The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-20
SCIENTIFIC MOTHERHOOD
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Mrs Cotton has an Idea That the Govern
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Washington, Feb. 19.-After a very sur
cessful and enthusiastic meeting of tire
days, the first Mothers congress tonigt
finished its work and adjourned TO mes
next year in Washington. This city wi
be TIT general headquarters of the ne,
organization, and the meeting every oth
er year will take place here, while in tn
alternate years it will be held in som
city to be chosen by the congress.
Before adjourning a long series of res
olutions were adopted. They are in par
as follows: Endorsing the work of tn
UNIVERSAL Peace union and, second, tn
suggestion to the others, instructors an
citizens OF America that lessons of peac
must be first taught by harmony at ID
hearth; approving the founding of a ma
tionai training school for mothers, tina
the women Of America may be laugh
the method for making hygienic home
and for becoming intelligent mothers-i:
a word, that they may be taught the les
sons Of health and heredity; promisin:
their influence to encourage legislation /.
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cure kindergarten department in tn.
public schools; declaring it their endeavol
10 exclude from their homes those pepper.
which do not educate or inspire to mob,
| thoughts and deeds; protesting agains
all pictures and displays which tend t
| degrade men and women or corrup OF
| deprave THE minds Of the young, and al
advertisements which offend decency; pc.
! titioning congress to raise the age fol
! protection for girls in the District of Co.
lumbia and territories to IS years at least
exhorting all mothers to a closer walk
with "our father and mother God in
whose nurture and admonition our chill
dren must be brought up if life is ever
10 be worth living" expressing apprecia-
ton for the reception accorded to the
congress by Mrs. Cleveland, who stands
before the country as the gracious and
beautiful idea. Of motherhood. They feel
that she in her life has eXemplifitd the
principles for which this congress
stands"
Washington, Feb. 19.-The devotional
exercises at the opening If the Mothers
Congress this morning were conducted
by Mrs. H. A. Stinson Of New York
Miss Julia King, of the faculty of the
Emerson College Of Oratory, Boston, in
the course of her address on physical
culture said:
"a true system of physical culture
properly taught aids in building up
ideal character; first, through its effect
upon the health, for, in the nature OF
health of body leads to equanimity of
mind and gives a moral direction 10 the
intellectual activities. Some people call
every kind of artificial exercise physi-
cal culture but nothing can be said to
be true physical culture which does not
recognize. theoretically and practically,
the principle that the body is the ser
want of the SOUL
AT the close Of Miss Kings address
She recited, You Never Can Tell" by
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Mrs. Ellen Richardson of Boston fol-
lowed with a paper on Character
Building versus Education"
The new education she said. had
for its purpose originality Of thought
and the building up of character It
takes the youth from the farm, the
shop, the studio and returns him bet
ter and stronger farmer, mechanic and
artist.
Mrs. Sallie A. Cotton Of Falkland. n.
c., read the last paper of the morning.
on the subject of National Training
for Women" in the course of which she
said:
Scientific motherhood means more
than a causal thought can grasp. It
means grander; nobler race, an al
truistic humanity which shall fit the
earth for the Saviour's advent. 1t
means the reformation of the drunken.
the redemption of the criminal. the re-
Pentenace Of the murderer. the abolition
Of asylums for blind, dumb and insane.
II is evident that woman's most i'm !
peratiye duty 10 the government under |
which she lives is to supply a popuIa-
ton composed of the highest types of |
men and women and il is equally evil |
lent that a scientific motherhood is |
necessary to the porper performance of |
his duty. But all duty is reciprocal, |
md it is the duty of the government |
which seeks the welfare OF its people to |
'ffer to its women an opportunity for
he attinment of this scientific mother
lood which Will be fraught with so
much good to the nation. Scientic
motherhood will give no marked impet-
Is while restricted TO a fortunate few.
I can be done through the establish
rg by the government OF national train
nS school for women, where the women
4 the nation shall by trained in the
clence OF domesticity and peace. Just
S at West Point and Annapolis; the
men are trained in the science OF war.
4 the school women should be taught
he highest domestic science in all its
universities. She should be taught sp-
lied chemistry. sanitatio disinfection.
ne prevention and cure Of disease. the
are of infants and their foods. the ap-
licatlon Of science TO all departments
T household labor and the mysteries
I'd possibilities OF heredity."
resolution was adopted with much /
enthusiasm. thanking Mrs. Birney and
lrs. Hearst, who had made this first
lother's Congress not only possible but
great success
At the afternoon session Miss Anna 4.
chriver Of Ann Arbor Mich, told about !
Nature Studies IN the Home" Mrs. Har-
er. colored. OF Philadelphia, spoke OF
The Afro-American Mother" and Dr.
after l. Hervey Of New York had |
Stories" for his topic.
Tonight Professor Elmer Gates deliv- ,
red Heredity and Transmission OF {
haracter' and Mrs. Ellen Henrotin OF
hicaso. The Matter Of Club Organ!za- !
on
EDITORS AT GALVESTON
aud Out the First Vice Presid.,,x 60 .