The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-24
GREAT AT LAST.

When ones ripple in the literary waves reaches the hub in Boston even to be criticised 1t Is a cause of sell consratu- Iation and a squib concerning Montgom- ery's recent distinguished guest, Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt, has recently been taken notice of by Mrs Ida H. Harper in the New York Sun and copied in the Boston Womans Journal.
 Surely there is only one more element of greatness left to come to this No- mans Department editor-that is to be accused of plaGiarism.s Perhaps that will come whenever it Is earned by the expression of a good thought.
 The notice taken in the New York Sun runs thusly:
 Just before the president of tho Ma tional Suffrage Association reached Montgomery, Ala, on her recent South ern tour, the editor of The Advertiser of that city made the pleasing discovery that in Who's Who in America there are five times as many lines devoted to this lady's husband as to herself" and it happily learned also that in spite of her advocacy of the doctrines of wO- man suffrage she is weakly, WomaniV in love with a man who at least Keeps his own rights" So it welcomed her to the great State of Alabama.-Mrs. Ida H. Harper in N. Y. Sun.
 Now Mrs. Harper, perhaps, only saw the narrow side coating of that state ment and did not discover the pill be- meath which was intended to do good that Is to do the good of helping the women of "The Great State of Ala bama' to recognize a brilliant and charming woman and enjoy her in spite of the fact that she dared differ with them as to what is for their betterment
 A writer in The Southern Woman. the official organ of the Georgia State Fede- ration of Women's Clubs writes in a manner which shows that Georgia fully appreciated the privilege of visit from Mrs. Catt. She writes:
 The Atlanta Womans Club was lately addressed by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Ford of the Georgia Normal and Industrial School, Miss Irene Ash by McFadyen of England, student of so- cial economies and worker for child-la- bor reform. and Ebert Hubbard of Roy croft fame. The organ of the Georgia State Federation. The Southern Woman says:
 Every Atlanta woman who was not q member of the Atlanta Womans Clut missed a rare treat by not being in the club rooms on the afternoon when cir cumstances seemed to have conspired tc bring about a brilliant and memorable occasion.
 Mrs. Chapman Catt's beauty, which
 
 combined. won all hearts. She says She has always been club woman, and that under difficulties. Far away In Iowa, she said, many years ago, l organized a woman's club. In a few weeks l moved to Seattle, leaving my club behind Shortly, l was there conspiring against public harmony by organizing another club. of which l was president. Verj soon my husband moved to New York where, for years, l have held member ship in the third oldest club in th' United States the Brooklyn Woman's Club Mrs. Catts fine sense and admir- able boise were shown by her assertion that though she would gladly gee every individual woman in America an equal suffragist, she would not, if she could bring the Federation of Clubs into the suffrage cause Various orders have she feels, varied possibilities for good. Her every word was valuable"