Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-09

Carrie Chapman ,GattrNew York; Reports:
How to Prepared Ind Receive Them Pris-
ella Dudley HacksfaAs treasurer New York
State W. 5. a; Erog4R ms: How to Prepare
Ihem. Lucy He2artZeay, president Maine
VISA; AudaeneeSc low to Secure Them"
Mettie Laub RoX4ans%Iowa member of ma
tlonal executives S04Rmittee: ELECTIONS :
How to Condu% Thkan-A Parliamentary
! Drill" Caroline Il BuEl, Connecticut.
Evening r1 at ssfe&I"our Great Lead
ers. tiara BewBks CHhy, Nebraska: THE
Possibilities of zen Scrap of Suffrase."
Kate NJ. Go-don Loud llama: Conditions Of
| the Wage-Earnfg Women of Our Coun-
view o. the Rem nsts Knit" Helen A. shaw ave.
Massachusetts. &fs
Evefins Session.
| There was lSrge audience at last even
| ing's session of the A. w. N. s. A, and a
| large number of men enjoyed the caustic
| papers and addresses, the keen wit and
brilliant repartee that was called forth.
An interesting paper on "Women's Work
| in Philanthropy" was read by Isabel c.
barrows OF Boston. Mrs. Barrows refer
| red only casually to past history, saying
| that she believed 1t was more inspiring to
good work to look to living examples of
women with whom the work could be done
shoulder to shoulder than to live by imagi-
nation In the past. She reviewed at con-
siderable length the different departments
| of charity and reform in which many wo-
men are SO actively engaged, and where
| they are doing good and noble work The
name Of almost every philanthroDic Wo-
man was mentioned by Mrs. Barrows, with
Drlet sketches OF the work they are doing
and have done. The subjects embraced in
the short survey of woman's philanthropic
work In the world We're moral. educational!
and sanitary efforts in connection with
benevolent. child-savfng and thrift societies
and tenement house care.
Mrs. Barrows was followed by Miss Har-
riet May Mills. Miss Mills is a Cornell Uni
versity graduate and Miss Anthony intro
duced her as cultured and ardent worker
in behalf of the suffrage cause Miss Mills
was assigned to speak upon 1.-THE Winning
OF Educational Freedom" and her address
was taken in a measure from her own ex-
periences. She sketched the early strug-
giles of women for better education, the ar
guments against 1t used by men of learning
and the oppositfons which in MANY in
stances have been overcome in that direc-
ton.
The argument Of one learned gentle
man." continued Miss Mills sis that those
of us who seek higher education by knock
ing at the doors of colleges which have
been barred against women never marry
That Is not true. College women do marry,
and when one does marry she stays mar
ried. for she seems to have the gift of
choosing the right kind of husband. And
want to say that divorces are almost nm
known among college-bred women
Coeducation. Miss Mills insisted, did not
| inJure the matrimonial possibilities of any
girl or woman. 1t meant her freedom, and
prepared her for the battle against those
who were Withholding it from her. Free
dom OF education leads to political free
dom, and that is what we are gathered here
tonight for she concluded
one or the most eloquent addresses of
the evening was made by Mary c. c. Brad
ford of Colorado. She spoke without man
uscrpt for some twenty minutes II was n
mastery address, and was thoroughly an :.
preciated by those who heard it.
In history. began Mrs. Bradford, 1--WE
| come face to face with the question-what
does 1t mean? What is the purpose of IL
all? And as We read of the array of bloody
battle or OF mighty intellectual contests,
as We study the gradual change in people
and institutions, the significance of it ali
makes US wonder at every point To me
me meaning the purpose of history, is the
struggle OF the human spirit. First, it
adapts itself to its environments then to
transform that environment into harmony
with Its own, essential nature The huma n
spirit says. I will; l do Its native air is
freedom. and true freedom means the
power to do right. o!
This struggle of humanity to EXPRESS
i iiSi,zd freely fully; Is what we mean by
creative freedom expressed itself in Graeca
through the worship of beauty, and human
ny environment, there transformed in ac-
e cor with the Shunt for beauty. With
tne ADVENT OF the Roman came the mighty
IDEA OF law duty. Justice. the subordination
OF sen; the supremacy of the whole.
Ana n, nc now me tide OF freedom sweeps on.
people in 1883. the American revolution In
1776 and the French revoIution in i7sg, Won,
can trace the progress Of constitutional lib
efty.- england underwent change which
modified her social structure and France
ana America have wrought; transfigura-
lions What Is the real meaning of the as
sertfon in our Declaration of Independence
that All men are created free and eUIaIo:
Is 1t not that in each human being who
comes into the world there is a spark of the
mos, hn IN nigh God, and that sacred fire must
De lett free to burn and transmute into
holiness all obstacles. all conditions all in
situations? This Is the idea that dominated
me men on November I. 1893. This is the
reason the women of Colorado have adyo-
Gated passionate devotion to principle. II
mas often been asked, viii not the en-
I Ratbdn Of women destroy the home?'
OF destroying the home. the enfranchise-
meht OF women will transform the state"
On Society Work.
Rev Anna Howard Shaw is one of the
most comfortable' orthodox divines imas-
inapie, and good company anywhere. but
IL Is positively refreshing to hear her talk
ABOUT a brief ten days essay at the society
act while she was IN London. The Ameri-
can women who attended the international
council Of women held in London last June
were royalty treated, and attentions extend
eu them mat were enjoyed by no others
MISS SHAW said that she hobnobbed with
dukes and duchesses lords and Iordesses
nonorables and the other thing for that
brlef period. till her soul was worn to a
Irazzie, and her spirit was all but broken
within her. Il never worked so hard in
my life before" she declares, and then
adds, indeed. 1 wouldn't be a society wo-
man and undergo the fatigue. the worry, the
care ana anxiety Tor the husks of life for
any money. l have thought that 1t was
nara enough to travel over the country
with ones belongings in grip but that is
vacation compared with the life of So
Getty woman. Never In my life have l had
any use for the prayer Of the Pharisee, but
row say, in all earnestness Lord thank
Ihee that am not as other women-so-
Getty women l wouldn't work as hard
and get as little money for all the world
am out of society now" she asserts.
Convention Notes.
Mrs Laura M. Johns, chairman Of the
committee on legislation, is detained in
Kansas by the serious Illness of her mother
Mrs. Johns has not missed the annual con-
vention for many years.