, 1890-05-17
WOMANS WORLD.
A NEW BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATION
OF FARMERS WIVES.

At the women's CIubs-BaltImore's Pref
ty W0u4an-what Virginia Girls Can
Do-The Violet ~Craze-sImpIs Street
Dresses-Rieh Women in Philadelphia
The Farmers Mutual Benefit ~associa-
ton, which was organized in southern
Illinois less than -four years ago, is now
one Of the largest and most powerful or
CARNATIONS in the country. The order
is composed entirely Of farmers, and its
objects and purposes are to act as a body,
and by mutual cooperation buy and sell
to a better advantage, TO exchange views
upon topics pertaining to the farm, and
TO devise and carry out plans and pur-
poses to relieve the burdens of the agri-
cultural masses Although the order is
non-political. the members usually vote
for only such candidates as are in sym
pathy with their wants, regardless of
the political belief of the candidate, and
sometimes in local affairs they find it
necessary to nominate a candidate of
their own. At a general mass meeting
held in this city in March a resolution
was adopted %favoring the admission Of
all farmers wives and daughters to full
membership in the order, and when the
state assembly meets in Springfield in
October next the friends of the resolu-
ton will ask that the rules of the order
be so amended as to admit them.
In view Of this action, and the unani-
nous favor with which 1t was received,
some of the leading farmers wives and
daughters conceived the idea of creating
an organization of their own upon the
same basis as the regular f. NJ. b. A,
and on the afternoon of April 4, 1890,
fourteen farmers wives and daughters
assembled at the residence Of cN-Judge
John S. Harney and organized the first
lodge Of the Ladies' Guild Of the f. NJ.
b. A. of the United States. Mrs. S. NJ.
Gordon was chosen as president; Mr..
VIII Rankin, vice president; Mrs. James
7. McKibben. secretary; Miss Hattie Nc
Clelland. doorkeeper. These ladies are
all women of energy, well informed, and
arc able to cope successfully with the
problems Of social reform pertaining to
their sex and families.
In the preamble to the resolutions
adopted by this pioneer society its or
ganizers say; while in times past the
weaker members of tho common people
of the human race nave suffered most
lTOln opITeaSlon, lNIhiHN anu DaFbhTlail,
we rejoice in the progress of modern so
ciety toward the equalization of bur
dens, and are in full accord with our
fathers, brothers, husbands and sons in
their effort TO secure the bettcrment of
human conditions. The rigid economy
and self denial forced upon us, having
to begin at home, falls most heavily
upon woman, and as the American home
is the hope of the nation we realize the
need of the education of American wo-
men on n broader basis in the practical
every day business of life, rs well rs in
things which pertain directly to the mar
row sphere heretofore assigned to them.
A perfect cooperation between all mem
bers of a class is necessary to secure the
best results, and the Farmers Mutual
Benefit association having been organ
lzed for such poi7ose, We now believe
ough organization are the first adequate
means to be used for the betterlnent Of
our condition and the improvement of
u homes. Australia Olls.) Cor. st.
Louis Globe-Democrat.