| Show FIFTY YEARS PROGRESS Anniversary of the National American Womans Suffrage Association I A Jubilee celebration ot the fiftieth anniversary of the most Important event In the progress of women will beheld be-held In Washington rob 14 to 19 by tile National American Womon Suffrage Suf-frage association It Is I the semlcent Met ot the first convention of women ever held In the world and the N A W S A will observe tho anniversary with the greatest convention In Its history Preparations ore being nod tit the headquarters of the association for on elaborate five days proginmme which will lake the form of a comprehensive review ot the progress at women In the GO Yearn Only one woman ourvlve who wa present ak the humllloting events which gave birth to the Ida ota ot-a union at women In their own behalf and also ot the nov historic convention of ISIS That Is I Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton Although Mrs Stanton has been an Invalid for some years now and has I not bn able to attend the national conventions ho will make a supreme effort and will be taken to Washington as a guest at honor With hr will share the honors Ira Antoinette Brown Blackvvell tho first woman minister In I the country who Is I the only othor survivor sur-vivor at the original convention Womn from Canada and European countries will unite with American wo mn In Wohlngton In the celebration Many of the foremost professional WOo mn at the country ho ore not mm br at the association will recount the victories of woman in their special lines lInIn In these days ot freedom when 1 hard Iy an occupation Is I closed to women girl cannot understand the conditions of GO sears ago With thousands of clubs with tho foremost women of tho world even the queens daughters themselves them-selves and our presidents wives presld Ing at meetings It Is I Impossible to believe be-lieve that GO sears ago only seven occupations oc-cupations were open to women and American women were refused percale slon to sit In a worlds antislavery can nntlon NIth menThe The organizations of half a century ago were located all over the world In civilized countries and were agitating tho abolition of slavery There wont a land In which there were no slaves Albera the Quaer always gave women tho tame privileges la their meetings as men had and when antislavery anti-slavery organizations were formed the women still ranked beside their husbands hus-bands So when the call was sent out for a world convention the American societies sent Quaker women Mrs Stanton wo married In time to nccom pany bar husband on a wedding trip to the convention to whIch he wag a delegate The party went on a sailing vessel and were much belated Word reached England that tho Americans had sent women lI1JUh ministers at once said they could not come Into the convention but waited to take action unit the convention opened For a day the question was fought and at last the women were refused admission But the men decided they owed them some courtesy and told them they might sit In a gallery behind a screen and listen to their voices WWtnm Lloyd Garrison arriving on a belated ship heard the women had been put out refused to sit In the con entlon and for 12 days sat with the women In protest behind the screen Among the famous women behind that screen were Lady Byron ucrctla felt nnd Mrs Wendell Ihlllll The IndlllnoUon among them wu great Mrs Stanton and Lucrctla Mott dc elded that when theyreturned a movement W nv ment for the emane Pall on of woman Cram slavery should bo started The argument used hI those English minis tr wo that the moment omn sat down by men In such a body that In slant the morals ot all Christendom would be ruined Soon after the retul to America Antoinette Bromn who had bn or dalneda minister of the Congregational church mus sent as delegate Cram her hurchln New Jersey to a temperance convention at ministers and leaders For two days and a half her admission an was fought over and when she was finally aliened In to clinch I It her sup portersgave br tn minutes In which to address tho meeting As she went to the platform that body of good men broke Into hisses And cot calls For tn minutes hr nnotd time she Cad a torm oC hisses For three long hours until It was time for the convention con-vention to adjourn oho stood and tried In vain to pole a word The reverend gentlemen continued their storm of biases without cessation That was the last straw to tho women wom-en and when Mr Stanton and Mrs Mott found themselves together In central cen-tral New York they decided to start a movement to secure freedom for women wom-en Tills conference at women that ties resulted In such wonderful strides wag organized by seven women and mt at the residence ot a high seat Quakei ot Waterloo N Y Other women attended and tho newspapers characterized It asa as-a crime against social order The women wo-men formulated a declaration oC Inde I penitence They demanded the right for woman to earn hr own living the right to own property the right to education the right to speak In meeting the rIght to sit In convention on equality with men and finally after a struggle a suffrage plank was Inserted Th dmond at those seven women have all been won after many battles except that for urrroge and even that has made great headway This Is I what the suffragists will celebrate 1 cele-brate In Washington There will be n nil call of pioneers In addition and It may bo tho last time many of the old timers will get together The seven avenues or employment open to women In 1810 were teaching sewing Looping boor < lInl house told Ing und stltchlnr In bin lerl < s work In the factory or Hind compositors room Hi-nd domestic service Tho first woman medlal ollege wa opened the same ya In Boston and a Year later the first woman doctor was graduated In Geneva V YIn Y-In gIoltyh1l the rise oC woman no recession will be left untouched Assistant Attorney Ceneal Mr Beg In of Montana will represent law The domestic art and scicnces I lie to boo given an Important Place < for bo-o modern mod-ern suffragist considers the advances In those lines of supreme Importance Mil Ewing has arranged to Address the convnUon on tbe real progre made 1 In iokery The Cntylghlh birthday at Sun 11 Anthony will be appropriately celebrated rated as It occurs during tho Jubilee The lallronds have taken an Interest In the Jubilee to the extent ot extending courtesies oC excursion rots and as the National Council or Women has bn postponed to next yenr many or gOlllzation represented In the council villl el 1 delegations to Washington to ho Jubilee A general call haa been Issued by Elizabeth Cody Stanton Susan n Anthony thony llev Anna Shaw Harriot Tay I or Upton Mice Stone Blackvvell Car flO Chapman Carl Laura Clay and Call erlne Hugh VcCullo to nil citizens ens ot the United States and i on friends Cram other countries 10 ooprnte In celebrating the mleentnnlol ot what Wendell Phillip declared to be the most momentous reform that hOB yet icen launched on the world At Washington there will be shoun a photograph of the house and enter table Around which tho first convention deliberated 24 hours Burglars Caught by Women Until Richmond residing near Scranton Scran-ton Pa with her widowed mother howed wit quick enough to capture a burglar whom she found In the house about 2 clock In the morning The rascal Arrested was one at four who jroke Into the place Two of them Blood guard outside after an entrance had been effected one stood beside Mrs Illchmond bedside and the fourth proceeded to rummage around for plun Lice Both was aroused by some slight iose occasioned by the midnight prowlers prowl-ers She slept In the same room with hr mother Jumping out ot her bed he started for the door of the room The burglar saw her movement and tried to 1 catch her The quick wlttel little girt picked up a box of Insect powder that lay on the window sill and threw the contents Into the man face The powder pow-der Ailed his eyes and blinded him Meanwhile the other fellow In the room bolted being accompanied In his flight by the two outside The prowler who got his eyes filled with Insect powder was easily captured by neighbors who turned him over to the police Equally cool headed was Mrs Annie C Schmidt of CS East Third street New York when on returning horn from a shopping tour the found a stranger In her apartment Excuse |
