Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24

and chairs for the pupils. In the front room
is the nicely arranged library The room is
comfortable, always bright fire in the CRATE
and some easy chairs drawn up around it.
There is a writing table and drop light on it.
The library does not yet make very imposing
show. but it is gradually growing. At present
readers can always find many of the leading
magazines and newspapers of the country.
The library is open every day from O'Clock
in the morning until 10 az night. Both rich
and poor women have already enjoyed its bene-
fits. Many who are especially fond OF reading
the magazines buy the membership tickets
every month for this reason alone. Many of
the women clerks in the departments, art
students and others, whose working hours leave
them the opportunity for reading. are regular
attendants in the library.
The studio is located in the third story front
and is under the direction of Frank G. Double
day and Miss Ida A. Gangewer.
4 number of ladies make their home in the
building, also occupying the rooms in the L..
Among them are Miss Desha, Rev. Anna Shaw,
Miss Lucy Anthony. Mrs. Chapman, Miss
Weeks, Mrs. Foard, Mrs. Kleptisb and Mrs.
Coler. Most OF them are employed in the de-
partments.
THEY CAME TO THE FRONT.
There has been just shade of objection to
Wimodaughsis on the part of the anti-woman
suffragists. fearing it was going to be suffrage
association in reality This arose from the fact
that the Woman's Suffrage Association were the
first to rent rooms in the building. but, as Miss
Desha. the secretary. says, If they had not
gladly accepted the helping of the sufiraglsts
and temperance people Wimodaughsis couai
not have made the start it has
In connection with the house Mrs. Harriet
Lincoln Coolidge, who has been an enthusiastic
worker from the start has established a chape-
rome and guide bureau, and there Is bureau
of information to hotels and boarding
houses, both of which are already in successful
operation.
In fact, women who care to avail themselves
of all its privileges can make the Wimodaughsis
parlors their meeting ground and their head
quarters.
The expenses of the house are paid by
membership fees For the privileges of the
library and tuition In any one of the classes the
charge is 80 cents month and for the use Of
the library and tuition in the art class il costs
81 a month. SO far about $50 or 800 of these
tickets have been sold each month and this
with the rent from the rooms has made the
house so far entirely self-supporting. All
money received for the sale of stock is at once
placed in bank and is not used for the run
ming expenses.
OFFICE HOLDERS AND STOCKHOLDERS.
Stockholders are entitled to all the privileges
of the house. which include, besides those
named. invitations to a weekly entertainment.
The board of directors are: Rev. Anna II.
Shaw. president; Adelaide Johnson vice presi-
dent; Mary Desha. secretary: Emma NJ. GIllett,
treasurer; Eliza Titus Ward, Fanny n. Edwards
and Lucy Z. Anthony, trustees. And here Is a
partial list of stockholders: Miss Susan B. An
thony, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs. Jane
III. Spofford, Miss Clara Barton. Miss Alice
Fletcher, Mrs. Josephine Henry. Mrs. Caroline
E. Merrick, Mrs. Louisa Southworth. Miss Sara
Winthrop Smith, Mrs. Clara b. Colby, Mrs.
Rachel Foster Avery Mrs. Catharine P. Wal
lace. Mrs. f. NJ s. Marble, Mrs. Laura VI.
Johns. Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake. Mrs Martha
E. Root, Miss PhGbe W. Couzins. Mrs Jen-
nette VI. Bradley. Miss Carrie Wilson, Mrs. NJ
A. Kellogg, Miss Emma Schubert. Miss NJ. ID.
Miller. Mrs. E. j. Newton, Mrs. Nelson Tuns-
Ter, Mrs. II. C. Hunter. Mrs. Joseph.. III. Hough-
ton, Mrs VI. V. Brown. Miss NJ. j. Snowden
Mrs. l.. j. X. Clark, Mrs. Bertha Merrill, Mrs
Mary ID. Hussey, Miss Olive Risley Seward
Miss Annie Tolman Smith, Mrs. Hattie l..
Scribner, Miss Ida Harper, Miss Anna F. Did
lake, Miss Katherine Winston. Mrs. VIM. G. p.
Breckenridge, Mrs. G.. Il. breckenridge, Miss s.
p. Breckenridge, Miss Lucy Howard Pickett
Mrs. Alice Pickett Akers, Mrs. l.. II. BOlls, Mrs
VIM. NJ. Stewart. Miss Mary Flagler, Mrs. Kate
c. Newburgh, Mrs. s. ID. LaFetra, Mrs. Mary o.
Agnew, Mrs. Ruth c. Dennison, Mrs. Mary f.
Mcpherson. Mrs. NJ. E. Myers. Mrs. Bessie
Boone Cheshire. Caroline T. Winslow. NJ. D.;
Mrs. ID. s. Lamb, Mrs. VI. V. johnson. Mrs
Emile l.. DeGarmo, Mrs. Mary A. Lerch, Mrs.
Mary ]. Claudy. Miss Carrie S. Catlin. Mrs.
Kate Walker. Mrs. Martha Il. Hampson. Mrs.
Sallie B. Joslin, Miss Agnes Hall, Mrs. Lizzie
NJ. Murphy, Mrs. Catherine +. Madeira, Mrs.
Alex. Kent.