Evening star., 1922-09-03
Regarding Girls and Their Affairs.
Conducted By Helen H EsHer !.

often complain OF the. stupid
ity and sluggish attitude on
the part of the majority of the
population in any community toward
taking up a new project. Yet when
we review the history of the world
down through even the comparative
ly limited records which we human
beings have available. 1t is marvel
Gus to see how we lave progressed.
When the fiapper of today looks
Puritan maid, and Pocahontas, the
American princess. and CONSIDERS
the social conditions surrounding
those girls and their inferior places
in the general scheme of the COM
munitjes in which they lived, IL
seems truly wonderful that In the in
tervening three hundred years WON,
ans position in the life OF the Uniteo
States has changed so materially
Many foreigners come on every ooat
from the European ehores, anu anu
American girls and women go anu
pay to hear them tell what to 40 10
get freedom" in many directions.
Yet. in reality, American women nave
more privileges and live in cleaner
more enlightened country. from a So
cial and moral standpoint. than most
of these more or less distinguished
visitors, If she wanted to do so' the
American woman could tell some OF
the women of the old world much
better what they should do tnan take
advice from them. But American
women are too busy to go over ana
attend to other peoples business.
They feel that they are needeo at
home, for we certainly do nave our
troubles-just like everybody else IN
the world.
CIR a,,h n statua WAS erected to
L. one of the pioneer women OF this
country Anne HUTCHINSON
daughter of Rev Francis Marbury
of Lincolnshire. England. VINO De-
came so interested in the preachings
of John Cotton that she wanted to
take up the ministry as career of
course, fighting against the odds
which women encountered In those
days when seeking to enter profess
sion, she was unable to achieve TINS
desire So she did the next th1ns TO
it. She got her husband to bring her
over to New England, shortly a1ter
the famous Mr.. Cotton came over.
She arrived in Boston on September
is. 1884 and became an active mem
ber of the Boston church early IN
November.
Anne Hutchinson had such great
and almost disconcerting familiarity
with the Scriptures that she could not
long remain merely one OF the con-
gregation. The particular tenets
which she approved were among the
eighty-two opinions condemned as
erroneous by the ecclesiastfc' SYNOD
of Newtown in August. 1887. She was
summoned to trial and sentenced TO
banishment from the territory or
Massachusetts,.
81, int RSf
of her banishment is the fact that,
while she was allowed to spend the
following winter quietly at friends
house in RoXbury, she was visited Dy
delegation of -four men or loNeiy
and winning spirit" who tried in vain
to reclaim her allegiance to the
orthodox ideas then countenanced.
But Anne was obdurate and followed
Roger Williams to his colony in
Rhode Island.
After her husbands death she
moved her family to small! village
near He'll Gate, New York. The
Dutch settlers of this locality and
the Indians were not on very friendly
very mildly-and small outbursts OF
war were constantly '1minent; FL
nally, according to the majority OF
authorities. in one Of the Indian raids
Anne's house was burned. and she and
all her family. except one small
daughter. were burned to death.
few authorities. however,. claim that
she was nc t"-neo TO death by the
savages. out died a natural death. She
was really the founder of what was
known as the antinomian party in
the New England &C lonies.
THE bronze statue erected to this
courageous woman - Massachu-
chusetts' first feminist-stands before
the west wing of the statehouse in
Bottom. This is the first statue of a
woman ever given a public place in
Boston. Cyrus E. DalIin, the sculptor.
is an American. In remarking on the
origin of the idea for such a statue,
Miss Alice Paul of the National Wom-
ans Party said:
while in Boston to attend the un-
the first thought of erecting statue
to Anne Hutchinson in Boston was
inspired by an address by Rev. James
de Normandie eight years ago. The
woman's group took up the idea, and
the plaster cast was completed be-
fore the war interrupted the work.
In 1921 the bronze was completed and
west wing of the state house. .
'It should be gratifying to the
women of the country that Anne
Hutchinson has at last been publicly
recognized, in that they owe her a
debt. since she was probably the first
woman in this country to stand for
equal rights. Early in her career,
when confronted with objection that
a woman should not aspire to preach
there was no rule against 1t she
would not WELD to their authority"