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Show PERFECTION OF HOME. Council of Women Declares for Equal Responsibility of Sexes. WASHINGTON. April Ifi.-Resolutlons touching the questions of the true family life and other subjects have been adopted adopt-ed by the National Count il Of Women In executive session They are as follows fol-lows Behoving that the progress of humanity Is best furthered by Improvement of the individual indi-vidual nml that the Inipiovoinent of the individual, in-dividual, is dependent upon hereditary' cn-Vlronment cn-Vlronment and nurture, be It Rcsolvod. Thnt the perfection of the home, the Institution lit whlrh heredity Is tlxed. th tii t ehvfrooraenl of th (-mm formed, it fine nurture received, should Hi- the object the olleltude and the endeavor of every man nnd ry woman irho loves humanity and would pervo It. Also believing that the home ran be perfected per-fected only In s, society which require equal personal chastity of im-n and women, and confers con-fers equal it sponslblllty upon both: thrr. -lore, lie It Besolved, That the National Council of Wn-m-n of the United States rejoices In tho or-Ctinlr.nt or-Ctinlr.nt I.. ii st its fifth triennial of two committees com-mittees which will focus their endesvom upon equal political liberty of womn with men. and equal personal purity of men with worn wo-rn on Further believing that what Is peculiarly necdit to secure true family llf U far nmre of plain living and hlrh thinking on the pan Of the more privileged, and a deeper sense I of roionlhlltty on the par', of every citizen, citi-zen, he It further Resolved. 1 hnt in ixorklns for these conditions condi-tions the National Council of Women shall keep In mind that the safety and the stshllltv of the home of society and of the s'ate nre principally dependent upon the character of their individual members. The council also passed a resolution extolling the memory of Mrs. Iceland Stanford. The resolution speaks of the unparalleled respect paid Mrs. Stanford at her death and says thl was ' Jnstl- Oed by this woman's Ufa whose habitual habit-ual piudence. philanthropic ner ice and Ideal lldellty has lifted the standard of public expectation of womanhood in re-po( re-po( t to t hose on. i hi I. |