St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-26
A Magnificent Building to BE
Erected in Chicago in
1893.
Mothers, Wives and Daugh-
ters of America Asked to
Assist.
The Council Adjourns to Meet
in Washington in the Year
1895.

Age" was the subject of the first
paper read. 1t was prepared by Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, and was read be-
fore the council by Susan b. Anthony.
Goods Women was the subject Of
paper by Rev. Anna r. Shaw, of this
city, the lecturer of the National W. G.
T. U. At the afternoon session, Mary
f. Seymour. of the Business Nemen's
Journal, read a very able paper on the
subject of Occupation Of Women
to Date" A paper was read 10y
Mrs. A. Van II. Wakemau, OF the
Chicago Post on '.What do the Signs of
the Times Signify" At the evening
and closing session papers were read by
Ella Dietz Clymer. of New York, tie
president of Sorosis, Jennie c. Croiy,
and by Charlotte Emerson Brown,
president. of the Wolnan's Fedora
ton of Clubs. The next paper read
was by Mrs. Bertha HoDore Palmer
of Chicago on the subject of the board
of lady managers OF the Columbian ex-
position. She spoke in part as follows
of what the board proposed 20 do Al the
exposition: "a magnificent site has
been assigned us, and S200,0e0 appTopri-
ated for the construction OF the NGmen'S
building. 1t will undoubtedly be
kept as permanent memorial OF wOn-
ans work after the fair is over, ana in
it all w0man's organizations and con-
vocationS will find home. This build
ing is to be designed by woman. We
hope by thus calling attention to the
work of women in architecture to aid
them to occupy field which nat
urally belongs TO them, that OF
domestic architecture. We Shall try to
provide in this building for all possible
wants of woman, having IN view q
bureau of information with inter
prefers and guides for strangers, par
lOrs and balconies where ladies may
rest and chat, an exhibitors CLUB room,
a model kitchen where demonstration
lessons may be given, we hope without
charge, loan exhibit of colonial, old
Dutch, Scandinavian and other relics,
recalling the early history OF our eoun-
try and the various natlOHaltieS from
which we are sprung, and also of OBJ
jects developed in the home by the
taste of women. One wing OF the build
ing will possibly be devoted TO
showing the reform and charitable
organizations originated and carried on
by women, and the other to the exhibit
which will be sent by our auxiliary as
ISOLATION formed through the instru-
mentality of our foreign ministers in
the countries to which they. accredited,
and by means of which we
shall be enabled to indicate
the condition and attachments of
women in every part of the world. We
shall also have an administration room,
committee rooms and an assembly room
for all congresses and assemblies which
may be desired by women. In the main
gallery there will be probably shown
some of the most brilliant achieve
ments Of wOmans hand and
brain; there will doubtless be,
in many cases, duplicates OF objects en-
tered for competition ih the general
hibit under the regular classification,
the duplicates being placed in our
building to emphasize the fact that they
are the work of women. In reading
list of the organizations represented
here, it occurred to me that we
might obtain also most unusual
exhibit from the missionary stations III
the inaccessible and unfrequented parts
of the earth, and beg the ladies repre-
senting missionary societies TO realize
that they may aid both themselves and
us by showing the life and work of
women in heather countries. For the
first time in our history mothers, wives,
permitted to assist in the management
of an important national enterprise, and
have been allowed the high, but demon
alizing privilege of slipping their fin
gers into the national purse, in order
that they might prepare an object
lesson, showing sthe progress of
woman during the century in which
educational and other privileges have
been accorded her. We wish to show
that with the enlargement of her oppor-
unities her sphere has extended and
brOadened until she now works success
fully in almost every field heretofore
given up exclusively to man; that she
can do many things and do them all
well, and that there are no in
tellectual heights she cannot scale.
and progress, and her best work is
shown in the reforms she has had the
courage and the ideality to inaugurate
against time honOred wrongs, both leg
islative and social, and in the gradual
elevation OF the standard of moral
ity. We feel the necessity
OF showing this Influence and
the advance which it has caused, but
are handicapped by the fact that the
most valuable part is spiritual. and that
it is difficult to show progress in abb
stract things except by mass of sta
tistics, which become significant only
when intelligently and sympathetic
ally read. Will you not aid
thought to show woman's work as
beautiful whole, with its animating
spirit, and not as mere mass of ma
terial things. We wish the worlds fair
of 1898 to be memorable as great ex-
hibitiOn, greater than any which ever
preceded it, but we also wish
its history to be a golden page
in the annals of women's advancement.
1--WE urgently request therefore that
each organization represented here APP
point committee of five of its most
able women to consider the work we are
trying to do for our sex at the fair, and
to present to us at an early day their |
suggestions and advice, as to how we |
may best accomplish the great end |
we have in view, and to inform !
US In what manner their associations |
will be able to cooperate with our
board in its work. and We ask that they |
send their suggestions, applications for |
space, etc., to our headquarters in Chi |
cago, where they will be gladly received !
and most carefully considered and !
acted upon. The board pressingly i'll |
vftes this council to hold its !
international meeting in Chicago at the |
time of the Columbian exposition, when |
it will place at the service of the ladies |
the assembly room in the woman's
building. and should it not prove large |
enough. through our congress auxiliary, |
the MAGNIFICENT auditorium can be Sc |
cured for the meeting of international |
council of women.n
The council adjourned to meet in !
1895.