The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-02-22
THE WOMEN'S COUNCIL.
THE GREAT GATHERING TO BEGIN ITS
SERVICES TODAY.
Some of the Noted Ladies Who will BE
Present and the Great Organizations
which They Represent.

The general officers of the Woman's National
Council of the United States, which convenes
this week in Albaugh's Opera House, are
Frances E. Willard, President; Susan b. An
hony, Vice President; Mary f. Eastman, Re-
cording Secretary; May Wright Sewall, Cor
responding Secretary, and NJ. Louise Thomas,
Treasurer. One need not be prophet or a seer
to foretel that this council will be the centre
of attraction for women during its eight ses-
sions. 1t opens to-day, at 8 P. NJ, with divine
services, in which five women clergymen take
part-Rev. Mia Frances Tupper, Rev. Caroline
j. Bartlett Rev. Olympia Brown, Rev. Ida G.
Hultin, and Rev. Anna H. Shaw. There will
be solo by NJ. Elizabeth johnson and an ex-
hortation by Mrs. Margaret Bottome, president
of the Kings Daughters. This service is open
to the public.
There will be present at the council regular
and fraternal delegates representing thirty-tlve
societies and organizations. Sorosis of New
York, is represented by its president,
Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer, woman of much
grace and sweetness of manner united to dra-
matte culture; the National Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, by Frances E. Will
lard, whose fame ia in all the households of the
land, and whose life is too well known to need
repetition. Mrs. NJ. Louise Thomas, the treas
urer of the Trennial Council, is one of the
most learned and distinguished women of the
Centenary Association of the Universalist
Church. Wimodaughsis is represented by Rev.
Anna Shaw, one of the bravest and pluckiest
women before the public. 1t took her nine
years to earn enough to defray and to carry on
her education, which she did, graduating
in both theology and medicine, to be con-
fronted with the denial of the privilege of ordi
nation in the very church which had educated
her-the good old Methodist Episcopal Church.
Fortunately even Methodists are open to con-
tha Meth iietc Of
New York put an outward seal of
conservation upon what the Lord had
already done for her. Bertha Honore Palmer,
president of the Lady Board of Managers o;
unknown outside of Chicago, is already set
down as one OF the grand women OF the age.
The Queen Isabella Association is represented
by DR.. Julia Holmes Smith, its able president.
The Ladies' Physiological Institute of Boston,
by DR.. Helen B. O'Leary. There are seven
| Womens Missionary Associations represented.
| Mrs. E. B. Grannis, publisher, proprietor, and
editor of the Church Union, represents the Ma
| tional Christian League for the Promotion OF
Social Purity, and is one of the bravest of women
| The Worlds w. q. T. U. is represented by LIN
| N.Stevens. The Woman's Temperance Publish
| ing Association by Mary Allen West. one of the
| great thinkers and best executive workers in the
| cause. She is also the president of the Illinois
Woman's Press Association Mrs. Margaret
| Rovenhill, president of the Woman's Health Pro
tective Association, of New York. is the mother
of Katharine Kidder, the wel-known actress
| The New England Press Association is repre-
sented by its talented president, Mrs. Estelle N
| ID. Murrill, one of the most graceful women ani
| charming writers in the country. She
| is known as s'Jean Kincaid" on the
Boston Globe. The American officers of thu
International Council of Women is we'll repre-
sented by Clara Barton and Rachel Foste
| Avery. The jewels and medals of honor which
Clara Barton has won in her labors on behalf o.
the soldiers on our own and foreign battle fields
| could not be all pinned on her breast at one
time. Sometimes she is assailed by the unreflect
| ing as being an army woman, while in reality
the work of the Red Cross Society is most civil
izing and tends to mitigate the horrors of war
The Council of Women has an enrolled mem
bership in the various organizations which the,
represent of over half million of people
Lastly, but by no means the least, comes tn,
Woman's Suffragist Organization with its per
sistent, indefatigable workers, headed by tn,
still dauntless Susan B. Anthony at large, an6
of Mrs. M. E. S. Marble, representing the Dis
trict of Columbia, and for three days, beginnin,
Thursday, at the close of the Council of Women
the National Suffrage Association will occup,
Albaugh's, including services on the following
Sunday.