The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-27

Bertha Damaris Knobe, of Chicago.
Mrs w. 5, Decker. of Denver. as vice
president of the General Federation OF
women's Clubs, will not only preside
over several business sessions-one OF
them will be devoted to Opportunities
of the Federation"-but is to be in charge
of the Consumers League session. Club
women are not only alive to the indus
trial interests of the fair sex. but In the
PAST year there has been marked ten
ton paid not only to the protection Of the
producer, but to the education of the con-
sumner. The work of the Consumers
League, which has branches in several
states. viii be presented at the conven-
ton by Mrs. Florence Kelley, of New
York, the national organizer; Mrs Fred
erick Nathan of New York; Miss Edith
NJ. Howes, OF Boston, and Mrs. Corlnne
Brown, of Chicago
AS president for several years of the
Denver Woman's Club, Mrs. Decker was
well known to the women of the West.
and in the past two years, as first leu
tenant to Mrs. Lowe, she has attended
numerous conventions of club women all
over the country, and has. moreover, an
enviable reputation as speaker and
raconteur.
The industrial session, over which Mrs
Corinne Brown. of Chicago, chairman OF
the industrial committee of the general
federation. Is to preside, would make an
interesting chapter by itself. If there is
one issue that will vie with art at the
Milwaukee biennial it is this committee.
dealing II does, with the industrial
problems affecting women and children.
This committee Is comparatively new,
having been formed at the Denver bien-
NAL, but so aroused are club women on
this question that, as intimated by Mrs.
Lowe, IL will doubtless receive close in
vestigation during the next administra-
ton. There are, according to the COM
| mittee. over 100000 wage-earning women
a,,I ,t,t tI,.,, in, aud fhx,
Just conditions under which thew often
labor have been set forth since the last
biennial in two circular letters. The re-
suit is that.many clubs have formed in
dustrial committees for the furtherance
of this work.
Mrs. Brown Is always present at con-
ferences relating TO social reform. She Is
a socialist to begin with, ana giories in
the fact, being identified with the Social
| Democratic party, headed by Mr.. Debs.
In her own city she is connected with
the Social Economics Club. being chair
man of the economic inquiry department,
and was the organizer OF the Woodlawp
Womans Club, working department
club of several hundred members. She
has figured in the biennials since the fed
Grafton was formed and is accounted one
of its most earnest workers.
The subject as presented at the bien-
NAL will cover every phase of the work.
Probably the chief speaker may be said
to be Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson, the
reformer and writer. who will speak on
women and Work" Other speakers In
clude Mrs. Levi Young, of Portland, Or;
Mrs. John X. Ottley, of Atlanta; Mrs.
Margaret Halle, of Roxbury, Mass; Mrs.
Angina Stevens, of Chicago. The women
who will lead in the discussion of these
| addresses are Dr. Dorothea Moore OF
San Francisco; DIR. Mary Jordan Finley,
of Mansfield, o.; Mrs. Martha f. Root,
of Bay City, Mich. and Mrs. j. G. Hume.
of Des Moines, Ia
Two other sessions will in a way be a
continuation of the industrial session.
One under Mrs. Charlotte Coffyn Wilkin-
son. OF Syracuse N. Y, will be given
over to reports of women workers, and
such subjects as "The Lunch Club"
vacation Houses" and Mutual Benefit
Funds" will be discussed by women who
are familiar with these phases OF the
working woman's life The other session.
called 1.-THE Ethics of Work" with Mrs.
Mich. Miss Dotha Pinneo of Norw1lk
Conn. as chairman will have as speak,
ers Miss o. NJ. f. Rowe, of Boston; Mrs.
Sewyn Douglas. OF oklahoma City: Mrs.
Caroline Bartlett Crane. of Kalamazoo,
Mich: Miss Dotha Pinneo, OF Neorwalk.
Conn. and Mrs. Frederick Hanger, OF
Little Rock Ark.
All other subjects in which club women
have an interest are punched together
under the head of "a Group of Impor-
tant Subjects" and over this session Mrs.
Charles s. Morris, of Berlin, Wis, ex-
president of the Wisconsin Federation.
will preside Miss Mira Lloyd Dock, of
Harrisburg, Pa, will speak of the Aodu-
bon Society; Miss Helen Whittier, OF
Lowell, Mass. will make a plea for civil
service: Miss Annie w. Williams, of
Philadelphia, will talk of vacation
schools. and Miss Mary Mcdowell OF
Chicago. head of the Chicago university
social settlement. will present the SUBJ
ject of social settlements
From this summary OF the sessions and
the club women who will he conspicuous
as chairmen II may be understood what
a mammoth undertaking is biennial
meeting. Counting the literary and busi-
ness sesslons-there will sometimes be six
n day--to say nothing of the l01 commit
tee meetings on the side and the innu-
merable social affairs as planned by the
Milwaukee hostesses. and this weeks
convention resolves itself literally into n
seven days wonder.
According to the list of delegates tho
states that will have the largest number
of representatives are Massachusetts--it
Is entitled TO over 2o0-Ilinois and Colo
RADIO, though other states. as New York.
will send a big party of several hundred
club women in a special train.
The plans of these club women en- route
TO the convention city will be no small
part Of their pleasure. The Boston
women, for instance, viii stop Off at
Niagara Falls for day OF sightseeing.
with another stop at Rochester for q re-
ception. The New York women will also
take a look at Niagara, planning 10 dine
Mt the Iroquois in Buffalo the saline even
ing where they will be rendered a recep-
ton by the federated club. of that city
Add to these social stop-overs, the shop
talk and the club songs that will be In
dulged In on board the train. and one
may have an idea of the fun that IL
mixed with the flow Of soul" on Dbl
cnnial special"
After the convention many Of the dele
cations have planned special trips to
points Of interest. And Il is no Joke they
will need an outing after their seven
days inning.
Suggestion About the Hall of Fame.
Instead Of reserylng 80 large a par OF
fhta memorial for names that SpIu cpI,,