Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-17

boards of Colorado are still elected upon
non-partisan basis. 1t is not too much to
say that there is not a school director who
has been chosen because of his political
Affiliations.
'.The very fact that women cast ballot
for members of school boards acted as a
preventive of the nomination of obnoxious
persons"
Mr. Henry p. Blackwell of Dorchester,
Mass, 1.-The husband OF Lucy Stone told
of missionary work done in Colorado,
together with his wife, and rejoiced that
the acorn had grown into the mighty oak. e
Personal Notes.
Mrs. A. Walter Lister of Australia is
quite young and charming speaker She
created quite a sensation at the Senate
hearing yesterday. She was so closely
questioned because of some of her state
ments that she grew slightly FESTIVE, and
forgetting the moss-grown customs which
coat senatorial dignity, talked back at
Senator Bacon in such a way to raise
many laugh, in which the chairman of
the suffrage committee was forced to join,
even though the shaft was aimed at him.
self. Mrs. Lister is graduate of Mel
bourne University, with the degree of A. B.
She is secretary of the National Council of
Women of Victoria, member of the United
Council for Women Suffrage in Melbourne,
a member of the Melbourne Writer'S Club,
and secretary of the National Council of
Women of Victoria.
Mrs. Ida Hustled Harper, the newspaper
woman, is one of the interesting PERSONAL
tiles of the convention. Mrs Harper de-
clares that she cannot talk; that she thinks
best with pen in her hand She thinks
she was born a suffra giSt and the Suffra-
gists are quite positive that she was created
for the express purpose of welding her
facile pen in their behalf. While Mrs. Har-
per is tremendously busy with long string
of newspapers, she has found time to write
the three volume hiOPra pf Miss Z,
B. Anthony and to write also the fourth
and last volume of the history of the wo-
man suffrage. She is a linguist and has
travelled widely, is a student of economic
subjects, and as companionable creature
as ever wore pretty gowns, for which she
has an exquisite taste
Apropos of pretty gowns, the suffragists
are, most of them, dressed "out of sight"
At the White House reception Miss An
thony wore black silk velvet and rose
point. and Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, ma
uonal treasurer. white satin of regal rich
ness, half covered with black cluny lace
like cobwebs Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
the national president, wears beautiful
gowns, nearly always touched up with pale
blue. while Rev Anna Howard Shaw en-
hances her dimples and dark eyes by APP
pearing in royal purple velvet. with rare
old lace. Some of the New York women
nave superb gowns and jewels.
Annually the suffragists are besieged for
tickets to the White House receptions
These are limited to about 800 and are al
most priceless to the ladies who are able
to secure them, but a good-siZed volume
would be necessary to record all the queer
schemes women who are not members
work to get the invitations Mrs Harriet
Taylor Upton, national treasurer, told the
convention yesterday that "one woman be-
Sieged me until she nearly talked hook off
my dress telling me how much she loved us
suffragists and how she always worked for
US, and then" added Mrs Upton, II asked
Ter what the name Of the association was
and she couldn't tell me. She didn't get any
ticket to the White House."
The only thing left of the hundreds of
things the little Avery girls collected for
the N. A. w. s. A. bazaar is pair of cro-
cheted slippers. The idea of these two girls
of eleven and thirteen was all their own,
and they planned 1t and carried it out them
selves.
One of the entertaining speakers before
the House judiciary committee yesterday
was Mrs. Mary c. G.. Bradford, president of
the state federation of clubs of Colorado.
Mrs Bradford is a direct descendant of
Charles Carroll Of Carrollton, and has all
his independence. She is a newspaper wo-
man and began to write readable stories
when she was only twelve years old. Mrs.
Bradford has travelled over a good deal of
the known world and lectures on a variety
of subjects. She is the wife of Edward
Taylor Bradford of the United States navy.