Evening star., 1898-05-07

public shcools. where teachers and parents
are working together IN sympathy and CO.
Mrs. John McNiel Of Denver, delegate
from the Woman's Clr of Denver, repro
sents the largest Individual constituency
IN the congress-a club of 800 women. She
rs rs woman OF rare executive ability and
of sterling integrity OF purpose and an or
gantzer without eq1,al.n
WIS. 1ooert Gotten, who Is delegate
from virginia, is a beautiful woman, with
face despite the fact that She is a grand.
motner' She has brought up a devoted
fanny ana is now consecratng a large
part OF her life to the service of humanity.
LIZ amu ner unseihsh labor in behalf of the
ssstaoilshment Of national training school
t0r women is making warm friends for her
throughout the country.
MIS- Alice May who Is a delegate To the
Strns, SEs ess from New York. is president and
mental motherhood" The object is to en-
courage the study, writing and publication
OF literature on the subject, and to inyes-
usa!e, study and develop certain latent
possibilities of motherhood physical men
tai and spiritual, and to use resulting DOW
ers IN the service of humanity.
NO more interesting woman attends the
congress than Mrs. Margaret Bottome,
presioent OF Kings Daughters CT the nation.
aa,ilor ~ ana poet. After meeting her one
is inclined to believe that with her all
thlngs are possible. She stands for all that
IpI1ts and inspires, and in her the weak
ana unfortunate find a tower Of strength.
IS tne true type of the virile womanly
woman, whose firm grasp on the home is
rot loosened when she steps outside of it
for philanthropic work
among the ladies in attendance at the
mothers congress is Mrs. Benjamin Chap
pell OF Tokyo. Japan. Mrs. Chappell is
missionary of the Methodist Episcopal
Cnurch and has resided in Japan twenty
years. curing which tip1e she has had much
anu varied experience as a teacher of Ja
panese girls. For several years she was
connected with a journal established by the
empress herself for the daughters of the
noointy no ana high officials of the empire.
She was also for several years president
OF the order of the Kings Daughters in
Japan She will return to Japan shortly,
ana has plans for mothers congress in
Japan.
The Countess di -Savorgnan, Miss
Andrews and Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett
VIII hold meeting in the interest of the
Florence Crittenton Mission at the First
Street Congregational Church Sunday af-
ternoon, May s, at ) pm. OF course the
public is invited.
The last delegates to the congress to reg
lister Friday were these: Mrs Henry NJ.
Cooper, Little Rock, Ark; Miss Emily F.
Wright, Lansdowne, Pa; Mrs. w. E. Fisch-
el, st. Louis, Mo-; Miss E. A. Pritch, Lans-
downe. Pa; Miss Pauline Marie Aldritch
Lansdowne, Pa; Miss Victoria Haywood,
!1ansdowne, Pa, Miss NJ. p. Wilson, NAL
den, Mass; Mrs. Edward Therburn Osgood
Portland, Me-; Mrs H G. Hollenberg, Little
Rock, Ark.
The following is the number Of delegates
registered from the various states in the
mothers congress: Arkansas, =; Alaska
1; Colorado, 3: Connecticut 6; District of
Columbia, 62; Georgia, 1; Iowa, 1; Indiana
z; Illinois. 6; Kentucky, .; louisiana /;
Missouri. 2; Minnesota, 1; Maine, 2; Mary
land, 20; Massachusetts, 5; North Carolina,
NJ Vorl H.,
II; North Dakota. L. Ohio. 1; Pennsylvania,
81; South Dakota. g; Tennessee, =; Utah, 4;
Vermont, l; Virginia, 2; Washington, 1;
Japan, l.
The youngest delegate at this congress is
Miss Edna White0, state president of the
work in South Dakota. Miss Whited is an
enthusiast on the subject. South Dakota,
'he first and only state organization in tho
world, has the largest number of clubs.
Miss Whited has spoken several times
since coming to Washington. Yesterday
she addressed the mothers and Young wo-
men at Georgetown on the subject of
Life"
The "Forma ton Round Table" of Froebal
Institute, Lansdowne, Pa, is a mothers
club of fifty members, organized six years
ago by Miss Emily Dudley Wright Its cb-
lect is the preservation of all subjects per-
tanning to the training and welfare of the
children, and the development of the nigh
est ideal Of motherhood among women
Mrs. Edwin G. Wheeler. in the list of
speakers Tor today on the subject Women
and a Nineteenth Century Method of
is a woman who has had
large experience along the line of her sub
lect. Nearly her entire life has been given
70 the Sunday school missionary work, and
she is, therefore, able to speak from obser-
vation as well experience.
She was for some time given charge of
what has now become famous as the
Chapel car method Of preaching the
gospel, which she conducted, IN company
with her husband.
The congress will close tonight with IL
public meeting, and in a blaze of glory
The evenings entertainment will be semi
patriotic In that America by everybody
will open the exercises, and the Star
Banner by everybody will close
the meeting. Miss Hofer will sing some of
her beautiful mother songs, bishops and
ministers of note will be heard briefly and
some one of the strong women of the con-
sress will tell what the mothers have ac-
during the year.