communities make states, and states make nations, if follows that the great power moulding the destinies of men and nations, lies mainly in the influence of home." "If your homes were all right, everything would be all right, and until our homes are right, nothing can be right." Cannot this Congress of Mothers, as representatives of the homes of our nation, show a proper realization of the importance and sacredness of the home, by sending the following resolutions to congress: Whereas, the election of a polygamist to congress threatens the sacred institution of monogamous marriage, be it Resolved, That the third National Congress of Mothers request the National Congress of the United States to repudiate the result of the November election in Utah, either by refusing to allow the name of Brigham H. Roberts, of Utah, to be placed upon it's roll, or by expelling him from his seat. GOOD CITIZENSHIP. Resolved, That the National Congress of others approves the work of the League of Good Citizenship, and endorses its plans for introducing into the public schools the idea of self government, which shall prepare our youth for citizenship. THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF MOTHERS TO MEET IN DES MOINES, IOWA, IN 1900. It will be good news to our western people to learn that the National Congress of Mothers is to meet at Des Moines, Iowa, in 1900. The personal invitation of the writer, so unanimously endorsed by Des Moines and Iowa people, was considered along with many others, but the promise of hospitality to the visiting delegates was so generously extended that the executive board felt that the claims of Cincinnati, Atlanta, Chicago and a dozen other cities must be set aside and Des Moines honored by its presence. Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota will send large delegations, and the people of this great midland country will be given the opportunity to hear some of America's most eminent men and women upon themes so vital to the welfare of the race as those the Mothers' Congress considers. PERSONNEL OF THE COUNCIL OF WOMEN. The claim of the Council of Women to have a following of 1,200,000 is credited when we consider the following large organizations which are affiliated with the Council: National Suffrage Association-President, Miss Susan B. Anthony, New York. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union-President, Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, of Maine. National Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society--President Mrs. Mary P. Davis, of Maine. Illinois Industrial School for Girls- President, Mrs. M. R. M. Wallace, Illinois. National Woman's Relief Society-President Zina Young, Utah. (All the of this executive board are Mor- en.) Association of Women Sten- President, Miss Gertrude s. Council of Jewish Women- Hannah G. Solomon, Illinois Garden Missions-General Kate Waller Barrett, Society-Representa tive, Mrs. Carolyne Earl White, Pennsylvania. supreme Hive Ladies of the Maccabees of the World-President, Mrs. Lillian M. Hollister, Michigan. Rathbone Sisters of the World-President, Mrs. Jennette B. S. Newbert, Kansas. State Council of Women of Rhode Island. Local Council of Women of Indianapolis. Local Council of Women of Quincy, Illinois. Local Council of Women of Portland, Maine. Local Council of Women of Bloomington, Ill. Local Council of Women of Rochester, New York. Local Council of Women of Minneapolis, Minn. Wimodausis-President, Mrs. Ada G. Dickers, District of Columbia. Young Ladies National Improvement Society-President, Mrs. Elmina S. Taylor, Utah. National Christian League for the Promotion of Social Purity-President, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Granis, N. Y. Universal Peace Union-President, Rev. Amanda Deyo, Pennsylvania. Women's Republican Association of the United States-President, Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, District Columbia. National Association of Loyal Women of American Liberty-President, Mrs. I. C. Manchester, Rhode Island. Woman's Relief Corps-President, Mrs. Flo Jannison Miller, Illinois. Local councils are also organized in Memphis, Mayville, Tenn.; Akron Ohio, Cleveland, New Orleans, Richmond and Crawfordsville, Ind. The council has large standing committees on dress, equal pay for equal work, education in citizenship, domestic science, social peace, international arbitration, social purity, domestic relations under the law, press, work and care of dependent and delinquent children. These fine-sounding titles looked very impressive on paper. So we thought when the programme was put into our hands. That it was not all sound we learned later, from listening to the able intelligent discussion of questions involved. When we first entered the council sessions we were in a mood to be critical and unresponsive. For a long time we have been "on the fence," on the equal suffrage question. We so intensely abhor the masculinity in women, which the popular idea of woman's suffrage suggests, that all our life we have kept out of the way of the so-called strong-minded among our sex. But, as we listened to the burning words of enthusiasm for all manner and methods of good work for the world, as we studied the personality of the galaxy of famous women before us, we felt our prejudices melt away like frsot before the sunshine and if any one had then and there asked us to join the sisterhood of voters, we think we would have demanded our "rights" and put on the yellow badge of a suffragist. SOME NOTABLE WOMEN AT THE COUNCIL. In a great, high, caned chair on the platform, sat a tall, gaunt, angular, woman. Her rich gown of black silk was partly hid by the ample folds of a crimson silk shawl which seems indispensable to a correct portrait of Susan B. Anthony. Her strong, plain face, framed in by the smooth, silver hair, beamed with satisfaction as she buried her large nose in the bunch of roses she carried in her hand. It was Miss Anthony's 75th birthday, and although the snow lay thirty-five inches on a level the old lady never failed once to fill her place on the platform by day and in the reception hall at night. The president, Miss May Wright Sewell, is a fine looking, gray haired, elegantly gowned woman. She speaks strongly and with a ringing voice, but with a queer little lisp which redeems the mannerism from anything mannish. Rev. Anna Honora Shaw, of Philadelphia, looked like a bishop in petticoats. She, too, has snow-white hair, much crinkled and drizzled, but her coal black eyes and great black brows have nothing frivolous about them. Neither has the firm, heavy chin nor the mouth with its trick of snapping to at the end of a sentence in an "I have said it, so must it be" sort of a manner. We looked at Mrs. Gaffney, the new president of the council, and found a quiet, sweet-faced, every-day sort of woman; at Dr. Mary E. Green, a right womanly woman of gracious manner and [?]ined air; at the beautiful Jewish women and at the Mormon wives, and found them all most pleasing and attractive people. Where, then, were the oddities and the freaks? Were we not to see them at this, of all gatherings of women in the world? The meeting closed, and, heaving a sigh of disappointment at not seeing the skeleton, if skeleton there was in the council closet, we prepared to leave the house. THE SKELETON IN THE COUNCIL CLOSET. Meeting a newspaper woman, and being also decorated with a press badge, we followed her to the church parlors where the delegates were finding their "things," and getting wraps and rubbers as much mixed as we less strong minded females are wont to do. We found our way to Miss Anthony, and, while we were chatting, up came an ugly little man in a hideous, checkered overcoat with a cape thrown jauntily over one shoulder. He carried a silk hat and held a big, gold-headed cane under his arm. Susan let my hand fall and caught the ugly little man by the coat, saying: "Stop a minute, Mary. I want you to meet Mrs. Hillis. Mrs. Hillis, this is Dr. Mary Walker." We don't know how we looked, but we do not know how we felt. To be told that man was a woman, and to have to believe it on such eminent authority, and to have to touch "it." (We use the word "it" premeditatedly, for we will never, no never, acknowledge a thing masquerading in men's clothes, and horribly ugly clothes at that, as anything but an "it"-a hideous, sexless excrescence of humanity.) Dr. Mary talked, and we listened and looked. Looked to see if her clothes were made and put on in quite the usual way and saw that they were. At the first opportunity we slipped away, sure that we had seen the skeleton in the council closet, for Dr. Mary is a rabid suffragist and hurts her cause far more than she will ever know or get forgiveness for. Dazed by this sudden apparition in trousers we retired to a corner to survey at leisure the scene before us. We saw a woman who in her speech had boasted that she had fifteen thousand women behind her (in temperance work), pat May Wright Sewell on the shoulder. I thought she was going to deliver some "top loftical" up in the clouds sort of sentiment, but she only said, "What a lovely cloak you have, May; you didn't get it this side of the water, I know." It seemed so natural and human somehow our heart warmed to her and we edged up to her just in time to hear her call out: "Come, let me tell you that you made the speech of the morning, Belva." We had seen the freak; now we saw the oddity. First, we saw a ball of a bonnet, with five different colored, ill-assorted, artificial flowers upon it. A shrewd face with small, twinkling brown eyes. Three rusty brown puffs of hair, held against each temple by small combs, a gown thirty years behind the times and a general air of belonging to a past generation. Such is Belva Lockwood, Washington's woman lawyer, who pleads before the supreme court with perfect mastery of her subject. We heard her talk next day. Something nettled her. She rose in her seat and poured forth a flood of reproach and appeal in a tide of eloquence unequalled by any woman we heard. We met her later at the great D. A. R. reception, wandering alone through the brilliant halls of the Corcoran, alone amidst the multitude. Seeing her sit down on a bench before a painting, we left our friends and sat down, too, ostensibly to study the notable woman beside us Belva Lockwood can be as charming as she is unique. She talked of art and artists, and pointed out many celebrities among the guests. Her comments were flavored by a semi-satirical humor and her knowledge of people and their doings complete and satisfactory. Among all the strong faces in the council the bright, womanly countenance of Maria Purdy Peck, of Davenport, Iowa, was conspicuous. Mrs. Peck is strong-minded, while not being the least masculine. There never was a more feminine, gentler soul than Mrs. Peck, and her election to the high office of vice president of the national council and delegate to London is an honor appreciated by her many friends. Mrs. Mary Newbury Adams is another brilliant western woman whose influence has always been used for good. Her address on "How Abbesses were Educators and Civilizers" was one of the best at the council of women. Both ladies were delegate regents to the D. A. R. congress. W. T. C. U. HONORS ITS LEADER. The service held in memory of Miss Frances E. Willard, the first president of the national council of women, was the largest meeting of the week. Mrs. Sewall presided. The exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. Anna Shaw. Miss Mabel Claflin sang a solo, "Lead, Kindly Light." This is the motto of the national council, emblazoned on all its stationery and publications, and was, it is said, selected by Miss Willard herself. Miss Sewell was the first speaker and touchingly referred to the great temperance leader. She graduated from Northwestern University only a few years after Miss Willard, and knew her intimately. Miss Sewell was followed by Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, of New York, who spoke in the tenderest way of Miss Willard. Mrs. Clinton Smith, of this city, then paid her tribute to the memory of the great "White Ribboner," after which Mrs. Margaret D. Ellis, New Jersey, spoke. She said that one of the characteristics of Miss Willard was that she was never too tired to say a kind word to those who needed it. Miss Susan B. Anthony came next. "We are not to dwell on what Frances Willard thought or did," said Miss Anthony, "but to try to do what Frances Willard would do or say today if she were among us." Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, of Maine, president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, followed, telling of the great work of their leader. At the close of her remarks the Chautauqua salute was given, and a benediction was pronounced by the Rev. Anna Shaw. COUNCIL OF WOMEN RESOLUTIONS. The chairman of the resolutions committee, Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer, then presented the report. There was a resolution to make Miss Sewell and Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson and all ex-presidents honorary presidents of the council. The second recommended that the various states provide for the physically as well as the mentally dependent children. They ask that the United States government [?] itself of the a d and assistance of in the army and navy camp and field hospitals of the country; protest against the canteen in army and navy; recommend resolutions of sympathy to the czar in his disarmament efforts; ask President McKinley to use his power to stop bull fights in Cuba; ask that laws be passed against song bird destruction, and, lastly, discover the milk in the cocoanut by resolving "that no person shall be allowed to hold a place in a law-abiding body when a lawbreaker himself." WOMEN DISCUSS EXPANSION POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT. In the evening the expansion policy of the United States government got a turn. It got several turns in fact. Mrs. Judith Ellen Foster, president of the Woman's National Republican League, indulged in arguments for expansion. She said that from the genesis of the government its policy has been one of expansion along all lines, and to resolve not to acquire the Philippines would be to go back upon the traditions of the past. From almost every evidence of progress and advancing civilization she drew the lesson of expansion, in territory, population, education and general development. She gave Alexander Hamilton credit for being the original expansionist of the country, and said that the Scriptures were being fulfilled by such a policy. Then, reverting to the Maine disaster, she declared there was always an occasion which is the immediate cause of action. Mrs. Foster averred that we did not go to war to free Cuba, in the sense of making the island a republic, but to save it from the butchery of Spain. In the course of the war we found the Philippines knocking at our doors. Dewey, she said, went to Manila to get coal, and no one thought he was going to take the Philippines, but he had done so, and it was our duty and purpose to keep them. "We shall hold them," declared the speaker, with a clinching gesture, "whether they consent to be governed or not. The constitution governs me without my consent." Mrs. Foster was followed by Mrs. Robinson, of the New York Republican League, who is decidedly opposed to expansion. She said that, in her opinion, there was no valid constitutional objection. She argued from the protectionist standpoint. Her principal argument, however, was based upon the content 7 that the annexation of the islands would mean the abolition of the tariff, so far as they were concerned, and that this would break down the protective system, resulting in incalculable injury to the American wage-earner, increased taxation to support an army and navy to subdue the islands, and the union of discordant elements, which would make the election of a republican president hereafter forever impossible. Mrs. Robinson also contended that the social, moral and political status of the people of the Philippines was not such as to warrant the United States in incorporating them into the body politic. WOMEN ARE FOR PEACE-OUR SONS NOT TO BE TARGETS FOR BULLETS. One of the features of the session was the report presented by Mrs. Francis Humphreys Gaffney, of New York City, the president-elect of the National Council. She referred to the war with Spain as exemplifying "an acute attack of patriotism" and deprecated war as a national surgery. While nations declare wars and call upon sons "to come forth and mutually experiment in surgery upon each other to prove which is the best annihilator," she said she feared the committee would find it an impossible task to convert these old surgeons to abandon their ways and resort to more civilized methods. The president-elect then insisted that the Filipinos in their way are just as good citizens of the United States, but "wherein" she asked, "do we display our more cultivated and educated brains except by mowing the Filipinos down with surer aim and more certain destruction or larger numbers." She submitted several reports of relief organizations to show that the women did the best they could in the war, under existing conditions. The women are all against war. They says that no mother likes to think that she is rearing sons to make targets for bullets. "Anything," they say, "rather than war." COMMISSION APPOINTED TO VISIT PHILIPPINES TO HELP WOMEN. The president of the council presented the following recommendation, which was adopted: In view of the practical extension of the United States, the acquisition of Hawaii and the close relations that will probably henceforth exist with Porto Rico and Cuba, and the possible continuation of close relations with the Philippine Islands, I recommend that the national council shall form a committee for study of the social and domestic conditions of life in these islands with a view to seeing in which way the women of the islands can be aided by us through their initiation into American methods of organization for mutual benefit and for the public weal. That these studies may be intelligently prosecuted I recommend that a commission be nominated from the national council and that the council endeavor to secure for this commission the recognition of the United States government, and that the commission be instructed to visit and inspect the conditions of life of the islands along the lines indicated in the preceding recommendations. This caused much discussion, as many of the women seemed to think that the Phillippine women might go as American women, at least even on the civilization question. So this paragraph was made over so as to show that American women wanted to "co-operate" with them. CZAR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS ENDORSED. The coming peace conference excited quite a stir as to whether or not the council should express itself, but the desire for "peace at any price" was so great that in the most finished manner the czar of Russia will be told that the National Council of Women indorse his disarmament ideas, "whether he means them or not," as the expression came from a small woman over in a dark corner of the church. One woman said that "as mothers" the council indorsed the czar. "No we don't!" retorted Miss Shaw. "We are not mothers. This is a national council of women, not of mothers, and to be a woman is a far higher privilege than being a mother," and the "mother" subsided before the onslaught of the "miss." INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS. Mrs. Frederick Nathan, of New York, delivered an address on "The Social Conscience in Its Relation to Industrial Problems." "The key to the solution of the social problems is to put our personal wants on the plane of the general good," said Mrs. Nathan. "Do we realize that every time we spend a dollar we are doing it either to the general good or to the general harm?" Mrs. Nathan said that much of our recently-made army clothing was made in sweat shops—a condition injurious both to the consumer and producer. The profits all went to contractors and sub-contractors in a long series. Mrs. Nathan spoke at length of the evils of sweat shop work in our great cities, saying that goods made in factories need not necessarily be more expensive than those made in sweat shops. She told of the work the consumers' leagues were trying to do, and hoped that eventually no goods would be purchased by conscientious people, except those bearing the label of the consumers' leagues. BAD COOKING THE EVIL OF THE DAY. Many of life's ills are due to ignorance and wastefulness. Dr. Mary Green, of the Household Economic Association, delivered an address, in which she took the position that many of the ills of life are traceable directly to bad cooking. Much of the world's poverty, she said, is due to wastefulness in the use of household supplies. Dr. Green favors the establishment of a national institution for instruction in household economics. Such an institution, in her opinion, would be of inestimable value to mankind. LEGALIZED VICE ABSOLUTELY OPPOSED. Rev. Anna Garlin Spencer, of Rhode Island, in reporting to the committee on social purity, spoke of the three ways in which the work had been carried on: Educational, consisting of efforts to raise the social standard of morality; rescue work for the fallen, and attempts to legally restrain impurity by furnishing better protection to girls and repressing manifestation of immortality, already forbidden by law. At the close of the report Mrs. Spencer made a few remarks upon the general question of the relation between the sexes, saying that today, as women were entering the commercial field with men they must be careful to hold unflinchingly to their views of the rights of individuals. "No class in society," said Mrs. Spencer, "has the right to degrade any other class in their interest, and the legalization of vice on the grounds of supposed necessity should be absolutely opposed by women." HOW THE COUNCIL CONDUCTED BUSINESS. The methods of business of the council were always dignified. The women showed not only a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of parliamentary rulings, but evidenced a thorough understanding of the political questions discussed, and the far-reaching influence of the ideas they endorsed. There was one distinctive and rather MRS. MARIA PURDY PECK. Vice-President National Council of Women. amusing difference in the manner of the chairman of this woman's council from the manner of men chairmen in men's conventions. For instance, when a delegate arose to speak, and addressed the chair, she would be recognized by "May or Elizabeth, Susan, Belva or Hannah has the floor." It was curious, too, to hear women in the midst of warm debate, quote from "my distinguished colleague, Anna or J. Ellen or Kate," as if all the world knew just who Anna or J. Ellen and Kate might be. Although this and similar small differences might provoke a smile, the main attitude of courtesy and kindly attention to even the least popular and most prosy of the speakers was markedly superior to the conduct of the average men's convention, even when the convention is ministerial in its make up. The conduct of these beautiful, self-poised women, with clear heads and warm hearts, eloquent lips and active hands "almost persuaded me" to be a suffragist. SOME WORK OF WOMEN'S RELIEF CORPS. The paper which was presented by Mrs. Emma R. Wallace, of Chicago, past national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, created quite a breeze of applause and aroused much interest. Mrs. Wallace gave a short talk on the Woman's Relief Corps. She said it was the largest organization of women in the world, whose chief corner stone was patriotism. During the sixteen years of its existence it had done a great patriotic work manifestly throughout the nation. It is preeminently a badge and banner society, she said; its music martial, its colors national. It has built a national army nurses' home, it has built state soldiers' homes, established soldiers' orphans' schools and teaches patriotism in every school in the country. Since its organization, sixteen years ago, it has spent for relief work and turned over to Grand Army posts $1,692,150.76 and expends annually now for these purposes $150,000. For the soldier boys in the Spanish-American war it raised $17,000 in cash and $6,000 in supplies. She gave inefficient government officials several raps, referred to the abiding necessity for instruction in the larger cities, so overrun with little foreign waifs, who were bound to grow up anarchists, or worse, if not taught American methods and inculcated with a love for American institutions. She paid an eloquent tribute to the old soldiers of the civil war, who, she said, were whole [?lumes] of patriotism in themselves. She believes that it is the American woman who is destined to bring about the political and patriotic millennium. TO HELP POOR CHILDREN. Mrs. Judith Ellen Foster, on behalf of the committee on the care of dependent and delinquent children, made five suggestions: (1) That every woman find out how many children in her locality are without the shelter of a natural home. (2) Where do they sleep; where are they fed and clothed, and do they receive schooling? (3) What industrial training are they given? (4) What legal provisions are made in the state in which you live for the care of orphans and vagrants, dependent, defective and delinquent children? (5) What provisions do private or church organizations make for these classes? WORK OF JEWISH WOMEN. Most interesting from the Gentile point of view was the report of the International Council of Jewish Women, by Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, of Illinois. Mrs. Solomon said that the organization which she represented was working to keep up an active study of Jewish history and literature and to maintain philanthropic enterprises according to the most modern methods. Following this came an address by Miss Sadie American, of Illinois, on "The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil." Eve, said Miss American, gave man his first uplift. She gave him his knowledge of good and evil; she gave him his wisdom, with all its consequences, instead of lethargy and ignorance. "A few seem to have tasted of the fruit," said the speaker, "and to have seen their own nakedness, and among these women are in the lead. Women are forcing their way into politics, and that the ballot is their right few will deny. "The three R's are no longer sufficient in education. We now need the three H's —an education of hand and head together, leading up to a proper development of the heart. ELOQUENT APPEAL FOR MISSION WORK IN THE SOUTH FROM AN ABLE COLORED DELEGATE. It was left for a young colored woman to impress the council as it has not been impressed before during its sessions. This was Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook, wife of Prof. George Cook, of Howard University. Mrs. Cook came to the council as a fraternal delegate from the National Association of Colored Women. Her paper was on "Some Effective Methods of Missionary Work in the South." It is not too much to say that in voice, simple dignity and ease of manner Mrs. Cook is the peer of any woman in the council. The force of this may be appreciated when it is added that it is the general feeling among the women themselves. It was a revelation. There has been nothing finer in unconscious grace, nothing stronger than this young woman's plea for the womanhood of her race. It stirred the council from the depths of its highest, noblest feelings. There were tears in many eyes, and at the conclusion a prominent member of the council and leader in woman's work arose and said: "I have heard nothing since I came to the council so helpful and so inspiring." Mrs. Cook told of mission work in the South, beginning with a brief reference to the conditions of the country, especially at the time of the emancipation, and paying a high tribute to the unselfishness of the missionaries who went to the South and rendered so much for the elevation of the negro. The main point of the paper is to review the work of missions in the South after the civil war. Her portrayal of what these missionaries had to face and their courage in doing so is true to history. Their object is tersely epitomized by her in the following sentence: "They are to bring a new education and a new gospel to the people whom 250 years of bondage have steeped in blackest ignorance and degradation." Mrs. Cook dealt with the different religious denominations, beginning with the American Missionary Association as the first in the field, and as first in [ran??s] to extensiveness of operations, [?] [?] full credit for all work to sphere. She did not colored people, but among the whites of and objected to calling "clay-eaters" and of the more can highlanders," to the tenacity shown in the man, and saw only through girl—the 8 called attention to the proposition that although a generation has passed away since emancipation, so wide is the field that the work is just begun. AMERICAN ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY OPPOSED TO ALL FORMS OF CRUELTY. A most practical and human report was that of the American Anti-Vivisection Society, presented by Caroline Earle White, of Pennsylvania. They do not believe that vivisection serves any goof purpose. The membership of the society increases, it was reported. They oppose all forms of cruelty, advocate education in humane principles and the total abolition of the practice of vivisection. They are working in schools and among children, and feel greatly encouraged. The public has been blinded by scientific dust thrown into its eyes, and that multitudes are wholly unaware of the unspeakable and fiendish cruelties that are perpetrated in the name of science. The public is taught to believe that vivisections are rare, that animals subjected to them are under anesthetics, and that the discoveries made by the process are of infinite value. The public has not realized that three thousand doctors signed a memorial declaring that an important series of experiments could not be carried through while animals are under anesthetics; that the arch-vivisector, Schiff, has been honest enough to say, "It is nothing but hypocrisy to with to impose on one's self and others the belief that the curarized animal does not feel pain." "Vivisection is grossly abused in the United States... We would add our condemnation of the ruthless barbarity which is every winter perpetrated in the medical schools of this country. History records some frightful atrocities perpetuated in the name of religion; but it has remained for the enlightenment and humaneness of this century to stultify themselves by tolerating the abuses of the average physiological laboratory, all conducted in the name of science. COUNCIL CRUSADES AGAINST THE CORSET - RAINY DAY COSTUME ADVOCATED. Mrs. Annie White Johnson, of Illinois, states that amid all the changes there was an undeniable movement toward more rational views in the matter of dress. Within recent years the sentiment against the plumage of birds in hats has been growing and the use of the short skirt as an athletic and rainy day costume has become general, while tight lacing seems to be on the wane. The report deplored the custom of wearing mourning among women, and suggested its disuse. The committee concluded that all attempts at dress reform must, in order to be effective, be made by very small degrees, and that probably no change in woman's dress was likely to be made, at any one time, which would come as a radical reform. The paper emphasized the aesthetic qualities of dress, and urges the same standards of art in it as those applied in painting and statuary. Beauty, comfort, and modesty were laid down as the rational criterions of woman's dress. The laws of beauty and health were unchanging, but those of modesty hinged largely on custom, and this constituted one of the difficulties in the way of dress reform. The use of the corset was most strongly condemned. "The abuse of dress," the paper stated, "has given it a secondary use as an exponent of wealth, and it becomes a convenient bill-board for announcing the wearer's superiority in material accumulations. Fashion, to satisfy commercial greed, dictates that I shall lay aside my slightly worn gown, and array myself in 'the latest.' I obey, in order that I may proclaim to the world that I can afford this conspicuous waste, that I am financially better than my neighbor. "So long as civilized communities recognize the propriety of flaunting superior possessions in clothes, fashion dictators will use this fact for their own ends. Today, [goo?] [??ciety] condemns the man who [dri?] [?eighbor] away from any [pu?] display of superior [physi?] [?omorrow] society may [?] who drives his [neigh???] [?] [?urch] by a display of [?] TO BE WORKED [?] [??UNCIL] OF [WOM?] [???ncil] of Women [?] [?xecutive] Board [???erience] of [di?] [??erefore] be it [?he] National [?resident] of the council, with all powers and privileges, including that of a vote upon the executive committee; further be it Resolved, should this resolution commend itself to the judgment of the executive committee, that the name Mary Lowe Dickinson and May Wright Sewell, the two living presidents of the council, be immediately place upon the official staff, and that the constitution be so amended as to include past presidents as honorary presidents within its limits; be it also Resolved, that no one except the president of the council shall have either the title of the privilege of an honorary president. Resolves, we believe the state should give to all children in schools under its control industrial and physical as well as mental educations. Resolved, that the National Council of Women requests the government of the United States how it may most largely avail itself of the services of women in the regulation of such matters pertaining to the army and ravy as the proper preparation of food, sanitation, nursing, medical attendance, etc. Believing that the two strongest unifying forces of organized effort are human brotherhood and Divine Fatherhood, and rejoicing in the expression of humanitarian principles in the manifold activities of American women, represented by the National Council of Women, therefore, Resolved, that this universal faith in the Divine Fatherhood should be expressed by either vocal or silent prayer at the opening of all sessions of the council. Resolved, that we protest against the canteen system in our army and navy. Resolved, that we deprecate war, and are in hearty sympathy with the purpose of the conference called by the Czar of Russia for the gradual disarmament of the nations of the world, believing that all difficulties between civilized peoples may be settles judicially by a high court of nations without the sacrifice of life. Resolved, that the National Council of Women of the United States send a communication to President McKinley, requesting him to use his influence in endeavoring to put a stop to bull fights in Cuba on account of their extreme cruelty and the demoralizing effect upon those who witness them. Resolved, that in view of the wholesale destruction and threatened extinction of whole species of beautiful and useful song birds for millinery purposes, and the consequent rapid multiplication of insect pests, and serious menace to the agricultural interests of our country ad the world, and in view of the manifest inadequacy of moral suasion to prevent the wearing of birds and parts of birds on women's bonnets, we urge the passage of a United States law prohibiting the sale by hunters of milliners of any bird plumage obtained by the destruction, torture, or injury of birds. Whereas, the National Council of Women of the United States is composed of many organizations having diverse aims and varied activities; and Whereas, its own chief object is "the overthrow of all forms or ignorance and injustice" by "the application of the Golden Rule to society, custom, and law; and Whereas, this diversity in its constituency and increasing number of its allied societies tends more and more (under the present form of procedure) toward the presentation of resolutions and petitions too special in character to be fully indorsed, and too great in number to be properly discussed by the council as a whole; therefore Resolved, that the committee on resolutions recommends that at succeeding sessions of the National Council of Women of the United States no resolution or petition be presented, except such as bear upon the objects, policy, or work of the council itself, in its internal administration or in its relation as a body to other organizations, or to some specific recommendation of the council in national or international enterprises or meetings. INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN The most important women's meeting of the year yet to be is the International Council of Women--quinquennial meeting--to be held in London in June, 1899. The members of the committee on arrangements, international officers, are as follows: President--The Countess of Aberdeen, Haddo House, Aberdeen, Scotland. Vice-President--Muss May Wright Sewell, 343 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.A. Treasurer--Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg, Helsingfors, Finland. Corresponding Secretary--Miss Teresa F. Wilson, 20 Motcomb Street, London, S. W. Recording Secretary--Madame Maria Martin, 31 Rue Francoeur, Paris, France President of the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland--Mrs. Alfred Booth, 46 Ullet Road. Sefton Park, Liverpool. Special Assisting Committee of Five, appointed by the National Council of Great Britain and Ireland--The Lady Battersea, Surrey House, Marble Arch, London. W.; Mrs. Percy Bunting, 11 Endsleigh Gardens, London, N. W.; Mrs. Creighton, Fulham Palace, London S. W.; Mrs. Rawlinson, Ballindue, Camberley; The Lady Laura Ridding, Thurgarton Priory, Southwell, Notts. Any other information regarding the Congress will be gladly furnished by the Corresponding Secretary whose address whose address is given above. PROGRAMME OF SUBJECTS INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. 1. In its historical aspect. 2. Arguments for the adoption of this method of adjusting national disputes. 3. Arguments against. EDUCATIONAL. 1. Home-training of children. (a) Connection between home and school life. (b) Means of awakening a higher sense of parental responsibility. 2. Kindergarden. 3. Child-life. (a) Psychology of children. (b) Amusemen[ts?] of children. (c) Physical tr[ain?]ing of children. 4. Education as [?] [P?]reparation for Life. (a) In school[s?] (b) In universities. 5. Co-Education. (a) In schools. (b) In universities. 6. Technical Training. (a) In trades. (b) In domestic science. 7. Training of Teachers. (a) Pedagogy. (b) Training schools. 8. Modern Educational Experiments. (a) Mr. Bamberger's scheme in Chicago. (b) Dr. Reddie's scheme in Great Britain. (c) Manual training as a means of educational discipline. (d) Vacation schools. (e) Boston reformatory schools. (f) Summer meetings. (g) Palm Gren's practical school in Stockholm. 9. Training of Defective Children. (a) Physically. (b) Mentally. PROFESSIONAL. 1. Professions Open to Women. 2. The Effect upon Domestic Life of the Admission of Women to the Professions. 3. Nursing. (a) Professional training and status of nurses for the sick. (b) Work of the professor in nursing. (c) Nursing organizations. 4. Status of Midwives. 5. Work of Women as Educators. (a) Lectures. (b) Teachers in schools. (c) Teachers in colleges. 6. Medical Woman. 7. Women as Inspectors. 8. Journalism. 9. Discussion on Any New Openings for Women. POLITICAL. 1. Responsibility of Women as Citizens. 2. Development of a Public Conscience for Women. 3. Suffrage. (a) Present position of the suffrage question. (b) Arguments for and against suffrage. 4. Women in Public Life. (a) In municipal life. (b) Under local government. (c) Upon other public bodies. 5. The Place of Woman in the Community. LEGISLATIVE AND INDUSTRIAL. 1. Civil Disabilities of Women. 2. Special Labor Legislation. (a) For women. (b) For children. 3. Legislation for the Dependent Clauses. (a) For the defective (b) For the criminal. (c) For the poor. 4. The Attitude of Different Schools of Reform as to Women's Industrial Position. 5. Decentralization of Labor. 6. Ethics of Wage Earning. 7. Home Industries. SOCIAL. 1. Social Necessity for an Equal Moral Standard for Men and Women. 2. Temperance. (a) Public control of the liquor traffic. 3. Women's Clubs. 4. Women's Settlements. 5. Prevention and Correction. 6. Emigration. (a) General principles. (b) Protection of young travellers. 7. Arts and Amusements. (a) National amusements. 8. Insurance Schemes for Old Age. 9. The Value of Organization as a Factor in Contemporary Civil and Social Life. List of Women who have received and accepted invitations to speak at the Quinquennial, to be held in London, England, in June, 1899: Miss Octavia Williams Bates, "The Study of Law for Women." Mrs. Margaret A. Caine, "Silk Culture in the United States." Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, on Suffrage. Miss Susan B. Anthony, "Present Position of the Suffrage Question." Mrs. Maria Purdy Peck, "Education as a Preparation for Life." Miss May Wright Sewell. "The Value of Organization as a Factor in Contemporary, Social and Civil Life," or "Arbitration." Rev. Ida C. Hultin "Necessity for an Equal Moral Stand for Men and Women." Mrs. Kate Walter Barret, "Rescue Work." Mrs. Lillian M. Holister, "Insurance Scheme for Old Age." Miss Sadie American, "Vacation Schools." Professor Bamburger, Educational Experiments in the United States." Mrs. Susa Young Gates, "The Home as a Workshop." Mrs. Maud Nathan-Nathan. "Consumers" Leagues. Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson (Educational). Mrs. Fannie Humphreys Gaffney, "Politics." In addition other addresses are promised by such well known persons as the Baroness Von Niebuch, the Baroness Bertha Von Suttner, the Countess Angelica Rospolia, M. Jules Payot, Mrs. Anna Garland Spencer, Mrs. Fanny B. Ames, the Countess of Carlisle, Mrs. Fawcett and Mrs. Josephine Butter, Mrs. Maria Purdy Peck will go from Iowa to address the Council. MRS. MANNING, THE PRESIDENT GENERAL OF THE D.A.R. A beautiful and gracious woman is Mrs. Daniel Manning, widow of the late secretary of the treasury in Cleveland's Cabinet. But Mrs. Manning needs no extraneous advantage to give her prestige, for she is a "right royal woman," and as she stood before her audience robed in black velvet and ermine, she looked every inch a queen. Her voice is strong, yet sweet, and her manner most gracious - too gracious at times, for when feeling ran high, later in the Congress and it became necessary to suppress the "Daughter" it was manifestly hard for the presiding officer to use the severity the case demanded. THE EIGHTH CONTINENTAL CONGRESS OF THE D.A.R. The Grand Opera House in the city of Washington has rarely been the scene of a more brilliant gathering than on the Monday morning, February 20th, when the tiny gavel of the President-General called the 1,000 fair Daughters to order. Flags, bunting, pennants and patriotic emblems waved everywhere. Palms and cut flowers added their gracious presence to the scene, while the gay bonnets and rich costumes of the delegates made a bouquet of the audience. Corps of reporters, representing newspapers from every section had tables immediately in front of the audience, where they could hear to advantage. THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - WHAT THE ORGANIZATION MEANS. - SOMETHING OF ITS WORK. The largest and most influential body of women ever organized for purely patriotic purposes is that of the Daughters of the American Revolution. In fact, it is, as far as known, the only organization of women in any country whose object is pure patriotism. The objects of the society are: (1) To perpetuate the memory of the spirit of the men and women who achieved American independence by the acquisition and protection of historical spots and the erection of monuments; by the encouragement of historical research in relation to the Revolution and the publication of its results; by the preservation of documents and relics, and of the records of the individual services of revolutionary soldiers and patriots, and by the promotion of celebrations of all patriotic anniversaries. (2) To carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell address to the American people, "To promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge," thus developing an enlightened public opinion, and affording to young and old such advantages as shall develop in them the largest capacity for performing the duties of American citizens. (3) To cherish, maintain, and extend the institutions of American freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country and to aid in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty. Any woman may be eligible for membership who is of age of eighteen years, and who is descended from a man or woman who with unfailing loyalty, rendered material aid to the cause of independence; from a recognized patriot, a soldier or sailor or civil officer, in one of the several colonies or states or of the united colonies or states, provided that the applicant be acceptable to the society. Every applicant for membership must be endorsed by at least one member of the National society, and her application shall then be submitted to the Registrar General (?) shall report on the question of eligibility to the General Board of Management when the question of admission shall be voted on by the board by ballot, and if a majority of said board approves such application, the applicant after payment of the initiation fee, shall be enrolled as a member of the national society. SOME OF THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED. The Daughters of the American Revolution have had to endure much criticism. They have been called a set of "would-be American aristocrats," a "mutual admiration society." They have been called "women who lived on lineage," a "dress parade society." etc. etc. But that the Daughters possessed the same sterling qualities which animated their forefathers was soon evidenced when war was declared last spring with Spain for the Daughters were the first to tender their services to the president, for aid and assistance to the sick and wounded, and not until the first of December did they withdraw their efficient labors. All the long, hot summer through Mrs. Daniel Manning and the able corps of assistants, remained in Washington looking personally after the thousand and one details of the work undertaken. The D.A.R. selected all the women nurses in the war. The surgeon general of the army gave into the hands of the Daughters of the American Revolution the selection and appointing, under his supervision of all the women nurses of the war service in both camp and field hospitals. The president general appointed a "war committee" and a hospital committee. Of this last committee Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee was chairman, Mrs. Bell Merrill Draper, treasurer; Miss Mary Desha and Mrs. Caroline R. Nash, assistant directors. There was much prejudice against the woman nurse at first. Surgeon General Sternberg looked with distrust upon her, but it was found at last that women were absolutely necessary in all the hospitals, and that those having women nurses were much the healthiest, and the patients much the happiest. In all 1,000 nurses were appointed, and the credentials of this regiment of women passed through the hands of the hospital committee before being submitted to the surgeon general. In all, the committee received the names and applications of 4600 trained nurses, who from their credentials were eligible for appointment. It took loads of patience and oceans of discretion to sift out frim among these ] the very best material to be had, and this was not easy, as the committee had no personal knowledge of the qualifications of any one of them, All over the United states, however, the Daughters of the Revolution had members of the order who took great care , each in her own district, to examine into the qualifications of the nurses who applied for work, and this helped sustain the efficiency of the corps. Not a complaint, it is said, has been lodged against a single nurse appointed by this war committee. The Daughters of the American Revolution were further honored in August by having the director of the hospital committee, who is also a vice president general of the congress, appointed as acting assistant surgeon of the united states army, a position never before filled by a woman. Many trained nurses offered their services for hospital work in the Cuban war were D.A.R's, and one, Miss Walworth, the daughter of one of the earliest members of the society, lost her life, having contracted the fever in Cuba, from which she died soon after returning to New York. The complete list of the new officers is as follows: Mrs. Daniel Manning, of Buffalo, N.Y., President General. Mrs. E. W. Howard, of Virginia, Vice President General, in charge of organization. Vice Presidents General, two-year term: Mrs. E. Rathbone, of Ohio; Miss M. Forsyth, of New York; Mrs. George M. Sternberg, of Washington, D.C., Mrs. William Lindsey, of Kentucky; Mrs. Fairbanks of Indiana; Mrs. George Fuller, of Massachusetts; Mrs. N.D. Sperry, of Connecticut; Mrs. E.M. cotton, of California; Mrs. Griscom, of Pennsylvania; Mrs. Newman, of Nebraska. Vice Presidents General one-year term: Mrs. A.L. Barber, of New York; Mrs. Chas. A. Stakely, of Washington, D.C.; Mrs. William P. Frye, of Maine; Mrs. Cheney, of New Hampshire; Mrs. Burrows of Michigan, Mrs. S.F. Nash, of Washington, D.C.; Miss Anna Wheeler, of South Carolina, Mrs. Goodloe, of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Roebling, of New Jersey. Chaplain General, Mrs. William A. Smoot. Recording Secretary General, Mrs. Albert Akers. Corresponding Secretary General, Mrs. K. K. Henry. Register General, Miss S.R. Hetzel. Treasurer General, Mrs. Gertrude B. Darwin. Historian General, Miss M.J. Seymour. Assistant Historian General, Mrs. R.S. Hatcher (?) (?) (?) GIFTS OF THE D.A.R. TO THE WAR RELIEF FUND. During the war, the D.A.R. gave in money and supplies, $300,000, a hospital steam launch to be used as a transport for the sick, which was named the D.A.R. and proved of inestimable service in moving the sick and wounded from shore to ship. Over 40,000 finished garments were manufactured by local chapters, and sent to the front to give comfort to our boys in clue, while carloads of clothing donated, canned goods and delicacies were sent through the direct agency of the Daughters of the American Revolution. THE DAUGHTERS FIGHT OVER A BIT OF MILLINERY - THE D.A.R. COLORS A BARGAIN TABLE DEAL. It is proposed by the D.A.R. to admit into fellowship and membership the D.R. Society. The Daughters of the Revolution and the Daughters of the American Revolution have much the same aim, object and inheritance. The D.A.R.'s are a little stricter, more exclusive and aristocratic than the D.R.'s who extend qualifications of membership to collateral as well as lineal lines of descent. The D.R.'s wear the badge and bit of buff and blue ribbon. The D.A.R.'s wear a badge and bit of white and blue ribbon. To have heard the animated discussion when it was proposed that "if the D.R.'s joined us we, the D.A.R.'s were to adopt their colors," one would have thought that the weal or woe of the nation rested on the discussion. One little woman excitedly demanded "Shall 28,000 women strike their colors to a little 2,900?" Another hysterically protested against "selling her birthright." Finally one of the founders, Mrs. Mary Lockwood, rose in her box and calmed the "tempest in a tea-pot," by stating the the white and blue which we were fighting and willing to die for, were not our true colors after all. Then she told how we happened to adopt the blue and white. It seems the Sons of the American Revolution had sent to Paris for a lot of badges and ribbons to be made in continental colors. They were, by some mistake, made in the French colors, blue and white, instead of Washington's colors of buff and blue. The Sons knew it was a mistake and wouldn't have them, so they said to the Daughters, "Here, ladies, is a bargain. You will need colors, we want something different, so you can have these for just half price." So, because there was an advertised bargain to be had, the purchase was made and 28,000 patriotic American women have all unwittingly been wearing French colors. It is needless to state that just as soon as the D.R.'s are merged into the D.A.R.'s every women of them will hasten to secure the official badge in our own true Continental colors buff and blue. THE DAUGHTERS OVER-RULE THE RULING OF SPEAKER REED. The constitution has been amended so frequently of late that delegates to the eighth Continental Congress were in doubt as to legality and parliamentary law on various subjects. Some one raised the question as to whether the officers who had served two terms were eligible for re-election. This question had been under discussion for a long time, and it only needed a mention to bring to the surface a great variety of views, all of which sought for immediate expression. All tried to get the ear or the eye of the chairman, and many asked to be heard on what the called a question of personal privilege. Finally Mrs. Ballinger was heard to declare that the greatest parliamentarian in the world, Thos. B. Reed, had said that the officers were eligible for re-election. Some one asked who had called for an opinion from Speaker Reed, and Mrs. Hatch obtained the floor. She said that she had had a conversation of two hours and a half with Speaker Reed, and after that time of solid discussion, he had given her the following letter, which was read aloud: Speaker's Room, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., Feb. 21, 1899. Mrs. Sarah H. Hatch - Dear Madam:- I have considered the question which you raise in regard to the effect of the new article of the constitution of the Daughters of the Revolution. Confirmed by such examination as I can make, it is my impression that the new constitution would do away with restrictions that might have been created under the old and that officers who have already served the limit under the old article would be eligible to serve again under the new. An amusing and very partisan discussion followed, one woman rising to challenge the statement that Reed was the "greatest parliamentarian" and claiming that honor for John G. Carlisle. Another in a positive and indignant tone said that "there were brains enough among the women of the D.A.R. to decide their own laws, and no man need be called in to advise," Another scornfully wanted to know "what sort of women we were anyhow to be biased by a man's 'impressions." If Mr. Reed had given his opinion the ladies would consider it, but an im- pression was too intangible and unstable a thing to guide a great body like the D.A.R., and so objection grew more and more caustic, until the "greatest parliamentarian in the world" was overruled by the Daughters, who preferred to abide by the decision of Mrs. Lee, of Chicago, the official parliamentary authority, who sat beside the chairman on the platform. Mrs. Lee decided the the old officers were eligible to re-election. That Speaker Reed will not soon cease to be a butt for good-natured gibe as a result of his attempt to dictate to the Daughters no one can doubt. His college alumni at a recent dinner presented the following: OWED TO REED. You do quite well To cast your spell On Congressional Cavorters. But you find your match, When you toe the scratch With Revolutionary Daughters They now no rules Taught in the schools Of established authority, Nor can they see How it can be One's always a majority. For their sweet talk You cannot balk With low resounding gavel, Try not again, With tongue or pen, Their tangles to unravel. In rising to answer, Speaker Reed remarked in the midst of applause: "That was a lamentable occurrence." He explained how Mrs. Reed had warned him, but that he had filed to heed the warning till it was too late. HOW THE DAUGHTERS VOTE. We wish we might truthfully state that the elections of the Continental Congress were conducted in the well bred manner "which stamps the cast of Vere de Vere," But we promised at the outset, to speak "the truth and nothing but the truth." It hurts our pride as a loyal Daughter, and wounds our sense of womanly dignity to confess that in politics women follow the rough and tumble scramble for office in much the same clamorous way men adopt in their political caucuses and conventions. Apparently half the women present wanted to place the names of the other half in nomination for home office or other. Fifty women talked at once. They rushed down the aisle shouting, "Mrs. President," "Mrs. Manning, please recognize me," "Dear Madame President, I ought to be recognized," and finally the steps on the stage were blockaded. Suddenly out of the clamor, a little lady came striding down the aisle, moving her hands and saying, "Madame President" up in high C. She had a point of order she said. As she got to the steps the president general recognized her. "My point of order is this," she said with emphatic nods of her head. "It is all out of order for ladies to come to these steps to speak," and she stood there on the steps in extreme surprise at the shout of laughter that went up. It took three ballots to elect the vice-presidents general and the other general officers. In this age of universal hue and cry for "more pay for less work," it was a refreshing thing to see these millionaire women, these daughters of ease and supposed idleness, scheme and scramble and lobby and wire-pull for an election to an office which meant continuous and responsible work, with no pay, except the reward of an honorary title and the satisfaction of work well done in a patriotic cause. But if the Daughters were noisy and aggressive, they were not given to throwing mud as men do. The usual objections to unpopular candidates being veiled in such statements as: "She has no executive ability, poor thing," or "She really hasn't time to do the work," or "Her health won't stand the strain." If any doubtful reader of the masculine persuasion fails to realize the amount of gratuitous labor these devoted D.A.R. officers perform, let him call, any day, at the national headquarters in Washington. He will see women who are at their desks from nine until five, week in and week out, who give up home life and social life, except such as can he had after office hours and who render as strict an account of their time as if hired clerks in a commercial establishment. One woman of enormous wealth told us she spent the past hot summer shut in a little office 10x12 in size, and lighted by only one small window. She did not sigh for her cottage by the sea-shore, nor for her annual trip to the mountains or across the sea, for she, in common with the rest of the official board, were working for the soldier boys in Cuba, and feeling rewarded for all their self-denial in the knowledge of the good accomplished. The capacity of woman for self-immolation in a great cause has no parallel among men, and the limit of her service when her sympathies are enlisted are bounded only by her strength and ability to endure. THE D.A.R. RECOGNIZE THE CLAIM OF FRANCE TO THE GRATITUDE OF LOYAL AMERICANS. The "Daughters" are the first to recognize the help France gave us in our struggle for independence. Large sums of money have been raised to place a bronze statue of General Lafayette in Paris, which will be unveiled on July 4, 1900 - United States day at the Paris Exposition. Although the idea originated in the mind of Robert J. Thompson, of Chicago, the D.A.R., aided by the children and the Sons of the American Revolution, have the matter in charge and are looking after the details of the presentation. The flag to be used at the unveiling of Lafayette's monument under the auspices of the D.A.R., was the first American flag to enter Porto Rico, and is the gift of Gen. Miles. LAFAYETTE'S BURIAL PLACE Victor Hugo has immortalized the little garden of the Convent in the Petit Piepus, in his "Les Miserables." In this garden were hastily buried the remains of 1,500 victims of the guillotine who fell during the troublous revolutionary times which swept over the French nation. Under a simple, almost forgotten granite slab, lie all that was mortal of the great Frenchmen, whom Washington loved and all America honored. Gen. Lafayette and his wife sleep side by side in this quiet little convent garden, scarce remembered by the throng about them, save when some American tourist pays the tribute of a visit and a tear at this shrine of patriotism. EQUESTRIAN STATUE IN BRONZE OF WASHINGTON FOR PARIS. The D.A.R. are raising funds to help place a magnificent equest [?] statue of George Washington in [?]uous place in the city of Paris. [?] 000 of the amount is in hand[?] of having the entire s[?] to unveil the statue [?] tion. Mrs. Manning [?] eral of the D.A. [?] functions in Pari[?] PRESERVATIO [?] ICS-- CO[?] It is the a[?] to eventual[?] toric spots [?] MRS. FRANCES HUMPHREY GAFFNEY. Presidenty-Elect National Council of Women. utionary times. Already they have restored many old houses and churches and improved church yards and old battle fields, built monuments, erected liberty poles, placed memorial windows and commemorative tablets in honor of revolutionary heroes. Patriotic work is being done among the children of foreign parentage, to fit them for American citizenship, and a large and valuable collection of revolutionary relics is now under the custody of the National Museum, until Continental Hall is built as a fit memorial of '76. Old furniture, books, weapons, portraits, clothing, silver and pewter were presented to the society during the recent congress, and it is safe to predict that twenty years hence, when the Continental Hall is built, it will contain a museum of revolutionary relics which will be the nation's pride. Fifty thousand dollars are already in the society treasury for the Hall. Congress is expected to donate the ground, and $250,000 will be expended in the building. FOUNDING SCHOLARSHIPS. A work of the near future will be the founding of two scholarships in American history, of $500 each, for a graduate of some institution approved by the society, who is a Daughter of the American Revolution and has specialized somewhat in history during her last two years of study. The course should be a Ph. D. course of three years in history with pedagogy and studies allied to historical philosophy as minors. In return, the beneficiary would hold herself in readiness to appear as representative of the society in educational efforts for three years. She would be privileged to write or teach, but the society would be allowed to call upon her to a reasonable extent. DESECRATION OF THE FLAG. The D. A. R.'s have a bill now pending making it a criminal act to use our national emblem for any but patriotic purposes. They particularly object to its being used as an advertisement for mercantile wares. The remarks of Mrs. Kempster are so pertinent that I quote briefly: Loyal Americans, have read with anxious hearts, through the months just gone by, the accounts of the valor of our troops following the red, white and blue banner through incredible difficulties and dangers, and through deadly hail of shot and shell. They may even have grown familiar with the story of the brave song of "The Star Spangled Banner," as they stood under the fire and saw it appear triumphant in the struggle beyond; or with the tales of heroic onward rush of the flag bearer, into the very heart of death. And yet - these loyal Americans who cannot hear the well known story but with fast beating hearts, turn to their accustomed daily scenes and look on this emblem of all our sacrifice and bloodshed, the banner which men grasp as a holy thing and safeguard unto death, which may not touch the earth but to enwrap the lifeless bodies of its defenders - they look on undisturbed while these stars and stripes are subjected to every possible indignity. They pass unheeding and without rebuke the most dishonoring, ignoble treatment of the colors. The plea in justification, that "the flag is able to take care of itself," while patriotic in tone, and probably so in intention, is so illogical a shirking of the matter that few words seem necessary in reply. It is an influence upon the young which is needed, and upon those who in such large numbers come from other lands, with minds wholly unacquainted with the institutions in which they are to share. SOUTHERN WOMEN OBJECT TO BEING CALLED REBELS. The war with Spain has done much to harmonize the sectional feeling in our own commonwealth. It has done more, it has added a new odium to the word "rebel." The Daughters of the South have read of the rebels in Cuba, and the rebels in the Philippines, and they seriously object to being classed in the same category with our dusky brethren and called the rebels in the United States. That they feel strongly was manifest several times, and as a crystallization of this feeling Mrs. Raoul offered a resolution to the effect that the Daughters should use their influence to substitute the expression "war between the states" for that of "war of the rebellion." Mrs. Raoul said that northerners, perhaps, little realized how distasteful the expression "war of the rebellion" is to southerners. The motion was carried. IF THE DAUGHTERS SHOW FIGHT THE REASON EXPLAINED. One of musing features of the Contin is the revolutionary spiri hown by the delegates, If a motion Tennessee to object. If New decide to do a Carolina protest. a unanimous understand why were really the follow ago in a much concern by his unaccountable and wanton practice of inflicting hurts and injuries on his own person. He was often seen pinching his own legs, or jabbing the point of his pen-knife into his arms and hands. Unable to understand it, the teacher asked, "Johnny, why in the world do you act so?" "Well, teacher," responded the boy, "I just must fight something; my mother was from Massachusetts, my father was from South Carolina and I was born in '61." This explained it, the present generation of D. A. R.'s have not outlived inherited or acquired tendencies, and I observed that most of the obstructionists, like the boy, were born about '61. THE GRAND RECEPTION OF THE D. A. R. - SOCIAL ASPECTS. The trustees of the beautiful new Corcoran Art Gallery did a most courteous and graceful thing in offering the use of their magnificent building to the D. A. R.'s for their great reception. Entering the spacious hall, the visitor was shown into large, commodious apartments amply provided with clothes racks. The waiting maids checked wraps, etc., and made one "ready for company." Passing directly into the large sculpture hall with its wealth of classic reproductions, the reception committee of gentlemen introduced the guest to Mrs. Manning, the president-general, and to the twenty or more official ladies in line. I was told that Mrs. Manning's lace cost $1,500 and that her diamonds were worth a small fortune. There were nine diamond stars, for I counted them, and a necklace of great value, and numerous pins here and there, flashing their prismatic colors from the folds of her bodice. The other ladies were equally rich in attire, and a more beautiful sight would be hard to imagine. The marble room with its masterpieces of sculpture, the great, carved columns, the fresh, white walls and the sunny floors, made an admirable setting for the picture made by the gowns of the ladies, the profuse floral decoration and elaborate display of electric lights. The marble stairway was lined with palms interspersed with boxes of blooming tulips and hyacinths. Garlands of evergreen and swaying wreaths of tropic vines filled the panels on the wall. Up stairs, in the spacious corridors, and in the several large halls for paintings, the guests promenaded, or found a comfortable seat, as I did, to watch the elegant assemblage and to admire at leisure the brilliant scene. The beautiful women were never more beautiful and the disploy of lace and jewels comparable to nothing I had seen, except the MardiGras balls in New Orleans. The number of lovely, white-haired women was remark ble. Was it that American women were becoming prematurely grey in large numbers, or did women formerly dye their hair? Trained skirts and bare arms and shoulders were the rule, though hundreds wore high reception gowns, and some wore, without a sense of great unfitness, the tailor gown and becoming, small bonnets. ADMIRAL SCHLEY GIVEN AN OVATION - MILES A GUEST Of course the chief dignitaries in officialdom called to pay their respects to the D. A. R. The president was out of town, but the cabinet and chiefs of all sorts were there. Hearing a great clanking on the hard, oaken floor, we turned to see a burly man in much gold lace, gold, fringe, gold badge and gold buttons stoop to disengage an immoderately long, gold spur on his boot from the priceless flounce on a lady's gown, and though the lady smiled at the destruction of the old lace, we felt sure that inwardly she was anathemizing the vanity which permitted General Miles to wear spurs to a women's reception to work such havoc among their fine draperies. People greeted the general as he passed through the crowd, but oftener than not it was his beautiful wife that was the object of attention. Not so with the other hero of the Spanish war. Admiral Schley came dressed simply in the conventional evening dress of a private citizen. There was no gold lace or gold fringe - not the tiniest gold button to betray the fact that he was entitled to the bravery of a naval uniform. A white blossom in his buttonhole was his only decoration. Scarce given time to pass along the receiving line, the admiral was soon a receiving party himself. With his back to a huge column he stood smiling and shaking hands with the hundreds who pressed forward to greet him. Before we realized it, we were caught in the current of the crowd moving towards the modest admiral. As he stood bowing and smiling to his admirers he reminded us of pictures we had seen of the Emperor Louis Napoleon. His hair was plastered low on his forehead and his moustache and "goatee" waxed to a fine point. As we approached him we observed that the ladies were merely repeating their own names as they took his hand, which could certainly mean nothing to him, and which half the time he failed to hear. The woman ahead of us said, "I, too, am from Maryland; I am glad to meet you." That was our cue. So when our time came, an instant later, we said, very quietly, "Admiral, out in the West, when your name is mentioned at our public meetings, we take a recess for applause." We had thought before that the admiral was "Frenchy," but when he folded both hands around our extended palm and said, with much emphasis, "Madam, you are very sweet," we were sure of it. Our friends laughed not a little at the episode, but we contend that as we did not intrude ourself on his attention, and did describe the loyalty of our section, that if Schley thinks of us at all it will be with cordial feeling. The Korean minister and his brown little wife and pin-cushiony little boy, passed through the assemblage seemingly unconscious that their ridiculous little, hard hats, like so many iron pots tied to their heads, were at all odd or unusual. The Chinese minster and some members of the Japanese legation added a touch of Orientalism to the scene. But to us some of our native Americans were interesting enough. We sat for a few moments on a bench before the great canvas, representing the "Death of Mozart. The famous attorney, Mrs. Belva Lockwood, sat near us. She pointed out the notables present. There was a dowdy little woman with a general look of grayness about her, from her curly, gray hair to her ill-fitting grey velvet gown, which I could see was "a mile too big" for her. She seemed alone and intent on the picture rather than the people. It was Vinnie Ream, the sculptress, who a few years ago made every woman of us feel a new Angelo might have been born a female. But her prestige, like the fashion of her gown, is a thing of the past. A rouged, a frizzled, "fast looking" young woman who sailed around in black decollette costume was a well known correspondent for an eastern daily. Susan B. Anthony, in black velvet and magnificent lace, marched by with her majestic tread, followed by May Wright Sewell and rev. Anna Shaw. Susan carried the historic and inseparable red silk shawl on her arm. I suppose she will be buried in it. There were makers of books and makers of laws; people famous and a few infamous, or who deserve to be, who passed to view Mozart and be themselves viewed by a humble, western woman much interested in the great throng about her. At eleven o'clock Mrs. Manning still stood holding her mammoth bouquet of orchids high out of harm's way from the crowd, and, realizing the labor before her on the marrow, we made our adieus, congratulating ourself that we were only a "plain Daughter," privileged to sleep late if we chose, and not the president-general, obliged to be at her desk at nine a. m. ARE WE TO HAVE AN AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY? We have always known that our ancestors were among the first on this genial soil, that they held office in the colonial period and were efficient officers in the revolutionary war and every war since, in this country, but we have never felt that it was "any fault of ours," and have never held our head one whit higher in consequence. Our creed is "what you are now, not what you have been." So it was a matter of surprise to us to see women of even less claims to aristocratic lineage, attempt to establish an exclusive aristocracy in the United States. It is a rightful source of pride and a matter to congratulate one's self upon that you are well born, but it is contrary to our American institutions to establish caste. We counted fourteen bows on a woman's badge at the D. A. R reception. Every bow represented a revolutionary grandfather or grandmother who "had rendered service to this country in the war of '76" How she plumed herself on that fact - and it was a lovely thing for her to think of that her ancestors were all happily in that part of the country where they could render service. We saw another woman, and she was the most disagreeable creature we ever met, who wore the badges all studded with jewels, of a descendant of the Hugenots, the Mayflower, the Colonial Dames and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She had so advertised her fine birth on her be-badged and be-ribboned bosom that we were not prepared for the very plebian way in which she crowded to the box window, out of her turn, and with great rudeness to secure her passport to the Congress. This and numerous similar scenes make me feel that it is not past glory, but present worth which stamps the lady and "the caste of Vere de Vere." Besides it is hard enough to live up to our present privileges. Still the tendency of the times is to establish a caste if possible. The comic papers did a good work last year in this crusade against such old world methods, and the fun at the expense of the order of Descendants of Kings and the airs of the O'Flanagans and O'Briens and McDonegals and Mac Duffs was effective in a large degree to suppress the too frequent allusion to "my family, my ancestry, etc." ATTITUDE OF WOMEN TOWARDS POLYGAMY - WHAT THE THREE GREAT WOMEN'S CONVENTIONS DID OVER THE SEATING OF ROBERTS. That there was to be a fight more or less prolonged over the polygamy question every delegate in attendance on the Council of Women, the Congress of Mothers or the Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, very well knew. The free discussion of the matter was hampered by the presence of a dozen or more Mormon women in each of the organizations. The first fight was in the Council of Women. It lasted two days. It provoked eloquence, outpouring of sentiment, accusation, denial, much partisan feeling and some tears, but at no time did it degenerate into anything akin to a squabble. The W.C.T.U. and social purity women wanted to pass a flat-footed resolution which would point out Roberts, the polygamist member of Congress from Utah, as the object of their protest. Their resolution read like this: Whereas, the passage of the Edmonds bill (so called) established the law of monogamic marriage as binding upon all citizens of the United States; therefore, Resolved, that no person shall be allowed to hold a place in law-making body of the nation who is not in this and in all other matters, a law abiding citizen. This resolution was signed by the following women on behalf the the organizations named: Mrs. Rebecca B. Chambers, Pennsylvania, National Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Mrs. Mary G. Osgood, New Hampshire, National Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society; Mrs. William C. Bolles, Connecticut, National Christian League for the Promotion of Social Purity, and Mrs. I C. Manchester, Rhode Island, National Association of Loyal Women of American Liberty. The daughters of Brigham Young and the relatives and disciples of Brigham Young plead, argued and resorted to tears. Mrs. Zina Young Cord, of Utah, said all the delegates wanted purity in the family, but were they able to investigate the parentage of every child born into the world? If not, why should the National Council direct an attack upon any individual. Miss Sadie American, of Illinois, delegate from the National Council of Jewish Women, said that she had come out on her Sabbath day to stand for breadth of view, and urged that the organization should not concern itself with questions of this sort. Upon this Miss Susan B. Anthony, of New York, then rose to speak: "We have laws in all our states to punish men who violate the lows of monogamic marriage, but if we should go to congress would we not find men there who, upon investigation, would be punishable under these laws? Why, then, should we go away out to Utah to seek out a man to punish?" Rev. Anna Shaw, of Pennsylvania, spoke next. "It has been stated here," she said, "that the man some of us are trying to antagonize has no connection with the Mormon Church. We don't want to bring a resolution bristling with points, but bristling with a point. We are told we must stick to general questions, and yet we have struck against the canteen system, the wearing of birds on hats, and many question of nowhere near the importance of the present one. Every woman ought to protest against the seating of this man, who has been guilty of violating the law." Mrs. Susan Young Gates, of Utah, followed. "I know of no argument which better shows the ability of this council to arbitrate great questions, for it has been done in the best spirit. And yet it is cruel thing to force us into a position hich we do not wish to occupy. If you want the women of my people to accept your views, why not treat us with kindness? I would not dare to speak to you in insincerity, and I ask you to be charitable. I wanted to bring you argument," said Mrs. Gates, breaking into tears, "but I see I can only bring to you emotion and sentiment." At the close of her remarks, Dr. Mary Walker, who had been a visitor at many of the convention's sessions, came down the aisle and kissed Mrs. Gates, as she took her seat, which should have been medicine enough without the plain talk the poor plural wife had to submit to. Finally, worn out by the prolonged wrangle, a courteous regard for the feelings of their Mormon fellow delegates, rather than that the sentiment of the whole Council was reached, the following feeble resolution was passed: Whereas, the National Council of Women of the United States stands for the highest ideals of domestic and civic virtue, as well as for the observance of law in all its departments, both state and national, therefore Resolved, that no person should be allowed to hold a place in any law-making body of the nation who is not a law abiding citizen. In the National Congress of Mothers, a similar experience was anticipated. The writer, who had the honor of being chairman of the Resolutions Committee, had been told that there was prospect of strong opposition to an anti-polygamy resolution. There had been sent to the congress a Mormon woman, mother of six daughters, who said "she hoped some man would come along willing to marry all six of her girls." This woman, however, did not present her credentials. They might have been contested. The committee secured the presence in the audience of competent speakers on the Roberts question, and the chairman had in her hand certified proof of all charges against Roberts as a law breaker. Whether the opposition knew this or not is a question, but when the resolution was read with others by the chairman, no voice arose in protest and the following unequivocal and vigorous protest was unanimously endorsed by the "Mothers:" Whereas, the election of a polygamist to Congress threatens the sacred institution to monogamous marriage; be it Resolved, that the third national Congress of Mothers request the national congress of the United States to repudiate the result of in Utah, either by refusing to allow the name of Brigham H. Roberts to be placed on its rolls, or by expelling him from his seat. The D. A. R., after some discussion as to whether or not they wanted to take action on the Roberts matter, passed a resolution worded about as the "Mothers'" had been. THE RESULT OF WOMAN'S WORK-- WHAT IT ALL AMOUNTS TO. We imagine we hear some reader of the sterner sex, ask scoffingly, "Well, what then? What will all this big talk in convention and congress and council amount to?" We will tell you. It will mean that the special and various interests which these energetic, ambitious women advocate will have the backing and support of the pulpit, and the lecture platform. It means that their ideas will be crystallized into legislative bills, to be presented to the state assemblies and to the Congress of the United States. Women do not need the ballot to affect and effect legislation. The privilege of the franchise of equal citizenship might help (we still say might, not would, for we are not yet clear on this point), but even without the ballot the work and influence of woman is a factor in our growing civilization not to be underestimated, and facts prove that her helpful influence has already effected many reforms and inaugurated numerous beneficient institutions. The revival of patriotism, the preservation of historic spots, the accumulation of valuable historic records and relics, the curfew law, the raising of the age of consent, the temperance sentiment, the opening of wider fields for women's work, the improvement of sanitation in home and school, better relations between parent and teacher, the intelligent study of child life and a philanthropy which cures all crimes and criminals, all deficients and delinquents and recognizes in every child born into the world that divine spark made in His Likeness. Such are a few, a very few of the results of the efforts of woman, which they meet to discuss in their councils and congress. PROVINCIALISM VERSUS CULTURE. We did not know until we attended these great Congresses of Women how provincialism affected the speech of our cultured women. It was not uncommon thing to hear the motion made in the soft drawl of the negro by women whose history and education were pure and undefiled, yet whose darkey mammy had fixed in childhood the never to be overcome habits of tone and inflection. There was one lonely woman living in the District whose voice was so "negro" that one would defy any one hearing it in the dark to think the speaker anything but an unusually grammatical negro. It is an interesting study of dialect. We found ourselves constantly trying to spell all the dialects. The pronunciation of the Vermont and Connecticut members, of the Carolinians and Virginians were distinctly different. We would not say which section spoke the best English, yet our judgment was much fortified a day or two ago, by a paragraph stating that Howells, the novelist, said that English was spoken nearest as it should be in southern Ohio. We wished a phonograph might have been placed in a desk and every state obliged to send two delegates to repeat a [profile portrait of Mrs. Terrell] MRS MARY CHURCH TERRELL. President National Association of Colored Women. given sentence into it, as an instruction lesson on dialect and pronounciation. Hamlin Garland, Miss Wilson, Amelia Rives and Miss Murfree, Geo. Cable and Octave Thanet understand it. For us the contrast of sectional dialect was a delightful accompaniment of the Congresses. It was an intellectual problem not difficult to solve to guess the state of the speaker by her words and consonants. It proved that all the culture that school and college can give us is but the veneer and that we are really what our environment makes us, and that our language is flexible enough to embrace every quality of tone or shade of local color. JAUNTS ABOUT TOWN--THE NATONAL CAPITOL. It was the Portuguese minister who in 1816 gave to Washington the descriptive title, "the city of magnificent distances." Nowhere else can one look from a central point through so many long vistas, formed by long tree-bordered streets and avenues. There are twenty-seven circles and parks in the very heart of town. From these restful spots radiate the streets and stately avenues, like spokes from the hub of a wheel. At the end of each street is another park or circle adorned with sculpture and landscape gardening. Crowning the summit of the highest altitude in the District of Columbia stands the national capitol, one of the most stately and magnificent specimens of classic architecture in the world. As you approach through the spacious grounds you are awed by the majesty of the great edifice covering three and one-half acres. The marble steps leading to the three grand porticos ae worn down a full inch by the tread of countless feet, who through the century have passed over them on their errands for weal or woe. Passing through the rows of stately Corinthian columns thirty feet high, one is awed into a quiet mood, so when the opening door reveals the sign "Silence," one feels an instinctive impulse to walk on tip toe and speak in tones subdued. The story of the life and decadence of the American Indian and the development of our own resources is constantly illustrated in the decorations of the building. Carving and sculpture, paintings and fresco, mosaic and bas-relief are all eloquent of history, poetry or legendary lore. In Statuary Hall stand the effigies in marble of two of the great men of each state, though as yet only a few of the states have responded to the privilege, those who have being, with few exceptions, from among the original thirteen. Passing through this historic gallery we reach the house of representatives. All sense of awe takes unto itself wings, for a glance about the room reveals the careless, lolling figures, some reading, some writing, a few asleep, a few listening, while one was addressing the chair. The eye naturally sought the great czar of the house. But Speaker Reed seemed as indifferent to the orator as his colleagues were, and buried his pugilistic head in a pile of papers, looking up only when the speaker ceased to harangue the air. I said air, for, from appearances, nothing about him but the air was disturbed. LIVELY SCENES IN CONGRESS-- CZAR REEN WIELDS THE GAVEL. Appearances are sometimes deceitful. A calm usually precedes a storm. When the army bill was presented for discussion, the sleepy representatives woke up. The indifferent took their feet down from the dingy desks and all showed attention. There were animated discussions, motions and counter motions, amendments and amended amendments. The pugilistic head was held erect and alert. Reed ruled and overruled, recognized where he would and failed to recognize where he should, and kept the game going in a right merry way which proved his title to his pseudonym of "czar." To a loyal westerner accustomed the sunlit elegance of the legislative halls of some of our state capitols, the great, dingy, dusky chambers of the house and senate of our national capitol seemed disappointing. They seem both unwholesome and unclean ad with a racking headache from breathing the foul air from the visitors' gallery, we let the halls of congress to wander through the corridors with THE NATIONAL CAPITOL AS A GALLERY OF ART. We do not often think of the Capitol of the United States as a gallery of art. In enumerating the art collections of the world, few authorities mention the seat of the American government. Yet there is in the Capitol enough material to furnish a gallery equal to many notable European collections, and of variety covering every branch of artistic endeavor Surmounting the imposing dome is Crawford's beautiful bronze of Freedom, nearly twenty feet high. But from her eminence of 307 1/2 feet she looks like a child, but a study of the model in the national museum shows a beautiful, majestic woman, standing with sheathed sword and upright shield, on a globe bearing the inscription, "E Pluribus Unum." Justice and History guard the senate doors, which are the famous bronze doors of the same artist, Crawford. Under the great dome is the immense circular hall, one hundred feet in diameter, called the rotunda. This room alone with its frescoes, paintings and sculptures can hold the visitor's interest for many hours. There are eight large oil paintings set in the panels which are graphic pictures of our national history. The Landing of Columbus on San Salvador, by John Vanderlyn, well known from the many copies made; the Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto, painted by Powell; the Baptism of Pocahontas, by Chapman; the Embarkation of the Pilgrims, by Weir; the Declaration of Independence; the Surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga; the Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown and the resignation of General Washington at Annapolis, the last four by Trumbull, have special interest for the student of American history. The Trumbull paintings are portraits from life. Col. John Trumbull, the artist, was Washington's aid-de-camp, and made the sketches for these paintings during the progress of the war. He spent thirty years in artistic study at home and abroad and travelled extensively to get sittings from life of the characters appearing in his pictures. In 1816, after all this preparation, congress gave him commission to pain the four great rotunda pictures, which are held as priceless on account of the notable portraits they contain. A Greek Theater in the design of the semicircular room called Statuary Hall. The domed ceiling is copied from the Roman Pantheon and is lighted by a cupola. Above the door is Franzoni's historical clock. A female figure with tablet, representing History is seated in a winged chariot of Time, its wheels supported by a globe circled by the Zodiac. In this room stand thirty-six marble statues of the great men of the nation, each state having the privilege of placing two of her sons here in effigy. In the house are paintings by Vanderlin, ARy Scheffer and Bierstadt, and frescoes by Brumidi of Washington at Yorktown. On the east stairway is Frank Carpenter's First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet. On the landing of the west stairway hangs a painting by Emanuel Leutze called Westward, Ho! which has for its legend Bishop Berkley's immortal line, "Westward the star of empire takes its way." It tells the story of the pioneer attempting to cross the mountains. The movers' wagon, the weary horses, the travel-worn men and half fainting women, seem hopeless of ever reaching their destination. They are amidst almost hopeless impassable mountain crags, but the pathos of the scene is brightened by the figure of a youth on the topmost peak waving a flag and of a husband supporting the sinking figure of his wife, and pointing below to ta wonderful valley of promise, stretching out for miles and miles at their very feet. The effect of distance in this picture is wonderful and its interest so great as to make it difficult to turn away. After the exciting scenes of revolutionary history it was a rest to look on Thomas Moran's Canyons of the Yellowstone and Colorado. From the turbulence and passion of humanity to the wild riot of the foaming waters leaping through the rocky defiles of the Colorad ns was but a step. From the blo carnage wrought by man t d of the elements in the it seems as if some gi sonified spirits of e and wild tornado n a war terrific to nature such re heighths, such d The sombrenes terable loneli of golden s ??ne—which floods and illumines the entire canvas. Moran and Bierstadt! who shall choose between them? Bierstadt's great landscapes, with their wonderful blue distances, and cloudy skies, and shadowy forests, are truly wonderful, but they lack, to me, the mellowness which Moran's sunshine gives to his work. I wish I had time to describe all the wonderful allegorical frescoes, the elaborate carvings, and even to mention a few of the hundreds and hundreds of portraits and historic paintings which adorn the halls, lobbies, committee rooms, court rooms, and the many elegant official departments. The designs of the stairways alone are worth a visit to study, and the stained glass, mosaics and carvings, to say nothing of the many priceless bronzes, would require an article all to themselves to describe. I have made no attempt to do justice to the art treasures of the capitol. I have merely wanted to remind the reader that in that magnificent edifice are shrined such works of genius as entitle us to look with pride on our capitol as a gallery of art. A VISIT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MARBLE INTERIOR IN THE WORLD. Across the esplanade from the Capitol stands the new Congressional Library, built externally of white granite from New Hampshire and Maryland granite, and internally of marbles from Europe, Africa and America. Its 2,000 windows make it the best lighted library ever built. In the keystone of the window arches are carved in relief, the typical heads of 33 races of men, taken from the National Museum. The Court of Neptune is represented in the great image bronze fountain at the foot of the stately staircase, which leads to the entrance of the central stair hall of the library. This hall has fitly been described as a vision in polished stone. It (?) credited by travelers with being unsurpassed by any entrance hall in the world. Inlaid in the tessellated pavement are wrought brass signs of the zodiac. Standing on the central sun under a vaulted ceiling seventy-two feet to the skylight, one is surrounded by carved and sculptured marble, whose gleaming, polished surface reflects the light from a thousand angles. The exquisite ceiling is a mosaic marble and gold which, like the gold in the dome, is 22 carats fine. It is not within the limits of this article to enter into detailed description of this wonderful piece of architecture. The carving on the stairway alone is worth a week's study. The first impression on looking up through the myriad classic columns of polished marble is that the fresco on the ceiling is brilliant unto gaudiness. A second look shows that what seemed fresco is in reality the most wonderful mosaic executed in tiny fragments of colored marble and gold, each piece being smaller than a penny. Every name made famous in history, literature or science, in education or the arts, in myth or legend or the poet's fancy, is here wrought in mosaic tablet surrounded by a wealth of design in floral or scroll work, fanciful and beautiful enough for the parlor of a fairy queen. Above the door and window is wrought an inscription which adds interest to the decoration. "They are never alone that are accompanied by noble thoughts," "Learning is but an adjunct to ourself," "The foundation of the state is the education of its youth," are prominent examples. The reading room is the chief feature of the main floor of the library. It is a beautiful, restful room, octagonal in shape and 100 feet in diameter. It is 125 feet high and lighted by the "skylighted" ceiling, and by eight large windows each thirty-two feet wide. It is a harmonious, artistic interior. The color effect is bronze and gold. The mahogany desk and chairs ranged in circles around a central dispensing desk will accommodate 250 readers at one time. The room is surrounded half way by a visitors' gallery, supported by yellow marble columns with capitals wrought with gold. Bronze railings and eight heroic size bronze statutes complete the decorative features. Alcoves lead to the (?) room devoted to the book stocks (?) (?) pneumatic tubes and an underground tunnel carry books over to the Capitol, making the trip of 1,275 feet in two minutes. The privileges of the library are shared alike by rich and poor, old and young, black and white. It was a gratifying sight to see several boys of the street gamin order, come quietly in and, asking for their books, comfortably ensconce themselves in the mahogany chairs and go to reading as unconcernedly as if all these magnificent surroundings were theirs by right of their American citizenship. On the upper floors are long galleries devoted to patriotic collections. Portraits, the art of engraving from it first crude beginning to its present development, collections of letters and M.S. of eminent Americans, music and sculpture, book making and journalism, whole museums of educational interest, which could hold the visitors' attention every day for six months. The library covers three and one-half acres of land, is Italian renaissance in style and was conceived, executed and decorated solely by American architects and artists. It is one of the most honest pieces of work ever executed, costing, exclusive of the site, $6,032,124.54, a considerable sum less than the amount appropriated. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FARM MOUNT VERNON. It is a curious thing to reflect upon that so many of our best citizens and ablest statesmen here have been farmers. To the Mount Vernon farm George Washington took his lovely bride, Martha, and there he tilled his fields, and planted trees and adorned his front yard with shrubbery, just as other good farmers before and since have done. There the gentle Martha superintended the spinning in the spinning house, in which still stand the loom and the half dozen spinning wheels used by Martha and her maids. When Washington packed the little hair trunk, studded with brass nails, and shouldered the old flintlock to march off to war, it was on the old farm he left his wife and family and it was to the farm he returned after Yorktown. Here he returned after his terms as president, and here he lived in happy, useful agricultural pursuit until his death in 1799. After his death the estate was handed down from one generation to another until in 1855, John (?) Washington being without means to maintain the estate, offered it for sale. A patriotic South Carolina woman, Ann (?) Cunningham, resolved to save the Washington home to her country. With wonderful courage and strong reliance on the patriotism of her fellow countrymen, she resolved to raise $200,000 required for the purpose. Edward Everett raised $69,000 by his lectures, which he gave as his personal contribution. Washington Irving gave $500 and the school children raised large sums. In one year the sum was in hand, the purchase completed, and the historic old farm mansion the property of the nation. The quaint, rambling old house is nearly one hundred feet long and thirty feet deep. It is built of wood, painted to look like stone, the only bit of sham ever endured by the great commander. The mansion house is mostly beautifully placed on an elevation overlooking the Potomac river. It stands in grove of evergreen trees, magnolia, holly and pines, planted by Washington and some by his guests, Lafayette and Jefferson. On the slope leading to the water's edge is the deer park, then as now well stocked with stately stag and gentle doe. The usual entrance is from the rear. On the wide, low door is the same old brass knocker which we imagine must have beat a wild tattoo when the messenger came to tell of the invasion by the "red coats." Entering the wide central hall, the first object of interest was a case of swords willed by Washington to three nephews, with an injunction "not to unsheath them for the purpose of shedding blood, except it be in self-defense or in defense of their country and its rights, and in the latter case to keep them unsheathed and prefer falling with them unsheathed in their hands to the relinquishment thereof." MARTHA WASHINGTON'S PARLORS. We were not allowed to enter these sacred apartments, so saw what we could from the grated doorway. The prominent feature of the front room was the spindle legged old harpsichord, imported from London as a bridal gift to Nellie Curtis by George Washington. They say it cost $1,000, but it certainly don't look it. A young girl the ugly thing house room even if it were new." The guide explained that vandals in search of relics had actually stolen the ivories from the keys and otherwise mutilated the furniture, hence the grating to keep out the visitors. LOUIS XVI CARPET. The unfortunate king of France had a beautiful green carpet manufactured, decorated with eagles and stars and bars in true American fashion. He presented it to General Washington, but as the president was not allowed to receive presents from foreign powers it was sold to Judge Yates, of Pennsylvania, whose granddaughter, after a century had elapsed, sent it to its rightful place, Mount Vernon. There was a white brocade chair from Lafayette's birthplace, presented by his grandson, tables and chairs, sideboards and escritoires, all with (?) looking legs and appearance of decayed gentility, and a mirror which has reflected the faces of countless American statesmen. We wished that for once the fairy gift of speech had been given these quaint old sofas and chairs; what a story they might tell! We pictured, in fancy, the guests around the great mahogany, claw-footed table in the banquet room, with its plateau of mirrored glass and silver used on state occasions. We fancied we saw the stately grace of the father of his country as he served the puffed and powdered beauties around his hospitable board. We fancied we saw the line of turbaned negro servants hurrying through the colonnade to the old brick kitchen, bearing on shining pewter dishes the flank of venison roasted before the great open fire, or rich brown loaves baked in the old brick oven in the corner. There was the great punch bowl, the inevitable equipment of the dining room of the time. From its capacious depths how many the sparkling draughts which inspired the toasts from lips immortal! Hanging from a peg was the ebony flute with which the general was wont to pass the evening hours. Beside the mantle stood the old, battered tripod used in surveying his land, and on the ceiling were stucco decorations, all agricultural in character. The beautiful Italian marble mantel, carved by Canova, was symbolic of agriculture and emphasized the fact that the host, if a soldier, was also a farmer. It is told that the mantel, sent from Italy, was seized by French pirates, who, learning that it was for Washington, sent it to his home uninjured. The room in which Washington died must ever be a shrine for American citizens. There stands the tall, four-posted bed, daintily draped and canopied with white. There stood the old chair with the open Bible on it, from which Mrs. Washington had been reading just before he died. There was his shaving case and coach trunk, studded with brass nails with the initials, "G.W., 1776." There hung his suit of clothing, his knee breeches and long, white stockings. Indeed, as we stood in reverent silence before the open door of the silent, empty room it seemed as though its owner had but recently left it and would ere long return. But a glance from the square-paned window showed the ivory-covered mound which (?) (?) resting place of him who was "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." And realizing that all that remained of him whose personality had all day seemed so present, was a rich heritage of living memory, we turned away, as from the household of death and sought the presence of the tomb, as if that might after all bring us nearer to him who slept the sleep that knows no waking. The tomb of Washington is a simple brick edifice with an arched grating in front. On a marble slab is inscribed, "Within this enclosure rest the remains of General Washington." Above the door of the tomb are the words: "I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in Me though he were dead, yet shall he live." This is not the original tomb. That is nearer the house. In 1831 some dastardly villain opened the tomb and rifled it of a skull which he believed to be that of Washington. This shocking incident made the new tomb necessary. In 1837 John Struthers, of Philadelphia, presented two sarcophagi, each hewn from a single block of marble, as a fit casket for George and Martha Washington, and their remains were intrusted to their final keeping. The gates were closed and locked and the key thrown into the Potomac. It is needless to say that it was proven that the skull stolen from the old tomb was not that of Washington, but of some relative. The limits of this report will prevent a description of the quaint old garden with its boxwood hedge, 150 years old, of the hydrangea planted by Lafayette, of the old climbing rose Washington named the Mary Washington, for his mother, or of the rickety, high, old coach in the coach house, or of the old well house where we can picture our farmer-soldier-statesman draw a cold draught from "the old oaken bucket," the moss-covered bucket which hung in the well. To the patriotism and energy of women does the nation owe a debt of gratitude for the work they have done in preserving and restoring Mount Vernon. Every room and out-house, every feature of interest, is entrusted to the loyal care of the women of the different state represented in the board of vice-regents. Once a year these devoted women meet and live at Mount Vernon one week to take careful inventory and prepare for further work. [there is a picture here with the following caption:] MISS MAY WRIGHT SEWALL President of National Council of Women, Vice President International Council of Women Free Methodists Give Women Men's Rights _______ Rochester, N.Y. June 21 (By A.P.). -- Women of the Free Methodist Church of North America were granted the same recognition as men and the privilege of being received on the same basis as men in obtaining licenses as preachers and being ordained as deacons at the twentieth session of the general conference here today. The church regulation forbidding membership in secret fraternal orders was amended to permit members of the church to become members insurance fraternal organizations when membership consists chiefly of payment of dues for insurance. Anthony League Urges Big Emancipation Day (Handwritten Note: Washington Post Feb. 15 1923) Would Celebrate Washington's, Lincoln's and Susan B. Anthony's Birthdays Feb. 22. The Anthony league, the oldest woman's suffrage league in the District, celebrated the birthday anniversaries of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, February 15, and Susan B. Anthony, February 15, at the meeting held at the headquarters of the General Federation of clubs yesterday. The Meeting adopted a resolution introduced by Mrs. Nannete B. Paul, vice president of the league, asking the women voters in the States to urge the joining of birthdays of Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and George Washington, all of which come in February, in one emancipation day, February 22, in honor of the "three great American emancipators." Among guests and speakers were Samuel Gompers, Mrs. Harriet Tayler Upton, Mrs. Maude Wood Park, Mrs. Ellis Meredith, Mrs. Ida Harper, Mrs. Julia Leavitt and Mrs. Evelyn C. Widney. Mrs. Robert Terrell, leader in organizations of colored women who knew Miss Anthony well, made one of the interesting addresses. Mrs. Wayne B. Wheeler sang, accompanied by Mrs. J. J. Mansfield. Mrs. Samuel Gompers presided at the tea table, assisted by Mrs. Robert E. Rucker, Dr. Delia R. DuComb. Miss Margaret Nelson and Mrs. Garnett. BOSTON EVENING TRANSC[?] STOCKHOLDERS TO HAVE TIME They Will Be Allowed to Pay Their Assessments of $100 a Share of Globe National Bank Stock in Instalments Before June 15 Stockholders of the Globe National Bank have been notified by receiver Daniel G. Wing that an assessment of $100 a share has been levied on all stock of the bank by order of Comptroller of the Currency Dawes. This assessment is payable to the receiver on March 15. Comptroller Dawes has authorized receiver Wing, however, to grant an extension of time, without interest, to stockholders of the bank who pay twenty five per cent of the assessment on or before that date, and who will give a written obligation, satisfactorily, guaranteed to pay BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, M[?] and leather industries Federal street ultimat street affords such a sple for the retailer. While it time for the complete chan about, the location may p desirable than Summer street i of time. Federal street, ter one end in front of the station other end in front of the Post natural short cut from the st Washington street and the h business district. The Post Of station are fixed factors, and retain their importance as obje of travel. Between these two tide will not long be permitt without being attracted by th retailers displayed attractively dows. The ultimate result will ation of a great shopping distri by these thoroughfares and ton street, encroachments ers coming from the three s triangle. What the ultimate such a movement will be on street, it is difficult to say, but is expanding so rapidly in every it is not at all unlikely that the retail business enough to enabl ton street to maintain its positi below Kneeland street, while retail district grows up. Those had the foresight to take an ea bringing about the change will to congratulate themselves in THE SOUTH NOT W Baltimore is between th South, and therefore in all position to reach the popular of both sections. Hambleton Baltimore bankers, in their ter dealing with the influence sentiment on finance, have about expansion: "Go to any public gather speeches are made, attend amusement where reference to the Philippines and nailing t the American flag may be ma the commercial exchanges an opinion of members, and the applause which follows the that the Philippines are ours t keep forever, must convince a an overwhelming majority of is in favor of accepting the laid down for us by the present tration. We are not surprised Bryan crowd hold on to free they have nothing else to hold for antagonism to trusts, the cans can and will howl as lo Democrats. Unless all signs holding of the Philippines will ning card for the Republican South is particularly enthusias retention of the Philippines a particularly wedded to free si shall not be one bit surprised or three of the Southern publican next fall. Anti-exp are scarce at the South, and difficult to find many who now tariff for protection. Strange, Hereabouts, in theatres, w flag" is mentioned there is n "the traditional coldness of audiences" manifested. A SURVEY OF THE SUF CAUSE The National American Wo frage Association has just close undoubtedly the most brilliant, astic and memorable [?]onventi long history. The est of Kimberley -According to Dutch in Jacobsdal, General ice charged home through the Boers northwest of Kimberley. agers there have been deserted. ities of stores, tents, etc., have red. T ENTERS DORDRECT Horse Pushes Back the Boers ays' Sharp Skirmishing, and the Town m Camp, Feb. 18 - The Boers and General Brabant's forces ring Dordrect. , Feb. 17 - The Boers now oc- g hill north of Dordrecht, and old a commanding post to the are maintaining a brisk ex- ells over Dordrecht. Brabant's strong, commenced the march oek Thursday morning, over a dt and through a mountainous country. Early Friday they pon, and the firing continued well into the night, the British Boers out of successive posi terrific rifle fire, lasting eight rd midnight Friday the Brit- e Boers, at the point of the of their last position, an im- overlooking Dordrecht. The was continued today. casulaties were eight killed, tain Crallan and Lieutenant eight wounded. The British prisoners and a quantity of ovisions. UNDED WELL TREATED em Mattresses and Eggs - Big ullets All They Can Get b. 17 (delayed) - Captain Long- British medical corps spent a Boer lines tending the wound- s. He says that the Boers oly kind to the wounded, pro- with mattresses and giving ggs they had. The Boer com- Captain Longhurst found that ual friends in London, and the best terms. The Boers wounded fraternized. No- andoliers of the Boers were -nosed bullets, one of the You ought not to bring such at us." The Boer replied: whatever we can get." This contingent had come from district of the Transvaal, ers are used to hunting big e Limpopo. The men had mmunition for that purpose. Pretorius Released on Parole. 18 - Commandant Pretorius, red by the British at Elands ee other Boer prisoners were the Boers from Arudel to- nger under a flag of truce NS' CYPRESS AND HARDWOODS great favor. Purchasers should S' Dark Cypress. Send for Cypress Lumber and Its Uses," TEARNS LUMBER CO., 166 Dev- Federal street, 1 Sudbury street; [**] Monday, February 19, 1900 There were naturally no more acceptable speakers before the convention than the women who had done things in lines of municipal betterment. The Southern representative, who told of the bit of good work done in New Orleans and Baton Rouge when women property holders were permitted to vote, and a better sewerage system was the result; the Chicago woman, Mrs. Paul, who has done such efficient service on the street cleaning corps; the woman mayor of Gaylord, Ks., Mrs. Haskell, who has just refused a third term, and the State librarian of Kansas, Mrs. Diggs, were the bearers of inspiring and helpful messages. THE ORCHARDS OF NEW ENGLAND A remarkable fea[?] tion was the number of [?] tendance. But the speakers, [?] noted, were as a rule, youn[?] and many made their début at [?] on the national suffrage forum [?] these there was no more intere[?] sonality than Mrs. Mary Ch[?] rell, president of the Nationa[?] tion of Colored Women, an Ob[?] uate and a highly cultivat[?] whose time is almost wholly [?] work among her race, of whi[?] noble and inspiring example. [?] rell, it is pertinent to note, w[?] colored woman to be made [?] Washington schools. Perhaps [?] striking and concise stateme[?] whole session was uttered wh[?] clared, during her impressive [?] "The Justice of Women Suffra[?] founders of this republic ca[?] and earth to witness that it s[?] government of the people, for [?] and by the people; and yet [?] franchise is withheld from [?] the citizens, many of whom [?] gent, cultured and virtuous, [?] unstintingly bestowed upon [?] some of whom are illiterate, [?] and vicious, because the wo[?] by an unparalleled exhibitio[?] graphical acrobats, has been [?] twisted to mean all who are [?] wise enough to have them [?] boys instead of girls, or w[?] trouble to be born white inste[?] The argument that it is un[?] women to vote is as old as [?] ribbed hills. Whatever is [?] called unnatural the world [?] the world takes a step forw[?] ress some old custom falls [?] feet. Nothing could be mor[?] than that a good woman s[?] her duty to the State, if it w[?] for her to discharge it." That was a notable messag[?] by a young woman lawyer o[?] Gail Laughlin, who powerfu[?] quently depicted the conditio[?] earner and the uplifting e[?] right to the ballot would h[?] izing industrial conditions [?] tunities. Suffrage is not a [?] she thoughtfully said, but [?] to opportunity. The influe[?] on woman's work in phil[?] clearly and ably set forth by [?] Barrows. That educationa[?] hampered by the lack of poli[?] was the point well taken b[?] riet May Mills, who aptly [?] education has not come be[?] wanted it, and that every [?] woman owes a debt of gra[?] suffrage moment. "A[?] sovereign of the United S[?] Mary Bradford of Colorado [?] masterly address or "The [?] formation" in that State. [?] political equality is to bri[?] only the improvement of t[?] woman, but also the elimi[?] "party boss" and the en[?] The Woman's Tribune. "EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW." VOL. XVII, NO. 3 WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1900. FIVE CENTS A COPY For the TRIBUEN. THE SOWERS. The sowers went forth to sow their seeds; As they sowed they thought of the people's needs, They thought of the souls that longed for food, And they labored hard for the people's good. They sowed with a will, so strong and true, And the seeds sank deeper than they knew, They sprang to life in a living soil, And roused the minds of the mass who toil. They drew their thoughts from the realms above, And sang of liberty, life and love They worked with their hands and hearts as well, And noted the spot where each good reed fell. They labored and loved, and led the way To where the goal of their labors lay. For they thought always of the New Day's birth, When Freedom and Truth shall rule the earth. As the sowers have sown they shall surely reap, And each shall a share of the harvest keep, But when women are free and men are strong, Then the angels will sing the "harvest song." Austin, Texas. -Belle Taylor. THE WORLD. The world is well lost when the world is wrong, No matter how men deride you For if you are patient, and firm and strong, You will find in time (though the time be long) That the world wheels 'round beside you. If you dare to sail first o'er a new thought track. For awhile it will scourge and score you; Then, coming abreast with skilful tack, It will clasp your hand and slap your back And vow it was there before you. The world means well, though it wander and stray From the straight, short cut to duty; So go ahead in that path, I say, For after awhile it will come your way, Bringing its pleasures and beauty. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony. The present is a fitting time to give a sketch of our beloved leader, prepared partly from personal knowledge and from hearing many features of the tale recounted privately and publicly, and partly from the biography written by Ida Husted Harper which is, in the main, as remarkable for sympathetic interpretation and literary skill as was its subject picturesque and inspiring. If this sketch, as extensive as space permits, and yet only on outline or hint of the fascinating story but secures more readers for the two volumes from Mrs. Harper's pen, it will contribute something towards that best of all tributes of appreciation, a more extended purchase and circulation of "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony." Among the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, is indeed, as the biographer says, a very beautiful place in which to be born. They are the lower range of the Green Mountains and in the villages along the Hoosac have been cradled poets, novelists, artists, theologians and statesmen, in a long array, which is, perhaps, unequalled by any other locality in our country. The Goodale sisters were born upon one of these hillsides and Dora has sung: One must visit among the hills to seee how the ramifications of the Anthonys, Laphams, Richardsons and Reads have intertwined around the family tree of the dwellers in this region, and one must see Miss Anthony among her kinsfolk and their neighbors to learn what all these are to her, as she recalls the traditions that link them. Grandmother Read was a devout Baptist and her husband a staunch Universlist, while the Anthonys and Laphams were Quakers from the founding of the sect. Hannah Lapham was an elder and sat on the "high seat," but her saintliness did not prevent her making the best cheese and being the best cook and housekeeper the country afforded--as the Anthonys maintain. It was due to the mother's influence that he son Daniel and two of his sisters were sent away to a Quaker boarding school where Daniel obtained a certificate to teach. His accomplishments did not reconcile his father to his unwillingness to farm and when the next boy, John, was old enough to go, he bought him off with a hundred dollars. The Anthony and Read farms adjoined each other on the first bench of the Hills. From the back door of the Anthony homestead one looked into the face of "Old Greylock," the highest point in the range, and separated from the farm by the village of Adams nestling far down along the lovely Hoosac. How vividly I recall the delighted reverence with which, when attending the Anthony reunion at Adams in 1896, I made the acquaintance of this mountain in the early morning from the Anthony backyard. The world was bathed in mist which gradually lifted from the mountain, but shut out everything between me and that majestic presence which was so near that I might almost touch it and yet towered so high above that it seemed to absorb personality and carry it away from all pettiness and earth-distractions into the arms of the Infinite. It must have been such an experience that inspired the stanza by Julia Taft Bayne: Come here where Greylock rolls Itself toward Heaven; in these deep silences, World-worn and fretted souls, Bathe and be clean. One who has visited the old homestead and learned the ancient uses of every nook and furnishing; roamed over the old orchard with "Aunt Susan" pointing out the places she loved best to play in as a child; visited the younger Anthony home at Bowen's Corners where Susan was born; and trod the well worn floor of the Quaker meeting-house where Grandmother Lapham sat on the "high seat;"--will linger tenderly over the pages in which Mrs. Harper has told briefly, but exquisitely the story of Miss Anthony's ancestry and birthplace. Daniel taught the home school and fell in love with his best scholar, Lucy Read, the belle of the neighborhood. She was a Baptist and could not become current in Adams that the little mill of twenty-six looms was stopped one day because Mrs. Anthony was washing her mop in the trough through which the water ran. From such small beginnings developed the great cotton manufacturing interests of Adams, in which one mill alone now employs 1,600 hands who tend 3,660 looms. The hands for the little factory were neighboring mountain girls who had to be housed, and Daniel's wife and his sister-in-law, Hannah Hoxie, whose fame as a Quaker preacher yet lingers in the valley, had to do it. So Lucy who had given up her dancing and hushed her song to marry her Quaker lover, boarded eleven factory hands and cooked, washed, ironed and cared for her numerous children of whom eight came in seventeen years. Of these eight four still survive, Susan, Daniel, Mary and Merritt, aged respectively, 80, 76, 73, and 69, all of them vigorous in mind and body. When Susan was six years old her father engaged in cotton manufacturing on an extensive scale with Judge John McLean at Battenville, Washington County, N. Y., and moved his family to this place. He had become convinced that it was wrong for him to sell liquor in his factor store at Adams, as was then the universal custom among merch- Continued on next page. The Eternally Feminine. III. The whole difficulty of the "Woman Question" and of masculine misunderstanding lie in the ignorance of the diremptive process. It is not understood by woman herself that by her own inner necessity she must bear the child, must give expression to herself and must see herself reflected in order to awaken to self-realization. It is not seen that this necessary diremption is only a process and no more, and most women fail to attain the self consciusness they seek. Their child becomes that self consciousness. Many a woman even glories in it, but most lose themselves in that process. After the child is born let them return to themselves and the new life attained will be their light. In that light lies their redemption or return to the Original. In the misunderstanding or non-understanding of the process of diremptoin lies also the cause for the common masculine misjudgments. Even a man like Amiel is so blinded that he can say without comment "woman never speaks out her whole thought and really only knows part of it," and declare her a "sphinx, a mystery and contradictory; a monstre incomprehensible." He cannot see that these very characteristics are those of Nature in diremption and that woman in the making can not be otherwise. When our preachers and teachers shall have become familiar with the larger life, the life of the open fields and throbbing heart of Nature, then our educational processes will be rational and the travailling woman of self-birth shall not be heard any more. The "Woman Question" will be no more. In speaking of our diremptive process I have expressed myself in terms of ordinary take shadows for realities. Consciousness is not the limited perceptions of individuals. It is the going out, the self-creative activity of the universe and the self-centered soul. The universe both thinks and wills. The self-centered soul alone thinks and wills; soul not self-centered does not. It may, at best, reflect and re-echo a thinking and a willing of a larger entity. It will readily be seen that Consciousness is and must be the main characteristic mentally, morally and physically of that Movement or Central Will, which I before have called the Feminine. The Eternally Feminine is Universal Consciousness or the all-permeating Thought, Will or Mind. Individual woman being the symbol or representative of the Eternally Feminine becomes the manifestation of this process. Potentially every woman, be she a mother or not, bears children and in these children she attains the new life: self consciousnes and self realization. The names of these children are our sciences, arts, philosophies; industries; our homes, manners and morals, and our thoughts and deeds i the great, good, true and beautiful; in short the whole human life and activity. I am not overlooking the elaboration of these ideas given by her male child; of that I shall speak at length later; but at present I am emphazising the fact that these come from women, be they mothers, according to the flesh, or not. I am not advancing anything new, either. Antiquity understood all this. Are not the Fates, the Muses, the Graces, as well as those terrible avengers and purifiers, the Furies, Nemesis, Themis, Nike, Eris, etc., all women? Say what you say will about male gods; is there anything more fundamental and potent than these women? Did any of them bear children in the flesh? No! Do not be deceived by antiquated or by biased theological teachings and say that these women were only blind nature forces. How ridiculous to believe these rulers to be blind and unconscious! If they had been or were so, how is it that they rule to this day and their detractors have retained them, still presenting them to the people, only having changed their dress? There is still another aspect of this subject, Neither child-bearing nor consciousness depend upon the physical bond. To be sure, they do as we are constituted at present, having descended into spheres of time and space. But potentially and originally it can not be shown that the human form needs the fleshly shape in order to realize itself. Consciousness is its own inner and outer and the child is simply man over again; nothing out of or into a new or radically different plane. It is a metamorphosis, strictly speaking. The sum total of the human must be as it always was. As we speak of Eternity as the everlasting Now, so we may say that man IS; neither will be nor was; but IS, Essentially that must be the truth; relatively, we may, however, speak of man as an evolutionary existence, Man sprang fullborn from Zeus. "The Son" was "begotten from eternity," viz.; man IS and always was and will be. Of these three planes of life of chilbearing and consciousness the first is the physical; the second is the psychic and the third is the spiritual. The first reaches lower strata of life than those on which man lives; it does not always produce rational humanities; the second is the plane of personality and eminently human and double in character; it produces both men, angels and demons, and also their mental and moral surroundings. The third is pure As they sowed they thought of the people's needs, They thought of the souls that longed for food, And the labored hard for the people's good. They sowed with a will, so strong and true, And the seeds sank deeper than they knew, They sprang to life in a living soil, And roused the minds of the mass who toil. They drew their thoughts from the realms above, And sang of liberty, life and love They worked with their hands and hearts as well, And noted the spot where each good seed fell, They labored and loved and led the way To where the goal of their labors lay. For they thought always of the New Day's birth. When Freedom and Truth shall rule the earth. As the sowers have sown they shall surely reap, And each shall a share of the harvest keep, But when women are free and men are [?]trong, Then the angels will sing the "harvest song." Austin, Texas. - Belle Taylor. THE WORLD. The world is well lost when the world is wrong, No matter how men deride you For if you are patient, and firm and strong, You will find in time (though the time be long) That the world wheels 'round beside you. If you dare to sail first o'er a new thought track. For awhile it will scourge you and score you: Then, coming abreast with skilful tack, It wil clasp you hand and slap you back And vow it was there before you. The world means well, though it will wander ard stray From the straight, short cut to duty: So go ahead in that path, I say, For after awhile it will come you way. Bringing its pleasures and beauty. - Ella W[?]celer Wilcox Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony. The present is a fitting time to give a sketch of our beloved leader, prepared partly from personal knowledge and from hearing many features of the tale recounted privately and publicly, and partly from the biography written by Ida Husted Harper which is, in the main, as remarkable for sympathetic interpretation and literary skill as was its subject picturesque and inspiring. If this sketch, as extensive as space permits, and vet only an outline or hint of the fascinating story but secures more readers for the two volumes from Mrs. Harper's pen, it will contribute something towards that best of all tributes of appreciation, a more extended purchase and circulation of "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony." Among the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, is indeed, as the biographer says, a very beautiful place in which to be born. They are the lower range of the Green Mountains and in the villages along the Hoosac have been cradled poets, novelists, artists, theologians and statesmen, in a long array, which is, perhaps, unequalled by any other locality in our country. The Goodale sisters were born upon one of these hillsides and Dora has sung: Dear Berkshire, dear birthplace, the hills are thy towers, Those lofty fringed summits of granite and pine; No valley's green lap is so spangled with flowers, No stream of the wildwood so crystal as thine. Say where do the March winds such treasures uncover, Such maple and arrowwood burn in the fall, As up the blue peaks where the thunder gods hover, In cloud curtained Berkshire who cradled us all ? Through ten generations Susan B Anthony traces her family to William Anthony who went from Germany to England as a skilled worman to be chief graver of the Royal Mint for Edward VI. His grand son, Dr. Frances, was grandfather to John, who came to America in 1634. Just before the Revolution, David, the great grandson of this John, left the family home at Portsmouth, R. I., and with his wife, Judith Hicks, went West-the extreme West it then was-to the Berkshire Hills. Their son, Humphrey, born 1770, married Hannah Lapham; and their son Daniel, born in 1794, married Lucy Read, whose mother was a Richardson, and whose father Daniel Read, was the first to respond to the eloquence of the minister who preached a war sermon after the battle of Lexington and then called for volunteers for the Continental Army. [Next Column] intertwined around the family tree of the dwellers in this region, and one must see Miss Anthony among her kinsfolk and their neighbors to learn what all these are to her, as she recalls the traditions that link them. Grandmother Read was a devout Baptist and her husband a staunch Universlist, while the Anthonys and Lap hams were Quakers from the founding of the sect. Hannah Lapham was an elder and sat on the "high seat," but her saint liness did not prevent her making the best cheese and being the best cook and housekeeper the country afforded-as the Anthonys maintain. it was due to the mother's influence that her son Daniel and two of his sisters were sent away to a Quaker boarding school where Daniel obtained a certificate to teach. His accomplishments did not reconcile his father to his unwillingness to farm and when the next boy, John, was old enough to go, he bought him off with a hundred dollars. The Anthony and Read farms adjoined each other on the first bench of the Hills. From the back door of the Anthony homestead one looked into the face of "Old Greylock," the highest point in the range, and separated from the farm by the villages of Adams nest ling far down along the lovely Hossac. How vividly I recall the delighted reverence with which, when attending the Anthony reunion at Adams in 1896, I made the acquaintance of this mountains in the early morning from th Anthony backyard. The world was bathed in mist which gradually lifted from the mountain, but shut out everything between me and that majestic presence which was so near that I might almost touch it and yet towered to high above that it seems to absorb personality and carry it away from all pettiness and earth distractions into the arms of the Infinite. It must have been such an ex perience that inspired the stanza by Julia Tatt Bayne: Come here where Greylock rolls Itself toward Heaven; in these deep silences, World-worn and fretted souls, Bathe and be clean. One who has visited the old home stead and learned the ancient uses of every nook and furnishing; roamed over the old orchard with "Aunt Susan" pointing out the places she loved best to play in as a child; visited the younger Anthony home at Bowen;s Corners where Susan was born; and trod the well worn floor of the Quaker meetinghouse where Grandmother Lapham sat on the "high seat;"-will linger tenderly over the pages in which Mrs. Harper has told briefly, but exquisitely the story of Miss Anthony's ancestry and birthplace. Daniel taught the home school and fell in love with his best scholar, Lucy Read, the belle of the neighberhood. She was a baptist and could uot become a Quaker ever for the love she bore Daniel, which was enough to make her willing to forego the dancing, singing and pretty attire which were the natural expression of her cheerful, artistic nature, but she always went with him to service. Daniel, too, had his sacrifices to make, for in "marrying out of meeting" he barely escaped being turned out of the Society. A committee was sent to deal with him and he said he was sorry he had to violate a rule to marry the woman he loved best. The committee reported that he was sorry he had to violate a rule and there it was thought best to drop the matter. Daniel earned the timber for his new home and built it on a piece of land given by Lucy's father and there he took his bride. Then this young man, whose father thought he was spoiled by getting an education, conceived the idea of building a cotton factory and using the waters of that dashing little witch of the woods, "Tophet Creek." A branch of this ran by the Read farm, and Daniel Read agreed to let his son-in-law have as much water from the brook as would run through a hole six inches in diameter. It will thus be seen that there may be some foundation for the tradition [Next Column] because Mrs. Anthony was washing her mop in the trough through which the water ran. From such small beginnings developed the great cotton manufacturing interests of Adams, in which one mill alone now emplcys 1,600 hands who tend 3,660 looms. The hands for the little factory were neighboring mountain girls who had to be housed, and Daniel's wife and his sister -in-law, Hannah Hoxie whos fame as a Quaker preacher yet lingers n the valley, had to do it. So Lucy who has given up her dancing and hushed her song to marry her Quaker lover, boarded eleven factory hands and cooked, washed, ironed and cared for her numerous children of whom eight came in seventeen years. Of these eight four still survive, Susan, Daniel, Mary and Merritt, aged respectively, 80, 76, 73 and 69, all of them vigorous in mind and body. When Susan was six years old her father engaged in cotton manufacturing on an extensive scale with Judge John McLean at Battenville, Washington County, N. Y., and moved his family to this place. He had become convinced that it was wrong for him to sell liquor in his factory store at Adams, as was then the universal custom among merch- Continued on next page. The Eternally Feminine. BY C. H. A. BJERREGAARD. III. The whole difficulty of the "Woman Question" and of masculine misunderstanding life in the ignorance of the diremptive process. it is not understood by woman herself that by her own inner necessity she must bear the child, must give expression to herself and must see herself reflected in order to awaken to self-realization. It is not seen that this necessary diremption is only a process and no more, and most women fail to attain the self consciousness they seek. Their child becomes that self consciousness. Many a woman even glories in it, but most lose themselves in that process. After the child is born let them return to themselves and the new life attained will be their light. In that light lies their redemption or return to the Original. In the misunderstanding or non understanding of the process of diremption lies also the cause for the common masculine misjudgements. Even a man like Amiel is so blinded that he can say without comment "woman never speaks out her whole though and really only knows part of it," and declare her a "sphinx, a mystery and contradictory; a monstre incomṕrehensible." He cannot see that these very characteristics are those of Nature in diremption and that woman in the making can not be otherwise. When our preachers and teachers shall have become familiar with the larger life, the life of the open fields and throbbing heart of Nature, then our education processes will be rational and the travailing woman of self-birth shall not be heard any more. The "Woman Question" will be no more. In speaking of our diremptive process I have expressed myself in terms of ordinary experience and have done so in order to be understood by everybody, even by those who have not yet risen beyond the actual sex lines of this question. There is, however, a far more universal plane on which this diremptive process is to be studied before it can be said to be fully understood, and,it is a plane on which all women,whether actually mothers or not, pass through that process to self realization. That plane is the inner life plane or Mind, Thought or Heart. Let me call in Universal Consciousness; that term carries us further back than others. It is also less modern and individualistic. Every act of consciousness is self-birth or substitution of something ourselves for a something not ourselves, and when this process has its cause and effect in the Universal, it is universal consciousness. It is not something from outside that attains expression in us, nor is it added to us, or transforming us by powers of its own. Consistently we can not admit the reality of anything outside ourselves. We recognize something. Not myself, it is true, but it has not reality to us beyond that which we attribute to it. What it is, we do not know, but real it is not, though some of us in our ignorance may call it real. It is something dynamical; it is Thought hiding behind itself; it is an organic activity which unfolds from within. In its self-reflection it appears other than it really is and this it creates and illusion for those who do not know. They [Next Column] perceptions of individuals. It is the going out, the self creative ac ivity of the universe and the self centered soul. The universe both thinks and wills. The self centred soul alone thinks and wills; a soul not self-centered does not. It may, at best, reflect and re echo a thinking and a willing of a larger entity. It will readily be seen that Consciousness is and must be the main characteristic mentally, morally and physically of that Movement or Central Will, which I before have called the Feminine. The Eternally Feminine is Universal Consciousness or the all-permeating Thought, Will or Mind. Individual woman being the symbol or representative of the Eternally Feminine becomes the manifestation of this process. Potentially every women, be she a mother or not, bears children and in these children she attains the new life: self consciousness and self realization. The names of these children are our sciences, arts, philosophies; industries; our homes, manners and morals, and our thoughts and deeds in the great, good, true and beautiful; in short the whole human life and activity. I am not overlooking the elaboration of these ideas given by her male child; of that I shall speak at length later; but at present I am emphasizing the fact that these come from women, be they mothers, according the flesh, or not. I am not advancing anything new, either. Antiquity understood all this. Are not the Fates, the Muses, the Graces, as well as those terrible avengers and purifiers, the Furies, Nemesis, Themis, Nike, Eris, etc., all women ? Say what you say will abou male gods; is there anything more fundamental and potent than these women? Did any of them bear children in the flesh? No! Do not be deceived by antiquated or by biased theological teachings and say that these women were only blind nature forced. How ridiculous to believe these rulers to be blind and unconscious! If they have been or were so, how is it that they rule to this day and their detractors have retained them, still presenting them to the people, only having changed their dress? There is still another aspect of this subject. Neither child-bearing nor consciousness depend upon the physical bond. To be sure, they do as we are constituted at present, having descended into spheres of time and space. But potentially and originally it can not be shown that the human form needs the fleshly shape in order to realize itself. Consciousness is its own inner and outer and the child is simply man over again; nothing out of or into a new or radically different plane. It is a metamorphosis, strictly speaking. The sum total of the human must be as it always was. As we speak of Eternity as the everlasting Now, so we may say that man is; neither will be nor was; but IS. Essentially, that must be the truth; relatively, we may, however, speak of man as an evolutionary existence. Man sprang fullborn from Zeus. "The Son" was "begotten from eternity," vi[?]: man IS and always was and will be. Of these three planes of life of childbearing and consciousness the first is the physical; the second is the psychic and the third is the spiritual. The first reaches lower strata of life than those on which man lives; it does not always produce rational humanities; the second is the plane of personality and eminently human and double in character; it produces both men, angels and demons, and also their mental and moral surroundings. The third is pure spirit. It is without determination, but not a negation, as some have said. It is the true and universal plane of life; it is both form and contents. It can exist without the other two, but they must have some ray of light from it in order to exist. Self realization on the two is conditioned by its influence, but it is itself Self realization. Physical self-realization is only a reflex; psychic self-realization is communion of 2 in 1, and, and something high and eminent from the standpoint of this life. Perhaps the highest can be reached. Spiritual self-realization baffles investigation and is the primordial mystery. Now to sum up, I have shown that the Feminine or Central Will is the only Energy known, and as such the only manifestation of an unknown reality. I have also shown by an illustration, that the Feminine was thus known in antiquity and that the advent of the male child brought a disturbance in actual life, corresponding to the inner necessary process of diremption in the Feminine. I have pointed to the means of redemption or at one-ment and thus shown the philosophical solution of the "Woman Question." Modern biological studies have also shown the masculine as secondary. Of this I shall speak in another paper. In the meantime will the reader study the subject thus far presented. It is not only of momentary interest, but it is the real basis for a discussion of 'The Woman Question." It is the philosophy of the Eternally Feminine. 10 THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1900 WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, Edited and Published Fortnightly by CLARA BEWICK COLBY Subscription Price, $1.00 a Year Total subscriptions, five weeks for 10 cents. Single [copies ?], 5 cents. By foreign post, $1.50. Subscriptions are continued until ordered stopped, unless otherwise specified. Money should be sent by post office order, by draft, or by registered letter. Sent n any other way it is at risk of sender address all Communications to Washington, D. C., 2420 Fourteenth St. General Officers of National American Woman Suffrage Association. Honarary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 50 West 94th st., New York City. President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev ANNA H. SHAW, Somerton, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, 1341 Arch St., Philadelphia. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park St., Boston. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio Auditors, LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky.; CATHERINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH, Chicago, Illinois. The issue will contain Mrs. Stanton's convention address. Editor's Walks in London are crowded out of this issue but several interesting features are still to be presented. The appreciation of this series which has been indicated in letters from all parts of the country, even from England, is very gratifying. This issue of the TRIBUNE is the editor's birthday present to Miss Anthony, and two thousand extra copies are printed, It will be sent to all the suffrage clubs, as far as their addresses can be obtained, to aid them in preparing their programme for the celebration on the fifteenth of February of Miss Anthony's eightieth anniversary. The TRIBUNE is glad to publish the appreciative article on Mrs. Stanton,s book by Helen Gardener. Mrs Stanton's Reminiscences are indeed most delightful, and if there were no sense of loyalty among suffragists impelling them to show their appreciation of Mrs. Stanton by buying her book, or desire to be informed as to her work, it would still well reward the purchaser as a literary gem. It can be obtained at this office at publisher's price, $2.00, or free for four new yearly subscriptions to this paper. Mrs. Colby gave a reception to Miss Anthony at the TRIBUNE home last Saturday evening being assisted in receiving by Mrs. Ellen Powell Thompson, Mrs. Helen Rand Tindal, Dr. Clara S. MacNaughton and Mrs, Ida Harper. Fully five hundred came during the hours from eight to ten, and a more intelligent and genial lot of people never assembled. There was quite a representation of Congressional families. Among those present known in the art world were Mrs. Sara Fisher Ames, who made a notable bust of General Grant; Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxie, whose statue of Lincoln is in the Capitol and Mrs. Adelaide Johnson, equally honored in the subjects of her skill. Literature had two brilliant lights in Grace Greenwood and Will Allen Dromgoole and there were many distinguished in journalism. Three members of the Chinese Embassy in resplendent garb added to the picturesqueness of the occasion. Miss Marie MacNaughton, and other young ladies assisted Miss [M? Bewick in serving refreshments] [...]ing the preparations for building, brick makers also had to be boarded, and the daughters must never neglect their lessons. Their father would therefore not let them work in the factory however much they might envy the little spoolers who could earn $1.50 a week. At length one of these became sick and both Susan and Hannah begged permission to toke her place. The father allowed them to draw lots to see who should go with the understanding that whoever went was to divide the wage with her sister. Susan was the lucky one and very proud was she to divide the three dollars she received for her two week's work. Susan bought mother half a dozen much desired blue cups and sauces and Hannah bought a bright bead bag such as it was the fashion for girls at that time to carry. In their second year at Battenville the family moved into a two and a half story brick with fifteen rooms--a palatial residence for those days. Here came Daniel Read and wife and lived with their daughter until at the age of 84 they both passed away in the same year. The children went went to the district school, taught by a man in winter and a woman in summer, but as not even the men could teach Susan long division, Mr. Anthony fitted up a private school over his brick store and brought in cultured and competent teachers. At the age of 15; first Guelma and then Susan were installed as women teachers. At the age of 17 Susan taught school at Easton for $1.00 a week and board, and the next summer, a district school for $1.50 a week and "boarded round." She then joined Guelma at a boarding school near Philadelphia where, as its patrons were assured, "the inculcation of the principles of Humility, Morality and a love of Virtue received particular attention." Here the failure to properly address each other as "thee" and "thou," or even omitting to dot the I's in writing was made to appear such a grievous lapse form the path of rectitude that the sensitive girl was often in anguish. After some such error she wrote in the diary: "O, Morality, that I could say I possessed thy charms. O, the happiness of an innocent mind; would that I could say mine was so, but it is too far from it." Once Susan committed a real fault. Observing some spider webs above the principal's desk she stepped on it to brush them down and alas, the hinges broke. The teacher administered a rebuke so severe that Susan fled in tears. That evening after the scripture reading the teacher coldly remarked that were there was no desire for moral improvement, there would be no improve in reading. There was one beside her who had not desired moral improvement, etc. Speaking of this incident Miss Anthony says; "Not once in all the years that have passed, has the thought of that day come to my mind without making me turn cold and sick at heart." The girls' boarding school experience was cut short by the business failure of their father in 1838. To satisfy creditors an inventory was made of all the family possessions, even to the clothing of wife and daughters and the wedding gifts. The law took everything but the barest necessities, but an uncle bought in for them some of their treasures. The family moved two miles away to Hardscrabble, where Mr. Anthony had built a [?tinet] factory and a [?ri?t] mill in out of one of the best religious societies in the world." Susan and Hannah soon engaged to teach for $2 or $2.50 a week and board. Much of their wages was given to help pay the interest on the mortgage on their mills and home. Every dollar of the debt was finally paid, but not until Mr. Anthony had gone into business in Rochester, while they all lived on a little farm near the city. In 1846 Susan accepted the charge of the Female Department of Canajoharie Academy and at this place joined the organization of the Sons and Daughters of Temperance and was made its secretary, and on March 1, 1849, made her first speech at one of its gatherings. In this year Susan returned home and there took charge of the farm and housework for three years, during which time all the forces of progress were converging towards her and drawing her irresistibly and forever from the domestic life which was her greatest delight. In the winter of '52 she taught in Rochester and thus was brought more intimately into the circles of temperance and anti- slavery reformers. But a third cause, deeper and more far reaching than the others, was about to claim her for its apostle. Her father, mother, and sister Mary had attended the adjourned Rochester session of that first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, July 1848. Their interest had awakened hers which was increased by reading the report of the Worcester Convention in 1850, but still it was in the temperance work that she hoped to devote herself to humanity and she was brought to the woman's rights movement as so many have been by finding out how inefficacious was all temperance work by women as long as they could not back it up by the ballot. It is extremely difficult to present a condensed account of Miss Anthony's life after she came into the suffrage work because it is virtually the history of the movement. For that reason this review lingers over the period of preparation for the work, the history of which is well recorded in three large volumes. In 1852 Miss Anthony went as the Rochester delegate to a mass meeting of the Sons of Temperance which had invited the women's auxiliary to send delegates, but on rising to make a motion she was informed by the president that the sisters were to listen and not to speak. Accordingly with some other women she left the hall and they proceeded to organize a meeting of their own. Miss Anthony was appointed chairman of a committee to call a Woman's State Temperance Convention, which was accordingly held in Rochester the next April. About 500 women were present, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton was elected President and Susan B. Anthony, one of the secretaries. At this time the Sons of Temperance had their call out for a convention in June, inviting all temperance societies to send delegates. The Women;s Society therefore elected Gerrit Smith, Susan B. Anthony and Antoinette Brown. The two latter went, although informed before that the clergy were greatly exercised over their expected appearance and threatened to withdraw if they came. The annual report of the secretary, William H. Burleigh closed thus: "We hail the formation of the Woman's State Temperance This meeting was attended by about 2,000 persons and many of the speakers were eloquent and there was not one which was not modest, temperate and dignified." Still many of them had become known in the anti slavery work, which brought upon the cause of woman suffrage all the hatred and vindictiveness of partisan opposition. There can be no other explanation of the abuse and foul epithets hurled at respectable women of the State, of which if the reader wishes the proof it can be found in this "Life" or in the "History of Woman Suffrage." Miss Anthony was still to be led into a profound conviction of woman's powerlessness without the ballot by her temperance work of 1853. At a meeting in Albany women appeared for the first time before the New York Legislature. Mrs. Stanton's eloquent appeal to the Legislature to give women a vote on this great question of temperance or else truly represent them by enacting a prohibition law, was accompanied by a petition of 28,000 names. A young member made a speech against them, saying: "Who are these asking for a Maine law? Nobody but women and children." Miss Anthony at that moment resolved it should be her life work to make a woman's name on a petition worth as much as a man's. A World's Temperance Convention was to meet in New York in September, and a preliminary meeting held in May invited all friends of temperance to be present. The Woman's Society elected Emily Clark and Miss Anthony delegates, while other women were sent from Massachusetts. It was moved in the meeting that all the gentlemen present be accepted as delegates, and an amendment including the ladies was carried. It was afterwards moved that Miss Anthony be added to the business committee which created a hubbub at once, and a committee was appointed to see who were delegates. Their report recommended that as the call was not intended to include women, and as women were not accustomed to act at such meetings their credentials should not be accepted. Rev. T. W. Higginson and several others withdrew with the women and a grand rally was held next day, Miss Anthony presiding. It was there decided to call a Whole World's Temperance Convention, a name certainly broad enough to take in women. When this took place the New York Tribune said it was the most spirited and able meeting on behalf of temperance which had yet been held. Whether to annoy the brethren or because having taken in the whole world in general they wanted in particular that part of it represented by their old opponents, is not stated, but the "Whole World" elected Rev. Antoinette Brown a delegate to the "World," which followed immediately after, and the battle was fought over again on a larger field. Miss Brown's credentials were accepted, Neal Dow being president, but when later she understook to make a motion there were cries of "Order," hisses, shouts and Bedlam let loose for an hour and a half, during which time this young, beautiful, modest woman, a Congregational minister, remained standing simply to establish the principle that an accredited delegate should not be denied right of speech because of sex. The action of the convention and the discussion which General Officers of National American Woman Suffrage Association Honorary President, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, 50 West 94th st., New York City President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Rochester, N. Y. Vice-President-at-Large, Rev ANNA H. Shaw, Somerton, Philadelphia, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, 1341 Arch St., Philadelphia. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park St., Boston. Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio Auditors, LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky.; CATHERINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH, Chicago, Illinois. The next issue will contain Mrs. Stanton's convention address. Editor's Walks in London are crowded out of this issue but several interesting features are still to be presented. The appreciation of this series which has been indicated in letters from all parts of the country, even from England, is very gratifying. This issue of the TRIBUNE is the editor's birthday present to Miss Anthony, and two thousand extra copies are printed, It will be sent to all the suffrage clubs, as far as their addresses can be obtained, to aid them in preparing their programme for the celebration on the fifteenth of February of Miss Anthony's eightieth anniversary. The TRIBUNE is glad to publish the appreciative article on Mrs. Stanton's book by Helen Gardener. Mrs. Stanton's Reminiscences are indeed most delightful, and if there were no sense of loyalty among suffragists impelling them to show their appreciation of Mrs. Stanton by buying her book, or desire to be informed as to her work, it would still well reward the purchaser as a literary gem. It can be obtained at this office at publisher's price, $2.00, or free for four new yearly subscriptions to this paper. Mrs. Colby gave a reception to Miss Anthony at the TRIBUNE home last Saturday evening, being assisted in receiving by Mrs. Ellen Powell Thompson, Mrs. Helen Rand Tindal, Dr. Clara S. MacNaughton and Mrs, Ida Harper. Fully five hundred came during the hours from eight to ten, and a more intelligent and genial lot of people never assembled. There was quite a representation of Congressional families. Among those present known in the art world were Mrs. Sara Fisher Ames, who made a notable bust of General Grant; Mrs. Vinnie Ream Hoxie, whose statue of Lincoln is in the Capitol; and Mrs. Adelaide Johnson, equally honored in the subjects of her skill. Literature had two brilliant lights in Grace Greenwood and Will Allen Dromgoole and there were many distinguished in journalism. Three members of the Chinese Embassy in resplendent garb added to the picturesqueness of the occasion. Miss Marie MacNaughton, and other young ladies assisted Miss Mae Bewick in serving refreshments, and in helping everybody to reach Miss Anthony. Miss Pier, of the noted Milwaukee law firm of mother and daughters, who is here to be admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, was Miss Anthony's escort. Life and Work of Miss Anthony ants, and in supplying the new store at Battenville no rum was ordered. Judge McLean assured him it would be impossible to keep store without treating the customers, "Then I'll close the store," was the reply. But the farmers found they could get here the best goods and the lowest prices, so they patronized it despite their protestations. The battle was fought over and over again in many ways until it came to be understood that not only would uo rum be given or sold in the store, but that no one could work in the factory, grist or sawmill, who drank to excess. Susan's strong temperance principles thus came to her by heredity and example. Although the Anthonys were at this time among the most wealthy and influential people in the community, the mother had no household help save what her daughters, Guelma, Susan and Hannah, at this time aged 14, 12 and 10, could give her. Factory hands and dur- {{column break}} went was divide the wage with her sister. Susan was the lucky one and very proud was she to divide the three dollars she received for her two weeks' work. Susan bought her mother half a dozen much desired blue cups and saucers and Hannah bought a bright bead bag such as it was the fashion for girls at that time to carry. In their second year at Battenville the family moved into a two and a half story brick with fifteen rooms - a palatial residence for those days. Here came Daniel Read and wife and lived with their daughter until at the age of 84 they both passed away in the same year. The children went to the district school, taught by a man in winter and a woman in summer, but as not even the men could teach Susan long division, Mr. Anthony fitted up a private school over his brick store and brought in cultured and competent teachers. At the age of 15; first Guelma and then Susan were installed as women teachers. At the age of 17 Susan taught school at Easton for $1.00 a week and board, and the next summer, a district school for $1.50 a week and "boarded round." She then joined Guelma at a boarding school near Philadelphia where, as its patrons were assured, "the inculcation of the principles of Humility, Morality and a love of Virtue received particular attention." Here the failure to properly address each other as "thee" and "thou," or even omitting to dot the I's in writing was made to appear such a grievous lapse from the path of rectitude that the sensitive girl was often in anguish. After some such error she wrote in the diary: "O, Morality, that I could say I possessed thy charms. O, the happiness of an innocent mind; would that I could say mine was so, but it is too far from it." Once Susan committed a real fault. Observing some spider webs above the principal's desk she stepped on it to brush them down and alas, the hinges broke. The teacher administered a rebuke so severe that Susan fled in tears. That evening after the scripture reading the teacher coldly remarked that where there was no desire for moral improvement, there would be no improvement in reading. There was one beside her who had not desired moral improvement, etc. Speaking of this incident Miss Anthony says; "Not once in all the years that have passed, has the thought of that day came to my mind without making me turn cold and sick at heart." The girls' boarding school experience was cut short by the business failures of their father in 1838. To satisfy creditors an inventory was made of all the family possessions, even to the clothing of wife and daughters and he wedding gifts. The law took everything but the barest necessities, but an uncle bought in for them some of their treasures. The family moved two miles away to Hardscabble, where Mr. Anthony had built a satinet factory and a grist mill in his prosperous days. By his efforts the name of the town was afterwards changed to Center Falls, for which the citizens ought to raise a monument to his memory. They lived in a large house which had been used as a hotel in the lumbering days and the attic had been finished off as a ball room. A committee of young people begged that they might use it for their dancing school. It was refused. The committee came again and said: "You have taught us that we must not drink or go about places where liquor is sold. The only other dancing hall in town is in a disreputable tavern, and if we cannot come here we shall be obliged to go there." Mr: Anthony took counsel with his wife and we can easily imagine that she took the side of the young people, for she had danced 'till 4 o'clock in the morning just before her wedding day. So the dancing school had the attic and the kind of mother gave them some simple refreshments, and everybody went home early and no harm was done, save perhaps to Guelma, Susan and Hannah, who were only allowed to sit around the wall and watch, and to the Quaker society which read Daniel out of meeting for his laxity. Daniel felt it keenly and said "For one of the best acts of my life I have been turned {{column break}} the Female Department of Canajoharie Academy and at this place joined the organization of the Sons and Daughters of Temperance and was made its secretary, and on March 1, 1849, and made her first speech at one of its gatherings. In this year Susan returned home and there took charge of the farm and housework for three years, during which time all the forces of progress were converging toward hers and drawing her irresistibly and forever form the domestic life which was her greatest delight. IN the winter of '52 she taught in Rochester and thus was brought more intimately into the circles of temperance and anti-slavery reformers. But a third cause, deeper and more far reaching than the others, was about to claim her for its apostle. Her father, mother, and sister Mary had attended the adjourned Rochester session of that first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, July 1848. Their interest had awakened hers which was increased by reading the report of the Worcester Convention in 1850, but still it was in the temperance work that she hoped to devote herself to humanity and she was brought to the woman's rights movement as so many have been by finding out how inefficacious was all temperance work by women as long as they could not back it up by the ballot. It is extremely difficult to present a condensed account of Miss Anthony's life after she came into the suffrage work because it is virtually the history of the movement. For that reason this review lingers over the period of preparation for the work, the history of which is well recorded in three large volumes. In 1852 Miss Anthony went as the Rochester delegate to a mass meeting of the Sons of Temperance which had invited the women's auxiliary to send delegates, but on rising to make a motion she was informed by the president that the sisters were to listen and not to speak. Accordingly with some other women she left the hall and they proceeded to organize a meeting of their own. Miss Anthony was appointed to chairman of a committee to call a Woman's State Temperance Convention, which was accordingly held in Rochester the next April. About 500 women were present, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton was elected President and and Susan B. Anthony, one of the secretaries. At this time the Sons of Temperance had their call out for a convention in June, inviting all temperance societies to send delegates. The Women's Society therefore elected Gerrit Smith, Susan B. Anthony and Antoinette Brown. The two latter went, although informed before that the clergy were greatly exercised over their expected appearance and threatened to withdraw if they came. The annual report of the secretary, William H. Burleigh closed thus: "We hail the formation of the Woman's State Temperance Society as valuable auxiliary." A heated debate at once ensued. It was ruled that the women were not delegates. They therefore withdrew and accepted to offer of Rev. Luther Lee to hold a meeting in his church, which caused the men's meeting to be almost deserted. In the autumn of this year, 1952, Miss Anthony went to her first woman's rights convention. Since it is popularly supposed that the leaders at these early suffrage conventions were badly dressed women of no social standing it is interesting to note that the president of this convention and her friend whom she desired to succeed were both ladies of refinement, and one especially of literary prestige. They both wore white evening dresses and their light wool jackets did not wholly disguise the fact that they wore low necks and short sleeves. When the nomination for president was made, Miss Anthony opposed the election on account of this dress which she said no one could wear that represented the solid, earnest working women for whom they were asking the ballot. The result was that Lucretia Mott, who could represent everybody, was elected, with Susan and Martha C. Wright as secretaries. Thus began her service in the suffrage caused to which her life has since been devoted. {{column break} reader wishes the proof it can be found in this "Life" or in the "History of Woman Suffrage." Miss Anthony was still to be led into a profound conviction of woman's powerlessness without the ballot by her temperance work of 1853. At a meeting in Albany women appeared for the first time before the New York Legislature. Mrs. Stanton's eloquently appeal to this Legislature to give women a vote on this great question of temperance or else truly represent them by enacting a prohibition law, was accompanied by a petition of 28,000 names. A young member who made a speech against them, saying: "Who are these asking for a Maine law? Nobody but women and children." Miss Anthony at that moment resolved it should be her life work to make a woman's name on a petition worth as much as a man's. A World's Temperance Convention was to meet in New York in September, and a preliminary meeting held in May invited all friends of temperance to be present. To Woman's Society elected Emily Clark and Miss Anthony delegates, while other women were sent from Massachusetts. it was moved in the meeting that all the gentlemen present be accepted as delegates, and an amendment including the ladies was carried. It was afterwards moved that Miss Anthony be added to the business committee which created a hubbub at once, and a committee was appointed to see who were delegates. Their report recommended that as the call was not intended to include women, and as women were not accustomed to act at such meetings their credentials should not be accepted. Rev. T. W. Higginson and several others withdrew with the women and a grand rally was held next day, Miss Anthony presiding. It was there decided to call a Whole World's Temperance Convention, a name certainly broad enough to take in women. When this took place the New York Tribune said it was the most spirited and able meeting on behalf of temperance which had yet been held. Whether to annoy the brethren or because having taken in the whole world in general they wanted in particular that part of it represented by their old opponents, is not stated, but the "Whole World" elected Rev. Antoinette Brown a delegate to the "World," which followed immediately after, and the battle was fought over again on a larger field. Miss Brown's credentials were accepted, Neall Dow being president, but when later she understook to make a motion there were cries of "Order," hisses, shouts and Bedlam let loose for an hour and a half, during which time this young, beautiful modest woman, a Congregational minister, remained standing simply to establish the principle that an accredited delegate should not be denied right of speech because of sex. The action of the convention and the discussion which followed were thus summed up in the New York Tribune: "First day, crowding a woman off the platform; second day, gagging her; third day, voting that she shall stay gagged." Between these two contests over having representation in temperance conventions managed by men the women had held their first annual meeting. Mrs. Stanton, the president announced that in one year they had obtained over 2,000 members. The radical statement by her that women should boldly come out for "woman's rights," one of which was to be divorced from a drunken husband, aroused great discussion and an opposition which to this day colors the interpretation which conservative women put upon Mrs. Stanton's utterances, although long since the most backward of them have adopted the ideas advanced at that time. Mrs. Stanton was defeated for the presidency by three votes and Miss Anthony declined re-election as secretary, because she said the vote showed they had not accepted the principle of woman's rights. This ended the connection of the suffrage leaders with a temperance organization. Miss Anthony never lost her interest in educational matters, but year by year used to go to the New York Teachers' THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1900 11 Convention to influence it as far as possible in the line of securing justice for women teachers, In the convention of 1853 occurred an incident which Miss Anthony has often related from the platform with great effect. When the brethren were discussing the probable cause of the profession of teaching being not so highly regarded as that of law or medicine, Miss Anthony rose to take part in the discussion. After some delay she was permitted to speak. Whereupon she said that as long as women were not allowed to practice law or medicine and were allowed to teach, every man who taught tacitly acknowledged that he had no more brains than a woman. Miss Anthony attended the Fourth National Suffrage Convention and followed this up with an organizing tour. Finding that with one exception all the societies she formed the year before had gone to pieces and that the complaint everywhere was that the women had no control of money she called a convention in Rochester for the express purpose of bringing influence to bear on the Legislature in behalf of more favorable property laws for women. Ten thousand names were secured to petitions for such legislation and this was followed up year by year. The events have now been outlined which transformed the quiet, domestic Quaker maiden to a strong, uncompromising advocate for the rights of women. Few of the younger generation realize at what cost has been won for them the rights they now enjoy; not only by the efforts of Miss Anthony and distinguished associates, but by those of a host of the less famous or entirely unknown whose work was indispensable and as worthy in its measure of that of the great leader in whose person we today honor the great principles for which they stood and all who helped it forward by so much as a thought. The Bloomer costume adopted about this time by many of the speakers, who hoped by their example to help women to a more healthful and sensible dress, was worn by Miss Anthony for a year or two and it was a real grief to her that she felt compelled to give it up, because while "it was a physical freedom it was mental crucifixion." The dress was an experiment and it was not worked out out to such perfection as the bicycle costume is today, but the principle was essentially the same and that women can now do without comment what then brought after them a mob at every step they took illustrates the great gain of woman in freedom of action. Miss Anthony's first visit to Washington was in 1854, when she arranged a lecture for Ernestine I., Rose, with whom she made a seven months' tour. Later she lectured at Canajoharie, where the trustees wanted her to take the old school again. But her Uncle Read said: "No, some one ought to go around and set the people thinking about the laws and it is Susan's work to do this." In 1856 the Anti Slavery Society offered her the position of its salaried secretary, but having already made lecture dates she entered on the campaign. This meant long drives to make her appointments and much suffering with cold, but at last she went to Albany with her bundle of petitions bought one might almost say, with her heart's blood. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in reporting on the petitions recommended that where husband and wife had both signed the petition they should apply for a law authorizing "the husband to wear the petticoats and the wife the breeches, and thus indicate to the public the true relation in which they stand to each other." Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown were {{column break}} she stirs the world." In the autumn of 1856 Miss Anthony was made field secretary of the anti slavery committee and for two years she was continually in the field speaking and arranging lectures and conventions, with even more difficult conditions and greater opposition than she encountered in the woman's rights movement. There was one thing, however, that made it easier. There was no lack of money to carry on this movement, indeed the largest donations that have come to the suffrage cause have been made by the old line abolitionists who looked upon the cause of freedom, whether of the slave from his shackles, or woman from her disabilities, as having a claim upon purse as well as effort. In the latter part of 1858 Mr. Francis Jackson gave to Wendell Phillips $5,000 for the woman's rights cause, with Lucy Stone and Miss Anthony trustees with him of the fund Out of this money Mr. Phillips sent Miss Anthony $1,500 for a lecture campaign, and with Antoinette Brown she made the round of the watering places, teachers' conventions and principal cities. The story of the work is everywhere as fascinating as a novel, but it can scarcely be touched upon in this sketch. Miss Anthony's greatest trouble all her life has been that her co workers would marry and be taken up with domestic cares. So many had thus deserted her that a National Convention could not be held in 1858, and yet it does not appear to have occurred to her to exploit this fact as answering one of the chief objections of the opposition to the woman's rights movement. Miss Anthony's chief helper with the teachers' conventions was Helen Philleo, who afterwards dropped out of the work as Mrs. Dean M. Jenkins, to re appear later as the leader of suffrage work in Michigan. Mr. Jenkins in sending a check to Miss Anthony while her biography was being written expressed the hope that she had forgiven him for marrying Helen Philleo, as in place of one worker there were now four: a converted husband, and a son and daughter devoted to their mother's principles. The advance of woman's cause has been in the long run, as muce due to such defections from the ranks as to the single mindedness of Miss Anthony. In 1860 Mrs. Stanton made an eloquent address before the joint session of the New York Legislature which was the climax of the efforts of the suffragists for twelve years and crowned them with success, a new law being passed at this session which gave married women control over their own property, the legal power to carry on business, and the joint guardianship of her children. The latter was repealed two years afterwards while women were devoting themselves to the Union and only re-enacted after a "Thirty years' war." At the Tenth National Convention held in New York in 1860, gratitude was expressed for the work Miss Anthony had done towards securing this favorable change in the laws. At this point a man called out "She'd be a great deal better have been at home taking care of her husband and children." It is Miss Anthony's husband and children that have been the bugaboo all these years. Eloquent speakers were at this conventions, but the resolut,on introduced by Mrs. Stanton and supported by Miss Anthony, favoring divorce under certain conditions--conditions long since made a legal case in almost every State in the Union--split the friends of woman suffrage, and with the misunderstandings growing out of the different positions taken made virtually two wings in the army of equal rights and kept them apart for many years. This was the last National Convention until after the close of the war and Miss Anthony devoted herself to anti-slavery agitation, her theme being always "Emancipation the Duty of the Government." In several meetings the speakers were mobbed and in Syracuse the effigies of Miss Anthony and Rev. Samuel May were burned in the streets after the mob had forced the speakers out of the hall. To add to the troubles of this heart-sickening period Miss {{column break}} recognition of the rights of women under the Constitution of the United States. To write Mrs. Stanton's or Miss Anthony's life iu full would be to give a complete history of this work which will stand to future ages as an unparalleled struggle in behalf of liberty. No other disfranchised class has ever made an effort for itself worth mentioning beside this that woman has made and not with a selfish motive, merely because of the degradation of being governed without consent and the injustice of being taxed without representation, but because of having learned by experience the powerlessness of women in every direction without the weapon of the ballot. The story of the Kansas campaign and Mr. George Francis Train's connection with it, his espousal of their cause when nearly all the old time abolition friends had dropped it saying, "this is the negro's hour, the woman must wait," is of exciting interest. The adventures and mishaps of suffrage work in a pioneer State in 1867 can hardly be estimated by campaigners of the last two decades. The woman suffrage amendment, the first submitted to the popular vote, received 9,070 votes out of a total of about 30,000 At Junction City, Kansas, Mr. Train electrified the audience by announcing that when Miss Anthony returned to New York she was going to start a woman suffrage paper. "Its name is to be The Revolution; its motto: 'Men, their rights, and nothing more; woman, their rights, and nothing less.' This paper is to be a weekly, price $2 00 per year; its editors, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury; its proprietor, Susan B. Anthony." It all came about just as he had said and he gave $600 to start it with. He planned to furnish all the money need to set it on a paying basis, but almost immediately went to Dublin and was there imprisoned for a year on the charge of complicity with the [Fenans] Copies of The Revolution were found upon him and the name was sufficient to seal his fate. The Revolution received many large contributions, was ably edited and a great help to the cause, but Miss Anthony was unable to carry it longer than May, 1870-- two years and five months--at which time it was sold to Laura Curtis Bullard for $1.00 and Miss Anthony ended her newspaper enterprise $10,000 in debt, beside having expended $25 000, most of which had been contributed by friends. These were the days of high prices for lectures, and Miss Anthony's usual receipts were $100 a lecture. In this way she earned the money to pay off the debt, aided by her cousin, Anson [Lapham,] who made her a Thanksgiving present of cancelled notes to the amount of $4,000, giving her still another $1,000 later. Six years after she had given up her cherished paper, in May, 1876, she wrote "The day of jubilee for me has come, I have paid the last dollar of The Revolution debt." In 1872 Miss Anthony convinced the Inspectors of Election in Rochester that she had a right to vote under the new amendments to the Federal Constitution and able legal opinion backed her. With fourteen other ladies she duly deposited her ballot. Two weeks after election they were arrested and after a hearing of the case bail was fixed at $500 each. Miss Anthony alone refusing to give bail, and appealing for a writ of habeas corpus. The U.S. District Judge denied the writ and fixed her bail at $1,000, which her attorney, Judge Selden, furnished, a fact she ever afterwards regretted, as it prevented her taking her case before the U. S. Supreme Court. The full story of this most picturesque event has often been told by Miss Anthony from the platform. The writer still feels a thrill when she recalls the telling of it at a convention in Madison, Wis. A discussion arose in connection with the exercise of school suffrage by the women of Wisconsin, as to the scope of the term "election district." "I will tell you what an election district is," said Miss Anthony, and she recalled the story of the trial with a vividness never surpassed. When she {{column break}} work to remain with her. It was always: "Go, and do all the good you can." Lucretia Mott died November 11, of this year, aged nearly eighty years. Her dying words oft repeated were: "Oh, let me go, let this little standard bearer go!" The early 80's were devoted to writing the "History of Woman Suffrage. it was Miss Anthony that alone could supply the material for such a work for she had not only religiously kept a diary, but had saved every letter, newspaper clipping and report pertaining to the work. This vast amount of material was gone over by Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton at the home of the latter, and Matilda Joslyn Gage delved deep into all the old histories of the past to collect data for her important contribution to the work, a chapter entitled "Woman in Church and State," which was afterwards elaborated into a volume and published by Mrs. Gage. Volumes I and II of the History were completed in April, 1882, and then Miss Anthony was free in the autumn to participate in the Nebraska amendment campaign, where she spoke in forty counties. Miss Anthony's birthday has long been celebrated nationally, the suggestion being first made by Elizabeth Boynton Harbert in "Woman's Kingdom," in the Inter Ocean. Being on February 15, it is so temptingly near St. Valentine's day that to remember her with love tokens seems natural. Her 63rd anniversary was made a great occasion in Philadelphia because it was also bon voyage to her as she was to set off with Mrs. Stanton on the 23rd for a tour abroad. Selections from Miss Anthony's diary and letters show that they not only had a delightful trip, but that they were royally received by English reformers. As the result of this visit the International Council of Women was held in Washington in March, 1888, and this was the first expression of the idea of federation among women. At its close the National Council of the United States and the Internal Council were organized. In April, 1885, the noble bequest of Mrs. Eddy was received by Miss Anthony and Lucy Stone. After the expenses of the three years' litigation concerning the will had been paid each party received $24,125. It was left absolutely to the legatees, but with the understanding that it was to be used in the cause of woman suffrage. The first use Miss Anthony made of her money was to buy out the rights of Fowler & Wells who had published the volumes first and second and to prepare to get out another volume. The work was completed toward the close of '85, and Miss Anthony went as usual to Washington to {{illegible}} convention and the Congressional hearing, but with a light heart for her bills were all paid, and she had, her historian says, "some good dresses in her trunk." Here is the touch of nature that makes us all akin for sub rosa Miss Anthony likes rich and suitable clothes as well as anybody, and the rich garnet velvet and point lace (the gift of friends) which have figured of late in her state occasions have made many converts - if not supporters - to the cause among those who could not be quite certain that human liberty and the responsibilities of citizenship were the correct thing until assured that its advocates were well dressed. The last decade has been the richest in work and success, especially in the rallying around her as leader all the distinctively suffrage forces of the nation, while all organizations of women have joined in honoring and welcoming her. The great work at the World's Fair where Miss Anthony spoke at many of the Congresses; the New York campaign where Miss Anthony worked as if her own honor and not that of her State were at stake: the California campaign where she was literally smothered in flowers; the meetings of the National Council in which Miss Anthony always takes a leading part; the great International Council and Congress of last year, where Miss Anthony was queen of al hearts, all these and the rest of the splendid events of this decade are familiar to the readers of the were not allowed to practice law or medicine and were allowed to teach, every man who taught tacitly acknowledged that he had no more brains than a woman. Miss Anthony attended the Fourth National Suffrage Convention and followed this up with an organizing tour. Finding that with one exception all the societies she formed the year before had gone to pieces and that the complaint everywhere was that the women had no control of money she called a convention in Rochester for the express pure pose of bringing influence to bear on the Legislature in behalf of more favorable property laws for women. Ten thousand names were secured to petitions for such legislation and this was followed up year by year. The events have now been outlined which transformed the quiet, domestic Quaker maiden to a strong, uncompromising advocate of the rights of women. Few of the younger generation realize at what cost has been won for them the rights they now enjoy; not only by the efforts of Miss Anthony and distinguished associates, but by those of a host of the less famous or entirely unknown whose work was as indispensable and as worthy in its measure of that of the great leader in whose person we today honor the great principles for which they stood and all who helped it forward by so much as a thought. The Bloomer costume adopted about this time by many of the speakers, who hoped by their example to help women to a more healthful and sensible dress, was worn by Miss Anthony for a year or two and it was a real grief to her that she felt compelled to give it up, because while "it was physical freedom it was mental crucifixion." The dress was an experiment and it was not worked out to such perfection as the bicycle costume is today, but the principle was essentially the same and that women can now do without comment what then brought after them a mob at every step they took illustrates the great gain of woman in freedom of action. Miss Anthony's fist visit to Washington was in 1854, when she arranged a lecture for Ernestine L. Rose, with whom she made a seven months' tour. Later she lectured at Canajoharie, where the trustees wanted her to take the old school again. But her Uncle Read said: "No, some one ought to go around and set the people thinking about the laws and it is Susan's work to do this." In 1856 the Anti Slavery Society offered her the position of its salaried secretary, but having already made lecture dates she entered on the campaign. This meant long drives to make her appointments and much suffering with cold, but at last she went to Albany with her bundle of petitions bought one might almost say, with her heart's blood. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in reporting on the petitions recommended that where husband and wife ad both signed the petition they should apply for a law authorizing "the husband to wear petticoats and the wife the breeches, and thus indicate to the public the true relation in which they stand to each other." Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown were both married at this time and this made it the harder for Susan to keep lectures an conventions going. These ladies having been extremely fortunate in their marriage were particularly anxious that Susan should do likewise. The life story shows that there was no lack of suitors, but she resolutely turned away from everything that would divide her allegiance with her chosen work. According to promise Susan was now to give a lecture on co-education before the State Teachers' Association, and as usual she appealed to Mrs. Stanton for help. Mrs. Stanton acquiesced on the condition that Susan would "hold the baby and make the paddings." The lecture occupied an entire evening and at its close the president of the Association took her by the hands and said "Madam, that was a splendid production and well delivered. I could not have asked for a single thing different either in matter or manner; but I would rather have followed my wife or daughter to Greenwood Cemetery than have had her stand here before this promiscuous audience and deliver that address." Nothing better illustrates public opinion at that time with regard to women than this remark. This lecture was frequently called for afterwards by associations and committees. Mrs. Stanton enjoyed the commotion it caused by demanding of co-education, and she wrote that her husband brought her all the items from the papers saying "My dear, another notice of Susan, you stir her up, {{column break}} the cause of freedom, whether of the slave from his shackles, or woman from her disabilities, as having a claim upon purse as well as effort. In the latter part of 1858 Mr. Francis Jackson gave to Wendell Phillips $5,000 for the woman's rights cause, with Lucy Stone and Miss Anthony trustees with him of the fund. Out of this money Mr. Phillips sent Miss Anthony $1,500 for a lecture campaign, and with Antoinette Brown she made the rounds of the watering places, teacher's conventions and principal cities. The story of the work is everywhere as fascinating as a novel, but it can scarcely be touched upon in this sketch, Miss Anthony's greatest trouble all her life has been that her co-workers would marry and be taken up with domestic cares. So many had thus deserted her that a National Convention could not be held in 1858, and yet is does not appear to have occured to her to exploit this fact as answering one of the chief objections of the opposition to the woman's rights movement. Miss Anthony's chief helper with the teachers' conventions was Helen Philleo, who afterwards dropped out of the work as Mrs. Dean M. Jenkins, to re-appear later as the leader of suffrage work in Michigan. Mrs. Jenkins in sending a check to Miss Anthony while her biograhy was being written expressed the hope that she had forgiven him for marrying Helen Philleo, as in place of one worker there were now four: a converted husband, and a son and daughter devoted to their mother's principles. The advance of woman's cause has been in the long run, as muce due to such defections from the ranks as to the single mindedness of Miss Anthony. In 1860 Mrs. Stanton made an eloquent address before the joint session of the New York Legislature watch was the climax of the efforts of the suffragists for twelve years and crowned them with success, a ew law being passed at this session which gave married women control over their own property, the legal power to carry on business, and the joint guardianship of her children. The latter was repealed two years afterwards while women were devoting themselves to the Union and only re-enacted after a "Thirty years' war." At the Tenth National Convention held in New York in 1860, gratitude was expressed for the work Miss Anthony had done towards securing this favorable change in the laws. At this point a man called out "She'd a great deal better have been at home taking care of her husband and children." It is Miss Anthony's husband and children that have been the bugaboo all these years. Eloquent speakers were at this convention, but the resolution introduced by Mrs. Stanton and supported by Miss Anthony, favoring divorce under certain conditions - conditions long since made a legal cause in almost every State in the Union - split the friends of woman suffrage, and with the misunderstandings growing out of the different positions taken made virtually two wings in the army of equal rights and kept them apart for many years. This was the last National Convention until after the close of the war and Miss Anthony devoted herself to anti-slavery agitation, her theme being always "Emancipation the Duty of the Government." In several meetings the speakers were mobbed and in Syracuse the effigies of Miss Anthony and Rev. Samuel May were burned in the streets after the mob had forced the speakers out of the hall. To add to the troubles of this heart-sickening period Miss Anthony's father died suddenly in 1862. He had been her friend and helper in a measure rarely found in this relation. In 1863, in answer to many appeals the woman suffrage leaders took up the work of securing an expression of public sentiment that would justify Congressional action abolishing slavery forever by Constitutional amendment. A call was issued for loyal women and an immense audience assembled, Lucy Stone was elected president of the meeting, and after eloquent speeches and patriotic resolutions, a Loyal League was formed with Elizabeth Cady Stanton president, and Susan B. Anthony secretary. Its work was continued until August, 1864, by which time it had secured over 400,000 names to the petitions which formed the bulwark for Congressional action and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution was passed. A new phase of the woman's rights movement began with the insertion by Congress of the work "male," that hateful little adjective, as Miss Anthony says, (notice: I : is only as an adjective and not as a noun that is objectionable.) which has made all the trouble in the Fourteenth Amendment. She was in Kansas at the time the resolution was introduced, started immediately for the East, and stopping only to lecture half a dozen times on the way, was soon with Mrs. Stanton mapping out the campaign which has been followed for the last thirty years in the attempt to compel the {{column break}} lessness of women in every direction without the weapon of the ballot. The story of the Kansas campaign and Mr. George Francis Train's connection with it, his espousal of their cause when nearly all the old time abolition friends had dropped it saying, "this is the negro's hour, the women must wait," is of exciting interest. The adventures and mishaps of suffrage work in a pioneer State in 1867 can hardly be estimated by campaigners of the last two decades. The woman suffrage amendment, the first submitted to the popular vote, received 9 070 votes out of a total of about 30,000. At Junction City, Kansas, Mr. Train electrified the audience by announcing that when Miss Anthony returned to New York she was going to start a woman suffrage paper. "Its name is to be The Revolution; its motto: 'Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.' This paper is to be a weekly, price $2 00 per year; its editors, Elizbeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury; its proprietor, Susan B. Anthony." It all came about just as he had said and he gave$600 to start it with. He planned to furnish all the money needed to set it on a paying basis, but almost immediately went to Dublin and was there imprisoned for a year on the charge of complicity with the Fenlans. Copies of the Revolution were found upon him and the name was sufficient to seal his fate. The Revolution received many large contributions, was ably edited and a great help to the cause, but Miss Anthony was unable to carry it longer than May, 1870 - two years and five months - at which time it was sold to Laura Curtis Bullard for $1.00 and Miss Anthony ended her newspaper enterprise $10,000 in debt, besides having expended $25,000, most of which had been contributed by friends. These were the days of high prices for lectures, and Miss Anthony's usual receipts were $100 a lecture. In this way she earned the money to pay off the debt, aided by her cousin, Anson {{illegible}} present of cancelled notes to the amount of $4,000, giving her still another$1,000 later. Six years after she had given up on her cherished paper, in May, 1876, she wrote "The day of jubilee for me has come, I have paid the last dollar of The Revolution debt." In 1872 Miss Anthony convinced the Inspectors of Election in Rochester that she had a right to vote under the new amendments to the Federal Constitution and able legal opinion backed her. With fourteen other ladies she duly deposited her ballot. Two weeks after the election they were arrested and after a hearing of the case bail was fixed at $500 each. Miss Anthony alone refusing to give bail, and appealing for a writ of habeas corpus. The U.S. District Judge denied the writ and fixed her bail at $1,000, which her attorned Judge Selden, furnished, a fact she ever afterwards regretted, as it prevented her taking her case before the U. S. Supreme Court. The full story of this most picturesque even has often been told by Miss Anthony from the platform. The writer still feels a thrill when she recalls the telling of it at a convention in Madison, Wis. A discussion arose in connection with the exercise of school suffrage by the women of Wisconsin, as to the scope of the term "election district." "I will tell you what an election district is," said Miss Anthony, and she recalled the story of the trial with a vividness never surpassed. When she came to the point where the Judge said, "You voted as a woman, did you not?" Leaning far out from the high desk of the speaker she seemed Titanic as she repeated her majestic response: "No sir, I voted not as a woman, but as a citizen of the United States." It was as if the outraged womanhood of the nation cried out in this sublime protest against the injustice and degradation of disfranchisement. In 1874 the Michigan Legislature submitted a woman suffrage amendment to the voters, and Miss Anthony participated in the canvass which doubtless increased the respectable minority vote it received. How many times in half a century of close and intimate companionship with co-laborers in the same cause must the heart have been wrung by one after another leaving the scenes of earthly activity. Perhaps never was this felt more keenly than when a few days apart Gerrit Smith and Martha C. Wright passed away. From this on the ranks of those who had stood by each other in three great reforms grew thinner, and now but few of the "old guard" remain. Yet like soldiers in a battle, reformers have no time to brood over their losses, but must catch the standards from falling hands and press on. The beloved mother fell asleep April, 1880, in her eighty-seventh year. She had wrought well for family and household in tenderness, patience and heroism, and not in the least did she show these qualities when she would not let Susan give up her {{column break}} and Mrs. Stanton at the home of the latter, and Matilda Joslyn Gage delved deep into all the old histories of the past to collect data for her important contribution to the work, a chapter entitled "Woman in Church and State," which was afterwards elaborated into a volume and published by Mrs. Gage, Volumes I and II of the History were completed in April, 1882, and then Miss Anthony was free in the autumn to participate in the Nebraska amendment campaign, where she spoke in forty counties. Miss Anthony's birthday has long been celebrated nationally, the suggestion being first made by Elizabeth Boynton Harbert in "Woman's Kingdom," in the Inter Ocean. Being on February 15, it is so temptingly near St. Valentine's day that to remember her with love tokens seems natural, Her 63rd anniversary was made a great occasion in Philadelphia because it was also bon voyage to her as she was to set off with Mrs. Stanton on the 23rd for a tour abroad. Selections from Miss Anthony's diary and letters show that they not only had a delightful trip, but that they were royally received by English reformers. As the result of this visit the International Council of Women was held in Washington in March, 1888, and this was the first expression of the idea of federation among women. At its close the National Council of the United States and the International Council were organized. In April, 1885, the noble bequest of Mrs. Eddy was received by Miss Anthony and Lucy Stone. After the expenses of the three years' litigation concerning the will had been paid each party received $24,125, it was left absolutely to the legatees, but with the understanding that it was to be used in the cause of woman suffrage. The first use Miss Anthony made of her money was to buy out the rights of Fowler & Wells who had published the volumes first and second and to prepare to get out another volume. The work was completed toward the close of '85, and Miss Anthony went as usual to Washington {{illegible}} convention and the Congressional hearing, but with a light heart for her bills were all paid, and she had, her historian says, "some good dresses in her trunk." Here is the touch of nature that makes us all akin for sub rosa Miss Anthony likes rich and suitable clothes as well as anybody, and the rich garnet velvet and point lace (the gift of friends) which have figured of late in her state occasions have made many converts - if not supports - to the cause among those who could not be quite certain that human liberty and the responsibilities of citizenship were the correct thing until assured that its advocates were well dressed. The last decade has been the richest in work and success, especially in the rallying around her as a leader all the distinctively suffrage forces of the nation, while all organizations of women have joined in honoring and welcoming her. The great work at the World's Fair where Miss Anthony spoke at many of the Congresses; the New York campaign where Miss Anthony worked as it her own honor and not that of her State were at stake; the California campaign where she was literally smothered in flowers; the meetings of the National Council in which Miss Anthony always takes a leading part; the great International Council and Congress of last year, where Miss Anthony was queen of all hearts, all these and the rest of the splendid events of this decade are familiar to the readers of the TRIBUNE and cannot be enlarged on for want of space. But one word must be said of Miss Mary Anthony, whose own work, quieter, but no less persistent and faithful, has been the sustaining power at home that has enabled her sister to accomplish so much. And this help has been not only in domestic lines, but in a thousand matters of detail in the suffrage work in which she has lifted the burden from Miss Anthony's shoulders. At the great reunion of the Anthony family at Adams, Mass.,' in 1897, the Historical Society arranged the programme for its annual meeting in honor of Miss Anthony. An extract from the writer's remarks on that occasion will fittingly close this sketch: "A human being is a power for good in proportion as he expresses divine attributes. The fundamental principle in the character of God is Justice. This, in the last analysis, includes everything. Miss Anthony's love of justice links her with the Divine. * * "Thus Miss Anthony, justice loving, patient and tender, has erected for herself a lasting monument in the hearts of the women of this nation. May the time be long deferred when she shall pass from the leadership of her now triumphant host, but when that day comes, let there be no tears, as she has laid upon us, but let there be glad thankfulness for a great life work wrought in courage, fidelity and tenderness." Send 19 cents for five copies of TRIBUNE. 12 THE WOMAN'S TRIBUNE, WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1900 For the TRIBUNE. "BY A WAY WHICH THEY KNOW NOT." ----- I would have gone my chosen route Where spring outpours its hoard, Where summer flings her banners out; But Fate encompassed me about And set the flaming sword. I loved the easeful quiet path Where Happiness is hidden; Where never leaps the lightning's wrath, And never storm intrudes to [?cath]; But that, too, was forbidden. No voice me comforted and said -- For thee this way is best; In silence were my footsteps led; A brooding tempest overhead Made dark the mountain's crest, And painful was each rugged mile; The wilderness was drear, I felt myself a lone exile, I yearned like Israel for the Nile -- The valley's fruitful cheer. Backward at every pause my glance Flew like a bird to nest; For there, thought I, the brooklets dance ! The bee sways in its honeyed trance ! 'Tis there my heart would rest. The path ordained, too steep it seemed, Though heaven lay before; Yet while of flowery ways I dreamed Behind the flaming sword bright gleamed -- I could return no more. --Mrs. C. N. B. Morange. ______________________ ADMONITION. ___ "How wrought I yesterday?" Small moment, now, to question with vain tears, or bitter moan, Since every word you wrote upon the sands Of yesterday hath hardened into stone. "How work tomorrow?" 'Tis a day unborn, To scan whose formless features is not granted. Else the new morning dawns, soul, thou may'st wing Thy flight beyond tomorrows, disenchanted. "How shall I work today?" O soul of mine ! Today stands on her threshold, girt to lead They feet to life immortal; strive with fear; Deep pitfalls strew the way; take heed, take heed, --Augusta Moore ______________________ Eighty Years and More. ____ Have you read the last book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that splendid old philosopher -- outrider on the path of human progress? My husband and I have just been reading aloud to each other her "Eighty Years and More," and we are both [ ?] by its style and deeply interested [?publish?pew yearly subscription?] is delightful. In all the years I have know and loved her it has been a wonder to me how she has "kept sweet" -- has not been soured by the long struggle she has made for woman's freedom, and her right to live her own life in her own way without remaining in perpetual tutelage to men. It is all made clear in this book. She was saved by her keen sense of humor and her native wit -- two of the greatest blessings. I have sometimes said, when oppressed by the sorrows and wrongs of the world that had I not inherited a sense of humor I would have long since gone insane. For, with a lively imagination, those of us who see and think and feel the woes of those who suffer the worst cruelties of the world (which we daily seem to be a part of, in keeping it an inferno), we could not bear it if it were not for that other side of our natures, that safety valve of sensitive souls, a sense of humor. That has kept Mrs. Stanton pre-eminently sane and sweet through all those years of contest before her greatness was grasped or appreciated by even those who were yearly reaping the benefits of her unequal struggle. One of her chapters, however, made us wonder, amidst our laughter, if her slipping through life with a smooth temper and a [?] at this moment six men of the past hundred years of whom it can be truthfully said. The pictures in the book are lovely, including the one of the sturdy son on page 201, I don't know whether he is "my son Theodore," of whom she writes with such admiration and commendable pride, or whether he is Gerret or "Bob," but he is a fine chap, and I'm just glad she didn't make him take the tops and nails and other bric a-brac out of his trousers' pockets before he posed for his picture. If she had we would have lost a part of the character of that boy* The book should be in every public and private library which makes any claim to keeping abreast of the times. Its philosophy, its wit, its humor, its information and its rich fund of recollections make it of unique value to this and future generations. I confess that as a rule "Reminiscences" are a drug in my mental market. Most of them are stupid in method and uninteresting in matter -- or both. But Mrs. Stanton's is altogether delightful and I congratulate her and the public that she has put so unique and interesting an experience in such charming form. Helen H. Gardener. _______________________ Book Reviews. _____ THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE AND ITS REPEAL; by Mrs. Archibald Dixon. 8vo, xiix623 pages. Price $4.00. This is a Southern history of the causes of the war between the States, and it is valuable as giving facts from a Southern point of view. It is without doubt the most comprehensive account of the sectional differences that preceded the conflict and of the causes out of which they grew that has been given by any pen. It is particularly a matter of interest that the greatest historian of the "Lost Cause" thus far should be a woman, as it was Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose pen aroused the moral conscience of the North and was the most powerful factor in creating the demand for the freedom of the negro. Mrs. Susan Bullitt Dixon is the widow of Archibald Dixon, who as Senator from Kentucky in 1853 54, introduced and secured the passage of the amendment to the Kansas-Nebraska bill which repealed the Missouri Compromise. She was in Washington during her husband's term and followed the discussions of that stormy time with the greatest interest. Mr. Dixon died in 1876, and Mrs. Dixon almost immediately began this great work, at first undertaken more particularly to commemorate her husband's part in the great conflict and to vindicate his memory and that of Stephen A. Douglas, who adopted the Repeal Amendment as his own measure, but the spirit of the historian grew within her so that she went deeply and comprehensively over the whole subject. Beginning with the first introduction of slaves in this country, she followed it up with an account of slavery under the Constitution and the "bargain" as recounted by General Washington by which the anti and pro slavery delegates to the Constitutional Convention mutually sold their votes to each other, so that the North got a clause relating to the Navigation Act which enabled it to control commerce, and the South got the forbidding of the slave trade postponed to [18?8]. It is but fair to say, however, that all but two of the Southern States opposed the bargain. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1787, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the "Compromise of 1850, the defeat and breaking up of the old Whig party in 1852, the Repeal in 1854 -- these are the landmarks in the development of sectional animosities. These are all freely gone into by Mrs. Dixon, who consulted numerous authorities and spared no pains to acquire accurate informatios. After six years of the most painstaking and arduous labor Mrs. Dixon's library with her [?] and upon which all sectional jealousies and hatreds were concentrated. This Gordian Knot of the nineteenth century could, perhaps, only have been cut, as it was by the sword, for several reasons, in the first place, the South never saw the day when she would have surrendered her property to force without a fight, and the Northern people were never willing for the government to pay the South for her slaves in order to their deportation and freedom -- every proposition to that effect being rejected by the Northern majority in Congress, even though made by Northern members. It was, moreover, a question of land, for which the Anglo-Saxon race will always fight. The South wanted the territory from which she had been unjustly excluded by act of Congress, as the place of exodus for her surplus blacks, whose increase was daily becoming more and more a burden; whilst the North wanted the fertile fields of the South, from which her people were excluded by the existence of slave labor, as effectually as though by act of Congress, for the maintenance of her surplus white population, which was increasing every year by the thousands, owing to foreign emigration. And, last, but not least, the political equality of the State became a point of honor with the South, as well as a means of self-preservation, for which her people preferred to fight, even if they lost, rather than to surrender it tamely and without a struggle. Some very distinguished and able men have expressed the belief that, as Alexander Stephens said, "slavery was only an incident of the war," and not the cause of it. But this appears to the writer to be a mistaken view. 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No voice me comforted and said - For thee this way is best; In silence were my footsteps led; A brooding tempest overhead Made dark the mountain's crest, And painful was each rugged mile; The wilderness was drear, I felt myself a lone exile, I yearned like Israel for the Nile - The valley's fruitful cheer. Backward at every pause my glance Flew like a bird to nest; For there, thought I, the brooklets dance ! The bee sways in its honeyed trance ! 'Tis there my heart would rest. The path ordained, too steep it seemed, Though heaven lay before; Yet while of flowery ways I dreamed Behind the flaming sword bright gleamed - I could return no more, - Mrs. C. N. B. Morange. ADMONITION. "How wrought I yesterday?" Small moment, now, To question with vain tears, or bitter moan, Since every word you wrote upon the sands Of yesterday hath hardened into stone. "How work tomorrow?" 'Tis a day unborn, To scan whose formless features is not granted. [??e] the new morning dawns, soul, thou may'st wing Thy flight beyond tomorrows, disenchanted. "How shall I work today?" O soul of mine ! Today stands on her threshold, girt to lead Thy feet to life immortal; strive with fear; Deep pitfalls strew the way; take heed, take heed, - Augusta Moore Eighty Years and More. Have you read the last book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that splendid old philosopher - outrider on the path of human progress? My husband and I have just been reading aloud to each other her "Eighty Years and More," and we are both charmed by its style and deeply interested [???] gentle sarcasm is delightful. In all the years I have known and loved her it has been a wonder to me how she has "kept sweet" - has not been soured by the long struggle she has made for woman's freedom, and her right to live her own life in her own way without remaining in perpetual tutelage to men. It is all made clear in this book. She was saved by her keen sense of humor and her native wit - two of the greatest blessings. I have sometimes said, when oppressed by the sorrows and wrongs of the world that had I not inherited a sense of humor I would have long since gone insane. For, with a lively imagination, those of us who see and think and feel the woes of those who suffer the worst cruelties of the world (which we daily seem to be a part of, in keeping it an inferno), we could not bear it if it were not for that other side of our natures, that safety valve of sensitive souls, a sense of humor. That has kept Mrs. Stanton pre-eminently sane and sweet through all those years of contest before her greatness was grasped or appreciated by even those who were yearly reaping the benefits of her unequal struggle. One of her chapters, however, made us wonder, amidst our laughter, if her slipping through life with a smooth temper and a suave spirit might not be due largely to that gum Arabic and slippery Elm diet in Kansas! Truly the book is good for the blues. That chapter is funnier than Mark Twain. What a superb tribute she pays to "Aunt Susan" Anthony, and how glad we younger women are to know that both of them have lived to know that their work is like the soul of John Brown, "marching on" grandly and irresistibly and that the time is not so far off now when their name will stand in honor and glory beside those of the immortal Washington and Lincoln in the reverence of the lovers of freedom and liberty for man, woman and child. We are glad and happy to know that they have both lived to personally know and feel the love and admiration they have inspired in the noblest and best, and to be sure that their gratitude is given to them both. Most delightful of all in her book is her absolute freedom from all cant and superstition, and the fact that her mind has never ceased to travel onward into true light "even unto this present day." This is a rare quality in man or woman. Most people get their mental growth by the time they are fifty or so. After that they stand still or go into that state of inactivity or retrogression, variously called second childhood or "conservatism". Mrs. Stanton has gone bravely and sturdily on growing in grace and a sense of liberty and freedom, and power and an abiding relf-respect, and kept a youthful interest in, and a mature grasp upon, all new problems as well as upon old perplexities. That is superb. And I cannot recall [???] admiration and commendable pride, or whether he is Gerret or "Bob", but he is a fine chap and I'm just glad she didn't make him take the tops and nails and other bric a-brac out of this trousers' pockets before he posed for his picture. If she had we would have lost a part of the character of that boy* [*Henry Stanton, a successful lawyer in New York City. - Kd.*] The book should be in every public and private library which makes any claim to keeping abreast of the times. Its philosophy, its wit, its humor, its information and its rich fund of recollections make it of unique value to this and future generations. I confess that as a rule "Reminiscences" are a drug in my mental market. Most of them are stupid in method and uninteresting in matter - or both. But Mrs. Stanton's is altogether delightful and I congratulate her and the public that she has put so unique and interesting an experience in such charming form. Helen H. Gardener. Book Reviews THE TRUE HISTORY OF MISSOURI COMPROMISE AND ITS REPEAL; by Mrs. Archibald Dixon, 8vo, xiix6223 pages. Price $4.00. This is a Southern history of the causes of the war between the States, and it is valuable as giving facts from a Southern point of view. It is without doubt the most comprehensive account of the sectional differences that preceded the conflict and of the causes out of which they grew that has been given by any pen. It is particularly a matter of interest that the greatest historian of the "Lost Cause" thus far should be a woman, as it was Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose pen aroused the moral conscience of the North and was the most powerful factor in creating the demand for the freedom of the negro. Mrs. Susan Bullitt Dixon is the widow of Archibald Dixon, who as Senator from Kentucky in 1854 54, introduced and secured the passage of amendment to the Kansas-Nebraska bill which repealed the Missouri Compromise. She was in Washington during her husband's term and followed the discussions of that stormy time with the greatest interest. Mr. Dixon died in 1876, and Mrs. Dixon almost immediately began this great work, at first undertaken more particularly to commemorate her husband's part in the great conflict and to vindicate his memory and that of Stephen A. Douglas, who adopted the Repeal Amendment as his own measure, but the spirit of the historian grew within her so that she went deeply and comprehensively over the whole subject. Beginning with the first introduction of slaves in this country, she followed it up with an account of slavery under the Constitution and the "bargain" as recounted by General Washington by which the anti and pro-slavery delegates to the Constitutional Convention mutually sold their voted to each other. so that the North got a clause relating to the Navigation Act which enabled it to control commerce, and the South got the forbidding of slave trade postponed to 1808. It is but fair to say, however, that all but two of the Southern States opposed the bargain. The Fugitive Slave Law of 1787, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the "Compromise of 1850, the defeat and breaking up of the old Whig party in 1852, the Repeal in 1854 - these are the landmarks in the development of sectional animosities. These are all freely gone into by Mrs. Dixon, who consulted numerous authorities and spared no pains to acquire accurate informatios. After six years of the most painstaking and arduous labor Mrs. Dixon's library with her partially completed manuscripts were destroyed by fire. Rallying from this dreadful blow she collected again her data and in 1899 the work was placed before the public. Its opening sentences will give the reader some idea of the point of view of the writer. She says: The Act of 1820, known as the Missouri Compromise, was the first surrender of the great vital principal of political equality between the States of the American Union, and the first authorized demarcation of a sectional line between them; this line was drawn by Congress itself, was its first interference with the rights of the people of the States in the Territories of the United States, and was an exercise by Congress of powers not delegated to that body under the Constitution. The Repeal of that Act (or rather a portion of it), in 1854, meant the restoration of that lost equality; the elimination of that line and of sectionalism; the restoration to the people of their just rights, and the annulment of that arbitrary exercise of power; and was dictated by the loftiest patriotism and the purest love of country. The history of the Missouri Compromise includes the cause of the later war between the States. That cause was slavery. Darkly and in bold relief it stands out in the records of the past hundred years as the point whence all sectional animosities arose, [???] when she would have surrendered her property to force without a fight. and the Northern people were never willing for the government to pay the South for her slaves in order to their deportation and freedom - every proposition to that effect being rejected by the Northern majority in Congress, even though made by Northern members. It was, moreover, a question of land, for which the Anglo-Saxon race will always fight. The South wanted the territory from which she had been unjustly excluded by act of Congress, as a place of exodus for her surplus blacks, whose increase was daily becoming more and more a burden; whilst the North wanted the fertile fields of the South, from which her people were excluded by the existence of slave labor, as effectually as though by act of Congress, for the maintenance of her surplus white population, which was increasing every year by the thousands, owing to foreign emigration. And, last, but not least, the political equality of the States became a point of honor with the South, as well as a means of self-preservation, for which her people preferred to fight, even if they lost, rather than to surrender it tamely and without a struggle. Some very distinguished and able men have expressed the belief that, as Alexander Stephens said, "slavery was only an incident of the war," and not the cause of it. But this appears to the writer to be a mistaken view. 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In 1861, Kansas gave it to all women. In 1867, New South Wales gave women municipal suffrage. In 1869, England gave municipal suffrage to single women and widows, Victoria gave it to women both married and single, and Wyoming gave full suffrage to all women. In 1871, West Australia gave municipal suffrage to women. School suffrage was granted in 1875 by Michigan and Minnesota, in 1876 by Colorado, in 1877 by New Zealand, in 1878 by New Hampshire and Oregon, in 1879 by Massachusetts, in 1880 by New York and Vermont. In [???0], South Australia gave municipal suffrage to women. In 1881, municipal suffrage was extended to the single women and widow of Scotland. Nebraska gave women school suffrage in 1883, Ontario and Tasmania gave them municipal suffrage in 1884, and Wisconsin gave them school suffrage in 1885. In 1886, municipal suffrage was given in New Zealand and New Brunswick. In 1887, municipal suffrage was granted in Kansas, Nova Scotia, and Manitoba, and school suffrage in North and South Dakota, Montana, Arizona, and New Jersey. In the same year, Montana gave tax-paying women the right to vote upon all questions submitted to the taxpayers. In 1888, England gave women county suffrage, and British Columbia and the Northwest Territory gave them municipal suffrage. In 1889, county suffrage was given to the women of Scotland, and municipal suffrage to single women and widows in the Province of Quebec. In 1891, school suffrage was granted in Illinois. In 1893, school suffrage was granted in Connecticut, and full suffrage in Colorado and New Zealand. In 1894, school suffrage was granted in Ohio, bond suffrage in Iowa, and Parish and district suffrage in England to women both married and single. In 1895, full suffrage was granted in South Australia to women both married and single. In 1896, full suffrage was granted in Utah and Idaho. In 1898, the wom?? ?? ??eland were given the righ to vote ???? ??? officers except member os P???? ??? ?innesota gave women the rig?? ?o vo?? for library trustees; France gave ? ? ??gaged in commerce the right ?? vo?? for judges of tribunals of commerce, and Louisiana gave tax-paying women the right to vote upon all questions submitted to the taxpayers. In 1900, West Australia granted full Parliamentary suffrage to women both married and single. In 1901, New York gave taxpaying women in all the towns and villages of the State the right to vote on questions of local taxation, Norway gave them municipal suffrage, and the Kansas Legislature voted down almost unanimously, and "amid a ripple of amusement," a proposal to repeal municipal suffrage. In 1902, full national suffrage was granted to all the women of federated Australia. Years ago, then equal suffrage was much more unpopular than it is now, somebody asked Bishop Gilbert Haven if it were true that he had been speaking at a suffrage meeting. "Yes," answered the Bishop. "I don't want to fall in at the rear of this reform; I mean to march with the procession!" There can be no doubt as to which way the procession is moving. FRUITS OF EQUAL SUFFAGE. The advocates of equal suffrage are often asked what practical and tangible good it has done where it prevails, and they are sometimes challenged to name a single "law aimed at human betterment" which has been passed as a consequence. It is not hard to answer this demand. In Wyoming, equal suffrage has caused the passage of a law that men and women in the employ of the State (including teachers) shall receive equal pay for equal work; has raised the age of protection for girls to eighteen, and has led to the repeal of the law that formerly licensed gambling. Child labor is forbidden, and cruelty to children is severely punished. In Utah, equal suffrage has caused the passage of a law that female teachers in the public schools shall receive the same pay as male teachers, provided they hold certificates of the same grade; also bills raising the age of protection for girls to eighteen, doubling the number of free scholarships in the State Normal School, establishing an art institute, and providing for improved sanitary arrangements in the schools, and for the better protection of the public health in various ways. In Idaho, equal suffrage has caused the passage of bills abolishing licensed gambling, raising the age of protection for girls to eighteen, authorizing city councils to levy a one-mill tax for free reading-rooms and libraries, requiring three per cent. of all school moneys to be set aside for the founding of school libraries, and establishing a State Library Commission, two members of which must be women and two others the President of the State University and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Colorado owes to her women the laws establishing a State Industrial School for Girls and a State Home for Dependent Children; removing the emblems from the Australian ballot (the nearest approach to an educational qualification for suffrage), making fathers and mothers joint guardians of their children, enlarging women's property rights, raising the age of protection for girls to eighteen, introducing the indeterminate sentence, so much desired by the friends of prison reform; establishing parental schools, providing for the care of the feeble-minded, and for the preservation of forest trees; giving the board of charities and correction power to investigate private eleemosynary institutions, and providing an annual appropriation to buy books for the State library; also in Denver ordinances placing drinking fountains in the streets, forbidding expectoration in public places, and requiring smoke-consuming chimneys on all public and business buildings. Among other results of equal suffrage is a much better enforcement of the laws forbidding the employment in factories of children under fourteen, requiring merchants to furnish their saleswomen with seats, regulating the sale of liquor and tobacco to minors, and others of the same general characters. In all the enfranchised States, equal suffrage has made elections more orderly, has improved the primaries, has made it harder to secure the nomination of election of candidates of notoriously bad character, had made it easier to secure adequate school appropriations, has broadened the minds of women and given them a greater interest and intelligence in regard to public affairs, and has largely increased the number of women serving on educational and charitable boards. Throughout Australia, before the granting of equal suffrage, a married man could will all his property away from his wife, leaving her penniless. She had no right of dower unless he died intestate. In those Australian colonies where women have had a vote, and in those only, the law has now been changed so that part of a man's property must go to his wife and family.* The divorce laws of Australia and New Zealand were modelled upon those of England, by which infidelity on the part of the wife entitles the husband to a divorce, but infidelity on the part of the husband does not entitle the wife to one. Since woman suffrage was granted, the divorce laws have been equalized, and a number of other beneficent changes have been made. THE IGNORANT VOTE It is objected that woman suffrage would add to the ignorant vote. Statistics published by the National Bureau of Education show that the public high schools of every State in the Union are graduating more girls than boys--some of them twice or three times as many. In 1899, the public high schools of the States classed by the Bureau of Education as the North Atlantic Division (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) graduated 6,856 boys and 11,489 girls. The South Atlantic Division (Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida) graduated 862 boys and 1,764 girls. The South Central Division (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory) graduated 1,086 boys and 2.295 girls. The North Central Division (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas) graduated 10,457 boys and 18,597 girls. The Western Division (Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California) graduated 1,083 boys and 1,979 girls. In the whole United States the public high schools in 1899 graduated 20,344 boys and 36,124 girls. In 1898 the whole number of boys in attendance at public high schools was 189,187; of girls, 260,413. Instead of adding to the power of the ignorant vote, it is clear that equal suffrage would increase the proportion of voters who have received more than an elementary education. * Women now have national suffrage throughout Australia, but it was only granted a few months ago. Before that, South and West Australia were the only Australian colonies where women had a vote for members of Parliament. GAINS OF TEN YEARS In the United States equal suffrage has made more progress in the last ten years than in the half century before. During the preceding fifty years, full suffrage was granted to women in only one State --Wyoming. During the past ten years it has been granted in three -- Colorado, Utah and Idaho. Within the same period a number of States have granted a limited suffrage to women, and only a few months ago full Parliamentary suffrage was extended to the 800,000 women of Federated Australia. The Boston Herald, which is opposed to equal suffrage, acknowledges that this is the most important victory the suffragists have yet won. When Theodore Roosevelt was in the New York Legislature, he voted for woman suffrage. When he became Governor of New York, he recommended it in his inaugural message to the Legislature in January, 1899. Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, who has just been nominated by the Colorado Democrats as one of the regents of the State University, is a Southern woman by descent. She comes of old Dutch stock on her mother's side. Her mother, Anna T. Carroll, was a granddaughter of Daniel Carroll, one of the signers of Constitution, and a grandniece of Charles Carroll of Carrolton, who signed the Declaration of Independence. Her father came of the old Craig family of Kentucky, and was one of the leading lawyers of New York. Mrs. Bradford is a widow. 2 PROGRESS A Wyoming Judge's View The following letter, written some little time ago by Judge Melvill E. Brown, of Laramie, Wy., to Mrs. E. H. Wilson, of Bismark, Dakota, gives a practical man's observation of the effects of equal suffrage: My Dear Madam:-My prejudices were formerly all against woman suffrage, but they have gradually given way since it became an established fact in Wyoming. You ask, "Has woman suffrage worked good or evil in Wyoming?" I answer unqualifiedly, it has worked good. Again you ask, "What class of women go to the polls?" I answer, all classes. Women vote as generally as men, and are no more restricted in the use of the ballot. My observations of the workings of woman suffrage, extending over a period of fifteen years, satisfies me of its entire justice and propriety. Impartial observation has also satisfied me that in the use of the ballot women exercise fully as good judgment as men, and in some particulars are more discriminating, as for instance on questions of morals. You further ask, "Has it a degrading influence?" Again I answer positively, no-a very loud no. I should laugh at this last question if it were not asked in such evident good faith. Just think of the ridiculousness of it. My wife goes with me to the theatre, the opera, to church, and prayer-meeting. We also associate in the family circle from day to day, without any apparent injury to her. She also takes my arm and we walk to the polls together and deposit our ballots. Isn't it ridiculous to suppose that our association in the latter act would be more injurious than in the former? It seems so to me. I believe I have answered your several questions. I will only add, in conclusion, that woman suffrage is as firmly established in Wyoming as man suffrage, and the latter is in as much danger of repeal or abridgment as the former. Our people are satisfied with it, and are proud of the fact that Wyoming has set an example that all the older States of the Union are sooner or later sure to follow. I am, madam, your most obedient, Melville C. Brown. TERRIBLE DISCOVERIES BY MR. SMITH A Mr. Smith of Birmingham, Ala., has lately travelled through Colorado, and he asserts that equal suffrage has had most direful results. The opinion of this transient tourist is not shared by those Southern people who have lived in Colorado for years. Mrs. Alberta C. Taylor of Denver, a daughter of ex-Gov. Chapman of Alabama, is an address at the National Suffrage Convention a few years ago, gave strong testimony to the good results of woman's ballot. As an illustration of its effect in broadening women's minds and leading them to take up more serious reading, she said a leading book-seller of Denver told her that he sold more books on political economy within eight months after women obtained the suffrage than during the fifteen years before. Mr. Smith says the women have become unsexed. Gov. Thomas of Colorado, a Virginian, says they are as charming as ever, and are better informed about public questions. The late Mrs. Katharine A. G. Patterson, the wife of U. S. Senator Patterson, was also a Virginian. She was president for years of the Colorado Equal Suffrage Association, and testified strongly on many occasions to the good results of the new regime. Evidently Mr. Smith saw equal suffrage in Colorado through spectacles darkened by prejudice. Perhaps he will live to outgrow it. As Mrs. Virginia Clay Copton of Alabama said at the last National Suffrage Convention in Washington: "A good deal of opposition to woman's ballot exists, but the mountains of prejudice are fast melting into hills, and the hills will disappear also." She added: "Many of the best men in Alabama are in full sympathy with us;" so Mr. Smith must not be taken as fair sample of his State. Mrs. Ida W. Harper in the N.Y. Sun reviews Mr. Smith's charges that in the equal suffrage States child labor is not forbidden, and the schools are not good. She says: "Mr. Smith makes the surprising assertion that "the public school systems of the suffrage States are inferior to those of the majority of the States where women remain in woman's sphere." "The value of public school property in Colorado is $7,128,240; in Alabama, $1,500.000. The latter pays her teachers an average of less than two-thirds as much as Colorado, a little over one-half as much as Idaho, less than one-half as much as Wyoming, and about one-third as much as Utah. Alabama expended for school purposes in 1900, $0.50 per capita; Colorado$5.18. Colorado led all the States in the Union. "A law of Colorado forbids absolutely the employment of children under fourteen in mines, factories and stores. In Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho, child labor is almost unknown. Denver has more stores on what is known as the 'white list' than any other city of its size in the Union. But the recent report of the Child Labor Committee states that in Alabama the number of children under sixteen employed in the cotton mills increased from 1870 to 1880, 140.9 per cent; 1890, 105.5 per cent; 1900, 270.9 per cent. Many of these thousands of children are under twelve, and they receive as low as nine cents a day for twelve hours of labor." WRONGS OF ENGLISH WORKING WOMEN. An English paper, Justice, publishes an interesting and instructive article by Dora B. Montefiore showing the disadvantage at which working women in England are placed because they lack the Parliamentary vote. She says: "In a trenchant little pamphlet, called 'The Industrial Position of Women and Woman Suffrage,' Miss Esther Roper shows the different scales of pay allotted to men and women for doing similar work, scales which show how persistently women are underpaid in all branches even of skilled work. 'The present government,' she writes, 'has reduced the salaries of between six and seven hundred of the women employed in the Post-office in London from L65 ($325) to L52 ($260) - L65 being described as an "extravagant" wage. They stipulate that these young women shall live at home or with friends,and they thus make easier the "pocket-money wage," instead of paying at a rate which would enable the women to be self-supporting.' Mr. Sydney Webb gives what Miss Roper describes as 'a glaring instance of the inferior value set on women's work' in his essay on "Women's Wages." It came out in connection with the Royal Commission on Labor that though the usual pay for clerks to temporary Commissions is 42s, a week, the Treasury, on learning that a woman had been appointed, who had done the work to their entire satisfaction, and as well as a man clerk could have done it, yet cut down the pay top 35s. a week on the ground that this was enough for a woman! The rate of pay for men and women teachers under our school boards varies in the same fantastic manner, but it is interesting to note that in the American State of Wyoming, were women have the vote, equal wages for equal work is now the rule in the teaching profession." EQUAL SUFFRAGE BONDS AT A PREMIUM. In answer to an accusation by certain Eastern opponents of woman suffrage who represented Wyoming as a lawless and murderous community, ex-Chief Justice Groesbeck of Wyoming wrote: "The number of murders committed in Wyoming is very few. We are a law-abiding people. This must be our reputation abroad, as our State and municipal bonds sell at a premium. This would not be the case were we known to be a dishonest or lawless commonwealth, as nothing is more sensitive than capital in this respect." CHIVALROUS AMERICAN WORKMEN. The Montana Trade and Labor Assembly, at its recent State Convention in Livingston, passed strong equal suffrage resolutions, and applauded to the echo an eloquent address by Miss Gail Laughlin in favor of equal rights. About the same time the Trades-Union Congress in London rejected a woman suffrage resolution introduced by the General Union of Weavers, and passed one presented by the Manchester Jewish Tailors' Union in favor of making naturalization easier for men. The American working man would seem to be a more chivalrous person than his British brother. It is only a short time since the Western Labor Union, and the Western Miners' Union, at their national conventions in Denver, passed resolutions in favor of equal suffrage by a unanimous vote. In this country similar action has been taken by State and national labor assemblies too numerous to mention. LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTIONS. In 1899,the Colorado Legislature adopted the following concurrent resolution, with only three dissenting votes in the House and one in the Senate: "Whereas, Equal suffrage has been in operation in Colorado for five years, during which time women have exercised the privilege as generally as men, with the result that better candidates have been selected for office, methods of election have been purified, the character of legislation improved, civic intelligence increased, and womanhood developed to greater usefulness by political responsibility; therefore, be it "Resolved, By the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that, in view of these results, the enfranchisement of women in every State and Territory of the American Union is hereby recommended as a measure tending to the advancement of a higher and better social order." In 1901, the Wyoming Legislature passed a similar resolution. This is the second time the Legislature of Wyoming has put itself on record on this question. In 1893 the Wyoming House of Representatives passed the following concurrent resolution by a unanimous vote: "That the exercise of suffrage by the women in Wyoming for the last quarter of a century has wrought no harm and has done great good in many ways; that it has largely aided in banishing crime, pauperism,and vice from this State, and that without any violent or oppressive legislation; that is has secured peaceful and orderly elections, good government, ad a remarkable degree of civilization and public order; and we point with pride to the fact that after nearly twenty-five years of woman suffrage not one county in Wyoming has a poor-house, that our jails are almost empty, and crime, except that committed by strangers in the State, almost unknown; and as the result of experience we urge every civilized community to enfranchise its women without delay." 'THE MAJORITY OF WOMEN." The remonstrants against equal suffrage claim to represent "the majority of women." For the last quarter of a century, in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Illinois, Iowa, - in short, in every State where petitions for suffrage and remonstrances against it have been sent in, the petitioners have always outnumbered the remonstrants at least five to one, and oftener 50 or 100 to one. The majority of women are neither suffragists nor remonstrants; they are indifferent. Of those who take any lively interest in the question either way, the large majority are in favor. The so-called referendum in Massachusetts, when 22,204 women voted for suffrage, and only 861 against it, merely demonstrated the same thing by an official count. There is a French saying that "it is women who make the morals of a country." That is not true, it cannot be true, so long as men alone make the laws. For the law is a mighty teacher of morality or immorality, justice, or injustice. - Mrs. Josephine E. Butler. Mrs. Eliza Thompson was nominated for the Colorado House of Representatives by the recent Republican County Convention of Arapahoe (Denver). The eleven persons who received the highest number of votes in the Convention were made the candidates. Mrs. Thompson stood third on the list. The first woman was elected a Poor Law Guardian in England in 1875. Now there are 980 women serving as Poor Law Guardians in England, besides a large number in Ireland. The women have introduced many reforms tending to the more humane treatment of the aged poor, and especially to the better care and education of pauper children. Mrs. Helen L. Grenfell, who has already served two terms with much acceptance as State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Colorado, was renominated by the Democrats at their recent State Convention. A remarkably strong appeal urging her election was put forth several years ago by a great number of Colorado educators, and she has fully justified their expectations. This year Mrs. Grenfell has been nominated also by the Populists. The Arapahoe County Democratic Convention elected twenty-two women delegates from Denver to the State and Congressional Conventions. PROGRESS 3 FATHER SCULLY ON EQUAL SUFFRAGE No such funeral as Father Scully's has been seen in Cambridge, Mass., since the death of ex-Gov. Russell. A whole city mourns him. Eminent men of all demonstrations unite in praising him. Among all the papers that have eulogized Father Scully as a sturdy advocate of many reforms, not one has mentioned that he was a friend of equal rights for women; but a time will come when this will be regarded as one of the brightest leaves among his laurels. At a legislative hearing in Boston several years ago, Father Scully said: "I come before this honorable committee to tell why I am in favor of granting equal suffrage to all citizens of this Commonwealth, irrespective of sex. "In the first place, there are no duties or obligations, that I know of, attached to our American franchise that women are not capable of performing equally with men. For citizenship they possess all the patriotism, virtue and intelligence that the law requires, and a great deal more. "Now, who especially are the women who demand for themselves and their sex the political equality? From my own observation, they are those who standards of intelligence, morality and social position are the very highest. They are foremost in every good work for God and country, to help the orphan and widow, to aid the poor and to comfort the sick. Now, I believe that the door of political freedom and equality, at which they are knocking louder and louder, should be opened to them. And why? In order that their special knowledge and practical experience in regard to their own sex and in regard to children may influence legislation for the physical, moral or social protection of girls, rich as well as poor, and for guarding the child's natural home from evils that carry with them criminal poverty and disease. "The opposition to female suffrage is a matter of course. All great social and political reforms, as well as religious ones, have always been resisted by prejudices, customs, and the old cry 'Inopportune.' So it is wit this. It is a battle-reason and justice opposed by senseless fears and selfish motives. The cause is just. It may be defeated to-day, but never conquered, and to-morrow it will be victorious." THE ANTI-SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. The Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women claims to have nearly 10,000 "members." This statement gives a greatly exaggerated idea of its strength, when unaccompanied with an explanation as to what constitutes membership. In most societies, those who join pay a membership fee, and renew their membership from year to year. Those who join the M.A.O.F.E.S.W. pay no membership fee; they merely sign an anti-suffrage document; and no annual renewal of membership is required of them. Their signatures have been collected largely by means of return postal cards. As Mrs. Mary A. Livermore well says, those women who join the M.A.O.F.E.S.W. show the same amount of interest as those who sign a suffrage petition; neither more nor less. If all the persons in Massachusetts who have ever signed a petition were counted as members of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, it would have at least 100,000 members. At the time of the so-called referendum in Massachusetts, 22,204 women were found in one day who cared enough about suffrage to go to the polls and cast a ballot for it, after having previously taken the trouble to register. In eight years of diligent effort, the Anti-Suffrage Association has found less than half that number who care enough about opposing it to sign their names to a return postal card. The women who want to vote are not only more numerous than those actively opposed, but they take a much deeper interest in the matter. --------------- WOMEN OF NEW ZEALAND. -------- Following closely on the very favorable report of the workings of equal suffrage given by Sir Edmund Barton, the Austra- lian Premier, comes a similar expression from Mr. Seddon, the Premier of New Zealand. A writer in the London Daily News calls attention to a part of a speech by Mr. Seddon, which all the newspapers omitted in their reports. The speech was delivered at a dinner in London, at which Conan Doyle presided. The part omitted in the reports was that in which Mr. Seddon spoke of the great success of equal suffrage in New Zealand. He said that under joint suffrage the colony had advanced with rapid strides, that impor- tant problems had been settled, and that legislation had been carried out which was being imitated in Europe and Amer- ica. "Nevertheless, all domestic relation- ships were still the same as before; sons respected their mothers, husbands and wives loved one another, and the young men told him that sweethearts were quite as nice as in pre-equality days. One dis- tinct change had been wrought-- a man whose private and domestic life and busi- ness honor would not bear inspection would not now obtain high public po- sition." Mr. Seddon expressed himself still more fully when a deputation from the (Eng- lish) Central Society for Women's Suf- frage waited on him in London, and pre- sented him with an address. Mr. Seddon, in reply, said he would confine his remarks to a description of the result of the working of women's suffrage in New Zealand. At the time of the passage of the meas- ure through the New Zealand Parliament he expressed the view that the party which had a majority of men would re- tain that majority, even if the franchise were given to women. That view had been confirmed; there was no change in parties; indeed, the majorities had grown greater, until there was now only one party in New Zealand-- that of progress and reform. In matters of social reform, the care of children and of the age and afflicted, the women of the colony had taken the deepest interest. The effect of the change upon the elections had been most gratifying. Since the passing of the Act, hotels were closed upon election days, canvassing was stopped, electors on their way to the poll could not be inter- rupted, and all was safeguarded in such a way that women could go to vote for a member of Parliament with the same safety and propriety as though they were going to a place of worship. Both men and women felt the responsibility which was cast upon them; and, in that respect, the granting of the franchise to women had had most beneficial results. The fear had been expressed by many in New Zealand that the granting of the franchise to woman would lead to her for- getting her place in society and to neglect of her home duties. But they had found their fears on that score to be utterly groundless. The women of the colony had not been in the slightest degree un- sexed, and with their worthier and larger sphere of action they stood higher to-day, in his opinion, than they did formerly. He could empathetically say, therefore, that the working of the Act in New Zealand had been satisfactory on the whole and in every detail, so much so that no one now had the temerity to stand on a platform and advocate its repeal. -------- A large number of extra copies of the current issue of our paper are printed for distribution to persons not now believers in equal suffrage. This explains the re- publication in our columns this week of many statistics and other matter that will be familiar to our regular readers. ------------- FORMS OF BEQUEST ---------------- The following forms of bequest may be used by persons wishing to leave money by will to the Suffrage Association: FORM No. 1. 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Price, postpaid, 50 cents. 4 PROGRESS SOME SIGNIFICANT FIGURES. ------- There are now five States of the Union in which the question of woman suffrage has been twice submitted to the voters, at intervals of some years. In every case the result has been more favorable the second time than the first. In Colorado, equal suffrage was submitted in 1877 and defeated; it was submitted again in 1893 and carried. In Kansas, when submitted the first time, it received 9,100 votes; when submitted the second time, it received 95,302. In the State of Washington, in 1889, the adverse majority was 19,386; in 1898, it dropped to 9,882. In South Dakota, in 1890, woman suffrage was defeated by a majority of 23,610; in 1898, by a majority of only 3,285. In Oregon, the vote in 1884 stood 28,176 nays to 11,223 yeas; in 1900, it was 28,298 nays to 26,265 yeas. The progress of woman suffrage has been aptly compared to a series of wrestling bouts between an old man and a growing boy. The man can throw the boy as yet, but it is only a question of time when the case will be reversed. ----------- GROWING IN ENGLAND. ------- There is a marked growth of public opinion in favor of equal rights for women in England as well as in the United States. The first petition for woman suffrage presented to Parliament, in 1867, was signed by only 1,499 women. The petition of 1873 was signed by 11,000 women. The petition presented to the members of the last Parliament but one was signed by 257,000 women. The House of Commons has three times recorded itself in favor of full suffrage for women, once without a division, once by a majority of 33, and the last time by a majority of 71; but the House of Lords persistently blocks the way. ---------- WOMEN ON SCHOOL BOARDS. --------- The new Education Act in England will expressly state that women shall be eligible to serve on school boards. Since women were given municipal suffrage in England, in 1869, the number of women serving on educational and charitable boards has greatly increased. At the first election at which they were eligible, in 1870, only 16 women were chosen on school boards. Last year there were 276 women serving on these boards. ---------- ONLY ONE VOTER IN PARISH. ------- It is announced that in a Louisiana parish, at a local election just held to decide whether liquor licenses should be granted, it was found that only one man was qualified to cast a ballot. As a parish in Louisiana is equivalent to a county in the North or West, this fact is the more remarkable. The Philadelphia Bulletin says: The provisions of the Louisiana election laws are so complicated that a large proportion of the white population has never taken the trouble to meet them. It is certainly a novel spectacle when in an American community which previously numbered hundreds of voters, just one citizen is found who can legally vote. It is not urged, however, that the one man who had public spirit enough to qualify as a voter ought to be forbidden to vote because the majority of the white men in that district were too indifferent to do so. He cast his ballot unchallenged, and decided the election--we are not told which way. Observe how different is the reasoning applied to men and women. It is assumed that those women who are public-spirited enough to wish to vote ought not to be allowed to do so unless it can be shown that the majority of women desire it. But if only one properly-qualified man in a community wants to vote, his right to do so is unquestioned, despite the indifference of all the rest. ------- ARE WOMEN GOOD ENOUGH TO VOTE? ------- It is said that woman suffrage would double the vicious and criminal vote. The United States Census of 1890 gives interesting statistics as to the relative number of men and women in the State prisons of the different States. omitting fractions, they are as follows: In the District of Columbia, women constitute 17 per cent. of the prisoners; in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 14 per cent.; in New York, 13; in Louisiana, 12; in Virginia, 11; in New Jersey, 10; in Pennsylvania and Maryland, 9; in Connecticut, 8; in Alabama, New Hampshire, Ohio, and South Carolina, 7; in Florida, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Tennessee, 6; in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, and West Virginia, 5; in Arkansas and Delaware, 4; in California, Minnesota, North Dakota, Texas, and Vermont, 3; in Colorado, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, and Utah, 2; in Arizona, Kansas, Nevada, and South Dakota, 1; in Washington, four-fifths of one per cent.; in Oregon and Wisconsin, two-fifths of one per cent.; in Wyoming and Idaho, none. ------- WOMEN HAVE DONE WELL. ------- About a million and a quarter of women now possess full suffrage, in many different parts of the English-speaking world. In some they have had it for a generation. In all these places put together, the opponents thus far have not found a dozen respectable men who assert over their own names and addresses that it has had any bad results whatever. This is the more remarkable in view of the fact that active Anti-Suffrage Associations in New York and Massachusetts have been for years diligently collecting every scrap of adverse testimony that they could find. Meantime, scores of the most highly-esteemed men and women in the equal suffrage communities testify that the results have been good. ------- A FAD OF RICH WOMEN. ------- Some curious and interesting facts are revealed by the recently-published annual report of the treasurer of the "Massachusetts Association Apposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women." The most striking thing about it is the fewness of the contributors and the large size of their contributions. The receipts of the Anti-Suffrage Association for the past year were only $2,340. This included only fourteen donations of less than five dollars each! Nearly a third of the whole amount was given in lump sums of a hundred dollars each. The treasurer's report shows the correctness of the popular impression that the active force of the "Anti" Association is a little knot of rich women, who, being extremely comfortable themselves, are inclined to think that all women have all the rights they ought to want. Except that the trifling sum of $288, the whole $2,340 was given by only 138 persons. Comparing this report with the report of the treasurer of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, it is interesting to see upon how much broader a basis the Suffrage Society rests. Its receipts for the past year were $3,420 - only about $1,000 more than those of the "Anti" Association - but this amount was made up of contributions from more than twelve hundred different individuals. Another interesting point is that more than half the total receipts of the Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Association were paid out for salaries, $1,431 having been expended for this item alone. All the officers of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association give their services free of charge. ------- ANTI-SUFFRAGISTS OPPOSE CO-EDUCATION ------- Coeducation is not approved by the "Illinois Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women." A recent pamphlet published by this Association exults over the report that two or three Universities are proposing to modify or abolish coeducation. The pamphlet says: "It is found that the admission of female students tends to feminize the University. ... The line of sex becomes more and more a distinct line of cleavage through social and educational conditions, and the logical inference is that the same embarrassing tendency would manifest itself in political life." President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, says in a recent article in Collier's Weekly: "The fifteen millions of children in the elementary schools are (substantially) all being coeducated. In 1898, of the public secondary schools, 34 were for boys only, 29 for girls only, and 5,252 were coeducational. Of the private secondary schools, 1,125 were coeducational, 327 were for boys only, and 538 were for girls only. In 1898, of the colleges, 70 per cent. - or, omitting the Roman Catholic institutions, 80 per cent. - were coeducational. Seventy-five years ago, there was not a coeducational college in the United States. Now, three-fourths of them are coeducational. Is the "line of sex" becoming "more and more a distinct line of cleavage through educational conditions"? The pamphlet of the Anti-Suffrage Association says: "The more the proportion of female students increases, the greater is the tendency of young men to flock to those Universities where the male standard is highest." President Nicholas Murray Butler says: "From 1890 to 1898, the number of men in coeducational colleges increased 70 per cent., while in the separate colleges for men the number increased only 37 per cent." Before trying to deduce an argument against equal suffrage from the alleged failure of coeducation, the "Antis" would do well to make sure of their facts. Mrs. Rossiter Johnson, in a pamphlet issued by the "New York Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women," says in a long and denunciatory article accusing the suffragists of being "allied" with everything objectionable: "The suffrage movement is to-day allied with coeducation as against woman's higher education in colleges of her own." The anti-suffrage movement is allied with mediaeval methods of education as against the system now in use in three-fourths of the colleges and nearly all of the public schools of the United States. ------- WOMEN'S VOTE GROWING ------- It is said that women will not vote after the novelty has worn off. In Wyoming they have had full suffrage for 33 years, and according to the report of the Wyoming Secretary of State, 90 per cent. of them vote. In Cleveland, Ohio, in 1896, 2,728 women registered to vote at the biennial election of school director; in 1898, 5,648; in 1900, 9,160, and in 1902, 14,758. When school suffrage was first granted in Massachusetts, in 1879, only 934 women in Boston voted, and for the first seven years the average was only 940. For some years past there has been a steady increase. In 1898, 5,201 women voted; in 1899, 7,090; in 1900, 9,542, and in 1901, 11,622. In Colorado, women have had full suffrage since 1893. At the election held in Denver last November, 31,780 men voted, and 23,449 women. In South Australia, the number of women on the electoral rolls has grown three years from 68,375 to 71,682. When equal suffrage was granted in New Zealand, in 1893, the estimated number of adult women in the colony was 139,915. Of these 109,461 registered to vote. Of the women who registered, 83 per cent. voted; of the men who registered only 67 per cent. The Melbourne Tocsin says that at the last general elections in New Zealand 120,000 women voted. ------- THE YOUNG WOMAN IN POLITICS. ------- At a recent public meeting in Denver, Mrs. Samuel Belford responded to the toast, "The Young Woman in Politics." She said in part: "I drink to youth, to its hopes, its endeavors, its faith, and its purity - to all that our hearts beat for at twenty. We have known and shall know nothing better than in life. I drink to that golden time. "Young women of Colorado, does it take any more or as much time to study the great fundamental principles which underlie our government or a vital political question than it does to play cards three or four afternoons in the week? "I mean to walk step by step with my little son, studying with him the great economic and political questions that will mean the weal or woe of millions of homes. ------- Under the heading, "A Word to the Women Voters," the London Daily News says: "It should not be forgotten that women have votes for County Council elections. There are no fewer than 1,400 women voters in the constituency. The progressive policy of the County Council should particularly appeal to them... That policy has put an end to the practice that used to be so common in London of selling household coal and bread under weight; it has protected women and girls in the public parks; it has advanced the technical education of girls, and admitted them into the municipal service; and has consistently agitated for the right of women to serve on the Council equally with men." VI. Jahrgang. Berlin, den 1. Juni 1904. Unmmer 5. Centralblatt des Bundes deutscher Frauenvereine Gricheint am 1. u. 15. jeden Monat Bundesorgan beariindet von Jeannette Schmerin. herausgegeben von Marie Stritt. Ubonnententspreis: vierteljahrlich 75 Biennige. Beftellungen nebmen entgegen: der Be[?]enne, Conenid-Berlin, forvie alle Boftamter. Einzelnummer 20 Bf. Imertionsgebubr fur [?] onpareiflegeile 30 Bf. Beilagen pro Laufend 5 DR. Ranuffribtfendungen on die Redaftion Frau Marie Stritt, Dresden, Bintergartenfir. 3, Befdfendungen an S. Jenne, Copenid-Berlin, erbeten. Sufan B. Untbony. May Wright Sewall. Lady Uberdeen. Bertha v. Suttner. -34- Nachruf mit voller Quellenangabe gestattet Inhalt Am Vorabend des Songreffes Das beim von Charlotte Berlins- Gilman. Veipr. von Anna Bapprip. Aus den Bundesvereinen Page 1, column 1 , right side Ritterlichkeit. Von Dr. Fr. Lb. Foeriter. An die Bundesvereine Aus fremden Ländern. Mitteilungen. Geschäftliche Mitteilungen. Page 1, column 1, main Bundesnachrichten Um zahlreichen Anfragen zu genügen, sei hierdurch nochmals Folgendes mitgeteilt: Die geschäftlichen Sitzungen der Generalversammlung des Internationalen Frauenbundes finden am 8. D.M., vorm. von 10- 1 Uhr, am 9. Und 10. D. M., vorm. von 10 - 1 und nachm. von 3 – 6 Uhr im Künstlerhaus, Bellevuestraße, statt. Bei diesen Sitzungen ist die Presse ausgeschlossen; jedoch haben die Mitglieder von Bundesvereinen (sowohl des Bundes deutscher Frauenvereine wie aller anderen angeschlossenen National- verbände) als Zuhörer Zutritt. Zu den Propagandaversammlungen am 8. D. M. Nachm. 4 Uhr (Begrüßung und Vorstellung der Vorstände und offiziellen Delegierten), am 9. D. M, abends 8 Uhr (berichte der angeschlossenen Nationalverbände) und am 10. d. M, abends 8 Uhr (Demonstration für die internationalen Friedensbestrebungen, die sämtlich im Großen Saal des Architekten Hauses, Wilhelmstraße 92/93, stattfinden, hat Jedermann Zutritt. Bezüglich der Tagesordnung für die Generalversammlung sei auf Nr. 2 des V.=B. vom 15. April hingewiesen. Die ausführliche Tagesordnung für alle Veranstaltungen des I.C.W., sowie alle näheren Angaben über den Internationalen Frauenkongreß sind in dem vom Lokalkomitee herausgegebenen Kongreßhandbuch enthalten, welche vom 5.-7. d. M. Bis- torialstraße 27, vom 8. d.M. ab im Informationsbüreau des Kongresses, Philharmonie, Bernburgerstraße, zum Preise von 50 Pfg. zu haben ist. Bestellungen auf Teilnehmerfahrten zum Kongreß (Preis 8 Mk., für Mitglieder von Bundesvereinen 6 Mk) sind zu richten an die Schatzmeisterin des Lokalkomitees Frau Wentzel- bedmann, Berlin W,; Bistorialstraße 27. Karten für den Be- grüßungsabend des Bundes sind ebenfalls zum Preise von 4 Mk. Daselbst zu entnehmen. Da nur eine beschränkte Anzahl (etwa 1400) ausgegeben werden kann und etwa 600 Karten für die Gäste des Bundes, die Mitglieder des I.C.W., die eingeladenen Rednerinnen, die Vertreter der Presse und die Bundesdelegierten reserviert bleiben müssen, bitten wir die Kongreßteilnehmer um möglichst baldige Be- stellung unter Angabe der Nummer ihrer Kongreßkarte. Die Tageskarten à 2 Mk. berechtigen zum Eintritt in alle Sektionen und zu allen Veranstaltungen (auch den Abendversammlungen) Des Kongresses an dem Tag, für den sie lauten. Der Zutritt zu den allgemeinen Versammlungen mußte bei dem großen Andrang, um die Kongreßteilnehmer nicht zu benachteiligen, auf diese und auf die Inhaber von Tageskarten beschränkt werden. Außer den bereits in der vorigen Nummer mitgeteilten werde noch Weitere offizielle Empfänge für die Kongreßteilnehmer stattfinden: bei Sr. Excellenz dem Reichkanzler Grafen Bülow und Ge- Mahlin (am 13. Juni), Bei Sr. Excellenz dem Staatssekretär Grafen Bosadowsthy und Gemahlin (am 17. Juni), beim amerikanischen Gesandten und Gemahlin für alle Delegierten, Rednerinnen und Kongreßbesucherinnen aus den Vereinigten Staaten (am 11. Juni) und beim holländischen Gesandten und Gemahlin für die holländischen Delegierten und Rednerinnen (am 15. Juni). Außerdem sind noch folgende Veranstaltungen von Bundesvereinen Für die Kongreßwoche geplant: Mittwoch, den 15. Juni, nachmittags 4 Uhr: Empfang des Allgemeinen Deutschen Lehrerinnenvereins. Be- grüßung der Lehrerinnen und Rednerinnen der Sektion Frauen- bildung durch die Vorsitzende Frl. Helene Lange. Geselliges Beisammensein – alles nähere werden die dazu versandten Ein- ladungskarten enthalten. Freitag, den 17. Juni, nachmittags 4 ½ Uhr: Versammlung für Lehrerinnen, veranstaltet vom Landesverein Preu- ßischer Volksschullehrerinnen und der Philharmonie, Beethovensaal. Tagesordnung: 1. Begrüungsansprache: Elisabeth Schneider. 2. Was bedeutet die verheiratete Lehrerin für die Schule? Maria Lischnewska. 3. Die rechtlichen Grundlagen des Zölibats der Lehrerinnen: Dr jur. Marie Maschte. Diskussion. - Alle Kolleginnen aus dem Auslande und Inlande werden aufs herzlichste eingeladen und gebeten, sich an der Erörterung dieser wichtigen Standesfrage beteiligen zu wollen. Für die Mitglieder der Abteilungen des Vereins “Frauen- Bildung = Frauenstudium”, welche zum Kongreß nach Berlin kommen, veranstaltet die Abteilung Berlin am Sonntag, den 12. Juni, mittags 1 ½ Uhr auf der Terrasse des Architektenhauses, Wilhelm- straße 92/93, einen Empfang mit anschließendem, gemeinschaftlichen Mittagessen (2 ½ Uhr). Die Abteilungsvorsitzenden werden gebeten, Der Vorsitzenden der Abteilung Berlin, Frau Dr. Broelk, Berlin W., Gossowstraße 4, baldmöglichst die Zahl der zu erwartenden Gäste mitzuteilen. Für die am Internationalen Frauenkongreß in Berlin teilnehmenden Mitglieder der Jugendauschuß-Vereine finden ein Empfang Durch die beiden Vorsitzenden des Vereins Jugendausschuß-Berlin, Frau h. Bieber-Böhm und Justizrat Koifenheim, Staifer Wilhelmstraße 39, 2 Tr. am Sonntag, den 12. Juni von 5-7 Uhr nachmittags statt. Am Vorabend des Kongresses. Nach monatenlanger emsiger, in den letzten Wochen beinahe fieberhafter Vorbereitung auf das große Ereignis der Frauenbewegung stehen wir nun endlich davor. Nur wenige Tage trennen und noch von der General- versammlung des Internationalen Frauenbundes, an die sich der Internationale Frauenkongreß des Bundes deutscher Frauenvereine unmittelbar anschließen wird. Und wie bei dem Wanderer nach langem, beschwer- lichen Marsch das Ziel, daß er herbeigesehnt hat, schließlich überrascht, wenn er es unmittelbar vor sich sieht, wie er angesichts des letzten Stündchen Wegs plötzlich zaghaft wird – so ist auch für uns, die wir in der ganzen langen Zeit mit vollem Vertrauen, mit allen Kräften und Ge- danken diesem Ziel zustrebten, der Augenblick, wo es erreicht ist, schließlich überraschend schnell gekommen. Wir können es kaum glauben, dass wir wirklich schon so weit sind, und wie Bangen und Zagen will es uns überkommen: ob auch alles bereit ist, unsere Gäste zu empfangen – ob wir nicht doch zuviel gewagt haben, als wir sie zu uns einluden? Auf diese Fragen kann und wird erst der Kongreß Selbst die Antwort geben. Uns aber muß indessen das Bewusstsein Zuversicht verleihen, dass wir getan haben, was in unseren Kräften stand, dem großen Weltbunde der Frauen eine würdige Stätte zu bereiten, der großen Sache eine würdige Vertretung zu sichern. Sind es doch die beiden Namen, die verdienten Führerinnen der Frauenbewegung, die als offizielle Delegerite ihrer Länder Im internationalen Bund wie als Rednerinnen beim Kongreß die großen Gedanken der Frauenbewegung in der Darlegung ihrer verschiedenen Arbeitsgebiete zum Ausruf bringen werden. Viele unter ihnen sind uns längstvertraute, liebgewonnene Erscheinungen, ob wir sie nun als alte Bekannte von früherer bei uns begrüßen, oder ob wir ihnen zum erstenmal persönlich gegenüber- treten. Die alle kommen als Gebende zu uns. Aus ihren Berichten werden wir wertvolle Lehren und Nutz- anwendungen für uns selber ziehen, unseren Gesichtkreis erweitern, tausend neue Anregungen für unsere eigene Arbeit empfangen. Das ist schon eine ziemlich sichere Bürgschaft für den inneren Erfolg des großen Unter- nehhmens, das so viel Köpfe und Hände in Tätigkeit setzte. Andererseits dürfen der starke Andrang zu den Kongreßverhandlungen, das rege Interesse, daß sich bei der Presse kundgibt, als künftige Zeichen dafür betrachtet -35- werden, dass auch der äußere Erfolg dem entsprechen und die Arbeit und Mühe der letzten Monate lohnen wird. So sehen wir denn dem Eintreffen unserer lieben Gäste mit freudiger Erwartung entgegen. Als die ersten sind die Delegierten und Rednerinnen der Vereinigten Staaten – unter ihnen Susan B. Anthony – am 30. Mai eingetroffen. Bis zum 4. d. Mts werden wohl alle zur Stelle sein, die als offizielle Vertreterinnen zum Internationalen Frauenbund gehören, und im Laufe der Counzilwoche werden sich dann die übrigen Kongreß- rednerinnen und Teilnehmer aus dem Ausland und aus dem Reich einfinden. Wir begrüßen sie alle mit schwesterlichem Gruß, die unserem Rufe folgend, gekommen sind, um Zeugnis ab- zulegen von dem einmütigen lebendigen Streben, dem gewaltigen Regen und Ringen, das allerorten durch die Frauenwelt geht, um mit uns einzutreten für die neuen Rechte und Pflichten und für die neuen Ideale der Frau. Möchten sie sich so heimisch bei uns fühlen, wie sie uns von Herzen willkommen sind! Das Heim. Von Charlotte Perkins-Gilman Besprochen von Anna Pappritz in Berlin Die Verfasserin ist den Lesern des Zentralblattes keine Fremde mehr. Ihr Buch: „Women and economics“, dessen Verständnis Frau Marie Stritt durch ihre Über- setzung*) weiteren Kreisen vermittelte, gehört zu den Werken der Frauenfrage, die am meisten kommentiert und erörtert worden sind, weil es uns ganz neue Perspektiven eröffnet und an den Grundpfeilern dessen rüttelt, was uns bisher als feststehend und unabänderlich erschienen war, an den Grundpefeilern des „Heims“. Diesen Gedanken einer Umgestaltung der Häuslichkeit führt Charlotte Perkins- Gilman in ihrem neuesten, soeben erschienen Buch: „The Home, its Work and its Influence“**) näher aus. Eine Frau, die auf der Basis erneuten Studiums fußend, den Mut hat, aus ihren Forschungen die äußersten Konsequenzen zu ziehen und der „geheiligten Tradition“ die verblasste Gloriole zu entreißen, erregt natürlich auch als Persönlichkeit das allergrößte Interesse. Wir begrüßen es deswegen mit besonderer Freude, Frau Perkins-Gilman als Gast und Rednerin auf dem Internationalen Frauen- kongreß unter uns zu sehen und am Nachmittag des 18. Juni ihren Vortrag über die „Neue Theorie der Frauenfrage“ zu hören, dem sie sicherlich ein originelles Gepräge geben wird. Die Mitglieder der Bundesvereine, denen es versagt ist, die interessante Autorin selbst zu hören, werden eine Entschädigung für diese Entbehrung finden, wenm sie sich in das Buch vertiefen, mit dem uns Charlotte Perkins- Gilman soeben bereichert hat. Das Heim – die Häuslichkeit in ihrer jetzigen Gestalt - hat sich nach Ansicht der Verfasserin überlebt, es verdient nicht die Liebe und Verehrung, mit der wir es betrachten, ja diese Gefühle beruhen auf einem Selbstbetrug, denn das Heim gibt uns nicht mehr den „Schutz“, den wir von ihm erwarten. Auf dem Schutzwert beruht die Entstehungsursache des Heims; in erster Linie das Be- dürfnis des Schutzes für die junge Brut, dann aber auch der Schutz für die Individuen im allgemeinen, und zwar reicht dies Bedürfnis nach einem Heim bis tief in die Tierwelt hinab. Die Bären haben ihre Höhlen, die Füchse ihren Bau, die Vögel ihre Nester, in denen sie Schutz suchen und finden vor den Feinden, vor den Unbilden der Witte- rung, wo sie in Ruhe ihre Nachkommenschaft aufziehen können. Naturgemäß hat der Mensch, der in bezug auf die „natürlichen Waffen“ stiefmütterlich von der Vorsehung *) „Mann und Frau“ Verlag v. Heinrich Minden, Dresden **) Rem Dorf. Me Clure. Philipps u. Co. M.P.M. II. behandelt war, am meisten das Bedürfnis eines schützenden Heims empfunden. Seine erste primitive Behausung hat sich nicht viel von der des Bären unterschieden. Welch eine enormer Unterschied zwischen dem Unterschlupf des Höhlenmenschen und dem 10 Stock hohen „Wolkenkratzer“ New-Yorks! Aber dieser Fortschritt berührt fast aus- schließlich die äußere Konstruktion, die Technik; der Charakter der Häuslichkeit, der darin besteht, dass die Frau als Eigentum des Mannes für seine und seiner Kinder individuelle Bedürfnisse sorgt, ist in all den Jahr- tausenden derselbe geblieben. Spurlos ist die Evolution an dem Wesen der Haufrauentätigkeit vorübergegangen. Während der Mann den Ausdruck seiner väterlichen Für- sorge nicht mehr darin erblickt, dass er eigenhändig das Wild erlegt, die Fische fängt, das Feld bestellt, um für die Bedürfnisse der Familie zu sorgen, hält die Tradition die Frau noch immer an den Kochherd gefesselt, als ob „kochen“ zu den „natürlichen“ Geschlechtsfunktionen des Weibes gehörte und mit den Pflichten der Gattin und Mutter untrennbar verbunden wäre. Aber ebenso wie der Mann durch Organisation und Arbeitsteilung viel besser für die Seinen zu sorgen vermag, als wenn er sein eigener Viehzüchter, Schlächter, Bauer, Schmied etc. geblieben wäre, ebenso würde die organisierte und „gelernte“ Hausfrauen- tätigkeit in ökonomischer Hinsicht eine Unsumme von Zeit, Arbeitkraft und Geld ersparen. Heute noch wirtschaftet die Frau nach primitiven Methoden, die seit Generationen von Mutter auf Tochter vererbt worden sind; Jede Ver- besserung in hygienischer und technischer Hinsicht ist außer- halb des Hauses von gelernten Arbeitern gemacht worden und vermag nur sehr langsam die häusliche Überlieferung zu durchdringen resp. zu überwinden. Größer als die Kraft- und Zeitvergeudung, die die Einzelwirtschaft bedingt, ist aber die Raumverschwendung, die darin besteht, dass jede Familie ihre besondere Küche, Keller, Vorratskammer haben muß. Die heutige Wirtschaftsmethode, die verlangt, alle diese Räume jedem einzelnen Haushalt einzuverleiben, bringt es mit sich, dass es für die Kinder an Platz und Spielraum zu gesunder Entfaltung gebricht, und doch ist das „Heim“ – wie in der Theorie immer wieder und wieder betont wird – hauptsächlich der heranwachsenden Generation wegen eine soziale Notwendigkeit. Die Idee der Haushaltsgenossenschaft hat auch in Deutschland bereits warme Fürsprecher gefunden und ist uns, wenigstens in der Theorie, vertraut Charlotte Perkins-Gilman aber versteht es, ihre Ausführungen mit so überzeugender Logik zu begründen und die Missstände der Einzelwirtschaft mit so drastischem Humor und Scharfer Satire zu geißeln, dass man ihrem Gedankengange mit unermüdetem Interesse folgt. Sie findet jedoch die Häus- lichkeit in ihrer heutigen Gestalt nicht nur vom ökono- mischen und hygienischen Standpunkt aus rückständig und überlegt, sondern sie vertritt die Auffassung, daß auch in ethischer Hinsicht der häusliche Einfluß einen Hemmschuh für die sittliche Höherentwicklung bedeutet; indem sie unter- sucht, welche Tugenden das häusliche Leben im Menschen enwickelt hat, kommt sie zu dem Resultat, daß es nicht das Haus, sondern im Gegenteil das öffentlich und soziale Leben ist, das die edlen Eigenschaften ausbildet, während durch den Einfluß des Heims diese Entwicklung gehemmet und beeinträchtigt wird. Als die vorzüglichen Tugenden nennt Charlotte Perkins „Liebe, Wahrhaftigkeit, Mut, Gerechtigkeit, Selbstbeherrschung, Ehre“ – und untersucht nun, was der häusliche Einfluß zur Entwicklung dieser Tugenden beigetragen hat, wobei sie zu folgendem Resultat kommt: Wohl ist das Heim die Wiege der Liebe; aber diese Liebe blieb auf Eltern- und Kindesliebe beschränkt, sie wurde zum Familienegoismus, während die erhabenen Tugenden der Vaterlandsliebe, der christlichen Nächstenliebe der Menschheitsliebe im Allgemeinen nur durch den Verkehr - 36 - der einzelnen Stämme, dann der Völker außerhalb des Heims entwickelt wurden, die Wahrhaftigkeit aber wird im Hause geradezu unterdrückt, wie über all da, wo es sich um Abhängigkeit, unbedingten Gehorsam einem Machthaber gegenüber (in diesem Falle dem Hausherrn, Gatten und Vater gegenüber) handelt. Die Frau, die Töchter sind vielfach darauf angewiesen, durch kleine Listen, durch Schmeicheleien das zu ertrotzen und zu erlisten, was ihnen als Nicht-Gleichberechtigte versagt bleibt. Dasselbe gilt für die Tugend des Mutes, Das häusliche Leben verweichlicht und verkrüppelt den Charakter der Frau, wie ihren Körper, bis wir uns schließlich daran gewöhnt haben, Zaghaftigkeit und Furchtsamkeit mit „Weiblichkeit“ zu identifizieren und „schön“ zu finden, ebenso wie wir den verschnürten Körper und die blasse, zarte Gesichtsfarbe schön finden. Doch ist Furchtsamkeit durchaus keine weibliche Geschlechtseigentümlichkeit: gilt doch, nach den Sprichwörtern aller Völker, der Mut der „Löwin, die ihr Junges ver- teidigt,“ als höchste Potenz dieser Eigenschaft. Die Frau aber wird im Schutze des Hauses gehütet, weil dies der einzige Platz ist, wo sie absolute Sicherheit genießt. Sicherheit wovor? Vor dem Manne. Außerhalb des Hauses ist die Frau nicht geschützt, weil sie dort allein unter Männern ist. Wären überall in der Welt Frauen, so wäre die Welt überall sicher. Anstatt die Frau innerhalb des Hauses zu bewahren, sollte man lieber darauf sinnen, die Welt zu einem sicheren Aufenthalt auch für Frauen und Kinder zu gestalten. Die Tugend der Gerechtigkeit findet im Hause eben- sowenig eine Pflanzstätte, denn nirgends beobachtet man eine so subjektive Bewertung, als gerade unter Familien- mitgliedern, und die Selbstbeherrschung wird im Hause garnicht gepflegt, da ein „Sichgehenlassen“, besonders von seiten des Mannes, geradezu als häusliches Vorrecht gilt. Die Ehre der Frau aber hat sich durch die häusliche Abgeschlossenheit ganz einseitig zu einer Geschlechtsehre ausgebildet; man denkt, wenn man von „weiblicher Ehre“ spricht, ausschließlich an die Tugend der Keuchheit, während das, was den Ehrekodex des Mannes ausmacht, den er im Verkehr mit seinesgleichen ausgebildet hat, der Frau fremd ist und in ihrer Bewertung als irrelevant gilt. Den Verkehr mit seinesgleichen, den der Mensch zu seinem Wohlbefinden bedarf und den der Mann täglich im Zu- sammenwirken mit seinen Berufsgenossen genießt, muß die im Hause eingeschlossene Frau gänzlich entbehren, wenn sie ihn nicht künstlich schafft. Sie such und findet einen Ersatz in der „Geselligkeit“, die darum in manchen Kreisen Dimensionen angenommen hat, die das Budget des Haus- haltes über Gebühr belasten. Der Baumeister denkt beim Bau eines Hauses in erster Linie an die Wirtschaftsräume, in zweiter an die Gesellschaftsräume, während die Wohn- und Schlafraum nur als nebensächlich in Betracht kommen. So ist das „Heim“, weil es stabil blieb, anstatt sich den veränderten Verhältnissen anzupassen, zu einem Zerrbild dessen geworden, was es sein soll. Wir finden in ihm nicht mehr den Schutz, den es ursprünglich seinen Insassen gewährte, denn der moderne Mensch bedarf nicht mehr des Schutzes gegen äußere Feinde, er bedarf vielmehr in dem nervenaufregenden Leben und Treiben einer Schutzstätte, wo er Ruhe und Erholung findet. Findet er die aber im eigenen Heim? Keineswegs. Höchstens gelingt es dem Hausherrn, sich ein ruhiges Plätzchen zu reservieren, das für seine Angehörigen ein verbotenes Gebiet ist; die übrigen Familienmitglieder aber kennen in der Hinsicht keine Schonung und Rücksicht für einander. das Tun und Lassen jedes Einzelnen wird erörtert, kritisiert und kommentiert, jedes Verheimlichen wird mit Mißtrauen betrachtet, jede Zurückgezogenheit als Sonderlichkeit ver- spottet. Und doch ersehnt der differenzierte Mensch nichts inniger als eine gewisse Integrität, als die Möglichkeit, mit sich allein zu sein – das, was die englische Sprache Page 1, right column mit „Privacy“ bezeichnet. Durch den Mangel an persönlicher Freiheit und Zurückgezogenheit erzeugt das häusliche Leben Reibungsflächen, die oft eine Reizbarkeit unter Familien- mitgliedern großzüchten, wie man sie nirgends sonst findet. Nichts ist so nervenaufreibend als das Familienleben. Deswegen muß der moderne Mensch so häufig eine Reise machen, um sich von der Häuslichkeit zu erholen oder die ruhige Muße zu einer dringenden Arbeit zu finden. Darum ersehnt der junge Mann den Moment, wo der dem Hause entrinnen und auf die Universität gehen kann, un die erwachsene Tochter fühlt sich oft unbefriedigt im Eltern- haus. Und trotz aller dieser Tatsachen, die wie eine Ironie auf den Hymnus der Häuslichkeit wirken, wird der Mythus von der „Heiligkeit des Heims, als einem Hort des Friedens und Behagens, einer Pflanzstätte aller Sittlichkeit und Tugend“, immer wieder gepredigt, obgleich Millionen von Frauen sich am eigenen Herd zu Schanden arbeiten und andere Tausende in der Untätigkeit des goldenen Käfigs verkümmern. Nicht um das Heim aufzulösen und zu zer- trümmern, sondern um es dem modernen Leben anzu- passen und zu veredeln, darum übt die Verfasserin eine so herbe Kritik an der jetzigen Art der Häuslichkeit und ver- sucht den Beweis zu erbringen, daß dieselbe weder in bezug auf die Ökonomie und Hygiene, noch in bezug auf Behagen und sittlichen Einfluß das ist, was sie sein sollte und sein könnte, wenn nicht der Mensch an tausend Vor- urteilen und Traditionen festhaltend sich ihrer Entwickelung entgegenstemmt. Was den deutschen Leser bei der Lektüre dieses Buches in Erstaunen setzt, ist die Erkenntnis, daß selbst in Amerika, dem gelobten Land der Frauenbewegung, die Erfolge, die diese errungen hat, scheinbar nur einem verhältnismäßig kleinen Bruchteil der Frauenwelt zugute gekommen sind, denn das Buch hätte ganz ebenso in bezug auf deutsche Verhältnisse geschrieben werden können. Es geißtelt die- selben Zustände, verspottet dieselben veralteten Traditionen und Vorurteile, gegen die Hedwig Dohm in ihrem „Jesuitismus im Hausstande“ bereits vor 30 Jahren zu Feld zog. Hoffentlich wird es der mutigen Vorkämpferin gelingen, durch ihr Buch, wie durch ihr persönliches Auftreten in Deutschland diese Fragen noch immer mehr in Fluß zu bringen und die allzu langsame Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der häuslichen Reformen etwas zu beschleunigen Aus den Bundesvereinen Bonn. Rheinisch-Westfälischer Frauenverband (Bors. Fr. G. Strufenberg, Kreuznach). Unter zahlreicher Beteiligung hielt der Verbanden seinen 3. Verbandstag am 7. Mai in Hagen i.W. ab In der Mitgliederversammlung vormittags 10 Uhr wurde ein Überblick über die Organisation des Bundes deutscher Frauenvereine und die vom 8. – 11., resp. 13.- 18 Juni in Berlin stattfindende Tagung des Frauen-Weltbundes (Frau Strufenberg-Kreuznach) gegen, der Jahresbericht Frl. Günther-Bonn) und der Kassenbericht (Frl. Elberg-Hagen i.W.) erstattet. Es folgten: der Bericht der Welt-Zentrale (Frau v. Langsdorff-Reutz); verschiedene An- träge; Wahl zweier Vorstandsmitglieder; Berichte verschiedener Verbands- Vereine über ihre Tätigkeit. Nachmittags 4 Uhr fand die Be- sichtigung der Ausstellung der neuen deutschen Frauentracht im Bolf- wang- Museum unter Führung von Frau de Brone-Haag und Frau G. Wirminghaus-Köln statt, nachmittags 6 Uhr eine öffentliche Versammlung: Vortrag von Frl. Anna Kistow, Oberlehrerin, Dort- mund, über das Verbandsthema: Ausgestaltung der höheren Mädchenschule und Einstellung der Frau in die kommunale Schulverwaltung, und ein Vortrag von Frau v. Langsdorff-Keutz über den Stand der gymnasialen Mädchenbildung in Deutschland. Folgende Resolutionen wurden von der Versammlung angenommen: 1. „Infolge des Bielefelder Vorkommnisses, nach dem eine alleinreisende junge Lehrerin aus Minden im Wartesaal 1. und 2. Klasse von einem Schutzmann auf Grund des § 361,6 verhaftet und in brutaler Weise zum Polizeibüreau geschleppt wurde, erklärt die in Hagen tagende 3. Generalversammlung des rhein-welstf. Frauenverbandes die Aufhebung des § 361,6 für dringend notwendig. Nicht der ur Disposition gestellte Schutzmann erscheint als der Schuldige trotz seines brutalen Auftretens. Auch ohne solche Second page, left column - 37- Behandlung ist es eine schwere Ehrenkränkung für jede Frau, auf Grund des genannten Paragraphen einfach für vogelfrei erklärt und der Willkür plötzlicher Verhaftung, der Schmach eines pein- lichen Verhörs, wohl gar einer entehrenden Zwangsuntersuchung ausgesetzt zu sein. Die General- versammlung des rhein.-westf. Frauenverbandes erhebt Protest gegen den die Frauen unter Ausnahmegesetze stellenden § 361,6 und fordert seine Aufhebung“ 2. „Der 3. Verbandstag des Rhein.-Westf. Frauenverbandes erkennt die Notwendigkeit einer Ausgestaltung der höheren Mädchenschule – zu einer 13-kl Anstalt – an, die einer- seits die Mädchen für ihre Aufgaben als Gattin, Mutter und Bürgerinder Gemeinde vorbereitet, andererseits eine Grundlage für spätere Berufsbildung gewährt. Die Versammlung hält die Mit- wirkung der Frauen in der kommunalen Schulverwaltung für not- wendig und sie beschließt, unter Hinzuziehung der Lehrerinnenvereine beider Provinzen eine Petition um Einstellung der Frauen in die kommunale Schulverwaltung auszuarbeiten und den städtischen Be- hörden der Orte einzureichen, wo Zweigvereine bestehen.“ Görlitz. Verein Frauenwohl (Vors. Frl. von Prittwitz und Gaffron). Ende März gelang des dem Verein nach langen Vorarbeiten mit Hilfe des Breslauer kaufm. Vereins, einen kauf- männischen Verein für weibliche Angestellte ins Leben zu rufen und dadurch zu versuchen, die hiesigen weiblichen Handels- angestellten zu organisieren. Frl. Grosser-Breslau hielt den einleitenden Vortrag und leitete dann auch die konstituierende Versammlung ge- meinschaftlich mit Frauenwohl-Mitgliedern. Dem jungen Verein sind bis jetzt erst 38 ordentliche Mitglieder beigetreten, deren Zahl sich, um ihn lebens- und leistungsfähig zu machen, hoffentlich bald ver- doppeln wird Hamburg. Der Verband Norddeutscher Frauen- Vereine (Vors. Frau Julie Eichholz), welcher zur Zeit aus 30 Vereinen – von denen 20 dem Bunde deutscher Frauenvereine an- gehören – und aus 13 Einzelmitgliedern besteht, hält seine dies- jährige öffentliche Jahresversammlung am Sonntag, den 12. Juni, 10 Uhr morgens im Palasthotel in Berlin ab. Der Vorstand bringt dies zur Kenntnis und hofft auf eine rege Teilnahme aus den Kreisen der zum Kongreß in Berlin weilenden Frauen. Köln a.Rh. Rechtsschutzstelle für frauen (Vors. Frl. Louise Wentzel). Es dürfte besonders für die Rechtsschutzvereine von Interesse ein, daß infolge einer Anregung von Frau Bröll- Frankfurt auf der Dresdener Rechtsschutz-Konferenz im Januar dieses Jahres die Kölner Rechtsschutzstelle eine Eingabe an den Landgerichts- präsidenten machte folgenden Inhalts: „Euer hochwohlgeboren erlaubt sich die unterzeichnete Rechtsschutzstelle für Frauen, Köln, folgenden Antrag ergebenst zu unterbreiten. Laut § 116 Z.B.D. kann einer armen Partei, welche nicht im Bezirkedes Prozeßgerichtes wohnt zur unentgeltlichen Wahrnehmung ihrer Rechte ein Rechtskundiger auf Antrag beigeordnet werden. Wir beantragen nun, auch solchen armen Parteien, besonders Frauen, wenn Sie auch im Bezirke des Prozeß- gerichtes wohnen, einen Rechtskundigen am Amtsgericht im Armenrecht auf Antrag beiordnen zu wollen. In den meißten Fällen befindet sie sich einem bemittelten Gegner gegenüber, der sich durch einen Rechts- anwalt vertreten lässt und so von vornherein im Vorteil ist. Die Frau aus dem Volke, ohnehin durch das Erscheinen vor Gericht be- unruhigt, lässt sich durch die Gewandtheit und Beredsamkeit des Ver- treters einschüchtern und derart verwirren, daß sie ihre Beweisgründe vergisst oder so unklar vorbringt, daß die Verhandlung sich unnötig in die Länge zieht oder daß sogar die arme Partei wegen mangel- hafter Ausdrucks- und Beweismittel nicht anders als verlieren kann. Auch ist uns schon gesagt worden, daß man sie kaum hat zu Wort kommen lassen und sie in ihrer Unerfahrenheit im Gerichtsverfahren noch auf die Worterteilung gewartet, als schon das Urteil gesprochen war. Strebsame Referendare werden gewiß mit Freuden eine solche Gelegenheit zur praktischen Uebung begrüßen und gern die arme Partei unentgeltlich vertreten. In der Hoffnung, daß der Herr Land- gerichtspräsident unsere Bitte berücksichtigt Hochachtend.......“ Die Antwort lautete: „Nach den angestellten Ermittlungen wird beim hiesigen Amtsgericht auswärtigen armen Parteien stets ein Anwalt beigeordnet, einheimischen nur dann, wenn dies durch Sachlage geboten erscheint. Von der Befugnis des § 116 Z.B.D. hat dagegen das Amtsgericht bisher keinen Gebrauch gemacht. Letzteres wird damit begründet, daß stets eine genügende Zahl von Anwälten zur Vertretung armer Parteien vorhanden sei, und daß außerdem der letzte Satz des § 116 Z.B.D. – Befreiung der baren Aus- lagen durch die Staatskasse – armen Parteien, die im Bezirke des Prozeßgerichtes wohnen, nicht zur Seite stehen würde. Gleichwohl wäre nach meiner Ansicht eine häufigere Anwendung des § 116 Z.B.D am Platze. Ich habe deßhalb das Amtsgericht noch- mals ausdrücklich auf jene Bestimmung hingew- wiesen.“..... Mithin sind wir jetzt befugt, den mittellosen Frauen einzuschärfen, daß sie auch am Amtsgericht um Zuteilung eines Rechtskundigen im Armenrecht bitten dürfen, wenn sie sich selbst nicht zu helfen wissen. Wir glauben, ihnen hierdurch einen wahren Dienst erwiesen zu haben und den Rechtschutzvereinen im gegeben Falle eine ähnliche Eingabe empfehlen zu wollen. Right column Rostock. Der Frauenbildungsverein (Vors. Frau Zastrow) hatte am 25. April in „Heldt’s Restaurant“ eine Versammlung. Einstimmige Annahme fand der Antrag des Vorstandes, den Verein von jetzt an nicht mehr „Frauenbildungsverein“ sondern Rostocker Frauenverein zu nennen. Der Verein will sich jetzt nicht bloß wie bisher die Förderung der Frauenbildung angelegen sein lassen, sondern seine Tätigkeit auch auf das Gebiet sozialer Hilfes- arbeit ausdehnen. Dies entspricht, wie die Vorsitzende hervorhob, durchaus den Absichten der verstorbenen Gründerin des Vereins Frau Mathilde Hagen – Frau Professor Lehmann berichtete über bereits erfolgte Vorbereitungsschritte zur Bildung einer Zentralstelle, die sich in Verbindung zu setzten haben würden mit den hiesigen öffentlichen und privaten Veranstaltungen für Armen- und Wohlfahrtspflege. Als Hauptaufgabe dieser Zentralstelle werden bezeichnet a) die Erteilung von Auskunft über alle solchen Einrichtungen in unserer Stadt; b) die theoretische und praktische Ausbildung der freiwilligen Helferinnen für die verschiedenen Anforderungen der Armen- und Wohlfahrtspflege. Aus der Versammlung erklärte sich gleich eine Reihe von Damen bereit, als freiwillige Helferinnen einzutreten. Ritterlichkeit Von Dr. Fr. W. Foerster in Zürich.*) Es gibt leider manche junge Männer, die meinen, sie könnten ihre junge Männlichkeit nicht besser einweihen als dadurch, daß sie irgendwo ein Weib missbrauchen und sich nun einbilden, sie hätten den Ritterschlag der Mannheit erhalten. Über diese Art von Männ- lichkeit möchte ich gern ein Wort mit euch reden. Ihr wisst ja alle, daß das Ideal des Rittertums aus dem Mittelalter stammt und daß es das erste Gebot für jeden echten Ritter war, sich der Schwachen und Unterdrückten anzunehmen und dies Gesinnung vor allem auch in edlem Benehmen gegenüber den Frauen kundzugeben. Es ist kein Zufall, daß gerade die Hilfe gegenüber den Schwachen als Zeichen des wahrhaft männlichen Mannes gepriesen wurde – denn es ist immer der höchste Beweis der Stärke, daß man noch Überschuß davon hat für andere, und nicht alles für sich selber nötig hat. Ihr seid jetzt in die Jahre gekommen, in denen euer Körper und euer Geist nicht mehr alles für das eigene Wachstum verbraucht, sondern Überschüsse hervorbringt. Das deutlich Zeichen solcher Überschüsse aber ist gerade die Ritterlichkeit. Und darum ist es un- geheuerlich, zu sagen, daß man die Zeit der höchsten Kraftfülle auch nur für das eigene Leben verwenden und schwache Frauen in elend und Schande stoßen solle, nur um das klägliche Geschrei der eigenen Begierden zu stillen und sich selber eine Stunde der Luft zu verschaffen. Nein – das ist nichts als ein Beweis davon, daß man im Grunde noch ein schwächliches Kind ist, das seinen Kitzel zum Raschen nicht beherrschen kann, und es ist ein Beweis, daß man noch kein Mann ist – denn Mann sein heißt helfen und schützen können. Bei aller Grundverschiedenheit gibt es zwischen der reifen Frau und dem reifen Mann ein Gemeinsames: die Liebe für alles Hilflose - die Liebe, die aus der Überfülle der Kraft kommt. Darum ist eine große Ähnlichkeit zwischen Mütterlichkeit und Ritterlichkeit. Die höchste Männlichkeit zeigt sich in der Kraft zur zarten Fürsorge für andere. Darum kann ein Mann so viel für seine höchste Bildung von edlen Frauen lernen. Er hat die größte Stärke zur Hilfe – aber sie haben das feinere Mitgefühl, einzusehen, wo Schonung und Hilfe not tut, und wie man schon und wie man hilft. Der russische Dichter Dostojewski führt uns einmal in das Lazarett eines sibirischen Gefängnisses, wo ein toter Gefangener nackt auf dem Boden liegt. Niemand kümmert sich um ihn als die Fliegen. „Der hatte auch ein- mal eine Mutter,“ sagte der wachhabende Unteroffizier dazu. Warum kam ihm wohl dieses Wort auf die Lippen? Weil der Gedanke an die Mutterliebe wohl das tiefste Gewissen des Mannes ist, vor dem er sich schämt, wenn irgendwo ein Mensch erbarmungslos vergessen und entwürdigt wird. „Die hatte auch mal eine Mutter“ – wem dies Wort gegenüber einem schwachen und leichtfertigen Mädchen über die Lippen kommt, der weiß sofort auch, was Ritterlichkeit und wahre Männlichkeit von ihm fordert: nicht bloß äußere Rücksichten und Dienste, sondern Hilfe, wo sie am nötigsten ist Hilfe für Seele und Leib, Hilfe gegen die eigene Blindheit und Torheit – Hilfe, wie sie nur der ganz Starke und in sich Gefestigte geben kann. *) Aus einem soeben bei Georg Reimer, Berlin erschienen Buch „Jugendlehre, ein Buch für Eltern, Lehrer und Geistliche“. - 38 - Wenn ihr jetzt euch selbst überlassen seid und frei in Wirtschaften verkehren könnt, so viel ihr wollte: Denkt bei jeder Kellnerin, die euch bedient, sie sei euch anvertraut – und wirklich, sie ist euch anvertraut; inmitten all der männlichen Tiere, die da an ihr herumtatschen und streicheln und äugeln und witzeln, sucht ihre innerste beste Seele in der Rund herum nach einem ritterlichen Menschen, der ihr beisteht, indem er das Weib in ihr mit der Achtung behandelt und sie ermutigt, ihre Reinheit in kleiner und großer Münze auszugeben, bis nichts mehr da ist. Vielleicht findet sie keinen – hoffentlich findet sie euch, ehe es zu spät ist, und ist heimlich gehoben, wenn ihr sie mit feinem vertraulichen Grinsen antastet, sondern sie mit Hochachtung behandelt: vielleicht lacht sie auch über euch – dann bedauert, daß ihr nicht früher kamt und denkt daran, wie viel männliche Schwäche dazu ge- hörte, um ein Mädchen so weit zu bringen, daß sie für Hochachtung nur noch ein Lächeln hat. Es geht jetzt so eine Lehre durch die Welt, als gehöre es zum Adel und zur Vornehmheit des Menschen, daß er andere missbraucht, um sich selbst auszuleben. Vergeßt nie: das kann jeder Köter auch. Vornehmheit – Ritterlichkeit – Mütterlichkeit – die drei gehören unlösbar zusammen. An die Bundesvereine! Die mit der Durchberatung des Gesetzentwurfs betr. Kaufmanns- gerichte betraute Kommission hat sich wohl das aktive Wahlrecht der Frauen entschieden, es steht aber keineswegs fest, daß dieser Be- schluß auch im Plenum des Reichstags Annahme findet, und zwar aus den folgenden Gründen: 1. Der über 60 000 Mitglieder zählende Verband deutscher Handlungsgehilfen-Leipzig hat eine lebhafte Agitation gegen das Frauenwahlrecht entfaltet. Nicht nur der Haupt- vorstand des Verbandes eine darauf bezügliche Eingabe an den Reichstag gerichtet, in der er die im Handel beschäftigten Frauen zu diskreditieren versuchte, sondern sämtliche Zweigvereine sind seinem Vor- gehen gefolgt, und Abschriften dieser Eingaben sind an die Handels- kammern, kaufmännischen Kooperationen ec. verschickt worden. 2. Auf den Einfluß dieses Verbandes ist es wohl auch zurück- zuführen, daß sich der Bund der Kaufleute ebenfalls gegen die Wahlberechtigung von Frauen erklärt hat. 3. Die verbündeten Regierungen beharren bei ihrer Ablehnung dem Frauenwahlrecht gegenüber, da sie, wie ein Bundesratsbevoll- mächtigter in der Kommissionssitzung ausdrücklich erklärte, die Absicht haben, die vom Reichstag durch mehrmaligen Beschluß geforderten gesetzlichen Arbeitervertretungen auf den Gewerbe- und Kaufmanns- gerichten aufzubauen, den Frauen also durch die Wahlberechtigung für die letzteren indirekt politischen Aufgaben zufallen würden. Infolge- dessen hat der Vorstand des deutschen Verbandes kaufmännischer Vereine, dem Vereine selbständiger Kaufleute, männlicher und weiblicher Handels- gehilfen-Vereine angehören, es abgelehnt, für die Wahlberechtigung der Frauen einzutreten, um den ganzen Entwurf nicht zu gefährden, und die im Juni tagende Generalversammlung des Verbandes wird sich voraus- sichtlich der Ansicht des Vorstandes anschließen. Die gleiche Taktik wird, wie aus parlamentarischen Kreisen ver- lautet, die im Reichstag ausschlaggebende Centrumspartei befolgen, um unter Preisgabe des Frauenwahlrechts das Gesetz unter Dach und Fach zu bringen. Gern verzichtet die weibliche Gehilfenschaft auf den geringen politischen Nuten, der der Einzelnen aus der schnelleren und billigeren Rechtsprechung erwächst; kann dieselbe doch nicht in Betracht kommen gegenüber der schweren Schädigung, die der gesamten Frauenarbeit im Handel dadurch zugefügt wird, daß man ihr die Abhängigkeit von der männlichen Konkurrenz, wo es sich um die Vertretung von Be- rufsinteressen handelt, zudiktiert und ihr damit in aller Form Rechtens den Stempel der Minderwertigkeit aufdrückt. Dieser Anschauung gibt der Berliner kaufmännische Verband für weibliche Angestellt in einer Denkschrift an die Reichstagsabgeordneten Ausdruck, in der er die Angriffe der Handlungsgehilfen gegen die weiblichen Kollegen abwehrt und direkt um eine Ablehnung des Ge- setzentwurfs betr. Kaufmanngerichte bittet, wenn das Wahlrecht der Frauen nicht angenommen werden sollte. 17 andere Vereine haben die Denkschrift mit unterzeichnet. Der Vorstand der verbündeten Verein für weib- liche Angestellte wird ebenfalls noch eine Eingabe ähnlichen Inhalts an den Reichstag richten. Das genügt aber alles nicht: die organisierten bürgerlichen Frauen sollten sich in diesem Falle mit ihren im Handelsgewerbe tätigen Schwestern solidarisch erklären; kann doch nach der Erklärung des Grafen Bojadowsky kein Zweifel mehr darüber bestehen, daß ihnen hier nur auf Grund ihres Geschlechtes ein Recht vorenthalten werden soll, auf das sie infolge erfüllter Berufs- und Steuer-Pflichten wohl einen Anspruch erheben dürfen. An anderer Stelle sagt Graf Bojadewsky, daß einem Staatsmann der sozialen Bewegung gegen- über nur zwei Wege zu beschreiten übrig blieben: entweder die Massen zur politischen Reife dadurch zu erziehen, daß man ihnen Gelegenheit gibt, in geordneter, friedlicher Weise ihre Interessen zu vertreten, oder sie durch allgemeine Repressionsmaßregeln in Unreife und Ab- hängigkeit zu erhalten. In bezug auf die Frauen scheint also die Regierung das letztere für den allein wünschenswerten Zustand zu halten. Sollen wir Frauen das so stillschweigend und geduldig hin- nehmen, sollen wir es zulassen, daß durch eine neue gesetzliche Bestimmung die Hörigkeit der Frau innerhalb einer Berufsgruppe festgelegt werde? Schon manchmal hat der Sturm der öffentlichen Meinung einen Gesetzentwurf, dessen Annahme im Reichstag so gut wie gesichert er- schien, hinweggefegt. Sollte es uns Frauen nicht gelingen, entweder die Wahlberechtigung der Frauen für die Kaufmannsgerichte durch- zusetzen oder das ganze Gesetz zu Fall zu bringen? Wenn nun jeder dem Bunde angeschlossene Verein innerhalb seines Wahlkreises die jetzigen Freundes des Frauenwahlrechts, besonders aber die Abgeordneten, dahin zu beeinflussen suchte, daß sie an ihrer Ansicht festhalten; wenn ferner die Bundesvereine in jeder großen und mittleren Stadt Deutschlands öffentliche Kundgebungen zugunsten des Frauenwahlrechts unmittelbar nach der zweiten Lesung des Ent- wurfs im Reichstage veranstalten, so müßten doch angesichts dieser einheitlichen und energischen Willensäußerungen der deutschen Frauen- welt die Volksvertreter dem Kommissionsbeschlusse treu bleiben, und die Regierung würde sich schließlich darauf besinnen, daß sie auch Pflichten gegen ihre weiblichen Untertanen zu erfüllen habe. Gerne stehen die Vereine der Handlungsgehilfinnen mit Material bei der Einberufung öffentlicher Versammlungen zur Verfügung und scheuen auch vor pesuniären Opfern nicht zurück. Ans Werk also, ihr deutschen Frauen, hier gilt es einmal zu beweisen, daß wir feine quantité négligeable sind, daß wir den alten Wahlspruch der Frauenbewegung: Eine für Alle, Alle für Eine! auch in Taten umzusetzen verstehen ! Der Vorstand der verbündeten kaufmännischen Vereine für weibliche Angestellte J.M: Friederike Bröll – Frankfurt a. M., Vorsitzende Aus fremden Ländern. Belgien. Frl. Dr. med. J Jotenso, die Leiterin der psychologischen Abteilung der Universität Brüssel, ist zur Vizepräsidentin der belgischen neurologischen Gesellschaft ernannt worden. Sie hat danach binnen Jahresfrist bestimmungsgemäß die Präsidentschaft der genannten Ge- sellschaft zu übernehmen. England. Der Senat der Universität von London hat dem Professorenstab den ersten weiblichen Kollegen zugeführt, indem er Miß Lilian Lomu auf den vakant gewordenen Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsgeschichte berief. Miß Lomu hat in Cambridge (Girton College) Geschichte und Jurisprudens studiert und in beiden Fächern das Examen mit dem Grade bestanden, der in Deutschland dem „summa cum laude“ entspricht. Italien. Der Senat hat den von der zweiten Kammer ange- nommenen Entwurf Socci, wonach die Frauen zur Ausübung der Udpofatur zugelassen werden sollten, wieder verworfen. Norwegen. Der 17. Mai, der Tag, an dem vor nunmehr 90 Jahren die Verfassung Norwegens begründet wurde, ist auch in diesem Jahr wiederum in gewohnter Weise von den norwegischen Arbeitern gefeiert worden. Diesmal waren die Demonstrationen weniger allgemeinen Forderungen, als vielmehr der besonderen Forderung des allgemeinen Wahlrechts für Frauen ge- widmet. Man hatte in Kristiania und in verschiedenen anderen Städten das Arrangement der Demonstrationen ganz den organisierten Frauen überlassen. In Kristiania zählte der „Zug der Frauen“, der sich von Unterlöffen durch die Torbgade, Karl Johann- und Universitäts- gade nach Unterlöffen bewegte, 1500 bis 1600 Teilnehmerinnen mit -39- 50 Fahnen, voran zwei große Demonstrationsfahnen mit der Auf- schrift: „Allgemeines Wahlrecht auch für Frauen“. Vor dem Storthingsgebäude wurde halt gemacht. Eine Deputation mit Frau Ström als Wortführerin wurde von Storthing empfangen und richtete folgende Worte an das Lhing: „Wir kommen als Abge- sandte der vielen Frauen und Männer, die jetzt vor dem Storthings- gebäude stehen, um vor Norwegens Storthing die Forderung der Frauen auf volle Ebenbürtigkeit mit dem Manne in den Wahlrechts- fragen zu erheben. Wir Frauen kommen heute nicht, um unser Recht, teilzunehmen an der Arbeit für das Gemeinwesen, zu beweisen, da das Storthing dieses Recht bereits anerkannt hat dadurch, daß es uns teilweise das Kommunalrecht einräumte: aber wir kommen, um die Ehrerbietung zu beantragen, daß und das unverkürzte Recht als Mitbürger des Gemeinwesens nicht länger vorenthalten werde. Wir beklagen den Beschluß, der am 20. April d. J. vom Odessthing ge- fasst wurde (die Aufrechterhaltung des Census für das kommunale Frauen-Wahlrecht betreffend); aber es ist unsere Hoffnun, daß trotzdem Fortschritte hinsichtlich der Abschaffung der Ungerechtigkeit gegen unser Geschlecht gemacht werden, so daß unseres Landes Frauen in einer nahen Zukunft das allgemeine kommunale und staatsbürger- liche Wahlrecht unter denselben Bedingungen wie die Männer erhalten.“ Schweiz. Der Große Rat des Kantons Waudt überwies die Eingabe der waadtländischen Frauen um Einführung des Frauenstimmrechts in Kirchensachen einer Kommission zur Prüfung und Berichterstattung - Eine Delegiertenversammlung des schweizerischen Arbeiterinnen- vereins, die am 8. Mai in Zürich tagte, sprach sich durch Annahme einer Resolution für die Freigabe des Sonnabendnachmittags aus. Ein anderer Beschluß verlangt die Anstellung weiblicher Fabrik- und Gewerbe-Inspektorinnen. Ferner wurde beschlossen, Hand in Hand mit den bürgerlichen Frauen das Stimmrecht für Kirche und Schule zu fordern. - Mit dem Sommerhalbjahr rückte auch die Basler Universität in die Reihe der Hochschulen ein, die den Frauen das Studium eröffnen. Der Regierungsrat hat über die Zulassung nicht immatrikulierter Frauen zu den Universitätsvorlesungen folgende Verordnung erlassen: Frauen, die das 17. Altersjahr zurückgelegt haben, werden in der philosophischen Fakultät zu einzelnen Vorlesungen als Zuhörerinnen zugelassen: 1) Wenn sie im Besitze eines Fähigkeitsausweises sind, der sie zur Bewerbung um Lehrstellen an schweizerischen Primat- oder Mittelschulen berechtigt; 2) auch ohne Fähigkeitsausweis, wenn der betreffende Dozent die Erlaubnis erteilt. Mitteilungen. An der Universität Tübingen werden nunmehr mit allerhöchster Genehmigung auch reichs- angehörige weibliche Studenten unter den gleichen Bedingungen und in derselben Weise wie die männlichen Studenten als ordentliche Hörerinnen zur Immatrikulation zugelassen. am 3. und 4. Juni findet in Berlin die konstituierende Ver- sammlung des internationalen Frauenstimmrechtsbundes statt. Sie wurde bereits im Februar 1902 bei der ersten Zusammenkunft der Frauenstimmrechtsvereine der verschiedenen Länder in Washington in Aussicht genommen. Zutritt haben zu den Sitzungen: 1. Die Delegierten der verschiedenen Länder; 2. Die Mitglieder des deutschen Frauenstimmrechtsvereins (gegen Einlaßkarten für 1, 50 Mark). - Achtzehn Vereine weiblicher Angestellter haben den Reichs- tagsabgeordneten eine Denkschrift übersandt, in der unter Bezugnahme auf die verschiedenen Kundgebungen (siehe auch den Aufruf „An die Bundesvereine“ an anderer Stelle d. Bl.), die den Frauen das Wahl- recht zu den Kaufmannsgerichten nicht zugestehen wollen, gebeten wird, es beim Beschluß der Kommission zu belassen und den weiblichen Handelsangehörigen das Wahlrecht zu geben. „Sollte aber unser aktives Wahlrecht die endgültige Genehmigung der gesetzgebenden Körperschaften nicht finden, bitten wir um Ablehnung des ganzen Gesetzes.“ - Am 11. Juni abends wird Frl. Dr. Käthe Schirmacher im Architektenhaus Wilhelmstr., Berlin, einen Dreiakter „Wir“ vor- stellen. Das Stück behandelt einen Ehekonflikt, der aus der doppelten Moral hervorgeht. Da bei der kurzen Zeit, die zur Verfügung stand, eine Aufführung während des Kongresses sich nicht ermög- lichen ließ, wünschte die Verfasserin ihre Diskussion wenigstens auf diese Art vor das Forum des großen, internationalen Publikums zu bringen, das sich zum Kongreß in Berlin versammeln wird. - Nach Beendigung des Internationalen Frauenkongresses in Berlin am 23. und 24. Juni wird in Düsseldorf ein zweitägiger Frauentag abgehalten werden, der sich an die Internationale Kunst- und Große Gartenbau-Ausstellung, die diesen Sommer über in Düsseldorf abgehalten wird, anschließt. Auf demselben sollen aus- schließlich die Themata: „Die Frau in Gartenbau und Landwirt- schaft“ und „Die Frau in ihren Beziehungen zur Kunst“ behandelt werden. Das Programm ist wie folgt festgelegt: Erster Tag: Schul- und Arbeitergärten – Frau Wegner-Breslau. Die Ansiedlung ge- bildeter Frauen auf dem Lande – Frl. Förster – Kassel. Der Garten- bau in seiner hygienischen und ästhetischen Bedeutung – Frl. Dr. Castner – Marienfelde. Einfluß der Frau an der Landwirtschafts- gärtnerei – Frl. de Leeuw-Berlin. Ueber Gärtnerei in der Erziehung - Frau Henl-Berlin. Ueber Alkohol und Obstverwertung – Frau Lang-Zweibrücken. Zweiter Tag: Kunstgewerbliche Bestrebungen der Frauen – Frau Frauberg – Düsseldorf. Die Erziehung der Frau zur Kunst – Freiherr v. Berfall-Köln. Ueber die sittlichen Begriffe in der Kunst – Frl. Freudenberg-München. - Zum Zwecke der Ausgestaltung des Waisenpflegerinnen- amtes haben die Stuttgarter Waisenpflegerinnen sich zu einem Ver- bande unter dem Vorsitz der Frau Geheimrat von Göz zusammen- geschlossen. - Vor längerer Zeit ist eine Novelle zum preußischen Vereins- gesetz angekündigt worden, um auch Frauen den Besuch von Ver- sammlungen politischer Vereine zu ermöglichen. Wie jetzt verlautet hat die Regierung ihre Absicht auf Einbringung einer solchen Vor- lage wieder aufgegeben. Frauenstudium. Eine Studentin der Theologie ist in Heidelberg bei der dortigen Universität immatrikuliert worden, die erste, die Deutschlands Hochschulen kennen lernen. - Der preußische Kultusminister genehmigte die von Breslauer Stadtbehörden beschlossene Errichtung eines sechsklassigen Real- gymnasiums für Mädchen im Anschluß an die städtische Bistoria- Töchterschule mit dem Endziel der Reifeprüfung. Die neue Anstalt wird unter allmählicher Auflösung der bereits bestehenden vierklassigen Realgymnasialstufe für Mädchen sofort eröffnet. - Ueber die Befähigung der Mädchen für Mathematik sprach sich vor kurzem Herr Dr. Gleichen, Lehrer an den Gym- nasialstufen für Frauen zu Berlin, in einem interessanten Artikel der „Bessischen Zeitung“ sehr günstig aus. Auf Grund seiner Erfahrungen konstatierte er eine ganz auffallend schnelle Auffassung und Leichtigkeit der Bearbeitung bei den meisten Schülerinnen. Er führt diese Beobachtung, der zufolge die Leistungen der Mädchen im Durchschnitt besser sind als die entsprechender Leistungen der Knaben, vor allem auf den Umstand zurück, daß die Einführung in die Mathematik bei ihnen in einem angemessenen Alter erfolgt. Seiner Ansicht nach sollten die Erfahrungen in den Gymnasialkursen für Mädchen für die Handhabung des Mathematik-Unterrichts überhaupt fruchtbar gemacht werden. Man sollte versuchen, mit dem Mathematik- Unterricht erst einzusetzen, wenn die psychologischen Grundlagen und damit auch das Interesse für das ganze abstrakte Denken wirklich vorhanden sind. Auf jeden Fall sind diese Ausführungen sowohl zur Beurteilung der geistigen Differenzierung der Geschlechter, als auch in pädagogischer Hinsicht beachtenswert. - 40 - Geschäftliche Mitteilungen. (Für die unter dieser Rubrik erscheinenden Artikel ist die Redaktion nicht verantwortlich.) Unsern verehrten Leserinnen, sowie allen Teil= nehmern des Kongresses empfehlen wir die Durchsicht des Inseratenteils dieser Nummer angelegentlichst und bitten, die inserierenden Firmen bei Bedarf in erster Linie berücksichtigen zu wollen. Die Expedition. Zur Hochsaison der Wäsche und Bleiche dürfte es unseren Hausfrauen angenehm sein, wenn wir sie auf ein vorzügliches Wasch- und Bleichmittel, sowie auf eine günstige Bezugsgelegenheit für Seifen zu Fabrikpreisen aufmerksam machen. Die Firma C. M. Schladitz & Co., Seifenfabrik und Versandgeschäft, Prettin a. Elbe, welche seit 33 Jahren den Versand an Private als Spezialität betreibt, stellt ein vorzügliches wohlreichendes Seifenpulver unter dem Namen Prettiner Veilchen-Seifenpulver her und versendet solches zu billigen Fabrik= preisen direkt an Private. Ein Versuch mit einem Postpaket für 2 Mark 50 Pfd. wird jede Hausfrau von der Vorzüglichkeit über= zeugen, 25 Pfd. kosten 6 Mark franko, am beliebtesten ist aber für größere Wirtschaften und zum Teilen für mehrere Familien der Bezug in einem brauchbaren Reisekoffer von 80 Pfd. Netto für 19 Mark 20 Pfd. franko. Es sollte jede unserer Leserinnen einen Versuch mit dem Seifenpulver unübertroffener Qualität machen. Es wäre vollkommen verkehrt, die allbekannte Somatose als direktes Nährmittel betrachten zu wollen. Erst dadurch, daß schon kleine Gaben nach kurzem Gebrauch den Appetit anregen, ja oft bis zum Heißhunger steigern, wird es dem Patienten möglich, neben Somatose dem Körper wieder mehr Nahrung zuzuführen und somit neue Kräfte zu gewinnen. Die Somatose ist also nur indirekt als Nährmittel aufzufassen, obwohl sie selbst aus Nährstoffen erster Ordnung besteht. Ihr Wert liegt aber vornehmlich auch in der appetitanregenden Wirkung, die um so höher zu schätzen ist, als ja die meisten Krankheiten, wie Bleichsucht und Blutarmut, Magen= und Nervenleiden, zumeist mit Appetitlosigkeit einhergehen. Prettiner Veilchen-Seifenpulver angenehm duftend, v. starker Waschkraft, unschädlich für die Wäsche 1 Postpaket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . für 2,50 M. franko. 1 Bahnkiste von Netto 25 Pfd. . . . . . . . . 6,00 „ „ 1 brauchbarer Reisekoffer mit Netto 80 Pfd. Inhalt 19,20 „ „ versenden gegen Nachname C. M. Schladitz & Co., Seifenfabrik und Versandgeschäft Prettin a. Elbe. Spezialität: Versand an jedermann zu Fabrikpreisen. Unweigerl. Rücknahme jeder Sendung. Singer Nähmaschinen Einfache Handhabung! Grosse Haltbarkeit! Hohe Arbeitsleistung! Weltausstellung Paris 1900: Grand Prix höchster Preis der Ausstellung Unentgeltlicher Unterricht, auch in der moderner Kunst- stickerei. Elektromotore für Nähmaschinenbetrieb. Singer Co. Nähmaschinen Act. Ges. 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Man verlange ausführliche Druck- sachen, sowie Probenummern der Zeit- schrift „Die Frischhaltung" von J. Weck, Ges. m. b. H., Oeflingen, A. Säckingen (Baden). Schöne volle Formen erlangen Sie durch Nährsalz-Kraftpulver + Aphroditin. + Ideal-Nährpräparat der Gegenwart. Rekonvalszenten ärztlich empfohlen. 1 Pack. 2.85 Mk. 3. Pack. 7.50 Mk. per Nachnahme. Spezialitäten-Versandhaus, BERLIN, Philippstrasse 23. Stenogramme. Maschinenarbeiten. Vervielfältigung., Uebersetzungen im Hause.auch ausser- halb. Henny Rewald, Berlin S., Prinzenstrasse 84, III. Damenbinden erster Qualität, 1Dtzd. 1.25 Mark, 8 Dutzd. 3M., Gürtel 59 59 Pfg. Frau Minna Koenig, Hamburg 6, Vereinsstr. 54 B. Die „Geschäftsstelle der Versicherung der Mitglieder Deutscher Frauenvereine", Berlin W., Behrenstrasse 60/61. Leiterin Frl. 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V. Begründet 1828. empfiehlt ihre auf allen beschickten Ausstellungen preisgekrönten Pianinos und Flügel In unübertroffener Güte und prachtvoller Tonfülle. - Vornehme Ausstattung. - Solide Preise. - Bequeme Zahlungsbedingungen. Anfertigung in allen Holz- und Stilarten. .. Franko Lieferung nach allen Bahnstationen Deutschlands. .. Alleinverkauf für Schlesien: Hof-Pianoforte-Fabrikant Carl Quandt, Breslau, Ohlauer Strasse 4, I. Verantwortlich für die Redaktion: Frau Marie Stritt, Dresden=A. - Druck und Verlag: H. Jenne. Köpenick=Berlin PROGRESS Volume IV. JANUARY, 1905. Number 1. PUBLISHED QUARTERLY AT WAR- REN, OHIO BY THE National American Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Honorary President, Miss Susan B. Anthony 17 Madison St., Rochester, N.Y. President, Rev. Anna H, Shaw, 7443 Devon St., Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa. Vice President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 205 W. 57th St., New York City. Corresponding Secretary, Miss Kate M. Gordon, 1800 Prytania St., New Orleans, La. Recording Sec'y, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 3 Park St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, Ohio. Auditors Miss Laura Clay, Lexington, Ky. Dr. Cora Smith Eaton, Masonic Temple, Minneapolis, Minn NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. WARREN, OHIO. Price, 10 cents per year. OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE Honorary Pres., Miss Susan B. Anthony, Rochester, N.Y. President, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, New York City. First Vice Pres., Dr. Anita Augsburg, [?] Second Vice Pres., Mrs. Millicent Garret Fawcett, London, England. Secretary, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, United States. First Ass't Sec'y, Dr. Kate Schirmacher, Paris, France. Second Ass't Sec'y, Johanna Naber, Amsterdam Holland. Treasurer, Miss Rodger Cunliffe, London, England. Entered at Post Office at Warren, Ohio, as second class matter. This number of Progress is edited by Harriet Taylor Upton, Warren, O. The American Federation of Labor in its annual convention in San Francisco lately passed a resolution favoring woman suffrage. We have not the exact text of the resolution. It was championed by Miss Mary O'Sullivan of Boston. The convention of teachers of California, numbering fifteen hundred, passed a resolution as follows: "We heartily endorse the bill for constitutional amendment giving equal political rights to women as a measure of justice and tending to advance the educational interests of the state." The 37th annual convention of the N. A. W. S. A will be held at Portland, Oregon, June 29 to July 5. For information concerning railroad rates see page 4, or address Lucy E. Anthony, 7443 Devon street, Mt. Airy Philadelphia, Pa. Full information concerning the program, hotel head quarters and other details will be published in April Progress. BETTER TO SUFFER RIDICULE THAN STAND IN THE WAY OF PROGRESS. In 1848, when the first Woman's Rights convention was held, men exclaimed, "What! Woman on the platform; woman in the pulpit; in the college; in the court room; in the It is against the ordinances of Almighty God! It will break up the order established at the Creation and respected for 6,000 years! It will prove a lasting injury to all mankind! It will give the lie to Scripture! It shall not be! Even the order of God is at stake!" In that day, the few who stood for the right of woman to a larger life were made the butt of ridicule. Yet, in the light of history, how ridiculous are thier opponents. How is it now? There are over 430,000 professional women in the United States. There are 1,000 lawyers, 2,000 journalists, 3,000 clergymen, 6,000 literary and scientific persons, 7,000 physicians, 8,000 government officials, 34,000 merchants and 328,000 teachers and college professors. And women are gaining on men in almost all the occupations save, strange to say, those of domestic servants, land keepers, [???] and loon keepers. And what of woman's political status today? Full suffrage in four states of the Union. School suffrage in 20 states, and some measure of political rights in 24 states with full suffrage in Federated Australia, and some form of suffrage in every civilized country of the world. All this has been done in the face of the most solemn warnings; in the face of all the prophets of calamity. The heavens have not fallen. What harm has come? None, save the harm that has been done to the reputation of those who stood in the way. I had rather be ahead of my time, and suffer ridicule for a season, than shake my fist and make grimaces in the face of advancing Truth, and thereby become the laughing stock of posterity. HERBERT S. BIGELOW. WHERE WOMEN VOTE. How They Exercise the Prerogative in Colorado. The question has been asked so many times, "Do the better class of women vote in Colorado?" and it has been so variably and contradictorily answered that the Tribune decided to settle the question for its readers in an authoritative manner, and caused a representative to visit the different polling places in Denver to find out as an actual fact what proportion and what class of women were represented at the polls. Never was there a more beautiful election day in Denver than that of November 8. It was warm, sunny and still, with a sky like an inverted bowl of clearest turquoise, and a balmy air more like that of May than November. Early in the morning there was an unusual stir upon the streets of Denver, and before 9 o'clock streams of men and women, carriages, bicycles and automobiles were setting toward the polling places. At the one polling place in the Tenth Ward, the so-called "silk stocking precinct," 286 votes had been cast before 10 o'clock, a large proportion of them being cast by women. Election day in Denver is regarded as rather a gala occasion, and young men and young women, old men and old women turned out to vote as if they enjoyed it. Many men, before going to their business for the day, made a point of accompanying their wives to vote, and this was, perhaps, the reason why in the early morning hours one was obliged to stand in line before one could get a booth in which to prepare a ballot. From Capitol Hill to Market St. from the far outlying districts of the city to densely populated precincts of the down-town part every polling place was visited. As a usual thing the booths were arranged in vacant store rooms or new buildings, sometimes in a suburban drug store, sometimes in the [?] of an unoccupied residence and in one or two instances in unused rooms of precinct houses. It was a noticeable fact that in every instance - no matter in what part of town - the polling places were located in clean, respectable, well ventilated quarters, such as any woman might visit with impunity, and were universally quiet, orderly and unobjectionable. In the Tenth Ward, Fifth Precinct, the polling place resembled the approach to the scene of a fashionable reception. Carriages and automobiles thronged the street, and fashionably dressed men and women came and went, stopping to joke and visit upon the pavement, sometimes compare notes and discuss seriously the issues of the campaign. A notable feature of the day - and one which was particularly striking to a stranger in Colorado - was the arrival of the family parties at the polls. In many instances carriages and automobiles drew up at the curb, and father, mother, sons, daughters - sometimes grandfather or grandmother - went into the polling places to vote together. There were constantly arriving parties on foot, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, often an aged mother leaning on the arm of her son. In fact, as one drove about the city and saw the people going to and coming from the polls one might easily imagine that it was Sunday and tranquil family parties were going to or coming from church. In every polling place of the respectable residence part of Denver there were women voting, many of them accompanied by their husbands - often by their children - some alone and some in company with other women. Occasionaly one would come upon a group of women in earnest discussion and now and then upon one who was being "electioneered." But this was a feature of which the reporter saw little. Almost every woman who went to the polls seemed to have her mind thoroughly made up how she was going to vote, and in the most businesslike way - and in a manner which indicated that she had done it many times before - she would march into a booth, mark her ticket and deposit her ballot in the ballot box. Passing from the upper wards of the city through Wards Six and Seven, and down to Two, Three and Four, the scene was widely different. Here and there small crowds were gathered but there was no rioting, no boisterous ill behavior anywhere. Here the voters did not arrive at the polling places in carriages or automobiles, and the social, lightsome aspect of the hill was not to be seen. Men and women went to the polls calmly, seriously, as if they has a grave duty to perform. The women with shawls, or the ever present white woolen crocheted "fascinator" over their heads, the men in their laboring clothes and with their pipes in their mouths. But here too the family party was every where present, and at every polling place men and their wives, brothers and their sisters, sons and their mothers went to the polls together. The wife of the laboring man, as well as her more wealthy sisters of the hill, has read and observed, and has her own opinions on the issues and she went to the ballot box well prepared to vote them. Here and there a carriage load of the demi-monde of the city was seen to drive up to the polling places. But as a usual thing, the disreputable women of the State do not want to vote, and will not if they can get out of it. Few of them have any party affiliations or political convictions, they know little of the issues, are not interested in the outcome, and do not wish to lose friends by voting for either side. Occasionally, when an election is liable to be close, they are obliged to vote in order to obtain police protection and sometimes they vote individually on acount of personal prejudice, but it is universally acknowledged by all ward workers that it is almost impossible to get them to go to the polls, and the writer was informed by one old political worker that rather than go to the polls he has known whole colonies of the disreputable women to leave the city on election day. This is not only the history of the demi-monde of Denver, but of Cripple Creek, Victor and other portions of the State as well. Throughout the entire State this year the vote polled was an exceptionally large one, and the women's vote the largest that has ever been registered in Colorado. - New York Tribune, Nov. 27, 1904. PROGRESS AN EFFECTIVE PROTEST. At the beginning of the Fifty-Eighth Congress a bill providing for the admission of the territories of Oklahoma, Indian, Arizona and New Mexico under the names of Oklahoma and Arizona, was introduced and passed the house. It was known as the Hamilton bill, the chairman of the House Committee on Territories having that name. This bill contained the following clause: "Fifth - That said State shall never enact any law restricting or abridging the rights of suffrage on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, or on account of any other conditions and qualifications, save and except on account of illiteracy, minority, sex conviction of felony, mental condition, or residence; provided however, that any such restrictions shall be made uniform and applicable alike to all citizens." At the last National Woman Suffrage convention the wording of this clause was noticed, and later a letter was issued, setting forth the injustice of it and begging organizations of men and women to protest against its enactment. This letter, a very strong one, was signed by Mrs. Ellen M Henrotin, Honorary President General Federation of Women's Clubs; Miss Susan B. Anthony, Honorary President National American Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Mary Wood Swift President National Council of Women; Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, President National Council Jewish Women; Rev. Anna H. Shaw, President National American Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Mary A. Livermore; Mrs. Fanny Garrison Villard; Miss Laura Clay; Miss Margaret Haley President National Teachers' Federation; Mrs. Ella S. Stewart, Franchise Superintendent of National Woman's Temperance Union; Mrs. Emily E. Thorndyke, President National Catholic Woman's League; Mrs. Lida P Robinson, President Arizona Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Elizabeth M. Filmer, (Dorothy Dix); Mrs. Mary T. Hagar, President National Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic; Mrs. Ellen C. Sargent, Honorary President of California Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Mary S. Sperry, President California Woman Suffrage Association; Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCullock, Legal Adviser National American Woman Suffrage Association; Miss Clara Barton; Mrs. May Write Sewall, Honorary President International Council of Women; Mrs. Elmina Springer, of the Woman's Relief Corps and Eastern Star; Mrs. Florence Kelley; Mrs. Emmy C. Evald President National Lutheran Woman's League; Mrs. Frederick Schoff, President National Congress of Mothers; Mrs. Leonora M. Lake; Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, Legislative Superintendent of National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and Mrs. Lillian M. N Stevens, President National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Immediately societies and individuals began petitioning the Senate Committee to strike out either the objectionable clause or the work sex. Little attention was paid to these {{column break}} requests at first, but as each Senator daily received baskets of letter on the subject, he soon saw that the matter could not be passed over, and when the Senate convened the question was taken up and the Committee struck out the clause. At this writing the Bill is still under discussion in the Senate. What will be done by the House remains to be seen, but Susan B. Anthony says that this work of the Protest Committee has occasioned more comment in the press than has anything in suffrage circles since she was arrested for illegal voting. Strange to say, it was the women of conservative organizations who resented the insult most. Some of these realize for the first time that the world actually places them politically in the ranks of criminals and and lunatics. Tens of thousands of letters reached the Committee, of which no account was kept. The Congressional Record still each day contains lists of societies petitioning. Some of the societies which did protest and did report to National Suffrage Headquarters are the following: Woman Suffrage Associations, State County and local - Arizona, Illinois, Maine, Missouri, Kansas, California, Washington, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, Iowa, Delaware, Maryland, Nebraska, Minnesota, Connecticut, Montgomery Co., Pa.; Lucas Co., Trumbull Co., Ohio; Monroe CO., N Y.; San Diego Co., Cal.; Delaware Co., Pa.; Hamilton Co., O.; Madison Co., Campbell Co., Ky.; Cambridge Newton, Needham, Worcester, Onset Pittsfield, East Boston, Mass.; Sherwood, Groton, Hornellsville, Manlius, Lockport, Rochester, Utica Buffalo. Bedford, Brooklyn South Side, Brooklyn Young People's, Phelps, Chautauqua, New York City W. S. A., Elizabeth Cady Stanton League, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Minersville, Fairmont, W. Va.; Bay City, Detroit, Mich.; Springfield, Sandusky, Toledo, Athens, Warren, Niles, Girard, London, Deer Creek, O.; Decorah, Charlton, Sioux City, Des Moines, Elgin, Iowa; Keene, Concord, N. H.; Los Angeles, San Benito, San Jose, Corona, Cal.; Olney, Evanston, Chicago, Ill.; Harford, Conn.; Orange, Trenton, N. J.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Houston, Tex.; Wilmington, Newport, Del.; New Orleans, La.; Oxford, Pa.; Littleton and Franklin, N. H.; Bowling Green, Ky.; Luverne, Minn.; Rushville, Neb.; Ocean Grove, N. J.; Dansville, Geneva and Ithaca, N. Y.; Boston (College League), Pawtucket, R. I.; Stoughton, Mass.; Portland, Ore., the West Virginia W. S. A., Wheeling W. Va., White Creek, N. Y., Rhode Island W. S. A., Brookline, Mass., Bayonne, N. J., Lynn, Mass., Los Angeles, Cal., Springfield, Neb., Sacramento, Cal., Detroit, San Jose, Cal., Auburn, N. Y., Des Moines, Ia., Baltimore, Md. Northfield and Plainfield, N. J.; Syracuse, P. E. C., Danville, P. E. C., Alameda Co. P. E. C., Cal., Lucy Stone Club, Andover, N. Y., P. E. C., Anamosa, Iowa, P. E .C. Perry, N. Y. W. C. T. U.'s - Arizona, Iowa, Connecticut, California, Ohio. New York, Local - Cheshire, Thompsonville, Meriden, Wallinford, Conn.; Cleveland, Ashtabula, Windham, Jackson, Berea, Wilmington, Reeseville, Eagleville, Leroy, Wooster, O, Appleton, Minn; East Greenwich, Woonsocket, R.I.; Garrettson, S.D.; East Barnard, Northfield, Vt.; Central City, Shellsburg, Edgewood, Charlton, Iowa; Vermilion Co., Md,; Central W.C.T.U. and Emily Bishop League, Madison, Wis.; Springfield, Ill., Cuba, Scottville, Chautauqua, King Ferry, Wellsville, Dunkirk, N.Y. Deland; Florahome, Fla,; Fayetteville, Tenn; Houlton, Gloucester, Camden, Kingsfield, Maine; Spring Ranch, Plattsmouth, Neb.; Elkhart, Ind.; East Rochester, N.H.; Peacham, Mo.; Arcadia Parish, La; Salina, Kan,; Port Huron, Mich,; Los Angeles, San Jacinto, Cal.; Corning and Arcatas, Cal.; Albany, Wis.; Greenspring, Delaware and Bairdstown, Ohio; Fifth District of Mahaska, Kan,; Central Union of San Francisco; Denison, Iowa; Detroit, Mich,; Somerworth, N.H.; Salem, Ore.; Jamaica, Vt,; Faxon, O.T.; Natoma, Kan.; Warren, O,; Ripley, Me., Manchester, N.H.; Farmington N.Y.; Schenectady, N.Y,; Atlanta, Concord and Clipper Gap, Cal,; Parkstown, S.D. Wymore, Neb,; Goletea, Cal., Findlay, O,; Bradford, Vt., San Francisco, Cal., Sodus, N. Y., Anoka, Minn., Minnesota, W. C. T. U., Monroe, Neb., Bradner, O., Detriot, Mich., Manlius, and Barnards, N. Y., West Ridge, N. H., Newtonville, Mass., Oakville, Kan., Fairmont, W. Va., Ellicottsville, N. Y., Toledo, Ill., Addison, Me., Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Pawtucket, R. I., Bloomington, Wis., Port Gibson, N. Y., and the National W. C. T. U. in convention in Philadelphia, Central Square, N. Y., Troy, O., Middlefield, O., Talbot Co., Md., Copake, N. Y., Middletown, Md., Anamosa, Iowa, Latah, Washington, San Luis Rey, California, Everett, O., Patchogue, N. Y., Virgil, N. Y., Tulare, California, Francis Willard, California, El Beno, Oklahoma; Villa' Park, Cal.; Ada,O.; Skowhegan, Maine, Wilmington, O.; Childress, Texas, Peele, Wash. Federated Clubs - London Fortnightly Club; Altruistic, Hillsboro; Woman's Club, Martin's Ferry; Shakespeare Club, Pomeroy; Advance Woman's Club, Monroe; Sorosis, Alliance, O.; New Century Club; Travellers' Club, Pittsburg, New Era Club, Pittsburg; Newtown New Century Club, Braddock Woman's Club, Mass.; Kingsley Woman's Club, Kan.; Progressive Club, Rutland, Vt.; Current Topic Club, Owossa, Mich.; Outlook Club, Manchester, N. H.; Woman's Club, Ord, Neb.; Monday Evening Club, Morrison; Shakespeare Club, Farmer's City; Nineteenth Century Club, Oak Park; Chicago Farmers' Club, Ill., CIvic Club, Williamson, N. Y.; Zetamotheous, Chariton, Ia.; Ladies' Library Club, Salpupa, I. T.; Woman's Clubs of Colombia, New Brighton, Connellsville, Pa.; Review Club, Oak Lane, Philadelphia; Century Book Club, Mobile, Ala.; Woman's Literary Club, Jennings, La.; Woman's Club, Plattsmouth, Neb.; Woman's Clubs of Dixon and De Kalb, Ill.; Zetosophian Club, Hailey, Idaho, Civic Club, Franklin, N. H.; Woman's Club, Colorado Springs; Des Moines (Ia) Federation; Woman's Club, Downer's Grove, Ill.; Woman's Club, London, O.; Outlook Club, Weiser, Idaho; Colombian Club, Minneapolis, Minn.; Evansville, Ind.; Fort Worth, Tex.; Alabama Federation; Douglas Park, Chicago; Antioch, Cal.; Medalia, Minn.; Greene, Ia.; Indiana State Federation; Albany, N. Y.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Anadarko, O. T.; Sterling, Kan.; Topeka, Kan.; Hoboken, N. J.; Detroit, Mich.; Chicago, N. M.; Fairbault, Minn.; San Diego, Cal.; Louisiana State Federation, Miami, Fla.; Galena, Kan.; Grand Junction, Colo.; Haddonfield, N. J.; Las Animas, Cal.; Rutherford, N. J.; Hillsboro, Tex.; Elkhart, Ind.; Bradford, Pa.; Pittsfield, Maine. Miscellaneous - Women's Counsel, Portland, Maine; Rathbone Sisters, East Liverpool, O.; Daughters of St. George, White Rose Lodge 23 and Osceola Counsel No. 8, East Liverpool, O.; Blackwood Grange (N. J.) Rathbone Sisters, Senecaville, O.; Indianapolis Local Counsel of Women, Circles of the Ladies of the G. A. R., Sunnyside Grange, Bridgeville, Delaware, Delaware State Grange.; Evanston, Ill., Mothers' Club; Daughters of Rebekah, Middletown, O.; Young Ladies National Mutual Improvement Association, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ladies of the Maccabees of West Virginia; Ladies' Aid and Missionary Societies of Hardwick, VT.; Martin Delaney Circle of Louisville, Ky.; Olmsted, O., W. R. C.; Neighborhood House Woman's Club, Chicago; women's Union-Label League, Bay City, Mich.; Harmon W. R. C., Hookestown, Ill.; District W. R. C., Vt.; Woman's Universalist Circle, Vt.; Haslett W. R. C., Zanesville, O.; W. R. C., Bellefontaine, O.; Toledo, O. Writers' Club; Rathbone Sisters of Arizona; Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston, Logan Circle, Ladies of the G. A. R. of St. Joseph, Mich.; Ladies of the Maccabees of West Bay City, Mich,; Women's Union Label League of Bradford, Pa.; D. A. R. of Portland, Me.; Catholic Women's League of Chicago; Convention of Catholic Women's National League (100 delegates, representing 19 States); Des Moines, Ia., Professional Women's League; Onondaga County (N. Y.) Pomona Grange; Pittsburgh Chapter D. A. R.; Sedalia, Mo.; Women's International Label League; Republican Women's Club, Cleveland, O.; Relief Society of 6th Ward Pioneer Stake, of Salt Lake City; Bay City, Mich., Trades Council (membership of 5,000); Pennsylvania Peace Society; Farmers' Club of Novi, Mich., Oak Grove Grange, of Pittstown, N. J.; Trades Council of Beloit, Wis.; United Club and Civic League of Grand Rapids, Mich.; Women's Relief Corps of Bellefontaine, Ind. Logansport, Ind., Women's Union Label League; W. R. C. Of New Rochelle N. Y.; Swedesboro, N. J., Grange; Greenville, Mich., L. O. T. M.; Women's International Label League, Dennison, Tex.; L. O. T. M., of Fairmont, W. Va. ------ Miss F. E. Spooner of Woodhall, Ill. Circulated a petition in her community PROGRESS ---------------- where there is no suffrage club, and secured easily the signatures of 34 men and 54 women. A number of women in the "Enfranchised States; sent in petitions from voters. Mrs. Charles Jennings of Little Rock, Ark., called upon Senator Clark in the interests of the protest. Miss. Jennie C. Moore of Winterset O., And Miss Helen Roedel of Milford, Mich., Protested. Mrs. farmer, of St. Paul, sent out 512 of the protests, Mrs. Lydia Calvert Obenchain, of Kentucky, 80, Miss Daisy Deighton to every newspaper in Iowa having a circulation of 1,000 or upwards, Miss Agnes Baker, of Bellingham, Wash., sent her protest, Myra K. Pelton, of Ohio, for W. R. C. No. 296, Sarah P. Sellers of Upper Darby, Pa., for her own household; and so it goes. The reports from individuals of valiant work are done so numerous that the above is an infinitesimal part of the whole. ----- In curious contrast to the lofty style of the "know-everything" editors who assured the women of the United states, from Maine to California, that their protest over the Statehood Bill was unnecessary, illogical, or even worse, is Senator Beveridge's own letter, in which he reports the result. He says in a letter received at Headquarters Dec. 16: "In view of your personal interest, as expressed in your letter of recent date objecting to the word 'sex'in the Statehood Bill, I am addressing you to let you know the action of the Committee. As Chairman, I laid your protest, together with other similar ones, before my Committee, and I am glad to be able to advise you that the Committee unanimously decided to strike out the objectionable language, thus meeting the views of yourself and Sister women who have similarly addressed me on the subject. The bill will be reported to the Senate as thus amended by the Committee, in accordance with your very reasonable request." Mark the language — "your very reasonable request!" ----- Perhaps no more spontaneous response was ever given to anything then to the circular letter of the Woman's Protest Committee. All honor to the Committee! All honor to our good friend, Mrs. Elmina Springer of Chicago, who supplied most of the "sinews of war!" And to Catherine Waugh McCulloch, chairman of the committee. ----- The Ohio State Grange, in convention at Warren, Ohio, passed the following resolution: "Resolved, that we, the Ohio State Grange, endorse the position of the National Grange on the rights of women; and pledge its influence to secure the women of Ohio the right of suffrage." ----- Woman Suffrage Blotters, with white celluloid covers bearing pictures of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, 10 cents apiece, and three four 25 cents, the set of five for 40 cents. For Sale at M. A. W. S. A. Headquarters, Warren, Ohio. ----- COLUMN FOR WORKERS. ----- Susan B. Anthony, our Honorary President, is at her home in Rochester, N. Y. She is well, busy, cheerful and happy of course. Pessimists do not attain to long life; neither do idlers. Clubs throughout the United States are planning to celebrate her eighty-fifth birthday on Feb 15. A booklet of 20 questions and answers in regard to her life and work has been prepared at Headquarters for the Benefit of clubs. It is sold for five cents and is almost indispensable for a birthday program. Here are given several questions and answers from it. 1. When and where was Susan B. Anthony born? February 15, 1820, at Adams, Mass. 3. What was the first work she did outside of the home? When she was 12 years old she worked two weeks in her father's cotton factory, receiving $3 compensation. This some she divided with a sister, who expended her share for a green beaded bag, while Susan purchased and presented to her mother half a dozen pale blue cups and saucers for which she had heard her wish. Thus early was demonstrated the unselfishness which has proved to be her most dominant characteristic. 5. In what way was this early training in industry valuable? When her father lost his property in the financial crisis of 1837 Susan was equipped to earn her living by teaching. She also bore her share of the household cares as such diary entries as the following indicate: "Did a large washing today." "Spent today at the spinning wheel." "Baked 21 loaves of bread." "Wove three yards of carpet." "Got my quilt out of the frame." "We had twenty men to supper." 19. What great service did Miss Anthony perform for young women in 1900? The University of Rochester, through the efforts of women, consented to open its doors to girls provided the sum of $50,000 was raised. On the morning of the day when the time limit, as fixed by the trustees, would expire, $8,000 of the required sum was lacking. Every possible source had been exhausted, and in despair the women appealed to Miss Anthony who had already collected and turned over a considerable amount. She set out with the wonderful determination which has always characterized her, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon she went before the Board of Trustees with the full quota in checks and pledges, making herself responsible for the last $2,500. ----- Our President, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, has been in the field almost continuously since her return from Europe. She spoke at a great majority of the State Suffrage Conventions and in order to do this traveled thousands of miles and endured great hardships. Her last convention was that of Oklahoma and Indian Territory where a fine organization was made, with Mrs. Kate H. Biggers of Chickasha, I. T. as President. Like Miss Anthony, Miss Shaw is in splendid health and spirits. Four years she has wanted to own a small farm where she could spend her vacation times. This she has now accomplished. Friends who have seen her in her Cape Cod home never forgot the happy look on her face as she worked among her trees or fished upon the pond. To be out of doors with trees and grass, water and sky is a tonic to her. ----- Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, our Vice-President, after a summer tour in Europe, is in her New York home. Her apartments overlook Central Park and from her own room she has a fine view of park and river. Mrs. Catt gave five years of arduous work as the President of the Association and is now supposed to be resting. She however, is President of the International Woman Suffrage Association and of the Interurban Suffrage Association of Greater New York and is far from being idle. ----- Miss Alice Stone Blackwell is closely confined to her duties of editing the Women's Journal in Boston. This weekly is one of the most carefully edited papers in the country. It is absolutely reliable; seldom need one question a statement in its columns. It was founded by Lucy Stone and is ably carried on by her husband Henry B. Blackwell and Miss Blackwell ----- Miss Kate M. Gordon, our Corresponding Secretary, has divided her time this fall and winter between her home, New Orleans, and the field. In the early autumn she spent some time in organization work in West Virginia and is now again in Wheeling where a municipal charter, having an amendment for woman suffrage, will be voted upon shortly. ----- Miss Laura Clay of Kentucky, is at President at National Headquarters assisting with the work and sharing responsibility. She will remain until the Portland Convention time. As Chairman of the Committee on Increase of Membership, she makes an Encouraging report. The treasurer's books for 1904 have just closed showing an aggregate gain of 20 per cent over 1903. This gain was made by twenty-four auxiliaries, seven have lost a little, three have not yet reported, others remain the same as last year and the new Equal Suffrage Association of Oklahom and Indian Territories became auxiliary. ----- Dr. Cora Smith Eaton, are Western Auditor, is devoting all the time she can take from her profession and home to the cause. Blessings on the little woman, we all say. She has a double duty to perform, for every professional woman who succeeds helps to overcome prejudice and hence helps to hasten the day when women shall be politically free. ----- GAINS OF THE YEAR. ----- Woman Suffrage workers are enthusiastic over the gains of the last year. The International Council of Women with an affiliated membership of over ten millions voted itself in favor of woman suffrage. An International Woman Suffrage Association was formed at Berlin with Susan B. Anthony as Honorary President, Carrie Chapman Catt, President and Rachel Foster Avery, Corresponding Secretary. The Grangers of Ohio, Kentucky, Delaware and several other states have at their annual conventions passed suffrage resolutions thus falling in line with the National Grange. The American Federation of Labor, in annual convention at San Francisco, passed a suffrage resolution. The Teachers' Association of California, to the number of 1,500, in convention at Los Angeles, passed a resolution favoring woman suffrage. The Vermont Senate passed a bill for municipal suffrage which was lost in the House of Representatives by two or three votes. The Council of Wheeling, W.Va., adopted a new charter which provides that women of Wheeling shall vote in municipal affairs. At least 100,000 persons urged the territorial committee of the Senate to strike out the clause in the Statehood Bill which classed women with lunatics, idiots, criminals, etc. The Committee not only granted the request, but in doing so said the request was most reasonable. ----- The following associations, auxiliary to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, have made substantial gains in membership within the year: California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Pennsylvania Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin. ----- CONVENTION RAILROAD RATES. ---- Delegates and visitors who expect to attend the SUFFRAGE CONVENTION To be held in PORTLAND, OREGON, JUNE 29th, to JULY 5th, 1905, will be pleased to learn that advice has been received from the TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN PASSENGER ASSOCIATION THAT A ROUND TRIP RATE OF $56.50 FROM CHICAGO HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED. The rates from points west of Chicago will be based correspondingly low. As this round trip is less than the FAIR ONE WAY FROM CHICAGO, the unusually low rates will certainly insure a large attendance at the Convention of those who in addition to attending the meetings, wish to take advantage of trips to Alaska, California, Yosemite and Yellowstone Parks. The rates over the roads east of Chicago will be announced later, BUT WE HAVE EVERY ASSURANCE THAT THEY WILL BE CORRESPONDINGLY LOW. Information will appear in the Suffrage papers from time to time and for particulars address, LUCY E. ANTHONY. Sec'y R. R. Rates, 7443 Devon St., Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. PROGRESS FIGPRUNE Cereal THE IDEAL DRINK AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE. A delicious beverage having all the satisfying qualities of coffee and tea. It is made form choice California figs and prunes and selected grain, properly blended by ous special process. 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In one of the early chapters she says: "In Athens women were not allowed outside their homes or to eat at the table with husband and male children and had not the slightest ecquaintance with other men. As a great concession, after they were sixty, they were allowed to attend funerals." The closing chapter is devoted entirely to suffrage and is full of facts and arguments which all suffragists should know. Illinois Central R.R ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ROUTE EFFICIENTLY SERVES A VAST TERRITORY by thorough service to and from the following cities: CHIICAGO,ILL. CINCINNATI, OHIO. OMAHA, NEB. NEW ORLEANS, LA. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. MEMPHIS, TENN. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. HOT SPRINGS, ARK. ST. PAUL, MINN. LOUISVILLE, KY. PEORIA, ILL. NASHVILLE , TENN. EVANSVILLE, IND. ATLANTA, GA. ST. LOUIS, MO. JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Through excursion sleeping-car service between Chicago and between Cincinnati AND THE PACIFIC COAST. 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[four photos of women] Women from far reaches of the earth met together in Toronto this week for the International Federation of University Women conference at the Royal York. With 21 nationalities represented, it is considered the most universal meeting yet held by the fair sex in this city. Among the distinguished visitors are, left to right, Dr. M. T. F. deGaudino from Argentina; Mrs. Tang Liu from China; Miss Maria Canejo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Miss Alli Wilherhimo, editor of "Kotilesi," Helsinski, Finland; Miss Zo Afifi from Alexandria, Egypt, Mrs. Tang Liu is at present resident in Ottawa, her husband is the Chinese Ambassador to Canada. Dr. deGaudino holds the distinction of being the first woman to lecture in medicine in the University of Argentina. Federation of University Women Awards Six Fellowships at Meeting Yesterday Winners of six fellowships were announced by the Federation of University Women at the opening sessions of their meeting, attended by 500 delegates, here yesterday. General business consisted of delegates approving suggestions for committee mergers and by-law changes presented by council after a meeting Monday. The International Fellowship in Senior Science, worth [pound sterling symbol]300 was awarded to Miss E. J. Batham, M.Sc., Otago University, New Zealand, a 29-year-old zoologist, now doing research at the University of Cambridge. She will continue at Cambridge. Departing from its policy of making awards to women from 22 to 45 years of age, the Federation decided the Mary E. Woolley scholarship should go to Dr. Kathi G. Meyer-Baer, a 55-year-old scholar whom an American professor of Musicology regards as "beyond doubt the leading living authority on early music printing." Born and educated in Germany, she is now a naturalized American. She will go to London and Oxford to examine music in the British Museum and the Bodician library. The Crusade scholarship went to Dr. D. J. Kohlbrugge, a graduate of Utrecht who holds a Doctorate in Sanskrit from Berlin. Thirty-five years old and known for anti-Nazi activities, Dr. Kohlbrugge will go to Iran to study Persian and do research work in Sufism, the mystic movement of Islam. The Helen Marr Kirby Fellowship was awarded to Dr. G. F. E. M. Dierick, 34-year-old graduate of the University of Amsterdam, who is a zoologist studying chemical control of pests of Citrus. She will continue her studies in California. Miss M. J. Mathieson, Australia, 27, a zoologist doing penicillin research, subsequently accepted a British Council Fellowship so the scholar named as alternate, Mrs. H. Zwirn-Hirsch, has been awarded the Fellowship. Mrs. Zwirn-Hirsch is a graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who has lived in Germany, England and Palestine. She is a botanist and will continue her research in fungi in California. Winner of the sixth award was Dr. L. C. Roubert, French chemist, a Doctor of Pharmacy from Algiers University, who will go to Harvard Medical School to work on blood proteins. A seventh award, a personal "holiday scholarship," was announced by the delegate from Buenos Aires, Dr. Maria Teresa Gaudinoo, who will finance a Federation choice who wishes to learn Spanish, for three months. Something profoundly different inspires UNESCO from what inspired women after World War I. Dr. Helen C. White, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin said last night. In an address to the federation she discussed, "The Advancement of Understanding," at a public meeting in which her emphasis was on UNESCO. "I am afraid women (after World War I) proceeded on the assumption that if they refused to consider the possibility of war, there could be no war, and that if war did come to pass, it would be possible, by resolution, to have nothing to do with it, to keep out of it. Today, most of us know that war is the end result of an accomplished process," she said. UNESCO, however, she said, "is based on the conviction that peace cannot be made a reality unless it is founded in understanding and intellectual and moral co-operation between the nations of the world." In other words, she added, "it must have a spiritual basis and it is the purpose of UNESCO to create that basis." Urging the delegates to have faith in their international ideas and to accept the challenge for world freedom, Dr. Stanislawa Adamowicz, president of the federation, opened the conference in Convocation Hail, to which the public was admitted. "Hands accustomed to wielding weapons are clumsy when handling the delicate threads of peace" she said. "Minds concentrated on destruction have lost their flexibility." She felt the IFUW could play an important role in fostering world peace. "Since the conference of 1920, when the federation was founded, there has been no conference of such importance. Since the last meeting in 1939 there have been six years of the hardest, most severe and most inflexible war humanity has ever known and two years of embarrassed efforts to establish peace," said Dr. Adamowicz. She stressed the need of accurate thinking to find an accurate solution. Only proper education and training of future leaders and the predominance of constructive tendencies among them could prevent the fate of nations being decided by arms, she said. Commenting that the 20th century lacked stability she stated that the successive order of things must be reversed. The religion of peace would give stability, and from that would come sufficiency. "The peaceful strife of science represents the ideas of Pasteur, according to whom science is, at the same time, of no nationality and also the highest expression of national forces," she explained. Referring to the delegates as "wandering scholars migrating from one country to another, with the opportunity of knowing what others are doing," she favored the resulting circulation of ideas and the non-nationalistic outlook. She bade them heed the words of their charter, urging orderliness of mind, clarity of vision and self-sacrifice to achieve peace in our time. "Let us not be frightened by the problems that confront us, and let us ardently hope that we shall be, as has been wisely said, a part of the answer and not a part of the problem," she concluded. A telegram from Prime Minister Mackenzie King welcoming the delegates was read by Mrs. Richard B. Crummy, president of the Canadian Federation of University Women. The deliberations of these women would further international friendship and goodwill, and the conference had the contributions of the best-trained minds of all countries it read. Mrs. Crummy said she was deeply moved as she welcomed the university women from 32 different countries to Canada's land of plenty. "The Canadian federation is not greeting strangers, but kinfolk and relatives," she said. Senator Cairine Wilson, the first woman nominated to the Senate of Canada, extended her welcome on behalf of the federal government. "Canada is honored by this meeting, the first to be held outside Europe," she began. "God poured the ocean not to divide us but to unite us," she quoted, and begged women to unite on the principles of the IFUW. Speaking for the Ontario Government, the Hon. Leslie Frost, KC, reminded the delegates of the thousands of immigrants coming here by air and mentioned how small, yet how complex, science had made the modern world. "Atomic energy has a capacity for good and evil," he said, "and the future depends upon you women." Mayor Saunders brought forth giggles when he apologized for the humidity. "It is one thing I can't fix, although I can fix most things," he said. "But I will see about keeping the sun out." Principal Taylor of University College in the absence of the principal of the university, Sidney Smith, expressed the honor he felt at the presence of the delegates. He outlined the problems confronting leaders in education and traced the degeneration of faith that led to war. American Women Honor Delegates to Convention The American Association of University Women entertained at a luncheon in the ballroom of the Royal York for delegates attending the conference of the International Federation of University Women. Chairman of the event was Dean Althea Hottel, national president from Philadelphia. Dr. Meta Glass of Charlottesville, Va., also spoke. Those at the head table included Dr. Kathryn McHale, Washington; Dr. Dorothy Weeks, Chambersburg, Pa.; Mrs. H. P. Bybee, Austin, Tex.' Dr. Katherine B. Warren, New York; Dr. Hope Hibbard, Oberlin, O.; Dr. Josephine Glasgow, Albany, N.Y.; Dean Margaret Justin, Manhattan, Kan.; Dean Anna Powell, Denton, Tex.; Mrs. C. S. Bluemel, Englewood, Col.; Mrs. Glen WAters, Rochester, Minn.; Dr. Eunice Goddard, New Salem, Mass.; Mrs. R. W. Holmstead, Bloomington, Ind., and Miss Laura Newman, St. Catharines. Guests at Royal York for the conference, include: Renee Jeanne Dubols, Switzerland; Miss Margritta Hansson, Sweden; Mrs. Fred McLean, Great Britain; Mrs. Maria Fe G. Atlenza and Miss Concepcon Aguila representing Phillipines; Dr. J. F. Millar, Scotland; Mrs. Charles Bannerman, Louisiana; Dr. Janet Robb, New York; Katheryne Baugh, Alexandria, Va.; Mrs. C. R. Gilbert, Hokina; Dr. Pearl Ponsford, Ph.d., El Paso, Texas; Dr. Helen Dwight Reid, Washington; Mrs. G. E. Allen, New Orleans; Dr. Anna Powell Denton, Texas; Dr. Louise McDowell, Wellesley, Mass; Dr. Dorothy Weeks, Chambersburg, Pa.; Winona Montgomery, Phoenix, Ariz.; Helen Todd, Ill.; Muriel Steeves, Moncton, N.B.; Dr. K. B. Warren, New York; Sallie Willes, and Ruby Minon, Texas; Irma Wilson, Ariz.; Dr. Katherine French, La.; Laura Rector, W. Va.; Mr. K. Alderman, St. Paul, Minn.; Mrs. H. P. Bybee, Austin, Texas; Mrs. E. M. Archer, Little Rock, Ark., and others. Contract Bridge by Josephine Culbertson When a player makes a shut-out bit, he tacitly warns his partner not to double the opponents except on his own responsibility. Nevertheless, even after this sort of warning, it does not follow that if partner does double he must be left in it. Consider this case (graph on article). There was no defense against the four-heart contract. East, of course, took two hearts and the diamond ace, but that was all. In the post-mortem discussion. West maintained doggedly that his four-club bid had spoken for itself, announcing dire offensive weakness, and therefore, that East should not have doubled. East did not agree. He conceded that the four-club bid carried a warning, but he pointed out that with the opening diamond bid and the strong heart raise coming from North, one hear honor was virtually placed in the North hand, and therefor 'that East was sure of two heart tricks and the diamond ace. Further, in view of East's extreme length in diamonds, what was more likely (East asked) than that West held singleton diamond, which he would certainly be glad to open if East doubled. There was a great deal of logic in East's position. True, West's bid guaranteed nothing defensively, but by the same token West might have made exactly the same bid with this hand: (graph on article) This holding would let East-West defeat four hearts two tricks, with West getting not only a club trick but a diamond ruff. In a view of the particular distribution and defensive tricklessness of his hand, and in further view of the respective vulnerability, West might well have taken out the double to five club, which would have been an excellent sacrifice. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Our Children - By ANGELO PATRI City's Restricted Young Often Find Sleep Difficult There are children, usually city children, who do not sleep well. They are put to bed on time and fall asleep after a long period of wakefulness. Then, in about four hours, they waken again and toss about restlessly for hours more. In the morning, they are fretful and difficult to manage, refusing their breakfasts, dwaddling over things until their mothers are at their wit's end to know what to do with them. These children, when examined by their family physician, show no signs of illness. To all appearances they are in good health. Why they do not sleep is a question. Mothers can find no reason, and doctors say there is no apparent reason for their restlessness. Most of these children are under six years old. Such children are growing their great muscle masses, or should be. In order to grow them well they must have hard exercise. Then, too, these children are generating great stores of energy for their growth. This energy must be released to promote the activity that uses the muscles, wears them down and recreates them. Children do not grow fast and sturdily unless this process of building up, wearing down and recreating is going on to the full extent. Few children in cities can have this activity, this hard exercise in play, that is demanded by nature as they price of health growth. The play places are few; the streets are unsafe; to go to the park means an escort, and mothers are busy; the homes are small and confined; This adds up to the restricted way of life that dams up the children's energy intended for their growth, restricts the use of muscles and nerve centres that must act if growth is to be made. Activity, hard play uses the energy and promotes growth. It brings on the healthy, tired feeling that makes sleep easy. The restless ones, burdened with energy they cannot release, are fretful, irritable, and push off sleep their bodies do not want. This is a difficult situation for mothers in cities. Mothers in the country, in suburbs where there are yard spaces, can send their children out to dig, build, run, jump, swing and slide. A pile of sand, a heap of smooth boards and blocks a wagon, some bricks, some sticks, a stout tree sump and a mallet are wonderful tools of active play. Children who have hard exercise in the open air will sleep. City mothers have to search for safe places where such play can b had, and it is no easy search. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Homely Happenings The story is told of a witty American of a past generation, Joseph H. Choate, that somebody asked him: "Mr. Choate, if you could not be yourself, who would you rather be?" The reply instantly: "Mrs. Choate's second husband." 000086 WOMENS RAIDS ON PARLIAMENT. The efforts of the suffragettes at the present and recent sessions to appear in person as petitioners before the House of Commons are not the first made by women to be heard in the British parliament. In 1641 several "gentlewomen and tradesmen's wives" flocked around the door of the commons and told the commander of the guard that if they were not heard 500 of them would be there next day; that it was as good for them to die there as at home. The House advised the commander to "speak them fair and send them home." The next day they returned and in great numbers and presented a petition. it was received and read, proving to be a prayer for the "putting down of popery and idolatry." The Commons have not been alone in their troubles with the fair sex. The peeresses' galleries of the House of Lords are set apart for the women members of the families of peers. In the eighteenth century the peeresses made such noise that orders for their exclusion were issued. The ladies returned, and the story of their victory has been told by Horace Walpole and by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, herself the daughter of the Duke of Kingston. IN 1788 Lady Mary wrote to Lady Pomfret: The ladies have shown their zeal and appetite for knowledge in a most glorious manner. At the last warm debate in the house of lords it was unanimously resolved that there should be no crowd of unnecessary auditors; consequently the fair sex were excluded and the gallery destined to the sole use of the House of Commons. Not withstanding which determination a tribe of dames resolved to show on this occasion that neither men nor laws could resist them. These heroines were lady Huntingdon, the Duchess of Queensberry, the Duchess of Ancaster, Lady Westmoreland, Lady Cobham, Lady charlotte Edwin, Lady Archibald Hamilton and her daughter, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Pendarvis and Lady Frances Saunderson. I am thus particular in their names, since I look upon them to be the boldest asserters and most resigned sufferers for liberty i ever heard of. They presented themselves at the door and 9 o'clock in the morning, where sire William Saunderson respectfully informed them that the chancellor had made an order against their admittance. The duchess of queensberry, as head of the squadron, pished at the ill-breeding of a mere lawyer and desired him to let them up the stairs privately. After some modest refusals, he swore by G--- he would not let them in. Her grace, with a noble warmth, answered by G---- they would come in, in spite of the Chancellor and the whole House. This being reported. The peers resolved to starve them out. An order was made that the doors should not be opened till they had raised their seige. These amazons now showed themselves qualified for the duty even of foot soldiers. They stood there till 5 in the afternoon, without either sustenance or intermission, every now and then playing volleys of thumps, kicks and raps against the door, with so much violence that the speakers in the house were scarce heard. When the lords were not to be conquered by this, the two Duchesses (very well apprised of the use of stratagems in war) commanded a dead silence of half an hour; and the chancellor, who thought this a certain proof of absence (the commons also being very impatient to enter) gave order for the opening of the door; upon which they all rushed in, pushed aside their competitors and placed themselves in the front rows of the gallery. They stayed there till after 11, when the House rose and during the debate gave applause and showed marks of dislike, not only by smiles and winks (which marks of dislike, not only by smiles and winks (which have always been allowed in these cases) but by noisy laughs and apparent contempt's, which is supposed the true reason why Lord Hervey spoke miserably. I beg your pardon, dear madam, for this long narration, but it is impossible to be short on so copious a subject. And you must own this action to be very well worthy of a record and, I think, not to be paralleled in any history, ancient or modern. If Lady Mary could return to London now she would find a parallel in the "Boldest asserters and most resigned sufferers for liberty" in the suffragettes. worth a million dollars was rare indeed. Now you couldn’t begin to count the millionaires in the United States. And you must remember one thing. You can’t have a man worth $500,000,000 if you haven’t got a $500,000,000 country.” Big Fortunes to Grow. “Do you think the size of fortunes will go on increasing then?” “Not in proportion to their growth in the past twenty-five years, nor in proportion to corporate or co-operative fortunes. You can’t stop growth. Much of this wonderful development we have to-day has been accomplished in the past twenty-five years. We are only just beginning to find out what steam and electricity can do. In twenty-five years to come we shall be laughing at the size of the corporations and fortunes we think big to-day. And, mind you, it behooves us to make laws for what is coming, not for what is passed. “The Sherman law deals with business, just as the Tariff law deals with business. Why do we change the Tariff law from time to time? Because conditions change. Well, conditions have changed entire in business since the Sherman act was passed. It isn’t sacred, is it? It wasn’t handed down to us along with the Ten Commandments. Then why not change it and put the big corporations—which cannot be done away with unless you do away with progress itself—under Federal control, and allow the Government to license them and regulate the business methods?” “If you allow the Government to regulate the corporations, Mr. Perkins, to supervise their stock issues, and later of course to fix prices, will not the truth govern the Government instead of the Government governing the trusts?” Mr. Perkins said: “Let me answer that question by asking you a few questions: “Have the banks controlled the Government? “Have the railroads controlled the Government? “Have the pure-food people controlled the Government? “Doesn’t the Government regulate the banks, fix the railroad rates and inspect the foods? “Have any of these powerful interests ever controlled the Government of the United States since the Government began to control them? “No! “Well, why on earth shouldn’t the Government be able to control and regulate corporations engaged in interstate commerce?” Agrees with Roosevelt. “Then, Mr. Perkins, you agree with Mr. Roosevelt in his contentions?” “Absolutely. I have the highest admiration for him.” “Is it your high opinion of Mr. Roosevelt or your attachment to Republican principles that led you to be so active in collecting campaign funds for him?” “Well, I absolutely believe that if you belong to a party you should work for it and subscribe to its funds. I have always made political contributions ever since I could afford it, but I have never once been asked for a contribution by Mr. Roosevelt not have I ever discussed contributions with him. I believe in sticking to my friends, and Mr. Roosevelt is one of my friends. “Our friendship started in a rather peculiar manner, in connection with my life insurance work. My father was in the life insurance business out in Chicago. I started in it as an office boy at $3 a week and had risen to be cashier. That was in the old days of the general agent system, when the companies were paying 35 per cent. commission on new business and seven per cent. on further premiums. It was like paying seven per cent. to collect money. I saw a light and came on to New York and was allowed to go out to Denver to try the branch office system which I had originated. Then I built up the West and was brought on to New York to organize the company’s entire NOVEMBER 26, 1911. This Clipping From NEW YORK, N.Y. HERALD TRIBUNE NOV 27 1940 Women Review Century's Gain, Plan for Future Mrs. Catt Tells Delegates 100 Careers Are Open to Them Now, to 7 in 1840 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, chairman of the Woman's Centennial Congress, presented last night as evidence of the striking advance of American women in the last century, a list of women in "100 important careers open to woman in 1940." Mrs. Catt, presiding at the evening session of the congress, at the Commodore, called the role of the women of 1940 and gave to each one who responded a copy of the book "Victory," written by experts in the history of woman suffrage to celebrate this centennial. In 1840, when the woman movement began, Mrs. Catt recalled, there were only seven occupations in which women could earn money--domestic service, keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding. The evening program included also a roll call of women's grievances of 1840 and a review of what had become of them, as well as a summary of the grievances of 1940, about which the delegates had been worrying all day. This morning they will continue to discuss these grievances, and this afternoon, in the final session of the congress, a statement of purpose will be adopted designed to outline the task of the women for the next 100 years. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt presided yesterday morning at a panel discussion of the state in which American women find themselves after 100 years of opportunity. Participants in the panel were Miss Dorothy Bellanca, vice-president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; Pearl Buck, novelist; Mrs. Anne O'Hare McCormick, journalist; Dr. Eveline Burns, professor of economy at Columbia University; Mrs. Crystal Bird Fauset, Negro legislator; Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist; Miss Marion Martin, director of the women's division of the Republican National Committee; Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister, chairman of the women's division of the Democratic National Committee; Miss Mary Winslow, American representative on the Inter-American Commission of Women, and Mrs. Raymond Sayre, of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Years, Days or Hours? Miss Winslow said that what the women should discuss was a program not for one hundred years, but for the next one hundred days. Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, from the audience, said the next one hundred hours were the critical ones. "Can any one name anything more important than to rush all possible aid to Great Britain im- Speaking and Listening at the Women'sCentennial Congress [head-shot photos of Dr. Evelie M. Burns, Miss Marian E. Martin and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt] Dr. Eveline M. Burns, of Columbia, speaking at the Commodore Miss Marian E. Martin, an interested member of the audience Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who also delivered an address Mrs. Catt's List of Women in New Careers Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, chairman of the Woman's Centennial Congress, listed yesterday the following American women in "100 important careers open to women in 1940": Public Service Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, first woman in the Federal Cabinet. Ruth Bryan Rhode, American Minister to Denmark. 1933-'36, first woman to head an American delegation in a foreign country. Florence J. Harriman, American Minister to Norway. Mary Anderson Chief of Woman's Bureau, Department of Labor, since 1920. Katherine Lenroot, Chief of Children's Bureau, Department of Labor. Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman governor of a state, Wyoming, 1925; first woman director of the United States Mint. Louise Stanley, Ph. D., organizer and first director, United States Bureau of Home Economics. Harriet Elliot, Chief of Consumer Division, National Defense Advisory Commission. Sarah Wambaugh, LL.D., adviser to Peruvian government for Tacna-Arica plebiscie, 1925-'26; member League of Nations Committee, Saar Plebiscite Commission, 1934-'35. Henrietta Additon, Member New York State Commission of Correction, Deputy Police Prevention Bureau, New York City Police Department. Genevieve Earle, Minority Leader in the Council of the City of New York. Frieda S. Miller, Industrial Commissioner, New York State Department of Labor. Mary Driscoll, Chief of Liquor Licens- ventive medicine and dean, Women's Medical College, Pennsylvania, 1918-1940; Assistant Director of Public Health, Philadelphia. Bertha Van Hoosen, M. D., professor of obstetrics, Medical School, Loyola University. S. Josephine Baker, M. D., specialist in child hygiene and pediatrics; noted in public-health work. Justina Hill, M. D., first woman on staff of urology department, Johns Hopkins Medical School. Ruth Morris Bakwin, M. D., director New York Infirmary for Women and Children. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M. D., chairman executive board American Women's Hospital. Kate C. Mead, M. D., eminent physician; author of "Women in Medicine." Margaret Sloss, D. V. M.; veterinarian, pathologist; member of faculty, Iowa State College. B. Elizabeth Beatty, D. D. S.; assistant professor of roentgenology and pedodentics at Temple University Dental School. Theology Georgia Harkness, Ph. D., Boston University, professor of applied theology, Garrett Biblical Institute, Northwestern University; only woman member of American Theological Society. Mary Ely Lyman, professor of religion Vassar College, 1920-1926; lecturere Union Theological Seminary, 1928-1940; dean and professor of religion, Sweetbriar College. Social Service Sophinisba P. Breckinridge, Ph. D., professor public welfare administration, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago Edit Abbott, Ph. D., dean of Sc of Social Service Administrat University of Chicago; editor store in New England, G. Fox Co pany, Hartford, Conn. Dorothy Shaver, vice-president, & Taylor, since 1931. Dorothy Anderson, merchandise ager, Arnold Constable. Teresa O'Brien, assistant mana Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Clara Scovil, president of Vaz creator and owner of Patch Post and Flexible Manikins. Theater Rachel Crothers, playwright, produc and manager; author of twenty-fo plays. Margaret Webster, stage director, directed Maurice Evans's "Richard II," "Hamlet," "King Henry IV" and the Hayes-Evans "Twelfth Night." Music Antonia Brico, conductor of the New York Women's Symphony Orchestra. Museums Julianna Force, director, Witney Museum of American Art. Beatrice Winser, director, Newark Museum. Grace McCann Morley, Ph. D., director San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art. Belle J. Benchley, executive head of the San Diego Zoo. Public Safety Capt. Rhode J. Milliken, director Women's Bureau, Department of Metropolitan Police, Washington. Sergt. Mary C. Gainey, Women's Bureau, Metropolitan Police, Washington. Gleanor Hutzel, Chief, Woman's Division of Police, Detroit; only woman in United States with rank of Deputy Commissioner. had become of (?) summary of the grievances of 1940, about which the delegates had been worrying all day. This morning they will continue to discuss these grievances, and this afternoon, in the final session of the congress, a statement of purpose will be adopted, designed to outline the task of the w women for the next 100 years. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt presided yesterday morning at a panel discussion of the state in which American women find themselves after 100 years of opportunity. Participants in the panel were Miss Dorothy Bellanca, vice-president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; Pearl Buck, novelist; Mrs. Anne O'Hare McCormick, journalist; Dr. Eveline Burns, professor of economy at Columbia University; Mrs. Crystal Bird Fauset, Negro legislator; Dr. Margaret Mead, anthropologist; Miss Marion Martin, director of the women's division of the Republican National Committee; Mrs. Thomas F. McAllister, chairman of the women's division of the Democratic National Committee; Miss Mary Winslow, American representative on the Inter-American Commission of Women, and Mrs. Raymond Sayre, of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation. Years, Days or Hours? Miss Winslow said that what the women should discuss was a program not for one hundred years, but for the next one hundred days. Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, from the audience, said the next one hundred hours were the critical ones. "Can any one name anything more important than to rush all possible aid to Great Britain immediately?" she asked. Mrs. McCormick, answering for the panel recalled that president Roosevelt had said the country was doing all that was possible. "That means," she amended, "as much as public opinion is behind." The discussion ranged over the entire field of women's activities, from the farm and factory to participation in party politics and concern over the international situation. Much time was devoted to the question whether women obtained better results by working in organizations separate from men, or in joint organizations, and what were the qualifications demanded of women seeking public office. Mrs. Fauset remarked here that no man ever pondered about whether or not he was "qualified" for office. "What we have brought out in this discussion," said Mrs. Roosevelt, summing up," is not what we can actually do in the next one hundred days but a picture of women's tremendous widening of influence. There is no other country in the world where a group of women could sit together like this and feel safe and know they were doing what they had a right to do. "We have brought out, too, that we must do things more energetically than perhaps we have in the past. We must begin in our home communities, and increase education about the needs of that community, so that every woman will do a job that is really useful to it." Referring to a question raised earlier in the discussion, concerning the need for training women as well as men for war service, Mrs. Roosevelt said: "I imagine the time is coming when we are going to have to face this question. there have been many requests to the government that some specified training be given to women and girls in national defense, but so far it is a topic which officials shun like the plague. Many persons , of course, believe that government should not draft men, much less women and girls." Judge Florence E. Allen, of the Ohio Supreme Court, presided at the afternoon session, after which the women divided into five groups for study of specific fields of influence. Miss Dorothy Straus presided over an "experience meeting of women in political office." in which one hundred women, nearly all elected or appointed officials, told how they got their nominations and how they won their elections or appointments. Other groups and their presiding officers were: education, Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse; economic and social welfare, Dr. Theresa Wolfson; ethical and religious values, Miss Rhoda McCulloch; and world peace through world organization, Mrs. Dana C. Backus. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, chairman of the Woman's Centennial Congress, listed yesterday the following American women in "100 important careers open to women in 1940": Public Service Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, first woman in the Federal Cabinet. Ruth Bryan Rhode, American Minister to Denmark, 1933-'36, first woman to head an American delegation in a foreign country. Florence J. Harriman, American Minister to Norway. Mary Anderson, Chief of Woman's Bureau, Department of Labor, since 1920. Katherine Lenroot, Chief of Children's Bureau, Department of Labor. Nellie Tayloe Ross, first woman governor of a state, Wyoming, 1925; first woman director of the United States Mint. Louise Stanley, Ph,D., organizer and first director, United States Bureau of Home Economics. Harriet Elliott, Chief of Consumer division, National Defense Advisory Commission. Sarah Wambaugh, LL.D., adviser to Peruvian government for Tacna-Arica plebiscite, 1925-'26; member League of Nations Committee, Saar Plebiscite Commission, 1934-'35. Henrietta Additon, Member New York State Commission of Correction , Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of Crime Prevention Bureau, New York City Police Department. Genevieve Earle, Minority Leader in the Council of the City of New York. Frieda S. Miller, Industrial Commissioner, New York State Department of Labor. Mary Driscoll, Chief of Liquor Licensing Board of Boston. Education Mary E. Woolley, Ph. D., president Mount Holyoke College, 1900-'37; representative at Geneva Limitation of Armament Conference 1932-'33. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, Ph. D., president of Mills College, Oakland, Calif. Virginia Gildersleeve, Ph.D., dean of Bernard College. Winifred Edgerton Merrill, mathematician, Ph. D., Columber '86; received the first doctor's degree given by Columbia to a woman. Mary W. Newson, Ph. D., Goettingen, Germany, 1897; professor of mathematics at Eureka College, Eureka, Ill. Olive C. Hazlett, Ph. D., University of Chicago, professor of mathematics, University of Illinois; research in abstract algebra. Anna Pell Wheeler, Ph., D., University of Chicago; professor of mathematics at Bryn Mawr. Louise Pound, Ph. D., University of Heidelberg, professor of English, University of Nebraska. Viola Florence Barnes, Ph. D., professor and chairman of history department, Mount Holyoke College. Alive H. Lerch, librarian in charge of rare book department, Library of Congress. Science Margaret Mead, anthropologist, Ph.D., Columbia, assistant curator of Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History. Frederica de Laguna, archeologist, Ph.D., Columbia, lecturer in anthropology, Bryn Mawr College. Christina Lochman, geologist, professor of geology, Mount Holyoke College. Marie Poland Fish, ichthyologist, Narragansett Marine Laboratory. Anne M. McGrath, ethnologist, authority on Indian archeology and ethnology. Florence R. Sabin, authority on anatomy and pathology, Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research. Maude Slye, M.D. pathologist, authority on influence of heredity in cancer, Sprague Institute, University of Chicago. Alice Catherine Evans, M.D. Senior Bacteriologist, United States Public Health Service, Washington. Frances A. Hellebrandt, M.D. Associate Professor of Physiology, University of Wisconsin; inventor of electric ergometer. Gladys A. Anslow, Ph., D., Yale, Professor of Physics, Smith College; research on neutrons and induced radio activities. Catherine Blodgett, physicist and inventor, discovered process of taking glare out of glass. Constance L. Torrey, Assistant Physicist, Bureau of Standards, Washington; radium expert. Emma P. Carr, Chemist, Ph.D., University of Chicago, Head of Department of Chemistry, Mount Holyoke, since 1913. Helen U. Kiely, Chief Chemist, American Writing Paper Corporation's seven paper mills; discovered new types and uses for paper fabrics. Wanda K. Farr, botanist, combines botany, chemistry, microscopy, in study of plant tissues. Margaret C.Ferguson, Ph. D., Department of Botany, Wellsley college; author and lecturer. Ida Barney, astronomer, Research assistant to Dr. Frank Schlesinger, Yale Observatory, in photographing and mapping the heavens and locating 160,000 stars. Annie Jump Cannon. Doctor of Astronomy, University of Groningen, Holland; connected with Astronomical Observatory, Harvard. Medicine Alice Hamilton, M.D. Consultant in Industrial Toxicology, United States Department of Labor; Member Health Commission, League of Nations. Josephine Bicknell Neal, M.D., Clinical Professor of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Gladys Dick, M.D. University of Chicago, cancer research work and co-discoverer of scarlet fever germ. Katherine Macfarlane, M.D. Professor of gynecology, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Martha Tracy, M.D. professor of preventive medicine and (?) (?) Medical College, Pennsylvania 1918-1940; Assistant Director of Public Health, Philadelphia. Bertha Van Hoosen, M.D. Professor of obstetrics, Medical School, Loyola University. S. Josephine Baker, M.D. specialist in child hygiene and pediatrics; noted in public-health work. Justina Hill, M.D. first woman on staff of urology department, Johns Hopkins Medical School. Ruth Morris Bakwin, M.D. director New York Infirmary for Women and Children. Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., chairman executive board American Women's Hospital. Kate C. Mead, M.D., eminent physician; author of "Women in Medicine." Margaret Sloss, D.V.M.; veterinarian, pathologist; member of faculty, Iowa State College. B. Elizabeth Beatty, D.D.S. assistant professor of roentgenology and pedodentics at Temple University Dental School. Theology Georgia Harkness, Ph.D., Boston University, professor of applied theology, Garrett Biblical Institute, Northwestern University; only woman member of American Theological Society. Mary Ely Lyman, professor of religion Vassar College, 1920-1926; lecturer Union Theological Seminary, 1928-1940; dean and professor of religion, Sweetbriar College. Social Service Sophinisba P. Breckinridge, Ph. D., professor public welfare administration. School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. Edith Abbott, Ph. D., dean of (?) of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago, editor (?) Service Review." Henrietta Szold, philanthropy, outstanding Jewish woman of the world, pioneer in bringing American standards of health and hospitalization to Palestine, who, since Hitler's advent, has rescued and re- habilitated in Palestine 6,500 refugees from Central and Eastern Europe. Mary Church Terrell, graduate Oberlin College 1884 (?) studied in Sorbonne and in Germany, , author of "Colored Women in a (?) World." Maj. Julia C. Stimson, retired (?) nurse U.S.A. Corps during World Warm president International Nurses' Association. Law Catharine Waugh McCulloch, LL. (?) pioneer in law. Union College of Law; 1886; admitted to bar, Supreme Court of Illinois, 1886. Florence E. Allen, judge of United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit; judge of Court of Common Pleas, 1920-'22; judge of Supreme Court of Ohio, 1922-'34. Sara N. Soffel, judge of County Court, Allegheny County, Pa.' first women judge in Pennsylvania. Engineering Lillian M. Gilbreth, industrial engineer, Ph.D., Brown University, professor of household management Purdue University. Nora Stanton Barney, C.E., Cornell; architect, builder and real estate developer. Olive W. Dennis, C.E., Cornell; engineer of service, with Baltimore & Ohio Railroad; only woman holding this position. Edith Clarke, C.E. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; expert mathematician in electric power transmission. Elsie Eaves, C.E., University of Colorado; assistant editor "Engineering News" and director Market (?) and Construction Methods (?) Margaret Ingels, M.E. University of Kentucky; first woman in the (?) to receive this degree; first woman (?) air conditioning engineer. Vivien Kellems, E.E., one of (?) women members American Institute of Electrical Engineers; co-inventor (?) and manufacturer of the cable (?) Mildred Pfister, consulting engineer (?) chemical, electrical, mechanical consultant on water conditioning steam plants, Pittsburgh. Jane H. Rider, sanitary engineer (?) Home Economics Flora Rose, director home economics department, Cornell University, member of Governor Herbert Lehman's Agricultural (?) Commission; director New (?) State Home Bureau Federation. Helen T. Parsons, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins; professor of home economics, University of Wisconsin, author on scientific nutrition and vitamins. Mary I. Barber, dietitian, (?) National Dietetic Association. Millie Kalsem, famous dietitian. (?) Newspaper and Public Helen Rogers Reid, vice-president the New York Herald Tribune. Anna Steese Richardson, writer, editor of consumer division, (?) Collier Publishing Company. Gertrude Battles Lane, (?) "Woman's Home Companion" president Crowell Publishing Company. Anne O'Hare McCormick, (?) and foreign correspondent, "The New York Times." Dorothy Thompson, special writer (?) the New York Herald Tribune. Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, (?) "The New York Post." Mrs. William Brown Meloney, editor in chief of "This Week," (?) section of the New York Tribune. Vera M. Dean, head of research department, Foreign Policy (?) tion. Pauline E. Mandigo, president (?) News Publicity Bureau, (?) consultant on public relations. Mabel Potter Hanford, director contract department, (?) Durstine & Osborn. Business Beatrice Fox Auerbach, owner, manager of largest (?) pany, (?) Dorothy Shaver, vice-president, & Taylor, since 1931. Dorothy Anderson, merchandise (?) ager, Arnold Constabl.e Teresa O'Brien. assistant manager Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Clara Scovil, president of Vaz(?)(?) creator and owner of Path Post and Flexible Manikins. Theater Rachel Crothers, playwright, producer and manager; author of twenty-f(?) plays. Margaret Webster, stage director directed Maurice Evans's "Richard (?) II," "Hamlet," "King Henry IV" and the Hayes-Evans "Twelfth Night." Music Antonia Brico, conductor of the New York Women's Symphony Orchestra. Museums Julliana Force, director, Whittrey Museum of American Art. Beatrice Winser, director, Nework Museum. Grace McCann Morley, Ph. D., director, San Francisco Museum of Contemporary ARt. Belle J. Benchley, executive head of the San Diego Zoo. Public Safety Capt. Rhode J. Milliken, director. Women's Bureau, Department of Metropolitan Police, Washington, Bergt, Mary C. Gainey Women's Bureau, Metropolitan Police, Washington. Eleanor Hutzel, Chef Woman's D(?) vision of Police, Detroit; only wo(?) in United States with rank of (?) (?)duty Commissioner. New York's Finest are Called in the Draft Thomas J. Slattery and Edward J. McGuire (left to right), who have traded New York City police uniforms for the United States Army version it had been called to his attention that three policemen, ordered to report for military duty under the selective service act, were informed by officials of the new Police Military Service Bureau that they would not be reimbursed for loss of pay. The decision was said to have taken them by surprise. The patrolmen are Charles H. Wallace, of the Coney Island police station, Brooklyn, ordered to report for military service tomorrow; Thomas J. Slattery, of the East Fifty-first Street station, ordered to report on Saturday; and Patrick McGuire, of the Beach Street station, ordered to report today. Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine said he was sending appeals to the respective draft boards of the three policemen asking that their term of military service be deferred. "I am addressing letters to the local boards of the above-mentioned," Commissioner Valentine said, "which will be given to the said men for presentation to their boards. Such letters will contain a request that the boards give whatever consideration they can to deferred classification for said police men. Mayor LaGuardia said the city would ask deferment for police and firemen, since their work gives them daily training for military life. He said, however, that he would not seek deferment for members of any other department. British Art Exhibit Destroyed Herkomer's painting of Charterhouse Chapel was mysteriously destroyed in 1939 while on its way back to London from British Empire exhibitions and $4,800 insurance has been paid on it. Japanese Birds Shun Imitator When Guy C. Caldwell, American imitator of bird calls, visited the zoo at Tokio, robins, canaries and parrots were interested, but Japanese birds failed to be impressed. U. S. Buys 1,000,000 Acres Almost 1,000,000 acres of submarginal land have been purchased in the southwestern Dust Bowl by the United States Department of Agriculture since 1935. Bellows Club Special Straight Rye Whiskey This Whiskey is Four Years Old 4/5 Quart 90 Proof This traditional whiskey of the East varies decidedly in character and quality. Our choice Rye retains the desired attributes of the heavier types, with a notably light and delicate flavor, highly valued by connoisseurs. Case, $25.00 Bottle, $2.25 Bellows & Company, Inc. Importers and Wine Merchants Established 1830 New York City Moose Antlers Heavier. Than Those of the Elk Used in Defense and to Gain Conquests by Bulls Moose antlers, with their many pointed, broad, shovel blades, are heavier and more powerful than even the round, longer and more branching antlers of the elk. They are not used for shoveling snow, but purely for defense and conquest. They are both lance and shield to the mature bulls, and with a driving force of 1,000 to 1,300 pounds of enraged fury back of they they are irresistible to any antagonist of less power and inferior armament. Before the mating and fighting season is over in mid-October there are generally some points broken off and some scars on the tough moose hides. Then, when the fervor of love and war cools down, the bulls wander away to recuperate and in January the useless antlers drop off and are left lying in the snow. 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DISTINGUISHED DELEGATES Among the distinguished delegates here are Dr. Jeanne Eder, of Zurich, Switzerland, a surgeon, who is slated to become the next international president of the Council; Mrs. Bodil Begtrup, Denmark, member of the Danish U.N. delegation; Dr. Genevieve Newcastle, Great Britain, surgeon and commander in the Royal Naval Reserve; Dr. S. Antoniades, Greece, president of the Greek University Women's Federation and an authority on Byzantine art; Mrs. Anita Carpenter Ferreira, Brazil, wife of the military attache of the Brazilian embassy in Washington; Dr. Thullier-Landry, France, president of the International Federation of Women Doctors; Mrs. Betsey Kjelsberg, Norway, who has represented her government at several international labor conferences; Mrs. N. B. Spilhaus, Johannesburg, South Africa, member of the Social and Economic Planning Council of the Union of South Africa. Just to name a few others: Dr. Bozema Matouskova, vice president of the Czechslovakian Council of Women; Paulina Sadurni, Buenos Aires, general secretary of the Argentine Council; Mrs. Margit Borg-Sundman, Helsinki, Finland, president of the Council in her country; Lady Zoe Demetrakopoulou, from Athens, Greece; Madame Pantazzi, vice president of the Rumanian Council; D. M. Retchford, of London, public relations chairman of the International Council; the Dowager Lady Numburnholme, of London; Dr. Ingegerd Palme, of Sweden, and Miss Louise van Eeghen, of Holland. The last three mentioned are among the group of 11 international vice presidents. In addition, important women's organizations in the United States have sent official delegates to the conference. Dr. Althea Kratz Hottel, president of the American Association of University Women, is representing her organization. Other A. A. U. W. delegates are Dr. Louise Pearce, Princeton, N. J., chairman of the International Education Committee, and Dr. Helen Dwight Reid, of Washington, D. C. BANK AND FARM GROUPS Miss Willa A. Riley, Jacksonville, Fla., president of the Association of Bank Women of America, represents her organization. The Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau Federation has sent Mrs. Philip Jones, of Shelton, Conn. Others here are Mrs. John Glaettli, Madison, Wis., representing the National Council of State Legislatures; Mrs. Arthur Goldsmith, of Philadelphia, president of the National Women's Conference of the American Ethical Union, and Mrs. Natalie W. Linderholm, of New York, president of the American Woman's Association. Sending representatives, too, are the National Federation of Business and Prodessional Women, the American Federation of Soroptimist Clubs, the American Legion Auxiliary, the Y. W. C. A., the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Salvation Army, the National Woman's Party, the American Red Cross, the National Associationof Colored Women, the Women's Division of the Republican National Committee, the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, and approximately 75 additional American women's groups. SHOW HOSPITALITY When it comes to hospitality, Quaker City clubwomen should bow to the honors, because--take it from our visitors from overseas--the local ladies are receiving compliments for being charming, friendly and completely understanding hostesses. The stunning souvenir pins which are being presented to every registered participant to the conference are causing a real furor, and are a truly delightful surprise gift. The John Wanamaker's store contributed more than 1000 pins, which were specially designed for the conference. The pins are hand-wrought in silver, with a dogwood bloom and leaf motif, and appended to each one is a tiny Liberty Bell washed in gold. Mrs. Walter A. Craig is chairman of the "souvenir committee" of the convention committee. TEA SCHEDULED One of the interesting social events being held in connection with the triennial conference is a tea which will be held on Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock at the Salvation Army Red Shield Club, 705 N. Broad st., in honor of the foreign guests. Mrs. Edgar Arkett, wife of Lietenant Colonel Arkett who is divisional commander of the Salvation Army, will be hostess. Mrs. Arkett is head of the Women's Service Bureau of the Salvation Army here. Miss Minna G. Cowan, of Edinburgh, Scotland, president of the National Council of British Women, will be one of the visitors who will be specially honored. An interesting personality, Miss Cowan served as an officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service in the First World War and as a rationing officer in the British Ministry of Food during the last war. Miss Cowan has recently completed a tour of the British occupied zone of Germany where she conducted an investigation of social conditions. Among the prominent members of the Salvation Army who are delegates to the conference and who will be entertained at the tea are Winifred Case and Mrs. Edgar Dibden, both from London. Miss Case is a retired Salvation Army Colonel, and during the war she had charge of the organization's women's social work in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Mrs. Dibden is the wife of the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the International Salvation Army. FOREIGN RELIEF DISPLAY In conjunction with the tea, a display will be held of the various articles being sent to Europe as part of the Salvation Army overseas relief program. Members of the Salvation Army Home and Hospital Auxiliary will serve as hostesses at the tea, and those who will pour include Mrs. Ethel B. Carter, Mrs. Edward Ingersoll, Mrs. Gustav Ketterer, Mrs. Morton B. Snellenburg and Mrs. Harry Lippincott Cassard. Tea will be served daily in the lounge of Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania every afternoon this week, under the general chairmanship of Mrs. Carter. Various local clubs are co-operating in this friendly gesture. This afternoon, delegates will be taken on a confected tour through the Philadelphia Museum of Art on the Parkway, followed by an informal buffet supper In Houston Hall. And prior to the opening of tonight's session, at 7:30 o'clock, there will be an organ recital by Dr. W. Lawrence Curry. Equal suffrage rights to women in all countries is the goal of the International Council of Women, an organization representative of 30 nations, now conducting in nine years. In a solution adopted yesterday at the meeting, which is taking place through Friday on the campus of University of Pennsylvania, the council urged members of the organization throughout the world to bring pressure to bear on the governments of countries which have not yet given equal suffrage rights to women, "to ensure that their laws be brought into accord as soon as possible with Charter of the United Nations on this fundamental point." COLLABORATION URGED The council also affirmed its belief that the collaboration of women is essential for the material, cultural and moral reconstruction of the world, and urged the affiliated Council of Women in the various countries to insist that woman be appointed to the United Nations and other great bodies as full delegates, and not only as advisers and experts. The council further urged the International Refugee Organization to appoint women refugees of relevant nationalities to administrative posts, pointing out that the refugees themselves could best help and advise in solving the problems of displaced persons, in consideration of the vast number of women and children affected. PRESIDENT TO RETIRE An important item of business yesterday was the balloting for new international officers. The Baroness Pol Boel, of Brussels, Belgium, who has been head of the organization since the last pre-war meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1938, will retire was the presidency. Announcement of the new officers will be made at the early session today. A distinguished Swiss educator, Mrs. Jeanne Eder, has been unopposed in her candidacy for international president. Tall, stately, with blue eyes and greying blond hair, Mrs. Eder is the mother of two grown children. She has been described by those who know her well as a "clear thinking, well-organized woman." HAS DOCTOR'S DEGREE Mrs. Eder is a Doctor of Philosophy, and prefers to be called "Mrs." rather than "Dr." She is interested mainly in helping to bring about friendly understanding and permanent peace throughout the world, and her chief work with women's organizations has been in the field of international relations. Of Swiss parentage, Mrs. Eder was born in New York City. Her home is in Zurich, Switzerland. She is vice president of the International Federation of University Women, and recently attended that organization's international convention held in Toronto, Canada. EXHIBIT IS VISITED The 1000 convention participants, including about 200 foreign women and representatives of approximately 75 American national groups, were guests of the Gimbel store at buffet dinner last night. This was followed by a conducted tour of the inaugural presentation of the Better Philadelphia Exhibit, in the store's auditorium. Frightening memories came back for a number of the women from war devastated countries at yesterday's memorial service in tribute to two international officers who met tragic deaths at the hands of the Nazis. CZECH IS HONORED Recluse Sought in Littered House Continue From First Page Chalker if his sister was sick, Chalker replied, "Yes, but she's doing all right." Not To Be Found Jones said the brother then left, and he assumed that the woman "could not get out of the house." Several hours later, when police arrived, she could not be found anywhere inside. Jones also said that Chalker and another brother of the woman, named Arthur, lived at 114 N. Lambert St., near 20th and Arch Sts. Detective Edward Burns checked, but found that neither brother was home last night. Find Cats And Dogs Fireman of the rescue squad arrived at Miss Chalker's house shortly after police were called. The squad members were forced to break a front window to enter: all outside doors were firmly secured. Once inside, fireman and police were met by several meowing cats and whimpering dogs, they reported. They added that a "strong animal odor" pervaded the dwelling. The searchers were forced to push through what they described as "several tons" of accumulated articles, most of them packed in trunks or cardboard cartons in every room in the 10-room house. Evening Star, Washington, D.C. Friday, August 8, 1947 Honor Guests. Two of the 25 delegates who drew interested attention at the dinner given in their honor by Washington Branch of the American Association of University of Women last night were Miss Conception Aquilla (left) of the Philippine Islands and Mrs. Willet-Rosenburg (right, a lawyer from the Netherlands. They are shown in conversation with Mrs. G.R. Wilhelm, President of the branch, preceding the dinner. -Star Staff Photo Foreign Delegates Welcomed by AAUW Honor Dinner By Ruth Dean A plea for international understanding and friendship as the only way to lasting peace was echoed again and again last night by 25 visiting foreign university women delegates at a formal dinner given in their honor by the Washington Branch of the American Association of University of Women. The dinner was the highlight of a week of entertainment for the visitors who are en route to Toronto, Canada, for the opening Monday of he first postwar convention of the International Federation of University Women. The delegates were welcomed by Mrs. G.R. Wilhelm, President of the Washington Branch, and Dr. Helen Dwight Reid, chairman of international relations for the national AAUW, who declared that "if the university women of the world cannot meet the challenge of these times, they will have failed in one of their potentialities". Mlle. Sylvie Charrot, a teacher of English in Paris and spokesman for he group which represents eight European countries, the Philippines and Brazil, said: "We have come to America to work. By setting the place for the IFUW's first postwar conference across the Atlantic, you have challenged us to understand and know you better. We also bring a challenge and ask you to understand the problems of the old world, which though they seem the same, have different roots." Mlle. Ursula Vincent, a teacher in Brussels, Belgium, praised the American reconstruction program in her country, saying: "You have not only sent lots of books and magazines and films, through which our boys and girls are learning more about the United States, but by doing so have established closer relations between our two countries." Several delegates from Great Britain expressed their appreciation for having the opportunity to correct erroneous impressions they have had of the United States. Miss E.G. Sykes, of Bristol thought America was a land of skyscrapers until she saw our "beautiful rolling countryside." The delegates already have visited Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Another British Delegate said she was surprised to find not every family has a staff of servants and that Americans have many problems in common with her countrymen. Mrs. E.C. Williams, of the London branch of the IFUW, disclaimed the "gloomy picture of Britain presented by the British press." "There is no despondency, no feeling of gloom that the newspapers picture", she said. "Things are coming back. Our gardens are flowering again, and gradually things 'are looking up'." Mrs. Ingrid Evang-Reinton, a delegate from Norway, welcomed the opportunity she has had to meet Americans and to gain a perspective of the problems of her country, where, "the people are worn out and disappointed that reconstruction is not going fast enough." She said she realized, now more than ever, that "the task of education all over the world will be the teaching of peace". Others who brought similar messages of goodwill from their countries were: Mlle, Regine Arnouts and Mme. Debroux-Aernouts of Belgium; Mme. Canivet-Landre and Mlle. Jeanne Chaton of France; Miss K. M. Evans, Mrs. A.N. Nierenstein, Mill A.N. Pettendrigh, Miss Mary E. Rankin, Mrs. Florence Sayer and Miss Stinga Siberg of Great Britain; Miss T. Quis, Miss Cathelein Schultz and mrs. Willet-Roosenburg of the Netherlands; Miss Helen Palgen of Luxembourg; Miss Solveig Otto of Norway; Mlle. Dr. Marguerite Steiger and Dr. Anny Vollenweider of Switzerland; Miss Margitta Hansson of Sweden; Miss Conception Aguilla of he Philippines and Miss Maria Canejo of Brazil. Miss Hansson will be the only delegate to remain in the United States after the close of the Toronto conference. She is staying as a member of the American-Swedish News Exchange in New York. The visiting delegation will leave for Toronto Sunday night after a week end of festivities which will include sightseeing trips and several gay fetes which have been planned in their honor by local women's organizations. January 31, 1950 Mrs. Terrell Scores Women Foes of 'Equal Rights' Women who are against the "equal rights" amendment passed in the U.S. Senate last week are the slaves who didn't welcome emancipation, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell said last Friday. The amendment states that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Many Hurdles Ahead It still has to pass in the House of Representatives and be ratified by three-fourths of State Legislatures. Women opposing it felt that the effect of the amendment would be to destroy the protection now enjoyed by members of their sex under the law. Safety Clause Included As the Senators finally voted upon it, however, the measure provides that equal rights for women "shall not be construed to impair any rights, benefits, or exemptions now of hereafter conferred by law upon any persons of the female sex." It is still being opposed by some groups and faces a stiff fight in the House. Mrs. Terrell declared: "The women who are opposing this amendment are exactly like the women who opposed feminine suffrage and exactly like the slaves wo didn't want to be free. 80 Years to Get Vote "There were a great many slaves who didn't want to be free, you know, i'm glad that something is at last being done about equal rights for women." She recalled that it took 80 years for women to get the vote and become citizens of the United States. One of the leaders in the suffrage fight was the celebrated Susan B. Anthony, who at on time entertained Mrs. Terrell in her home in Rochester, N.Y., arranged for her to deliver address at the Unitarian Church and gave a reception for Mrs. Terrell. Science Monitor, Boston - Thursday June 23, 1949 UN Aide Cites Obligations Of Free Women by Kate M. Archibald, Special correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor - Seattle, Wash. "Where women are free and equal, there is a free land. Where they are degraded, second-class citizens, that country is also degraded." The statement was made by Judge Dorothy Kenyon, United States delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, in her keynote address at the 1949 biennial convention of the American Association of University Women held in Seattle, June 19 to 23. Judge Kenyon's speech was based on recent experience. Having just returned from a meeting of the commission in Beirut, Lebanon, she had observed the degraded conditions of women in the Near East, especially in Arabia. (Judge Kenyon spoke of the special responsibility of educated women in the field of helping the depressed women of other nations.) "That helping hand" she continued "can be extended by us through the United Nations, the tool created to handle new world frontiers and which is, in itself, another new frontier in world government." 'We Won't All Agree' "Crossing New Frontiers," the theme of the convention, was taken up by Dr. Althea K. Hottel, national president of the AAUW, who referred to frontiers "we of the AAUW face today in our association." In an interview at the beginning of the conference, when Dr. Hottel was queried concerning the several controversial issues which were to come before the convention, she said: "Of course we won't all agree. We are a healthy organization made up of many thousands of members with individual opinions. But whatever the majority decides upon, that will prevail. We abide by majority rule." In her opening address Dr. Hottel said: The members of the American Association of University Women represent women of different cultural patterns and all races and many religions. They come from rural and urban life, independent women's collages and educational institutions. Some are single, some are married; we are homemakers, business and professional women, and sometimes we combine both spheres. We vary in our material possessions as we differ in our intellectual, political social, and aesthetic interest. Education Evaluated "Collectively we represent the only large woman's organization in this country incorporated for educational purposes. Our thinking and action in the next few days cannot help reflecting the values our liberal education has given us." A high light of the convention was an appraisal of these same "values our education has given us." At the second evening session, the finding on the AAUW survey on higher education conducted during the past year were announced. A Symposium was made of the answers received from approximately 30,000 members as to the value of college education and the improvements and changes which might be added. An outstanding recommendation was: College training should be related to "real life" outside the college campus; the knowledge acquired should be useful, practical, applicable to life situations. In commenting on the survey, Dr. Margaret Mead, associate curator of department of anthropology of the New York Museum of Natural History, said: "As a tool in shaping courses in higher education for women, this survey can be exceedingly useful. The AAUW's membership is one of the best informed, most alert, most critical groups in the United States on the subject of education." Above, left, a worker hand picks a bolt of cloth to remove ends of threads from the surface. Back of her are finished bolts, ready to be wrapped and shipped to the great designers' salons. Directly above, a man works on a jacquard pattern. A huge draft of the pattern is used at the machine, which cuts holes in cards. These are sewn together, and run through the loom to make the eave and design. At left - a finished fabric in all its glory - silver on the satin brocade made into a Ben Reig dress designed by Omar Kiam. The young lady wears the rich fabric with great elegance and charm. sportive cow" in a Carolyn Wells' 1902 anthology. My father visited us, we located a copy of the book and he has carried it back home with great enjoyment. He was 22 in 1902, so the whole book was a pleasure to him. Coincidence: His [ ] Fisk: his initials. WOMEN'S EXCHANGES. (From Mrs. M.C.M, Washington.) To Mrs. J.F.L, Washington. In reply to your request for the names and the address of women's ex-changes in the Middle West, I am glad to be able to inform you of one, as follows: Woman's Exchange, 611 N. Milkwaukee street, Milwaukee, Wis. **** ICED TOMATO PICKLE. (From Mrs. L.A.W, Hyattsville.) As requested by Mrs. A.W. Boyds. Seven pounds sliced green tomatoes, 3 cups lime (powdered), 5 gallons cold water. Put lime in the water and soak tomatoes about 16 hours. Take from water and wash off any lime that may stick to the tomatoes. Soak in fresh water 3 or 4 hours. In separate containers put 5 pounds sugar, 3 quarts mild vinegar, 1 tablespoon each of cloves, ginger, allspice, celery seed, white mustard seed and pickling spices. Put in thin cloth. Let come to a boil and pour [ ]. The Washington Afro-American, January WCA Funds Thr[?] Silver Wedding Celebration Library, Wiggin Collection, to THE CHRISTIAN SC Engraving by Robert S. Austin ROBERT SARGENT AUSTIN is a English engraver, born in Leidland, in 1985. In 1922, he was the Prix de Rome; and, after a time he produced several plates of [?] objects. When he returned to [?] joined the Faculty at the Royal Art. The meticulous workmanship Austin recalls the master engra[?] Renaissance. His engraving is po[?] perfected; his handling of tools and respectful. But Robert Aus[?] than a superb craftsman; he i[?] of poetic temperament, profoun[] tarian, reverent. Austin is neither sketchy nor [?] in his statement; but neither is manipulation. His drawing is [?] ticulate, smooth. The Austin pla[?] teresting, indeed, to compare w[?] of his contemporaries. DOROTHY [?]ives at Kenilworth arms, was discharged from the b[?] but the noise of drums and tru[?] even of the cannon themselve[?] faintly heard, amidst the roari[?] iterated welcome of the multitude. As the noise began to abate glare of the light was seen to appear gate of the Park, and, broad brightening as it came nearer along the open and fair avenue towards the Gallery Tower; and we have already noticed, was line hand by retainers of the Earl o[?] The word was passed along the Queen! The Queen! Silence and Onward came the cavalcade, by two hundred thick waxen the hands of as many horser cast a light like that of broad day the procession, but especially on pal group, of which the Queen arrayed in the most splendid ma[?] blazing with jewels, formed the figure. She was mounted on a n[?] horse, which she reined with pec[?] and dignity and in the whole of [?] and noble carriage, you saw the of an hundred kings. The ladies of the court, who r[?] her Majesty, had taken special their own external appearance be more glorious than their rar[?] [?] To Be Discussed Great variety of subjects will be discussed among which will be "The Convict Lease System," Domestic Science," The Labor Question," "Kindergarten Work," "The Public School Question," "Community Life" and the "Miscegenation Laws of the South." The sessions will begin at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 14th. There will be three addresses of welcome. Mayor Harrison will represent the city, Mrs. Charles Henrotin MRS L. A. DAVIS OF CHICAGO. (Vice-president and state organizer Local Federation of Colored Women's clubs.) the Chicago Woman's club and Mrs. L. A. Davis the local Federation of the Colored Women's clubs. Mrs. Terrell, the president, will respond in the name of the association. The first three days will be devoted to the routine work and the discussion of topics. At Thursday's session will occur the election of officers. Strange as it may appear this part of the programme has not evoked much enthusiasm, it being generally conceded that Mrs. Terrell can have a re-election if she wants it, and in the event that her declining Miss J. Imogen Howard is regarded as most likely to be selected. Will Speak in the Churches. On Sunday, the 13th, prominent women will deliver addresses in the colored churches Mrs. Mary Church Terrell will be at Bethel A. M. E. church, Dearborn and 30th streets. Her subject will be "Harriet Beecher Stowe." Mrs. B. K. Bruce will address the Quinn chapel congregation on a subject to be selected. Mrs. J. Silone-Yates will talk at Olivet Baptist church, corner of Dearborn and 27th streets, on "Woman's Work," and Mrs. Anna J. Cooper will be at Grace Presbyterian church, Dearborn street, near 34th. Association Was Organized in Boston. The National Association of Colored Women was organized in the spring of 1896 in the city of Boston. Since that time it has held two national conventions, the first at Washington and the other at Nashville Tenn., during the Tennessee Centennial exposition. Both were notable conventions and did much to stimulate club work among colored women. The association's motto is "Lifting as We Climb." A brief outline of the practical work done by colored women since the formation of the association is interesting: The Phyllis MRS. B. K. BRUCE, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. One of the vice-presidents of the National Association of Colored Women.) Wheatley league has established a home orphans and the indigent poor; the Kansas Mo.) league has induced the board of ion of Kansas City to introduce in [?]; also his fun-making [p?] HOLDS STREET- CAR TRANSFER Something new in railroad street-car punches is a magazine transfer punch, especially suitable for small roads. The instrument, which is a tiny affair, as shown by A NEW MAGAZINE PUNCH the illustration, is loaded (this one holding 250 transfers) at the station and locked. To issue a transfer the conductor sets a pointer, which is on the end of the small cylinder opposite the time dial, to indicate the route for which the transfer is intended and then turns the time dial through one revolution, when a transfer ticket bearing the date, time, place of issue and destination is pushed out as shown. This arrangement prevents mistakes in the dating, time, or issuance of a ticket. RECENT INVENTIONS. To add to the comfort of bicycling a spring attachment has been patented, which is inserted in the rear forks, with a central rod in each fork engaging the hub connection, the springs holding the rods down and lessening the shock and jar to the rider. Vegetables can be rapidly sliced or mashed by a newly designed cutter, having a hopper resting over a set of knives carried by a base, with a lever mounted on one side of the base, to depress a plunger in the hopper and force the vegetables between the cutters. In a newly patented system of gearing for chainless bicycles the crank shaft carries a plain gear wheel, which drives a smaller wheel, carried by a shaft below the crank hanger, a pair of short cranks being mounted on the second shaft to drive rods connecting with cranks on the rear hub. For use in cold weather when the hands get numb a new driving mitten has a metal bar pivoted in the palm, with a slotted guide covering the loose end of the bar to draw it close to the palm when pushed toward the fingers, causing it to grip the rein with a cam action and allow the fingers to relax their hold. An improved movable stairway has been patented, which allows people to descend as well as ascend on the same flight, an endless chair of strips being placed on guides running up an inclined plane, with a loop at either end around which the stripes pass in a vertica position, falling horizontally as they reach the plane. BUSINESS TOPICS. Paine's Celery Compound. To-day Paine's celery compound stands without an equal for feeding exhausted nerves and building up the strength of the body. It cures radically and permanently. The nervous prostration and general debility from which thousands of women suffer so long that it finally gets to be a second nature can be very soon removed by properly feeding the nerves and replacing the unhealthy blood by fresher, more highly vitalized fluid. A healthy increase of appetite and a corresponding gain in weight and good spirits follow the use of Paine's celery compound. Dr. William's Pink Pills for Pale People are an effective nerve food, nourishing and building up naturally the wasted, flabby, and diseased nerves. They also give a supply of pure, rich and healthy blood. To Get Rid of Rheumatism Try a Bottle of Elmer & Amend's Prescription No. 2851 Gale & Blocki[?] 44 Monroe-st and 34 Washington-st., agents. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children [?hing] softens the gums, reduces inflamma[?] allays pain, cures wind colic; 25c a bottle "Zuni" E.&V. A warm weather collar. [?aces]-All About Changing Noses, Ear[?] at John H. Woodbury's 163 State-st. TELEPHONE 1118-GRAMERCY Intended for ____ "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us." HENRY ROMEIKE, Inc. 33 UNION SQUARE, BROADWAY NEW YORK CABLE ADDRESS, "ROMEIKE," NEW YORK The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From N.Y. TRIBUNE Address Date FEB 14 1905 MRS. TERRELL A SPEAKER. One of the attractions of the Lincoln's Birthday dinner given by the Women's Henry George League, at Reisenweber's Circle Hotel last night, was an address by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, honorary president of the National Association of Colored Women. Mrs. Terrell has come to be known as a female Booker T. Washington, and at the recent meeting of the International Council of Women in Berlin, she won much praise for her oratory, and many friends by her gracious personality. Mrs. Terrell is the wife of Robert H Terrell, a Washington lawyer, and was until recently, a member of the School Board of the District of Columbia. She is a graduate of Oberlin College, and on her graduation from that institution she declined the honor of being its register, because she would soon marry Mr. Terrell. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.