Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-23
THE WOMAN,S JUBILEE.
;ionsc Famous Pioneers who will At
tend--onc Of the Foreign Delegates.

Among the interesting features OF the Interna-
tonai Council OF Women TO be held here next
week IS the meeting OF the pioneers OF the woman's
nights movement. That historic event that took
pace at seneca Falls forty years ago must seem
even longer time back than the number OF years
suggest, counting the passing periods by the
advancement made, since then, In all matters per-
tanning 10 women'S work in the world She Is
Certainly nearer the possession OF suffrage now
than she was then. but it Is still not hers. Mrs
t+lZaoeth Cady stanton, VINO Will preside over
this council. was the woman who called
together the first woman's rishts convention
ana taxes upon herself, therefore, the response
oiy OF sending out the inv atoms for the present
co1hc,L Ms. Sjantons sweet face, with It's frame
o. Inrls Is familiar TO the world by her pictures
ana her labors In the cause OF freedom, liberty.
ana the advancement OF her sex are known the
"Urlr. Mrs stanton has been identified with the
woman movement from its beginning as an organ
I'D body In 1873. She has stood az the head III &c
aud been responsible for its mistakes as we'll as for
I1e acIlevenents or the wOnan's rights women.
She mas recently returned IRON prolonged stay
with her daughter IN London 10 preside over this
council
MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY,
who has been called by Mr. william Henry Chan
ning the Napoleon OF the WOMAN struggle, has
peen hero for some months perlecting all arrange
mentS for the council. Miss Anthony Taught
school In her girlish days and had her attention
directed with force TO the inequality OF the sexes
In business, when young man was hired TO
succeed her In the 42-per-week situation She held
taught school, taught in seinInarfos edited paper
iud made speeches and addresses, made constitu-
ttuhal arguments before congressional commit
ets, spOAen 10 impromptu assemblies In all sorts
* places and been standing attraction upon the
lecture courses OF ali lyceUms and bureaus Tor
years and years she was arrested and tried for
vJting at the presidentiJl election OF 1872. She
WAS sentenced 20 pay fine aud costs, but assured
Lc Judge she would not pay dollar OF the pen
atty as long a. she lived She was allowed TO 90
free. Miss Anthony IS dearly beloved by all her
associates. She has worked with Mrs. stanton for
/ IN ny "a NJ hlE -n~ lAnrt nCrls
break in their friendship: never feeling OF envy
harFed the HAPPINESS OF each in the success OF the
other.
LUCY STONE,
OF Boston. who IS to be here is the wife OF Henry
b. Blackwell They were married in 1855, In a
farmhouse among TIE hills OF West Brookfeld, by
Rev. y. ". HiggiDson, on which occasion the
famous protest, written by Lucy Stone, and signed
by her husband and herself, was used In ii they
mutually protest against the laws that make the
two one, and that one the husband, and the sys-
TEN by which the legal existence of the wife is
suspended during marriage. She also refused to
tahe her husbands name and bears her own 10
this day.
NEs. MATILDA JosLTN GAGE,
of Syracuse, II the only daughter OF Dr. Hezekiah
Joslyn, who taught her Greek, mathematics and
physiology. Mrs. Gage was surrounded by her
family OF small children for years, yet she was
always Il student, OmnlvorouS reader and
liberal thinker, and her pen WAS ever az work
answering the attacks on the woman movement
In Tn" county Jnd state journals She has inner-
tied line antiquarian tastes and habits, OF deriving
into old histories from which she has unelTthed
many curious facts bearing upon woman'S degra-
cation Her most notable book Is "Woman. Church
and state"
of Philadelphia, has resisted the taxpa so ef
fectually, refusing taxation without representa-
ton, that the collector now passes her premises
without thought OF molestatOn. 1t was Mary
Grew VINO, at the second national anti-slavery
CON- entiOn OF American women assembled In Phil
adeiphla In May, 1898, offered the resolution:
That IL Is our duty 10 keep ourselves separate from
those churches which receive 10 their pupts and
their COMMUNICATIONS those who buy or sell, or
hold as property, the image of the living God
REV. ANToISSTTE BROWN BLACKWELL,
OF Elizabeth, N j., is 4 Congregational minister
She is a graduate OF Oberlin College in Ohio and
assisted Lucretia Mott and Frances d. Gage, Of
81. Louis. In opening the National Woman's SUI
frage Convention, held In Cleveland In 1853. Mrs.
a; q; bIackWel Is a handsome woman, has voice
on SiiSery sweetness and pleasing manner.
ONE OF THE FOREIGN DELEGATES.
II will be remembered that in the summer of
1856 the American authOreSs and journalist. Mrs.
Zadel Barnes GuStafSon, visited this country and
this city-after prolonged residence In London
as the accredited representative OF the Pail Nal
q fzene- She was then accompanied by her huS-
band, MI. AXel Gustafson, joint author with her.
self OF the treatise on the drink Question. 1.-THE
Foundation OF Death" She now comes alone, as
the delegate TO The International Council of the
National Prohibition Party OF Great Britain,
founded by herself aud her husband lust one year
son gave reception at her London residence 70
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady stanton, inviting a very re-
marhable group 10 meet her. Among them were
the venerable Rev. Dr. James Martineau and his
daughters, Felix and Nine. MoscheIes, Bret Harte
Andrew Lang, Rider Hagsard and Mrs. Haggard,
Mrs J. II; hiddell Helen ZlInmern, Mary Ander-
son, Miss EaStlake. Wilson Barrett, Mrs. Olive Lo-
gau skies, Nine, Thayer, the Australian soprano:
Mr.. and Mrs. Holman, Holman Hunt, Oakey Hail,
MIR. and Mrs. Coselloe daughter and son-in-iaw Of
Mrs. Hannah Whitall smith,, Oscar and Mrs
Wilde. Mrs Alexander, novellst the artist, Walter
Crane and Mrs. Crane; the Hon. Cuningharne era
ham, VI. r. Trafalgar Square political prisoner
and Mis- Graham; John Burns, the great leader OF
the working classes; Mrs. Mona Card novelist;
Miss Henrietta Muller, Drs. Kate and Julia Mitch
ell; the poet socialist, VIM. Morris and his daugh-
ter; the rising young noveletteist, Edrc Vre-
denburg; Nine. and Lionel Mowbray Marras. Mrs
f. Lynn Linton; 4. p OConnor, NJ. r., OF the
London star, Mr.. Stead, OF the Pal Mall Gazette,
Bright Lucas Although Mrs GustafSon was able
10 give but days notice To her guests nearly all
were able 10 come, and the occasion was one Of
exceptional brlllancy and interest even for the
social and literary gatherings for which London
Is pre-eminently famous. IL was at this recep-
ton, only one week before Mrs. stanton was TO
sail, that the question OF Mrs. Gustalsons accom-
paDylng her ia a representative capacity was iirst
mooted, and IL was not finally arranged until two
days before the delegation actually sailed and
quite 700 late Tor any announcement In the pro-
grams and circulars OF the council. Mrs. Ashton
bike and the Baroness Gripenberg, OF Finland
sailed with Mrs. stanton and Mrs. GustafsOn on
the GerInan-L.oyd steamer, the Aller, " hIch ar
riyed at HOboken on sunday, the 18th. Mrs
stanton calne directly TO Washington. Mrs. Gus
taison, MIS-. Dixie, and the Baro.esS Gripenberg
remained In New YORK TO attend the reception eX-
tended TO the foreign delegates by Mrs Lille Dew
ereux Blake and the New York State womans
suffrage Association at the Park Avenue Hotel
Wednesday night, but expected In this city To-
morrow. Mis- GuStafson's topic before the coun-
ell will be Woman and tine Drink Question Mrs
Sustalson VIII. during her stay, be the guest OF
her artist sister, Mrs. VI. Il. Bruce, 90 street
northwest.