The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-11

month or SO" ahead of Sorosis. but the two were so near together that 1 they are almost twins.
 I Mrs. Severance now lives in a beau | tlful home in Los Angeles. She was born in Canandaigua. N. Y. Her maid en name was Caroline Maria Seymour ] After her fathers death she went to Ohio and was for a time teacher in | a girls school near Cleveland She was married in 1S40 to T. c. Severance, | lived till she and Mir. Severance took i their children to Boston to put the sons in Harvard University. Cleveland, Boston and Los Angeles have been suc- 1 cessively the scenes of the labors of this woman worker for women., As an organizer Caroline NJ. Sever ance is unrivaled. She was one of the founders of the New England Women's hospital. She also helped to set on foot the famous Woman's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston. likewise the international congress of women. In Los Angeles she kept on as she had begun. She was the founder and for many years President of the Free Kindergarten Association there, also President of the Women's Exchange. The Friday Morning Club of Los An- geles is an association having 200 members and the most beautiful club home of any woman's organization In America. Of this fine club, too. Mrs. Severance was one of the builders, and for long time It's president She has always taken an enthusiastic part in the struggle for woman's suffrage.
 The South. too, has It's strong and splendid pioneer of the femininist movement in Mrs. Caroline Elizabeth Merrick. Mrs Merrick lives in New Or clubs and prominent citizens gave her noble public reception on the occa sion of hen eightieth birthday She is a Louistanian born and bred having srcnt her childhood on q plantation in East Feliciana parish. She was mar rled very young to Judge Edwin T. Merrick, and for many years her time was devoted to rearing ner four chill dren, but 1t was. n time, too, of minghty mental development for this moth- CT. She kept thinking and learning. It has been written of her that having strong original mind. she reasoned out vexed problems for herself and re- fused 10 accept theories simply hecarse they were conventional Fortunate Caroline Merrickt
 While yet a young woman she became
 interested in the temperance move ment. She threw the whole force of strong mind and an enthusiastic tenn perament into it. What next? Ma turally, of course, womans entire eman- tipNbioH, lhCIuulHB tue ti5h' 'p NS'N' Mrs. Merrick was the first woman of Louisiana to speak for woman suffrage Her great gift Is impromptu sPeakins. In which her wit and eloquence are un~ surpassed
 In 1879 she addressed the Louisiana Constitutional Convention and secured the insertion into the States organic law of an article making all women over 21 years old eligible to hold pub lie school offices Tn every way in which her voice and hand could be raised for her own sex, Mrs. Merrick has used voice and hand and her chiv- alrous husband supported her in her work for women. At the same time she has been so identified with philan- thropic and public work in New Or leans that at the reception on her s0th birthday every profession and every leading society of the city was repre- sented. Marilla Weaver.