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Show iWork of the Women's Clubs G. F. W. C. The official programme . for the blen-nlal blen-nlal meeting' of the General Federation of Women'a Clubo. to be held at . St. Louis, May 17th to 2Gth, has Just been Issued. Though not on the programme, the board of lady managers will entertain en-tertain the delegates at luncheon. Following Is the programme: Tuesday, May 17th. The regular session will be hold on Tuesday Tues-day afternoon, May 17th, at 2 o'clock, In ihc Odeon, St. Louis, Mrs. D, T. S. Dunl-Fon Dunl-Fon presiding. Addresses of welcome will be mado by Hon. Rolla Wells. Mayor; Mrs. Philip N. Moore, president of tho Missouri State federation, and by Mrs. Washington E. FJschel. president of tho Wednesday club. Mrs. Denison will respond. re-spond. Tuesday Evening. Literature Session Mrs. R. J. Burdctto will preside. Prof. Edward Howard Griggs of Now Jersey will lecture on "The Expression Ex-pression and Interpretation of Human Life In LIteraturo." "Wednesday, May 18th. Morning Reports and business. MIs3 Margaret Evans, chairman. Afternoon Educational session- Mrs, Frank L. Wean of Illinois speaks on "Compulsory Education Laws and Their , Enforcement"; "Character Building in Public Education," discussed In two papers; pa-pers; "Indirectly by Means of Literature and History," Miss Daisy Splckard of Nebraska; Ne-braska; second, "Directly, by Required Instruction, In-struction, as In France," Mrs. Jonathan T. S. Mitchell, Washington. "A National Aspect of Public Education" wllL be tho subject of Miss CelcstI Bush of Connecticut Connecti-cut and Miss Mary Applewhite Bacon of Georgia. Wednesday Evening. Child Labor Session Miss Jane Addams presiding. Address on "Child Labor In America," by Edgar Gardner Murphy of Alabama. Thursday, May 19th. "Day of Celebration," also called "Louisiana Purchase day," Mrs. Philip N. Moore, chairman of local biennial board, presiding. Friday, May 20th. Morning Industrial session, Mrs. Frederick Fred-erick Nathan In the chair. Address, "Organization Among Working Women," Miss Mary McDowell of University Uni-versity of Chicago settlement. "Is tho Uallot of Real Value to Working .Women?" .Wo-men?" Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker of Denver. Den-ver. "Value to Working Women of Cooperation Co-operation of Clubs with Municipal Officers," Offi-cers," Dr. Ernest J. Lederlc, cx-commls-aloner of department of health, New York city. Afternoon Reports of Stato presidents. Evening Educational programmo; "Recent "Re-cent Progress In Education," by Miss Elizabeth Harrison of Illinois. "Education "Educa-tion and Democracy," by Miss Jane Addams. Ad-dams. Address, President L Carey 1 Thomas of Byrn Mawr. Saturday, May 21st. Morning "Tho School as the Ally of tho f Home," Mrs. Nellie Keazlo Jones of Mlcht-i Mlcht-i gan; "Ethics and the Home," Mrs. Adelaide Ade-laide Hoodless, Ontario; "Our Relation to the Household Trades as Carried on Out-Bide Out-Bide the Home," Miss Mary Abel of Maryland. Mary-land. Saturday Afternoon Press session, Saturday Evening Industrial session. 'Address, "Homo Destroying Industries," Mrs. Anna C. Spencor; "Now Avenues of Industrial Education for Women," Dr. riu John Graham Brooks; "The Consumer as Ml , Final Arbiter," Mrs. Frederick Nathan. Tjl&f" Monday, May 23rd. Morning and Evening Civil service rc-.form rc-.form and literary extension. Miss Georgia .'scon and Mrs. Charles A. Perkins will 'preside, the llrst In the morning, the latter In the evening. Monday Afternoon Receptions. Morning Morn-ing speakers: Mrs. Imogcno Oakley of Philadelphia, on "The Merit Systom In Municipalities"; Dr. Emil HIrsch of Chicago, Chi-cago, "Civil Service Reforms In Public In-i In-i stltutlons." Evening speakers: F. M. Crunden. St. Louis, public librarian, "Tho Inspiration of Libraries"; Mrs. Rose Car-wood, Car-wood, "The Storv of a Traveling Library" ; Prof. Charles Beublln. University of Chicago, Chi-cago, "Art as an Educator." Tuesday, May 24th. Morning Civics session. Mrs. Ralph Troutman, chairman. "How Can the Individual In-dividual Bccomo a. Factor in Civlc3 and Sanitation?" Afternoon Forestry work. Mrs. Mary P. Munford, chairman. "Can Women, Through Organization. Inlluence Lcglsla--M tion In Favor of Forestry?" Mrs. Lydla Philips Williams of Minnesota. "Ten i Years of Forestry In Pennsylvania," Miss Mlra Dock of Philadelphia. Tuesday Evening Art session. Wednesday, May 25th. i Morning Election of officers. Business. Evening President's evening. Business session every morning. Mrs. Denison Will Not Bun. i Club women of Utah were much In terested In the announcement made during the week past that Mrs. Charles S. Denison had decided to retire from the Held as a candidate for re-election as president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The convention will be held at St. Louis next month and the choice of a president Is always al-ways a matter of ubsorblng Interest. News of Mrs. Denlson's decision will be I received with regret everywhere, be-" be-" cause she has been a most satisfactory officer, and the wish has been generally gener-ally expressed that she would permit ' her name to go before the convention for re-election. Had Mrs. Denison consented, con-sented, there is little doubt of what the outcome would have been, so pop- , ular has she made herself with the clubwomen of all sections of the coun- try. But now that Mrs. Denison has retired, re-tired, the interest of Western women especially will center around Mrs. Robert Rob-ert J Burdette and Mrs. Sarah Platt-Decker, Platt-Decker, both of whom are to be candidates can-didates for the office. The&e are tho only candidates whose names have been officially spoken of that is, who have announced that they will be candidates can-didates for the high office. Both arc splendidly equipped for the duties which would devolve upon them In case of election and the outcome will be awaited with eagerness. Mrs. Decker especially has many friends in Utah, having been a guest at a convention con-vention of the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs, and It Is known that her selection would bring Joy to the I hearts of- Utah club women. Club Portfolio. . Material Is now' being gathered In Utah for the club portfolio which Is about to be Issued by the Sorosls Pub- i 1 llshlng company of New York, and which is to be exhibited at the World's fair. The portfolio Is to contain a history his-tory of the General Federation of . Women's Clubs, of the State Fodera-, Fodera-, tlons and of the presidents of the lndl- ',. vldual clubs now serving. Ten per cent of the proceeds of the publication are to be devoted to the work of tho Gen- eral Federation. I ladles' Literary Club. r, "Mendelssohn and His Oratorios" is 1 the subject of the programme to be presented at the Ladles Literary club next Friday afternoon. Mrs. Charles G. Plummer has charge of the programme pro-gramme and will give a paper on the topic of the day. In the musical num-hers num-hers Mrs. Plummer will be assisted by II i same of the best local artists, lnclud- lng Mrs. Ellsworth Daggett, Mrs. Al fred S. Peters, Miss Agatha Berkhoel, Miss Edna Dwycr, Edward Copley and Fred Graham. T Tomorrow afternoon the regular meeting of the home and education section will be held at the clubhouse at 4 o'clock. CapL Wood of the Salvation Salva-tion army will address the ladles on "The Newsboy Problem," and members of the club who are not members of the section are urged to be present. Woman's Club. President's day will be observed by the Woman's club on Tuesday afternoon, after-noon, April 6th, atMhe home of Mrs. William II. Jones. Tho programme will Include an address by the president, presi-dent, Mrs, A. J. Johnson; humorous readings by Mrs. John Reed, an Illustrated Illus-trated talk on "Art" by Mrs. Charles Wells, and piano solos by Mrs. Burns. Tho Cleofan. At the annual election of officers of the Cleofan. held on Tuesday last, at the home of Mrs. Charles Wells, the following officers were chosen for the club year 19(M-'05: Miss Emellne Wells, president; Mrs. Thomas Sloan, vice-president; vice-president; Mrs. William T. Cannon: secretary; Miss Catherine Culmer, corresponding cor-responding secretary; Mrs. H. L. A. Culmer, treasurer; Mrs. Charles Well?, critic and librarian. Mrs. Emma J. McVieker has been chosen chairman of the Paris section, Mrs. William Booth of the Shakespeare section, Mrs. Thomas Sloan of the art section, and Mrs. I. A. Clayton of the education section. Mrs. I. A Clayton of 80 A street will entertain the members of the Cleofan at their meeting on Tuesday next. The topic of the day will be "Dante Gabriel RoscttI," to be given by Mrs. Clayton. Reviewers' Election. Mrs. E. O. Lee has been elected to serve the Reviewers club In the capacity ca-pacity of president for the ensuing year, the choice having been made at the annual election held on Monday last. The other officers chosen were: Mrs. R. C. Woodrun , vice-president; Mrs. E. A. Wedgewood, secretary; Miss Delle R. Snow, treasurer. Mrs. Charles G. Plummer was appointed chairman of the committee to arrange for the annual breakfast of the club, which will be held on June 1st. The election of officers followed an interesting inter-esting paper by Mrs. Plummer on "Some Eminent Women and Why They Have Been Eminent." Unique Boston Club. "Unless you are more than 50 years of age you are not eligible to membership in the Wlntergrcen club of Boston, Mass. a club composed of women who are decidedly active in other clubs but who find rest in this particular one. Why over 50? Thereby hangs an interesting tale! x "Mrs. Mlcah Dyer, Jr., member of a score or so of clubs and the champion 'Jlner in the Bay State, conceived the Idea some years ago of gathering together to-gether a few congenial women old in club warfare, and to form an organization organiza-tion without bylaws, officers or parliamentary parlia-mentary tactics. She wanted to do away with the 'madam president' and the club ro'itijic work, to enjoy a session ses-sion wlthotiw 'parliamentary procedure,' proce-dure,' to take one's knitting work along, have a. cup of tea and a healthy bit of gossip asi in the olden times before be-fore the days of the gavel. "A name? Yes, that must be thought of at the birth of my Ideal club," thought Mrs. Dyer, and so one day the name came to her as an. Inspiration. First the botannlcal name "Plpslsslnn," better known as wlntergrcen. She remembered re-membered how, as a girl in New Hampshire, she Ufied to go out in the woods In March and find beneath the snow the stem with Its glossy green leaves about two Inches long, and a little bunch of dull-colored berries near the top. This thriving1 little plant defying defy-ing the winter winds and snows, seemed seem-ed to suggest to her mind the lives and natures of many whom she knew who were defying "Father Time," and growing grow-ing older gracefully. This is -vhy the name was adopted, "On April 23, 1S01, a few gathered together to-gether and Mrs Dyer unfolded her plan. It met with Instant approval. As the founder, she will ever be the leader. Tho membership was at the outset limited to twenty-five and but a score were enrolled, women well on In the decade, several beyond the 70's the average av-erage being just 70, and among the charter members are women of international inter-national reputation. Some of their names? Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Llvermore, Kate Tannatt Woods, Julia Houston West, Harrlette L. Reed, Rev. Ada C. Bowles, Alice J. Harris. Mrs. Electa N Walton, Mrs. John Wales, Mrs, W. H. Badlam, Mrs. W. H. Rob. lnson. Mrs. Caroline Dupee, Mrs. Joseph Jo-seph Garland, Ednah Dow Chenev, Mary Dana Hicks Prang, Mrs. Eliza Bangs, Mrs. T. Wheeler, Mrs. E. F. Pratt and Mrs. Maria H. Bray. Two of the early members have passed away and their chairs are kept vacant at the monthly meetings. "Mrs. Dyer generally opens tho meetings meet-ings by passing round a bnsket and each member writes on a slip of paper the topic she would like to discuss. From the lot one Is drawn, and becomes be-comes tho subject for tho day. No notes are taken, each is allowed to air her views, her opinions, her fads; none are allowed to feel that she is getting the worst of it in the arguments and finally It all' drifts into small talk until un-til luncheon Is served. Music plays a part, and Mrs. Howo generally plays one of her own compositions and leads in the Blnglng. Julia Houston West, whose voice retains its rich contralto sweetness, sings at least once at each meeting. At tho close- all form a circle and sing 'Auld Lang Syne.' "The objec.t? 'Rest for old club women,' wo-men,' rest from the work exactions and limitation of other clubo. The keen thoughts, the evidence of culture the apt quotations, the "bright original 'sayings, 'say-ings, interspersed with wit and humor, serve to make tho meetings anticipated. anticipat-ed. After adjournment each declares it Is tho best time yet. They enjoy the freedom of speech, the privilege of saying what is uppermost with no fear of corn-treading. "Any elections? Any annual meetings? meet-ings? Any officers? It was not tho original intention to have officers, but at an annual meeting several years ago the members objected to being bothered about elections, so they elected a few officers for life. "Tho club became much talked of and many regretted their fato in being left on the outside, and that they must await the pleasure of Father Time before be-fore they stood a chance of receiving the coveted Invitation to join. "The State federation desired its membership, mem-bership, as did the general federation, and In order to join It became neccs-eary neccs-eary to have some money another thing they did not want to bother about dues. However, they had to concede the poin.1. have a tax and a treasurer. So, In 1892, it joined the G. F. W. C and two years later the State federation welcomed them. "The Wlntergrcen club has been a silent si-lent power for much good. It was first to agitate the removal of high hats at the theater, and the abolishment of feathered plumage on same. It started tho great peace meeting In Tremont templo which resulted In the Hague Tribunal." Marlon Howard In March Club Woman. G. P. W. C. Directory. The General Federation directory for I 1904 has been Issued It. Is a handsome-i handsome-i ly printed manual of thirty-three pages, ! giving in convenient form the lift of 1 officers and directors, committees, State j federations, federation secretaries, and federated clubs of the General Feder-1 Feder-1 atlon. With each State, federation Is I given the name of the president and corresponding secretary, time and the I place of next meeting, numbers of clubs In the Federation, date of admittance to I the General Federation, and lines of work pursued. A complete list of Individual In-dividual clubs afllllated with the General Gen-eral Federation Is also given. These Include In-clude clubs In almost every State In the Union, as well as Alaska, Porto Rico, China, England, Hawaii, India, Ceylon, Mexico, Chill and Australia. The only States having no federation are Idaho, which has, however, two district federations: Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and West Virginia. Compulsory Education in D. C. The Legion of Loyal Women of the District of Columbia Is waging a campaign cam-paign In behalf of compulsory education educa-tion In the District. A statement has been prepared by the society giving facts about the condition of the children chil-dren of the District, some of which wero little less than startling to those present at a meeting where the statement state-ment was read. Among other things tho statement contained tho following: "The report of the Chief of Police shows that for the year ended June, 1903, there were 19S3 arrests of children chil-dren of school age. Of 2G4 children under un-der 17 years of age before the Juvenile court from July 1, 1902, to April 1, 1903, for various offenses and committed to the Board of Children's Guardians, onc-hajf onc-hajf were not attending school of any kind. "Of the many patient juvenile tollers who are drudges in the home we can make no estimate, but Investigation shows that the helpless child Is being, in hundreds of cases, deprived of its natural birthright of school training and school associations because of the cupidity of vicious or inefllclehc parents or guardians. "The law enacted here in 1S64 has been found to be unenforceable, and the time has come for a strong concerted action in the District for the passage of a bill by Congress for compulsory education and to prohibit child labor." Congress of Mothers. This year the annual conference of the National Congress of Mothers will be held In Chicago, the opening meeting meet-ing to be on Wednesday evening, May 11th. The day meetings will be held in the rooms of the Chicago Woman's club and the evening meetings at Fullerton hall. Among the subjects to be discussed dis-cussed at this conference are "The National Na-tional Boy Problem," Moral Education," Educa-tion," "Uniform Marriage and Divorce Laws," "Education for the Art of Life," "Industrial Education a Factor In Civic Betterment," "Child Labor Conditions," "The Probation Method," "The Dependent Depend-ent and Delinquent Children," "Literature "Liter-ature for Mothers and Children," "Mothcra" Mistakes" and "Domestic Science." |