Evening star., 1897-02-18

| vivid and excitable than that OF adults.
When child Is naturally timid it is better
net to leave it in the dark. but keep a
night light burning. Children should never
be threatened with horrible specters, but
Tholeso me dread in proportion to nervous
orsaEization was not to be despised.
Teacher of German in Central High School
Frau Nora Hoegelsberger continued the
discussion. She said the effect of fear was
to quicken the heartbeats three times
greater In the adult. Then the effect on
innocent children must he terrible. To tell
children of the bogcy man, witches and
hobgoblins is to do them a mental and
physical injury. Physicians say that fear
gives rise to phenomena exactly resembling
hydrophobia. She said ii would take years
to wipe out the effects of severe frights
She quoted Rbal. who said that there is
Kind of native. instructive fear, anterior
TO all self-consclousness which cause
child, for instance. to hold to chairs and
other objects for fear of falling before IT
has ever experienced the sensation of fall
| ing. She described the first sensations
of fear in very young cats. dogs. turkeys
| replete with fine thought and plea for
| closer study of child emotions and ten
derer regard for that called fear"
Mrs. Gardener. Address.
In her address en- The Mora. Response
| bility of Woman in Heredity," Mrs.
| Gardener said in part,
| When we study anthropology and
heredty we come to realize the indisput-
able facts that her love, her physical hero
| ism and her physical bravery, linked with
| her political and financial subject status,
| have cast physical blight,a moral shadow
| and mental threat upon the world. We
| begin to wonder If much of the vice, the
| crime, the wrong, the insanity, the disease,
| the incompetence and the woe of the world
| is not the direct linaal descendent of this
very self-debasement of the individual
I n n nf IN,
| I'VE wonder whether others do not owe
| higher duty to their offspring than that
of mere nurse. We wonder if she has the
! moral right to give her children the in
ferltance that accident and subserviency
stamp upon body and mind. We wonder
| now she dares face her child and know
that she did not fit herself by self-devel )p-
ment and by direct, sincere, firm and thor
ough q'lallf1ca ton for maternity before she
dared to assume its responsibilities
Self-abnegation, subserviency to man--
whether he be father, lover or husbands
the most dangerous theory that can be
| taught or forced upon her whose character
shall mold the next generation. She has
| no right to transmit nature and a char
| acter that are subservient, subject ineffi.
| c'ent, undeveloped-in short, slavish char
acter which is either blindly obedient or
| blindly rebellious. and is, therefore in
either case, set as Is time-lock to prev
| or to be preyed upon by society in the fu-
| ture.''
This Afternoon and Evening.
The program for the afternoon and even
| ing sessions is as follows:
Afternoon-1. THE Mothers Greatest
Needs Miss Frances Newton, Chicago,
| ILL.,: ?, Play Grounds Miss Constance
| Mackenzie, Philadelphia, Pa; 3, Some
| Practical Results of Child Study" DR.. G.
Stanley Hall, Worcester. Mass.
Evening, oclock-1, Reading Courses
Tor Mothers, Mrs. Margaret E. Sangstar,
! New York city; 2. presentation of resolu-
| timore, Md; 3, How to Guard Our Youth
Against Bad Literature" Anthony Com
stock, New York city.
Mary Lowe Dickinson is one of the bright
| particular stars Of the congress of moi hers.
She is president of the National Council
Of Women, a federation of twenty asso-
| Citations, and the biggest and brainiest body
| or VIC men in the world. Mrs. Dickinson
knows parliamentary law as well as Tom
| Reed does, and is good deal of a car
herself on occasion.
Like leaf out OF a book Of Puritan
| days 1t is to talk with Debora c. Leeds,
| a gentle Friend of Philadelphia. who is
! a delegate from that city, representing the
state prison work. Mrs. Leeds has visited
| nearly every county prison in the state in
| furthering her great work of prison re-
| form.
Evanston, ILL.,, has mothers club and
| has sent Mrs. Louisa Stanwood as dele
gate, she being chairman of the child's de-
| partment of that work
Mrs. Harriet Mcclellan of Atlanta. Ga.
! is a charming woman to meet, and is par
| ticularly well fitted for the care Of the
| literature bureau, of which she has charge.
Mrs. Mary Halburt is a w. c.. T. U. dele
gate from Maryland. She is one of the
state officers and was a delegate to the
| St. Louis convention. Another MARYLAND
| delegate is Miss Liza Ridgely, who is or
ganizer of the United Women Of MARYLAND.
Both ladies reside in Baltimore
The Young Womans Christian Assoeia-
| ton of Worcester. Mass, is represented
| by Mrs. Anna Howe.
Mrs. Rebekah kohut of New York city
| large, handsome woman, with masses of
| light brown hair wound like crown about
her Well-shaped head, is a splendid type
| OF the Hebrew woman. being the daughter
OF rabbi and the wife of a rabbi. A mag
| nificent bouquet of Golden Gate roses with
| a fringe of hyacnths was presented to
| hel from the Jewish Council of Washing
ton as she took her seat after her mastery
address lsst night.
DR.. Mary Walker is conspicuous in the
congress.
One of the most interesting talks yester-
| day was that by Mrs. Lucy Bainbridge OF
merged World" Mrs. Bainbridse is a re-
former of the gentlest yet frmest type,
intensely womanly, fair of face and SO
deadly in earnest. She nearly carried even
pathetic stories of life in the easements
of the big cities
The mothers are very apprehensive that
If the Interest in their congress continues
Convention Hall will have to be hired and
| the meetings held in sections. They are so
proud of the splendid record they are max
| ing that their hearts have swelled till they
nearly burst their bodices.
Wednesday afternoon and evening two
thirds of the audience doffed its headgear
Then you could see the weIl-shaped heads
of the women who are making such a lot
| of history that is worth recording just
now.
The audience is more sympathetic and re-
sponSlve than women audiences usually are
and this has been remarked by many
The fathers are invited. but thus far
they seem to think that this is not their
five minutes" Those who do wander in,
however, seem to enjoy it all hugely
All the place there was for the reporters
yesterday afternoon was in the baptismal
fount. The change was so hurriedly made
that Mrs. Finley, chairman of the press
committee had no time to arrange for the
| comfort of the reporters, and the fount
was the only bare bit of space left in the
church when the reporters arrived for busi-
| ness. Just sit right here" she said, and
hang your legs over And thew did