Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-02-23
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PLANS OF ORGANIZATION OF THE
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

PLANS OF ORGANIZATION OF THE
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.
Children's Drssses-Pretty Women win not
Wear -Wonan's Chicago Exhbi,.
The National Council of Women of the
United States, by its approval of the adj
dress of it's first president, Miss Frances
e. Willard, delivered at public session
of the council in Washington in 1891
stands committed to carry out, as far as
practicable, the suggestions of work and
organization set forth in that address.
Among other things it is hoped to es-
tabllsh in the most important cities of
the country and finally in all the places
where women have developed interest in
the public welfare local councils of wom-
On, the organization of which. being in
harmony with the general plan of the
national council, will in the end entitle
them to send representatives to the ses-
sions OF the national council and form a
sort of a lower house, while the direct
representatives of ideas nationally or
ganized will form an upper house in the
national council.
The advantages to be gained by local
organizations joining hands to form To-
cal councils are the same as the advan-
tages to be gained by the national organ
izatlons joining to form national coun-
c1l-namely, the multiplication of the
moral forces of the place for the advance
ment OF causes OF such general interest
as to command the favorable considera-
ton OF women engaged in different lines
of work
Already Minneapolis, Providence and
indianapolis have local councils of wom-
On which include the mostimportant local
organizations of women in those cities.
In Portland, Me-, this month will see the
organization of local council, and mi
tlatory steps toward forming councils
have already been taken in Memphis and
Detroit.
In pursuance of this plan the national
council has printed typical constitu-
ton for local councils. jour
nal.
Dress of Fashionable Children In France.
! The come and go of fashions exists for
children as it does for grown people, and
the Kate Greenaways at present are as
numerous as in America and England.
must say that little French girl looks |
queer in those baggy, bunchy dresses,
enormous hats and those wooden gloves
which seem to be a part of the costume.
The wiry limbs of the French child look
as If they were in long garbs of penitence,
however rich the stuff may be out of
which they are made. These poor babies.
who are made to wear dresses and cloaks
reaching farther down than their shoe
tops. must begin at that tender age to
learn to pick up their skirts out of dust
and mud, and, with enormous hats and
caps, to learn to walk the straight road
without looking left or right, like horses
with blinkers. don't know what it is for
other children, but for the French baby
the Kate Greenaways seem an anomaly;
they seem more like instruments of tor
tnre than warm, comfortable clothing, in
which movements are free and the mus
Giles given ample room to grow and thrive.
| The fashion is made more for show than
comfort. and it stands to reason that the
child cannot give itself up to play with
long dress, sleeves which catch into every
thng and bonnet whose size makes it an
instrument of torture. The hat that is
put on child now is not only miles too
big for it, but wide lace ruff1e is added,
which falls on the baby's face in such a
way that it cannot see without looking
crosseyed. Ii that fashion persists. we
are sure to have a generation afflicted
with atrophied limbs and eyes which sue
coed in looking at all the cardinal points
at the same time. Oh, the poor babies,
how | do pity them as they walk slowly
down the Champs Elysees like miniature
pictures Of their great-grandmothers
with faces almost as solemn and stately!
How mammas must love fashion to make
such slaves of their children to it!-Paris
Cor Brooklyn Eagle