Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-19
|N|LL MEET Monday
Preparations Almost Complete For
the National Mothers Congress
at Des Moines.
Many Notable Women Will Attend
the ConventionSome Of Their
specialties.

the COnVontl0n--SOme OF Jlelr
Specialties.
Leaders in the Organization Have,
Many Of Them, Acquired Ma.
tional Regulations
Special to Times Republican.
Des Mcines, May 19.-Preparations
for the mothers congress. which opens
here Monday, are the most thorough |
and complete that Des Mones has
made for any convention in years Mrs.
Z. r. Clapp. chairman of the enter
tainment and hospitality committees,
has received the names of all the ac-
credited delegates who are entitled to
Entertainment and has assignd the peo-
pie on this list to the Des Moines
women who have offered 5entertain-
ment. The Des Moines hostesses have
written to their guests. inquiring what
train they will come on, assuring them
I'of a hearty welcome in their homes and
lspromisins to meet them at the trains
The intention is to make the visitors as
much at home as possible and make
them feel that they are the personal
guests of the people of Des Moines.
\ The greatest uncertainty still prevails
as to the number of delegates and visi-s
tors. The ladies' Who are coming from
1.-The east, however. include some of the
best known public women in the coun-
Istry.
Mrs. Theodore w. Brney, of Wash
.ling,on, %. c., the president Of the con-
gress, is the widow of son of the fa-
|mous abolitionist. She occupies a
4 prominent position in educational and
Iphilanthropic work, tho she is less than
4 40 years of age. She is small of stat
lure. dellcately nodded and is q fasci-
Isanting public speaker. Her soft south
ern voice carries her earnest words into
Il every part Of a large hall. She is a
A southern woman. born and bred, and
has devoted a large part of her time to
4 public work. At the same time, she has
Il brought up three charming daughters.
4 1t was primarily her interest in them
a Isthat led her into this work.
Il l5s}g
n Mrs. Frederick Schoff, of philadel-
lphia, first vice president of the con-
I gress. Is another very notable woman
s who has already accomplished much II
/ 1.-THE line of philanthropic and charitable
) work She is one of a board of three OF
S sIcharities and corrections in Philadsl.
II pfia, and is, the head Of a COMMITTEES
\ lof five women who have been working
g to prepare a resume of the laws of the
tdifterent states on the treatment of de.
n pendent and misdemeaning children
i 4 She has prepared Il volume on this sub
!, ject which Is pronounced by the lega
!, 4 profession and specialists in this line Il
= be a most valuab Bile contribution to TIL,
tliterat,lre of this subject. She Will tel
& the congress something Of this work
Mrs. Sckoff is the mother Of seven chill
@ 5iren She has a son under % years o
agn who is master of nine languages
Il graduated from Harvard at the age 0
is and is now at the head of the for
lelgn department in the Philadelphia
Museum. One of her daughters is I
professor In Bryn AIawr, and others d
her children give promise of distin
Nlguished careers.
1t has sometimes been said that tn
women who are a the head of this an
similar organizations are those wh
have no children of their OWN. In@re
: tpiy to this charge, the ladies of the eA
1lecutive board Of the monthers' Cor
gress, six in number, have twenty
= seven children. Mrs. Roger b. Nj
y Mullen, of Evanston. ILL.,. state organ
= tsizer for Illinois, is vice president of IL
Illinois Child Study Society and leat
erin work of this kind. She has take
the lead in perfecting sta te orsanizi
ig tion For Illinois, and the first meetil
- lat she lllirsis congress of mothers vi
of be held Monday, May %.
of 4
~ Mrs. j. II. Porter. of Hillsborn. Te,
nd twill bring a delegation of twenty-fi'
e representative southern women, mos
of ly from the states of Texas, Louisial
he and Mississippi. She is a leader in Il
o. Temperance movement In the south al
to has been influential in shaping leaisl
lis ton for the state care Of depende
children
Mrs. Thaddeus p, Stanwood, of Il
anstor, ILL.,, has been investigating d
no legal status Of the mother and chi
as and is at the head of a committee
va which all states are Represented. viii
US is trying to secure legislation I o pr
OF tect the mothers right to the posse
IN. sion Of her child. she will make a i
~ port Of this movement to the coHgre
'ss Another Illinois woman who will
lrs prominent in the meeting is Mrs. 9
IN den Bourland, of Pontiac. Who is cha
man of the committee on edncatis
Is. She alsnsis "A worker in the Illinois CHI
Study Society and is a brilliant, bea
2 tiful woman, a gifted speaker and Q
- of the most attractive personalities
= the coming meeting.
IL, Mrs Florence Kelley, of New Yo
!, president of the New York Consume
=, Lea que. has been fighting the swe;
a ,,,a shops ard trying to persuade Women
-, buy only such goods as are made
- labor that is we'll paid and provid
With decent sanitary surroundir
Mrs. Kelley will tell the congress
unseen Dangers to Childhood Res,
ms ing from Present Industrial Con
M tons. Other New York women "
the will attend the meeting, arriving insI
Mones in a private car Monday mo
RS ing. are: Mrs. Frances Gaffney. pre-
Ills dent OF the National Council. of Wo
ap- EN-; Mrs. S. B. Larned Of Syracuse,
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