, 1891-02-21

The womaa's Satioa-I Council At wash
Layton h February
The most signifcaR. sign Of the times
in the interest Of women. and to me she
most hopefrl sign, is the constantly in
creasing spirit Of unity and harmony
among our sex. The most striking evil
dence of this is the women's clubs that
are spriuEing up everywhere. Scarcely
a village in the Union but now has its
club Of women, and the best of all is
hat the clubs are devoted to intellectual
improvement and development along
various lines. At Washington, in Al
baugh'= Opera house, from Feb. % To 25.
will be witnessed oHr agreeable and use
full outcoms Of this extraordinary club
activity among women. On that date
the Wnfrau's National Council Of tine
Unitsl S:ates will hold its first general
coav-4., Women are making for
themselves a world within a world in
our time, and it is a world full Of intel
l~ectual, philanthropic and educational
activity. The National Council Of Wo-
men is to consist of delegates from
all the national societies of women
IN the UnitsZ States. Whether il
is a temperance, woman suffrage, be-
neynleut, industrial, educational, phi
laE5HrUpic, artistic or other society, just
SO IL is national in its scope, it is warmly
invited to end delegates. One delegate
from each society will be represented on
lhc executive committee Of the council,
LLHE other delegates will be frafernal. and
will b. welcomed Us helping to swell the
representation. The delegate on the ex-
scutive committee viii give report 20 the
ounCil about what her own particular
aociety is doing. Here it is hoped will
meet ami grasp one another's hands In
-isteriy good will delegates from the
Kings Daughters and from the Won
an National Liberal union, formed to
break up the lines Il sectarian separa-
tlou among women. Here we may ex-
psct 20 greet ladies' from the w. c. I.
u, from tie Women's Press clubs and
from the working girls unions. Go, by
all means, YOU vino can. Help to
strengthen the spirit of union among
women, and enlarge 1t till it shall
take IN all w~omankiud. Weave the
strands together till ther. shall be "A net
work Of love and good will binding to-
gethcr all the women in the universe.
iaru shall the wolnan's hour indeed be
1t hand.
The Woman's National Council of the
United States meets ~triennially. 1t is
he sequence Of the international Coun-
ii Of Women held three years ago at
Washington, which made snch an i'm
preston through the land. American
women found out at the international
cuuacil how much sweeter the voice Of
the English woman, Mrs. Ashton Dixie,
WAS than the voice OF the average Am
ericlu 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 n woman must be to be a good
mother, but it seems as II any sort Of
fellow will do to be a father.
Why is a follower of the Delsarte fad
like q couundruml Because she is a
poser. of course,
In four weeks of examination OF the
returns of the census takers, at one cen
trail office the only perfect report found
was that Of a woman enumerator.
One good point about farmers socie-
ties everywhere is that they are liberal
on the question. That, too, al.
though farmers As a 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 81 years of age and
over.
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