The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-01
THE DoINGs OF WOMEN FOLK.
The International Council of Women
Notes F, ON Many Quarters.

! pfe-emlnently city OF men, ana Iue pre-
valence of the yellow ribbon this week has
worked more decided change in its aspect
than would have been the case in any 0 her
city of the country. The yellow ribbon, or
the sunfiower badge, is the especial emblem
of the woman suffragists and delegates
and visitors to the international Council Of
Women, called by the National Woman
| Suffrage Association have run up into the
| thousands.
Eve saved my money for year to come"
said a woman in the lobby of Albaugh's
Opera House yesterday. 81 kept chlld's
bank in my room, and when | lad penny
to spare droE ped it in"
There have been a good many noUa-
bic figures on the platform and in
tle audiences. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton is getting somewhat adj
vanced in years and is burdened
wit more flesh than she used TO cary
about, but is still a commanding figure aud
"A brilliant talker. Mrs Ashton Dixie.
who took passage in the Aller with her, re-
lateS Of the voyage across that at first a lit
tie group of men aid then day by day
larger and larger circles gathered about Mrs.
Stanton until sine became the center OF IN
terest for everybody aboard ship, strangers
and friends alike fascinated by her CONVEX
| sa 10. al powers.
Mrs Lucy Stone, of Boston, the editor of
the WOBldn'S Journal of that city, has
motherly face and winning manner, which
draws o her all young girls Her daughter,
| Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, who has at
| tended tho sessions of the conference, is ono
Of the most brilliant of the younger group
| of progressive women.
Mrs Ashton Dixie, the delegate of the
Newcastle Women's Liberal Association,
England, and sister-in-law of Sir Charles
- -aFY ra1
| Fawcetl, and was brought by her into the
movement for the ballot for women. Mrs.
Dixie is sngularly attractive speaker. She
! is dark skinned, with large expressive eyes,
| regular features, 1.-the, slender figure; ~
| years old, perhaps, and with delightfully."-
soft, musical voice pleasanter to listen to
than ninety nine out of a hundred platform
speakers. She is to lecture III New
! York on the Political Condition of Women
in England" after the Washington meetings
adjourn.
| The Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg, of
Finland, is quiet woman, with pleasant
and thoughtful face. She wears plain black
and is interesting in conversation.
Mrs Iadel Barnes Gustafson, the Swedish
| delegate. is an American woman who mar
ried a Swede and spends much of her time
in London. She is a lady of much vivacity
and earnestness and wears English versions
of the Annie Jenness Miller aesthetic dress
| reform gowns. Tan color and crushed straw
| berry is a favorite combination with her,
and she is a strikingly picturesque figure
from any point of view
Mime. Isabelle Bogelot, of Paris speaks
no English, but has made many friends not
withstandng She made an address on
| Tuesday on the prison reform work of the
st. Lazare, Paris, and means to make
| study of American prisons while here.
Miss Mary f. Eastman, of Massachusetts,,
has a strong, pleasant face, framed by white
hair, and is probably the closest reasoner
and most logical speaker who has addressed
the conference.
The Revs. Annie II. Shaw, AntOinette
! Brown Blackwell, Ada G. Bowles, Amanda
Deyo, Louise $. Baker, Phoebe A. Hanaiord
and Others make phalMlx of women
ciergymen. Mrs. Deyo, of New York is a
serene faced women, formerly a quakeress.
Miss Shaw is no eloquent speaker and Mrs.
| Bowles really brilliant woman.
Mrs. Isabel G. Barrows, who represents
the Unitarian Women'S Conference, is one
of the most expert stenographers in the
| country.
Mrs Frances f. w. Harper is probably
the best known colored woman in the
| United States. She comes in the temper
| ance section. She was one of the two col
ored delegates to the Woman's Congress
| in New York last fall whom Mrs. William
| Todd Hemuth refused to include in her
| general reception invitation and on whose
account Nine. Demorest opened her
house and entertained in Mrs. Helmuths
| stead.
| Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker is one of the
unique figures of the hour. She is not the
least gifted and not the least eccentric mem
Der of the Beecher family.
Mrs julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Livermore,
Miss Frances E. Willard and Clara Barton
are among those whom one expects at
| every noteworthy gathering of the sort
Lille Devereux Blake has lost none of her
vivacity. Mrs. Frank Leslie is woman not
| formerly associated with the women SUIT
| frage movement, but who avOwS that she
changed her mind somewhat during her last
stay in England.
| 1t has been great week for women and
| literary clubs, art unions, labor leagues,
missionary, peace and moral purity socie-
! ties, charitable, professional, educational
| and industrial associations have joined with
women suffrage associations i'll celebrating
the fOrtieth anniversary of the first woman's
rights convention held at Seneca Falls, n.
! Y, III 1913. 1t has been one of the most i'm
| posing bodies of women ever assembled and
| indicates more widely spread desire on the
part of women for suffrage than has been
| evidenced before
NEW YORK is CALLED UPON
to witness the rising of new political lum-
| mary. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox gives
large reception at the Westminster on Mon
day evening to introduce Miss Lzette
| Woodwork Reese, a Baltimore school
teacher who is, she is CONVINCED, a poet
Mr. &c. Stedman salso Of the opinion that
Miss Reese is a poet, and has written TO tell
her SO. Mr.. Stedman was uugallant enough
to remark of Mrs. Wilcox herself that she
might have made poet If she had been
caught young, say at II years; but that in
the wild state she had gone far astray Miss
Reese is Said 10 be in her late twenties and
mistress of class of 100 boys.
EVERY NOW AND THEN THE TALE
of Mrs Newbys Cattle Endowment Com
pauy, of which Jenny June is tabled to be
| President, crops up again 1t appears in
the latest issue of the LudieS' Home Jour
nal AS a matter of fact Mrs. Croly was
asked to take tha Presidency of the com.
pany, which was represented as a philan-
thropic organization for the safe invest
ment of the savings OF widows and self
dependent women, and the profits Of which
were claimed to be so large that return of
So 600 was to be expected at the expiration
of five years for an investment of $500,
| this in addition TO the natural increase os
the stock. Mrs. Croly never did anything
more than inquire into the guarantees OF the
organization, but the mistaken come ton
| of her name with the sch me has hrOugh
be,. lat tnr, from, oil oNot ,nup4t.,- f.,,,,