Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-17
WoMAN'S DEPARTMENT
MABEL II PoMERoY, EDITOR.
National Suffrage Convention Notes.

was held in Washington, ID. O., q
the Columbia Theatre, the celebra
ton OF a half'Century Of progress 70
women since few men and womtl
held, in l848 at Seneca Falls, N. Y
the first so-called "Woman's Right
Convention.
Perhaps the strongest contrast, anc
the most picturesque of the sessions
was between the roll call of the bio
neers, when those who have grow
gray in work for the cause of equal
lty OF rights for women with men
will respond to the call Of the yea
In which they became adherents Of
this cause, and the final evening Of
the convention when, as the highest
mark reached toward this equality
the audience will hear from women
who occupy seats in their respective
Legislatures in Colorado and Utah.
1t will surely rejoice the hearts of the
pioneers to see these younger women
in position to help make the laws
OF their own commonwealth, laws
under which men, as we'll as women
and children, can live happier, freer,
better lives than were the lawmakers
are all OF one sex.
One evening Of the Fiftieth Ami
versary Meeting of the National Am
erican Woman Suffrage Association
at Washington, d. o., February 18Th
to 18th will be devoted to showing
what women have done and are do.
ing in the learned professions. Since
none of these professions were open
to women iL 1S4S, when the first
Woman's Rights Convention was
held and the first organized demand
for a change in the opportunities for
women was made, in no department.
treated during this great meeting
could there be 8 stronger contrast be-
tween the 'then'' and the nov"
In 1S4S when the northern women
made their first organized demand
for equality with man in every field
of effort, the women Of the south
were not yet aroused to the necessity
of such action. When the celebrs-
ton of this first "Woman's Rights
Convention" of 194S ia held at the
Nations Capital City, February 18th
to 18th, southern women will be
prominent as speakers and as work
ers to show the world that they, too,
feel their need of the ballot, in order
to express themselves upon the moral
and social as well as the great pollti-
cal questions upon which women,
equally with men, have opinions and
responsibility. From South Caro-
Ina comes Virginia d Young, the
president of the State Woman Suf-
rage Association there; from Ken
lucky comes Laura Clay with her
'tatesman's brain aud her eloquent
speech; the far south sends the brill
ant orator, Belle Kearney, and there
8 hope that the meeting may also
rave one Of the queens Of old South
Urn Social Life, Mrs. Virginia Clay
Jlopton of Alabama, who has shown
herself a powerful speaker for the
'suse which holds her enthusiastic
allegiance.
NOTES OF WOMEN.
The Mary Elizabeth prze fund is a
um of money recently given by Will
lam j. Bryan to Erving College,
CRYING, ILL.,, in honor of his mother
Vho was a student there
The establishing of women's clubs
not such an up-to-date movement
fter all. If seems that the first
club was founded in Phils-
elphis in l76O by Quaker spinster,
Anne Parish. "rhe "Anne Parish
Tub" was composed of twenty-three
Dung women Of the sristocracy, who
evoted themselves to philanthropiC
'ork in the Quaker City. The de.
endants of these first club women
I'LL carry on the work, and are pre-
srlng this winter to have a cele-
ration in honor Of this, the first
Voman's Club.
Senorita Cisnerop, who was so val.
4ntly rescued from her dungeon cell
= Carl Fecker, has been declared a
ard of the United States Govern
tent, and placed under the guard
nship Of Mrs. John A. Logan, of
TaahinOkon Tho vrattu Crhno &;