El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-12

forever postpone facing this greatest
bility of all; and the mothers
of whom it might be said that their
nagging cleanliness is ''thousand
times worse than the dust est dust"
Mrs. Helen Raymond of Akron, Ohio,
enumerated the rights of children as
follows: the right to beauty; to certain
freedom in thechoice of food and clothes
to sanitary cooking, to physical Gull
ture, to exemption from being frig ht-
ened by "Bogys" or ghosts, to a
place indoors and out where they can
play unmoles.ed by the fear of "mus-
sing up" the right to joyousness, and
the right to have explained to them,
at least in part, why certain things are
right and others wronE. Mrs. Wells
spoke against the abuse of Don't"
q command which tantali@ss children
by suddenly coming between them
and their plans without any warning
or apparent reason.
spoke of the mother IS the mediator
between God and man, and
begged that school girls be given some
idea OF their physical selves, and of
hygiene, aud some practical knowl-
edge of housekeeping, instead eft hav-
ing their heads crammed with books
while wisdom fingers far, far behind.
One woman gave the ordinary nurse
maids hit, commenting on their
criminal laxness and their absolute
ignorance of the needs, mental or
physical, of their charges; and then
she blamed still more the mothers who
were not vigilant in their watch over
nursemaids to see that no harm came
to the little ones. She spoke of the
training school for nurse-maids in New
York, and hoped that the time would
come when the care of children would
be profession.
The president, Mrs. Theodore
Birney, warmly defended the propriety
and usefulness of the congress and the n
spoke In favor of universal peace. The
Mothers are unanimously in favor of
peace, even with the news OF our
Manila victory ringing in their ears.
Great peace banners of purple and
white and gold are the chief decoration
of their hall. Mrs. Birney carried the
war for peace even into the land OF
toys, advoc ating the abolition of toy
soldiers, cannons, guns, and even
paper military caps.
| One delegate has q scheme for start
ing a great institution where girls
sta all be trained and turned out good
hcusekeepers, even as at West Pol nj
} our boys are turned into good soldiers.
Some OF the other topics were: "Hea-
then Mothers, ''.'Can Heredity be Mod.
ifed?" "Feeble- Minded Children -
"Diet for Children" "Systems OF
Marking in Public Schools. ''Purity,' -
and so on. Doctor Ga'laudet, a nation.
al authority oa the subject, spoke OF
Common Errors in Teaching Dest
Children and te achers of blind chill
dren spoke from their experience.
Doctor Mary Walker, a gentlemanly
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trousers and Prince Alber', carrying
her silk hat, chewing mint, and OBJ
jecting to draughts, is always an inter
esting listener in the audience.
Many of the delegates are more or
less famous club-women, which makes
one little suspicious of them. Lille
Devereux Blake, well-krown suf.
fragist, and the Duchess di Braza, an
authority on lsces aud an interchangeable
"Jiner," are prominent among the
Mothers. Many of the speakers are
sp;nst rs, but they usually begin by
making fun OF themselves about /,
and thus forestall anyone else in doing
, it; then they say their little says q.
, to how children should be brought
up.
Mrs Phoebe Hearst, widow of q Ca
, lifOrnia enator and q woman of fabul
Gus riches, was the first to make thi,
, congress possible, she having paid al
, of the expenses of its first conveu ton
, The congress is now making brave eff
. forts to walk alone, and is planning
= state organ izat:ocs as we'll es the ma
tional one. Mrs. Hearst is WON IN O
the widest, quietest, and most unfail
ing charity, according to all accounts
They cay that at this moment, liz diff
ferentechools and colleges, sixty wo
men are being educated at her expense
Whenever she fuds deserving we
man, she stretches forth the gentl
, band of charity and gives both freel,
D and wisely. 80 that shes has endeare,
3 herself to everybody who knows any
D thing of her.