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ance Association, of which Lady Henry is

Miss f. w. Yates. Mrs. Quinton.
ance Association, of which Lady Henry is
the president.
Miss Susan B. Anthony-"Aunt Susan"
IS she is called by the younger members
of the National Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton, women who have become interested
in the equal rights cause since Miss An
thongs hair turned gray-iS familiar fig
IRE on the platform, just as she was at
the first meeting Of the council, four years
ago, and has been at conventions of i'll
sorts for years past. She celebrated her
seventy-ifth anniversary last week, but
no one would ever think it to look at her.
She is more active than the average Wash
1ngton girl of twenty, and has ten times
the amount of energy and good nature.
Her memory is remarkable, and she always
mas soft place in her heart for young
newspaper men. Yesterday she told Star
man that twenty years ago she could not
expect as much courtesy at the hand of re-
porterS AS she receives today.
Miss Frances E. Willard shows the eff
feet of her recent illness. She looked pale
and tired this morning but just the same
she managed to make one of her character
istic little speeches, which always shine
forth very brightly when business is be-
ginning to drag little and the audience
seems to be becoming restless.
Council of Jewish Women.
There are few organizations of women
composing the National Council that at
tract much interest and as well repay
study as does the National Council of Jew
iSh Women, under whose auspices the ses-
sion this evening will be held. This organ
iZation is represented in the council by Mrs.
II. Solomon, the president, and Miss Sadie
American, delegate. Both are from Illinois
and are recognized as two of the ablest and
most thoughtful women of the west. There
is no country in the world where Jewish
women have taken such high stand as
they have in the United states, and their
work in all kinds of societies, especially
charitable and philanthropic, has entitled
them to a high degree of esteem for ex-
ecutive ability. The paper to be read by
RADIO this evening, on the subject, Greek
and Hebrew Thought; Influence on Chris
tianity and Civilization" is expected to be
an essay Of great interest and importance.
Notes.
displacement, or the absence Of quota
ton marks in an address on the Spin
ner Memorial Association, presented to
the council by Mrs. Harriet Ralston, has
caused her friends a vast deal Of amuse-
ment and nearly paralyzed Mrs. Ralston
who is one of the sweetest and gentleSt of
women. The statement that was ascribed
to her was really made by Mr. Spinner
himself, who said he was eighty-five, and
Mrs. Ralston is scarcely more than half
that. 1t also said that she was instru-
mental in having women placed In the
government departments, when she never
had anything to do with it. Mr.. Ralston
quoted Mr.. Spinner, and the reporter quot
ed Mr.. Spinner, too, but aScribed his re-
marks to Mrs. Ralston.
olivia and Miss Anthony.
At the reception at the Ebbitt yester-
day afternoon was Mrs. Briggs-"Olivia,"
as she was known to the frequenters Of the
| capital during reconstruction days. The
greeting between her and Susan B. An
thony was characteristic Of the two wom-
en-. and not many who saw them together
knew that there was a story in between
Mrs. Briggs was the first woman reporter
in the halls of Congress. She came here
as the staff correspondent OF the Phiia-
delphia Press directly after the war, and
there were but four men to cope with her
| in the correspondent field. She made her
| reputation in reporting tho impeachment
trial of Andrew johnson, which for SO
plishment In 1869 the woman suffragists
held their first convention in this city,
and OLIVIA did the reporting. Not being
in any sense Of the word in accord with
the women an unmerciful overhauling, and
they have never forgotten it, Many times
after that she Sharpened her pencil to pitch
into them and those who know "Oliva"
know that they never got any the best
of her. She has not changed her opinions
| in the least in all the years that have come
between then and now, but is on the
friendliest terms with the women who
were once her bitter foes because of differ
| ence Of principles. THE old crowd is
gone" said Olivia yesterday, as she looked
around the crowded parlors.
In that first convention OF women, Of
which this is a child, there were many
who have since made name and fame, but
they are not here. Susan and Belva and
myself. l think we three are all that We're
in it, and 1 was not of it, " she added
with a twinkle of her eyes. Then she
spoke to Miss Anthony. How many of the
old crowd are here?' Miss Anthony looked
around over the heads and said. mo use
to look. Belva Lockwood and myself are
the only ones who were in the convention
and yourself" she added. IAN these
others came in afterward' Thus the old
order changeth.
Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster is limping around
with the aid of cane. She didn't get
sprained ankle from getting up to give a
man a seat in a cable car, but she sprained
it all the same Her tongue is not in the
least affected, however. and she will be
perfectly able to tell when the time comes
exactly How the Moral Element in Cur
rent Politics Can Be Supplied
The Business Women's Club of this city
has placed its rooms on 18th street at the
disposal of the members of the national
council during their fortnight's stay.
WOMEN AND RELIGION.
The Proceedings of Session Last Night
interesting Papers Read.
Owing to the reception there was no
afternoon session of the council yesterday
as there is to be en- other days, and the
evening session was devoted to the general
subject of religion and especially the part
taken in it by woman.
The first part of the evening was under
the auspices of the National Free Baptist
Woman's Missionary Society. with the mot
to Faith and works win The presiding
officer was Mary A. Davis, who was intro
duced as it's president by Mrs. May Wright
Sewall. The platform was effectively dec
Grated, and the rear was draped in i'm
mense American flags. In the center hung
big blue banner, bearing in letters Of gold
the title of the national council and the
names Of its officers, while on either side
were similar banners containing the names
of the seventeen organizations which COM
pose the council. Flags were draped from
the balcony, where also hung the banner
of the international council. On the stage
were seated a number of women who are
active in the work of the council, among
them Mrs. Sewall, Susan B. Anthony, Rev
Anna H. Shaw, Mary Lowe Dickinson, Is
abella Charles Davis, Elizabeth U. Yates,