The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-21

The " Oman's +SuuraSS Cahpd sh iot
this county was opened at the Board of
Trade hail last night with Miss Elizabeth
Yates of Maine at the bat.
1t was a tame affair and Hubert Child
could detect nothing like storm center
in it as many expected
Miss Blanch Isis Martin WAS usher and
she proyided a seat for every body In the
200 chairs that the room contained. Miss
Martin WAS dressed in a combination coat
aud vest with an oVerskirs to match. She
wore A blue skirt, yellow necktie and a
sunfiower bouquet. The yellow, il appears,
is the color of the sutTragist movement
Miss Martin made lively usher and thus
demonstrated, in measure, the value of
dress reform on ones personal movement
DR.. Carrie Tiffany, wife Of the gentle
man who aspired 10 the vacant shoes of
the late General Artz. was chairman of
the occasion, and she wore "A happy smile
and twinkling eyes TO match. Her hair
was parted ia the middle and she wore no
bangs. She is one of the feg woman suf-
fragists who, without painting. powder
ing and prlmping, is not dangerous to the
inner works of a clock. This Is another
laundering argument in favor of dress
reform and physical culture of which she
is "A professor and trainer. DR.. Carrie is "A
reformer in everything and was a couspic-
nous figure in the recent Pop convention
She Is rather bashful for d suffragisU and
what she said in her preliminary opening
remarks will be lost 10 the public forever
for the reason that she did not talk loud
enough 10 be heard at the reporters cor
ner-
The audience was what might be called
a mixed one, the three P's predominating
Puritan, ProhlbitiOnist and Populist.
The Populists were represented there by
Kies, Campbell. Sankey, fuller aud many
lesser lights. The Frohibiuonists were
represented by ex-County Chairman Hen
and the female contingent that organized
the crusade here last fall The Puritans
were too numerously represented to at
tempt to partlcuiarlze. As stately ma
irons aud ancient maidens STROBE into the
hall one could almost imagine scenes at
the entrance of IA Puritan church 200 years
ago. They all wore glasses-gold trimmed
glasses at that. There were many there
also who did pot belong 30 the three P's.
These were curiosity Sc kers who had
burning desire to see what a suffragist
looked like.
The janitor of the occasion was J. V.
Colviile, the Populist superintendent of
county instruction. He lit the gas and
made himself useful.
The Ornaments were not many and con-
sisted of suBfiowers and the flag of the as
sociation which is exactly the same AS the
United States flag with the except ion that
ii has only two stars and half on the
blue field. These two stars represent the
two states where women have the full
franchise-Colorado aud Wyoming-aud
and the half star presents Kansas where
women have only about half the fran
chiSe.
AT $50 DIR. Tiffany introduced the
speaker of the evening, Miss Elizabeth
Yates of Maine, eX-missionary to China
Miss Yates Is built on the Spanish order OF
architecture aud is rather a handsome
woman for her age. Her mouth is little
imperfect in its shape but that is sup
posed TO be the result of monkeying with
the Chinese language, or perhaps
with the Chinese chop sticks
while she was missionary to
that country. When she opens 1t to smile
which she often does, she shows three or
four fine octaves of teeth and, by the way.
every one of them has the appearance
of being her own in fee simple. If her
woman suffrage ideas hadn't more than
offset her pleasant voice and rather at
tractive face and form the chances are
that she would have bsen happily mar
rled forty years ego and be furnishing
more votes now for the redemption of her
country than she can ever do with
woman S suffrage. She wears A rich suit
Of black bair and she is not Indebted 10
anybody for il but dame nature herself
In a word Miss Yates Is one of that class
OF women who possess dangerous
hypnotic influence over women with
isms and men with wheels in their
beads She is not an orator nor
I he son of an orator. She can put things
in a catchy manner and make people
laugh, but she Is utterly unable TO make a
lasting impression. She spins out her
little speech like a high school girl de-
livering an Grafton. She can't go up to
high + like Mrs. Lease, nor can she
initiate the women Of destiny in her
clImaXes. She bears about the same COM
psrisoD TO tbHt lady as an orator that
Rufe Cone does TO Demostbenes. She
lacks fire. her long residence in China
prevented her from keeping up with
the times, and her argument for
woman suffrage was the same as hat used
in the latter part Of the last century when
Susan B. Anthony first started out.
NOTES
Mrs. Anna Shaw will speak tonight.
Notwithstanding the character of the
meeting the men had TO yield their seats
to the ladies' as usual.
Colonel Nick Bird was an interesting
listener and recbarged the storage battery
Of his brain with PopuIist campaign
thunder.
The meeting concluded with the circu-
laIion Of hats for campaign funds. Ii was
n surprise why such sticklers for woman's
rights did not pass the bonnet.
One lady actually participated in the
meeting with a baby ia her arms baby
In IA wopan's suffrage meeting is about
the last thing in the world one would eX.
pect TO see. 1t Is almost unnecessary TO