St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-21
men WERE NOT IN IT.
Notable Women Assemble to
Discuss the Advancement
OF Their Sex.
Julia Ward Howe Is Emphat-
sically. for America for
the Americans.
Anti-P yrine and Quinine Kill
More People Than 0rigi- Z
nal Disease.
Women in College and in the
World Discussed by Their
Own Congress.


F5There. was a.titne. not so far in the
past. either, wien the woman who had
ideaS-the blue stocking-was popular
" pictured as very dreadful creature,
with inky fingers. unkempt hair and
gown of unconventional cut end no fit
atall. The audience that filled West
moreland hall yesterday to hear the pa
pers read at the supplementary meeting
of the Association for the Advancement
of Women was an audience of eXcep-
tionally well dressed women. The ar
eument that the intellectual woman is
dowdy was forever and utterly re-
futed by that gathering of quiet
but elegant and eminently ap-
proprlate fall gowns. The roStrum had
little OF parliamentary stiffness about it.
1t was surrounded by 4 green jungle of
palms. begGnias and pOtted plants.
Palms and banana plants stood on the
corners of the platform and formed a
green background for the speakers. On
the Secrelary'S table was an immense
punch howl filled with La France and
Catherine Mermet roses, mingled with
smiiaX ami maiden. hair ferns.
In the audience were all sorts and
conditions of women, a number of
school girls and three uncomfortably
conscious men. On the roStrum sat
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the president
of the association; Mrs. Lily Lord Tiff,
its secretary. and the speakers of the
cay. Mrs. Howe, weaf'ing lightly the
grown OF her seventy-two years, pre-
sided with dignity and great simplicity
eff manner. Her goWnt-.WaS black In
dia silk with spraysof iieliotrope flowers
printed on il. The same combination
of color was repeated Vim her bonnet.
Mrs. Howe has very beautiful hands,
and about each wrist was a heavy gold
bracelet. She made a very brief adj
dress of welcome. saying that while the
association is not identified with any
one OF the great questions of the day, it
Is interested in every thing that has as
its object the advancement of women in
any way.
BdeaIEss,r and Literature.
The first speaker was then intro
duced, Mrs: Ellen NJ. Mitchell, of Colo
RADIO, professor of philosophy in the
University Of Denver. Mrs. MitchelPs
subject was The Influence of IdealiSm
i'll literature. - Nearly all the beacon
lights of@peetry were considered, and
random extracts from the paper follow:
III u picture ~ hdpDael. Chk1eu me oC0OOi
of Athens" the eyes of Plat8 are lifted up
ward, those of Aristotle are fixed upon the
ground. President Seelyc thereupon re-
marks that Plato, beginning with the heav-
ems, looked SO Complementary that he saw
the earth shining in the light of the skies,
and Aristotle, beginning with the earth.
looked so deeply that he saw the heavens
beneath ii, the same heavens which Plato
saw above. Thus ideAlism and realism,
though relatively opposed, are one truth.
nc. t,lni ic rxrifl
the name of Plato. Plato was born to be-
hold the self-evolving power of. spirit end
less generator of new ends. n power which
is the key at once 10 the centrality and the
evaneScence of things, 1t is this power
of spirit in its influence upon l:tera-
lure that | have chosen for my theme.
All the greatest poetry, of the world
owes its power to idealiSm. IdeaIiSm inn
plies dissatisfaction with past attachments.
We tnd the essence OF ldea!iSm IN Dante's
Divina Commediu. In the renaissance of art
and literature rlato waSstudied, and Platoon
Ism passed into the verse of Spenser The
Faerc Queen IS an aHegory of the human
soul struggling toward perfect love and per-
feet beauty. Shakespeare blends i'll perfect
union idealism and realism. He reveals the
moral grandeur of this world, Dante leads
us 20 a country beyond the stars, Milton, like
Dante is mO:e spiritual than Shakespeare
From his childhood nc dedicated himself to
mn ideal-the ideal of duty. With the verse
OF Milton imaginative poetry said its last
word for weary space OF time. The eight
eenlh century subjeciedegerything TO logical
ANALYSIS. collected facts studied the real at
tanned great perfection in writing prose but
had no CLEAN of aspiration, no belief
in idealism. Noltaire, in France, and
David Hume, in England. are the typi.
cal children of this. century. Pope is
its poet, uniGeal, unimagiuatiye. Goethe,
Schiller and number OF lesser poets rep
resent the tendency Of idea;iSm in Germany
Byron quality is one of poetical wor.dliness.
Browning is a1ridealist but does not oppose
The realistic movement of science except
when it leads. to intellectual arrogance
Tennyson, like Browning, recognizes that
human love is q revelation of the Divine
love. The greatest thinkers that the world
has ever known, philosophers and poets.
have been idealists. Wherever we turn in
line history of literature, iaealism holds the
field. and OH its banner is the name of God
After Mrs. Mitchell had read her pa
per, Mrs. Mary Adams, of Dubuque. To-,
was called on for five-minute discus
sion. She declared herself rather con-
fused at attempting to speak five min
uteS OH paper every sentence of which
was text. but told a very interesting
story of a cousin. Miss Harriet Bishop,
who came to the site of ST. Paul before
the town was founded to ''get at the
headwaters of things" Miss Bishop
had been much impressed with the
ideality of the Indian women. at was
woman said Mrs. Adams, ''Who first
compared good with evil. and aspired
TO be as the gods. Ifman is not divine,
if'all this is not part OF the great Sys-
TEN of God, then our great republic is
founded OH sand" Mrs. Adams was
listened to attemtiveIy, and the enthu-
siasm shining from her lovely face be-
meath its crown of silver hair was re-
sponded to by all the house.