Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-10


men opened its sessions yesterday and
Mrs. Hannah SolenaIf was eimilarly dis
tinguished at the Jewish Temple. Large
audiences greeted the national council at
both places, and Miss vAnth9py and Mrs.
Soloman received ovati0nS.
The spontaneous outburst of enthusiasm
when Miss Anthony entered the church.
and again when she carne forward to speak
briefly, must have been sweet incense to
the woman who, as she declared when she
could make herself heard after the APP
plalses died away, fnf been HUNTED from
one house to another Afty yshrs} ago, and
came in public capacity
To a Star reporter she said: 1T isn't
Susan B. Anthony tfTes applaud, it is her
principles. They know now that she had
principles, that she had message for the
world, and that she has trodfen "a narrow,
path that she might denver that message.
1t is a message they all want to hear now,
and there are many teachers. L am SO
glad SO happy to know that they at last
understand why have been in public life
all these years.
'I am letting go little now, because
younger women are taking up the work for
women Such a great work, such mag
nificent one. Oh, yess helped to give II
laughingly, to the direct question.
s"Can you blame the pioneers or 1905
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy stone, ana
all those others. when we all saw with
clear eyes the future spread out before US
with all It's grand possibilities for women!
We were not seers, but we did see that
something must be done for women, and
Quaker though l was, l had to do my part.
That L. ALL" s-er.s
..Ali," echoed a friend who sat by. aunt
Susan has put it Just right. sn ne al IN:
sion. 'She is it, and we all feel 1t, every
woman of U.S.. 5'2
True or not, Aunt Susan. gets her ova-
ton just regularly as she appears. ana
hoe a smiles and saws: It's fOT
the cause"
The Afternoon Session.
At the afternoon session addresses were ]
made by Mrs. J. Eilen Foster. Mrs. Mary 1
Church Terrell, Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett,
Mrs. Hannah G. Soloman and Mrs. May
Wright Sewall. = 't"
Mrs Mary Wood Swift, president of the
National Council of Women, presided.
Mrs. S. D. La Fetra gave the invocation
at the opening session in the afternoon
and was followed by Mrs. r.. b. Grannis,
president of the National Christian League
for the Promotion of Social Purity, VINO
read from Proverbs the description Of the
ideal woman She did not ask her nus
band what she should do, nor die she prac-
tice race; suicide" she said, by way OF COM
ment.
Mrs. ]. Ellen Fostersr president of the
Woman's National Republican Club, told
of the origin of the icouncil. The women
of the Woman's Suffrage Association met
and conceived the idea of the banding TO-
gether of all the women for the uplifting OF
humanity" she said. "a meeting was held
In Washington in 1888. The statesman who
constructed 1t was Mrs. May Wright SewaiI,
building an edihce which seemed impossi-
BILE. Its first president was Frances L. Will
lard gentle as saint and yet poid as any
warrior. The organization has always re-
ceived benediction from her presidency.
The women Of this movement have con-
ceived great ideals, and have steadied their
more timid sisters in their adherence to
them. They have sought to guide women
to do the best they can. on the plane IN
which they live,
"Other organizations have come into the
council, some of which are distinctly re-
ligious, and without the slightest compro-
mise of their orthodoxy. They have found
that the greatest religion isN the religion OF
humanity The fatherhgsd1bf God and the
brotherhood of man have come to have
new meaning since we have known Of the
sisterhood of women-apd they are included
in the brotherhood OF, fpap. Some of you
have not gone further. Jthanifhe sisterhood
you will know that the prothsrheod of man
means us ALL
Legend of the Council.
1.-THE legend of tss pBncir is Lead.
Kindly Light This means not standing
still. but moving forAafd. when the wo-
man repeats these wsfds sbe should not
you stand in the shadow. II you are just
where your mother was then beware. Every
movement for the advancement OF women
makes them kindlier than they were be-
fore.
when I think of the, long company OF
women who have since Eve borne children,
Graded them. taught them to pray and to
shout for the flag: of the widows who have
been left helpless, and of the old women
who have been left when all their loved
ones have gone, and then when think OF
that composite woman Of the twentieth
century. indeed say. Lead. Kindly Light
Citizenship from Woman's Point OF
View was the subject Of an address by
Mrs. Mary Church Terrell president of the
National Association of Colored Women, In
which she touched upon problems confront
ing colored women sWoman Ii rarely
called citizen" she said. 1T is true that
four states In this Union have woman citt-
zenship and that In the District OF Column
bia men and women are equal because both
are dead and buried as far as 1t Is con-
cerned. Yet through the centuries they