The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-09

being one OF special importance. as il il the
last preceding the great quinquennial con-
clave OF the International Congress- Of
Women in Berlin next summer. and il IL
no small task TO prepare programme and
bring together delegates from the councils
OF all civilized countries.
Mrs Sewall's presidents report, which
will be presented at Dresden, covers over
fifty typewriter pages Ia it's review OF the
past year. The fraternity which has been
created through this great body represent
ing millions OF women in organizations. is
touchingly apparent in the inter change
of letters between the Engish-speakng
women Of the world and those Of nearly
every nation: Appeals have come from
the women OF Finland, OF Macedonia and of
kishineff for sympathy and help. and from
many international organizations for CO.
operation From the presidents Office dur
ing the past year there have gone out about
500 individual letters and nearly $500 printed
and typewriter pages OF matter National
councils, auxiliary 10 the International,
now exist in all the countries OF Europe ex-
cept Norway, Russia and Greece, in Au-
stralia, Canada and the Argentine Republic,
and steps for forming others have been
taken In Peru, Chile. Mexico and Japan.
London never was so stirred by any move
ment Of women as by the International
Council of 1909, and the effect doubtless
will be still more marked in Berlin in 1904
By the way, the Kaiser is said to have
fitted up kitchen for his young daughter
and to have declared that she must he
model German housewife and able to fry
sausage, roast joint or bake cake as
though she had to earn her living az cook"
We'll. perhapa she may have to, some
time, If the Socialists continue TO increase
in power over there. II her little Royal
Highness needs any special training in the
domestic arts, number OF women who
will attend the international congress can
give her expert instruction. There will
be women there from the United States
who will carry of the honors OF the plat
form, IL the London experience Is repeated.
and yet who are as perfect housekeepers
as any OF those in the German Empire who
have been kept strictly within the sphere
prescribed by Emperor William the kitchen.
the nursery and the church. II will indeed,
be pity that they will have no opportunity
to demonstrate this fact. Doubtless they
will be held up by the men OF Germany as
All awful example. but they will tel the
women of Germany OF new heaven and
new earth within their reach, and they
will introduce leaven which liz warranted
70 raise something else besides bread,
Al the last national woman suffrage con-
vention it was decided to observe annually
! the birthdays Of three women-S'san b.
Anthony's. on Feb Is, Lucy stones on
| Aug. u. and Elizabeth Gady Stanton's,
on Nov. II Next Thursday the various
| clubs will celebrate the eighty-fifth ami
versarv Of the birth Of Lucy Stone, who
was born on far m near West Brookheld
Mass. in 1918 Here she was married i'll
1855 to Henry B. Blackwell. A large num-
| Der Of Boston men and women will hold II
meeting on this historic spot, and II is eN-
pected that an address will be made by
Col. Thomas Wentworth Hig9inson who
performed the ceremony. This marriage
was heralded far and near because the word
obey" WAS omitted and because the newly
welded couple issued joint protest against
| the unequal laws which gave the husband
absolute control Of the wife's property.
person and children. In order To protest
| further against the loss OF individuality
which wife suffered by giving up her
name the bride retained Lucy Stone
never assuming the Blackwell She first
secured the opinion Of several eminent
lawyers, including Chief Justice Salmon
| p. Chase, that there was no law requiring
! the wife to take the husbands name.
| Lucy Stone was blue-eyed. fair-haired,
soft voiced woman about feet high. but
| there have been few Of her sex so radical in
! thought. fearless in speech and brave in
| action. She WAS among the earliest TO enter
| Oberln. the first college opened to women;
| earned all the money for her education;
refused TO allow her graduating essay to be
| read by professor, when not permitted 10
read it herself; began lecturing on woman's
! rights the year she finished college; was
| mobbed, struck and had the hose turned on
1 bar h,tt ant RI nh all u.s.l
| her household goods. including her baby's
cradle, to be sold for taxes. and, holding
! the baby in her lap wrote protest against
taxation without representation. She was
the Leading factor in organizing the Ameri-
| can Woman Suffrage Association in 1899
and founding the Woman Journal (Boston,
| in 1870. Her married life was exceptionally
| happy, and her one child. Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell, continues. with her father. the
work begun in the young womanhood Of
| the mother. The last appearance Of Lucy
! Stone before large audience WAS at rhe
| Wonan's Congress Of the Worlds Fair in
| Chicago in May 1893. She died in October
| of that year at her home in Dorchester.
Mass. aged rs.
| Two-and-a half months after the woman
inspectors at New York harbor were dropped
| by peremptory order of Secretary Of 'hp
I Treasury Shaw, a decision is rendered by
| Secretary of Commerce and Labor Cortel-
you that limited number shall he ap-
pointed through civil service examination
| But to spare the male inspectors feelings
they are 10 he called -matrons" instead Of
: inspectors, although their duties appear
| to be the same as before. The word 1ma-
iron" has an inferior sound and therefore
| il is appropriate il should he applied to
woman. II now the 'matrons" are paid a
much smaller salary than the inspectors"
! for doing the same amount Of work ii In
barely possible they may be left unnolested
IDA Hustled HARPER.