The Washington times., 1895-03-02
National Council of Women Heard
Brilliant Addresses.
APPEAL FOR OUTCAST WOMEN
Mrs Davis Address Was Full Of Beautiful
Imagery-Aprlication Of Religion TO
Eorals-Training for Unfortunate Chill
dren-Women of the Twentieth Century
Coming Civilization-Woman Suffrage.

NiolS ol lIe NdtlOndl touhCH yesterday
and last night was the speakers as evangels
of the gospel of pure living. There were
several admirable addresses on this sub
ject. Several OF them Were evidently pre-
pared with great care, and had been given
deep and earnest thought.
The feature of the discussion was I'M
doubtedly the appeal made last night ny
Mrs. Isabella Charles Davis, of New York,
II was delivered without notes, was full
Of beautiful imagery, and tender, and yet
practical thoughts. Her familiarity with the
New York haunts in which a great deal
Of the work OF the rescue of fallen women
is done, enabled her to paint the most
graphic pictures of the opium joints, low
restaurants. dives, and public places,
where women are betrayed.
THRILLED HER AUDIENCE.
Mrs Davis thrilled the audience with
the realism of her word-painting and it
broke out frequently into long and loud
applause.
Her idea was, she said, to impress indeli-
bly,, by the relation of actual cases, the fun
damental truths enumerated by previous
speakers. Her closing appeal was heauti
fuI and eloquent: Help us, o, American
men, TO lift the standard of the white life
for the sons and daughters of God" All
the illustrations of Mrs Davis We're, of
course, concrete proofs of the effect OF a
double moral standard upon modern life.
Mrs Caroline Buell., of Connecticut, dis
cussed the equal moral standard Mrs
Buell. divided her subject into two sub
heads. Namely, lis an equal standard pos
sibJe," and How can it be attained?"
The first step in moral education, she
said, is pre- natal influence not only on the
mothers side but on the farther side as well.
There must also be q sublimer conception
of marriage. Children must be taught and
trained not only by the mother but by the
father, and, combined with specific teach
ings regarding the vital principles Of life,
must b. the living example of the father.
''She VIII not bind her feet as in China,
her brain as in India, nor her waist as i'll
America
Her lover. when he talks, will not look
down to her as an inferior; neither viii he
look up as to a master.
Hand in hand they viii build the home
the church. the state The woman of the
future viii occupy seat in legislative
halls. in Congress, and on the bench.
The trailing skirt and high -heeled
shoe, painted face and penciled eyebrows,
pierced ears, and dress cut decollctc will
not be the ideal makeup of our future
woman.
''She VIII breathe deep, fun and free as
when a child, and then she can sing and
walk and speak, and not grow hoarse or
weary. and never, never will she be seen
chewing gum in church or on the street.
Marriage will be a holier thing, and
there viii not be so many divorces granted,
especially in the Dakotas. The ideal
at the feet of Him who went about doing
good.
she will occupy a conspicuous place in
our pulpits
The woman of tie future will receive
equal pay for equal work. She will not
then suIly the whiteness OF her soul for
bread
THE woman of the future will demand
one code of morals for woman and for
man, and will manifest toward her un-
fortunate sister more of the spirit of Him
who said, Neither do 1 Condemn thee; go
and sin no more
''The woman of the future will be a
philanthropist, reformier, ayaliant soldier
/ in the contest of right against wrong, but
she VIII arm herself with the ballot before
she goes to war"
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, of Massa-
chusetts, delivered a short, sharp, and
| decisive address which demonstrated with
humor and logic that woman was entitled
| to support, atleast, for her work in the house
hold
PART TO BE PLAYED BY WOMAN.
Miss Annie L. Diggs, of Kansas, spoke on
''W Woman's part in the republic" She
said:
I'VE shall not have full-orbed, endur-
ing republic until we have woman nature
expressed actively, intelligently, forcibly
at the ballot box. Woman's part in the
republic will be on the ways and means COM
mittee, to sustain and provide for human
life. This committee viii supersede the
committee on war and navy appropria-
tions. Women Will provide for life and
man will no more provide for death via can
non, shot, and shell. With woman's advent
in the republic the glory OF the bayonet
here win pale; woman will transfer that
halo to the brow of moral heroes"
A most eloquent and finished address
was that OF Miss Carrie l.. Chapman Gait,
OF New York. 1.-The coming civilization"
was her theme. She dealt with woman as
the potent factor in the altruistic good of
the world. All womens work is unselfish,
and towards the betterment OF her chill
dren, and consequently the coming gen.
Grafton and civilization She advocated
woman suffrage, not because it would
me Dui lue
viii not come without it, This suffrage
was now coming on the topmost wave of
the American tide OF evolution. The
change would be as Victor Hugo de-
scribed the battle OF. Waterloo, n change
OF front OF the universe.
PRAY FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
go home" she said, every one of you
and pray. pray for the possession of the
ballot. Gird on your armor and join the
first Womans' Suffrage Association at
hand. Pray that in every woman's hand VIII
be that which alone can make civilization
the ballot"
Mrs. Isabella Charles Davis, Miss Gait,
and Mrs. Cranmer were so applauded that
they had TO respond to curtain calls, as they
say at the theatens.
Miss Anthony presented Congressman
Picker and Mrs. Picker to the audience,
the former making speech advocating
woman suffrage.
Miss Anthony closed the proceedings of
the evening in a short address, which was
heartily received and constantly applauded-