Evening star., 1897-02-13
NO HATS TO BE WORN
That and Other Reforms at the
Coming Mothers Congress.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO Be DISCUSSED
Unique Gathering to Assemble
Here Next Wednesday.
MEN WILL BE WELCOMED
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MEN WILL BE WELCOMED

The arrangements for the most unique Of
all the congresses that have been known
from Nineveh to now are about completed,
and Wednesday morning at the Arlington
there will gather in the hotel banquet room
the national congress of mothers, in its
first annual session.
That this congress is to be a bowling
success. there isn't the slightest room for
doubt, for the people who are interested in
it are of the deadly-in-e earnest kind, ana
have been in philanthropic work for years
and years, every single one of them. They
can tell you all about the stone age. and
what effect it has on the infants of now,
and they can discourse of the best methods
of weaving babies and the safest way to
dress for bicycle riding. There is to be a
lot Of kindergarten business in all, and con-
ferences in quiet little corners till you can't
to be no limit for the possible surprises
that are likely to be sprung on the unsus-
pecting visitor who goes in to listen to DIR.
John Vincent speak on the Ideal Home.
for instance, and finds himself rounded up
in one Of the conference rooms and hears
Mrs. Crafts celebrating her ideas of ma
tional training school for mothers. or
course, one expects that mothers will know
it all before the small hostages to fortune
arrive, but in practice that theory doesn't
work SO well.
Arrangements for the Congress.
There will be six hundred seats for the
guests of the congress, and pretty young
ladies will be the ushers. There will be
morning, afternoon and evening sessions,
and entrance is without money and with
out price. The mothers are going to set
an example that ought to be paraded be-
fore the theater managers of this city.
During the reading Of paper not a
blessed mother Of EN- nor father, nor son,
nor daughter will be permitted to enter.
Reform number one that is marked.
Wise it is, too. most of them think, for
they say that nothing SO mars finely pre-
pared paper as the rustic of silken petit
coats, the settling of wide skirts and the
mods and handshakes of the average wo-
man as she sinks in her seat.
hats on!' Is reform number two. I'VE
are assembled for the purpose of discuss
ing Ing great great reforms all along the line" said
Dr. Clara Bliss Finley, "and think that
ceasing to be nuisance to our neighbor is
the place 10 begin. OF course. the matter
OF removing hats is really left to the judg
ment OF the wearer. but we will request
plumes and flower gardens while they are
In the congress" There will be no color
line drawn. The leaders in this great
movement want that particularly well un-
organizations Of colored women and DOS
sibly an address or two. They will be
seated seat and shown the same courtesy as
any lady who Attends b
- A Young Man Delegate.
The congress is not for hothers alone,
but to fathers and sons and uncles, and
the rest of mankind whe sans broad-minded
and progressive. They ,win all go away
filed will new ideas; Zoo. The leaders in
the movement think {hat here are many
evidences that men ara particularly inter-
ested In the congress- From far away
san sna nsran% aamesso 3, there a delegate in
graduated from the State University. He
is sent as the Representative of the
Mothers Club of SanlfFrancisco, and Is
represented as being fdeeplH interested in
the problems that this; congress ia going
Paul there is an old Veteran who takes
the keenest interest II TIE forthcoming
congress. He wrote that he was not able
to be present. but wished them God-speed,
and sent to each one of the officers q tiny
nag, with the name Of each written across
when the loyal greeting reached the ONCE.
Each DAY there will be conferences, prd-
vate talks on various subjects that will
suggest themselves during the congress,
and these will be led by various yeli-known
people. The first of these Will occur on
Finley will lead a conference In Q talk on
emergency treatment During the con-
gress one Of the conferences Will be on
the subject OF Fear" and this will be
handled by the Wonnan,s Antairopological
Society. Another paper, which It 10
the .Emancipation OF women which win
9e presented by Mrs. Elisabeth LANCE Aus:
delegate to the congress from Norway. e
EVERY provfsiona5s being made. Tor the