Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-27

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Anna R. Simmons of South Dakota, Miss
Cora Smith Eaton of North Dakota and
Mrs. Carrie L. Allen Of Utah.
Religious Service Yesterday.
A religious service under the auspices of
the convention was held yesterday after
noon at the Church Of Our Father. Miss
Elizabeth M. Yates of Maine presided and
offered the invocation. The choir was COM
posed of friends of the association, with
Elizabeth Mailman as organist. They rem
dered God Through All and in ALL
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins StetsUn of Call
fornia delivered a scholarly and eloquent
address on the subject 1.-The Spiritual Sig
n1f1cance Of Democracy and Woman's Re-
lation to IT,
Convention Notes.
Aunt Susan" forgot her gavel this morn
ing, and some one brought her a table
crcquet mallet to use instead of the jack
knife she had borrowed from a man.
Some one presented Miss Anthony with
bouquet of La France roses.
Hereafter the people who want the auto
graph of Miss Susan B. Anthony will have
to pay for it, She is asked for her auto
graph thousands of times in each year,
and Mrs. Thomas of Maryland suggested
that as autographs of this kind bore
commercial value bureau of autographs
be established at national headquarters,
WHERE supplies OF autographs OF the noted
women Of the suffrage cause will be sold
for consideration, and the money turned
over to the association fund.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood is fraternal dele
gate to the convention from the Universal
Peace Union
One of the incidents of the morning was
the reading of the following letter from
the national organizer and her husband:
pay the sum of $3.50 to the state whose
territory lies west of the longitude of the
west line of the state of Minnesota which
shall first secure a suffrage organization
based on a club membership auxiliary to
the state and national A. w. S. A. equal
to 500 to each 100000 Of the white popula-
ton, the same to be used for campaign
purposes, and shall remain open until Jan
uary !, 1900. and no longer. nd will
pay 500 to the state east of said degree
on longitude which shall first secure suf-
bership auxiliary to the state and N. A
w. S. A. equal to $50 for each 100000 of the
white population. The same to be used to
continue the organization in such state,
1900, and no longer"
One of the touching addresses this morn
ing came from Miss Rose E. Lumkin of
Hampton, Va Her skin is dark. but the
way handkerchiefs flew up to ewes sug-
gested that her speech was silver, as she
asked the prayers and good wishes of the
suffrage Women for her race and the ad-
vancement Of their interests. Miss Lum-
kin is president of the Kings Daughters
II Hampton, graduate of the Hampton
institute. and honorary president of the
Colored Womens Political League of New
York city
Mrs. Bessie Boone Cheshire, president of
Potomac Corps. w. r. c., is the fraternaI
delegate of the Department w. r. c. to the
convention.
The Woman's National Press Association
ias been represented in every session of
The convention by Mrs. Dora Tichenor Voor-
us, formerly editor of the Golden Gate of
San Francisco.
The only break made in the holding of ma
,iona1 conventions of the suffragists in about
forty years was from 1861 to 1865. No ma
tional convention was held during the civil
var.
Miss Anthony gave the new members a ran
ms morning. She said that many of them
,housht that the suffrage movement had
carcely been heard of until they turned
their eloquence loose in the cause but the
act of the matter is" she said, mot a sim
gle new idea, not a new thought, not a
single new argument has been advanced in
,ur cause that was not advanced forty
ears ago."
A very handsome and lifelike Autograph
II Lucy Stone Blackwell was exhibited or
ne PLATFORM on an easel this morning. Mss
anthony said that it was an inspiration to
ook at it. The gentle. kindly face is framed
the soft old lace that she always wore
md some of the same lace is folded in Sim
Die Quaker fashion about her shoulders.
Henry Blackwell says that the rights that
women enjoy today are the result of sixty
ears OF agitation, and he was in it from the
Little Mrs. Diggs,' they call her here"
SAID kansas woman, but they don't know
that in Kansas AMI Colorado she is quite
+. power, and is able to down Mrs Lease
VINO Is large enough to make two OF her
and then have some to spare. ANYHOW
Mrs. Diggs Knows more in a minute thar
-drs: Lease does in a week, and we always
Know where to find her. too. She dc esn't
hange her views with her gown"
Mrs Ora La ~horne of Culpeper. and
resident of the Virginia Suffrage Associa
ion, Is one of the new women of the
south. I'VE arc SO conservative Won
KNOW she said, with that delicious slow
iraWl that women of the south have tc
correction, and we are not up to date il
:Verything, but we are getting there
Some people have said to me thar II is MOI
The proper thing for a woman to desire TO
vote, that 1t is only people VINO desire no.
toriety and name and who engage in agi-
iatfon. But l tell them that the Lang
hornes have been here in the Shenandosh
ALLEY for over 200 years ana thew do not
eed to seek for either one. Suffrage to
women IN the south would give life to our
Old blood and bring new era of prosperi
y. 1t Is coming, too" Mrs. Langhorne is
deeply interested in having the University
u virginia opened to women She Is visit
ing .Ii the pubic schools in various parts of
virginia, 1ecturing on THE Relation of Our
t'ubllc Schools to the State of Virginia >,
hoping to rouse interest in the desired
change. Although excluded from the uni-
sersity' virginia women are being solicited
10 ana IN the rebuilding of it. Mrs. Lang
horne thinks that is good deal like "faxs-
ton without representation"
some one wanted to know of Miss An
.hony why she dn't wear suffrage badge
Dear me-" she said. with a sigh. .If
were to begin, would be blistered all over
with badges. for it wouldn't do to slight
any OF them,' which would seem to argue
mat Aunt Susan is something of
liner herself
Even the souvenir spoon craze has struck
the sunragists, and you can get sugar. tea
or bon bon spoons with the face of Aunt
susan forming the tip Of the handle.