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stitutions. These committees were ap-
pointed during the Worlds fair to care
fully consider the various suhjects and
report 90 the coaning meeting Of the
council. The following named women
compose the four committees:
On D~ress.-Frances Z. Russell, chairman,
box 800, &c. Paul; Annie Jenness Miller, Frank
Stuart Parker, Octavfa WI Bates, Lanra Lee,
Annie White johnson. Bertha Norris Smith
and Annie l.. Sloane.
On Equal Pay For Equal woFk.-Lucia i.
Blount, Nary Dealaa and Mrs. Leland Stanford.
On Divorce Reform.-Ellen Battells Die
trick, chairman, 40 Lowell street, Cambridge,
Mass ; Mary A Livermore and Fanny b. Ames.
On Patriotic Observation-Disclosures Brownlee
Sherwood. chairman, Canton, o.; Isabella
Charles Davis, Eliza D.. Keith, Caroline e. Mer
rick, Frances e. Willard and Mary Desha. q
Organizations which have become
affiliated with the national councM with
in three months OF the triennial session
Of 1895 will not be considered members
of the council until after the session,
but their officers and members will .be
made welcome as guests. The Countess
of Aberdeen, president of the interna-
6onal council OF women, has been in
vited TO attend, and the national coun-
ellis of France. Germany, Belgium, Cam
ada and other countries may be repre-
sented by delegates.
The first triennial session OF the coun-
oil was held in Washington in 1891, and
the second session would have occurred
In 1894 but for the Worlds fair. AS
the officers of the national council were
overburdened with the work OF the
worlds congress Of representative wom-
en- held at the fair In 1898, they were
unable to prepare for the regular trien-
nial session of the council for 1894, and
IL was consequently adjourned until
1895.
Mrs. May Wright sewall, president
Of the National Council OF Women Of the
United States, is q native Of Milwaukee,
and her father, Philander Wright. q Mas
sachnsetts man, was one of the first set
tiers of the Cream City. She was gradn-
ated from Northwestern university in
1866, received the nj. "A. degree five
years later and began teaching school.
The discrimination against women in
business and in education early attract
ed her attention, and one of her first true
griefs was that she could not enter Yale
college. as her father had done. In 1872
she married Edwin w. Thompson, q
teacher of Pawpaw, Mich. He was an
invalid and died three years later. In
1874 she became teacher of German iii
the indianapolis high school and upon
resigning in 1880 received q vote of
thanks from the school board for her
conspicuously successful work.
The same year she became the wife Of
Theodore l. Sewall, q Harvard gradu-
ate, and they opened a classical school
for girls and boys in indianapolis. IL
was q great success, and Mrs. SawaIl
still conducts the school for girls. Since
1874 Mrs. Sewall has been prominently
identified with numerous movements
f0r the betterment Of woman's condi
fion. The names Of the societies with
which she Id identified would of them
selves I'LL half . column. She believes
that all venue Of culture and useful
ness should be open 10 women. and that
once this Ii done the law of natural se-
lection may be trusted to draw women
90 these employments only for which
they are fitted.
Her first public appearance In reform
work outside 81 local efforts was i dele
gate 10 the suffrage jubilee convention
In Rochester Iii 1873. III 1889 she at-
tended the international congress of
women at the Paris exposition 81 ! dele
gate from America and delivered an I'D
dress in French ON THE National Won
ans Council Of the United States. =
which was highly praised BY French
scholars. She las strong. eloquent, log
zeal speaker en- the platform and Is rec
ognized ii one q th6 s1lsst advanced
women iii America