Evening star., 1900-02-10


and disposition ef an editor in order to get
the best out of him as tits to study the
character and disposition of any other in
dividual to obtain the best results. What
will please one editor will not please an
other at ALL
Progress. In Maryland.
The report of the Maryland w s. A. was
read by the state president, Mary Bentley
Thomas, who said the friends of equal
rights were much encouraged by the gains
Of the last twelve months Women have
been placed on the boards of several penal
and charitable institutions. and their effl-
cheney is gratefully acknowledged by their
co-workers. 5-x
THE woman state librarian, Mrs. Annie
Jeners, discharges the duties of her office
10 the satisfaction of all concerned" she
said. and the women of Maryland are
iknocklns at the doors of the Johns Hop
klns and beginning to ask why they are
not ADMITTED to university partly sup
ported by funds belonging to the state
Az the close of the national convention,
=. MISS anthony and nearly all the officers
Oh the hational association have accepted
an invitation to hold a conference in Bal
t!more on the 18th and nth of February
mrs. Merriek, Mrs. Diggs. Miss Helen Lew
dress the meetings
~ otheE StateS.
The address of the president of tie Ne
oraska state Association was next received
The Nebraska sufrragists have fine state
headquarters in Omaha. In charge of Miss
Laura Gregg. This office is 400 miles from
the off1ce of the state president. but the
work goes smoothly, as the women of Ne
oraska take lively interest in the suffrage
movement.
The women of New Mexico were repre-
sented by their president Mrs. Catherine F.
Wallace. She gives Mrs Carrie Chapman
Gait and Miss Mary G. Hay much praise
tor thelr effective work In reorganizing the
territorial suffrage association. The terri
tory is equal in size to all New England
with New York and New Jersey added. and
hard to get over. There is lots of good
pr praetiean WORK done, however. Women act
as notary public. are members of county
examining boards for teachers; a woman Is
superintendent of Indian Pueblo schools;
are court stenographers: are directors on
everything but vote
Ella Hawley Crossett, president of the
New York Woman Suffrage Associa ton,
says that the work of the women of the
organiza ton resolves itself into three i'm
portant divtsions-organiZation and the en-
largement of present club membership, such
legislation as 1t is possible to accomplish
at Albany in favor of women suffra eists
and stirring UP of the women of the state
at the proper time. TO use their right of
school suffrage. They have also Industrial
committees, which are very useful to the
sunrage organization.
The women If New York have lust one
nttle DIT OF suffrage. and that is voting for
school trustees. The state treasurer renorts
re-; peSeipts M OF 1919 and disbursements of s3,
O9D In the prosecution of the work Tho
Suffrage association also sends a Woman's
journal, which is devoted to suffrage. TO
4oo people free. and consider 1t a great edu-
catlonaI ..a work The president says that
New York may be slow, but she surely is
advancing in the right direction
The president Of North Carolina, Helen
MOTIFS Lewis. reported that while the ed
ucatlonai status Of women in North Caro-
Ina has improved, the legal status has
heen much hampered by recent decisions
OF the supreme court, but that it is moi to
be expected that a state at SO low an ebb
ea ,il ililteracy should take high rank in the
political advancement of women
1.-The politicians cf North Carolina. she
says, are so fierceiy engaged in "A desper-
ate contest to disfranchise negroes that
newspapers quite liberal in publishing suf-
frage articles. and believes that a healthy
sentiment is growing in favor of the en-
franch1sement OF women.
Flora Blackman Naylor. president Of the
North Dakota Suffrage Association, said
that the organization of that state has been
born again. and IN its rehabilitation is doing
good work. They have many clubs through
Sut the state, and they are exerting their
power In many ways. A literary depart
ment has been added. and it is the duty of
the officers Of this department to look after
the press work and distribution of the cir
culars, books and papers on political econ
orny and social and municipal reform.
They have had many lecturers in the field
and. altogether, feel that they are doing a
splendid work.
TOnight's Program.
The program for tonight is as follows:
Our Greet Leaders, Clara Bewick Colby.
Nebraska; 1.-The Possibilities of Even Il
@ g
lana; Conditions of the Wage-earning Wo-
men of Our Country" Gail Laush hin. New
York; "A Review of the Remonstrant,'
Helen a. Shaw, Massachusetts.
The puipits of the city will be pretty
generally filed by the women divines in
attendance on the convention. Rev Ida
Hultn will fill All Souls pulpit in the
morning. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw will
preach at the Church. of Our Father in the
morning. Miss Harriet Mills will be at
Peoples Church in the evening, and Mary
Seymour Howell at the Eastern Presbyte-
rian Church at night.
Large Audience Present.
The audience which greeted the suf-
fragists last evening exhausted the ca
pacity Of the church, the galleries and class
rooms. as well as audience chamber being
packed To the suffocation limit. The plat
form looked like big bouquet of flowers,
with its array of elegantly gowned women,
the delicate pink and blue silks, the rich
dark velvets, the rare laces and sparkling
diamonds reminding one of society func-
ton where women pose for sweet charity's
sake, rather than that Of band of once
derided. supposed-to-be-down-a at -the-heei
females" who saw nothing sweet in iife
except it be something that sneered at the
male sect.
The evening session was opened by Miss
Anthony in a characteristic little talk and
she then introduced the first speaker OF the
evening, Mrs. Ida Hustled Harper.
Mrs. Harper is woman of rare literary
attainments and writer Of marked ability
and versatility. She is Miss Anthony's
biographer, and was engaged for two years
in the preparation of this work. Mrs. Har-
per has been connected with many Of the
largest newspapers in the United States as
correspondent and editorial writer and an
extensive traveller. She attended the in
ternational council of women in London
last July, and from there travelled through
other portions Of Europe, returning to this
country late th{s past fall.
Mrs. Harper's theme was The Training
Of the Woman Journalist" She quoted
Charles A. Danas opinion that Journalism
cannot be taught by rule, but the instinct
must be borne in one and developed by
contact with its past masters. She held,
however. that in this day Of specialization
the successful journalist must have some
definite training. The woman reporter must
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