Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-10

suffrage cause. as her mother gave hers
and her father gave his. She is editor
of the Woman'S Journal (Boston). which
was founded by Lucy Stone. For many
years she was recording secretary OF
the National American w. s. A
Though she is a writer. Miss Blackwell
can speak when occasion demands il
quite as well as many who are consid-
cred orators. The oppressed OF all lands
appeal to her sympathy and she Is
looked upon as a benefactor by the Ar
rlenians. and her name is we'll known in
Russia. As chairman OF the literature
committee of the National Woman Suf-
frage Association Miss Blackwell renders
invaluable service. She is now serving
a s second auditor of the National Amer
lean w. :. A.
Politicians in Kentucky know Miss
Laura Clay. Pages clerks state repre-
sentatives and senators are acquainted
with her. The governor and his official
family are on her calling list. Miss Clay.
in fact, has q mission. and a mission
which has taken her to the general as
.senoly of her state for every session in
the past twelve years. She is firm be
licver in woman suffrage. She is presi
dent and founder OF the Equal Rights
Association Of Kentucky. When the
fight began women were not permitted
TO enter the great colleges of the state.
Through the efforts of the Equal Rights
Association the doors OF Kentucky Uni
verSity. at Lexington: Central University.
al Richmond. and kentucky Wesleyan
College, at Winchester, were opened to
women.
The first legislative victory was gained
in 1890. That year an act was passed
giving to married women the right to
their own wages. Previously the earnings
of tho wife had been at the command
OF the husband Later through their
efforts. married women were given the
right to make wills and TO hold real es-
tate, and. still later, women were given
equal property rights with men.
Miss Clay possesses the pertinacity and
tigor OF intellect which is characteristic
of the Clay family. She is one of the
most valued members of the board Of
officers of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association. Since the death
of her mother, Mary Warfield Clay Ohe
Warfields are quite as famous in the
Blue Grass state as the Clays). she has
been free to devote time. talents and
money to the woman suffrage cause, and
she has done 1t without stint.
Mrs. Kate Trimble Woolsey is Ken
tuckian by birth, and her interest in the
woman question is the most natural thing
in the world, being practically matter
of both heredity and atavism. The first
bill to give married women control of
their property ever drawn on the Ameri-
can continent, about 1902. was drawn
jointly by her grandfather and great
uncle-one of whom was afterward a
judge of the court of appeals and the
other a justice of the Supreme Court Of
the United States.
Mrs. Woolsey is the author of book
on suffrage. After many years of obser-
walton and close study of statistics she
came TO the conclusion with the great
essayist, Carlyle. that THE dividing
political line in an arstocracy is rank
not sex; and that the disfranch.sement OF
Woman-as woman-is a democratic nov
city," and it is this idea which she elab-
crates in her book.
Miss Juliet Stuart Points was born in
Nebraska in 1886. fitted for college in the
public schools of New Jersey. was grad
uated from Barnard College in 1907
worked two years under the United States
commission of immigration, and is now
teaching in the department of history OF
Barnard College. and completing her
work for the doctorate of philosophy. She
was the successful candidate for the Eng
fish scholarship of the General Fedora
ton OF Womens Clubs This is the first
scholarship to an American woman I'M
der the exact forms of the competition
by which the Rhodes scholars are chosen
from among our American men. Miss
Points research in England will deal
with the industrial revolution of the last
century and its bearing upon the labor
of women.