The Iola register., 1890-08-08


dian associations and such will take
rooms here for National headquarters.
At any rate the Seven Wise Women en-.
tertain no fear that they will not be
able to dispose of all their office room
at good rental figures without admitting
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
follies of matrimony-are 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
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, \.
Y, in 1850 For seven years she
Mass. About three years ago she re-
signed her pastoral charge. She is at
present superintendent of franchise for
the National Woman's 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
20 ha ha oil af III
our women 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 4 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. 4 few years
ago-ten or twelve, perhaps-Miss
johnson, then a 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 penuiless.
Unwilling to be cared for by friends
there, and unable to earn any thing inn
mediately by her art she worked at
dreSsmaking until she had saved enough
money to establish her in art rooms in
Central Music Hall. Here she taught
and studied, and dreamed of a glorious
future, for pupils came and work was
ordered, and success seemed almost at
hand when, entering the building one
dark winter morning, she walked
through the open door of the elevator
and fen upon the stone floor some if
teen feet below, shattering her bones in
such a manner that months were re-
quired for their mending, and even
then one leg was more than three inches
shorter than the other, and she had to
go upon crutches. By many more
months of toll and sacrifice she amassed
a little money and set out for Europe
alone. After few months of study in
England and Scotland and a year in
Italy she returned to Chicago and re-
sumed her work of modelling and of in
structing class es- Soon after General
Logan's death she came to Washington,
bringing wit her relief portrait of
that disting uished soldier-statesman
which so delighted Mrs Logan that she
invited the young artist TO Calumet
a studio for her. Here Miss johnson
bust of the General in clay,
and here began trouble between Mrs.
Logan and her protege. According to
Miss Johnson's story, Mrs. Logan was
so much pleased with the bust that she
ordered ii done in marble, discussed all
the details and matters of expense, and,
in fine, gave an order for marble busts
of the General and herself, which Miss
johnson was to make in Rome after in
curing certain expense for further in
in carving.
Miss johnson says that her mother
raised the 400 necessary to the trip
and the work by mortgaging the farm in
Illinois The artist remained in Rome
five months studying and working on
the busts under the direction of Altini.
When she returned Mrs. Logan is said
to have denied that she ever ordered the