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The Tribune ifeito sg fiiiO jiy 7 7 7 '7 6 7 1 1 5 BEORE THE VOL XIV NO 22 WASHINGTON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 6 1807 IVE CENTS A COPY or the Tribune SENORIT A EV ANGELIN A COSIO CISNEROS A Tribute of Welcome (Copyright () 0 storm beaten child of the Isle of the Seal The heart of a nation Rives welcome to theel Acclaim for thy courage akes vibrant the air And praise and thanksgiving are blent with each Evangelina 1 The tropic bloom fades in thy dear native land The heel of the foeman is treading its strand Thy kindred are wielding the blade of sure steel or reedom and country their blood is their Evangelina! The fangs of the vulture had entered thy breast Thy piercing cry startled the land of the West And Womanhood prayed at thy prison house gate And Manhood arrayed him in breastplate Evangelina! The dragon guards but the captive has flown On swift pinion she resteth her own And Chivalry guardeth the chasm that lies blackness of darkness and unclouded Evangelina! Spirits celestial! that guide her wild flight Prepare ye her vision for strong light Her coming the Goddess awaits the sea The Goddess of Liberty watcheth for thee! Evangelina! The good ship speeds ye winds list her cry "or God and for country I live or I To thee is their answer in cadences low sleep on the billow untracked by the She cometh the Angel of perfect dream The white soul of honor in courage supreme A type of the fairest of Cuba's fair isle A face where the tear drop is chased by the Evangelina! 0 maiden! thy name is the heart of the brave Thy stars have forecasted thy mission to save The lightning doth flash it the bugle notes fling Thy brave motto is Evangelina! reedom! inspirer of masterful thought The deeds which thy valorous chieftains have wrought By pen and by prowess encircle thy name Clear tracedin the radiant sunburst of Evangelina! Ralston Washington C0ctM The Exposition and the National Council 01 women The editor of the Tribune had a de lighttul flying trip to Nashville last week Never were hill and valley more beauti ful than at this time when all the sum mer wealth of foliage still remains but glorified with fiery embrace There are such pretty towns with such romantic names all along the journey and the local traveler at this time head ed for the Exposition was garrulous and interesting On the way I stopped over one train at Chattanooga to ascend Lookout Moun tain which rises 2500 feet above the sea and from which a glimpse of seven States may be obtained and a view of that field where was fought one of the most mem orable battles of the civil war To the South lay Missionary Ridge where General Bragg had his headquar ters headquarters on Orchard Knob and far beyond Chickamaugua DdiueneiUj ana Dearer ins iNaiionai Lerp etery where repose 14000 Union dead as the victims of this horrible strife of brother against brother At our feet was the Confederate position and the scarred rocks tell to day the fierceness of the fire that came across the beautiful valley be tween where the Tennessee river crossed by General Sherman ivinds in and out Nearest the point its course takes the form of a boot and the land thus out lined is called Mocassin Point On the mountain is a summer population of sev eral thousand alas! the Point itself is fenced in by a syndicate and lots are for sale Should the traveler desire to take the more moderate ascent of the railway known as Incline No 1 which winds around the side of the mountain to the hotel just below the Point he would not be able to enter the enclosure of the Point itself for the managers of Incline No 2 have removed the stairs by which the ascent from this hotel to the Point was made with the intent to force travel up their Own steep railway However I chose the Incline No 2 in preference for the sake of the experience of making a rise of over 1500 feet in 4000 feet of length the grade being at one point said to be the steepest in the world 68 per cent Nashville and the Maxwell House were reached in time to permit me to attend with Miss Anthony and a large number of friends a reception given by Berry to the National Council of Wom en It was an elegant occasion and all of were there and this means a good deal for Nashville has an astonishing numder of stately beautiful and elegantly dressed women One dav of the Council had already passed and this had been marked by the accomplishment much business and many reports from auxiliary bodies One of the interesting features especially on the financial side of the work was the announcement by Mrs Sewall that the following life patrons had been added to the roll in the last few months on the payment of $100 each: Charles Bond Boston Massachusetts Mrs Alice Peters Columbus Ohio Mrs Alice Pierce Indianapolis Indiana Mrs Ab by Pettingill Canandagua and Mrs rances Swain Bloomington Indiana Miss Temple of Knoxville one of the board of directors gave the address of welcome which was responded to by Rev Anna Shaw the vice president who presided in Mrs Mary Lowe Dick absence necessitated on account of sickness This also prompted her resignation which was received with much regret and at the business meet ing at the close of the Council Mrs Sewall was elected to that office The great feature of interest on the second day of the Council was the ad dress of Miss Anthony as representing the A A Mrs Avery who had one of the set speeches of the morning gave Miss Anthony her time thus ena bling her to make one of the finest speeches 1 have ever listened to It was the same old stories of the inception of the woman movement and the obstacles placed in its way but the delivery was so impressive and the pictures wrought out so finely that the audience listened spell bound it was the verdict of Aunt girls who as her supporters at many con ventions are quite familiar with the facts that she surpassed herself In the inter est of listening one forgets to take notes yet these recitals of the burning facts connected with attempt to gain a hearing or an opportunity to help in reform ought to be taken by a stenora pher when given the inspiration of as sympathetic an audience as greeted Miss Anthony on this occasion These are historic scenes every one of which given in Miss own language would make a superb dramatic reading and the time will come nay is here now when women will find it hard to believe that the path on which we tread so easily was such a rugged and thorny one for those brave pioneers One of the features of the morning was the introduction of Count ess di Brazza who made a short address and of her friend Princess Brancaccio one of the ladies of the Italian court who with her husband and son were con stant in attendance upon the Council the leading teature of Counci work for the afternoon was the report of Mrs Sewall as secretary of foreign corres pondence and of the executive commit tee meeting of the International Council of Women in London in July Those participating in this conference were Lady Aberdeen president the corres ponding secretary Miss Theresa Wilson and representatives from the National Councils of Germany Holland New South Wales and Canada Steps taken to form a National Council for Great Britain and Ireland and to allow this to be effected the next quinquen nial International Council which it was proposed to hold in London next year was dostponed until 1899 The National Councils already existing beside those named above are the United States rance Sweden and New Zealand Act ive preparations are being made to form National Councils in inland Switzer land Denmark Belgium and Hungary and even Hawaii has made overtures to Lady Aberdeen concerning forming a Council there In Holland the movement was started under the patronage of the Queen and the Prime Minister and the first meeting of the Council is to be held as a part of the coronation exercises of the Queen While Holland has not yet formed its Council and been admitted to the Inter national yet its delegate Miss Kramers was allowed to sit in this Conference in response to a special request of the gov ernment which sent her there at its ex pense The German Council is com posed of thirty six national organizations of women Mrs Sewall said it had been impossi ble for her fo understand why the King of Siam took interest enough in the Con gress of Women in Chicago to send a special delegate there but during this summer she had met Mrs Leonowens who had been the governess of the pres ent King She said that he wrote to her that remembering her instructions he had convened his Council and appointed a delegate Tn closing Mrs Sewall said that any chasm between nations or class es made by ignorance can be dispelled by intelligence radiated by sympathy That part of the programme devoted to the Dress Reform Committee attract ed a large audience Mrs Annie Johnson the chairman presented the topic She said that the conventional dress of the women of to day involves bad hygiene bad taste and bad morals is bad she said cause the corset tight bands long and heavy skirts interfere with the proper functions of the body The bad taste is the result of the eager siezure of the new est things in dress without reference to the individual requirements It is bad morals because the studied elaboration and frequent changes demanded are a drain upon the time strength and purse and preclude high and worthy effort Women will not be ready for the oppor tunities privileges and duties awaiting them until they have obtained that free dom of the body which is necessary for the freedom of the Mrs Denton a Delsartean of Mississ ippi gave some graceful poses to illus 1 trate the ideal of freedom of movement She was followed by an interesting ex hibit of gowns by Madame Manvell a Chicago dressmaker who has made specialty of designing artistic costumes which do not require the corset They were superb on her elegant figure very elaborate in design and ornament and very expensive as the material was all imported from Paris It was a good ad vertisement for Madame Manvell and as a result she held a levee all the next day taking orders for dresses and for patterns of any of her designs or for the neat little underwaist on which she sup ports the skirts and the special features of which are loose fulness over the bust and a slashed front the upper part fas tened snugly over the stable ribs as a sup port to the bust and the lower made a little larger so as to ensure perfect free dom at the solar plexus The pattern of this costs but any lady ought to be able to make it after a little experiment from the above explanation The de signs with patterns cost $5 Persons can send their measures to Madame Manvell and state their choice of de sign material use etc and she sends a half pattern in calico of the foundation of the dress which is the same for all and of the special design These are put together to show exactly how the dress is to be made Persons interested in fol lowing this idea further can correspond with Mrs Annie Johnson 3807 Lang ley avenue Chicago Illinois who has undertaken the publication of a Bulletin to represent this department It is to be issued three times a year and to be illus trated by Madame designs four in each issue Price $1 a year After further reports of organizations at the evening session the topic of ligious was ably presented by Eliz abeth Boynton Harbert who emphasized the fact that the new views were engag ing the attention of mankind that there must be a dispensation love and peace A new vision has come showing that the tabernacle of God is indeed in man new leader has risen whose name is peace Plans are developing for the de velopment of world wide fraternities through the intellectual and moral forc es of the world If conscience is the voice of God may not the adherents of all religions at some particular time hold one thought for the uplifting of all 1 his was the suggestion that came to Mr Bonney from an eminent man beyond the lch led t0 the formation of the Worlds air Congresses The leading thought was will welcome light from every In pleading for peace ful and holy lives Mrs Harbert said: us guard every thought as if it were a lily that would never bloom She said she believed that if all women would begin each day with a strong note of freedom for women woman suffrage would be everywhere conceded before many years had passed Mrs Elizabeth Grannis of New Yorki opened the discussion She did not think religious unity possible but toler ation should prevail The Armenian and Turk cannot unite neither can evangeli cal and liberal On common ground they can meet as in uniting to put an end to war Christianity is the only sys tem which has developed the individu ality of woman as well as man Paul has been misinterpreted by the theologians who quote restrictions placed upon wom en ignoring those made upon men be cause of their emergence from paganism Paul taught the emancipation of all and enjoined the duties of Christianity upon women as well as upon men ifty per cent of the Presbyterian missionaries are women yet women have no place upon the platform of Presbyterian assemblag es Christianity is joyous liberty and to this standard all nations should come Rev Anna Garlin Spencer speaking upon Growth of Religious said that there was progress in five lines to day These were in economic admin istration fewer churches and denomina tions each stronger in consequence in the local consolidation of sects which are similar as the Universalist and Uni tarians Baptists and Congregationalists in places too small or too poor to fitly support separate churches that of spirit in the bond of which enables men and women of divergent religions to work together for moral ed ucational and political reform in organ ic Christian unity on such a large scale that the evangelical and the iiheral are sinking minor differencps in hrnad firmatives on both sides religious unity says with Jesus their fruits shall you know The time is coming when we all can say righteousness we all agree Miss 'Sarah armer of Maine was the last speaker in the discussion of re ligious unity She said that at Greenacre during the summer meetings she had conoucted a new revelation of truth had come to her by listening to speakers of divergent faith all brought the message from the ather which Elder Jesus has brought to us Sitting in the silence on the river banks those who had long neglected their Bi bles went home to read them in a new light after listening to truths presented by teachers of other faith The still small voice is one and speaks to men of other lands as well as our own Love is the fulfillment of the law If we go through the world trying to see the best the world will change its color to us Unless the higher light shines through you it will be useless to go forth to con quer the world The closing session of the Council was held Wednesday morning and the principal feature was an animated address by Count ess di Brazza on Universal Peace and Arbi tration She related the fact concerning Laura Bassi who became Professor of Phi losophy in the University of Bologna Italy 300 years ago The appointment was on examination the names not be ing known by the examiners When it was found that the successful competitor was a woman the position was given to her but she was required to deliver her lectures veiled that her beauty might not distract the men Could every child in this great country the speaker said be taught the principles of love self sacrifice and justice the world might soon be redeemed Hate and envy could not exist and our little virls would vn to school in homespun rather than make their associates unhappy by wearing better clothes Continued on fourth 6ae).