The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-06-06
FEDERATION OF CLUBS.

Gaal science FederatlOn OF CLUBS. held at
11eavenmorth, May 8. 8, 10. 1901. re-
ported to the Philomaths by of our
delegates. Published by request.
The speeches of the different officers
and delegates were fine and their papers
showed great care aud study in their pre-
partition: and many of them were inter
spersed with witticsms. The address of
welcome by Miss Dudley was decidedly
Atcssta.''
In her address she said: ssWhen our
grandnothers expected company, they
cleaned house and baked pies and hung a
cardboard welcome worked in worsted
opposite the parlor door. And i'll spite
of the fact that in most respects,
Inuch wiser than oCr grandmothers, our
modern hospitality still seeks expression
along these time honored lines
-tFor this occasion we have wrested
outwarily with brooms and brushes, and
inwardly with strivings that cannot be
uttered For this occasion we have test
ed all the recipes in the Kansas home
cook book and forced the male mem beers
of the household to consume the failures.
And now that the rooms are swept and
garnished> and the pies all ready to make
their appearance at the proper season, it
remains only for me to impersonate the
cardboard motto.''
The response TO this address was made
by Mrs. Mary L. Gray, of Kansas City,
who gave the history of the first Social
Science club which was organized TWEEN
fy years ago, May 10, 1851
Among other things in her speech she
quoted from Mis-. Stanton: ''If we only
could educate women to be tolerant, fair
minded and liberal, the world would be I,
very desirable place for men to dwell in. -
She also urged upon women the need of
consolidation of work, of interests and of
rewards. Aud said: The cessation of
and the moral vcneration of the
world, lies in the hands of the mothers
Bye and bye women will have more leis-
are for their children. Cooking will be
1eseened, for food will be concentrated
and compressed in various forms and the
eternal war now waged with the cook
stove and Kitchen will CEASE This
speech was very long and contained
many illusions complimentary to Leayen-
worth
Then followed the Presidents annual
address. She paid high tribute to the
Saturday Club of Leavenworth, which
twenty years ago issued the call to the
women of Kansas and Western Missouri
to come together and form the Kansas
Social Science Club. During her term of
office she has travelled over five thousand
miles and visited clubs in every part of
Kansas She felt gratified TO refute the
accusation made by certain fossils that
A'clubs are leading women to neglect
their homes.'' She said. '.Club women
are everywhere setting up a higher ideal
;,f homes" She said federation within
federation is the latest phase of the club
movement and dwelt upon the duty
women owe to the state.
Mrs Noble Prentiss presented a
thoughtful paper on the Relation of the
clubs to the Eleemosynary Institutions
of the State She urged club women to
interest themselves in the unfortunate
and to petition their state representatives
for reform in caring for insane women
and related "A pathetic incident that came
under her own observation. She spoke
of the uniform of the girls at the Beloit
school consisting of that ssdetestable
garment a Neither Hubbard, made of
blue calico, and thought it fostered gem
eral carelessuess and lack of decent
sslf-respect to compel young girls to wear
such "a shapeless garment all the time
She also urged club women to pledge
themselves to find homes for the girls
from the Industrial School for Girls at
Reloir. Mrs. w. A. tombstone of 'rope-
No. AAeAA stH kye@p~A vi SObOOA
Room Decoration" and after showing
how long it has taken TO educate the pub
lie into seeing the necessity for school
room decoration. traced the developmeU
and growth of the idea in Topeka.
In the evening Miss Abbie Ware.
daughter of Eugene Ware, gave ms an in
formal talk the value of literature
clubs. In reorganization and Work OF
the Ideal Club Mrs. Geo. c. Wilder OF
Manhattan, scored the clubs that quote
only from encyclopedias, and made ar
eloquent plea for individuality and or
1gEnaHty. Mrs Thompson of Topeka
talked ssThe Art of Managing Attrac-
tive Programs She deplored the ten
dency of the study clubs to wander al
oyer the universe and advised us to make