The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-01

shows how that popular idea has become
woman's graceful substitute for the noisy salute
of mankind.) She told good story on Miss
Willard, and sat down leaving that ''spinster'
as she calls herself, to hit back if she wanted
to. She did it well by saying that she believed
in men and women speaking the appreciative
word of one another during their lifetime, and
If it was considered 'tafTy" to tell how much
she loved Lucy Stone during her lifetime it was
not epitaphy. She also contributed a fact to
prehistoric ethnology, proving that the myth
of Eve having been moulded out of one of
Adams ribs was a prehistoric error, it latterly
being self-evident that Eve's origin was on
higher plane, and that she sprung from his
jawbone, and has been at it ever since. She
said the Woman's Council now being thor
oughly organized, were yesterday (the general
oflicers) convassng the subject of an appro-
pirate motto at the Riggs House lunch table,
and, while various notices were suggested. she
was going to give this audience secret OF the
one she suggested, there being no newspaper
women present to reveal it; and "Lord, kindly
lead,' was what she whispered.
Mrs. Ella Dietz Clymer, of New York, presi-
dent of Sorosis, vice president of the Womans
National Council, gave graceful greeting
from the mother of woman's clubs, Sorosis-a
word that formerly paralyZed man, he consid-
eering it some dreadful incantation She said
the nut Sorosis had cracked was the power to
convert conservative women into good radical
women. She knew, having been with it since
its organization, being charter member.
Mrs. Roby, of Chicago, said that ffty-one
years ago Chicago was an Indian village, set in
the prairie mud. To-day it glories in being the
second city in America, has million and a half
inhabitants, had the biggest blaze ever known
in America, and in 1893 will hold the biggest
fair ever held in the world.
Mrs Kate Tannatt Woods had three minutes
to make speech in, but she ruined woman's
reputation as talller forever, having concluded
her remarks in exactly one minute and half
by offering the following sentiment: ''The
fn6p nf ,Ic.; TIC
Gus; in its impulses, may it go on until the
whole number of States are included.n
Mrs Mary Frost Ormsby spoke of the help to
be derived from the confederation of clubs.
Mrs. Nettie Sanford Chaplin, of Iowa, said it
seemed a pity to send to the woolly West,
which she represented, for a speaker when all
the culture of the ripened East was present.
She offered as a sentiment, "Al honor to the
pioneers: brave men and women everywhere
Isabella Beecher Hooker grows more Beech
erish in looks and speech each wear of her life.
She said she enjoyed every minute of this bright
occasion, but especially her companion, Madame
Belgarnia, of England, and whom she gave
way to.
Mrs. Belgarinia said she had been in this
country two weeks and was almost persuaded
to be republican citizen, so charmed was she.
She said American women were ahead of Eng
llsh women IN one particular. She had been a
guest at the Riggs during all the women's
meetings and she had yet to hear the first word
of fault-finding with each other, or of ''back-
bting.n
Belva Lockwood called for toast to be
drunk in pure cold water to ''The penwomen
of America, as women are so smart they can
find and use their brains without the sstimu-
lant' that man SO often protests he needs"
Mile. Decca sung ''Home, Sweet Home'' most
charmingly, and at l A. M. the most unique and
remarkable of women's gala occasions came to
an end and the fair guests were bundled off
home in cabs or carriages to happy dreams
with clear heads.