Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-29


neither aspires to lead nor asks 70 be led This is
aoeiloeratve class, whose junction Is very impor-
amotion OF the few and the passion OF the many.
MIS- Howe dwelt upon the importance OF the work
wnlch Is done within smaller compass-the home,
tne enelgnoorhood, the local associations. In con-
cluslon she gave some attention TO the heredity OF
teTssp "a t and dwelt upon the IN
t ,eresc Oh Inc Organizations which coming genera
uons would inherit from our own.
MRS. MARY r. EASTMAN,
Mrs Howe's colleague, from the Association for
the Advancement OF Women, was next introduced
Mrs. Eastman is q lady OF commanding figure. Her
hair Is fron-gray, and waves about her head In
mouth and sbiO 10 asr gSS ST sse ss
wore BLACK silk Mrs. Eastman spoke also OF
organization. She spoke without notes, and we'll
astonishing ease. They had come, she said, TO re.
gard humanity as one great solidarity. She spoke
OF the multiplication OF organizations In many
scnbed little club formed by children in
A. r. Club. When they competed their organiza-
tion they did not know what to DO with it. The
president and secretary decided that the funds
them, and that they agreed was horse.car riding,
so they expended their money IN that way. The
re- fesuit was That @ when the club met It Justified
lts name The mothers entered the club and dis
solved the organization. She elaborated 10 some
length upon
THE ADVANTAGES OF ORGANIZATION.
They were engaged she said, in making mosaic.
They were all building, but they were building
only one picture. Organization taught them hu-
mility; taught them that they were but part and
not the whole. IL taught them a sense of the
limit OF personal right-the line where one could
not intrude upon another. No individual ought TO
she thought, they failed altogether TO get this
training. The relations there prevailing
prevented this In the family, TOO. there
were the relations OF superiority and
inferiority. The husband stood in the relation OF
legaliZed mastery. She thought they nursed this
training In the family, too. because In so small a
the individual characteristics or one, perhaps, be-
came overmastering. Nothing in the world was
Ing people as their peers, neither dominating the
other, each with his sacred right The organiza-
tion gave them exactly THAT Nothing she said,
had ever so keenly developed the power or SELF
criticism as organization.
The next paper announced on the program was
by the Baroness Gripenberg, OF Finland, who was
TO speak OF Finnish women.
Miss Anthony announcedit that the Baroness
Gripenberg was unable To speak, being confined at
hG[ In3 h9eel 3o Oy an anec,ion OF ,he throas.
duced Rev. Amanda DeyO, Of
THE UNIVERSAL PEACE UNION.
She told OF. the movement which had given rise
to the organization OF the Peace Union. The
society had, she said, twenty branch societies
in the United states
Mrs. Deyo said that they felt that one OF the
causes or war was Injustice. Hence she did not
know OF an advocate OF their increment who was
not In favor OF absolute equality. Their peace
meant no easy, feather-bed, rocking-chair sort OF
exlstence-that all they would have TO say was
"peace." Lucretia Mott was Woman who reared
nothing: Susan B. Anthony, her sister. Did any
one put them down as lacking bravery? Though
they never cast ballot those Two women, with
Wendell Phillips, did more to shape American
politics than any other Two persons. MIS-. Deyo
n a hiny
the beauties of arDitration; making a public
sentiment that would be behind the Government.
EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL UNIONS.
Abby Morton Diaz, president OF the Women's
Educational and Industrial Union, OF Boston,
next spoke, and gave an account OF the work these
ducational and Industrial unions are doing Mrs
Diaz enlarged on the idea that II was not well for
man 10 be alone In the management OF organiza-
Lions OF dineren. ehaGacter The institution in
She announced that there would be meeting this
afternoon at Willard Hall 10 take steps 10 organ-
Ze aTunOn for this city. She described the opera
tiOns OF the union In providing employment, en-
tertainment, and cOmpanionsf1p for women; in
maintaining an exchange for dIspoSing OF the re-
protective department. which provided legal serv-
ices free, and enabled poor women TO COL
underlying principles were that they met on a
human basis, recognizing the needs OF all Needs
existed among the fashionable ana well-uo-do as
wen as those IN the lower ranks. The rich they
believed, just as much needed saving as the poor
They thought 1t Just as important to develop what
was good In rich woman as TO help poor one.
In every human being was something akin TO
every other human being. They took In all They
wanted 10 turn the woman force that was running
TO waste into channels where 1t would benent the
race. They wanted 10 elevate humankind, Ora
tors said that the hand that rocked the cradle
guided the nation; but they never added, as they
should. therefore the woman should have a royal
preparation Tor her royal duties. Ii was character
that ruled the country. individuals ruled the
country; character ruled individuals; mothers
fore, they should elevate the mothers. IL was
such principles that underiay their organization.
She wanted to have one OF these unions In every
town, sending out Its ray OF light
EIGHTY-Two YEARS OLD.
Miss Anthony introduced then Mrs. Marelia NJ
Hill, OF Dover, N. Fl. Mrs Hill is little woman
eighty-twO years old She Is bright and her hair
is still black. Miss Anthony said that Mis-. Hin
was one OF the first women to engage In organized
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some minutes, telling OF her denomlnational
ganizations, and especially those that helped
THE PRESIDENT OF soRosrs.
The next speaker was Mrs. NJ. Louise Thomas,
the president OF Sorosis, who spoke on womans
clubs. Mrs Thomas said that while they claimed
that Sorosls was the oldest womans club, the idea
stocsinS Club and the coterie that Satneped about
Margaret Fuller. These however, had no firm,
organized existence. Sorosis was now In its twen-
IL, III,
came the New England WOman's Club. Then
others sprang up all over the country. Sorosis
is strictly q womans club. Men are not
admitted to any OF its meetings There was
day In the year when they invited their gentlemen
friends to dine with them. IL was composed al
most entirely OF literary and Intellectual women
They met for an interchange OF thought, TO be q
help to each other, and then 10 have good time.
The Greek word Sorosis sgnifed an aggregation.
1t did not mean a ssternood. Botanicaliy, they
said, It represented many fruits IN one Soross is
not woman suffrage association. 1t Is rather
conservative. There are three subjects never
and woman suffrage. 1t Is feared that
such topics might cause disSension. That many
women OF the club sympathized with the move
ment for woman's Suffrage could be gathered from
the fact that three OF its board were now on the
platform, and that she brought with her thirty
two OF its memberS This council was not, strictly
speaking, woman suffrage council They asked
women OF all shades OF opinion to come In to bring
their best and lay 1t before the people.
LETTER FROM A CROWN PRINCESS.
Before closing Mrs. Thomas read letter from
the crown princess OF Denmark, to Mrs. Cramer
woman's council, in the effort TO establish home
for girls In her land.
~Nnn~ Mrs. Gage introduced
LZE9oESfHA better known to the
MS&39E5 SSS1 world perhaps as "Jenny
$S&EySXSSk2 June" the well-knOwn
49, RNA writer on fashions and
SS3H ~ topics OF interest TO
women, and for years
~~ Ev president OF Sorosis. Mrs.
MM Croy said she felt that
lN ~ she was a nth spoke In
WY wheel; she had come
w IN TO speak or united
\x.xzsS<IEA womanhood, but she
found that subject too
NXS large for the ten minutes
EAAX0A/M& allotted 70 her. She said