Show WOMANS BUSINESS SESSION OF THE WOM ANS NATIONAL counch chlcagno girla new for colora for spring A buffalo journalist now fielda for domant Wo mant work girl expressions A washington dispatch aada at the final business session of tho board of the national council of women there were present five general officers and the rep of the twelve associations now fully entered in the council lists the board considered unfinished business and passed the following resolutions resolved first that the national council of women of the baited states send a memorial to the clergymen f the methodist episcopal church asking inasmuch as 63 per cent of tho membership of that denomination have already by formal ballot expressed a desire that women bo admitted to the general conference that tho clergy shall in accordance with tho will of the laity grant the admission of women to that body second that the council ask that women be placed on the sunday school lesson committee and on all committees appointed in the various churches for the revisions of their creeds third that the council urge upon the aa dional reform divorce league the eminent fitness and consequent obligation of placing women on its board fourth that tho national council of women shall present prese nt to the kropar authorities a formal that in all departments of its service the government shall pay its employed emp loyes equal wages for equal work and that both in engaging and promoting its employed emp loyes it shall consider efficiency and not sex and thus set a standard for the country godf or stone of marble suitably inscribed to place in ane monument to hs erected over the grave of mary the mother of washington and voted to commend to all bodies of women the objects of the mary brogton society resolved that the general officers shall appoint a committee of women whose duty it shall be to report within a year suggestions for a business costume for women which shall meet the demanda of health comfort and good taste resolved that the council approves tho movement for preventing the slaughter of alyis for the sole purpose of ornamentation and that it asks american women to imitate the example of the princess of wales who has forbidden the use of the plumage of slinging birds on her toilets letters were received from many distinguished people 0 0 whittier the venerable poet altes as follows I 1 am glad to see the call for a council rf women for the piar ot uniting the various societies of reform and progress in a grand confederation which will conserve the good of the family and the state and which rill oppose every form of ig injustice it is a noble idea and full of promises we need the strength which comes from unity of sympathy and purpose I 1 iced not tell thee my dear friend that I 1 shall watch the proceedings of the council with deep interest and with ear mst prayers for its sac wa truly jonn G the new president will soon issue an address and the first annual conference of the executive committee vill be held in may steps will be taken at once for erecting a building at glen echo suitable for intermediate meetings of the council and of ahe various organizations entering it Tr ienni meetings of the council will always be held in washington |