The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-09
Susan II. ANTHONY PrcsidcS Over
the Opening session-Hnrrict May
Her Sex ard Draws EorribIe Com
Pnrison~-sprend of Co-cducRtion.

/ the seating capacity of the Church of Our
\ Father. at Thirteenth and l. Streets north
7 west to its utmost The platform was
( tastefally adorned with flags. the suffrage
| flag, with its four stars signifying the
four suffrage States. Colorado. Idaho,
Utah, and Wyoming. occupying the place
of honor. Roses and potted plants made
! charming finish to the ensemble OF
prominent women who occupied the plat
| form.
Promptly at o'clock Miss Susan B.
Anthony called the convention 10 order,
and In short address. welcomed the nu-
merous delegates present and friends of
! the cause. and was followed by Isabel c.
Barrows. of Massachusetts. with an ad
dress on "Women's Work in Philan-
thropy." Mrs. Barrows. who is Vice Presi-
dent of the National Conference of Chart
ties and Correction. and editor OF the an
nual proceedings of that body. referred
briefly, to past history. saying that she
believed it was more inspiring TO good
work to look to living examples of women
with whom one could work shoulder TO
shoulder. than 10 live only by imagination
in the past. Mrs. Barrows passed in quick
review the different departments of chart
ty and reform in which women are now so
abundant. and where they are doing such
excellent work. The names Of many phil
anthropic women were mentioned. with
brief sketches OF what they are doing.
The subjects embraced in Mrs. Barrows'
short survey OF women's phiIapthropic
work in the world were moral. educational.
and sanitary efforts in connection with
benevolence. child saving. thrift societies.
tenement-house care, and the like.
Among the women as belonging 10 this
class. Mrs. Barrows mentioned Miss u. d.
Smith. Miss ii. E. Richmond. Miss Julia
Tutwiler, of Alabama: Mrs. L. Fannie
Hazen Gates. of India; Mrs. o. r. Lowell.
Miss E. II. Bailey. Miss G. T. Jacobs. and
others. each standing for wise methods OF
modern benevolence.
DR.. Barrows graduated in medicine in
New York, and later studied in Vienna.
She returned TO this country and practiced
as an oculist in Washington. being the
pioneer in that branch OF surgery. She
had charge OF all the eye cases in the
Howard University and Freedman's Hos
pital Washington. Mrs. Barrows' speech
was well received and vigorously ap-
plauded.
Freedom in Education.
Miss Anthony, with few well-chosen
remarks, introduced as the next speaker
Harriet May Mills. of New York. Her
subject was. THE Winning Of Educational
Freedom" She said: 1T is recorded that
in 1920 a young lady in Mrs. Williard's
Seminary was publicly examined in geome-
try and it called forth a storm OF fidicule.
Last summer a distinguished body of
scientists met in Lopdon TO hear Mrs.
Ayrton deliver lecture upon electrical
phenomena. These two facts show the
change in sentiment since Mrs. Emma Will
lard, In 1919, secured from the Legislature
- h. RAJ
made for the higher education of women.
Twenty-Five years later the seed she had
sown bore fruit in the winning Of the first
college diplomas ever granted to women.
when Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown
Blackwell graduated from Oberlin. These
women were not allowed to read their
graduation essays.
To-day eight tenths of all the colleges OF
the country are open TO women. Thirty
five thousand have already taken degrees.
and 80. 1872 are preparing to graduate. Co
education is nearly universal. Women have
proved that they have brains and that they
can use them to advantage The statistics
collected by college women show that their
average Of good health is % per cent higher |
than that of other women; that while the |
percentage of marriage among them is
lower the percentage OF divorces is also |
lower and the health OF their children ex-
cellent. During the year 1898 mir y-four |
women gave SS.4i 400 to higher education. |
The munifcent requests of Mrs. Stanford !
and Mrs. Hearst are well known" Mrs. |
Mills said in conclusion. with the full |
of intellectual freedom must come |
political freedom"
Mrs. Mills address made a pleasant i'm |
psession and was very favorably received. |
The Social Transformation.
The next speaker was Mary c. c. Brad |
ford. of Colorado. whom Miss Anthony |
styled a "full-fedged sovereign OF the |
United States" Mrs Bradford gave a very |
historical sketch Of the different |
phases OF transformation. the different peo-
pies at the different times in different |
underwent In order TO arrive at |
he present status of social transformation
which as yet has not arrived at perfection.
Mrs. Bradford said that distinguished |
statesman Of Colorado, who is a gambler and
after having been defeated at
he polls by the women, made the state
nent that woman's suffrage was a failure.
Mrs. Bradford said that the social trans
formation in her home Colorado. is pro-
crossing with giant strides.
Her address was followed with rapt at
ention by the whole audience. and very
lb1ids applause lOibNtu inc tlust u. HtE /
address.
In the absence of Elizabeth Cady Stan
on, who was to have delivered the next
,aper Rev. Anna Howard Shaw discussed
he standpoint assumed by Cardinal Glib
IONS with reference to womans suffrage
,he said she hoped that the next time the
everend gentleman speaks on the subject
lie will know better and express himself
little more prudently. The speaker COM
lained that the men in Congress today
peak of nothing but smokestacks steam
hip subsidies. and other themes, when
hose great men who fought for our free
ON discussed the themes of liberty. jus q
ice and freedom and staked their lives {
or the preservation of the same. The
of today is the only safeguard of {
berry and freedom.
a section OF the association is endeavor- ,
lg to Undue. Rev. AIMS Howard Shaw to }
ecome a candidate feg Zoe Office Of presi v
ent. which will be vacated by Miss An t
hony. Mrs. Shaw is admirably fitted for I
be office on account of her long connec- !,
on with the association ard its work.
Miss Susan B. Anthony made the closing
ddress OF last night and dwelled on the
nancial status of the association She
aid that the association needs money to
irry on the work successfully. She offered
every man ana woman a ire membership
,rtificate in the National Nomans SUI
age Association, and she would send 1t,
gned by the honorary president. Eliza
eth Cady Stanton. and the President, Su-
in b. Anthony, to any friend of the cause
no would donate the sum OF $50.
The Programme for Today.
The programme for this morning en-
aces the report of the committee en- plan
work by Evelyn II. Beiden. Chairman:
port OF treasurer by Harriet Taylor Up