Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-06-22

you could not smother it with red tape; you could
not put it away in apigeon-hole; and even If you
give it s'leave to Withdraw" it will perslstently
come back He had no doubt that woman suf-
frage would come; and then before long every
body would claim to have been one of the original
suffragists. There were fifteen persons at the first
anti-slayery meeting, and now there are at least
$50, 900 who claim to have been there. Soon
there will be q grand scramble to get on this plat
form.
Rev. Ada G. Bowels said that as she rode in the
horse cars not long ago. she saw this notice posted
up: "Get your bonnet of Higgins, the man mil
liner" She had followed the injunction. When
woman minister got man milliner to make her a
bonnet to wear to woman suffrage convention,
the era of woman's rights might be regarded as al
most here. Mrs. Bowles paid her respects to Mr.
Grant Allen. She spoke of the rapid rate at
which women are catching up with men, and she
told a new version of the fable about the race be-
tween the hare and the tortoise. The hare felt
sure of winning, especially as he had little the
advance at the start But the tortoise laid hold Of
his tail and was drawn along When the hare had
all but reached the goal, he turned around to see
how far behind the tortoise was. This brought
the tortoise, still cngng on, to the goal ahead of
him. Women were following close after men, and
ifmen persisted in looking back, like Grant Allen
to see how far behind them the women were, they
might be astonished to find that the women were
ahead.
Mrs Mary Seymour Howell, of Albany n. T.,
responded to the toast 'sOur Foremothers." Mrs.
Howell said 'When was little girl, remem-
Der that widow with three young sons who lived
in an isolated spot outside the town, came into my
fathers store one day. Something brought up
the subject of woman suffrage and my father
said to her. jokingIy: you can't vote, because
you can't saw wood But can saw wood she
said. IF | had not sawed wood, my children
would have been frozen this winter well, then,
he said, you can't vote, because you can't cut
down trees But | can cut down trees, she
said IF had not gone out with my little boys
and cut down trees in the forest, we should have
had no wood to burn. Then finally he said:
well, you can't VOTE because you can't sing
bass. " Mrs. Howell said that women did not
want to sing bass, but they did want to join in the
great hymn of liberty which had been sung too
long as bass solo. She paid an eloquent tribute
to the foremothers who had been forgotten at the
inaugural centennial. Applause.
Mrs. Stone told one of Stephen Fosters stories,
how little brother and sister were sent to a
neighbours house on an Grand. The sister, being
the elder, was about to raise the knocker; but the
small boy, full of his masculine prerogatiye, pulled
her back, and lifted the knocker himself, standing
on tiptoe to reach it, and lisping, "Thtop, thtop
the man muth rap!" Great laughter. Mrs.
Stone referred to Grant Aliens recent assertion
''The males are the race" and to some of the
very anti-woman's rights statement made by DR..
zabrskie Gray, of Harvard, in his book on "Hus-
band and Wife" She said we used to feel very
much sat down when such things were said OF us,
but now the cause had gone on so far that we no
longer minded them.