Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-12
MISS ANTHONY,s HOPES.

! A Talk with the Famous Advocate Of
Woman Suffrage-Advantages to be
Gained by the Party That Enamel.
| pates WOmen-What She Expects Of
| the Forty.eighth Congress.
!, Miss Susan B. Anthony is as energetic as
ever in her endeayors to secure suffrage for
women. She is much improved in health since
her visit to Europe, and will now devote her
time to securing some decisive action by this
Congress upon the question of woman's suf-
frage. To STAR reporter, who called upon
her at the Riggs house, she said that she would
take immediate steps to secure the reappoint-
ment, in both branches of Congress, of a COM
mittee on suffrage. She said she had positive
assurance that this would be done by the Sem
ate, and she believed the House would not hest
tate to do the same. She said she had not had
time yet to see Representatives in relation to
the matter, but she felt pretty sure of Mr.. Car
isles support.
Before my departure for Europe last year, -
she said, 81 had a talk with Mr. Carlisle upon
the subject. and told him if he was elected
| Speaker of the Forty-eighth Congress, as
thought he would be. l should expect him to
assist us in this matter, and he laughngly agreed
that he would. have not seen him since. but /
have no doubt Of his assistance. He is a liberal
minded man and statesman. and, knowing
women will have vote. he must see the adj
vantage of the democrats taking the first posi-
tive action to secure that end.
| mo, think there can be no doubt about our
| getting committee on universal suffrage
which will report favorably upon the question,
| and bring before the country 10Th amendment
| to the Constitution, which will give to women
an equal right Of suffrage with men. We shall
make our annual meeting later than usual this
season, holding it about the first week in March,
hoping by that time Congress will have taken
some positive action in the matter"
| Tine party which espOuses woman's suffrage. "
she continued, will be supported by the people.
Inc emancipated woman will be even more
devoted than the emancipated negro Both
| parties are now looking for some distinguishing
issue which will give them an excuse for being,
and the party which secures vote for women
Will gain permanent power for itself. The dem
ocrats, think, will see this
| Speaking OF her visit to Europe she said that
her travels We're for rest and health and to learn
the people. She said that she had received a
most cordial welcome wherever she went; her
reception in England being particularly kind.
Her visit to Ireland, she said had been
especially interesting. as she had seen Just how
things were there. The people, she said, were
IN pitiable condition, but it was plain that
there must soon be a change. They would soon
nave their local government, as would also
scotland and the counties of England, all, Of
course being dependent upon the crown
why, what do you suppose was going on in
Dublin during my visit there? A large assem-
biage of people had gathered at public meet
ing ing to prepare memorial to Gladstone. asking
that they might be allowed the privilege of
electing their own collector. Think Of these
| poor people not having the power to say who
shall I'LL the petty township offices. This would
horrl1y an American-unless, she added, she
lived in the District of Columbia Speaking of
the District of Columbia" she continued. Il
think you will be given the right of suffrage
here, but it can never be secured to the men
unless it be given to the women Also
The Moral Influence of Good Cooking.
W. Mattieu VIII Jams, in Popular Science Monthly
Some people may be inclined to smile at what
[ am about to say, viz: That savory dishes, serv-
ing to vary the monotony of the poor hard work
ingman's ordinary fare, afford considerable
moral, as we'll as physical advantage. An in
structive experience of my own will illustrate
this. When wandering alone through Norway.
in 1856, lost the track in crossing the Kvolen
field, struggled on for 90 hours without food or
rest, and arrived in sorry plight at Lom very
wild region After few hours rest pushed
on to a still wilder region and still roucher
quarters. and continued thus to the great Josie
dal table land, an unbroken glacier of
| five hundred square miles; then descended the
Jostedal itself to its opening on the Sogne
| fJord-fve days of extreme hardship, with no
other food than fiatbrod VERY coarse oatcake }
and bilberries gathered on the way, varied on
one occasion with the luxury of two raw tur-
nips. Then reached comparatively luxuri-
Gus station, Ronnei, where ham and eggs and
claret were obtainable. The first glass Of cIaret
produced an effect that alarmed me-a craving
| tor more and for stronger drink. that was al
most irresistible. 1 finished a bottle of ST
| Julien, and nothing but violent effort of the
| Will prevented me from then ordering some
brandy. attribute this to the exhaustion con-
sequent upon the excessive work and INSULT
| pin nod off En, a.
have made many subsequent observations
on the victims OF alcohol and have no
doubt that Overwork and scanty, taste
less food are the primary source of the
craving for strong drink that so largely prevails
| with such deplOrable results among the class
that is the most exposed to such privation. 1
do not say that this is the only source of such
| depraved appetite. 1t may also be engendered
| by the opposite extreme of excessive luxurious
pandering to general sensuality. The practical
inference suggested by this experience and
these observations Is. that speech making
pledge signing and blue ribbon missions can
only effect temporary results, unless supple
| mented by satisfying the natural appetite of
| hungry people by supplies of food that are not
only nutritious, but savOry and varied. Such
food need be no more expensive than that which
is commonly eaten by the poorest Englishman
but it must be far better cooked.
The Future Of America.
From the London Times.
These last seven years have given occasion to
the Americans and to their foreign friends to
give utterance to many congratulations about
the happy result of that struggle of u century
ago 1.-THE war of independence Every one has
been saying, with all degrees of eloquent en-
phasis, that never since the world began has
there been such progress seen as has been seen
between the Atlantic and Pacific shores since
then. People point to maps Of hundred, of
fifty, of twenty years ago. and show us with ex-
ultant wonder the difference between each
pair. With the peace Of Paris, the United
States reached out to the Mississippi, and ex-
cluded New Orleans and Florida; and vast re-
g!Ons of that tract were uninhabted and un-
cleared. We need not dwell on the change
that each year, each week, has brought forth,
on the extension Of territory westward and
| nOrthward, on the hundreds of great cities, the
! myrlads of towns, the tens ofthGusands of miles
OF railway, the mines, the manufactures, the
| machinery. All that is familiar to every one.
| What is less obvious is the goal to which this
vast material progress is tending; a question
which has perplexed rejecting minds since De
TOcquevilles day, and which is exercising
America not a little at this moment The
| United States have now formed and established
| themselves, not without one struggle of ire
mendous proportions; their material resources
| are secured to them; they are safe for long
| time to come against MANY of tho fr;aIs which