Evening star., 1895-02-18

tnoSe representing the various organ1Za-
tions that go to make up the council wear
light blue ribbon; the fraternal delegates,
who have no voice or vote, wear dark green
badges; the committee of local arrange
ments wears a yellow badge; the press, vio-
let and the committee on railroad rates
wear all six of the badges they present
rainbow ribbon-counter appearance not
| quite in keeping with intellectual faces.
That portion of the presidents address
showing how the council had grown in the
years of its work was greeted with
clferouS applause; also, when the fact that
| women who are delegates to the council
were delegates to the last national repub-
| lcan convention was brought out.
| Mrs. Kate b. Sherwood Of Ohio, the au-
thor of the Patriotism in the Public
Schools" work, was among the ladies on
| the platform.
| Mrs. Sewall paused in the middle of her
| address this afternoon to greet and address
Miss Frances Willard and Lady Henry
Somerset as they came upon the stage,
| their entrance being greeted with applause.
At the Ebbitt House this afternoon re-
ception to the National Council of Women
| is being held, rendered by the general Of
| ficerS of the council and the eX-oficio vice
| presidents.
The Delegates.
| The following are the members of the
| council:
| National-American Woman Suffrage As
| sociaticn-Susan B. Anthony, president,
| New York: Carrie Chapman Gait, delegate,
| New York. National Woman's Christian
| Temperance Union-Frances E. Willard,
| president, Illinois; Clara c. Hoffman, dele
gate, Missouri National Free Baptist Wo-
mans Missionary Society-Mary A. Davis,
| president, Rhode Island; Emelne Bur
lingame Cheney, delegate, Maine. Illinois
| Industrial School for Girls national char
| ter)-Mrs. M. r. NJ. Wallace, president,
| Illinois; Margaret Isabel Sandes, delegate,
| Illinois. National Woman's Relief Society
Zina D. H. Young, president. Utah; En-
| incline B. Wells, delegate, Utah. WimO-
daughsis-Ruth G. d. Havens president, D.
c.; Emma NJ. Gillett. delegate, Dis
| trict of Columbia. Young Ladies National
| Mutual Improvement Observation-Disclosures
| S. Taylor, president, Utah; Minnie j. Snow.
! delegate, Utah. National Christian Leag;Ie
| for the Promotion of Social Purity-Eliza-
| beth B. Grannis president, New York; Car
oline B. Buell., delegate, Connecticut. Uni
versal Peace Union-Rev. Amanda Deyo,
representative, California; Hannah J. Bal
| ley, proxy Of representative, Maine; Belva
| A. Lockwood, delegate, District of Column
| bia. International Kindergarten Union
| Sarah B. Cooper, president, California;
| Sarah A. Stewart, proxy of president, Penn
| sylvania; Virginia E. Graeff, delegate,
| Pennsylvania. Womans Republican Asso-
citation of the United States-J. Ellen Fos-
| ter, president. District of Columbia. Ma
| tional Association of Loyal Women #
| American Liberty-Mrs. I. c. Manchester,
| president, Rhode Island; Sarah d. La Fet-
| ra, delegate District of Columbia. Wo-
| mans Foreign Missionary Union of Friends
Lydia Taylor Painter, president, Indiana !;
Eliza c.. Armstrong, proxy of president. IN
diana; Hannah ]. Bailey, delegate, Maine.
| Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the
| Grand Army of the Republc-Emma r.
| Wallace, national president, Illinois; Kate
| Brow nlee Sherwood delegate, Ohio. Ma
tional Association of Women StenographerS
Meta G. Mclaughlin, president, Illinois;
| Harriet A. Shnn, delegate, Illinois. Ma
| tional Council of Jewish Wcmen-A1rs. H.
|
can. delegate, Illinois. American Anti-Nivi-
| section Society-Caroline Earle White, rep
resentative, Pennsylvania Mary F. Lowell,
! delegate, Pennsylvania.
The Officers.
| The officers of the council are: May
| Wright Sewall, president; Mary F. East
| man, honorary vice president Frances i.
| Baeley, vice president; Rachel Foster
| Avery. corresponding secretary; Lillian NJ.
| n Stevens, treasurer; Isabella Charles
Davis, recording secretary.
Standing committees of the National
| Council of Women-Corimittee on dress
| Frances E. Russell, chairman; Annie Jen-
| ress Miller. Frank Stuart Parker, Octava
| w. Bates, Laura Lee, Bertha Morris Smith,
Annie l.. Sloane, Annie White Johnson.
| Committee on equal pay for equal work
| Lucia E. Blount. Mary Desha, Mrs. Leland
Stanford Committee on divorce reform
! Ellen Battelle Dietrich, chairman; Mary A.
| patriotic instruction-kate Brownlee Sher-
| wood, chairman: Isabella Charles Davis,
| Eliza D. Keith, Caroline L. Merrick,
| Frances E. Willard, Mary Desha.
This Evenings Session.
The session this evening will be devoted
to the subject of religion, and the program
is follows:
National Free Baptist Woman's Mission
airy Society.--"Faith and Works Win" pre-
siding officer. Mary A. Davis. "The Etk-
cal Adjustment of Womans Home and So
| Geological Duties" Frances Stewart Mosh-
er, Michigan; Practical Christian Living"
Emeline Burlingame Cheney, Maine. Ma
tional Council Of Women of the United
States.-"Report of Work to Secure the
Recognition of Women in Church Confer
| ences," Isabella Charles Davis, New York,
| recording secretary of National Council of
Women: address, The Attitude of the
Leading Religious Denominations Toward
Woman's Growing Service in the Church
es," Mary Lowe Dickinson, New York pa
tron of the National Council of Women.
THE PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS.
The Opening of the Council on Sntur-
day and Sunday.
The members of the executive committee
of the cOunci1 held a p,aetipO for tho +ro,.