Evening star., 1897-02-19

Would it not be well to recognize VIC
man as the real guardian of the public
health, and teach her whatever is neces-
sary to the proper and safe performance
Of these duties? 1t is true that there are
schools in some of our cities where such
things are taught but they do Not reach
far enough nor multiply results fast
enough 1t must be national oppor-
tunity to produce national benefits To
reach and benefit the people it must be
broad and extensive. and should be done
for the people, by the government with
| the peoples money. This would. assure
its permanency on scale commensurate te
with the Importance of the subject.
Notes of the Congress.
Mrs. r. r. Gotten of Falkland. n c.. who
delivered the address today on "a National
Training School for Women" is stopping
with Mrs. 2. NJ. Wilson. 9l7 18th street
Mrs. Gotten was commissioner OF the
worlds fair and organized the Virginia
Dare Association. She has long been 4
leader in all educational objects for the
advancement of women.
The mothers in the congress are much III
terested in the Mothers Meetings Club
Of this city, an organization of colored wo-
n:en. 1t is conducted by a committee of
ladies from St. Luke's p. L. Church col
ored), and is really auxiliary to the Y NJ.
c. a. tcolored). The primary object of
these meetings is to help industrious sell
supporting women to clothe themselves and
methods as possible. Goods are purchased
by the committee, garments cut aud baSted
and then sold to the mothers who ordered
them for the actual price paid for the
goods. Charge is made only for the exact
amount used in the garments: cotton,
needles and thinbles are furnished free.
Small payments of from TO IL cents are
made each evening until the garment is
made and paid for, when ii is taken home.
This club has been organized for four years
and has "a membership of ninety. with an
average attendance of fortyseven. All de-
nominations are represented il the club,
and AL avail themselves very gladly of the
advantages offered. The club work is not
confined to sewing. but papers are read on
practical subjects, such as the training Of
children. the duties of mothers, the order
Ing of the home and kindred topics. The
committee is contemplating adding a scnool
for the teaching of plain cooking and the
care of the sick. The chairman CT the COM
mittee and delegate in the congress is
F,uretta Rozemon Mathews.
There is fine free kindergarten at Fort
Wayne, Ind, and ii is represented in the
congress by Miss Ellis L. Campbell.
a brany woman of energy comes from
Brooklyn, n. Y, in the person of Mrs. W.
w. Newcomb of the Progressive Educa
tional Club of that city. Another Brook
lyn lady of prominence is Mrs. Mary f.
Cragie, president of the Brooklyn Public
Library.
Mrs. Clara. L. Reach of Baltimore is rep
resenting that great agent for good, the
Woman's Home Missionary Society.
The Mothers Influence Club of Philadel
phia has a big delegation of fine women
here. Among them Mrs Emily Taylor,
Mrs. Agnes Thober, Mrs. Cynthia Ellis and
Phoebe Downs.
Among the many delegates here are Mrs.
Emile d. Martin of the New York Educa
tional w. c. T. T.; Mrs. II. E. Thompson,
Ladies Literary Club of Grand Rapids.
Mich. Mrs. George w. Heigles, delegate
from st. Johns p. E. parish of York, Pa;
Mrs. Annie r. Ramsey, Round Robin Read
ing Club of Philadelphia; Mrs. Alice Whit
ney Putnam of Woman's Club of Chicago;
Mrs. Mary Town Beech of New York State
W. c. 7. T.; Mrs. Josie G. Robinson of
Mothers Club, Alexandria, Va; Mrs. John
j. White of the Novelty Club, Lansdown.
Pa; Mrs. e. c. Rhodes of Iowa Childrens
Home Society of Mount Vernon, Ia; Mrs.
Janet Bartlen of the Association Collegiate
Alumni, Philadelphia; Mrs. Amelia E.
Jones, New Century Club, Utica, N. Y;
Mrs. S. NJ Perkins, from w. c. T. u.
Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Mary Haslup of the
National w. c. T.. u; Sarah w. Smith,
Parents Club, Medina, Ohio; Mrs John A.
Allen, st. Louis, Mo-, president of the Mis-
souri, State Federa ton of Womans Clubs;
Mrs. Rose Cawood, Tennessee State Fed
GRAFTON of Womans Clubs, Nashville,
Tenn: Mrs. Alice H. Putnam, Chicago
kindergarten Club, anu Miss Tapp, W. c.
Il. T., Jacksonville Hi.
The Wonlah's Club of Omaha Neb one
of the wide e-awake progressive clubs of the