The herald., 1896-02-09
1AE WONAN'S PARL| LAMENT
Delegates We're Royalty Enter
tanned at San Diego
THE SESSION A SUCCESS
Subject of Physical Culture Ably Dis
cussed By the Ladies
Eleven Colleges Represented and a Number
Of interesting Discuss
sions Held

The women who attended the parliament
at San Diego last week have nearly all re-
turned to their homes in the various
counties of Southern California full of en-
thusiasm for new work in old lines and
one and all are sounding the praises of the
San Diego women whose ability and
thoroughness made possible the delightful
work the visitors enjoyed. The feeling of
neighborliness aroused by these pilgrim
nges to the various Southern California
cities is one of the best results of this Or
ganization. This, the ninth session OF the
Woman's parliament of Southern Cali
fornia at San Diego, was in many respects
the most notable of its meetings. The
three cars filled with delegates and visitors
that left Los Angeles Monday morning
were cheerful with happy voices as women
from Pomona, Riverside, Ventura, Santa
Barbara, Alhambra. Monrovia. Santa Ana,
Antelope Valley and other points of South
strangers and chatted away like old friends
on the the impersonal questions which are
absorbing so much of the thought of the
intelligent women of the present
AT San Diego carriages waited to convey
the visitors to their places of entertain
ment. The reception at the Hotel Florence
Monday evening was a success in every
way and was particularly we'll managed.
The welcome, charmingly expressed by
Mrs. Georgia Mattield, a woman of rare
grace and eloquence, was echoed by SIX
hundred of the citizens of San Diego. Be-
fore the Parliament opened at 10 a. IN.
Tuesday the ice was broken, and visitors
and visited settled themselves to the enjoy
ment of the rare papers presented. The
program was practical and suggestive.
The addresses were marked by directness
and earnestness. Each woman Oh the
Platform had something to say, and she
said it point-dly and impressively. Each
meeting had general subject for consid-
GRAFTON, and each speaker presented some
phase of that subject. The subject for
Tuesday morning was Physical Culture.
Miss Jacobs of the state Normal school,
whose f1ne carriage showed her fitness to
speak on the question, gave prac ical sug-
gestlons on standing and walking. Miss
Anna Robinson's rare and beautiful voice
told other women how to make their voices
sweet and strong, and Miss Naomi
Alfrey gave paper on the practical uses
of exercise and illustrated it by series of
exercises, remedial in their effects. Every
muscle of her 1.-the body is under perfect
control and the strength, grace and agility
she manifested showed clearly the possibl-
tiles of the sound body in which the souud
mind finds its dwelling place. Tuesday
morning showed what training will dc for
a woman's body and Tuesday af-
ternoon what training will do for
q woman's mind. 1t was symposium on
college women by college women. The
colleges represented in the discussion by
their alumn;e were Mt Holyoke, the pio.
neer institution for the higher education of
women, Oberin, Vassar. Wellesley, Cor
nell, Ann Arbor, Evanston, Berkeley
Stanford and Wisconsin university. Nu-
merous other colleges were represented in
the audience, about fifty women respond
ing to the request of the chairman that oil
cGlege women rise and be counted. The