The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-20

many women from the trans-Mississippl
states, says the Midland Monthly. Mrs. Bir-
ney, IN her able address, told OF the establish.
ment Of many day nurseries where the chill
dren Of the poor are left and cared for dur
ing the enforced absence of their mothers
She also spoke of the necessity for enlarging
kindergarten facilities, and Of the immense
Importance and wonderful influence for
good of such work. She said that perhaps
the most important work Of the congress DUR
ing the past year had been in instituting
mothers clubs among the lower classes, the
objects OF which are to study the care, edH-
cation and training of children.
Western women are more temperate IN club
matters than their Eastern sisters, says
Helen Winslow in the Club Woman. They
DO not boast Of belonging to twenty or thirty
clubs apiece. They would look with amaze
ment upon her who did But they put good,
solid work into their clubs, and they ac-
complish q great deal. Every member is
given something to do and then is made to
do it. Shall we ever forget how those Colo
RADIO women worked last summer? They
must not think it is forgotten, either. Their
splendid organization and loving. efficient
service was a feature of the fourth biennial
that will stand for all time.
Mrs Emile D. Martin. Of New York city.
denied the statement made before the state
federation meeting that the drama is what
the people make IT. She said that the clean
newspapers know better than to think that
the people want impure details, and that
they are succeeding and have a long, healthy
life before them, while the spasmodic,
healthy growth or unclean Journals will be
Of short duration. The people love the beauti-
full she said, and they want pure drama.
The New York stae federation. at It's last
meeting declared against the sweat-shop sys-
tenn and for woman's war relief work.
Mrs. Helmuth. in an address, referred to
the work of women in the late war. They
had made few mistakes she said. while the
men. even those in high office. had made
many.
The cause Of the locked-out ladies' tatlors
came up in speech by Miss Harriette Key
ser. The sweat-shop system, so far as it con-
eerDed women's garments. she said, could
only be settled by the womens clubs. She
suggestedthe formation of womens indus
trial committees
The South, from which section the new
president, Mrs. Lowe, comes, was the last to
Join in the womens club movement but it
has recently been coming very rapidly to the
front, and just as the business men Of the
South and North are getting closer together
once again. are the women of the two Sec
tons joining hands, says the Inter Ocean.
There be no doubt but that this joining
Of forces by the women OF the two sections
win be of great benefit to the country. and
and that it will form another link in the
chain that binds the two together in one
grand union, and as the federation is now
extending its membership to include the
womens clubs Of England, it will tend to
draw the divisions of the Anglo-Saxon race
closer together and to cement the bonds OF
friendship.
The Iowa State Register says that the
strength OF the General Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs now represents over 5000, 900 wom-
en-, and is increasing in size and in power.