Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-10-18


upon the state and national woman
suffrage conventions and II is liberal
education to mingle with these women
and hear their clear. forceful EXPOSE
tons OF subjects to the consideration
OF which many OF them have devoted
many years.
Presidents OF colleges are here. law
yers, judges, physicians. ministers,
writer's and lecturers. Some are up
holding the cause of domestic science,
some are devoting their lives to les
SEEMING the burdens Of the wage-earner.
Others are pleading the cause OF the
children and others are seeking 10
ameliorate the condition OF the women
who work in sweat shops. From SO
many channels. 1t is only natural that
the women should arrange themselves
In little groups. and the onloOker can
not help imbibing great deal OF use
full information and suggestive argu'
ment.
The Reverend Anne Howard Shaw.
All the civilized world knows the
Reverend Anne Howard Shaw. presi-
dent of the National American Wo-
man Suffrage Association. whose ad-
dress last evening completed day full
OF pleasant and hopeful events. Miss
Shaw is one Of the pioneer suffrage
leaders and she has just returned from
Europe, where she attended the Wo-
man Suffrage Congress In Amster-
dam Holland. and the executive meet
ing of the Internationl Council Of Wo-
In, Cxr,tf z0r
Is conceded to be the foremost woman
orator in the world and Is the first
woman minister to preach either In
Germany or in Holland. A leader In
every sense Of the word, she has learn
ed to control others because she has
such magnificent grasp on herself and
Is so completely the master Of circum-
stances. Her speech last evening was
only an appetizer. for her real address
comes tomorrow night, before the ma
tional association.
Alice Stone Blackwell.
Another speaker who was heard
with wide interest last evening was
Mrs. Alice Stone Blackwell a daugh'-
err of Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy
Stone Miss Blackwell is the junior
editor Of the Woman's Journal. known
wherever the cause Of woman suffrage
has spread the world over
Ms. Rachel Foster Avery.
Beautiful. gracious. her whole being
speaking eloquently of her unusual
qualities Of mind and heart. there Is
not in the whole Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION better beloved member
than Rachel Foster Avery. its first
vice president. The daughter of ].
Heron Foster, a forty-niner. founder
OF the Pittsburg Dispatch, the man
who established the first penny news
paper west Of the Alleghanies. and OF
a mother equally progressive, she BE-
came interested in woman suffrage
when but thirteen years old. Almost
Immediately she began to do some
thing for the cause. She was the
first Of the younger women to cali
Miss Anthony Aunt Susan and it is
impossible to consider Miss Anthony's
active career quite apart from the
service rendered by Rachel Foster
Avery.
Mrs. Avery was corresponding sec
rotary OF the committee Of arrange
ments for the Worlds Congress OF
Representative women. the National
and International Council of Women.
and National Suffrage Association. all
of which held such successful meet
ings in Chicago during the Worlds
Fair. She was also corresponding sec
rretary Of the National Council Of Wo-
men, held In Washington in 1895.
Mrs. Avery's management Of the
International Council Of Women. held
In Washington. d. c., in February,
1888, under the auspices Of the Ma
tional Suffrage Association, was the
crowning effort OF her executive gen.
ius. There were representatives from
So diRerent national organisations
from seven distinct nations. The ex.
penses Of this meeting made grand
total OF $4,000. the financial risk be-
ing assumed by Miss Anthony and
Mrs. Avery.
For twenty years Mrs. Avery was
corresponding secretary OF the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association.
and she now holds this ONCE in the
International Woman Suffrage Al
lance. Her familiarity with many Ian
suages makes her peculiarly valuable
In this position.
In her youth. Mrs Avery studied
political economy at the University OF
Zurich. switzerland. and lived abroad
for some time with her mother and
sister. In 1883 she visited Europe
with Miss Anthony. the occasion OF
the first vacation In lifetime Of the
latter. In 1904 Mr. Avery again
wen: abroad. this time with two Of
her three daughters ~ her compan-
ions. She returned TO America In
the fall and Immediately plunged in
to the suffrage Sprg again feeling an
added responsibility because OF the
death Of Mis- Anthony.
Besides being familiar with her
own country from ocean to ocean.
Mrs. Avery has visited every coun-