The times., 1899-05-21
TEN THOUSAND WOMEN.
International Council to Meet il
London Next Month.

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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. roll call OF perhaps hundred
women, but this roll call is only proxy
for three and a half millions of the most
cultured women in the world.
France, Holland, Denmark, Belgium,
Finland and Switzerland vii be admitted
during this 1899 meeting, and this will
give a total of five million women-noth-
ers-who meet Ito confer upon questions
relating to the. welfare of the common
wealth and of the family"
Under the auspices of this council
congress will be held. Ten thousand wo-
men have signified their intention to be
present. ha
The schedule OF subjects for discussion
includes an educational section, profes-
sicnal sectien, legislative and industrial
sections and social sections.
Educational section.
l. The Child, life and training.
2. School.
8. Universities.
4. Modern educational experiments.
u.
6. Co-education.
z. Training OF teachers.
s. Examinations and examination sys-
TENS.
9. 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 in
teresting feature Ito Americans at any
I'll, ffa
of the aristocratic society. Besides many
smaller functions, the Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland will receive at Stafford
House June &c; Lady Battersea at Surray
House, June 2S; the Bishop of London and
Mrs. Creighton at Fulham Palace, July l;
Lady Rothschild and Mrs. Leopold de
Rothschild on July 4.
The reception at Fulham Palace takes
the form of a garden party. Tsis is par
ticularly opportune, for the English gar
den party is a component part of English
home life.
Another garden party will be given at
Swanley. Dean Hole will be the host, and
Miss Sieveking will show how rose garden
ing is a successful occupation for women.
The hostesses for the International
Council are: The Countess of Aberdeen,
president; Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Uni
ted States, vice president; proxy, Mrs.
enberg, Finland, treasurer; proxy, Mrs.
Fenwick, treasurer of the International
Congress fund; Miss Teresa f. Wilson,
corresponding secretary; Madame Maria
Martin, France, recording secretary;
proxy. Mrs. Dora Montefiore, Great Brit
ain; Countess of Warwick, the Lady Bat
tersea, Mrs. Percy Bunting, Mrs. Creigh-
ton, Mrs. RawlinsoD, the Lady Laura Rid
ding. Lady Roberts-Austen, Miss Margaret
Il-s- LD.-.1
full, Mrs. Bedford Fenwick, Mrs. ]. r.
Macdonald, Hon. Mrs. A. T. Lyttleton,
Mrs. Benson, and Mrs. Fannie Humphreys
Gaifney.
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 travel
ing libraries that she sends to outposts of
civilization in the British Empire. 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 magazines. 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 project under its wing in perpe-
tuity.
And since her return to Great Britain
eut gives Il GtIt6lE Ol personal
supervision to the hampers that are to
bear the mental food to the far-away
land.
Mrs. ]. r. Macdonald is perhaps the
most interesting woman on the list for
she has done more than any one else
10 alleviate the had conditions surround
ing 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
hundred years.
The beautiful Countess of Warwick has
successful experiment to relate. Her
agricultural school at Reading for the
training Of gentlewomen is a worthy OBJ
!ect lesson, which ought to have a hear
ing throughout the world. Women with
an income of e10 per annum $4,000 are
taught how to make living on an allot-
ment of five acres.
The name of each hostess stands for
some great and good deed, and this gath
ering OF the clans deserves more than
passing mention.
Many notable women will go from Amer
lea, but our interest centres in Mrs. Fam
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 a half millions
OF women. the largest united body of wo-
men in the world. With the Anglo -Ameri-
can alliance still in allegiance. il is a pro-
pitious omen that Mrs Caflney should be
the official representative for the United
States. In herself she embodies a type
OF the best product of American institu-
tions, and as the wife of an Englishman
she knows the advantages of an Anglo
American alliance,