The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-02-03

cient vote will be had in the Senate to
confirm the treaty under the two thirds
rule, no doubt whatever is felt of some
action, either by two thirds vote of the
Senate or by the ordinary legislative meth
DDS by which a majority vote in Congress
will complete the work begun by Republi-
cans in adding the Hawaiian Islands to the
territory of the United States
Massachusetts state Federation of
Women's Clubs.
The old cry "Make room for a lady"
found no answering response from the in
terror of the Bijou Opera House on Satur-
day, Jan. %, when the representatives of
| one hundred and twenty Massachusetts,
clubs met in State Federation, and hun
dreds of women were turned away for
want of space. A pretty sight greeted
those who were fortunate enough to wit
| ness the rising of the curtain, for the
stage was filled with notable women. with
here and there a specially invited male
guest, who We're to be actors in drama
as vital as any ever enacted on that plat
| form, the consideration of ''The Moral
and Industrial Training of To-day"
| Prominent among those on the platform
were noticed Kate Gannett Wells, Mrs
Phelps Ward, Miss Helen Winslow, editor
| of 1.-THE Club Woman the wife of Sen
| ator Blair, the Superintendent OF Schools
of Boston, and the Presidents Of the Maine
| Rhode Island, and Illinois State Fedora
| tions. In the absence of the President,
Mrs, Julia Ward Howe, who is travelling
in Europe, the meeting was presided over
| by Mrs. Roe, sister Of DR.. Roe Of the
| Massachusetts Hospital, who after asking
the ladies to remove obstructive millinery.
was most happy in her introductions.
An item Of business which received
marked appreciation was the admission to
the Federation of the Glover Club OF East
! Africa, at the head of which stands two
/ Massachusetts women, and the chairman
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| but friendly CO. operation that was asked.
| The first speaker was Prof. VIM. c.
Ward of Syracuse, on moral Value of
Manual Training for Boys Beginning
with the restless what is it, what is it for,
| and how is it made, condition of children
| he advocated two hours per day of manual
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| College in order that the intellectual may
not be cultivated at the expense of the
moral and physical. Manual training
teaches honesty and we lead the world in
architecture because of our knowledge OF
concrete philosophy. He would give
| languages early and arithmetic late in life,
would train rich and poor alike and We
would then be rid of such monsters as
Goethe's "Mephistopheles'' and Milton S
tSatan''
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer followe
with a plea for Manual Training fol
Girls for three reasons that they may be
enabled to see, to think, and to do, for the
sake of their homes and the community.
She considered it mistaken idea that
ladies and college graduates must not
work with their hands, and in this respect
| foreign ladies are our superiors. She gave
many pertinent illustrations of practical
education and closed by asking that the
weapons of self defence in the way OF
manual training for girls be furnished at
| the expense of the State.
Edwin d. Mead, the publisher, and Pres
| ident of the goth Century Club, was next
| introduced to speak on ''Patriotism. He
| spoke of Washington effort to make a
nation out of States, our duty as family
| in that nation, and democracy in the pub
lie schools as the synthesis of patriotism.
| He deprecated the faint of aristocracy
in naming hotels Empire and ''La
Touraine'' and the organization of women
known as "Order of the Crown"
| He spoke of his historical work for the
young in the Old South Church, and the
public spirit Of Mary Hemmenway in saw
| Ing tHe CuuTCu lOT lue Guy VI DUSlOu, anu
advocated the forming of classes in good
citizenship in the Sunday schools. with
Moore's "Utopia,' Longfellow's Poems
and Lowell present Crisis as found
alton studies.
Mrs. Henrotin of Chicago, President OF
the General Federation, coming last on
the list, facetiousIy styled herself as the
moral to adorn the tales already told, and
she proceeded to apply the moral in q
general way by dealing with facts con
nected with the Federation.
She upheld kindergarten work and gave
Maine credit for being first in the move
ment, Mrs. Woodman Of Bangor sending
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