The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-11-09
PIONEER II: d MEM N WOMAN
,Ellzahethleady Stanton VIII Be An 0ctoge.
MARIAN On November IL,
now HER BIRTHDAY WILL BE OBSERVED
Her r:iahtictH nirthdny to BIO Ccic.
s,Fated by u Great Gathering. Rep.
rcse,:tii,s Several Hundred Thou
sand Women REer EARLY Ambitions
ana q leetcri OF EARLY Life Work.

Elisabeth Cady Stanton, tho white
s haired. benignant ficcd pionter in tho
movement for tho advGroomcntd III woman.
( and especially for securing to licr tho Same
rights atithe ballot box ms tho INN enjoys,
Will DO 50 years old on MOVIE. It Ia pro
Poscti to mako tho day rcd lottcr ono In
tho calendar of tho national council OF
Z women, and Its officers hnvo engaged tho
K metropolitan Opera House, in New York
city, for tho occasion The exercises to DO
5 held will occur in tho evening and 1t is cx-
pected That tho gathering will no OF tho
most thoroughly representative sort.
The organizations affiliated with the Ma
Sional Council OF Women include almost
evory considerable woman's club in tho
United States, and their membership ng-
s grcgatcs some zoo, 600. Every one of these
4 organizations hns boon requested to send
delegates, both to become members Of tho
auuicnco in tho body of tho house md To
occupy seats on tho platform, and Judging
from tho largo number Of favorable re.
s sponsos that hnvo been received tho celc
8 bratton will DO exceptionally successful
at least In point of numbers. The ar.
engagements aro in charge of IN executive
board of which Miss Knto Bond Is chair
snnn. Mrs. Mary Lowo Dickinson, tho
president of tho National Council, IS nlso
A giving her personal attention to tho mat
4 tor, as we'll as scores of other we'll known
leaders In thu advanced woman cause.
Inasmuch rs Mrs. Stanton, though
prominent In mnny ways In tho advanced
movement, Is chiefly distinguished by REG
son of her pioneer work, the gathering
will DO practically pioneer reunion.
Every effort Will DO made, therefore to
= secure tho attendance OF us many pioneers,
& distinguished and otherwise, us possible.
Gnd tho programme OF exercises will be ar
ranged with especial reference to exploit.
ing their work. Miss Susan y. Anthony,
tho stoadfast coworker Of Mrs Stanton,
obsd H. q sthonsR sS has es
ties of ago, largely to withdraw herself To
her own homo and leave tho work to
younger women, and sho Will undoubtedly
divide the honors of the ocS,sion with
Mrs. Stanton. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
ind Miss Clarn Barton will also be pres
Ont and will probably mako addresses.
They, too, no doubt will be received with
demonstrations of great favor.
Elizabeth Cady began to work for tho
securing OF larger rights to women whom
she was only n child. She was the daugh.
ter of judge Cady OF ,lohnstewn, N. Y,
and when sho was years old hur brother
died. Her father WAS so griovcd at the
death of his only son-ho had flvo daugh
ters-tlnt no told Elizabeth no wished she
was boy. She thcrGupon decided TINT slir
would do whatever boys did and do 1t MS
well, too, rs any boy could. So she studied
Greek and Latin and othor subjects not
unusually taken up by girls nowadays,
but rarely attempted then.
When slie was graduated from tho ncad
envy ut tho age OF 10 she stood second in
her class, and then for awhile, as she could
not enter college-no colleges were then
omen to pirlS-ol,n DuscnH ~ ,rno5 5,,l
her time in her fathers law Office 1t was
while listening to tho Complaints of women
who werc unplcasuntly affected by the
laws as they stood and their great pnr
6lnllty for man that sho learned of the
womnn's legal infcriority. She planned
novel and, to her childish mind, most
effective way of mcnding matters without
tho intervention of tho Legislature or any
ono else. She proposed to cut all tho oh.
noIious laws out of her fathers law
books. Wien bo explained to hcr that
this would do no good, and told her that
tho legislature only could nuke changes
IN tho laws or abolish them, sho declared
chat AS soon ms sho could sho would tnlh
to the legislature about these laws, and
she kept her word
Before the right time camo for hor to do
this, however, she was sent to girls
school ct Troy, where she confesses to have
been rather intractable pupil. While
there she heard n great deal about tn,
said In her hearing upon this question she
returned that tho negro was no worse of
In tho eyes OF tbs law than We're tho mar.
ried women, and she would often talk in
this strain to Gerrit Smith, the noted abo.
lftionist, who was her cousin and with
whom she was ON excellent terms. She
married Henry b. Stanton, who was
strong abo!itionist, when both were quito
young, and they went tn Europe on their
wedding tour. On their return she decided
: to do what she had purposcd whon she was
little girl-addrcss the legislature on the
Iubiect of creator privileges for women
Her father protested, but, seeing that her
MUD Was made up, he helped her In per-
secting her address and pointing out many
bad laws for her to illuminate against
which she had overlooked. Then he Offered
4 20 give her Il beautiful house in Boston,
which she greatly desired, if sho would not
& speak but she refused to be bribed
IL was In 1S4S that, in company with
y Iucretia Mott, she issued tho call for tho
first womon's convention ever held This
call rccitcd tho grievances Of the women.
selnid stress upon the fact that women were
I taxed without representation, that they
could not secure college training, etc, and
wound UP by proposing that the suffrage
should be granted to women the Same ms
TO mon. Even Lucrctia Mott hesitatcd
\ about this. for she saw that tho conserva.
ls SiSfn2 Of, that nnp ypnc III r,rnr,,raJ Cos, 30