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Show SLAP AT SNOOT PLEASES WOMEN ST. PAUL. Jane . After two long sessions, ses-sions, during which reports of com' mittees were read and a number of amendments to the constitution were passed upon, the women attending the biennial convention of the General Federation Fed-eration of Women's Clubs laid aside their work late yesterday afternoon - and had several hours of pleasure In going to receptions re-ceptions planned for - them at various residences. At the afternoon session Miss Louisa B. Poppenheim of Charleston, 8. C. chairman chair-man of the mambership committee, reported re-ported that 103 new clubs and one State federation, that of Nevada, had been admitted ad-mitted to the general federation since the biennial convention In 8t. 'Louis. Minnesota Minne-sota led the list of States with forty-two new clubs. The convention failed to take any action ac-tion on the Keed 8moot case, but that is expected to come later. When Mrs. Decker read to the convention conven-tion the news that the Senate committee at Washington had voted In favor of unseating un-seating Senator Smoot, she made no comment, com-ment, but in an instant handkerchiefs were waved and hands were clapped In approval of the action taken by the Senate Sen-ate committee. - - Last night a varied programme of addresses was listened to. Miss Jane Addams of Chicago spoke on "Settlement Work;" Mrs. Harriett M. Vandervaart, also of Chicago, spoke on "The Consumers' Con-sumers' League;'' Clinton Rogers Woodruff Wood-ruff of Philadelphia spoke of the work of the "National Municipal League;" Samuel Sam-uel McCune Lindsay of New York on "National Child Labor Committee," and Judge B. B. Lindsay of Denver on "The Juvenile Court." " |