Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1891-02-26
woMANs WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


1he Nomnn's National Council at Wash
ington in February.
TIE most significant sign Of the times
in the interest Of women, and to me the
most hopeful sign, is the constantly in
creasing spirit of unity and harmony
among our sex. The most striking evil
dence of this il the w0men's clubs that
are springing up everywhere. Scarcely
q village ia the Union but now has its
club Of women, and the best Of all il
that the clubs are devoted to intellectual
improvement and development along
various lines At Washington. in Al
baugh's Opera house, from Feb. 20 to 2j,
will be witnessed one agreeable and use-
fui outcome of this extraordinary club
activity among women On that date
the Woman's National Council Of the
United States viii hold its first general
convention. Women are making for
themselves a world within world in
our time, and it is world full Of intel
lectual, philanthropic and educational
activity. The National Council of Wo-
men Is to consist of delegates from
all the national societies of women
IN the United States. Whether it
IS a temperance, woman suffrage, be-
nevolent, industrial, educational. phi
lantlrc1ic, artistic or other society. lust
50 it is national in its scope, it Is warmly
invited to send delegates. One delegate
from each society will be represented On
the executive committee Of the council,
the other delegates win be fraternal. and
will be welcomed as helping to swell the
representation. The delegate on the ex-
ecutlve committee will give report to the
council about what her own particular
society is doing. Here it il hoped will
meet and grasp one another's hands il
sisterly good will delegates from the
Kings Daughters and from the Wom-
ans National Liberal union, formed to
break up the lines of sectarian separa-
ton among women. Here we may ex-
pect to greet ladies' from the w. @. T.
u, from the Women's Press clubs and
from the working girls unions. 60, BY
all means, You who can. Help to
strengthen the spirit Of union among
women, and enlarge it till it shall
take in all womankind. Weave the
strands together till there shall be a net
work Of love and good viii binding to-
gether all the women in the universe.
Then shall the woman's hour indeed be
at hand.
The Womans National Council Of the
United States meets triennially. It is
the sequence of the International Coun-
Gil Of Women held three years ago at
Washington, which made such an i'm
preston through the land. American
women found out at the international
council how much sweeter the voice Of
the English woman, Mrs. Ashton Dixie,
was than the voice of the average Am
erican lady. That IS because the En-
glish strive for a musical speaking voice,
while American ladies care little about
it apparently. %
1t is not years that make women old.
We hear no end Of preaching about
what woman must be 10 be a good
mother, but it seems as if any sort Of
fellow viii do to be a father.
Why is a follower Of the DeIsarte fad
like q conundrum? Because she il a
poser, Of course.
In four weeks Of examination Of the
returns of the census takers, at one cen
tral Office the only perfect report found
was that of a woman enumerator.
One good point about farmers socie-
ties everywhere j. that they are liberal
on the woman question. That, too, al
though farmers as rule are the most
conservative citizens Of a community.
Already the Farmers Alliance members
Of the Kansas legislature have intro
duced into that body a bill granting full
suffrage to women q years Of age and
over.
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