Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-09
WOMAN'S COUNCIL
Topics to Be Discussed at the Coming
Gathering.
EQUAL PAY AND DRESS REFORM
A Demand That Women Be Rep
resented on Divorce Commissions.
S ON z W HO WILL TALK
SOME WHO WILL TALK

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politics, and last, but certainly not least,
the much discussed reform in dress.
The gathering is better known to the
public the second triennial session CT
the National Council of Women of the
United States. The object of this associa-
ton. as defined by the council catechism. is
to make better known to the general pub
lie the magnitude and variety of woman's
work for humanity; to avoid the multiple
cation of organizations each with some
one special object; to bring together wo-
men of all lines of work, and to give the
united influence of all these women to
such general lines of work as all can
heartily agree upon. There is but one way
for individuals to become affiliated with
the council. Individuals are excluded from
the association because its members are
organizations. but they can become patrons
of the council upon the payment of a Sit
fee. which is also the fee of an organiza-
ton. At the gathering next week there
viii be present a large number of patrons
well accredited delegates. The pa
irons of the council are: Mary Newbury
Adams, Iowa: Prof. Rasmus B. Anderson,
Wisconsin; Susan b. Anthony. New York;
Rosa Miller Avery. Illinois; Margaret p.
Barker. New York; Emma j. Bartol. Penn
sylvania; Lucia L. Blount. District of Co.
lumbia; Laura Curtis Billiard, New York;
Albert Sloe Caldwell. Tennessee: Elizabeth
Howard ChildS, New York; Lydia Avery
Coonley. Illinois: Harriet Cooper. Ca!ifor
MIA; Ruth o. Delamater, New York; Louise
f. Demorest. New York; Ellen Battelle
Dietrich. Massao husetts; Anna Dormitzer.
New York; Addie NJ. II. Ellis, Illinois;
Hon. VIM. Dudley Foulke, Indiana: Emily
Gross. Illinois; Samuel f. Gross. Illinois;
Phoebe A. Hearst, District of Columbia:
Fannie 1. Helmuth, New York; Mary F.
Henderson District of Columbia: Esther
Herman, New York: Emily Rowland New
York: Mary Jameson Judah, Tennessee;
Mary W. kincaid. California; Isabel King.
Massachusetts; Hannah E. Longshore. NJ.
D., Pennsylvania; Jennie de la NJ Lozier,
NJ. D., New York; Clara L. Meadow, Mich
igan; Elizabeth c. McCaulley. Delaware;
Paulina t. Merritt. Indiana Mary A. New
ton, New York; Emma F. Pettengll. New
York; Louise Downs Quigley, New Jersey;
Louise Barnum Robbins, Michigan; Frances
L. Russell. Minnesota; NJ. Olivia Sage.
New York; Ferdinand Schumacher. Ohio;
j. c. Shaffer, Illinois; Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw. Pennsylvania: Nicolas NJ Shaw.
Pennsylvania: May French Sheldon, Mas
sachusetts: Sarah Sellers Smyth. Delaware;
Lady Henry Somerset. England: Louisa Nj.
Southworth Ohio; Jane II. Spofford, Dis
trict of Columbia: Lucinda II. Stone, Mich
igan; NJ. Louise Thomas, New York: Ellen
+. Thompson, California: NJ. Adeline Thorn
son. Pennsylvania; Fannie j. Willard, New
York: Emmeine b. Wells, Utah: Frances
T.. Willard, Illinois; Mary H. Wilmarth,
Illinois.
The General Topics.
While discussions upon the topics named
above will take place as representing
the ideas OF various organizations, yet
the council itself has prosecuted four gem
eral liIes of work. The first is Equal pay
for equal work." the council working for
the enactment of a law providing that no
distinction of sex shall be made in the pay
ment of the employees of the government:
the second. divorce reform. claimed the
right of representation by the women upon
any commissions relating to the divorce
laws of the various states. Improved dress
forms the third subject and it is stated
that papers have been signed by the best
known people in the country, pledging the
siSners, if women, to give their influence
toward an Improvement in women's dress,
which shall be in the line of more freedom
for the body and shall possess more ar
tistic beauty than does the present style Of
dress-and if men, to lend their influence
and countenance to the effort of women to
secure for their sex healthful and con-
venient dress for work and exercise. n
plan now before the council Is the offer OF
a prize in money for the best essay on the
subject of dress reform. Fourth in the list
is patriotic instruction. which has for its
object the disseminating of patriotic in
struction among the children of the schools
throughout the country.
Miss Frances Willard Will be in attend
ance. The committee on dress is composed
of Frances Russell, chairman; Annie Jen-
ness Miller. Octavia W. Bates. Bertha
Morris Smith, Laura Lee. Annie l.. Sloane
Annie White Johnson and Frank Stuart
Parker Mrs. Leland Stanford. Lucia L.
Blount and Mary Desha will represent the
committee on equal pay for equal work
Ellen Rattelle Dietrich, Mary A, Liver
more and Fanny Il. Ames will represent di-
vorce reform: Kate Brownlee Sherwood,
Isabella Charles Davis, Caroline E. Mer-
rick. Eliza ID. Keith. Frances Willard and
Mary Desha will represent patriotic in
Struction.
Some Who VIII Talk.
Belva a. Lockwood will talk on The
Growth of Peace Principles and Methods
of Propagating them" Mary Lowe Dick
inson of New York will make an address
on THE Attitude Of the Leading Religious
Denominations Toward Womans Growing
Service in the Churches" while the prin-
cipaI address on suffrage will come from
Susan Il. Anthony of New York. Amelia
5. Quinton, who has been very prominent
in Indian affairs, will represent the Wo-
mans National Indian Association; May
Wright Sewall of Indiana. who is the pres
ident of the council. will deliver the trien-
NAL address; Miss Willard on temperance,
will talk on THE Do Everything Policy"
and Lady Henry Somerset of England will
talk on 1.-The White Ribbon" Alice c..
Fletcher of the WimodaughSiS will relate
a
dependent classes. and Ruth G. ID. Ravens,
president of the W1modaughsis. will report
on organized work in philanthropy, while
j. Ellen Foster, we'll Known as a member
of the Iowa Womens Rights Association,
will tell How the Moral Element In Cur
rent Politics. can be supplied. Ada C..
Sweet will speak on 1.-The Separation of
Politics from Municipal Management" and
closing the program will be an address
by the president of the Interna tional Coun-
Gil of Women, he Countess of Aberdeen.
This is only a part of the program, and
there are many other interesting features.
The other Sessions.
The remainder of the program is as fol-
lows:
Evening session of February 1S.-Relig-
ion-"The Relation of Religion to Public
Duties" Eliza C. Armstrong, Indiana THE
Ethical Adjustment of Woman's Home and
Sociological Duties" Frances Stewart
Nosher Michigan; practical Christian
Living" Emeiine Buriingame Cheney,
Maine.
Tuesday, February 10. morning session.
10 o'cIock.-.The Influence of Women in
bringing Religious Conviction to Bear
Upon Daily Life" Minnie D. Louis, New
York: Mary F. Lowell, Pennsylvania; Eliz-
abeth L. Yates. Maine: Emeline Burlin-
game Cheney, Maine; Mary S. Armstrong,
Indiana.
Afternoon session. 3 o'clock.-Organized