The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-10
THE PROVINCE OF WOMAN
The SufIragists Discuss the Rights
of Their Sex.
Two WeII-Attended Meeting, Held
to become n Candidate for the
Presidency of the As-oriation-
Isabella Bcecher HoeLer-s Address.

oman suffrage ASSoclallOu were NEE
yesterday at the Church Of Our Father
the morning session being attended prin
cipally by women. while at night there wa
a goodly sprinkling of men. vino listened
with much interest to the papers.
II was announced at the morning ses
sion that the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw
would decline to permit the use of hei
name as a candidate for president of th'
association 10 succeed the venerable Susai
B. Anthony. whose retirement next weel
VIII mark an epoch in the cause. Mrs
Chapman Cats friends were radiant OF
receipt of this information, as 1t is taker
to mean the election of Mrs. Gait to sue
coed the first bachelor girl of the land.
Mary G. Hay. Secretary of the Commit
tee on Organization. called the afternoon
session TO order. There was large audi
ence present. mainly women After the
singing of THE Breaking Day" Rev
Anna Howard Shaw offered prayer. which
was followed by the singing by the entire
audience of the Battle Hymn of the Re
public The meeting was announced by
the chairman TO be an entirely informal
one. and visitor as well delegate was
invited TO participate in its discussions.
The first subject was How Obstacles 10
Organization May Be Overcome and was
discussed by Mrs Harrison. OF Indiana:
Mrs Blake, of New York: Mrs. Upton. OF
Ohio: Miss kayser, of New York; Mrs
Allen Mrs. Swift of California Mrs.
Mack. of Baltimore; Mrs. Merrick. of
Louisiana; Mrs. Gordon. of New Orleans;
Mrs. Langhorne. Of Virginia: Mrs Root.
OF Michigan. and Mrs. Hood. OF New York
fat saft ha snnfa cd ls- Mfau
Kayser. OF New York. How TO Bring the
People to Attend the Meetings of the Asso-
Citations" was discussed by Mary Bentley
Thomas. Mrs. Merrick. of Louisiana: Mrs.
Swift. of California: Alice Stone Black
we'll OF Boston. and Mrs. Shaw of Phila
deiphia. who said that she preferred a
country schoolhouse full of people than an
audience OF 500 Washingtonians
The next subject for discussion was
How TO Render Organization Permanent.
Addie NJ Johnson, Vice President of the
Missouri Equal Suffrage Association. spoke
at length on the subject advising that the
meetings be made attractive and adyer-
tised literally. Elizabeth ]. Hsuser.
President Trumbull County (Ohiol Equal
Suffrage Association. also participated in
the discussion. as well Miss Hayward,
OF Nebraska: Mrs Klimowski. of Iowa; A.
s. Blackwell, of Boston. and Mrs. Cornwall.
Of Colorado.
The next topic on the programme for
discussion was The Benefit of a State
Organization" Harriet May Mills. Chair
man Committee on Organization. New York
State. was the first speaker on the sub
ject and she advocated a constant agita
tion to attain the end in view; also TO do
legislation work. TO call attention of the
public to the fact that there is such an
organization as the Suffrage Association.
4 NJ uic
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw next addressed
the convention on the theme. is the
laborer Worthy of His Hire aud she
discussed the subject in very interesting
and instructive manner. In the course OF
her discourse she said when woman |
places price on her work and labor. she |
is criticised but as long as her services l
were free she was all right. This even |
goes as far as the marriage ceremony, /
where the woman lis given away and the |
man sold.n which latter remark caused
considerable merriment
The Evening Session.
large audience OF prominent women.
With slight sprinking of men flied the
large auditorium of the church in the
evening Miss Susan b. Anthony opened
the session with happy little speech. and
Harper. Of California. who spoke on the
theme of 1.-The Training of the Woman
Journalist" Mrs. Harper is the biograpber
of Miss Susan b. Anthony Mrs Harper
quoted Charles A. Dana's opinion that
journalism caGnot be taught by rule but
the instinct must be born into one and
developed by contact with its past mas
ters"
The woman reporter must be willing to
toll from eight to fifteen hours day: take
any assignment; brave inconvenience. re-
bun, bad weather. give up the frivoities
of dress and the pleasures of society:
eliminate the EGO" accept no favors on
account of sex; submit her work to the
same standards by which a mans is
judged.
journalism for Women.
Mrs. Harper considered journalism
them to strive for positions OF control
that their ideas may not always be sub
iected TO masculine supervision. She es-
pecally impressed upon women journal
lists their obligation TO be true 10 the
best interests of their own sex in every
line in which they write
Mrs. HarPer's address was loudly ap-
plsuded.
The next speaker on the programme
was Anna Barrows. literary editor of the
American Kitchen Magazine" In her
address on New Professions for Women.
Centring in the Home" Mrs Barrows
said: The objection has BEEN made that
definite professions for women would tend
toward the destruction of the home. but
surely woman may as well do something
FOR her neighbor and employ her neighbor
herself. when both arc skilled in special
crafts. as for each 90 spend all her time
ard strength jack-of all-trsdes in her
own home
The customary comment on the desire
Df woman for a share in municipal and
national government is that they have not
vet succeeded in governing the home-the
'ervani problem is unsolycd. Through oc-
,rpation outside the home women are
business methods which they may
pply in their homes: having been en-
iioyes themselves. they know how TO deal
rith employees OF their own
Through specialization all arts and
RATS are being brought up 20 the dignity
Il professions. Every branch OF house.
,eeping is a profession in itself and to-
lay we find educated women college grad
iaies. conducting public lsundries and
departments for food supply and catering
or large and small families"
Miss Barrows' very Interesting address q
vas highly appreciated and literally ap-
'iauded by the large audience
On account OF the inability Of Isabella
leechcr Hooker. OF Connecticut 10 be
resent and to personally deliver her ad-
ross on The Duty of the Women Citizens :
( the United States in the Present Poiiti- !. =
al Crisis, Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell.
Albany was selected By Miss ANTHONY !
D read the address. Mrs. Hooker's paper I