The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-24
DIVORCE PROMOTERS.
The National Council Of Women.
if You Please, Has a Large
Sized Programme.

NEW YORK, Nov. "a, 1S9S.-The annual
business session OF the National Council
of Women of the United States will occur
this year in Boston in the Y. M. G. A.
Hall, December 2, 8 and 4, and will in
clude three public meetings.
The general lines of work undertaken
by the Council, to which attention will
be given at these meetings, are:-
Equal Pay for Equal Work.; to Sc
cure a law requiring our National Gov
eminent to make no distinctions of sex
in the aymen of its employees.
Divorce Reform" to secure the APP
pointment of women upon all State COM
missions, working to change existing d.
yorce and marriage laws.
Dress to arouse public sentiment
favoring greater attention being paid to
health, freedom and beauty in the dress
of women.
Patriotic Teaching, to introduce this
into the public schools Of the land, and
favor having exercises of the day begin
with a salute to the flag.
In addition to these general lines of
work, the Council has declared itself in
favor of equal educational advantages
for men and women; the provision of
equal opportunities of industrial training
for boys and girls; the admission Of
women to equality with men in the church
work of the different denominations, and
the demand for an equal standard of
personal purity for men and women.
Inc council does not exist in the in
terest of any one ~propaganda and as
edch organization in the Council has two
votes, no matter how large or small its
individual membership, 1t is impossible
for the Council to be committed to the
tenets of n one of these. The Coun-
Gil has no power over the oreaniza-
tions which constitute il, beyond that OF
suggestion and sympathy, consequently
no society entering it renders itself liable
to be interfered with in respect to its
complete organic unity, independence or
method of work"
At the ~trienniaI meetings of the Coun-
ell, the organizations composing it are
given opportunity to present their work,
in accordance with a programme of their
own arrangement.
The Countess of Aberdeen, President of
the Woman's Council Of Canada, will
not return in time to represent that body
at the coming meeting of the National
Council of Women of the United States.
The Canadian Council will be ably repre-
scented by its Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. Wiloughby Cummings, and by Mrs.
Archibald, President of the Halifax Local
Counc
An idea Of the scope of the Canadian
work may be gathered from a glance at
some of the opics considered at the last
annual conference of this Council.
Among these was the resolution tina eff
fort be made by the Council to secure
some -mendmen in the present law for
beetle, who are now treated like GRIMM
ais and sent to jail; and thar knowledge
be spread as widely as possible of some
of the preventable causes of the present
increase of insanity.
Another topic was the Importance of
bringing before the Board of Health, or
other local authorities the proper care Of
rhe teeth of children in the public schools
and the necessity for ON provision be-
ing made for free dentistry for the poor
where such does not already exist.
h Council also asked to investigate
the effect of the Importation Of pauper
children on the social condition of the
country.
local councils We're urged to promote the
establishment of public baths and wash
rooms in all large industrial centres.
1t is also proposed that a branch of
the National Home Reading Union be
forrned for the Dominion of Canada.