Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-19
A CONGRESS OF WOMEN,
Organizations to BE Represented In the Ma
donal Council.

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wELL-KSowN WOMEN WHO WILL TAKE PART IN
THE GATHERING NEXT wEEK-sUNDAY SERVICES
! TO DE CONDUCTED BY FIVE WOMEN CLERGY
MEN--rHE SERMONS NEXT WEEK.
The first trienniA meeting Of the the wo-
mans National Council of the United States,
which is to begin at Albaugh's Opera House
Sunday and continue Monday, Tuesday and
| Wednesday, February ~ to rs inclusive. will
be one of the most notable gatherings of women
that has taken place in Washington. Thirty
| five organizations, aggregating a membership
of over half million women. will be repre-
sented by one or more delegates.
Among the women who will either deliver
addresses or take part in the discussions are
Frances L.. Willard. May Wright Sewail, Mrs
NJ. Louise Thomas. Miss Mary F. Eastman,
Mrs. Joseph Cook, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs.
Bertha Honore Palmer, president of the board
Of lady managers Of the Columbian exposition;
Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Brown, a cousin of
Ralph Waldo Emerson; Mrs. Ella Dietz ely
| Ter, president of the famous New York wo-
| mans club. Sorosis; Lucinda H. Stone, Mrs.
Zerelda Wallace, mother OF Gen. Lew Wallace,
author Of Ben Hur; Mary I. Lathrop, who is
reform: Mary f. Lease, known as the famous
orator of the Farmers Alliance; Mary Lowe
Dickinson of the Kings Daughters; Matilda
b. Carse, the founder Of the famous Temper
ance Temple at Chicago; Miss Mary G; Burdette,
sister of the famous lecturer; Mrs. Frances Z.
Russell, the apostle of the Delsarte system;
Clara Barton, Mrs. Emily S. Sherwood of the
Sunday Herald, Mrs. j. Ellen Foster, Mrs. Mary
Seymour Howell, DR.. Julia Holmes Smith,
president of the Isabella Association, and many
others of the most prominent women in the
country.
FIVE WOMEN cLERGYMEN.
The Sunday services will be free to the pub
lie and will take place at Albaugh's Opera
House at o'clock pm. They will be con-
Quoted by five women clergymen-Rev. Mia
Frances Upper, Rev. Caroline J. Bartlett.
Rev. Olympia Brown, Rev. Ida c. Hultin and
Rev. Anna H. Shaw. These clergymen each
represent o different denomination and all are
pastors of hourishing congregations with the
exception of Rev. Anna II. Shaw, who, after
being pastor eight years, resigned her charge
to enter iLto the the temperance work. She is
now president of one of the associations repre-
Observation-Disclosures Mrs. Margaret Bot
tome, the president and founder Of the Kings
Daughters, will also take part in the services
and Mrs. NJ. Elizabeth johnson will contribute
solo.
Entrance to the other session Of the national
council will be by ticket, for which q charge is
made.
The officers of the National Council of Women
are: Frances E. Willard president; Susan b.
Anthony, vice president; Mary E. Eastman,
recording secretary; May Wright Sewall, corre-
spending secretary; NJ. Louise Thomas, secre-
tary.
ASSOCIATIONS REPRESENTED.
The associations represented as members or
as delegates are: The National Woman Suf
frage Association, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
president; Mary Seymour Howell, delegate;
Sorosis. Ella DietZ Clymer. presidents Jennie
c. Croly, delegate; National Womans Christian
Temperance Union. Frances E. Willard presi-
dent; Mary Il. LsthrOp, delegate; the Womar's
Centenary Association OF the Universalis.
Church, NJ. Louise Thomas, president: Emily
S. Sherwood, delegate; Woman's National
Press Association, NJ. D. Lincoln, presi-
dent; Mary s. Lockwood: delegate; Wi
dent; Mary Desha, delegates the Lady
Board of Managers of the Columbian
Exposition. Bertha HOnore Palmer, Mrs. Chas.
NJ. Henrotin and Virginia c. Meredith the
Queen Isabella Association, DIR. Julia Holmes
| Smith; the National Association Of Loyal Wo-
men of American Liberty, Mrs. j. C. Manches-
| ter, Mrs. F. H. caves and Mrs. II. r. Bishop;
| the Ramabai Association, Judith NJ. Andrews
the Kings Daughters, Mary Lowe Dickinson
and Isabelle c. Davis: the Moral Educational
Society of Boston. Mrs Simonds; the Illinois
Wonans Alliance, Corinne S. Brown; the Rhode
| Island Woman's Council. Mrs. f. s. Burlin-
game; the Protective Agency for Women and
Children, Caroline NJ. Brown; the Ladies'
my biOiOSlcal luSutute OF IICstOn. Dr. Geien ID.
| o Learey; the National Free Baptist Woman's
Missionary Society. Mrs. 4. s. Burlingame: the
Womens Baptist Missionary Society, Mrs. J. n.
Grouse and Mary q. Burdette; the Wonan's
American Baptist Home Missionary Society,
Mrs. Il. Nickerson; the Woman's Missionary
Society of the Evangelical Reformed Church,
Mrs. NJ. E. Whitmore: the :Womans Foreign
Missionary Union of Friends, Hannah J. Bailey;
the Union Woman's Missionary Society. Mrs.
H. ]. johnson; the Womans Occidental Board
of Foreign Missions, Mrs. E. V. Robbins; the
National Christian League for the Promotion of
Social Purity, f.. b. Grannis and NJ. Louise
Thomas. the Worlds W.CTU., L. NJ. n.
Stevens and Frances ]. Barnes; the British
Womens Temperance Association, Florence
Balgarnie; the Non-Partisan National w CT u,
j. Ellen Foster; the Woman's Temperance Pub
| fishing Association, Matilda Il. Carse and Mary
| Allen West; the Woman's National Tenn erence
| Hospital, Josephine X. Nichols; Homan y Health
Protective Association of New York, Margaret
Kavenhill; the Illinois Woman Home Mission
| ary Society, Mrs. o. Fl. fainter; the Women's
| New York Press Club, Mary F. Seymour and
| Helen Watterson; the Illinois Press Association
| DIR. Alice b. Stockham; the New England
Woman's Press Association, Estelle NJ. II. Mer-
rill; the American officers of the international
Council Of Women. Clara Barton, vice cresi-
! dent, and Rachel Foster Avery, corresponding
| secretary. Standing committees: Committee
| on the press, Mary F. seymour, chairman;
committee on sale of literature in the lobbies,
| Emma j. Gillette, chairman; committee on
| finance, Rachel Foster Avery, chairman; COM
| mittee on music VI. Elizabeth Johnson, chair
| Sewall, chairman.
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