The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-09

en- Of the United States, which is composed
Of 900 national organizations. Delegates
from the majority OF these organizations
will attend. Or the stage Will be women
whose names are known in many lands.
Hiss Kate Bond is chairman of committee.
Famous Women VIII Re There.
Susan B. Anthony, who shares with
Mrs. Stanton the glory of long fight for
suffrage, will have something to say which
is sure to be worth hearing and reading.
Miss Frances E. Willard, whose work in
the interests of temperance has taken her
into nearly every country in the world,
will tell what has been accomplished by
that great organization, the Women 8
Christian Temperance union.
Miss Clara Barton, who for half q CEN
fury has been bringing relief wherever
war or food or fire or pestilence has left
helpless sufferers, will probably tell some
thing about how the organization of the
American Association of the Red Cross
was completed.
Among the literary women who expect
to be present are Julia Ward Howe, Mrs.
Amelia E. Barr, Mrs. James K. Field and
@ long list of other we'll known authors.
Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor, will speak
of the advance made by her sex in art, and
several presidents of women colleges will
be present to tell what has been done in
educational matters.
Mrs. Emeline Burlingame Cheney, for
more than ten years the president of a for
eign mission society, will speak concern
ing the extent to which the present stage
of mission work is duo to the efforts Of
early workers in this field.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster will talk of the re-
lation Of women progress to human prog
ress Charities and industries will receive
their full share of attention.
Women in medicine will be represented
by Dr.. Emily Blackwell, and representa-
tives of some of the woTnen's medical
schools will be present in body.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Americas pio-
necr champion for her sex, was born in
JohnstoWn, N. Y, Nov. IL, 1915, and the
same year. that saw the downfall of q man
at Waterloo who knew only the bloody lust
of a military ambition gave to the world
a woman who was from her cradle des-
tined to help the world toward a more al
truistic civilization. Her family YVES a
aistfngr*Shed ono. Her fatisel, Judge
Daniel Cody, was man who attained dis
tfnctioD in Jurisprudence and her moth
CT. Margaret Livingston Cady, was brill
liant representative Of the historic Living
etons of the KnickeFbocker days. Mrs.
| Stanton was graduated from the Emma
Willard Female seminary at Troy, n. Y,
| in 1882, having gained what was at that
day considered the highest education for a
woman. Her mind refused to be satisfied
with this, and she attempted to enter
Union college, but could not do so, as that
institution, in common with others, de-
clined to open its doors to women.
| Her Early Life.
She then studied Latin and Greek at
homo, and under iar fathers tuition at
tanned an excellent knowledge of law In
1880. in the full glow Of superb physical
charms and the attraction of a cultivated
| intellect, she married Henry Brewster
Stanton, a man OF versatile accomplish
ments. who was all his life sympathetic
and helpful companion Their union was