Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-10
THE WbMEN's CLUBS


District of Colu hbia held its regular meet
ing Thursday yeven1n6 at Scottish Rite
Hail This asabcia3Dn was organized In
1867. and Is the Oldest local womans sui
frage association IN the world. Mrs. Belva
A. Lockwood, who IL prominently identified
with Its presentwork, was one Of Its foun-
ders, together with Sarah A. Spencer and
other well-known club women Of today.
Another conspicuous member of the group
was Josephine Griffin, who had been &C
lively interested IN the suffrage cause since
Its inception Id 1875, and who. after the
civil war. was the founder Of the Freed
mans Bureau. The association was incor-
porated in 1901.
Mrs. Fairbanks has been reelected presi-
dent of the womau's League of the Ma
tlonai Association OF Junior Republic,
which held it's last meeting at her home.
The additional officers all Of whom were
reelected, are: Mrs. Mary s. Lockwood,
vice president; Mrs. j. E. Gilbert, record
iny secretary: Mrs. Charlotte E. Main,
treasurer, and Mrs Hannah B. Sperry, cor
responding secretary s-
Ffv. associations Of the District Of CO.
lumbia have formed a league Of debating
societies. These clubs are: The Elizabeth
Cady Stanton Political Study Club, the
Bethany Society, the Capitol Hill Liter
Association. On the first and third Tues
day OF each month each club win debate in
turn with each Of the other clubs on ques-
tons which have already been selected
The meetings will take place at the Y. NJ.
Z. A building, on G street, at 8 pm.
The initial debate took place last Tues
day, when the question was That injus-
tice has been done to the colored people
OF the southern states by recent constitu-
tlonal provisions in regard to voting" The
Stanton Club took the affirmative side,
which was argued by Mrs. Monroe of Texas
and Miss Dwyer of Florida. Mrs Monroe
commended that as man could not repre-
sent woman at the polls, SO white men
could not represent black men, and that
black men could better represent black
women than white men could. The repre-
sentatives of the Junior Association,
Ne ssrS Magic and Steward, won the debate
for the negative, Senator Deboe of Ken
lucky being the judge.
There viii be another meeting January
20. and also on February 3. when the STAN
ton Club will again take part in deciding
woman under medieval Christianity was
inferior to, her position In classic Greece
and Rome"
Another organization has Just been added
to the list of woman's clubs. It Is entitled
the Federal Wonan's Equality Association,
and has for IT'S special object the advance
ment of woMans suffrage on several i'm
by Congress. The association has chosen
Its name because its scope Of work Is with
the national government. That there is
need for such an association Is shown by
the fact that the suffrage amendment of
Congress has not had report on it for
years.
There is nothing In this movement antag-
onistic to the National American Woman's
Suffrage Association: The incorporators
are members of the National and in hearty
sympathy with all it Is doing in the STATE,
but they feel they can aid its work by
forming a strong local pressure to move
solely along federal lines. The, National
Association dropped It's individual member
ship nearly four years ago, and since then
the only way in which one can be a MEM
Der is to belong to some local society. Many
women are unwilling or Unable to do this,
and yet would like to prove their interest In
the cause. The organization Is thrown wide
+ open to ALI members to have an active di-
recfmg influence over 1t, and yet attend
ancs Is In no way obligatory. Rev. Olympia
Brown has been elected president. William
Garfield Lee. first vice president pro tenn.
Cara Bewtck Colby. corresponding secre-
tary; Rebecca Carter. recording secreta-
ry: DR.. Clara W. McNaukhton, treasurer
Josephine Rancier. auditor The next meet
ing will be held at 242o 14th street, January
Ia, at s pm.
The Woman National Press Association
will hold its next meeting, January 16 in a
parlor OF the Rdggs. House!
Miss SusanSB. Anthony win celebrate her
efghty-thtrd birthday on February Is. An
effort will be made to haye the anniversary
honored appropriately BY every suffrage
club in the Union.
Thursday evening last Miss F. Henrietta
Muller gave the first of a series Of three
Lectures, admission to which was by card.
Adam and Eve and occult Interpretation
formed the subject of her talk. Miss Null
"a hoe roaA rnfr, NOD ~.
around the world. in the course of which
she spent some time in solitude on the
Himalaya mountains. studying the occult
secrets Of the Hindoo religion.