Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-02-23
The GENTLE SEX.
A Congress OF Women Meets to Discuss
Various Topics.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1s.-To-day the
largest organization of representative
women in the new world will begin its
triennial session at the capital of the
nation. The meeting will last two
weeks, during which time all the great
questions in which women are inter-
ested or involved will be discussed
by the brainicst and most brilliant
members of the sex. The organiza-
tion is the National Council of
Women of the United States, of which
the members are selected with the
greatest care and with respect to their
ability, status and learning. Prac'
tically the national council is fedora
ton of eighteen vast organizations,
nearly all of which enjoy worldwide
name and fame. These organizations
are as follows:
The National American Womans Suffrage
association. which has just held n very sue
cessful convention in Atlanta, Ga: the Wom-
ans Centenary association OF the Uniyer-
salist church, the National Woman's Christian
Temperance union better known by its
initials w. C. 4. u; sthe National Free
Baptist Woman's Missionary society, the
Illinois industrial school for girls national
charter, the National Woman's Relief society,
Wlmodaughsis, Sorosis, the Young Ladies
National Womans improvement associa-
tion, the National Christian League for the
Promotion of School Purity, the Universal
Peace union, the International Kinder
garten union, the Woman's Republican
| Association of the United States, the National
Association OF the Loyal Women of American
| Liberty, the Women's Foreign Missionary
| Union OF Friends, the Woman's Relief Corps,
auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic;
| the National Association OF Women Stenog-
raphcrs, the National Council of Jewish
| Women.
The officers of the national council
are: May Wright Sewall, president;
Francis L. Bagley, vice president;
Lillian NJ. n. Stevens, treasurer;
Rachel Foster Avery, corresponding
secretary, and Isabella Charles Davis,
recording secretary. The object of the
organization is extremely comprehen-
sive and includes the discussion of al
most every subject which bears upon
daily life. In this meeting it will dis
cuss the following among many other
topics:
The practical aspects OF religion, its rela-
lions to daily life, and to the nonchurch-goine
element of the community; the relation Of re-
llg.on to politics and public office; the atti-
tude of different denominations toward
women alu the attitude Wnlcn WOmeI
should assume toward denominations
woman's place in the pulpit and the missio!
field: social purity, how best to promote IL
the double and the single standard of moral
ity: checks against improper literature: tru
dress reform; equal pay for equal work b!
men and women; divorce reform and IN
provcmcnts in the laws respecting wtve
, and mothers; patriotism and its cultivation
peace and the discouragement OF the militan
, tendency; the extension of object lesson
and the kindergarten system; reforms Il
; educational methods foreign missions an
, their effect in civilziag, independent Of Chris
tianizng; Industrial pursuits for women an
industrial education for girls first aid to tn
injured; the best courses Of study for marrie
women at home, for post graduates, for work
> ing women: the extension OF the fields OF IN
i dGsiry Ior women; the accelerat.on and cheal
enins OF the administration OF justice so as I
give the poor WOMAN an equal chance aGalnS
L | a rich man.