The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-21
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al emergencies and has catered to all
tastes.
After ALL however perhaps the most in
teresting feature 60 Americans at any
rate will be the glimpse into the home
life of the aristocratic circle of English
society. Besides many smaller functions,
the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will
receive at Stafford, house, June 26; Lady
Battersea at Surray House. June Is; the
Bishop of London and Mrs. Creighton at
Fulham Palace, July l; Lady Rothschild
and Mrs. Leopold de Rothschild on July 4.
The reception, al Fulham Palace takes
the form of a garden party. This is par
tcufariy opportune, for the English car
den party is a component part of English
home life.
Another garden party win be given at
Swanley. Dean Hole will be host, and Miss
Sieveking will show how gardening
is a successful occupation for women.
The hostesses for the International
council are:
The Countess of Aberdeen, president;
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, United States,
vice president; proxy, Mrs. Fisher Unwin;
Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg. Finland,
treasurer; proxy, Mrs. Bedford Fenwick,
treasurer of the international congress
fund.- Miss Teresa f. Wilson, correspond
ing secretary; Madame Maria Martin,
France, recording secretary; proxy, Mrs
Dora Montefiore, Great Britain; Countess
of Warwick, the Lady Battersea, Mrs
Percy Bunting, Mrs. Creighton, Mrs. Raw
linson, the Lady Laura Kidding, Lady
Roberts-Austen, Miss Margaret Bateson,
Mrs. Broadley Reid, Miss Faithful, Mrs
Bedford Fenwick, Mrs. ]. R. Macdonald
Hon. Mrs. A. 7. I.yttleton, Mrs. Benson,
Mrs. Fannie Humphreys Gaffney.
The president, Lady Aberdeen, is too
well known in the United States to gain
any fresh lustre from the reiteration of
her good deeds, yet one stands out in
bold relief from all the rest, that is the
travelling libraries that she sends to out
posts of civilization in the British en-
pire. During her husbands administration
as governor general of Canada, she found
that the new settlers were homesick for
the want of the home papers and maya
zines. She began the sending of these into
the wilderness, and so important has this
grown that the great Imperial Institute of
London has taken the nroject under it's
wing, In perpetuity.
And since her return 3, Great Britain
she gives a certain amount of personal su-
pervision to the hampers that are to bear
the mental food to the faT-away land.
Mrs. J. r. Macdonald is perhaps the
most interesting woman on the list. for
she has done more than any one else to
alleviate the bad conditions surrounding
the working women of Great Britain. The
legislation that has taken effect through
her efforts forms a commentary on labor
conditions in England for the last hun
dred years.
The beautiful Countess of Warwick has
a successful experiment to relate. Her
agricultural school at Reading for the
training of gentlewomen is a worthy object
lesson, which ought to have hearing
throughout the world. Women with an
income of 80 per annum ($5W are taught
how to make a living on an allotment of
five acres.
The name of each hostess stands for
some great and good deed, and this
gathering of the clans deserves more
than passing mention.
Many notable women will go from
America, but our interest ceuters in Mrs.
Fannie Humphreys Gaffney president of
the National Council of Women of the
United States
As official representative, Mrs. Gaffney
carries the vote of one and a half millions
! of women, the largest united body of
women in the world. With the Anglo
American alliance still in allegiance. il is a
propitious omen that Mrs. Gaffney should
be the official representative for the Unit
ed States. In herself she embodies type
of the best product of American institu-
tons, and as the wife of an Englishrnan.
she knows the advantage of an Ang-o-
American alliance.
Frances Hardin Hess