Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-20

pared.
Inasmuch as the annual convention
OF patriotic women comes OF soon ia
Washington the Chicago chapter OF the
Daughters Of the American keVoluiO.
are remembering and announcing tha'
their chapter Is the largest IN the couh'
try. It numbers dangerously near the
200 mark. Through its seven delegates,
headed by Mrs. Alice Bradford Wiles, u
viii be able to report having shlppel
20. 900 books and magazines TO our SICK
soldiers In the Philippines. IL may
also tell OF It's university extension
study on men Who Made the Nation,
with lectures by Professor Frederick
Starp
Aside from these matters, which show
the chapter Is wide awake, II WIZ car
~ 10 the Washington convention lots
OF enthusiasm Tor the long talked oil
continental hall. which, when FUNDS are
sufficient. the daughters propose 10
erect In the national capital Tor me
preservation Of objects OF historic IN
terest. This calls to mind the WORK
OF American women for the preserya-
tlon Of historic homes, such as the
Washington house at Mount Vernon
and their efforts In a smaller way 70
mark patriotic spots all over the coun-
try.
This Is also a reminder OF something
else. and that something Is the mark
Inc OF the graves Of revolutionary sol
diers BIZ the Daughters Of Illinois. N
Bloomington alone there are twelve
such graves that are marked. The rea-
son that this has not been done IN
Chicago Is because all names and rec
ords were destroyed In the biz fire. The
only revolutionary soldier whose rest
ing place in Chicago Is known SAID
Mrs Wles the other day. rs buried IN
Lincoln Park. This grave was marked
By bronze by the Sons OF the Amerl'
can Revolution, but the bronze was
afterward stolen"
One way to get club members 10 work
Is to make them promise In black and
white what they will do. This plan
was followed by Mrs. Catherine Waugh
Mccullough, president OF the Illinois
Woman's Suffrage association, when
she spoke the other day before the
Chicago Political Equality League. Slips
Of paper were passed around and mem
beers were asked 10 write thereon what
they would DO for suffrage during the
coming year, Some wrote that they
would prepare suffrage articles for the
newspapers In the smaller towns Of the
State. ana still others made the writ
ten promise TO give money.
Another way 10 get club women TO
work Is to have them take pledge on
becoming a member TO that effect
Though a real wide-awake woman VIII
work for her club, pledge or no pledge,
there are others no doubt. TO whom
the pledge is a sort OF reminder The
Ossoli club Of Highland Park has
pledge, for instance, and II reads:
IL promise active participation In
the work Of the ossoll club and unfail-
ing devotion to its interests as long as /
am a member"
That important topic the reorganiza-
ton Of the general federation. Is TO be
considered by the national committee OF
fifteen some time In February Mrs.
Horace Brock chairman Of the COM
mttee. has called a meeting to be held
at Lebanon, Pa, and the time, though
rather indefinite, will probably be the
last week IN February. In the mean
time club women everywhere are writ
ing up the pro and con sides OF the
question. From the newspapers and
journals devoted TO club women II APP
pears that direct representation Of the
individual club seems to be growing In
favor ..I