Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-02-16
NATIONAL MOTHERS CONGRESS
Program Of the First One Ever Held at
WaahinTson. D. G.

Washington, d. c.
EVERY home a school and every par
ent an educator" is what this call 70
a National Congress Of Mothers mean
70 say. The great innovation which
marked a culture epoch at the begin
ming Of the present century was thai
Of admitting wOmankind TO tn
schoolrOom. At the close OF this cen
tury we Ind that womsnklnd wh'
stepped out from the individual hons
to help mother the children Of thu
state, Is returning and bringing thu
school back with her Into the home.
The National Congress OF Mother'
had its birth at Chautauqua 10 The
sumner OF 1896. On Wednesday, Feb
ruary II, at II O'Clock, Mrs. Cleveland
will give a reception at the White
House TO the delegates. Among the
speakers on the program. are the fol
lowing:
Hamilton Gushing, whose subject
is: ."Mother and Child in Primitive
Life.".
Mrs. Carter Carter, Blowing Rock,
NC, "Mothers Among the Noun
tain Whites"
Mrs. Lucy Bainbridge, New York
City. "Mothers Of the Submerged
Classes"
Anthony Comstock, r'How TO Guard
the Young Against Bad Llterature;"
G. Stanley Hall, "Somc Of the Pract-
lcal Results of Child StudY;"
Miss A. Schriver, of the Michigan
State Normal Mature Study In the
Home;'
Hamilton Mabie, "The Value OF
Great Literature for the Young"
Amalle Hofer, ."What the Kinder
garten Means 10 Mothers"
Mrs. Ellen Henrotln, "Club Organ
ization."
Mrs. w. +. Crafts, "Mother and
Schools"
Jenness Miller, Mothers Relation
TO Sound Physical Development
OF Youth"
o Margaret e. Sangster, Reading
Courses for Mothers"
Rev. W. A. Bartlett, Lowell, Mass,
Influence OF Music In the Develop
ment OF Character"
Mrs. Cation, Falkland, N. c., "a
National Training School for Moth
ers."
Among Others who have been in-
vlted 10 take part in tue discussions
are: Mrs. Batch, Bishop Vincent, Miss
Frances Il. Newton aud Mrs. MOque,
OF Washington.
TELL THE TRUTH TO CHILDREN.
10 answer TO the query, "Is pro-
mise made 10 child more or less
binding than one made 70 n grown
personYn Hal Owen writes The
womans Journals
How can you ask such question:
Excuse me, but Il seems 10 me, toI
preserve truth, perfect truth with the
children, isa sacred charge. Never,
as you value their faith In you, as you
value your own faith In God, tell any
thing but the exact truth toa child.
DO not, by word or deed, decelYe hun.
often there comes TO me In this
connection story once heard from
the pulpit; A little boy was very
fond OF driving with his parents. OF
course, II was NOT always e0nvenient
or wise TO take him with them. ln-
stead OF having the child understand
this fairly and squaFely, having a
little cry over 10, II necessary, until
he could realite that crying did not
avail, as II never should, these wicked
will call them so-would
tell the little trusting fellow that
they were not going TO ride. that they !
were golne 20 stay AZ home, and that
he might 10 with .his nurse. Then,
when be Was out ot sight, they would
sneak OF. How eonld theg help feel.
log meanS Well. this worked sue
,sssfully, as they thought, for several
.lmes, until one day during his
walk the child saw his father and
mother driving, whereap0n be J
doubled mp his little hsss, and his