The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-04-25
CIRCULAR LETTER.
WyMAN'S PLAN OF TIE CON-
GRESS AUXILIARY.
Everything is Perfected and the
Dates Assigned for the
Series.

of the Worlds Fair, has been Is
sued by the Vice-Chairman. 1t
was addressed to a lady now in
this city
am pleased to announce TO you
that the woman's plan of the Congress
Auxiliary for the Columbian EXPOSE
ton is now perfected, and the dates
assigned for the holding of this most
interesting and suggestive series of
Worlds Congresses. The Auxiliary
is formed as follows: With President,
Nice-President, Treasurer and Secre-
tary; and the Woman's Branch with
President and Vice-President, local
committee of men and women for
each Congress, and of a nonresident
Advisory Council formed of men and
women noted for their artistic and
literary attainments, humanitarian or
educational work. To the local COM
mittee is assigned the preliminary
organization, the fixing OF date, and
the securing of Advisory Councils,
from which the committee will obtain
suggestions of topics and speakers.
The duty of the Advisory Council is
to interest people outside of Chicago in
the special Congresses to be held; to
suggest topics for discussion, secure
writers to contribute papers for the
Congresses and persons to join in the
discussions following the same.
This is q most notable advance, as it
Is the first time in history that the
leading minds in every line of
thought, without regard to sex dis
tinctions, have been called together
20 discuss social, moral and econom-
zeal topics; so that the scientific
woman is at liberty and is welcome
in the congress of scientific men-the
woman who devotes her life to phil
anthropic work, in the moral and
social reform congresses. Women are
accorded the same privileges in the
congresses of government and law re-
form, and so on through the entire
series, as will be seen from the follow
ing outline; in the educational con-
crosses, women will participate in
the general programme, and will also
present papers on the following
topics. Kindergarten, artistic and
manual training, higher education,
physical culture, industrial education
Women are far more sympathetic
than are men with the so-called "new
education.v Her long experience in
the physical and spiritual training of
children, has rendered her an adept
in the science of pedagogy. 1t will
be of great benefit to the congresses,
TO have her high intuition as mother
and teacher, combined with the exc
cutive ability and scientific data of
the men. In the law and government
congresses, papers will be presented
by women on the following topics
aThe dover rights of woman
Rights of the mother to the guardian
ship of her children" Legal disabili-
ties of women" "Women in the mu-
nicipality and suffrage"
The committee of household ecOno-
mics will present papers on domestic
science, industrial training, chemis-
try of food, and kindred subjects. As
women have before them the task
of formulating a science of house |
hold economies, every woman in |
the world should take an active inter |
est 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 pro- |
LESSONS and trades underlying the |
home. Foreign women are so far in
advance of their American sisters in |
this respect, that great good may come
from the interchange of views and
methods on this most important |
branch of household science.
The Moral and Social Reform Com
mittee has been divided into four sec
tions-reformatory, charitable, pre-
ventive and penal. Associations
working under any of these four
will take this occasion of
their work.
The Women's Committee on Relig-
ious Congresses will present the work
Of women in the churches, of what
ever denomination and the Commit
tee on Missions will represent the
work accomplished by Women's |
Christian Missionaries at home and
abroad. A session will be held
in which the Congresses will be
by eminent women preach
ers of Europe and America. The dis
feature of the religious
congress TO be called the parliament
of Religions will be the effort to
the great religious faiths in
their unity; their dissimilarity will be
avoided. Underlying the en-
tire social fabric is vague spiritual
which can only be allayed
by the unification of the spiritual be-
liefs of the world. Women can hasten
the millennium by educating them
selves to look upon the great faiths as
4 whole, and refusing TO entertain
national or sectarian view of religion.
The Parliament of Religions will be a
great educator as well as harmon-
yer.
In the Literary Congresses, women's
part in literature will be presented in
he following subdivisions: Libraries,
History and Phiiology, Imaginative
and Children's Literature.
In the Congress of Public Press, the
women Journalists will devote their
to discussion of women in
he daily and weekly press, as editors
)r reporters. In the evening the men
md women will hold a union con- {
,ress, in which the most able Journal
SITS of the world will deliver addresses,
O be followed by short discussions.
n no calling have women attained
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