The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-09-19
The Work Goes On.

The Sorosis Club, which is composed
of very large number of the wealthiest,
most intellectual and cultivated women
of the East, has issued the following
circular, which We commend TO the
careful attention of our many readers:
The necessity of fellowship and con-
certed action among women interested
in the advancement of the race, and
more especially Of their own sex, is so
apparent that we do not hesitate to as
sert that by far the larger portion Of
our efforts in that direction are fruit
less, because they are solitary and
isolated.
Thousands of noble and beneficent
women, scattered all over our country,
are to-day thinking, writing aud speak
ing the truths which all women need,
and many are waiting to hear, and
which would, at once, be a renoyating
force in the land, if the believers could,
in a congregated body, unite upon
practical methods for their ineorpora-
ton into government, business and
social life.
Therefore, in consideration of the pres
sing demand for unity of method among
women interested in like objects,
Sorosis, whose purpose is ''to render
women helpful to each other and useful
to society,"" has determined to take the
preliminary steps for bringing the rep
resentative women of the country to-
gether in a Woman's Congress, that
unitedly we may take into considera-
ton the more important questions that
affect our wOman's life.
We send this little messenger to all
women who, by voice or pen, or practi-
cal work, have conquered an honorable
place in any Of the leading reforms of
the day, and We cordially invite them to
signify their appreciation and sympathy
with our effort by sending us their
names to affix to the formal Call for a
"Woman's Congress-" to be held in
New York, in October, 1878.
This Messenger will also TO be sent to
such Women's Associations as have for
their object the improvement of women
i'm any direction.
This Call will be issued as soon as we
receive a sufficient number of worthy
names to insure the success of the Con-
gress, and we shall not issue il until we
receive that encouragement.
1t is not the intention of SOrOsis TO
take the lead in the Congress, after il
shall be assembled; it will select its Off
GERS and govern itself. We, meanwhile,
constitute ourselves a local Committee
for the preliminary business. As We, as
an associate body, send out this little
sheet, we append to it the names of the
officers of the society, but we shall not
afiiX to the Call the names of any per-
sons who have not formally notified US
of their willingness or desire to have
/ their names appear.
Friend: II after you have carefully
read our Messenger, you are willing to
assist in calling the good women Of our
country together for a noble object,
/ please send your name and pOst-ofiice
address to our President or either of our
! Secretaries.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE b. WILBUR, Pres't,
Isl East Fifty-first street, \. y.
Mrs. JENNIE c. CROLY, EX-Pres't,
Mrs. MARY +. DAVIS, Nice-Pres't,
Miss KATE HILLARD,
REV. CELIA BURLEIGH,
PROF. MARIA MITCHELL,
MISS ALICE Z. FLETCHER, Rec. Sec.i
p Stuyvesant street, y. y.
Miss FANNY HOWELL, Cor. Sec,
40 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn.
Mrs. RoMELIA l.. CLAPP,
Chairman of Executive Committee.
Some of the questions to be considered
by Woman's Congress will be the fol-
lowing: Higher Education for Woman;
Woman's Work in Literature; The Re-
lation Of Woman to her Dress; Woman,
the Promoter of Peace; Prison Reform,
Woman's Work; The Inviolate Home
stead; Equal Division of the Salary be-
tween Husband and Wife; WOman's
Influence in Promoting Temperance;
Cooperative Industries among Women;
Woman's Place in Government; Sys-
TENS Of Philanthrophy; Law as it AT
fects Woman; Enlightened Motherhood
Woman in Surgery and Medicine.