New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-04
CONFERENCES or WOMEN.
TIE A. A. W. TO MEET IN GRAND RAPIDS NEXT
OCTOBER.


OCTOBER
Washington. March 3 (speciaD-Thc officers OF the
Association for the Advancement of Woman, of which
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe is president, held the mid
year executive conference to-day, at the Vino
daughsis Club. Mrs. Howe presided, and the confer
ence includc beside officers members of the a'socla-
ton who had remained after the Trcnnial Council last
week and invited to he present to-day Todays
conference was - long one. beginning at 10 O'Clock
and closing at ., with but brief adjournment Tor
luncheon Among the important matters discussed
and acted upon were the place OF holding the He''
congress and the subjects TO be treated In speeches.
ana paper, during the session. 1t was decided 'haO
and nineteenth congress Of the association should be
held next october at Grand Rapids, Michigan. The
question of a supplementary congress at st. PAUL.
Mimi, considered, but not finally acted upon.
1t was decided that the following subjects should
he the basis OF papers and speeches "Ihe h'ihcs
OF Business" The Real and Ideal In Art Colleges,
90 The Effect Upon Children in Taking Part In PupIc
Exhibitions The Limits Of aeli->acrlice' :" Culture
versus Mechanism wise Economy OF Time ana
system a Part Of EducatOn."
The association has nine standing commitces-toplcs
and papers, science, reforms and statistics educatioI
industrial education art, journalism, publications ana
nominating.
Mrs. Howe will leave Washington on Thursday Tor
lecture tour extending rs far West rs Delver 'oi.
Another important womens meeting was the final ex
ccutiye session held by the executive board OF the
N0mcn's National Suffrage Association, OF winch MISS
SUSAN Il. Anthony is viccpcsdcnt and at present inc
acting president plan for the extension OF Work III
The southern states and the Territories was arranged
Ihls Will include series of conventions 10 be hcd al
the state Capitos under the auspices OF state orgai
cations where these exist ami by committees where no
organization ha, been formed. Among contributions at
this executive session was the of 81 900 given by
Miss Rachel Foster Avery, of Philadelphia, who is well
known a, an earnest worker for women's suffrage.
At the session to-day the following committees wcro
appoint Petitions DR.. frances Dickinson. Mrs. Clara
H. Colby and Mrs. Lille DeycIcuN Blahc PTogrannlc
Miss eu,an i. Anthony, Mrs. Josephine r. Henry
Mr., Helen VI. Warren. Miss Lucy h. Anthony, MIS-
/. j. Garrison: Con ,ona-M~S Susan Is. Anthony,
Mrs Jeanne Brook, Grcenlcaf. Mrs. Harriet IayiOr
Upton; ON the Columbian EXpo>itlon-MrS. Rachel
Foster Avery Mrs.. Ellen H. Dietrich. Mrs. Ida Merl'
wcatho MS. Elizabeth Boynton Herbert ana the rev
Florence KOllOck. Mrs. Leland stanford, the krN
Anna II. Shaw: southern WOrk-Nrs. Rachel Foster
Avery, Miss Alice stone BLACKWELL Mrs. Jane ii.
Spoiiod. Tho Rev Anna II. shaw was also reelected
National lecturer. The ladies from Congrc> Sional
circle, who are active working members 81
the Womtn's suffrage A~,OriatiOn are the wives OF
senator Carey and senator Warren Of wyoming; inc
wife Of senator stanford the wife Cf senator Allen: oi
Washington: the Wye. ~ Representatives. Gmcnleit
and fcklcr aud the daughter II Representative Taylor
II ONO. senator stanford Is also Hike IN, wtr, an
avovcd ,uaagi,t. They have during the last yea
contributed literally 10 tho cause.