Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-23

biennial. If at all, in order that they
may have the full voting strength. II
the next biennial Is held in Boston,
the Southern women will be treated
with the greatest courtesy" II the
Georgia amendment Is adopted, Mas
sachusetts will likely wiAlraw from
the G. +. w. c., If lost Me Southern
women may withdraw, and Mrs. West,
who presented the contingency for dis
cussion, remarked that withdrawal
would mean "incalculable loss to the
Southern clubs, as the federation had
been a great factor in their develop
ment." But Massachusetts might
withdraw without much loss to her
self"
With all the handlcaps that isolation
and long distances can scatter In the
way Of the woman's club movement,
the Dakota federation Is in a most
fiourishing state. IL has now twenty
clubs representing membership of $50
women. Two OF the clubs are COM
posed exclusively Of farmers wives,
who live from three TO seven miles
apart from each other. but they are
keenly alive TO the benefit derived
from the regular meetings and snap
their fingers at distance. The name
Of the Nineteenth Century club of
Devils Lake, is familiar to many club
women from the fact that II was the
club that took such an admirably pro-
gressive way TO collect a library for
It's town. II simply asked each club
In the general federation to send one
book, and the handsome response to the
request Is shown in the library Of 1900
volumes now established there Which
proves the interhelpfulness OF womens
clubs in pleasant way.
A unique club, every member Of
which Is an avowed old lady and
proud NJ II, Is the newly organized Cali
fOrna Women's Pioneer society. To be
eligible to membership a woman must
have crossed the plains I'm an OK team
before the year 1854. No less than
thirty names adorn the charter roll,
These early settlers in the then wild
West not only talk TO their hearts
content OF the good old times" but
many Of them are able to recount deeds
of daring and hairbreadth escapes. AZ
ter waiting years without being asked
to join the California Mems Pioneer
society these enterprsing and MOTTO
oe-suppressed grandmammas. wishing
recognition at the recent seml-centen-
NAL celebration Of their State decided
to draw up constitution Of their own,
setting forth their aspiration to keep
alive the pioneer spirit. And they did.
Mrs. Jennie June Croly would have
established central reciprocity
bureau, where club women can secure
expert information on art education
and what-not. This scheme would AZ
ford communication, moreover. between
the seventeen reciprocity bureaus which
positively flourish In as many States.
The woman who first mentioned fair
exchange" TO the General Federation of
WOmen's club was Mrs. Elizabeth Bal
lard Thompson Of Michigan. otherwise
known as the reciprocity lady" Club
women were quick TO see the advan-
tages OF swapping ideas and by de-
grees there developed departments
called reciprocity bureaus.
Minnesota's Womens Federation OF
Clubs will have its midwinter breakfast
next wednesday at the Ryan hotel, in
st. Paul
The report OF the fifth biennial. held
at Milwaukee June, 1900. a pamphlet
OF ia pages. will be sent postpaid by
the recording secretary of the General
Federation. Mrs. Emma A. Fox, 2l
Bagley avenue. Detroit, Mich. upon re-
ceipt Of fifteen cents.
The International Press union will
hold Its fourth congress al Washing
ton In the first week Of March. Dele
gates and members will have an OBJ
to enjoy the inaugural cere-
monies. all the privileges OF which Will
be obtained for them. Indications are
that II will be one OF the most inter-
esting Of the congresses held. These
form the only meetings of
the union. Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood OF
Washington Is president OF the union.
which has long list Of vice presidents
at large, who are located In various
parts Of the United States and in Ber-
lin. Toronto, Paris, Stockholm and ,
Cambridge. England.
The State federation Of Tennessee has
devoted its attention chiefly 70 educa- |
ional effort. II has this year succeed
d In getting compulsory educational |
Dill. which II has been agltatlng for |
tome time In the hands OF the legis- |
ators. II is now pending action Mrs. |
Charles A.Perkins Of Knoxville, is pres
dent Of the federation.