The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-26
REPRESENTING ONE AND
A HALF MILLION WOMEN

The international Council of Women.
meeting in London during the week OF
June 26-July 4, is not a suffrage move
ment, as so many seem to think. 1t grew
/ out of q suffrage meeting, but its very
raison detre is to supply platform on
which "a difference OF opinion on one
question should not prevent our working
unitedly for those on which We agree"
In short, it is (a) to provide a means of
communication between women's organ
izations in all countries; (b) to provide
opportunities for women to meet together
, from all parts of the world to confer upon
questions relating to the welfare of the
commonwealth and the family.
The International Council, itself, is not
large, being composed of the president
and two delegates from each national
council of Great Britain and Ireland,
Canada, Germany, Sweden, New Zealand,
New South Wales. Italy and the United
States. a roll-call of perhaps hundred
women. but this roll-call is only a proxy
for three and u half millions of the most
cultured women in the world.
France, Holland, Denmark, Belgium.
Finland and Switzerland Will be admitted
during this 1899 meeting, and this will
give a total of 100000 women-mothers-
who meet Ito confer upon questions re-
lating to the welfare of the common
wealth and of the family
Under the auspices of this council a
congress will be held. Ten thousand wo-
men have signified their intention to be
present.
includes an educational section, profess
SiOnal section, legislative and industrial
sections and social section.
!. Educational section.
!. The child life and training
9 School.
3. Universities.
4. Modern educational experiments.
>. Technical education.
6. Co-education.
Z. Training of teachers.
8. Examinations and examination sys-
TENS
g. Women as educators.
From this schedule the reader Will read
lily see that the council has prepared for
all emergencies and has catered to all
tastes.
After all, however. perhaps the most
interesting feature Ito Americans. at any
rate will be the glimpse into the nome
life of the aristocratic circle OF Engnsn
society. Besides many smaller functions,
receive at Stafford house, June 20; Lady
Battersea at Surray house, June %; the
bishop of London and Mrs. Creighton at
Fulham palace, July l; Lady Rothscnild
and Mrs Leopold de Rothschild on July 4.
The reception at Fulham palace takes
the form of garden party rms is par
ticularly opportune, Tor the Ensnsh gar
den party is Il component part OF Eng
lish lone life.
Another garden party will be given at
Swanley. Dean Hole will be host. and
Miss Sieveking will show how rose gar
dening is u successful occupation Tor
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 GrlpenDefg, Flnlanu'
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
Dofa Montefiore, Great Britain; Countess
of Warwick the Lady Battersea- Mrs
Rawlinson, the Lady Laura Ridd.hg, Lazy
Roberts-Austen, Miss Margaret Bateson,
Mrs Broadley Reid Miss Faithful, Mrs.
Bedford Fenwick Mrs. ]. r. Macdonald,
Hon. Mrs A. Il. Lyttleton, Mrs. Benson,
Mrs. Fannie Humphreys Carney.
The president, Lady Aberdeen, is too
well known in the United States to gain
any fresh lustre from the reiteratlon OF
her many good deeds, yet one stands out
travelling Libraries that she sends TO out
posts of civilization in the British empire
During her husbands administration as
governor general of Canada, sne 1ounu
that the new settlers were homesick for
the want of the home papers and maya
zines. She began the sending OF these m
10 wildernesses, and SO lnportaIt mas tliis
grown that the great Imperial Institute
of London has taken the project under It's
wing, in perpetuity.
Ind since her return TO Great Brltalh
she gives q certain amount OF personal
supervision to the hampers that are 10
bear the mental food to the faraway land.
Mrs. j. X. 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. Inc
legislation that has taken effect through
her efforts forms a commentary on labor
conditions in England for the last nun
dred years.
The beautiful Countess of Warwick has
a successful experiment to relate her
agricultural school at Reading Tor tne
training of gentlewomen is a worthy OBJ
ject lesson which ought to have hear
ing throughout the world. Women with
and i,.come of f10 per annum s50) are
taught how to make a living on an aliot-
ment of five acres.
The name of each hostess stands Tor
some great and good deed, and this
gathering of the clans deserves more
than passing mention.
Many notable women VIII go from amer
lea but our interest centers in Mrs. ram
ME Humphreys Gaffney, president of the
National Council of Women of the United
States.
AS official representative, Mrs Gaffney
carries the vote of one and half millions
of women the largest united body of
women in the world. With the Anglo
American alliance still in allegiance. II is
a propitious omen that Mrs. Ganney
should be the official representative for
the United States. In herself she embo-
dies a type of the best product OF Amer
lean institutions, and as the wife of an
Englishman she knows the advantages of
an Anglo american alliance.
FRANCES HARDIN HESS.
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