The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-01

gtitutions. These committees were ap-
pointed duringt the World s fair to care
fully consider the various subjects and
report at the co1ning meeting of the
council. The following named women
COMPOSE the four committees:
On Dress.-FraAces Z. Russell, chairman,
box $50, st. Paul; Annie Jenness Miller, Frank
Stuart Parker, Ottawa ". Bates. Laura Lee,
Annie White johnson, Bertha Morris Smith
and Annie L. Sloane.
On Equal Pay For Equal Work.-Lucia E.
Blount Mary Desna and Mrs. Leland Stanford.
On Divorce Reform. Ellen Battelle Die
trick, chairman, 90 Lowell street, Cambridge,
Mass; Mary a. Livermore and Fanny B. AInes-
On Patriotic Observation-Disclosures Brown1ee
Sherwood, chairman, Canton, O.; Isabella
Charles Davis, Eliza D. Keith, Caroline E. Mer-
rick, Frances E. Willard and Mary Desha.
Organizations which have become
affiliated with the national council with
in three months of the triennial session
Of 1895 will noG be considered members
of the councils until after the session,
but their officers and members will be
made welcome as guests. The Countess
of Aberdeen, president of the interna-
tional council Of women, has been in
gited to attend and the national coun-
ellis Of France, Germany, Belgium, Can
ada and other countries may be repre-
sented by delegates.
The first trieEnial session of the coun-
Gil was held in Washington in 1891, and
the second sessso on would have occurred
in 1894 but for the Worlds fair. AS
the officers of the national council We're
overburdened with the work of the
worlds congress of representative wom
en-! held at the fair in 1898, they were
unable to prepare for the regular trien-
NAL session of the council for 1894, and
it was CONSEQUENTLY adjourned until
1885,
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president
of the National Council of Women of the
United States, is native of Milwaukee,
and her father, Philander Wright, Mas
sachusetts mani was one of the first set
tlersIof the Cream City. She was gradu-
ate0i from Northwestern university in
1856, received the NJ. A degree five
years later and began teaching school.
The discrimination against women in
business and III education early attract
;edh@r attention, and one of her first true
| griefs was that she could not enter Yale
| college, as her father had done. In 1879
! she married Edwin W. Thompson, a
teacher of Pawpaw, Mich. He was an
! Iinyalid and died three years later. In
| 1879 she beca1he teacher of German in
| Ithe indianapolis high school and upon
| .resigning in $3.50 received vote of
| thanks from the school board for her
cohspicuously successful work.
The same year she became the wife of
Theodore L. S@wall, a Harvard gradu-
| ate, and they opened classical school
| for girls and boys in Indianapolis. It
was a great success, and Mrs. Sewall
IstilI conducts the school for girls. Since
| i1S74 Mrs. Sewal1 has been prominently
| identified vita numerous movements
| for the better1nent of woman's condi-
| tion. The na1aes of the societies with
which she is identified would of them
| Iselves fill half Ia column. She believes
Ithasi all avenues of culture and useful
mess should be sopen to women, and that
I ionce this is dope the law of natural Sc
lection may b9 trusted to draw women
to those empEoyments only for which
they are fitted.l
II Her first public appearance in reform
work outside of local efforts was dele
gate to the suffrage jubilee convention
in Rochester in 1878. In 1889 she at
tended the international congress of
Ilwonlen at the Paris exposition as dele
gate from America and delivered an ad-
dress in French on 1.-The National Won
/: ans Council bf the United States, -
(which was highly praised by French
lFsch0lars. She is strong. eloquent. log
ical speaker on the platform and is rec
ognized as onesof the ablest advanced
women in America