Show MORNING SESSION I Attendance Was Pair Fair and Pro gramme Excellent By the time the congress convened at atIt 10 It ocl ck yesterday ye morning there were close upon women in the hall hail I The morning session seaton consisted of two addressee addres e delivered by Mrs rs Lucretia Kimball and Mrs Mr E E Shei ard who spoke respectively on the topics of Ed Educational Educational Preparation of Parenthood and nd Honor Between Men and Women omen The speakers were listened to atten attentively attentively ively t and their remarks were fre frequently frequently punctuated with rounds of ap applause applause applause on the part of the audience Mrs Kimball opened her address with I the apology that she he stood before the audience as a mother who feels how v I nE rz short she has hes fallen falleR below her ideals of motherhood and desiring de to gain pin from the tIie ideas and association here aid in bettering b them After Atter indulging in n some BOme preliminary ry remarks the speaker stated staled that she desired to upon non On the subject of parenthood rather than that of moth hood She then proceeded to main maintain maintain tain tam that spiritual perfection should be considered first and foremost when that was done the development of moral and physical perfection would follow Mrs Kimball thought that in the ma majority majority majority of ot cases when mothers found that their daughters had talents in fyi a I given giyen those abilities received attention l to the neglect of teachings In Inthe Inthe inthe the direction of the holy gift of moth motherhood motherhood motherhood After A t r reading an extrac from a work containing Mrs Mary B Eddys Eddy s idea upon the subject of an ideal Idel mar mr marriage marriage the speaker continued her argument argument ment in favor of ot the education of girls and boys in the direction of the re responsibilities responsibilities of married life Ufe Contin Continuing Continuing with her theme the speaker said Id The teachers with whom our chil children children children dren Study have to study for years Ji r 0 l if Miss May ay Objects to Saving Raving Her lIer Picture Drawn and ard obtain a certificate In order ordez to have he that privilege But any criminals may present themselves fur for a 8 marriage marIi e certificate and obtain St it t aid thus be become become become come licensed to bring about that which shall help to curse cur e the earth ertho Mrs KImball then dwelt at length on the conditions which were re the factors f tol in bringing brin g about hereditary evils and urged her hearers hearen x so IO to live and work that the curse might become a thing of cf the past Good Word for Old Maids 4 Continuing her bet remarks Mrs Kim Kimball Kimball Kimbail ball bail put in a good word for the old maids I can well wen remember she said when that name old maid was a terror of reproach and ridicule but the times have now liO changed and instead of ot the old maids being held up to ridi ridicule cule there is now a feeling of ot respect and admiration a for those women Who do not rush ruch ru h into marriage for foe or the sake sakeI of being married don oun to the subject of the I training g of if f hidren n the tIe speaker stat dat statta I ta fad that hp had hai often found it the case 1 that the most unselfish parents had the i most selfish offspring from fr the fact that Ma Na a light heeled mother I th rr made ma de a h daughter Is As S dote to Mrs l Kf pre 1 Mrs B R T Halliard Hilliard of Ogden scribed a course of kindergarten train trainIng training i Ing as a good test te t for upon the thesis that a girl who under undertook undertook undertook took that kind kina of work among children would of n have no room for selfishness where there were a dozen needles to be threaded every few min minutes utes Mrs Kimball concluded her remarks With the assertion that when the con consecration of teaching ad d parenthood Is brought about the old ld ideas of hered heredity heredity ity and attendant evils would b beeme me a athing athing athing thing of the past At the close of the address addres the president resi resident dent called for a discussion on the paper This brought Mrs Lucy Horing to her feet who undertook to read some notes that she had jotted down to the effect en ct that she wished to place herself on record as in favor of a law which would require that all girls about to marry should be compelled to first fl t take a 8 course in kindergarten kinder arten work before they were allowed to enter the state of matrimony Miss MI May My who followed spoke for several sev ral minutes on the advantages es of ofa a course of ot that kind fit ff work for all young girls whatever might n be their plans for the future Mrs Shepards Paper Mrs Irs E E Shepard then was WS intro introduced introduced Introduced to the audience and proceeded to tope speak pe k upon the topic of f Honor Be Between Between Between tween Men and Women Before B fore tak taking takIng ing lug up her subject she he deplored the fact that she could not be allotted three days wherein to do the subject justice Then Mrs Shepard plunged into the subject of tb the sexes and by Illustrations from botany and flora and fauna tauna generally maintained that there were two sexes which was as it should be The patent fact Mrs Shepard averred should not be made a secret ecret secreta a thing to be jealously guarded from the average son and daughter but that rather they should be instructed in the established law After indulging In a dissertation up upon upon upon on the idea governing celibacy the speaker once more deplored the se secrecy secrecy secrecy crecy that was manifest among so many families in regard to the rela relation relation tion lion of the sexes She maintained that men and women could associate to together together together gether and at the same samO sam time be per perfect perfect feet ladies ladie and gentlemen To illus illustrate illustrate her assertion a she proceeded to recite an incident wherein a countess co of years and discretion on the Euro European European European continent had never met a gen gentleman tIeman until she met an American in ina ina Ina a casual way on the train Mrs Shepard had considerable to say on the subject of boys sowing their wild oats during which remarks she shewa was wa frequently Interrupted by demon demonstrations demonstrations demonstrations of approval At the close of her the speak speaker er caused a sensation by b stating that thata a police officer in this city had told her that if she only visited the wine rooms in this city that she would see girls there who were under the age of 18 This assertion had the effect of bringing Mrs Lucy Having Hoving to her feet with the query as to whether Mrs Shepard had investigated the truth tr th of this story The lady in answer r stated that she had not done so but at the same time ilme she had another distressing case ces in hand handI I The meeting then adjourned until 2 v I which the soul plays and through which the soul expresses ses itself surely he should hawe a 8 perfect one oneS Sound So nd Body is Necessary Necess Upon a sound physical body the future as well as the present happiness of the child depends and also his suc success success success cess in life So he should be given a healthy vigorous body Given Yes for It Is In the power of every parent nay more it is the duty of ot every par parent ont ant to give such a 8 physical body to the t child Mrs Stewart started the discussion No o child should be brought into the th world without a premeditated pur purpose purpose purpose pose said sald she It should not be the result of an unholy action Every child has this among the first on its rights But as it grows it should have h ve room for its movements There sh should uld ba be in every house a bright sunny room the brightest and l d sunniest In the house for the children They must have such sucha a place of entertainment or they will find entertainment in the streets and a d there they will not grow sTow up good citi citizens zens zensi LIX 01 i saw some children playing in the street when I came down dOIl here and I wondered what their mothers might be bei doing Possibly entertaining callers in inthe tIe the parlor Possibly making some beautiful decorative work woric for the th house when they were in reality ne neglecting ne neglecting neglecting the most beautiful of the of a household Mrs Alice E Hanford sang several of her kindergarten songs in a magni magnificent magnificent and delicate manner Mrs Little the president announced the appointment of the committee on nominations as follows Mrs A W Grant Mrs H A Schiller Miss Whalon and Miss Carrie Williams And they with the exception of Miss Whalon retired to consider the nomi nominations nominations nominations nations for officers while she ad addressed addressed dressed the congress on the subject of the ethical training of children Miss Whalon Speaks Every child has a right r to be well trained as well as well wen born said she But no one can be blamed for not being well born It is something which to a large extent parents cannot con control control control They can not go back and look into their ancestry to see of what their forefathers were But a child born of good parents will have the advantage They do not require the attention to develop them that the child born of other parents k Some of the Spectators does When I as a teacher recer a achild achild child chUd of good parentage p I do not think is as worthy of ray in t work as the one one less l M favored For the poorer child requires more care to bring out what is best in it and to develop it The responsibility of training chit chil children dren dran Is great but I trust that there is no young woman here who will be deterred by what I 1 say ay from assuming the responsibility of marriage For if it you love your children c as you will wilt you will not find their training burden burde burdensome burdensome some There was some sonie further discussion of the matter during which h Mrs Huh Hilli Hilliard ard set net forth the proposition that if parents would not care properly for or their children especially their girls the state ought to step In and take tahe them away |