The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-20

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large of the national union.
At the thirty-ninth annual convcu.
! tion of the National Woman Suffrage
Association held in Chicago in Feb
ruary, Reverend Anna Howard Shaw
was reelected president. and Mrs
/ Rachel Foster Avery, first vlcc,presi-
dent. Mrs. Avery is the mother of the
attractive little iifteen-year-old girl,
Julia Foster Avery, who was named
by Miss Susan B.. Anthony as future
declared that if transmigration of the
soul were possible, she meant that her
spirit should 60 TO this gifted girl, TO
whom she said "Becomc the leader
of the women of the world in tho bat
tie for their rights Inspired by the
suggestion made BY Miss Anthony, lit.
lie Miss Avery, although still nero
child is perfecting herself in several
languages and studying oratory with n
of universal suffrage.
Miss May Wright sewall, who has
a world wide reputation as a lecturer,
educator and progressive club woman
generally, is notable figure in the Ma
tional Council of Women, of which she
is honorary president. She is also hon
orary presidents of the International
Council of Women. and chairman of
the International Committee on Peace
and. Arbitration. An incident which
reflected her energy occurred some
time ago in Washington, d. C. There
while the Council was in session in the
National Capital, and although there
was 10 quorum that memorable day in
the United States Senate, and the
Speaker of the House did not dare VEN
ture forth from his apartments. the
women held an all-day session with a
full representation and transacted much
business. There are nineteen organ.
izations affiliated in the National Coun.
Gil of Women. and its membeTship rep
rcsents over 100000 women. The presi-
dent is Mrs. Mary Wood Swift, of
California.
Club women have followed the lead
of club men and have built for them.
selves handsome apartments with all
modern appliances to promote ease and
comfort and drive away care and age.
The New York Woman s Colony Club,
designed by the late Stanford White,
is one of the finest in America, 1t cost
orations were selected by Miss Elsie De
everything from lecture rooms and gym
ussium to dining rooms and sleeping
quarters. The Chicago Woman s Club
has equally up-to.date quarters, and
has the distinction of being the first
athletic club for women IN the world.
II was the inspiration of Mrs. Paulna
III. Lyon. the present manager, who is a
woman Of rare executive ability and
progressive spirit.
The men of the Confederate camps
in the South started movement not
long ago 10 erect a monument to the
women of the Confederacy This plan
recalls the fact that there are very few
outdoor monuments to women in this
country. The only national monument
to woman is that erected to Mary
Washington, mother of the president, at
Fred ericksburg, Virginia. The mouu-
ment is tail marble shaft and is on
the estate of Colonel Fielding Lewis.
section of historic ground which is now
owned by the Society for the Preserva-
tion of Virginia Antiquities. In New
Orleans the visitor may see in front Of
an orphan asylum the statue Of n
woman seated in chair with children
about her knee. The shoulders are
covered with cheap little shawl, which
the sculptor has faithfully reproduced, +,
and even the old calico wrapper is re-
cognlaed as the same that the faithful
illiterate, big hearted laundress and
milk woman wore when she worked so
many years for the children Of New
Orleans. There is only one word on
the monument, but that is enough. for
TO all New Orleans there can never be
but one "Margaret. :"
Mrs Emma Willard. the educator, has
a statue erected 10 her memory at Troy,
the honor Of establishing 'the. first
seminary in America for the advanced
education of women Portland. Ore
gon. has preserved the Exposition mon
ument TO Sacalawea, the Indian woman
who, with her pappoose on her back.
guided Lewis and Clark through forest
and over mountain on their great tour
of exploration. In the New York State
house four heads of famous women
adorn the caps of as many columns.
These are Molly Pitcher. Harriet
Beecher Stowe. Susan B. Anthony. and
Clara NJ. Barton. The only woman in
Statuary hall in the capitol at Wash
iDgtoD is Frances Willard. The appre-
ciative people of Connecticut wanted to
erect a monument TO Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, but her son, the Rev
Charles L. Stowe. argued that "no more
useless or. unsightly way of wasting
money, generally speaking. is known
10 man than that which finds express
sion in the statue nuisance. The ordin-
airy bronze statue ought TO be regarded
as a terrible penalty to be inflicted only
on great offenders against society, like
Adam, Captain Kidd, or Benedict Ar
mold
Miss Gertrude Haynes has the honor
of organizing and maintaining the first
successful woman theatrical company.
Women fill all the parts in the play.
except the villain. All the executive
positions, even the property man -
and "advance agent" are taken by
members Of the gentler sex. Miss Hay
mes is tiny woman less than Ave
feet high, and weighs just two pounds
over hundred. She is from Blooming
dale, Indiana, where she shares honors
with James Whitcomb Riley, Booth
Harrington and George AIDE, the Hoosier
celebrities. She began as village choir
singer, then organized small concert
company. She is the inventor Of big
organ which she plays herself Once
when some professional bill-postcrs re-
fused to act under pettlcoat orders, this
versatile little woman tucked up her
skirts at convenient and decorous