Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-12-05
&c Oregon Social and Personal. q
A SALEM LADY AT VICTORIA.

leral, OF Canada, ana gives ITlenu II
this city the following item of inter
est:
II like il here very much for some
reasons, but it is very much coldei
than we expected. The summers arr
too dry and the winters too cold. Fol
eleven days now November 29) we
have had clear, cold, bright weather
and the ground is frozen hard. One
great drawback here is the great mum
Der of Chinese and Indians. The
former are constantly peddling
things about the city, coming to your
door y ith all kinds OF fruit, vegeta'
bles and made up clothing.
On Friday evening we attended
public reception given by the Cover
nor Generals wife, the Countess of
Aberdeen. She is great worker and
has established, all through the Do
minion, societies for the relief of the
slfferlng. The hall wasIflled with a
large audience of all the elite, of Vic
toria. Her Excellency, as she was al
ways addressed by the speakers, gave
very pleasing address on the work Of
the society. She was attended by the
Lieutenant Governor, of British Col
umbia, by the mayor and bishop and
two other gentlemen and two Indies.
She is very pleasing in appearance
and was dressed in light brown cos
tune, with a white fichu and bonnet
to match. About her neck, over the
lace, was a diamond necklace: long
diamond ear rings, and pin of the
same fastened her bonnet strings
When she came in she wore long
cape which covered her dress all up.
We were rather disappointed at not
seeing Lorp Aberdeen, who was de-
tained at a large ranch he owns in B:
c., where they were visiting"
We give below two extracts from
the report of the address of Lady
Aberdeen, thinking IT may interest
Salem ladies and perhaps stimulate
the women, of Oregon, to form
women's clubs and councils, and to
show the Importance of the work be-
ing done by the organization at the
head of which the Countess Of Aber-
deem accompiishes so much. We copy
from the report in the Victoria Col
onist.
The plan of having committee to
organize reading circles had acted
well elsewhere the circle reading upon
certain subjects and meeting once
week or so to discuss them. In con-
nection with this she was glad to
know they would soon welcome to
their midst branch of the Aberdeen
Society, (ApplaIse.) This associa-
tion was formed with view to send
ing parcels of reading matter to set
tiers in lonely parts of the country,
to bring some light and cheer to the
homes of those who were doing so
much to settle up the country, but
who had denied them the luxury of
books or reading through the long.
winter evenings. 1t had therefore been
suggested to gather magazines and
books from the large centers and send
them out among these settlers. This
idea had worked out very satisfactor-
lily since six years ago when it was or
ganized. The branches now are all
flooded with applicants from settlers.
Correspondence, too, had been opened
up with settlers, and it was most
cheering to learn of the results that
had been attained.
"Mrs Gordon Grant acceding to the
desire of the Countess gave short
account Of what chad been ac-
since the local branch of
the Women's Council had been formed
two years ago and tonight she is de-
lighted to report that the local
council was on a splendid business
basis. Although they had not ac-
complished all they had undertaken
the success had been greater than
They had petitioned
the legislature to amend the law so
as to provide for police matrOns; they
had asked for curfew law; then there
was request that the woman's pro-
perty act might be amended to allow
a married woman to have more con-
troll of her own property. Temperance
education In the schools had been
asked for and COMMITTEES had been
for various objects, and the
good work they had done had been re-
cognized in the fact that there was
one woman on the board Of school
trustees at the present time"
A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE.
About thirty Of the young friends of
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