Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-17

4 W.
| BLAZE RECOMMENDS a woNAs's CRUSADE In TIE
SOUTH
The toast was "st Susan" All drank to It
| in cold water--and Phoebe Couzins made the
/ speech. Susan b. Anthony sat at the left Of
| Senator Blair and a company Of the most re-
markable women in the world were assembled.
| The SEVENTEEN birthday Of Miss Anthony was
| celebrated by dinner at the Riggs Saturday
| evening. As she sat there, surrounded by the
| skirted knights Of her long crusade, Miss An
thony looked no older than fifty, but she had
| got good start into the first day Of her seven
| ty first year before the dinner came to q close
All the famous woman suffragists were assem-
bled there to do her honor. Mary Wright Sewell
presided over the banquet. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, that venerable and beautiful old states
| woman. sat at the right Of Senator Blair looking
| as il she should be the lord chief Justice with
her white hair pulled all over her head, and her
amiable and intellectual face marked with the
lines OF wisdom. Isabella Beecher Hooker,
whose face reminds one of her great brother,
with the stamp Of genius on her brow, a
bunch OF white curls hanging at the back of
her head and wild energy Of intellect ex-
pressed upon her face, sat at the left Of Miss
Anthony, and q little further on sat the dsugh-
ter OF Mrs Stanton, Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Blatch. Clara b. Colby and Phoebe Couzins
sat near Mrs. Stanton. Old John Hutchinson,
the last OF the famous singing family, bis white
hair and white beard forming fringe about
his shoulders; Clara Barton, her breast spark
ling with Red Cross medals, and a hundred and
fifty other women Of wide fame were there. 1t
was as interesting and striking an assemblage
as ever gathered around banquet board
THE RECEPTION.
Before the banquet the guests assembled in
the red parlors Of the Riggs, where a levee was
held and congratulations were showered upon
Miss Anthony. 1t was after 10 o'clock when
the line was formed and the guests marched
down to the dining room, Miss Anthony, on the
arm of Senator Blair, leading the way. About
two hundred and fifty people formed the COM
pany and the women could have outvoted the
men about three to one. The dining room was
decorated from the ceiling to the floor with
flags and streamers. A long table, handsomely
decorated, was placed on an elevated platform
lengthwise OF the room near the east wall for
the honored guest Of the occasion and those
who were given the honor OF seats near her.
In front Of this table and filling all the avail
able space in the large dining hall were ar
ranged little tables, seating from five to eight
persons, each table crowned by some graceful
potted plant At each plate was menu card
with spray OF golden rod painted on its face
and looped with bow Of yellow ribbon-the
color Of the cause. The women assembled
there were from all parts Of the country.
THk GUkSTS
Among the guests were Miss Mary Anthony,
Susan b. 8 sister; the brother, Col d. b. An
thony, with his wife and daughter, from Leaven-
worth, Kan, and Miss Lucy Anthony, niece
From Rochester, Miss Anthonys birthplace
were Mrs. Sarah Willis, Mrs. Mary Hallwel
Mrs. Post Beamish, Mr.. and Mrs. Sargent, Mrs
Henry Willis and Mrs. Parker; Mrs. Laura
Ormiston Chant Of England, Mr. Robert Pur-
Wis Of Pennsylvania the Rev. Anna H. Shaw Of
t..lyl O., n.
the Rev. +. A. Hinckley of Massachusetts,, SEN
ator Plumb of Kansas, Mrs. Seney of Ohio, ex-
Senator and Mrs. Mcdonald of Indiana, the
wife of Judge Seofeid Senator Hawley's wife,
Mrs. Lippincott and Mrs. Holmes of Illinois,
Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery Of Philadelphia,
Representative Gambler and wife OF Massachu-
sets, Representative Baker and wife, Mrs.
Senator Blair, Mr.. A. A. Mosher, MIR. c. +.
Meadow, Miss Anna Mclean Marsh, Mrs. Ida
l.. McCammon. Mrs. Eliza Wright Osborne,
Mrs. Jennie Marsh Parker, Mrs. Rosina NJ.
Powell. DR.. Charles Purvis Mrs. Annie Purvs,
Miss Alice Purvis, Miss Harriet Purvis Mrs.
Alice Z. II. Peters, Mr.. Peters, Mrs. Charlotte
J. Pierce, Hon. F. W. Blackwell and lady, Dr.
Grace Roberts, Mrs. Eliza Richardson, Mrs. I.
C. Smith, Mrs. Louise Sinthworth, Dr. Emily
Ii. Stowl OF Toronto, Mrs. Caroline Sherman,
Sarah Winthrop Smith, Mrs. George E. Seeney,
Lucy Smith. Mrs Wesley Snead, DR.. Charles
Stowell, Mrs. Fannie Reed Stowell, Mrs. James
Sergeant, Lucian Squiers, Mrs. Jane Snow,
Mrs. Dora b. Smith, Mrs. A. T. Taggart, Miss
Adeline II. Thomson, Mrs. Harriet Taylor
Upton. Mrs. Sarah II. Willis, Mrs. Jane Willis,
Mrs. Eliza t. Ward, Mrs. John Wilbor, Mrs
Henrietta II. White, Mr.. White, Miss White,
DIR. Caroline A. Winslow, Mrs. George II. Wal
lace, Mrs. c. z. Wallace, Mrs. Warm, Mary H.
Williams, John Van VOORHEES,, Miss Thomas,
Mrs. Ellen Frances Burr, Col and Mrs. Fair.
Mrs. Florence Huntley, Rev. Frederic A. Hinck-
ley. h. NJ. Purvis, IT,, Miss Pepper, Mrs. T. Nj.
Rayne, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, c. w.
spofford, Mrs. Jane II. Spofford, Miss Sorrow,
Alonzs Woodall, Mrs. Gereda G. Wallace, Rev.
A. Kent and Mrs. Kent Miss Kate Field, Miss
Jennings, C.. w. Macone, n. j. Dunning,
Miss Mccarthy, Mrs. l.. Boardman Smith,
William o. Arnold, Miss Archibald, Miss Clara
Barton, E. Henry Blunt, Lucia Blunt, Mrs. VIM
Beemish, Mrs. F. l.. Blankenburg Of Philadel-
phia, Mrs. E. j. BartOl Of Philadelphia, Miss
Braegler, Miss Olivia Briggs Mrs. Baker, Mrs.
n. T. Benis, Miss Ada Bittenbeneler, Mrs
Hannah Boyles, Mrs. A. ID. Brooks, Miss Cox,
Mrs. James Cameron, Mrs. NJ. G. Galley of
Rochester, NY, Mrs. L. A. Crandall, Miss
Dickinson Of Chicago, Charles Dicken-
son OF Chicago Mr.. and Mrs. W. H.
Doolittle. DIR. Susan Edison, Caroline Nice.
Everhard, Mary E. Emery, Ida E. Edson Mrs.
Susan A. u. Faweett, Mrs. VIM. Lloyd Garri-
son, Mrs. Emma W. Gillette. Mrs. NJ. A. Good
win, Mrs. Matilda Joslyn Gage, Miss Edith
Hawley, Miss Carrie Harrison, Dr. Mary Hussey
Of New Jersey, Mrs. Mary Seymour Howells,
Mrs. L. Z. Hatch of Boston, Emily p. Hart, Mrs.
l.. A. Hatch Of Boston, Mrs. Della NJ James Mr..
II. E. James Mrs. Edith James, Mrs. Louisa NJ.
Johns of Kansas, Mrs. l.. NJ. Kimball, Mr. W.
b. Dougall, Miss Adelaide Johnson, Miss Eliza
beth johnson, Mrs. M. V. johnson. Miss Emily
b. Ketcham, Mrs. Fannie Lawler, Mrs Virginia
T. Minor, Mrs. E. NJ. S. Marble, Mrs Helen Mil
Ter, Mrs. s. T. Miller, Mrs. Mary Mcdowell.
THE ToASrS.
Mrs. Mary Wright Sewell some time near
midnight announced the feast Of reason to fol-
low the other feast The menu was:
Toast, ''St. Susan, Our Valentine, one day
behindhand, but not too late for servIce"-
Phoebe Couzns.
THE Modern Peripatetic," by the Rev. Anna
II. Shaw.
Rhymes, "Susan's Wedding" by Margaret
Stanton Blatch.
Miss Anthony as Fellow Worker" by NJ.
Joslyn Gage.
American Womanhood," by Laura Ormis-
ton Chant of England.
Miss Anthony as Journalist b.
Colby.
Poem, "Auld Lang Syne Z" by Isabella Reecber