The evening times., 1899-01-16
Will Meet HERE
IN FEBRUARY
Convention of the National
Congress of Mothers.
NAM Distinguished Speakers Will
Attend.
Programme az Arranged for the
Session-Reduced Railroad Rates.
Headquarters in This City.

The National Congress Of Mothers will
hold its third annual meeting in this city
in February, from the 18th TO the 18th in
elusive, and will include on its programme
speakers who are authorities of wide repu-
tation on the subjects which they viii rep
resent The meetings of the congress will
be held in the First Baptist Church, Six
teenth and o Streets, where the first con-
gress was held, and the headquarters for
delegates and visitors Will be the Cairo,
which is within two blocks of the church.
Reduced rates will be given on all rail-
roads, and also at the hotel
The congress viii open on Tuesday Feb
ruary Il, with an address of welcome from
Mrs Theodore W. Birney. president, and
also from President Whitman Of Colum-
bian University. The response will be
made by DR.. Mary Green, president of the
Household Economic Association.
There will be reports from delegates,
which will give an idea of the wide and
extended scope of the organization, al
though so recently formed. Lawrence
Hunt, former president of the George Jun
ior Republic, is expected to speak on The
Duty of the State in Training Children for
Citizenship" and there Will be a discus
sion of the subject, which will be open to
all
On Tuesday evening the president and
officers of the congress will hold recsp-
tion in the spacious parlor of the Cairo.
Wednesday morning will be devoted 10
business when officers and committees
will report the work of the year. We'd
nesday, at 80, Parental Duty in Edu-
cation" will be the subject of an address
by Mrs Joseph P. Mumford, honorary
vice president of the congress and a prom
inent member of the Philadelphia board
of education.
An open discussion OF her paper will
follow, in which Prof. William B. Powell,
superintendent of schools in Washington,
and Miss Edith Westcott, principal of the
Western High School at Washington, Will
take part. Dr. G. Stanley Hall, of Wor-
| cester, Mass, will give an address on
Wednesday evening on Adolescence" ."
| Thursday morning will be devoted to
! business and the election of officers
| Thursday afternoon DR.. l.. Emmet Holt,
of New York, will speak on The Physi-
cal Care of Children" Environment VS.
| Heredity" will be presented by the Rev.
| Hastings H. Hart, superintendent of the
! Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society,
| and the Rev. DR.. Wood. of Philadelphia,
will speak on Religious Training of Chill
| dren.' THE Supreme Peril of Modern
| Civilization will be the subject of lee
ture by DR.. Josiah Strong, president of
| the New York League for Social Service
| on Thursday evening, and he will be fol-
lowed by DR.. William H. Tolman, secre-
tary of the League for Social Service who
will give an illustrated lecture on In
dustry Idealized; or, Studies in a Labor
Institute
Friday morning will be devoted to a lee
ture by Miss Wheelock, of the Boston
Training School for Kindergarten, or
| "Froebel's Textbook for Mothers" which
will also be discussed by others promi,
nent in kindergarten work. Friday even
| ing "Civics in Education" will be the sub
ject of an address by Mrs. Thomas Kirk
| bride, of the Civic Club OF Philadelphia
and Mrs. Herman H. Birney, a devoted
leader in university extension work, viii
speak on Literature for Children
Prof Mary Robert Smith, of LELAND
Stamford, Jr., University, will give an ad
dress Friday evening, taking for her sub
iect, Does the Curriculum of Schools anc
Colleges Fit Young Men and Women fo
the Duties of Life?"
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 organi
cations as have been approved by the ex
ecutive committee, shall each be entitled
to send one delegate to the annual con
vention of the National Congress upol
payment of annual dues of SIS.
Secretaries of clubs are requested t
bring the matter of membership and affl
iation with the National Congress befor
their respective organizations in orde
that they may have voting representation
The Office of the congress is Washing
ton Loan and Trust Building. Those de
string further information regarding tn
congress may obtain it by inclosing a 2
cent stamp for the official programme
| &c fain ol,,a
BILE information for those desiring to at