Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-29
CITY AND DISTRICT.
WOMEN IN PROFESS1ONS.
Fair Doctors, J00Ynaltsts, and Othefi
Talk Co the Council.

Gil and those delegates who talked last night about
women In the professions faced a crowded house,
despite the pouring rain outside. Inzhde there
were light and color anu animation Miss An
thongs red shawl flashed across the stage like a
meteor the sky she put things TO sorts before
opening up for business
PRoF. nIcHAxIs ADDRESS.
Prot RenA A Michaels, who made such o fine
impression upon the audience the other day, was
Inc rst speaker OF the evening. and she confirmed
tie previous opinion Her subject was Women as
Educator4 The opening OF Michigan University
10 women she said was expected TO do marvel
Gus things for the sex 70 give them even the
welLknown women whose names were household
words, and whose fame was gained In professors
chairs wonan's influence will be felt most In the
future In the classroom and In the press For the
perfection OF women as teachers IL Is greatly
needed that the Johns Hopkins University, with
ITS splendid equipments should be thrown open 10
women studying 70 De educators.
xRs. LAURA C. HOLLOWAY.
rhe well-known journalist OF Brooklyn, was next
introduced MIS- Holloway Is q sprightly, youth
Iul woman with pleasingly animated face that
Immediately won her audience She stepped
lightly TO the front, clad IN dress OF simple gray
serge. "Nlss Anthony asked me-" she said ITO
Tell the story OF wOmaDs work In journalism, and
pe,eysd ~ tsouShr Was as clever AZ h ~ Sr
she can tell you everything about woman's sur
rage in an intellectually short time" There never
was q time, she said, since newspapers were made
that women did not work upon them-a woman
discovered the printing press. A Japanese princess
discovered 10, but as men did not know what 70 DO
newspaper herself once, in Brooklyn. IL was called
the R@voiution. she had the Reroiutfon and she
paper and ths debt She said she had seen
= woman In Tennessee teach her husband
"a. Law. and md edit III. MS s,n newspaper at the same
susan Is the best known woman In the newspaper
orces In this country, and so she always said She
- the oldest journalist. Her motto was ''follow
susan What IL known as the modern movement
IN journalism commenced about thirty years ago.
Vow there are 200 woman editors In New YorH.
She had asked an editor In New York what por-
zion OF newspaper work a woman could not do
and he said they could not go into the Sums and
II they did 60 there they could not describe them.
she paid her respects rather sarcastlcally TO the
newspaper men of the country. The best school
IN the world, she said. Is a newspaper ONCE All
women owe it TO themselves 90 help forward the
day when she shall more fully assist IN directing
the Affairs OF this great nation.
DR. SARAH HAcKETT STEVENSON
a tail knightly woman, was next introduced. She
was clothed from head TO foot In black velvet.
straight sleeves pulled at the top. high velvet
collar fastened at the base with a linked silver
collar and a linked girdle about the waist She
wore black gloves and nothing white. She has
strong lace and dark hair. She said women
should cultivate the scientific habit OF mind
Woman Il disposed to espouse the easy system OF
things. She made plea Tor women to be con- emit
only with the highest scientific attainments. The
economic value OF food Is not learned by holding
insss-meetings. but By the careful study OF the
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tnd persevering application The medical schools
Tor women are POOR while the colleges for men count
Their endow1nents oy millions France and swift
erland have opened the doors Of colleges 20 women
ana England admits women for EXAMINATIONS.
The greatest nindraDce 10 the spread Of medical
science Is the growth OF cheap and Impoverished
medical schools The greatest foes OF science
ara poverty ami quackery. There are
one thousand registered woaen physicians
Ing $4,000 year. sham science Is the fashiOna-
bic Tad OF the day. few girls sent as missionary
doctors have done good work. The inhumanirieS
Df Institutional life is sickening 10 behold Physi-
Clans, and not commercial men, should treat the
SICK Wherever women are detained by law there
should De women TO care for their needs The time
l. not far distant when all insane women Will be
provided by law with women attendants. She ad-
NiSed women 20 go to Nature 10 learn her lessons
WOMEN AND Music
In the absence OF Miss Katharine Willard. who
was 20 have sung, Miss Anthony presented Miss
Frances willard with basket OF flowers and IN
troduced Miss Powell as a fine illustration OF
woman IN the profession OF music. Miss Powell
rendered violin solo with nne expression. Con-
tinued applause brought forward Mrs. stanton.
who said: II have been so delighted and 50 happy
IN listening TO all the young women upon this
platform that cannot find words 10 express nv
gratitude that women are permitted TO learn all
these arts and sciences Fifty years ago this was
the VIOLIN Miss Anthony said she did not know
one note nor one tune from another. Her music
was not In her head but in her heart.
MRS Ara NJ. BITrENBENpER,
about her waist, began to read her paper upon
woman IN Law MIS-. Bitteneender is a short.
Wel-rounced woman, with an earnest, pleasant
lace, and her dark hair, drawn back from ner
brow, and gathered IN a Knot behind. She wore q
plain dress OF black velvet and jet waistcoat Mrs
kltrenbender handled her subject woman In
Law, with marked effect She stated nearly one
huICred American women have been admitted TO
the legal profession, ana nearly all American law
schools are open TO women, the exceptions being
those copnected with Yale, Harvard ana Column
ban ana Georgetown Universities ana Columbia
college. American women lawyers are now en-
titled 10 practice before all courts state and ma
t!onal and many are Carrying on a successful
practice, cordially countenanced BY brother law
yeIs. some are ably contributing TO legal iitera-
TURF In England. women are not admitted to
membership IN the inns OF court and in conse-
4Ience are pTecluded from ranking as barristers
They. however, may and do become attorneys-at-
law and solicitors In ehancery. In nearly all
foreign countries, women, upon qualifying are not
pernitts1 10 lake up pubic advocacy. Mrs. Bit
combining action TO break the barriers which en-
compass the legal sfSterhOOd In other lands While
agreeing with those who say women are quail
he'd mentally 70 grasp and apply legal principles
as are men. she also believes women by nature are
AS wei qualifled for work in the forum as are men,
also recognize this fact A plea was made for
mixed Jurles.
WOMAN IN TIE MINISTRY
In going through the professions Mrs AGA C.
Bowles told the story OF Woman in the Ministry"
MIS- BovleS. wearing a short suit OF irou-gray
hair and seriO-con.ic look upon her face gave =
humorous version OF the eating OF the apple 10 he
garden OF Eden Going through the Bible she
found Hulda 10 be the first eo-edueatio nist and
that King Samuel5 mothers sermon Is to be found
In the book Of Proverbs Ph6be. Priscilla In
pbena anu other women preachers are mentioned
Ia PauIs letterS The true minister she said h
not made such BY any rite Of ordination. but by
natural endowment, supplemented by mental ana
moral culture. The hrst sect 70 admit women 70
ITS ministry, with equal privileges with men, was
the honorable Denomination OF Quakers, which
mas done 30 since Its rise In the l1th century
THIS eaurch DOW contains more than thirty or
ialned women. Women are still excluded from
Inc leading evangelical churches, the Protestant
Aethcdist Church after ordaining Anna Il Saaw
closing It's doors again.
the woman'S Ministerial Conference which
includes women preachers VI all DENOMINATIONS
Was Organized IL Boston In 1857, with Mrs Julia
Ward Howe president.
WOMEN OF THE PRESS
Ms. Martha z Field. Catherine Cole OF the
New orleans Ffcdyane, Is a delegate TO the Wo-
mans International Press Association and she
talked about the press she Is a piolant attrac-
and wore PINK roses and high run She said:
I've have passed the time wRen America was
heaven for women and hell for horses In journal
ISM We have found q chance 10 write our names in
enduring stone and not 10 solicit liberation. NO.
Han Journalism has come to stay; what shall men
eapoet OF Der? Good taste. industry, purity, and
AZ things that are not Eeretricious The pens OF
women journalists are always found IN the cause
of justice"
Mrs. A. L. Aohl OF the wonan's National Press
ASSOCIATION, was the Lext speaker she ssid the
tenooncy OF newspaper WORK Is 20 exclusion. Ten
women OIganlxcd themselves into the National
Press ASSOCIATION In IsS1 in this city, deferOfned
20 ess seetr po"er ior purity, TRUTH and hight II
MIS- MATILDA B. cARsE
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