The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-18
WOMEN STORM WASHINGTON.
THEIR NATIONAL COUNCIL TO
MEET TODAY.

The COnyOeation 20 Continue In scs-
sion Fourteen DRys-icvery sphere
OF Female Effort 20 he Repre-
sented-Dclegates sent by Nearly
Every WOman's Organization Of
Prominence in the United states
and by Many Foreign Bodies.
Washington, Feb 17.-To-morrow will
witness the greatest gathering Of repre-
sentative women ever held In the United
states, and Washington hotels and hoard-
ing houses are filled with those who VIII
be in attendance. The second triennial OF
the Women's National Council is the
name OF the convocation. and IL includes
all the national organizations of a par
ticularly feminine character. Every
sphere Of female effort viii be represent
ed and there win be female ministers Of
the gospel lawyers. physicians. authors,
editors, educators. dress reformers. social
purists, prohibitionists. missionaries.
church workers, stenographers. publish
ers. ana many other classes. not to speak
Of women famous as millionaires. or as so
oiety leaders. Religious effort will have
its representation in the National Free
Baptist Womans Missionary Society. the
Women's Centenary Association of the
Universalist church. the Woman's For
eigu Missionary Association of Friends.
and the National Council of Jewish
Women: politics in the National Ameri-
can Woman's Suffrage Association and
the Womans Republican Association of
the United States; patriotism In the Ma
ticnal Association of Loyal Women Of
American Liberty. to which also may be
added the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary
TO the Grand Army of the Republic; So
cial Life In Wimodaughsis. Sorosis. and
the National Christian League for the
Promotion Of Social Purity; prohibition
IN the WOmen's Christian Temperance
Union. Other bodies composing the coun-
eli are the Illinois Industrial School for
Girls, national charter; the National
Women's Relief Society, the Young La
dies National Woman's Improvement
Association, the Universal Peace Union.
the International Kindergarten Union,
and the National Association of Women
Stenographers.
These eighteen organizations have a
membership estimated at between 4,000-
900 and 600 women.
Many women of national and even OF
international reputation will be in at
tendance. Some of them are the Countess
of Aberdeen, Lady Somerset, Mrs. Russell
Sage, Miss Susan y. Anthony, Mrs Ellz-
abeth y. Grannis, well known in connec-
ton with the social purity crusade in
New York Citys DR.. Jennis De La Lazier,
the New York physician Mrs. Laura c.
Bullard. Of Brooklyn, the millionaire; the
female minister of the gospel. Rev. Anna
Shaw; Miss Francis T.. willard, Mrs.
French Sheldon, the African explorer,
and Madame Alberti, the Delsartist.
Organizations of women i'm Germany,
France and England. Canada and else
where will also be represented.
The meeting of the council beginning
tomorrow. will last fourteen days, ana
during this period thirty-two sessions
viii be held. Papers on a multitude OF
subjects will be read, and action will be
taken on questions Of national interest,
in which women are concerned. Relig-
ion, dress, politics, morality and other
pertinent topics will be considered.