Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-04-10

iapsh, hefseif TOO. Among she English
representatives is Mrs. Ashton pike
| from the Liberal League, whom the re.
doabtable Susan has ohristened Mrs.
Margaret Dixie. After the guests cA.ns
the 'hometolks," Frances willard. Cora
Barton. Frederick Douglass. Lucy Stone
and Julia Ward Howe. Miss Anthony
brought down the house when she told
how, on Listening to Lucy Stone Tor the
first time, and hearing that all
the right wife possessed was
the right to be called .'rel-
ietD of some man, on her gravestone, she
had resolved never to be the ''relict' of
any man. Mrs. Howe, coming soon after,
said that OF the moment when Miss
Anthony wss making this resolve, she
was giving herself to hero; and Just
then quavering voice struck up
| Mime eyes have seen the glory:
the audience joined in with fine effect
| and 30 the council Was duly opened
The great days OF the feast are hard to
distinguish.
Monday evening was given to eduoa-
| tioa, when Mrs. Sewall, Pnndits Rama
| bal, Prof. Louisa Reed Stowel., the
mlcroscopist of Michigan university,
| were in their element. In this session
| too was heard the Baroness Grippenburg
student and authoress from Finland,
Tuesdays work embraced she phllan-
| thropies, temperance occupying the
evening. CLARA Barton, with the travel
dust still on her garments, told of the
red cross ministries in the forest pines
in the northern peninsula, in the floods
OF the Ohio and the Mississippi, at
Charleston after the earthquake, and
| latest OF all, at Mt. Vernon, after the
cyclone. Work for the Indians in thirty.
three states was described by Mrs. Ouin-
| ton. the president OF the wo.nen's
national Indian association, and the
| relief society OF Utah, organized st
Nauyoo in 1912. with its four hundsed
auxiliaries, and its protection OF women's
industries, by Mrs. Emily j. Richards,
| OF Deseret.
Temperance held its levee in the
evening with Miss Willard for the main
\ spokeswoman. Mrs. J.. Ellen Foster
! offered the opening prayer. Mrs.
| Hannah Whitall Smith followed Miss
Willard in q description OF the aims and
organizstion OF the Worlds Woman,s
| Christian temperance union, and Anna
Gordon was introduced az second pair
| OF handR and feet to Francis Willard,
| When Miss Kiefer from fhe union Of
Canada, closed her speech eloquently
endorsing the two great leaders OF the
| suffrage ovement, Mrs. Stanton and
Miss Anthony, the latter remarked that
| the lady who had given the largest check
to help defray the expenses of the
| conncils begged that il should not be
turned into q mutual admiration society,
and then went on to introduce the next
speaker in such glowing terms as showed
that she failed to make any application
OF the advice, save when herself might
be the object OF the admiration.
The national temperance hospital and
the national temperance temple came in
for good share in the interest OF tho
audief ce, as their respective founders.
DR.. Mary Weeks Burnett and Mrs,
Matilda b. Carse, explained their aims
and plans.
Ii distinction in days can be made, it
seems only fair to give Wednesday's
programme OF Industries and Profess
sions" the glory of preference. Mrs.
Liyermore, in o carefully prepared
paper, the first ever read by her, as she
stated, gave much usually unadmiated
credit 10 Women's inventors and indus-
trial gains iu the last half century. A
plain, quiet farmers wife, Mrs. Worden,
of Vineiand, N. j., compelled the most
earnest attention by her faithful account
of Woman In the Grange" and then
followed two knights Of labor, Mrs.
Loud, OF Massachusetts. and Mrs. Barry.
of New York, who showed what this or
gaDizstion is doing for women. Mrs,
Barry's story of her life produced an
almost electrical effect, and made what
may safely be called, 8 ths great hit" Of
the convention. An Irishwoman by
birth, she seemed to come honestly by
her eloqnence, and she spoke, watch in
hand, as If every second told for the in
terests OF working women. the is
general instructor of women In her
order, and predicts the near end OF
strikes, lookouts, riots and beycottinp
through woman's influence. The presi-
dent of the Dover, N. H., street railway,
Mrs. Dow, was introduced and seemed
not half 80 proud OF her railway exper-
ience as OF certain asparagus bed and
raspberry patch set out by her own
hands In her own garden, Mrs. Har-
riett Robinson, an original factory girl,
told about the Lowell Offering of
years gone by, the first magazine
entirely made up OF women's
contributions, and these the writings of
the girl-operators in Lowell factories.
In the evening came women from all the
professions; Mrs. Laura Holloway from
journalism, Mrs. Ada hi. Bittenbepder
from law, Mrs. Ada @. Bowies from the
ministry, and DR.. Sarah Hackett Steven |
son from medicine-all OK them brave
and successful pioneers in professional
life. DIR. Stevenson's paper has probab-
ly been the theme Of more discussion |
among Washington women than any
other feature of the convention. 1t was
scientific end philosophical both, claim.
ing not too much, carefully warning
against shams, and yet keeping close
hold OF every real gain.
a most interesting evening. was that
given to legal conditions and legal dis
abilities, and many wise head at the
national capital was made to know, by
the painstaking Investigations of careful
women, bat the lave for woman's pro.
lection IN her own home, In the posses
sion OF her own OWL property and even
OF her own childrnn, are not yet perfect
in erery state--not even in sill states even
fair,
Ii has been thought by very many that
q great mistake was made IN holding O
secret session en- the morning devoted to
social parity. The house was filled to
ats fullest by women only, but not word
was said that might not have been heard
the world around The best speech OF
the morning was made by Mrs. Ormiston
Chant, of England, who fingers some
months in this country to aid the w. O.
T. u.
Pioneers day had its own peculiar
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