The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-23
CONGRESS- OF MOTHERs
Will Hold It's Third Annual Session
in Washington Next Month.

Washington. Jan. 23.-The National
Congress of Mothers will hold its third
annual meeting in Washington in Feb
ruary, from the 14th to the 18th in
elusive, and will include on its program
speakers who are authorities of wide
reputation on the subject which they
will present.
The meeting of the congress will be
held in the First Baptist church, Six
teenth and Q streets, (where the first
congress was held) and the headquar-
tiers for delegates and visitors will be
1.-The Cairo which is within two blocks
of the church.
Reduced rates will be given on all
railroads, and also at the hotel.
The congress will open on Tuesday,
February IA, with an address of well
come from Mrs. Theodore w. Birney,
president, and also from President
Whitman, of Columbian university.
The response will be made by DR..
Mary Green, president of the House
hold Economic association.
There will be reports from delegates,
which will give an idea of the wide
and extended scope of the organization,
although so recently formed.
Mr.. Lawrence Hunt, former presi-
dent of the George Junior Republic, is
expected to speak on 1.-The Duty of the
State in Training Children for Citizen
Ship, and there will be a discussion of
the subject, which will be open to all.
Tuesday evening the president and
officers of the congress will hold re-
ceptfon in the spacious parlors of THE
Cairo"
Wednesday morning will be devoted
to business, when officers and commit
| tees will report the work of the year.
Wednesday, at 2:30, Parental Duty in
Education" will be the subject of an
address by Mrs. Joseph p Mumford,
honorary vice president of the congress,
and prominent member of the Phil
adelphia board of education ''-'
An open discussion of her paper will
follow, in which Prof. VIM. B. Powell,
CI1na ont Of ~ Voc lit
ton, and Miss Edith Westcott, principal
| of the western high school of Washing
| ton, will take part.
DR.. G. Stanley Hall of Worcester,
| Mass, will give an address Wednesday,
evening on Adolescence
Thursday morning will be devoted to
business and the election of officers.
Thursday afternoon DR.. L. Emmett
| Holt of New York will speak on THE
| Physical Care of Children" Environ
| lnent VS.. Heredity' will be presented by
Rev. Hastings H. Hart, superintendent
of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid
] society.
1.-THE Supreme Peril of Modern CiviIi-
| cation" will be the subject of a lecture
| by DR.. Josiah Strong, president of the
| League for Social Service, New York,
| on Thursday evening, and he will be fol
! lowed by Dr. VIM. H. Tolman, secretary
| of the League for Social Service, New
| York, who will give an illustrated lee
! ture on Industry localized; or Studies
| in a Labor Institute"
! Friday morning will be devoted to a
| lecture by Miss Wheelock of the Boston
| Training School for Kindergarten, on
! ''Froebers Textbook for Mothers, "
which will also be discussed by others
| prominent in kindergarten work.
Friday afternoon "Civics in Educa-
| ton will be the subject of an address
! by Mrs. Thomas Kirkbride of the Civic
| club of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Herman
| H Birney, a devoted leader in Univer-
| sity Extension work, will speak on 'Lit-
| eratIIre for Children
| Prof. Mary Robert Smith of Leland
| Stanford university will give an address
| Friday evening, taking for her subject
| Does the Curriculum of Schools and
| Colleges Fit Young Men and Women
| for the Duties of Life?''
A lecture on Religious Training OF
| Children will be delivered by Rev
| Chas. Wood of Philadelphia.
! Any club or department of another or
| ganization pursuing lines of work ger
| name to the object of the National Con-
| gress of Mothers, and such other organ
| izations as have been approved by the
| executive committee, shall each be en-
| titled to send one delegate to the an
| nual convention of the national congress
| upon the payment of an annual due OF
| five dollars