The morning times., 1896-07-15
s The ItD'
Keynote 6 the Colored Wo-
mems League Meeting.
MANY ADDRESSES MADE
Commissioner Ross Gave an Address
OF welcome and Bishop ArDett Of
Ohio Offered Prayer-Lctter From
Mrs. Booker I. Washington Re-
ceiyed With Cheers.

The night session OF the National League
OF coiored Women at the FiHecAth Street
Presb yterian Church was characterized
by the excellence of the entire program and
the Interested attention on the part Of
the audience present.
The opening exercises included prayer
by Bishop Anett OF wnberfarce. and an
organ solo. after which President Ross OF
the Board OF District Commissioners made
an address OF welcome. in which he said
that Warrington was becoming npt only
q political center, but an educational
center - well.
He spoke OF the imp,,ftance OF educa-
ton ana what IL had done fog. the colored
people Of this city. He advocated the cs-
tatlIsinBent of the manual training schools
and said the time was almost at hand when
Congress would hare h, be asked to build
such schools here.
Following the Commissioners address
the secretary. Miss Franklin, read q letter
of regret from Mrs. Low Dickinson Of
New York. president of the Nationai
Council OF Women, whose non-appear-
ance was occasioaed by illness. Mrs.
Booker 7. wsshingfen's letter was aiso
received and said ber absence was the
result OF Illness. but In Ter Ietfer she wrote:
Il do hope that when we. the representa-
tive bodies OF csiored women. have finished
our work In convention for the year ending
July. 1896. we shah stand as one united
body for Christ and the race" The letter
was received with cheers.
ADDRESS BIZ MRS. COOK.
Mrs. Heien Il. Cook the presiding officer,
then gave an interesting account OF the
leagues formation, its objects. and its
pcssibi Iities Mr.. Joseph Douglass, =
- a. Lot. 20
the assembly with a violin solo. The
music was welt received.
The first paper OF the evening, "The
Higher EdaS a;ien for Women," was read
by Miss Anna II Jones, of Kansas City, No.
The higher educ alton. OF woucn,- said
Miss Jones, lis but her acceptance and
the adoption by her ofthe environments OF
the Nineteenth Century" Miss Jones
qrotcd from books ara reports, slowing
what women had Gone in the universities,
ana in closing she said the women of to-day
we're keeping step In the IT arch of progress
Mrs. Adrienne Ii. O'Neii Herndon t, Of At
iaEta, gave an exhibition of her elocu-
tsosaTy powers, and recited with splendid
dramatic cffectstfe parting scene between
EaeaT and Abraham.
The Moral and Intellectual Benefits OF
Kindergarten Work WAS the subject of
Miss Haidee Canphell's paper, and the
excellence Of t!.esc schools was pointed out
Miss Maggie A. Cernes. of Tennessee, sang
a soprano Solo, and received great out
burst of applause fer her efforts.
WOMAN AS An EDUCATOR
Mrs. Fannie Jackson Coppin Of Phiiadel-
phia, made splendid address on Women
as an EDUCATOR Ste ctInpsirpented the
and said that il was IN the
schools where the powers of the nation
lies. In forming and building the nation
the women have very large hand. The
homo is where individual progress begins
and is also where national progress be.
gins.
The speakers remarks were in prac.
teal ven and she said the women OF today
did not need to know less about mathe.
matics, but moro about home. Far better
for the young man 10 lie honest and up
right tban to wear patent feathers, and far
better is it for the girls to be intelligent
and ciiaste than TO wear limitation lace and
cheap ieweiry.
It's not question now as 10 whether
Mr.. Mckinley or Mr. Bryan viii be the
next President, but what is being doue fn
the homes.
Ts,ere were others who spoke, and all
IRE heartily In accord with the objects
of the league. At the adjournment every