The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-09

forcing the compulsory education law, there is no question, according to the speaker of the value of manual train ing. The address was lucid, thought full and able, and the club-Women moved and seconded that it be pub lished in The Club Woman"
 The matter was referred to the editor with power, and the editor, being pres- ent, said that she would be glad to avail herself of the privilege of printing the report.
 The next address was an explanation of the work of the Consumers League. The speaker was Miss Howe of Boston. Like most good things, the league origl- mates, I believe, in Massachusetts. A national federation is now in process ot formation. Its purpose will be to pro- tect both employe and consumer by ls- suing a label to manufacturers who are known to deal fairly with their em- ployes. This label will be attached to every ready-made garment, etc, which meets the conditions, and will be the guarantee of the Consumers League to the consumer that the article to which it was attached was not made under any kind of sweat shop" regime, but that the manufacturer who uses 1t makes use also of right goods and fair methods in the treatment and payment of his employss Miss Howe appealed to the club-women to cultivate their own sentiment in this matter of cheap goods. Women, she said, were too prone to run after bargains" and the demand created the supply. If they demand white methods the merchant and manufacturer will have to come to them. This address also was heartily applauded, but in many instances with a show of shame-facedness, for even club-women are not entirely exempt from the bargain" mania.
 The final address was by no means the least in point of interest It was made by Miss Helen M. Winslow, edl- tor of ''The Club Woman" and depart ment editor of the Boston Transcript" Her subject was The Relation of the Club Woman to Journalism" She was
 introduced by the chairman as "of the United States" quarter of century
 since said Miss Winslow woman journalist was regarded as a spectacle for men and gods. But the woman journalist is no longer a freak. She is an established fact. Even the country
 paper has it's woman's depal tment, with it's woman editor. Thousands are pursuing journalism; only the hundreds
 can catch up with it.
 The yellow journals Miss Winslow denounced in no uncertain tones, They are the corrupters of morals and one of the prime causes of our late war with Spain. The yellow journal sreg rds the decencies; truth is one of the de .e l.
 cies, so it disregards truth; yet every one who pays a cent for one of thesa pap IS is helping to suppo it. If you ask the editor of a sensational newspa- per why he vtiates the public taste with his wares he will respond: Tt is
 the public taste which vitiates my
 wares" Sensationalism pays.
 The speaker appealed to club-women to protect their homes and the country from this demoralizing agency by using all their influence against these jour na's nat even a m tt ng it within theic
 homes. The club-woman, she said,
 should stand for truth, h nor and de- cency, not for their oppcsites some one asked Miss Winslow what New | York papers she considered sui ble to l bring into the home. In reply sre named the Tribune and the Sun The l address was received with liberal ap- | plause.
 l A delightful organ recital by Rich- { ard D. Paine, the South church organ | ist, closed the programme.
 | Genevieve Hall Whitlock.