The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-03
WENT OUT IN A
BLAZE OF GLORY
Brilliant Close Of the
Fourth Woman's
Congress.
Professor Jordan Cleverly Tells
a Few Truths About
Misery"
Miss Eliza Keith WeaveS Personal
Experiences Into Striking
Paper.

The fourth annual meeting of thu
| Woman's Congress is thing OF the past
The closing session was held las evening
and was a fitting end in point OF bril-
liancy, intellect and attendance for the
great truths promulgated and the success
| it achieved.
All the great and shining lights thai
had contributed to the success OF the con
gress-with, of course, the exception o.
the white-eow and turbaned Hindoo
youth-were assent led on the stage
seated on either side of their dignifieo
president, Mrs. John F. Swift.
Miss Ray Frank was the first speaker O
the evening. She began her able address
by neatly complim enting the ladies fol
the good work they had accomplished anc
for the many practical things made pos
sibie by the discussion of the excellent
papers read.
Miss Franks paper was strong plea
that filial love and devotion bel not swat
lowed up in these times OF too much
education.
Among other things, Miss Frank said:
| Two theories are held regarding the moral
! nature OF man. One is that morality is OF d.
| vine birth; the other that our ancestors found
| 1t ezpedient in the best TO retain certain
| characteristics because they had found them
| to be the best. In all the discussion during
this vention each one has dwelt upon the
Importance of this element that makes and
unmakes us-the moral element. In eXempli-
tcalon there is that o d and trlte saying. a
nation Is no greater than its morality. The
average man gives the average strength of the
nation. If this be SO ii certainly behooves us
TO learn what IS the average strength OF this
great American Nation
II knowledge made one wise we would not
be In need Of reformers. Only one thing
counts, and that is the moral thought-the
moral thought that gives birth to obedience
and reverence to the law.
Miss Keith followed Miss Frank, sum-
ming up in a brilliant paper her knowl-
edge of children as cleaned from many
years experience in the public schools.
Miss Keith looks upon our public schools
as the nursery of this great American
Nation.
Among other things Miss Keith said:
The child who saws, 81 won't you can't make
me" is already an anarchist and menace TO
law and order. Who says please 10 refrac-
tory pupil? Incorrigible pupils should be
weeded out, even if the school's enrolment
and the principals salary shrink at the same
time.
Mothers should talk with their sons as we'll
as with their daughters. The moral education
should begin in the nursery. Save your boys
1t is dangerous doctrine that says the boy
can go to the devil and return and be well
coined back into the fold.
Miss Keith closed her paper with a
glowing description of the patriotism of
the rubiic school children.
Nine. Montford filled in the brief re cess
between Miss Keith paper and Professor
| Jordan's address with many anecdotes of
her life in the far-off Orient. AT the same
| time she took exception to suggestion
| from Miss Keith that the sexes in the
sch ools be separated, con tending that this
| separation of the sexes was the ruin Of
| the Orient.
Professor Jordan's brilliant paper, few
| truths about Misery" brought the ses-
| sion to close. Among other things Pro-
| lessor Jordan said:
| I am going to talk for little while about
mlsery-nature's protest against natures de-
| generation. Misery is pain so constant and
steady that it is always present.
Let us separate misery from sorrow. Sorrow
relates TO some one else; misery is all to your
self. Sorrow is sacred Misery is at once a
| symptom, a cause and effect OF natures de-
| generation.
Nearly all the causes of misery come from
mistake in the pursuit of happiness. HAppi-
ness comes in the first place tn the exercise of
| the functions; the following out OF impulses
Happiness may be looked upon as natures
| bride to do the thing we have to do.
Genuine pleasure gives strength. But any
| form OF unearned happiness is sure to bring in
its train unbounded misery and depression. If
never have any blue days, but he would have
| the pleasures of living.
During the evening Mrs. Lowell White
| read the following resolutions which were
unanimously adopted:
| The Woman's Congress desires to express it's
| appreciation OF the cooperation of ell who
| have contributed to the success of its fourth
| annual meeting. 1t is therefore
Resolved That the Woman's Congress Asso-
| citation OF the Pacific Coast is indebted 20 the
speakers VINO have SO earnestly presented the
| subject OF education and carried out the pro-
| gramme OF the congress OF 1897, and TO those
who have been SO ready to take part in the
dlscussion-to the friends of former congresses
| and to the strangers in our midst; and
! further
RESOLVED, That we owe a special debt of
gratitude to the president of Stanford Univer-
| sity Tor his generous cooperation with the
| programme committee in the naming OF
| speakers and for his hearty efforts to promote
| the interests of the congress
| ResoL1ed, That the Woman's Congress is
again indebted to the press for its generous re-
| ports OF the congress, tor the spreading abroad
| the good things presented and the giving to
| absent members and 10 earnest men and
women throughout the length and breadth of
the coast full and graphic account OF its pro-
| ceedings.
| Resolued, That the gratitude OF the Woman's
| Congress be again expressed to Major Hooper
| and those associated with him in the manage
ment of the Occidental Hotel for the many
| favors extended to the executive board aud
| that We tender our sincere thanks Tor their
| gracious hospitality ana our cOrolal reception
! at any and all times during the four years
| which have each brought forth Womans
| Congress.
| ReSoLued, That this congress is also indebted
to the Southern Pacific and Union Pac fic Rail-
| road Company for courtesles extended to its
| Eastern guests and that due appreciation of
such cooperation be expressed TO the officers
| OF the company.
| RESOLVED, That we hereby express our appre-
citation and tender our sincere thanks to all
| who have contributed to the decoration of
| this hall, to the Commissioners OF Golden
| Gate Park, the teachers and pupils of the pub
| lie schools for their floral gifts and to the
| ladies who have given their time and labor in
| assisting the committee on decoration
| throughout the week in beautlfying the plat
| form
Resolved, That the manager of Golden Gate
| Hall be heartily thanked for the courtesies ex-
tended to the members and guests OF the
| Woman's Congress Association.
| Resoired, That the executive board Is indebted
| to the earnest men and women who have
| thronged this hall during the past week for the
| interest and eagerless with which they have
received the message OF the fourth annual
| session OF the Women's Congress.
ENDEAVORERS' MEETING.