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Show FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS Mrs. J T. Lynch, president of the Child Culture club, submitted at the meeting yesterday her report, as del I egato of the proceedings of the recent Brigham convention of the Utah Federation Fed-eration of Women's clubs. The Child Culture club met In the dining room of the high BChool building at '5 o'clock. The report was read during the business sesslou wheu It was decided de-cided to ralBC th dues to 55 a year An excellent review of the play, "Damaged Coeds," was given by Mrs p T Wright. The president s report re-port follows' "In reporting the twentieth anniversary anni-versary of the U F. W. C, held at BrlRham City, October 14, 15 and lfi, 1 take much pleasure. There was certainly shown an advance along the lines of practical work. The keynote I rit the meetings seemed to be the conservation of the child for Its welfare wel-fare Elghi meetings were heid. The morning of the first day was confined con-fined mostly to business and reports of the presiding officers. At the afternoon af-ternoon session, Mrs. P J. McHugh president of the Colorado F W. C, gae an address. 'The Conservation of the Child' In the evening the public enjoyed a treat In the fine lecture lec-ture given by Dr D. F. Fox of Chicago Chi-cago on the subject of 'Forces That Win ' 'The reports of the committees on the second morning showed that progress had bepn recorded. They were Included in the president's report, re-port, who pronounced as splendid the address of Dr E. R. Cowans, superintendent super-intendent of the State Industrial school, on 'Combining Forces for Social So-cial Betterment.' "The reports of tbe clubs and the presidents' confer b e were held In the afternoon session." the report continues, "also the reception given by the Brigham ladles was a delightful. de-lightful. Informal, get -acquainted affair af-fair and was attended by two hundred hun-dred ladies. In the evening we again listened to a lecture by Dr Fox, the subject being, "What Constitutes a Masterpiece.' "The third morning in the open parliament thse subjects were discussed: dis-cussed: Dress. Music Supervised Playgrounds. Scientiilc Housekeeping and 'Why and When t'lub Women Fall. This is a very important Prt of our convention, unto which mors time should be given. This was followed fol-lowed by a splendid paper given by Mrs. .1 Y Alrd of Provo; subject, 'Our Aims for th-1 Coming Year ' "At tho 1 1 "- n p.hs:oi) Mrs. Bishop gave a charminK literary trr-at. Poetry of Today.' At the list mooting four delegates to the biennial bien-nial convention of the N. F. W. Ci to be held In Chicago next June, were elected, two from Salt Lake one from odcn ;ind one from Provo It was also voted to have a state endowment endow-ment fund of one thousand dollars You will hear more about this later Our beautiful Utile city on our nortn certainly did hprsnlf proud 1 1 spita I-Ity I-Ity unlimited; meals furnished by tho hlph school were splendid, music mu-sic fine and the weather pertect Really, I consider it the most successful suc-cessful convention l sver attended Will meet at Salt Lake next year." Mrs. Lyncb'a report of the convention conven-tion was as follows "The Child Culture club of Ogden was organized in the year 1897 and rcrleraled the year tonowing us o-jert o-jert is for the mutual benefit of ltd members in child culture study and I through any other avenues of work that may seem profitable. Its members mem-bers at that time were few, but the list graduall Increased until nov. we have a membership of nearly fifty, an evidence of the interest mothers are taking in the work. Last yenr's I program consisted of lectures, book I reviews biographical sketches, etc I The lectures were aB follows: Art I bv Rev. J. B. Carver; The Conservation Conserva-tion of the fluid" by Dr. B. H. Smith Eupenles.' by Dr. E Ball: 'Music,' by Professor Squire Coop. Also a talk on 'LeKlslatlon.' by Dr Jane Sco-fleld Sco-fleld Several strong books u.re reviewed, re-viewed, such as 'Tomorrow,' 'The Dawn of a Tomorrow' and The Iron Woman;' biographical Bketchea of such nuthors as Longfellow. Ynlttier I and Charles and Mary' Lamb, papers bv the members as follows "The Necessity of Reverenco and Obedience," Obedi-ence," 'Home the Basis of Civic and Moral Uplift.' Silent Influence,' 'Culture 'Cul-ture of Unselfishness.' 'Education' of Cirls as Wives and Mothers' and 'Training the Child In Regard to Property Rights We also assisted with the 'League of Cood Citizenship' Citizen-ship' and 'the school garden movement move-ment ' Our red letter days were 'Civic dav,' which we obs.-rved most appropriately. and 'Mother's day,' Which was a huge success and a day of which we have cause to f. ,.l ceedlngly proud." |