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Show IADRN DrM.l:MaffettV 1 . -v -f Presidentof the National 'f Federation of Business and Professional Wo- '1 triwifs Clubs, Inc. J Laura B. Haddock is enthusiastic enthusias-tic about the Guatemalan Indian women in whom she became inter- ested while on a trip to their native na-tive land recently. These women weave and design their own costumes, cos-tumes, which are often elaborately elabor-ately embroidered, and whatever the material or design, they conform con-form to the costume peculiar to their villages. These women rear large families, fami-lies, they go to market to buy, sell or barter, or all three, and when they get home they cook the family fam-ily meals. Sometimes the women even help their husbands with the hoeing. Guatemalan women are not permitted to pray or to vote, these being the prerogatives of the men. IVIrs. William Dick Sporborg, of Port Chester, New York, who is chairman of the American Mothers' Mo-thers' Declaration, is responsible for having had placed in the Library Li-brary of Congress a container in which are deposited pledges from mothers in more than eleven hundred hun-dred cities. Jliss Alice Ilice Cook, who has a master's degree from Radcliffe College, has opened a "Self-Appraisal Laboratory" at Central Branch of the Brooklyn Y. W. C. A. She believes that many of the nervous habits shown by people come from a feeling of inadequacy. inade-quacy. ' ... . Mrs. Caroline E. Aggers Fortas, who has degrees from Barnard! and the University of Wisconsin, served for a while with the Resettlement Re-settlement Administration and later la-ter as an attorney in the tax division di-vision of the Department of Justice. |