Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-02-25
CoNGREss or MOTHERS.

CONGRESS OF MOTHERS.
Prominent Women Gather In Wash
ington-lnstructive Papers Read.
Washington, Feb. 1S.--The first ses-
sion of the National Congress Of Moth
ers which has attracted such wide
attention all over the United States was
opened at the Arlington hotel at ten.
O'clock. The president of the associa-
ton is Mrs. Theodore w. Birney, of
this city, and the secretary Mrs. Mary
Louise Butler. Il
At 1880 the session, after organizing
and accomplishing some routine bosi-
ness, took recess to wait upon Mrs.
Cleveland at the white house, that dis
tinguished lady having rendered them
formal reception.
The afternoon session began at $50
o'clock, the time being taken up exclu-.
s;vely with the delivery of addresses
An overlooking congregation listened
to the proceedings of the evening ses-
| sion, which was held in the First Bap-
list church. Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts, So
perintendent of the Sunday school
department of the Worlds w. C. +. u
and president of the International Pri-
mary Union of Sunday School Teach
ers, presented the subject of Mothers
and Schools" She said the Sunday
school as well as the secular school
needed the cooperation of mothers and
homes.
Mass, spoke on ''The Value of Music in
the Development of Character"
Washington, Feb. 19-The meetings.
Thursday were attended by overflow
audiences and it was necessary TO-
throw open the Sunday-school room
in the church where the meetings.
were held to accommodate the hundreds
who could not obtain admission to the
auditorium. The principal features.
of the days programme were:
| Devotional-Nrs. Maud Darlington Booth.
New York city; "Dietetics'-Mrs LOUISE
e. Hogan, Germantown, Pa; Mothers:
Relation to Sound Physical development
of Her Child"-Mrs Jenness Miller, Wash
ington, D. c.; Reproduction and Natural
Law"-Mrs. Alice Lee Moque Washington
D. c.; 1.-THE Moral Responsibility Of Wom-
Boston, Mass; "The Mothers Greatest
Needs''-Mrs. Francis Newton, Chicago:
play Grounds''-Miss Constance Macken-
zie, Philadelphia, Pa: Some Practical Re-
suits Of Child Study'-Dr. G. Stanley Hail.
Worcester Mass; Reading Courses for
Mothers'-Mrs Margaret E. Sangster.
New York city; How to Guard Our Youth
| Against Bad Literature"-Anthony Com
| stock, New York city.
The evening session of the mothers,
congress was held in Central hall to &C
commodate the enormous audience
| which had been attracted to the earlier
sessions. The report of the press COM
nittee was prefaced by statement
from it's chairman, Miss Isabella Ly-
son, of Baltimore, regarding the i'm
pure press and it's baneful influences
The following resolution offered by
Alice C. Robinson, of Baltimore, was.
adopted by a practically unanimous
vote: .,--..
! "Realizing the almost limitlese power.
for good or for evil, exerted by the daily
! press, and that the proper education of the
youth of our Land is Of vital Importance to-
the future prosperity of the state.
| Resolved, That we will admit into our
homes only those papers which inspire to.
| noble thought and deed, and that our in
| fuence shall go towards cultivating the
public taste until it shall demand from the
press only that which elevates and re-
| fines"
The leading address of the session was
by Anthony Comstock, who cited SEN
sational instances of his experience.
showing to what an extent obscene lit
erature was circulated in the boarding
schools and colleges for both sexes;
Throughout the country and the need
| of effective cooperation from narenfs
and others to abolish an evil which was
destroying the morals of half the popu-
lation of the United States. In conclu-
sion he proposed action by congress
supporting national nnd state legisla--
lures to prevent the publication and dis
tribution of such literature.
Washington, Feb. 20.-The last day
| of the first session of the national con.
| vention of mothers was marked BY 30
| many diversified topics to be discussed
and such pronounced manifestations OF
general interest that the congress had
to divide itself, as On Thursday, into.
three or four separate conventions
Resolutions were reported and adopted
in favor of excluding evil literature
+, ON homes, and using all influence
with the press looking to that purpose
No new officers were elected. After the
night meeting the delegates attended
banquet at the Arlington hotel.
A Family Of Six Slain.
Bismarck, N. D., Feb. 19.-The hoGrf-
Die discovery of the murder of six per-