The morning call., 1895-02-08

woman to the most conservative varieties
OF their sex. but most of the speakers
handled their subjects with such 6act and
convincing earnestness that even those
who had gone prepared to disagree with
what they heard were led to applaud be-
fore the end of the proceedings.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper presided, the mem
bers OF the executive board grouped round
her being: Mrs. Ada Van Pelt, Mrs.
Charles Nash, Mrs. George T. Gaden, Nine.
J.. A. Sorbier, Mrs. Helen Campbell, Mrs.
Garrison Gerst, Mrs. A. D. Sharon, Mrs,
Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Mrs. W. z.
Hale and Mrs. G. B. Bradley.
After abiding to the success of the last
congress the president stated that Susan
3. Anthony and Mrs. May Wright Sewall,
president of the National Federation OF
Women's Clubs had promised to be
among the speakers at the coming con-
gress. Miss Anthony's name was hailed
with great applause, and Mrs. Cooper,
when it had subsidized, asked those present
10 show their sympathy with the canse by
joining the Woman's Congress Associa-
ton.
One of the speakers who excited most in
terest Yesterday afternoon was Miss Phoebe
Couzens of St. Louis. The well-known
woman lawyer, who was simply gowned in
n,
twenty minutes or so about her personal
recollections of pioneers in the cause OF
women congresses. The lovely home and
the charming personality of Pauline
Wright Davis OF Rhode Island, in whose
mind first dawned the idea of congress OF
matrons, were described in detail, and the
speaker then told what good housewives
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mrs. Stone
were.
"The lives of these three showed how,
while having q beautiful hearthstone, a
woman could at the same time take an in
terest in public affairs" said the speaker
Miss Couzens, with glance of amase-
ment at Mrs. Sarah G. Cooper, then con-
fided to her hearers that she had been
warned against saying anything about
suffrage, as many conservative women
would be in the audience. Rev. Mr..
Hawcis who had preceded her, however,
having plunged boldly into that topic, she
asked whether the same privilege might
not be accorded to her. Laughter and ap-
plause from all over the room being the
reply, Miss Couzens proceeded to point out
that nothing is complete in nature without
two equal halves.
at IS a law which man has invented in
his government, and you see the result.
One word about our last campaign IN New
York. Rich women, and fashionable
women, plunged into 1T; they took the
question out of our hands, and at the
convention held at Sherry's, where the
society ladies were tumbling over each
other in their eagerness to attend the
meeting, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
whispered TO me, Phoebe, don't you
think we had better pinch ourselves to see
if we are in the flesh The speaker con-
cluded by declaring that the franchise
would be means OF elevating not only
woman, but the whole human race.
Rev. II. r. Haweis was the speaker,
however, who came out most strongly upon
the question of suffrage. Abiding to
what has recently been said on the subject
at Sacramento he remarked: Twas reading
the papers this morning and the amount
of nonsense talked about woman's fran
chise was second only to the nonsense
talked on the same subject in the English
House of Commons. One man got up
and said ladies did not want it. That's no
argument. When l was little boy1 did
not like TO be washed-few little boys do
like to be washed-but that is no argu-
ment why they should not be washed. 1t
does not follow because person does not