Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-28

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making bodies The women In the Knights OF La
Dor were educating the men TO Know what the
ballot means-freeoom not only for the working.
men, out Tor their sisters who worked by their
soeS MA Barry then told In simple language
THE STORY or HER owN LIFE;
ner years OF work as factory woman. speaking
Of her Knights Of Labor assembly, she said that
although there was not one OF those women who
could boast any high educational attachments,
tnere was more executive ability and calculating
Of OF % ceaa 9, could s oe euns Darn 10 any
done for women in the Knights OF Labor in the
She spoke Of the demand OF the Knights Of Labor
That children should be taken from factories and
Women or psceo nss ln SCHOOL sne appealed 70 sae
attention 70 the industrial system that was crush-
ing So many women. She appealed 10 them for
mistakes but they were the mistakes made by a
new organization at frst, that could not clearly
peoSe wha nsy sa by 10 BY 6ne
Dlack-st and the boycott both strike and lockout,
swept out OF existence.
THE HIT OF THR DAT.
MIS- Barry, to use theatrical phrase made the
init" OF the day. When she stopped speaking she
was applauded to the skies. Twice she had to
come forward and bow her Acknowledgements for
WOMEN AS FARMERS.
Mrs Johns next called forward an attractive
looking well-preserved lady OF small stature This
lazy was Esther L. Warner, who spoke OF "women
as Farmers" Mrs Warner was attired In black,
with lace bow at her throat and q fringe OF lace
az each wrist. She wore glasses and read her
paper IN graceful manner: Twenty-Five years
ago, being left widow with small children, she
Invested her small means In a Nebraska farm. She
managed the farm, supported her family and edu-
Baltimore with her son, who is graduate OF Johns
Hopkins University and engaged as secretary OF a,
charitable organization there.
Mrs Warner, as she came forward, repeated
the homely. couplet that che who by the plough
would thrive must either hold the plough or
drive" AS farming required the management Of
men She said the power OF women In that direction
fits her peculiarly for agriculture The farm is
recommended to women who are thrown upon
and her dependent ones The earth yields her in.
crease to faithful tillage regardless OF sex. Mrs.
warner TOOK western farm under the homestead
law, and she now owns her own mile square.
THE FEMALE PRESIDENT OF A STREET RAILROAD.
Miss Anthony said they had heard from the fac.
tory girl and the farmer. She wanted TO intro
duce another practical working woman. She
thereupOn introduced Mrs. Dow, the president OF
the Dover, n. H., street railroad. Mrs. Dow, a
comfortable, well-to-do looking woman, came for
ward and bowed She said that she did not want
to say anything about her street railroad, but she
wanted to tell about her farming. She then told
OF the immense raspberries she had raised by her
own hands
AN Ex-FAcroRY GIRL
Miss Anthony then made Mrs. Harriet II. Robin.
son come forward. Mrs. Robinson said she could
agree with all Mrs. Barry had said about the fac
tory girl. She said she herself had gone to work
In = Lowell factory when girl. She gave an In.
to improve themselves and how they had started
magazine, the LoWeu Orering. Among others
who wrote verses for It was "Lucy Larcom,"
VI h0n bod in Tho
She told, too OF a strike she took part in when
eleven years DID, when all the girls left. Her
n, mother, 6 who was poor widow, had been turned
cause she mad not controlled her daughter.
1.-THE LOWELL OFFERING"
Mrs NJ. Louise Thomas, whose husband, Rev.
Abel c. Thomas had suggested and helped the
girls In publishing the Lo,oeu Offering, was called
to the front and told the story OF the O1ertag
written by women. She spoke also OF the atten-
ton it had received from Dickens and from Harriet
Martineau.
MISS ANTHoNY's FACTORY ExPKRIENCE
Miss Anthony then said she wanted to give her
factory experience. First, however, she gave out
a number OF announcements While making these
announcements she remarked that in all her forty
years OF public experience she had never known
such a generous financial response from women,
There were seven women who b d sent their checks
for 500 each; one, Mrs. Elizabeth Thorn pSon had
sent check for $3.50 Miss Anthony then told OF her
factory experience. Her father was manufacturer
When he began In Massachusetts, her mother and
her fathers sister, both young women, boarded
each One-half OF the employees. When children came
her mother stin boarded her half, composed OF
eleven women. She told how She and her sister
had drawn lots TO see who would work In the
factory for two weeks TO take the place OF a girl
who was away, and at the end Of the two weeks
divided the s. Of wages.
Before the session closed beautiful cluster OF
roses was sent up TO the platform. This, Miss An
thOny announced, w3s from Mrs ex-senator Hen
0erSOn. MfSSOur[ WA cd for
Stanton. Mrs. Henderson's mother, she said at
tended the seneca Falls meeting forty years ago.
THE COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION
held session this morning and is in session this
afternoon at the Riggs House preparing plan to
report TO the council.