Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1891-02-19

1t is the shortest and easiest way Rights
now gained are held on the insecure tenure
of possible hostile legislature, and this
Will be so until women are in that body to
care for their own interests"
In answering the question, What would
women do with the right Of suffrage"
Col. Higginson said, Il honor that wom-
an, who affirmed at recent convention,
that If she knew that every woman would
vote wrong on every question submitted
TO her for the next ten years she would
yet insist that she have the right. Men,
he continued, "have had ten times that
length of time to practice suffrage and
they don't always do it right even now
The pnrely suffrage element was further
represented by Rev. Ada c. Bowles in a
paper on The Suffrage Revival in Wor
cester in 1862" by brief but spirited sd
dress by Miss Z. U. Yates Of Maine; by
Henry b. Blackwell on kansas and Wy
oming, Woman Suffrage by State and Fed
eral Legislation; BY William Lloyd Garri-
son on Women needed as Political Help
meets; by the veteran singer John Hutch
ingson and his daughter, survivors of the
once famous "Hutchingson family" who
sang of the Good time for women COM
ing by and by" and urged upon all present
to vote it right along, and by stirring
speech of Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, in
which she made plain Our Debt to the
Pioneers"
A glowing page in the history of the up
liftment of woman is the one which records
her admittance into the world of letters.
The presence of representatives of various
womens colleges made eloquent the sub
ject of her educational advance.
Steps in Education for Girls from
Dame School to College was presented
which full educational privilege was at
tanned, were carefully traced from the
time when girls were taught the catechism
only at the knee of some old dame 10 the
day when she may 20 to colleges like Vas
sar and Wellesley and outstrio her brothers
II she is able.
Miss Cora A. Benneson, A. NJ, Ii. B.,
spoke for her college Bryn Mawr DR.
Emma b. Calhert-on Of Nassar College.
told its origin. its work and something Of
the cccentriCitics of its founder Matthew
Nassar. Prof Eugenia Morgan spoke for
Wellesley. Miss Sarah 7. Eastman, presi-
dent of the Boston Mt. Holyoke Alumnae.
recited feelingly the twice told tale" of
Mary Lyon and the dream of her youth 50
happily realized in the school she founded,
now a college
At the last minute Miss Elizabeth d.
HansCome of the Boston University was
called on to express her opinion on the
subject of co-education. In appearance
little more than a child, she made decid-
ed sensation in clever impromptu speech
of some ten minutes in which she "glori-
fled" her alma mater, and acknowledged
that her preferences were all On the side
of CO.. .ducation.
"Women's Work for Temperance" and
ed respectively by Mrs. S. S. Fessenden.
President Of the Massachusetts w q. +.
g.. and by Mrs. Edna d. Cheney
Mrs Julia Ward Howe paid glowing
tribute 70 Women in Literature" w ON
en- in Industry" Women in Medicine"
w omen in Law" wv omen in the Minis
try" had each its representative.
Mrs. Salie Joy White, who is familiar
ly known as the grandmother Of new-pa-
per women, spoke of Women in Journal
ism" Mrs. White said that her earliest
work was in the cause of suffrage. 1t
was with a little band of warriors who had
started out to fight for a legislative amend
ment in a neighborng state, and they took
their war correspondent along in the shape
of a yeung girl doing the first work of the
sort. One of the first effects cf the woman
suffrage movement was to bring out wom-
en- writer's" Mrs. White claimed for her
self the very great honor of being the first
roll of daily paper, so that she walked
down with the others every Monday morn
ing and drew her pay She paid grace
full tribute to many bright women who
were workers in the same profession
among them Margaret Fuller Lydia Maria
Child, Grace Greenwood, Mary Clemmer
Ames, whose correspondence from Wash
ington she spoke of as "wonderful let
ters." The Boston newspaper women"
she AYERS, "are women of ideas of earnest
enthusiasm and marked ability, who put
heart and conscience, as we'll as brains
into their work"
Some one has said "the world awaits her
queen" One person, at least, who attend
ed the recent celebration is of the opinion
that the queen is waiting for her world :
she is not satisfied with very large and
generous slice. little bird is whispering
in my ear, "she has not long to wait"
ELLA GRIFFIN EMERSON
Cambridge.