Evening star., 1934-08-26

Ter and Matt Carpenter defended her
and the result was that she neither
paid the fine nor went to prison.
After Miss Susan had opened to-
days meeting and q prayer was de-
livered by the Rev. Florence Kallock,
Belva Lockwood was introduced. You
ought to see Belva. A slim, tight
skinned woman on the shady side Of
middle-age. in an elegant blue-black
velvet trimmed with old lace, she
looks like picture of one of the
ladies of the olden times, and she
might have stepped out of an old
portrait. She has cheeks and face well
powdered and her silky gray hair is
combed over two rolls at the sides and
tied in a knot behind the crown.
Belva's face is beginning to show
wrinkles between the eyes, but she has
a pleasant expression and a distingue
air. She speaks in loud, grim, nasal
tone, chopping her sentences into five
word sentences as she goes along.
Be!va Lockwood is the chief woman
lawyer in Washington. She is the
first woman ever admitted to practice
before the Supreme Court, and 7
understand she gets lots Of business.
She is so years old, strong and healthy,
and she can make 10 miles an hour
on ner tricycle. which she rides daily
to and from business. Today she
talked on woman's rights in the Dis
trict OF Columbia and made a fair
showing for the temperance work done
bv iler associates,
The next speaker was the offspring
Of a noble sire. 1t was Cassius M.
Clay's daughter, president of the
American Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton. Miss Clay is rather tall and de-
cidedly thin. She is not bad looking,
rs we'll dressed and has a pleasant
face crowned with little curly gray
hairs. Like all the other speakers, she
spoke in bonnet and flowers. Her
argument was good and she delivered
it with a decided Kentucky accent.
Miss Clay reported that Kentucky was
going boldly forward toward the con-
summation of woman's rights. She
said that the husbands of Kentucky
did much to impede the work and
that many of them, chivalric in other
things, threatened their wives with
divorce If they listened to Susan B.
Anthony's lectures or read woman's
rights papers. At this noticed that
Miss Anthony clenched her fists. a
dark frown came over the brunette
face of Phoebe Cousins, while a woman
in the rear of the hall cried out
"Hear!"
Harriette r. Shattuck from Massa-
chusetts next made report. Harriette
Is short and dumpy. She wore a
wooden dress of an olive green, yellow
ancestral lace, ightning-bug breast
pin and a dove -colored hat with red
bird OF paradise shining out from its
top. She has beautiful black hair,
full, fat cheeks and sparkling black
eyes. She is young and decidedly
pretty. She Is also brainy and her
discourse sparkled with facts and fig
ures. She said canvass of 814 women
in Massachusetts, show that 405 were
in favor of women's voting, 166 were |
Indifferent and 160 refused to tell.
while only A said they were opposed
to it.
A tall. lean woman with an ugly
face and slate-pencil bangs coming
low down over her forehead was pre-
sented by Miss Anthony as May Sey-
mour Howell, the great reformer of |
the New York Legislature. She was
dressed in brocaded silk, with pro-
fusion of flowers and jewelry. and her
bracelets jingled as she sawed the air |
in making the most eloquent speech
Of the evening. She delivered it in
camp-meeting style and opened by
saying, as she drew herself up proudly, |
II am one of the few women in the
United States who have voted"
The audience gazed in admiration
and she went on, "I want to tell you