The National tribune., 1885-05-21
RELIEF CORPS NEWS.
Gleanings from National Headquar-
ters--Notes from departments.
HEADQUARTERS WoMAN's RELIEF CORPS,
ToLEbo. @.
KATE r. SHERWOOD. National President.
EMMA d. SHELLEY. National Secretary.

KATE B. SHERWOOD. National President.
EMMA ID. SHELLEY. NATIONAL Secretary.
ToLEDo, o. May IL, 1885.
This is a cold, somber- looking day outside, and
your correspondent is heartily glad that her
blue glasses are loaned TO the grunibers: other
that would reflect no credit on the clerk OF the
weather. discourage Spring poets land MILL
ners), and prick the cOnsciences OF Jealous house
wives, who have consigned the once glowing
coal-burner to its Summer resort in the store
room, fastened up the would cheerful CRATE
with Japanese fans and embroidered ambre-
quins, and left us literally out in the cold.
l say l am thankful | can yet stretch upon
the imagination sufficiently to date my letter
in the 'fowery May" and to see promise and
loveliness in the pinChed bud and struggling
leaf. And too, to join the slow paced, UNI
brella-sheltered pedestrian, and, with heart
warmer than my fingers, jot down at Head
quarters the news of the week.
Perhaps the notes furnished me have helped
to strengthen the conviction that Spring is
here, despite the wintry aspect, and to realize
that scarcely six weeks will elapsc ere the time
of the National Convention. Arrangements are
rapidly being perfected for the program OF
exercises, other than the regular order of busi-
ness, during Convention. Standing committees
are preparing reports, recommendations are
being forwarded, and
GENERAL SUMMING UP
of the years work, so as to make a creditable
showing, seems to be the present ambition
of the executive officers and their army of CO.
workers. In view of the necessarily large
amount of labor to he performed in the closing
weeks of the administration, it is to be hoped
that all Departments will be prompt in for
warding reports and returns required of them,
and all individual members having in cOntem-
platon recommendations or appeals regard
such as worthy their earliest possible attention.
On referring to the file of credentials of rep
resentatives to National Convention we find that
some Departments have not as yet made such
report in regular form, and fearing there may
have been some misunderstanding, the National
Secretary is DESTROYS of inserting notice in this
column that there are blanks for that special
purpose, which can be obtained from the Ma
tional Treasurer; further, that the roll of Ma
tional Convention cannot be completed until
these are received at Headquarters.
DEPARTMENT REPORTS.
In the reports of the first quarter ending
March 81, 1855, there is a marked improvement
as regards form and accuracy, result certainly
most gratifying to the officers at National
Headquarters and a self-evident fact that the
Woman's Relief Corps has in its ranks clear
headed women, as keenly susceptible to the
advantages of order and system as the best
disciplined soldier.
OF the % Departments now fully formed, 13
have reported. OF these, Missouri, being Or
ganized in the last half of the quarter, Corps
reported direct to National Headquarters. and
New Jersey reported as PROVISIONAL; the other
IL Of this number as follows: