Evening star., 1897-02-17

pital
In glass case is displayed lot of med
ic.nes, powders of various kinds, soap,
scents and all the paraphernalia for
baby of high degree, and the drugs, linen
bandages, ointments, salves, sticking plas-
ters and everything in the simple medicine
chest to aid in caring for the injured while
some slew-footed messenger is going for the
doctor. This room is visited by almost
everybody who enters the Arlington and
men who are not fathers seem to be as in
terested as anybody. They handle the lit
tie flannel garments and paw over the
pIetty things in the baby basket dandlc
the dolls and ask Just as many questions
as the women. Mrs. c. w. Richardson and
Mrs. Daniel Murray aided In hiking mn the
nursery and play room
Some of the Delegates.
among the prominent arrivals yesterday
ana last night We're Mrs. Ellen Richard
son OF Boston, Mrs. Charles Noyes of the
Mothers and Teachers Club of the public
schools Of Warren, Pa; Mrs Warren b.
hooker, Normal and Free Kindergarten,
c. T. u. Belleview, KY. Miss Frances A.
carroll, w. c. 7. u, Columbia county, N
Y; Mrs. William P. Frey. Literary Club,
Lewiston, Me-; Mrs. Amy G. Keener. Selin's
Benevolent Society, Charlottesville. Va;
Miss Mary B. Temple, Woman's Educa-
tional and Industrial Union, Knoxville,
Tenn: Miss Sarah Smith, Mothers Club,
kindergarten Magazine, Chicago; Mrs.
Emma Platt Guyton Grand Rapids, Mich;
Mr.. w. A. Bartlett, Lowell. Mass; Mrs.
H. A. Stinson. New York; Mrs Lucy s.
Bainbridge, New York; Miss Helen Eain-
bridge. New York; Miss r. D. Rowe, Train
ing School for Christian Workers. New
York; Miss Hall, Moody Training School,
Northfieid, Mass: Miss Jennie Swez2y and
Miss Rockwell City Mission, New York;
Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, president
Kings Daughters, New York, and Mrs.
Ellen M. Henrotin, president Federation
of Women's Clubs, Chicago.
Organizations from all over the country
are sending their delegates. The Mothers
Round Table Club of Lansdown. Pa.
sent delegation of twenty-five ladies.
with its president, Miss Emily Wright.
They will be at the Clarendon.
The psychological section of the Medic
Legal Society of New York city sends the
Countess di Noise, Mrs. Sophia McClelland
and Mrs. Taylor. These ladies come to ask
the congress, as mothers of America, to
appeal to England's queen for the release
of Mrs. Maybrick.
nesley Of New York city, Mrs. Marshall
and Mrs. White of Lansdown, Pa, Mrs.
kearns Of Pittsburg, Pa, and Mrs. Kemp
of Harrisburg are at the Normandie.
Mrs Emma Guyton of Grand Rapids,
Mich, arrived last evening. She represents
the Hillsdale College for Girls. Mrs. Henry
II. Croper is a delegate from the Froebel
Kindergarten Club Of Little Rock, Ark,
anu Will De at the Arlington during their
stay III the city.
Mrs. ]. c. S. Davis of Riverton, N J.,
with her daughter, are at the Arlington.
Mrs Davis is to give talk on forestry and
plant life In the home during the congress.
Mrs Ellis, Mrs. Downs, Mrs. Taylor and
Mrs. Shober, delegates from the Mothers
Influence Club of Philadelphia, are at the
Arlington as are also Mrs. Bruen and Mrs.
Thorpe of the same city.
Notes of the Congress.
DR.. E. H. Dewey and wife of Meadville
Pa, are spending few days with DIR.
s. A. Edison, at 1908 l street. DR.. Dewey
has become famous through his originating
of the no-breakfast plan for the promo
ton Of good health He has timed his visit
to Washington SO to Re here during the
mothers congress- at the invitation OF
Mrs Alice Birney, president of the con-
gress, whose guest he will be during a part
of his stay.
The mothers broke the rule with i'm
punity that hats and bonnets should not
be worn. The two first speakers of the
and when a woman thinks bonnet is be-
coming she is going to wear it. So there!
1t was little funny, but the national
mothers" couldn't sing America the ma
tional hymn, and had to have the first line
repeated to start them off all right. They
had the first verse pat, but the second
was a little mixed, and the third was
fizZle
t the mothers stood on the window slls
and round on the radiators. Mrs. Wilson,
one of the vice presidents, couldn't get
through the jam at all, and many of the
other officers stayed on the outside. The
mothers evidently didn't know how eX-
tremely popular they were going to be.
1t was stated this morning that the ses-
sons would be held in a church here
after, the banquet hall of the Airing
ton is only about half large enough for
the purpose. 1t was not decided what
church would be used. however.
Everybody wanted to see Margaret
Sangster." Everybody had in mind
fresh-faced girlish creature who wrote po
etry and who had said SO many things to
help girls and mothers. and her sex gen.
orally. All were much surprised to learn
that the placid-faced, white-haired lady in
black. with red roses in her bonnet and
feathers. too. was Margaret Sangster. She
took great interest in all that was being
said.
Very few knew that the great apostle of
reform. Anthony Comstock, was one of the
audience this morning. He is wide out
and forid, with stunning English side
whiskers, and looks a good liver.
Among the gay head coverings the soft
silver gray of many Quaker bonnets shone
out conspicuously. 1t Is odd, but the
Quakers, who are charged with being slow
to make progress, are intensely interested
in reforms of all kinds, and particularly in
this.
Everybody is invited to the congress who
as there Is any there the first who comes
will be the first served. 1t is not a good
place, however, to take children of tender
age. They get restless.
1t was complained this morning that the
women talked too much, and kept those
who desired to hear from catching all that
was said. There is a continuous buzz of
talk in the back Of the room, which is an
noying to those who would like to hear.
Among the delegates is Mrs. Willis Lord
Moore president of the State Federation of
Woman's Clubs of Kansas. Mrs. Moore is
writer of acknowledged ability, a news
PAPER woman, and a regular "jiner'' when
1t comes to clubs. She is practical and en-
ergetfc. however. and gets through an i'm
mense amount of work. She was educated
In Washington, and is the guest now of her
sister, Mrs. Case.
Mrs Agnes Hit, national president of the
Womans Relief Corps, is attending the
congress, and will also be here for the ses-
sions Of the department convention of Po-
tomac w. r. c. She is the guest of Mrs
Annie w. Johnson, department president,
on Capitol Hill.
Miss Anna Tolman Smith. the well-known
writer and editor of the educational DEPART
ment of the Independent, and Mrs. A. G.
Wilkinson, are delegates to the congress
from the Woman's Anthropological So