Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-23
CONVENTION NOTES.
Brief Sketches of Members of ID. A. n.
Other Notes.

Brief Sketches of Members of ID, A. II.
Other Notes.
TIE suffragists have sense of decorum
enough to wash their soiled linen in execu-
| tive session; We WASH ours right out on top
| of the monument" said a Disguised daugh-
| ter last evening.
The banners marking the various state
delegations were placed late last evening
They are of blue silk letters with the names
| of the states III silver There are twenty
| five.
Mrs. Clark Warning of South Carolina the
| author of the second prize story of last
year, will be the next state regent of South
Carolina.
Miss Jonet Richards. the official reader,
stood upon her feet exactly three hours
| calling the roll of congress.
When the New York delegation was called
| the delegates rose in a body, and as the
name of the regent, Mrs Donald Mclean,
| was called, and she marched down to the
| front, there was applause all over the
| house. When the Illinois delegation was
| called the ladies rose, Twelve strong, every
voter present, and presented such fine APP
pearance that vigorous. clapping of hands
greeted them. Mrs. Stevenson is very proud
| of Illinois. Hfara
Mrs. Bracket, vice president presiding,
| yesterday couldnTt find the gavel when it
| was time to open the afternoon session, so
| she hunted around in the debris and found
1
| the secretary came and produced the gavel
I'm Kentucky woman, but 1 object to
| having my pedigree shown up, as though /
| was a blooded horse" she said, with G
| click of her small boot heels, and she didn't
| give the pedigree.
Tennessee has a, chapter called the "old
Glory" Chapter.
Miss Caroline Halstead of the New York
Chapter, who is ardently devoted to Mrs.
McLean's interests, Is one of the bright
young literary lights Of New York.
The name of MIS- Perry of Knickerbock-
e.: Chapter, New York city. was called, and
somebody said: "She is Mrs. Perry today
but will be Mrs. Meeker tomorrow. There
was a great laugh, and call Of wedding
bells
1t is said that Mrs. Rose Bracket makes
the fairest and firmest presiding officer that
the congress has ever had. She gets good
deal of a Gar Reed grip on the gavel and
declines to let business proceed when con-
fusion reignS.
The Irish queen of Holland Danes, Miss
Laura Dempsey is among the New York
delegates. She may wear her crown at the
| reception at the Arlington tonight.
Mrs. Kress of Pennsylvania objected 70
being designated Mrs. Kerr. She SAID
nobody should call her Kerr.
Miss Beulah Hubbel OF Des Moines, Ia.
who acted as page to the president-general
Monday, is a charming young lady, who
has been the guest Of Mrs Rose Bracket
vice presd mt general, presiding for sew
eral weeks.
Mrs. Marian Longfellow ODunoGhue is
charter member of the National Sociciy OF
the d. A. r., being number 2'3 in this SO.
ciety of many thousands. she Is niece OF
Henry Wadsworth Longfeliow me poet
and is a member of the Elizabeth Wads-
worth Chapter of Portland, Me, named Tor
her great-grandmother Mrs: oDonos aue
| is the only woman elected this year to me
board of the International League OF Press
| Clubs, from whose eighth annual conven-
| ton in New Orleans she has just returned:
| Mrs. James E. Riley, regent of Samuel
Ashley Chapter, d. A. r., Claremont, n.
| H. is stopping with her daughter. Mrs f.
| Warren Johnson. No. 9TH street south
| east.
| Mrs. Flora NJ Davey of Duluth, Mimi,
| national president of the Ladies of the q.
| A. r. and her chief of staff Mrs. Agnes
| j. Winsow of Chicago, are in the city, the
guests of Mrs. Florence c. George, past
national treasurer Of the order. Mrs Da-
Vey is attending the congress OF the ID. A.
| r. as Il delegate and eX-reScnt. During
| their stay here a reception Will be tender
! ed the ladies by L. s. Grant Circle of the
| Ladies of the G. A. r.
| The Sara Turnbull CHAPTER of Rockville,
| Conn. are represented al The ID. A. K. con-
| gress by Mrs. A. n. Bedding and Mrs. {. f.
Jackson. Mrs. Jackson is accompanied by
| her husband, Col. C. F. Jackson, and their
! daughter, Mrs. X. McChristfe. The party
are at-the Regent Hotel.
| The Badges.
! The badges of the congress are many ard
very pretty. Red, white and blue, striped
| with gilt stars, ornament the delegates
| blue with gilt stars for members and white
| with gilt stars for delegates. These all
| have the legend, Continental Congress, n.
| S. ID. A. r.. 1885," and below the badge in
-, gilt. The various officers have bows of red
| or white or blue, with the title on the ends
in gill. Some of the dtlesates, because of
the doubling up d officers have have half If,
is quite prominent, said she felJ like "a
comanche Indian in,war paint and feathers.
There is a repsfEable display of old
ivory miniatures SET n odd gold frames,
and hung as pendantsI on velvet, worn by
women who Themselves look as though they
had stepped out of old picture frames.
Mrs. Samuel Rfehatas Weed. regent of
| the NorWalls Conhii chapter, is resident
| of Norwalk and we'll known in Was inston.
| Mrs. Weed traces her ancestry through sew
! eral lines of revolutionary sires, and back
| ward to three of Sthe4 signers of the cello
| brated Mayflower COMPACT.
| Among the delegates to the ID. A. r. con-
vention is Mrs Eugene L. Osborn OF Ev-
anston. ILL.,, who is stopping with her pa
rents, DR.. and Mrs, Gibbs, $50 Rhode island
| avenue. -