Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-29
WOMEN HONOR
MISS ANTHONY
RECEPTION HELD FOR SUF-
FRAGE LEADER
LIBRARY AFFAIR DISCUSSED
Rev. Anna n. Shaw Makes a Strong
Plea for Woman's Rights, and
objects to the Term
"FaIr Sex"

Brilliantly gowned women thronged
the woman's club house yesterday
afternoon to do honor to Miss Susan d.
Anthony, Rev. Anna Shaw and others
Of the party leading suffrage workers,
now in Los Angeles
Before the close of the affair all for
mality had been dropped and IL a men,
Der Of the library board had CHANGED to
drop in he would have declared it was
an Indignation meeting, with Miss
Jones as the motive. OF the women
who met there many have been most
active in the fight against the library
board, and two honored guests who at
tended the meeting inithe council cham
Der Thursday evening were ready to
add their voices in what they term an
injustice to all women.
DR.. Shaw objects to being called one
of the fair sex, and when she stated
her objection yesterday afternoon It
was evident by the applause that the
leading club women of Los Angeles are
of one mind with her.
1.-THE time has come" said she, when
we women have a right to resent being
spoken of as members of the fair sex,
because of the color of our cheeks. 1t
is time we should be known as the fair
sex because we are fair and refuse to
countenance unfair things.
Scores Library Board
;,ox, ino
ton at the library Thursday evening
and the moment I entered the room
could not help feeling the dividing line
between justice and injustice. 1t was
in the air.
"If any woman could have been in
that room and not felt the humiliation
of having to sit there helpless without
vote / should be ashamed to have
that woman's scared conscience and
blighted intelligence.
"All 1 can say of the library case is
that a case which cannot be aired is a
bad case.
"As 1 entered the room I heard one
woman say, There is Susan B. An
thony.'
"'What right has she got to be here"
demanded another, and then I knew
that a case which could not bear the
silent presence of Miss Anthony, who
stands for justice to women, must be a
bad one.
Susan B. Anthony declared that all
over the country women are displaced
by men who are not as competent as
| they, just because the women have no
right to defend themselves.
"You have your he and him and
his everywhere but where is your
'she?'
you women can be taxed, fined and
hanged all under the pronoun he but
the only time he does not include She
is at the ballot box"
During the reception hours yesterday
afternoon the guests of honor were
seated on the platform in the maln
auditorium of the club house and were
greeted by nearly 1000 club women.
women from every state" said Miss
Anthony, ana Sne SpOhe lrulH'
Remembers Many Faces
"Why 1 met you in Denver and
walked home one evening after the big
meeting" said one. Another had spoken
with her in New York, and she had
visited at the home of still another.
Don't you remember" was on every
lip-and she usually did, this woman
whom Sc years have failed to make old.
The auditorium and the reception
rooms were a mass of tropical plants,
flowers and ferns and these massed on
the platform presented a beautiful
background for the circle of white
haired women who occupied seats upon
1t. Mrs. Charlotte Wills in gray SILK
with a bertha of old lace, Madame Car
oline M. Severance in black lace over
lavender silk, Mrs. M. A. Osgood In
black silk and lace, Rev. Anna Shaw
in gray crepe de chine, Miss Susan b.
Anthony in black satin and white lace
Mrs. Rebecca Spring in gray and white
silk and Miss Mary Anthony in black
silk trimmed with white lace. In just
this order they sat, such a group as
probably will never again be seen IN
Los Angeles.
In and out of the different rooms
went the other members of the recep-