Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-14

logical thinker, out as one VINO KNOWS her
well says, IAN all-around woman, a good
hcusekeeper, an accomplished cook, an en-
thusiastic gardener and cultivator of flow
ers a tasteful dressmaker and milliner in
fact well trained in all housewifely arts
She is unselfsh and without the slightest
faint of personal ambition or craving for
notoriety. She has never sought an office.
but all her life offices have sought her and
pressed themselves upon her. She has not
a tinge of the ''anti-man'r spirit that en-
bitters the speech of a few-fortunately
only small minority-of the suffragists.
Miss Anthony was by reclamation elected
honorary president, and now declares she
ranks Mrs. Gait. This gives the associa-
ton two honorary presidents, Mrs. Cady
Stanton being the other. In the history of
the National Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton it has had but two presidents.
Old Leaders Again Chosen.
All the old officers. many Of them now
grown gray in the service.A were reelected.
Next to Miss Anthony, perhaps. in the
hearts of those present came Rev Anna
Howard Shaw, who for SO many, many
years has fought the battles for enfran-
chisement of women, side by side with Miss
Anthony. and Mrs. Gait would have had to
hustle her friends If the laughing-eyed Tit
tie minister had permitted her name to be
used in connection with the big office. 1t
would have been a friendly contest, for
Mrs. Gait and Miss Shaw are great friends.
Rachel Foster Avery, the little Rachel
Oh twenty -OH6 years dSO, WHO, rosy
checked girl. came into the suffrage ranks,
ready to fight to the finish for the franchise
of the "other half was reelected CORE
spending secretary for about the twentieth
time.
You'll never find better one" Miss An
thony said, smiling through tears, as she
brought Mrs. Avery to the front of the
platform to introduce her.
For recording secretary came Alice Stone
Blackwell, daughter Of Lucy Stone of
blessed memory to all struggling women.
Miss Blackwell has devoted her life to the
interests of women, and Is regarded as one
of the faithful unto DEATH.
OF course, there was no difference Of opin-
ion as to whether Mrs. Harriet Taylor Up
ton should be reelected treasurer. She Is
one of the jolly souls that reporters love
to meet. She tells you everything you
want to know, yet manages never to give
away anything that she wants to keep Sc
urer and an ideal woman. Her election,
like that of all the Others was greeted with
an ovation.
I'VE suffragists are not sentimental, how
ever Miss Anthony insisted.
The auditors elected were Miss Laura
Clay of Kentucky and Mrs. Catharine
Waugh McCoulloch of Illinois.
Papers Read at Evening Meeting.
The evening session was devoted to a
number of brilliant papers. The house was
so crowded that 1t was uncomfortable. The
first paper was presented by Mabel Loomis
Todd. and was entitled the House Beau
tiful" She said in part:
"It almost seems that America is too
young for pervasive sense Of beauty in
its people. But it is time now for atten-
ton to be freed from factories and material
prosperity, already assured, and given to
the aesthetic side of life.
when we think of the love and protec-
ton given to natural roadsides in Hawaii,
and the alteration of all beauty in Japan,
it seems that special attention ought to be
given in our great, II modern country, to
these matters. 1t is the province of women
to awaken consciousness and enthusiasm
in such subjects, and through village i'm
provement societies to stir men as well to
and to save roadsides. Two hill towns in
New England are contrasted, similarly sit
uated and with equal advantages naturally.
But in one outer beauty is appreciated, in
the other ignored and the results are
shown.
Back yards. school yards. railway sta
tons and cemeteries are good beginning
points for aesthetic attack. Save the trees
and plant more. What women will they
carry out. Let the beauty of our country
lie very their heart. as we'll as its
moral and material prosperity.
Answers the Remonstrants.
Kate Greenwood Lippncott was then in
troduced by Miss Anthony. and gave the
audience a breezy, humorous talk. She
answered the 'Remonstrants' thirty years
oSor anu silt sdiu IcI arg tHeH "dS
just as effective today, and convulsed the
crowd by repeating some of it.
A. Emmagene Paul, superintendent of the
street cleaning department of the first ward
In Chicago, gave an interesting account of
how she became engaged in that work.
Her first experience was rather interest
ing. Crooked contractors and willy politi-
clans first began to cultivate her. They
found they could not shake her determine
ton to make them live up to their con-
tracts. Thew had agreed clean the
streets. They were receiving pay for that
purpose. and she, inspector was
there to see that the contracts Were lived
up to. She was first appointed when the
municipal government adopted a civil SER
vice system. She took the examinations,
and now holds her position by virtue of
that examination. She checkmated the
contractor and politician, and through her
a long-needed reform in the street cleaning
department of Chicago was accomplished.
A Visitor Heard.
Sophie Lvovna Friedland, a native Of
Russia, who is visiting America for liter
airy purposes, was the next speaker. She
first visited this country during the worlds
fair. and became much interested in the
work of women. On returning to her ma
tive country she interested her sex in the
work which was being done by their Amer
lean sisters. The speaker paid beautiful
compliment to the work which the co-labor-
ers of Miss Anthony were doing in behalf
of women. She also explained what the
women of Russia had accomplished and
what they were doing at present.
Mrs. Cornwall of Denver gave a short
talk upon the results traceable to woman
suffragists during the six years of their
acknowledgment in Colorado. She reviewed
the many measures which had been passed
by the state legislature which had been
framed by the suffragists Municipal laws
had also undergone the purifying process.
Mrs Cornwall read extracts from news
paper giving vigorous denial to the state
ment credited to Cardinal Gibbons to the
effect that the suffragists are not religious
Denver women. she said, attacked the state
ment vigorously in number of interviews.
DR.. Julia Holmes Smith, dean of National
Medical College of Illinois, who to
speak on Women on Managing Boards"
did not appear. The time allotted to this
paper was taken up by Miss Anthony. who
spoke at some length upon the reception
she and Miss Shaw received at Cheyenne,
Wyo., while on a tour some years ago.
Mrs. May Wright Sewen president of the
International Council of Women, pre-
sented to the audience by Miss Anthony.
Mrs. Sewell is the successor of Lady Aber-
deem. She is an eloquent speaker, and for
the brief of mi ha hal Ia