Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-20

Cost Woman" Ellen s. MusSey, District of
| Columbia. Patriotic Teaching as an E1le-
| nent in School GOvernment'-'In Forming
| the Character of American Citizens,
| Louise Barnum Robbins. Michigan, patron
Of the National Council of Women; las
| Expressed in the New York Free Kinder
! gartens, Isabella Charles Davis, New
! York. member of the committee on patri-
otic instru ction; The Balch Salute" Gl-
| Illustrated by little girls), Sarah c. Mink,
| New York, patron of the National Council
! OF Women: discussion, Eliza ID. Keith. Cal
iforn:a member of committee on patriotic
| instruction; open discussion, by members
| of the triennial.
TEMPERANCE AND RELIGION.
A Topic Discussed at the Afternoon
! and Evening Session of the Council.
| "Organized Work in Religion" was the
| subject for consideration at the afternoon
session of the wonans council yesterday,
! and this important matter formed the topic
| for a number of interesting papers.
| The Woman's Foreign Missionary Union
| of Friends was the first organization rep
| resented, and Mrs. Hannah J. Bailey was
! introduced by Mrs. Frances Z. Bagley,
| vice president of the council who called
| the great audience to order. Mrs. Bailey
| said that her church society deemed 1t a
great privilege TO be member of the
| rational council. Her church believed in
| the equal representation of men and women
| in all lines of Christian work. Then fol-
| lowed sketch of the society. giving an &C
count of IS department OF missionary liter
allure, of Junior and juvenile work. Of pro-
pCrtionate and systematic giving and the
| department of interest and organization.
| The total receipts of the society last year
we're $l5.4oSo9.
| Mrs Mary A. Davis, president of the Ma
| tional Free Baptist Woman's Missionary
Society, the next speaker. The reason
| for the existence of her society, she said.
was in the evangelistc injunction of Christ
and with the promise of Christ that He
would be with them to the ends of the
| earth. Benjamin Randall was the founder
of the society. y sketch of the society was
5000 and three working departments the
first missionary having gone out in 1874.
The work is now largely in India.
Mrs. Bailey described the two publica-
tons of the church, missionary ReIni-
niscences," and the organ of the church,
the missionary Helper" edited b. Mrs. Z.
Burlingame Cheney. The financial policy
of the society has been indorsed by bust
Eess men. The amount spent last year was
100000.
The Society of Jewish Women.
The Natioral Council of Jewish Women
was represented by Mrs. H. Solomon of
Chicago who said that the fundamental
principle of her organization was opposi-
ton to religious persecution. wherever,
whenever and against whomsoever shown.
Their organ "a ton did not seek to make
inferior Jews out of inferior Christians,
and she del lored the fact that 100000 is
annually spent in an effort to convert
Jews The Jews which could be converted
in that way, she asserted, We're not worth
the trouble. She thought that instead OF
talking so much about mansions In the SKY
it would be better to give more attention
to the erection of sanitary tenements on
earth. Finally, she said her organizat ton
was always ready to join in any work for
the good Of mankind, regardless of creed.
This society of Jewish women, she said,
stands for preventive philanthropy, per-
sonal service and organization in charity.
Mrs. Solomon then described how the work
of the council being accomplished in
the Distribution of literature and the liter
airy scope and methods of the circles be-
longing to the council in Chicago and else
where.
The members of the standing committee
on religion are: Mrs. Minnie D. Louis of
New York. Miss Sarah Lyons and Miss
Lille Hershfield of New York. Miss Mary
Cowen of Pennsylvania and Miss Julia Eel
seminal of Chicago. On philanthropy: Mrs.
c. S Benjamin, Mrs. l. NJ Appel and Mrs
S Holman, all of Denver: Miss Julia Rich
| mond Of New York and Mrs Witowsky Of
Chicago. The council already numbers sec
tons in Chicago, Allegheny, Quincy, New
ark, Baltimore Duluth, st. Paul, Minneap-
oils, New York. Denver, Pennsylvania,
Kansas City and Cincinnati.
Mrs. Solomon described the Free Kinder
garten Association under the auspices of
the council. TO be called the Columbian, in
honor of the Pittsburg council. She then
gave In detail history of the philanthropic
work of the secretary and the intellectual
work of the councils, as shown by the high
literary order of the subjects which they
discuss, as, for instance, the myths Of crea-
ton. the myths of the Greeks Norsemen,
Germans, character strides of Eve and
"Lilith," Fetechism, Monothesm the at
titude of women of leisure to their wage
earning sisters and other subjects.
The National Council of Jewish Women
is one of the~youngest but. at the same
time, most enterprising of the organiza-
tons that compose the general council, so
| that particular interest attached to Mrs
Solcmon's address.
Objects of the Organization.
In the course OF her remarks she said:
"The last object of council, that re-
lating to religious persecution, Is a work
for the future. That there is a broad field
for all religious organizations in this work
needs only Russia and Armenia to prove.
1t is deplorable that international etiquette
compels us to wear smoked glasses when
signing treaties; that our statesmen are
kept in ferment If seal is taken on the
wrong side of imaginary fence; our
armies kept in training lest few feet
Of ground in the heart Of Africa should
frt- nd thryc lie