Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-24
WOMANS WORLD.
BUSINESS SESSION OF THE woM-
4 ANS NATIONAL COUNCIL.

Chfcago Girls Fencing-New Ohicers for
sorosis-Colors for spring-A Duffalo
Journalist--New Fields for woman's
Work-Girl Expressions.
A Washington dispatch says at the
final business session of the board of the
National Council of Women there were
present five general officers and the rep
Iresentatives of the twelve associations
now fully entered in the council lists.
The board considered unfinished. bust
mess and passed the following resolu-
Itions:
Resolved, First that the National Council of
Women of the United States send q memorial
to the clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal
church asking, inasmuch as 81 per cent. of the
membership of that denomination have al
ready by formal ballot expressed q desire that
women be admitted to the General Conference,
that the clergy shall, in accordance with the
will of the laity, grant the admission of women
to that body.
Second-That the council ask that women be
placed on the Sunday School Lesson commit
tee, and on all committees appointed in the va
rious churches for the revisions of their creeds.
Third-That the council urge upon the Ma
tional Reform Divorce league the eminent fit
ness ana consequent ODllGaClOn OF plac1ny
women on its board.
Fourth-That the National Council Of Wom-
en- shall present to the proper authorities a for
NAL request that in all departments of its serv-
ice the government shall pay its employees
equal wages for equal work, and that both in
engaging and promoting its employees it shall
consider efficiency and not sex, and thus set a
standard for the country.
The council also resolved to furnish a
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scribed to place in the monument to be
erected over the grave of Mary, the
mother of Washington, and voted to
commend to all organized bodies of
women the objects of the Mary Wash
ington society.
Resolved, That the general officers shall ap-
point O committee of women whose duty it
shall be to report within year suggestions for
q business costume for women which shall
meet the demands of health, comfort and good
taste.
Resolved, That the council approves the
movement for preventing the slaughter of
birds for the sole purpose of ornamentation,
and that it asks American women to initiate
the example of the Princess of Wales, who
has forbidden the use of the plumage of sing
ing birds on her toilets
Congratulatory letters were received
from many distinguished people. J. G.
Whittier, the venerable poet, writes as
follows:
am glad to see the call for council Of
philanthrophic women, for the purpose of
uniting the various societies of reform and
progress in grand confederation, which will
conserve the highest good of the family and the
state, and which will oppose every form of i.s-
norance and injustice. 1t is noble idea and
full of promises. We need the strength which
comes from unity of sympathy and purpose.
need not tell thee, my dear friend, that shall
watch the proceedings of the council with deep
interest and with earnest prayers for its sue
cess. Thine truly, JOHN G. WHITTIER.
The new president will soon issue an
address, and the first annual conference
of the executive committee will be held
in May. Steps will be taken at once for
erecting building at Glen Echo suit
able for intermediate meetings of the
council and of the various organizations
entering it. Triennial meetings of the
council will always be held in Washing
ton.