The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-02-17

Cleveland and Mrs. Stevenson, nave
taken the liveliest interest in everything
pertaining to the congress. and the press
all over the country, particularly the
church and woman's magazines, nave
given the matter the widest publicity.
There Is no real organization. There
are no bylaws no constitution; there
never was a petition, and the women
who have become the officers came to-
gether in the most unostentious manner,
slipped into the offices by apparent nat
ural selection. and have worked like
Trojans bound together by their COM
mon interest in humanity, and working
without hope of emolument!
A PRACTICAL PROBLEM.
To tell the ground that they hope to
cover with their work would be to sum
up all that goes to make existence toll
erable. The congress will consider
subjects bearing upon the better and
broader spiritual and physical as well
as mental training of the young, such
as the value of kindergarten work and
the extension of its principles to more
advanced studies, love of humanity
and of country, the physical and men
tai evils resulting from some of the
present methods of our schools and ad-
vantages to follow from a closer rela-
tion between the influence of the home
and that of institutions of learning. Of
special Importance will be the subject
of the means of developing in children
characteristics which will elevate and
ennoble them, and thus assist in over
coming the conditions which now
prompt crime and make necessary the
| maintenance of jails, warehouses; and
reformatories There will be talks on
physical culture, heredity, reproduce
tion and natural law dietetics, music,
parental reverence, moral responsible
| ity of women in heredity, child stu
dies and many other subjects. All over
the country mothers clubs" have been
| forming ever since this congress be-
| came an assured fact, and these clubs
| will send their representative women
| to the congress to get new ideas and
| have their own frightened up.
Very naturally many of the moth
| ers present will not be takers, and will
| be backward about even asking ques-
| tons in the open congress. To get eX-
| pressions from them and all others
who wish to be heard in that manner,
| a question box will be on the table of
| the presiding officer. Into this all
questions may be dropped, unsigned if
| desired but fully stated and at GER
| tain hours each day these question,
| distributed to the various members of
| the committees who seem best fitted to
| answer them, will be presented in
| conference" the title that has been
| given to quiet little meetings that
will be held at stated periods in small
Ter rooms in the Arlington, and in
charge of Frances Newton.
THE NURSERY EXHIBIT.
One of the practical things of the con-
| gress is the Model Nursery" which
will be fitted up in the Arlington,
where mothers can see what child s
nursery should be like. In some re-
spects, of course. this will not be quite
model" for in real. up-to-date nur-
series no big mirrors would ornament
the walls, and such a thing as bit of
drapery at the windows would give
the model nurse heart failure, but bar
ring those two anachronisms, the nur-
sery will be quite fin de steele in all its
appointments. There will be the very
latest thing in bedsteads, and mat
| tresses, and pillows, in bathing robes
tubs, soaps, towels, night lamps and all
the other paraphernalia of a well-ap-
pointed nursery. There will be a small
cabinet fitted up with medicines to be
| used in emergencies until the doctor
| arrives, and during the conference OF
| Thursday morning Dr. Clara Bliss Fin
| ley will give a talk on how to use
these medicines, and it will probably be
one of the most valuable subjects tC
mothers in the whole congress- This
model nursery will be in charge OF
some lady who will explain all its trap
pings. There will be a model kinder
garten, in which all the materials fol
a successful school of this character
will be displayed and explained.
One of the features of the congress
that will be of interest is the photo.
graph gallery. This will consist OF
photographs of all the officers, anG
then each officer who has a family viii
have photograph of herself and fam.
lily to hang on the wall. Mrs. Theo-
dore Birney will head the list with hel
nine healthy examples of posterity
and DR.. Clara Bliss will bring up the
rear with her cherished one daughter.
WHO WILL ATTEND.
Many distinguished people from a dis.
tance will be present at the congress
and present papers, or talk on some
subject. Dr. Vincent, the great Chau.
tauquan; Margaret Sangster Anthony
Comstock, Hamilton Mabie, DR.. Walter
l.. Harvey, Mrs. Ellen Henrotin, Mrs
Stanton Blatch, Miss Anna Schryver
Mrs Ellen Richardson, Mrs. Sallie A
Cotton, Mrs. w. Fl. FELTON,, Mrs. II. A
Stimson, DR.. c. Stanley Hall, Miss Con
stance Mckenzie, Miss Francis Newton
Mrs. Ballington Booth, Mrs. Helen H
Gardner, Miss Amalie Hoffer, Mrs Re
bekah Kohut, Rev W. A. Bartlett, Mrs
Lucy S. Bainbridge, Mrs. Mary Low,
Dickinson, Miss Francis Willard, Mrs
Elizabeth Lange Aus, Miss Butler ant
Miss Mary L. Mumford.
These are all people who are knowr
I from one side of the continent to tn
other as editors, kindergarten teach
ers, workers in mission fields, in Sun
day schools, members of that largest o
all organizations of women, the Ma
tional Council of Women, and writer
for children, authors of books on so
Geological problems temperance work
ers ministers, in fact, nearly all TIL
fields of thought along educational an,
scientific lines will be represented II
: the speakers that will be in attendance