The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-06-24
WOMAN'S CONVENTION
GREAT GATHERING IN SESSION
AT DENVER
Over a Thousand Delegates Present,
Many Of Whom Will Visit Cali
fornia-The Program

DENVER, June 23.-The fourth biennial
convention of the Federation of Woman $
Clubs was formally opened on Wednesday
at the Broadway Theater Addresses of
welcome were made by Governor Adams
and Mayor MacMurray, to which Mrs. Hen
rotin, President of the General Federation,
responded. The day was spent in receiv-
ing the reports of committees, and in the
evening work began with the education pro-
gram.
The theater was filed to OVERLOOKING, oevr
one thousand delegates being present, with
every state in the Union represented with
the exception of South Carolina Califor-
mia is entitled to eight delegates, but only
one is here from Southern California, that
one being Mrs. Longstreth, from the Friday
Morning Club of Los Angeles.
Mrs. C. M. Severance is the only California
woman given place on the program, which
Is rather a limited recognition considering
the fact that this is the greatest gathering
of women ever held, even Japan being rep
resented by Miss Tawda, Toxic.
Unless the unforeseen happens. Mrs.
Sarah s. Plat, president of the Denver
Woman's club, will be the next president
of the general federation of woman's clubs
The afternoon session of phases of eco
nomic work in clubs, in charge of Mrs. Lyn-
den Evans of Illinois, with Mrs w. A.
Sammons as local assistant chairman, was
unique in that many of the participants
were from organization of working women.
The Home Economics" session in the af-
ternoon under Dr. Mary Green of Michigan,
with Mrs. Henry Harrington as local as
sistant chairman, was as follows:
1.-THE Beginnings of Anarchy in the
Home" Mrs. Caroline M. Severance of Cal
ifornia; why Men Object to Business
Dealings With Women" Mrs. Henry S.
Blount Washington. D. c.; 1.-THE Economy
of Reserve" Mrs. Margaret WEIGH, New
York; Home Economics as a Whole" Mrs.
S. M. Emery, Montana Relations of the
Club Woman to Household Economics"
Mrs. L. W. Lacy, Missouri; Denver
Schools of Domestic Science and Kitchen
Garden" Mrs. H. d. Whitmore of Colorado.
The evening program, designated as I'm
cut Leaves" was distinctively a literary
feast, with Mrs. C. p. Barnes of Kentucky
as chairman and Mrs. Charles Dennson as
local assistant chairman The star perform
ers were Miss Agnes Repplier of Pennsyl-
vania and Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart Of
published works were interspersed with
musical numbers.
Future programs will cover Club Meth
DDS, Industrial Problems, Art and Litera-
ture. and there will be delightful evening
devoted to American Folk Song, under the
supervision of Miss Villa Whitney-White
On Sunday evening the prominent pull
pits in the city will be filled by women,
among whom will be Florence Halleck
Crocker of New York, Celia Parker Woolley
of Chicago. Jane Adams of Hull House
will address the children on Sunday after
noon.
Next week the election of officers will &C.
cur, and the convention will close on Mon
day with the installation of officers.
Besides the delegates, the city is full of
women from various parts of the country
who take great interest in the doings of the
convention, while the poor men occupy an
insignificant position in the background
The hotels are all full, and Denver may be
said to be keeping open house. All sorts
of pleasure excursions have been planned
for the delegates, and they are being royal
ly entertained.
Many of the eastern delegates intend to
go on to California, notably the special train
from New York, containing New England,
New York, Washington, Maryland and
Pennsylvania contingent numbering $50.
Among these are Mesdames Candace Wheel
err, artist, New York; Anna Roebling, of
Brooklyn bridge fame; Helen Winslow, edi-
tor of Club Women; Calvin S. Brice, Ed
ward Longstreth of Philadelphia and Will
liam Todd Helmuth of New York Other
notables present are Sarah Hackett Ste
venson and Margaret WEIGH, editor of Har-
per's Bazaar.
Anna Kalfus Spero of San Jose read a
paper this morning on Western journalism
The suffrage question has no place what
ever on the program and the tendency is to
consider only the most conservative SUBJ
jects in the most conservative manner. The
candidates for President are Alice lines
Breed of Massachusetts and Mrs. LONE Of
Atlanta.
Work for the Alliance