The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-02
WOMEN LAW BREAKERS
So One Of the Speakers Said at
the Women's Club-The
City's Health.

mental laws. The Jersey City Woman's
| Club held its November meeting in the
Woman's Exchange. No. lat Belmont
avenue, yesterday afternoon. The meet
Ing, after the regular business, was in
charge of the Health Protective Com
mittee, of which Mrs. NJ. f. De Hart,
M. D.. is Chairman.
Miss Jessie Marvin played "Aufsh-
wung" with brilliancy, after which Mrs.
De Hart addressed the meeting. She
said:-~
"A government is never better than a
people. When the people demand re-
| forms they come, and come to stay"
She said it was better to try and fail
| than never to attempt anything. And the
| committee proposed to try reforms,
though they certainly did not intend to
fail. She told of the objects of the COM
mittee and how they meant to go to
work. They would hold one meeting
a month, she said, at which they pro-
posed to discuss psychological and ethi-
cal matters. The committee also pro-
posed to learn what science teaches Of
hygiene.
Mrs. De Hart said they considered it
| good to expose the snares and pitfalls
into which many have fallen so as to
prevent similar trouble in the future. In
explaining why women should take UP
this question Mrs. De Hart said
Women should study these questions
because they are the mothers of the race
and have their care during the years of
their infancy. AS pure air and physical
health do not go with bad sewers and
cesspools, it is the duty of women to
prevent these evils. Another evil against
which everyone is crying but is the bad
water supply. We expect to have these
evils remedied, because no city govern
ment can stand when sacrificed to poll
tical or mercenary motives, and, there
fore, when these evils and their cures
are presented to our law makers and law
forcers, a change will be made. Much of
our sickness is our own fault, it is in
violation of some natural law, and we
hould know how to prevent such
things,
BUREAU OF COMPLAINTS.
Mrs. De Hart stated hat a Bureau of
Complaints would be opened to which all
accounts of the violation of laws should
be sent.
In order that a more thorough
knowledge of hygienic matters may be
had Mrs. De Hart has consented to give
a course of six lectures on Physiology
and Hygiene" The lectures will be given
under the auspices of the Health Protec-
tive Committee on the second Thursday
of each month at $3.50 O'Clock. Members
of the club will be charged 81 for the six
lectures; those who are not members
will be Obliged to pay 81. There are also
single admission tickets issued for those
not desiring to attend the entire course.
Mrs. S~chainwald, a membe of the
Health Protective Association of New
York, told of the work which that as
socisltion is doing. 81 come as an under
study for Mrs. Clark Bell, our presi-
dent, she continued, who had expected
to tell you of our work, but who is
threatened with grip and cannot be here
We do not cover ethical or social ques-
tiohs, for there are many societies
which seem to nave that in charge.
What seems to me most wonderful IS
the harmonious manner in which SO
many women are working together for
the general good"
Mrs. SchaInwald told of the radical
change the women of New York have
effected in gas houses, tenement districts
point of fact the women stopped at no
thing; they took up all neglected work
and attended to it properly. They are
have reached h~elpfulness.
WOMEN ARE LAW BREAKERS.
Mrs. Scrimgeour of Brooklyn, the next
speaker, Said:-"We are 4 branch of the
New York Association, bur we a v gone
deeper into the work.; we have not de-
tailed work. ] am particularly interested
in ash barrels. The trouble Is we women
are much to blame; we are violators of
the law to a great extent; we ill up our
barrels to their utmost capacity and then
grurnble at the officials for their over
flowing carts. You must obey the laws
before you complain of their non-en-
forcement. l think our efforts should be
directed to law-enforcing. If our laws
were properly enforced we should have
a perfectly clean city.
"SNmp wears ago L mad a TREND whom
/ visited who was no housekeeper; her
husband used to get up in the morning
everything neatly out of the rooms into
the closets and shut the closet doors. The
trouble with Brooklyn is that the women
are all such good housekeepers and so
anxious to keep their houses clean that
they sweep everything out into the
streets. We women are not law-abiding
and nothing can be done until we are.
We must make our children patriotic,
OF the city, we must make them loyal
to the city in which they live. In olden
Greece it was Man TO the State" and
though l would not have the city super
sede the home, / would have that idea
brought out. In making ourselves and
our children thoroughly upright citizens
we cover the whole ground OF law en-
forcement."
Miss Bradford aid she was particular
ly interested in the moral and ethical
phases of the work. She said one thing
EIlt w 11AS ~ lA3 YIN N11 ~ IVY
the vile way in which SO many men ex-
pectorate in the horse cars, making them
unfit for the occupancy of women.
Mrs. Lyle gave an interesting .report
of the work of the Woman's Exchange,
and said they had now over forty con-
signors.
Wednesdays and Saturdays the Do
nestle Committee have special supplies
of rolls, cakes, pies and bread; orders
will be filled at any time.
Mrs. Case, for the Executive Commit
tee, suggested that the December meet
ing be given to the Educational Commit
tee, the January meeting to the Investi-
eating Committee; that the February
Meeting be literary and musical and that
the March meeting be the regular annual
business meeting. The suggestions were
dopted and those meetings will be in
charge of the respective committees.
Mrs. Bryce Collard, for the Investi-
eating Committee, desired that the jan
uary meeting be changed to a discussion
Of what women are doing for women, as
it Is impossible under the existing state
of things to make any Investigations of
the distress of the poor. 1t was decided
that all member wishing to propose
names for membership must send them
in to the Membership Committee before
the twenty-ffth of each month. The
room was prettily decorated with potted
plants Tea wa served i'll the Exchange,
for which five cents. a cup was charged.