The San Francisco call., 1895-05-21
THE EVENING SESSION.
Susan B. Anthony and the Rev.
Anna H. Shaw on Home
Influenza

There was not room in the little hall for
the crowds that clamored for admittance
in the evening to listen to addresses by
Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna Shaw
on the subject 1.-The influence of the Home
on Men and Women"
Mrs. Cooper introduced the lecturer
of the evening, Susan B. Anthony, as the
honored, loved and respected champion of
women. Miss Anthony spoke very enter
tainingly OF her early home life and strug-
giles, and reviewed the origin and growth
of the woman's movement She said in
part:
was Quaker and my mother a Baptist, yet
they could agree 10 disagree on religious mat
tiers. Political questions were not then such a
great matter OF discussion as now My father
belonged TO denomination who believed in
absolute equality of man and woman, and my
mother was the equal in the home, over and
above the law. My father, as far as my earliest
recollection goes, always thought to give his
daughters an equally good education his
boys, and so we were educated
The effect of O home where such a doctrine
was preached, and not only preached but
practiced, and where each of the daughters in
turn as she grew up and went out into the
world and earned her bread was most re-
markable object lesson sixty years ago.
The women in that convention were as much
shocked as the president himself. At the close
Of the session heard some OF the ladies say:
"Who was that creature? Where did she come
from? l was SO mortified TO hear a woman
speak that wished the floor would open."
There is something mysterious in all this.
The objection they make to IL is that women
would degrade themselves to the level of men,
and there is nothing so abhorrent to the aver
age man as that woman should be brought
down TO his level. Professor Davies was hon.
est He really was shocked. followed those
conventions in whatever city they were from
year TO year. They declared and do so to-day,
that man has to support woman. Yet there
are 40 900 women in New York State keeping
III n oh n Ia mon loo
women were put on the various committees.
They were appointed vice-presidents and Sec
retar1es, never presidents
Miss Anthony went on to pay high
tribute to Elizabeth O. Stanton, who held
the first woman's convention forty years
ago, and who was of material assistance to
Miss Anthony in helping her prepare her
reports. AT Ole of these, where Miss
Anthony. presented a particularly good
report. the president, Father Hazelton,
said, HE would rather see his wife or
daughter in Greenwood Cemetery than
have her read such a paper in public"
Said Miss Anthony:
Miss Anthony was frequently inter-
rupted by applause, and at the close of her
address was given an ovation.
Mrs. Ada Van Pelt. president of the w.
Z. L. u, moved that Susan e. Anthony,
Rev. Anna Shaw and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton be made honorary members of the
w Weihdn congress OF the racine. Inc
motion was carried unanimously, and Miss
Anthony. in responding, said that the best
way the women could honor them was by
perpetuating the work of which they were
the pioneers.
DR.. Mclean was the next speaker. His
subject was higher education, which he
developed in an interesting manner.
Rev. Anna H. Shaw was the next
speaker. She discoursed at length npon
the question of hcme influence, home
listened to with marked attention by the
vast assemblage.