Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1895-01-01

situations. These committees were ap-
pointed during the Worlds fair to care
fully consider the various subjects and
report at the coming meeting of the
council. The following named women
compose the four committees:
On Dress.-Frances f. Russell, chairman.
box $50, st. Paul; Annie Jenncss Miller, Frank
Stuart Parker. Octavia ". Bates. Laura Lee,
Annie White johnson, Bertha Morris Smith
and Annie L. Sloane.
On Equal Pay For Equal Work.-Lucia E.
Blount. Mary Desha and Mrs. Leland Stanford.
On Divorce Reform.-Ellen Battelle Die
trick. chairman, 20 Lowell street, Cambridge,
Mass. Mary A. Livermore and Fanny b. Ames.
On Patriotic Instruction.-Kate Brownlee
Sherwood, chairman, Canton, O.; Isabella
Charles Davis, Eliza D. Keith, Caroline E. Mer-
rick, Frances Z. Willard and Mary Desha.
Organizations which have become
affiliated with the national council with
in three months of the triennial session
of 1895 will not be considered members
of the council 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
vited to attend, and the national coun-
ellis of France. Germany, Belgium, Can
ada and other countries may be repre-
scented by delegates
The first triennial session of the coun-
Gil was held in Washington in 1891, and
the second session would have occurred
in 1894 but for the Worlds fair. AS
the officers of the national council were
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
1895.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, president
of the National Council of Women of the
United States, is native Of Milwaukee,
and her father, Philander Wright, a Mas
sachusetts man, was one of the first,set-
tiers of the Cream City. She was gradu-
ated from Northwestern university in
1865, received the NJ. A. degree five
years later and began teaching school.
| The discrimination against women in
business and in education early attract
ed her attention, and one of her first true
| griefs was that she could not enter Yale
college, as her father had done. In 1872
she married Edwin W. Thompson, a
teacher of Pawpaw, Mich. He was an
invalid and died three years later. In
1874 she became teacher of German in
the Indianapolis high school and upon
resigning in 1850 received a vote of
thanks from the school board for her
conspicuously successful work.
The same year she became the wife of
4 H.
ate, and they opened classical school
for girls and boys in Indianapolis. IL
was q great success, and Mrs. Sewall
still conducts the school for girls. Since
| 1874 Mrs. Sewall has been pro ninently
| identified with numerous movements
| for the betterment of woman's condi-
ton. The names Of the societies with
which she is identified would of them
selves fill half column. She believes
that all avenues of culture and useful
ness should be open 10 women, and that
once this is done the law Of natural Sc
lection may be trusted TO draw women
to those employments only for which
| they are fitted
Her first public appearance in reform
| work outside of local efforts was dele
gate TO the suffrage jubilee convention
in Rochester III 1878. In 1889 she at
tended the international congress Of
/ women at the Paris exposition IL a dele
gate from America and delivered an adj
dress in French on The National Wom-
ans Council of the United States, "
which was highly praised by French
scholars She is a strong, eloquent, log
ical speaker on the platform and Is rec
,gnized as one of the ahlest advanced
| women" in America