The Republican journal., 1892-12-29

lChicago correspondence Woman's Journal !
The woman S plan of the Congress Aux
lliary for the Columbian Exposition is now
perfected, and the dates are assigned for
holding this interesting and suggestive
series of Worlds Congresses. The Aux
liary is formed with president, vice presi-
dent treasurer and secretary: and the
Woman S Branch with president and vice
president local committee of men and
women for each Congress- and q non resi-
dent advisory council of men and women
noted for their artistic and literary attain
ments, humanitarian or educational work
To the local committee is assigned the pre-
liminary organization, the fixing of dates
and the securing of advisory councils, from
which the committee will obtain sugges-
tions of topics and speakers. The duty
of the advisory council is to interest peo-
pie outside of Chicago in the special Con
crosses to be held; to suggest topics for
discussion, and to secure writers to con-
tribute papers for the Congresses and per
sons to join in the discussions following.
This is il most notable advance. as it is
the first time i'll history that the leading
minds i'll every line OF thought, without
regard to sex OF distinctions. have been
called together to discuss social moral
and economical topics: SO that the scien-
tltic woman'is welcomed in the Congress
of scientific men the woman who devotes
her life to philanthropic work in the moral
and social reform Congress. Women are
accorded the same privileges III the Con-
crosses of Government and Law Reform.
and so on through the entire series. In
the Educational Congresses, women will
participate in the general program, and
will also present papers on kindergarten,
Artistic and Manual Training Higher
Education. Physical Culture, industrial
Education, and College Fraternities.
Women are far more sympathetic than
are men with the so-called New Educa-
ton Their long experience in the phys
ical and spiritual training of children has
rendered them adopts in the science of
pedagogy 1t will be of great benefit to
the Congresses to have their high intui-
tions as mother and teacher combined
with the executive ability and scientific
data of the men. In the Law and Govern
ment Congresses papers will be presented
by women on The Dover Rights of Wo
man; Right of the Mother to the Guard
ianship of her Children; Legal Dsabili-
ties of Women: Women in the Municipal
ity, and Suffrage
The Committee on Household Econom-
les will present papers on Domestic Sci
ence, Industrial Training, Chemistry of
Food and kindred subjects. AS women
have before them the task of formulating
a science of Household Economics, every
woman in the world should take an active
interest in the work of this Congress. The
industrial and social life of women is in its
present unsatisfactory condition. because
She does not take up the professions and
trades underlying the home. Foreign
women are so in advance of their Ameri-
! n b1t
may come from the interchange of views
and methods on this most important
branch of household science.
The Moral and Social Reform Commit
tee has been divided into four sections
-Reformatory, Charitable. Preventive
and Penal. Associations working under
any of these branches will have an oppor-
tunity OF presenting their work.
The Women Committee on Religious
Congresses will present the work of women
in the churches. of whatever denomina-
| tion: and the Committee on Missions will
present the work accomplished by women
| as Christian missionaries. at home and
abroad A session will be held at which
the Congress will be addressed by eminent
women preacher> of Europe and America
The distinguishing feature of the Reli-
gious Congress. to be called the ''Parla-
ment of Religions will be the effort to
represent the great religious faiths in their
unity. Their dissimilarity will be care
fully avoided. Underlying the entire so
cal fabric is vague spiritual discomfort.
which can only be allayed by untication
OF the spiritual beliefs of the world
Women can hasten the millennium by ed
ucating themselves to look upon the great
faiths as whole, and refusing to enter
tam national or sectarian view of reli-
gion. The Parliament of Religions will be
a great educator as we'll as harmonizer
IN the Literary Congress, women's part
IN literature will be presented in the fol
lowing subdivisions: Libraries. History
and Philology. Imaginative Literature
and Children's Literature.
In the Congress of Public Press, the
women Journalists will devote their morn
lngs TO a discussion of women in the daily
and weekly press; as editors, or as report
ers In the evening, the men aud women
Will hold Il union Congress, in which the
ablest Journalists OF the world will deliy-
er addresses, to be followed by short dis
cussions. In no calling have women at
talned more distinction than as journal
lists, profession for which they are ad.
mirably adapted. \ great number of
women are constantly entering the pro-
fession: and this international meeting
can not tail to result in great GOOD to
themselves, as it will emphasize their
strength
The Labor Congress is one of extreme
interest. In the army Of toilers woman's
right to work has never been contested
The industrial civilization that has made
her man competitor must now solve the
question of her underpay, and the general
cheapening OF the labor market which has
followed on the influx of SO large a body
of workers in the competitive world. Not
alone women, but children, have entered
into the competitive existence of our great
modern cities, and this noble army of
martyrs, thronging the streets during GER
tain hours OF the day, going to and from
their daily toll, forms sad commentary
on modern life. The problem, ''How best
to put healthy mind in a healthy body"
Is far from solved. There is no more
pressing question for the State or the
workman than how to arrest the degrade
tl"n and decentralization which must nee
essarily take place in civic and family
life, il this deplorable condition of affairs
is longer allowed to exist This commit
lee has greatly ut heart the discussion OF
topics OF practical utility to breadwin-
ners, and to emphasize present conditions.
rather than theories Of amelioration: hop