The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-12-14


Wood of Winthrop.
Rey.Dr. Blanchard said that he had
not known of any resolutions by the as
ISOLATION in regard to peace, and there
fore offered the following:
Resolved. That the Maine Woman
Suffrage Association views with deepest
reoret the war between Japan and Chi
MAJ Admitting that good may result
from this war, it nevertheless emphasize
| es it's convictions that there is a better
way to settle disputes between narfons-
| the way of arbitration.
Resolved. That the Maine delegation
| IA Congress- be- respectfully and earnestly
solicited to ,favora ole legislation looking
towards the establishment of Worlds
Tri bunal5 of Arbitration.
During the afternoon, Mrs. Bailey read
telegram asking that the association
express an opinion OF preferences for a
state flower.
Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens moved that the
association declare in favor of the pine.
There was some question as to whether
the pine is a flower, and there was a
difference of opinion when the vote was
nut. Som 9 wanted the golden rod. One
didn't want to vote at alla and couldn't
see the sense of it apparently. There was
much discussion. Finally the matter was
tabled, with Mrs. Stevens's dissenting
vote.
THE EVENING SESSION.
There was larger attendance in the eve
ming than in the afternoon. DR.. Henry
Blanc hard read the following list of officers
for the ensuing year,
PIesident-Mrs. Hannah j. Bailey. Win
Vice President at Large-Mrs. S. j. T.
O'Brion, Cornish.
Portland.
Honorary Vice Presidents-Rev. DR..
Henry Blanchard. Portland; Mrs. S. E.
Portland; ex-Gov. Frederick Robbie. Cor
ham; Mrs. A. f. Greeley. Ellsworth. Miss
]; W. Weston. skowheggs a3 Hon. A an.
Dover: Mrs. Geo. $. Hunt. Portland; Hon
Z. B. Reed, Portland; DR.. T. H. Gerrish,
Portland; Hon. Nelson Dingley, Jr.. Lewis
ton, Mrs. G. A. Quimty. Augusta.
of Portland. III
Corresponding secretary-Mrs. Eta H.
oF TEreas,urer1Mrs. Winnifred F. Nelson,
Portland.
Executive Committee-Mrs. Margaret ".
Merrill, Portland; Miss Ella M.Adams, Port
Hamilton, Saco; Mrs. F. B. Clark, Mrs. Ell.
Fl. Shaw, Mrs. Noah Burgess.
Mrs. l.. MN. Stevens declined a reap
poinment as vice president at large, be-
cause of the increasing pressure of her
other duties in the W. G. T. U.
Mrs. Cheney. wife of ex-President Cheney
of Bates college conducted devotional exer-
cieses.
The Misses Cheney and Preston executed
a piano duet.
Mrs. Bailey introduced the speaker of the
evening, Miss Elizabeth U. Yates, as
native of Maine, of whom the state may
well be proud. She was horn in the little
town of Round Fond, cluster of homes on
the rocks of our coast. The early part of
her womanhood was devoted to missionary
work in China. She returned because of
the death of her mother, and since then has
been a lecturer in the cause of the W. G. T.
q. of the missionary interests of the
National Woman's Suffrage Association.
Miss Yates is woman of commanding
figure and Of very charming presence and
manner. She has deep, sweet voice, and
is natural orator. She has lectured all
over this country and has recently taken
prominent part in the woman suffrage
movement in Kansas. Her subject last eve
ming was, 1.-THE Fashion in Thought She
referred to the tli.iing fads and fashions of
every day life ard style, to the fashions of
religion, ana their mighty influence, to the
change in the fashion of thought as to
methods of warfare, and finally to the
change in the fashion of thought as to the
position of woman.
From the time that woman was regarded
of har Ius 6a ND ha
present time there has certainly been
great advance.
Miss Yates did not spare those women who
care nothing for legal and social equality
with men. She declared that some women
today are in a condition of humiliation be-
cause they apprehend it not. She compared
them to the blind fish in Mammoth cave,
who have lost their sight because they have
had no light.
She would not tolerate the idea of
feminine infe1iorities for any of the voca-
lions of life. Two years ago when she was
lecturing in Northern New York man
tainted in the audience, another man
tainted at the sight of it. Had they been
two women, it would have been regarded as
feminine weakness.
She made very effective use of the fact
that for doing the same work women are
paid much less than men. Her whole lecture
was a spirited and effective, one, sometimes
witty and always eloquent defense of
women at the expense of the men, She
ridiculed the fear of The vote of bad women,
by those who never have fear ed the vote of
bad men
who are afraid of mouse there are others
who can kill Il bear.
Her lecture was full of sharp points, keen
4 ~ too Ia
of the most interesting. entertaining and
sugg estive lectures that have been delivered