Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1890-09-05


rooms here for National headquarters.
At any rate the Seven Wise Women en-
terrain no fear that they will not be
able to dispose of all their Office room
at good rental figures without admitting
a man inside the portals, save such as
may be employed by the feminine ten
ants.
The Seven Wise Women-so-called
may be, because they have avoided the
folles Of matrimony-ar the incorpora-
tors and constitute the board of direc-
tory for the first year. OF this board
Rev. Anna II. Shaw is president She
is stoutly built, below the medium
height has a bright but very kindly
brown eye and a manner that attracts
affection no less than admiration. Miss
Shaw, besides being one of the first
women to take the medical course in
Boston University, is the only woman
ever ordained by the Methodist Protest
ant church. The novel ceremony of Or
dination took place at Tarrytown, N.
Y, in 1880. For seven years she
preached at Dennis and Hingman,
Mass About three years ago she re-
signed her pastoral charge. She is at
present uperintendent of franchise for
the National Womans Christian Tenn
perance Union, but will on the 1st of
August begin her salaried engagement
as National lecturer for the American
Woman's Suffrage Association. She is
declared to be the most q II uent Of ali
our S TGnn11en Speakers being the equal of
Miss Frances Willard in every respect
and having the advantage of a much
fuller, rounder and more pleasing voice.
Last year Miss Shaw travelled more than
twenty-eight thousand miles and deliv-
cred an average of five lectures a week
She is now in South Dakota, where she
will remain until the close of the fall
campaign.
Miss Adelaide Johnson is the vice.
president of the board A few years
ago-ten or twelve, perhaps-Miss
Johnson, then timid, delicate, but
pretty and plucky girl Of fifteen, left
her fathers farm near Plymouth, Ill.
and went to st, Louis to crafty her de-
sire for an artistic education. When
she had been in the school Of design
two years she took the first prize offered
by the agricultural department for the
| best original design in wood carving.
| Not long afterward she set out for Chi.
cago, determined upon earning her liv'
ing by her art if possible On the way
she was cruelty robbed of all the money
she had carefully boarded for this risky
enterprise, and when she arrived in
Chicago she was literally pcnniless
Unwilling TO be cared for by friends
there, and unable to earn any thing i'm
mediately by her art, she worked a.
dressmaking until she had saved enough
money to establish her in art rooms il
Central Music Hall. Here she laugh
and studied, and dreamed of a glorious
future, for pupils came and work was
ordered, and success seemed almost a
hand when, entering the building ont
dark winter morning, she walked
through the open door of the elevator
and fell upon the stone floor some fit
teen feet below, SCATTERING her bones il
such manner that months were re
quired for their mending, and ever
then one leg was more than three inches
shorter than the other, and she had I,
go upon clutches. BY many more
months of toll and sacrifice she amasset
a little money and set out for Europ,
alone, After a few months of study il
England and Scotland and year il
Italy she returned to Chicago and re
sumed her work of modelling and of in
structing class es. Soon after Genera
Logan's death she came to Washington
bringing with her relief portrait o
that distinguished soldier-statesmal
which so delighted Mrs Logan that sh
invited the young artist to Calume
Place and turned the conservatory int
a studio for her. Here Miss Johnso
modelled bust of the General in clay
and here began trouble between Mrs
Logan and her protege. According t
Miss Johnson's story, Mrs. Logan wa
so much pleased with the bust that sh
: ordered il done in marble, discussed a
, the details and matters of expense, anC
: in fine, gave an order for marble bust
of the General and herself, which Mis-
| johnson was to make in Rome after il
, curing certain expense for further il
| struction in carving.
Miss Johnson says that her mothC
raised the 400 necessary to the tri
! and the work by mortgaging the farm
= Illinois. The artist remained in Ron
= five months studying and working c
; the busts under the direction of Attn
I When she returned Mrs Logan is sal
q to have denies that she ever ordered Il