The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-22
WOMEN'S FEDERATION.
INNUAL MEETING IN SESSION IN
 THIS CITY.

THIS CITY.
 Reports of Officers and Committees
 Two Local Clubs Admitted-civtl Ser
 vice Reform Topic of Evening sessio,
 Able Addresses by Professor H. w
 Fnrnnm, George McAneny and Rich
 ard H. Dana, Esq. Bashfui CoIone
 Osborn-Both Sessions Largely At
 tended.
 The opening session of the Connec- ticut State Federation of Women's clubs was held at the Calvary Baptist church yesterday afternoon at o'clock, The number of delegates responding to their names at roll call was very large but many more are expected to be pres ent at the sessions to-day.
 Yesterdays session was opened with an address of wecome by Mrs. George $. Barnum of the Study club this city. After the hearing of reports of several state officers Mrs. William F. Black man sang a solo very acceptably. Mrs. Banum said in brief:
 It is my privilege to give you greet ings to-day The German kaiser has said that "Women's interests should be bounded by three Ks-Kinder, Kucher and Kirsche"-yet while he may not ap- prove of anything so progressive as a federation of women's clubs even in this far off Hand of steady habits," surely the most conservative minds must ad- init, after perusing the programme for this meeting that the little grapevines of our state seal are typical of our three-fold devotion to "Kinder"-Edu- cation being Friday mornings topic, with "Kuchen'' Household Economics, in the afternoon, and as for the church, why, here we are.
 We have also for motto that chosen by our forefathers for this goodly land: "Qui Transtulit Sustinet." May it prove ever true for the federation as always for Connecticut, "He that hath transplanted shall sustain"
 Mrs. George Jamieson of Bridgeport reported for the committee on indus trial conditions. The report was quite lengthy Tn brief this committee is one recently appointed, but concerns itself only with the industrial condi- tions affecting women and children, and as that scope might be considered world wide the field of labor Is much larger than the confines of the state of Connecticut One of the great objects of the committee is to study thoroughly the conditions of women and children in any industrial capacity. and the de- gree of conformity to these laws by both employer and employe. Numerous instances of the bettering of the condi- tion of employed women and children were cited which go to show the wis dom of having appointed such com mittee.
 Another important address was that made by Mrs. Frederick Nathan of New York city on "Women's Influence in Industrial Conditions. After speaking at some length on the attention paid by economists during the past few years to the consideration of women as factors in social economies, Mrs. Ma than told of the objects of the Con- sumers league of New York, of which she is president.
 The Consumers league is an associa ton of persons who by their combined | influence as shoppers seek to further | the welfare of those who make or dis | tribute the things bought. For more | than ten years the Consumers league | of New York city has endeavored to l raise the standard of conditions in re- | tail stores by the use of its white list | of fair houses which it recommends to 1 Il, - -kl. .%Nx,N &@I In improving conditions of employment | for women and children. The first list published contained four names, and the last included fortyfour stores. As the standard of the league has steadily risen, it will readily be seen hat the league has achieved very tan- sible results in persuading the mer- chants that the improvement in condi- ions of employment Is of financial ad- vantage to them.