The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-01
SECURE ACADEMY
FOR Oh. ANNAS SHAW
President Of National Suffrage
Association to Speak Here
on January rs.
LOCAL ORDER is GROWING
Letters by Miss Johnston and Dr..
Tyler Reprinted for General
Circulation.
LOCAL ORDER is GROWING

In answer to an invitation from the
Equal Suffrage League OF Virginia,
with headquarters at Richmond, DR..
Anna Howard Shaw, president OF the
National Suffrage Association, will give
lecture before the Virginia League
on the evening OF Tuesday, January rs,
in the Academy of Music.
DR.. Shuw's headquarters arc now at
sos Fifth Avenue, New York City,
where the national association has
opened it's offices on the seventeenth
floor. Mabel Potter Daggett, writing
in the Deiineator for January, con-
corning these offices says: They are
handsomely furnished and there are
hothouse flowers in tall crystal vases
on the desks The rooms radiate the
buoyant sense OF power that a bank
account behind one may give to men,
women and reforms"
asatly after DR.. Shaw. who has for
years given her time and talent to
suffrage work, was located in New
York. the membership of the National
Suffrage Association began to Increase
so rapidly that the Interurban Associa-
tion. composed of twenty three New
York Suffrage clubs, "was called on for
help. You'll have 10 district the city
for u.s. said Dr. shaw. so many wo-
men are applying for membership we
must KNOW WneIS 10 SSuu 10 tlls
nearest club
1.-The smithvillo woman's Club of
Illinois. has written for 100 suffrage
tracts, announced stenographer to
Dr. Shaw: what shall do about it?'
"Quote them the price. responded
the national president firmly; so many
people want literature now we cannot
give it away. We are selling it, Since
then Fifth Avenue has called for so
much of this literature that arrange
ments have been made which render
the sale of suffrage tracts not only
possible but popular
Even Use Suffrage Soap.
The Equal Suffrage League of Vir-
ginia hopes to have It's efforts
strengthened and confirmed by what DR..
Shaw can tell about the great sur
frage centre, where she has been dur
ing the past autumn, where fashion,
able society leaders have been offering
help TO veteran suffragists and asking
instruction from them, and where
others are busy "pinning suffrage but
tons on their gowns. sticking suffrage
stamps on their letters, buying SUI
fragc soap and hanging suffrage calen-
dars In their boudoirs.' The various
activities with which DR.. shaw has
been recently associated and their sur
prisingly successful outcome will
uOuDlIbSo StINt DIS Ill ~
women here. who are moving quietly,
| but steadily. and are congratulating
| themselves on a constant rather than
u rapid growth of members.
The Virginia League feels that the
status of women mas been so well de-
fined in an able article written by Miss
Mary Johnston and published In the
columns of The Dispatch some
weeks ago, that this article has been
, republished by the league for dis
tribution. II was happy to receive
the communication of DIR. Lyon Gar
diner Tyler. Of william and Mary COL
iege, on It's organization, and his adj
vocacy OF its aims in a letter sent by
him to this paper, which has been
likewise repubiished. Other prominent
educators and successful Legislators
and business men in Virginia have
given their support to the League,
which feels in entering upon the new
year that it is facing a bright future.
DR.. Shaw's lecture at the Academy
will be given to an interested public
as we'll as to the Equal Suffrage
League of Virginia. The doors of the
| Academy Will be thrown open by tho
league to all who are interested in
hearing what DR.. Shaw has to say
about her work and its purpose.