Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-02

come were given by Governor Henri
I. Gage. Mayor NJ. P. Snyder, Mr.:
Kate A. Buckley of Oakland, presiden
of the California Federation, and Mrs
/ Josiah Evans Cowles, president of TIL
| biennial local board. Mrs. Bukele
said
In the name of the California clu
women l bid you welcome. We hav
looked forward for two years witt
! pleasant antieipations to your coming
and now that you are here, Happiness
is ours. We are glad that you have ac
compished the weary journey aeros
the plains and deserts and over noun
tains and have come to the land o
promise and plenty, of sunshine ant
summer-our California.
'"The doors of our homes stand open
and when you enter you may be sur.
| prised to find greetings awaiting you
| not alone from California, but from
your own home states as well, and ever
| from countries beyond the sea. Fol
this state stands as a federation OF
| peoples from all places, and newcomers
to the Mecca are sure to find ole
friends to welcome them.
Our needs seem to reach out in end
less ramifcations, and our experience
| to be very limited. We shall therefore
sit at your feet and listen, and we shall
learn much that is valuable and much
that will be helpful in our small effort
for the advancement and general well
being of our clubs.
This what your coming means to
us. To you we can offer only our most
open hearted hospitality. You will
gain in the coming far more than it is
within our power to give. 1t is from
association with each other that your
most bountiful harvest will be gath
cred. For from natural interchange of
thought from observation of another's
experience, from comparison of work.
ing plans. a great good may be in
spired. To plan for the future is the
obvious duty of the present. What,
then, could be more appropriate than
such q convention of intelligent women
brought together to compare and de-
wise methods of helpfulness for mutual
Improvement and for the advancement
of education?
1T would seem, however, that the
longer be source of anxiety, when the
generous rich all over the world by
their munificent gifts are placing it
within the reach of all. In the history
of mankind education has never been
so general. The seats of learning are
free and their gifted leaders are untir-
ing and unselfish in giving their gar
nered wisdom to all who have leisure
to accept 1t"
Mrs. Lowe responded in so gracious
a manner as to call out rounds OF APP
plause. Then came greetings from fra
ternal delegates, including Mrs. Ru-
dolph Blankenburg, of Philadelphia,
who spoke on behalf of the suffrage
association; Mrs. Tod Gelmutes of New
York, the president of the national
council OF women; Mrs. Linda Hull
Larnd of Syracuse, n. Y. president OF
the National Household Economic As
sociation: ard Mrs. Frederick Shotf OF
philadelphia, president of the National
Congress Of Mothers.
AS chairman of the committee on
rules and regulations, Mrs. Douglas of
things, that delegate should ST .ak
o,ly twice to a subject and only three
minutes at time, that there should be
no proxies, and that member could
be delegate from only one organiza-
ton.
At this point Mrs. DIMES Denison
was Intro duced and received, in con-
of her term as acting presl- !
dent, with long applause. In turn she
m we'd that Mrs. Charlotte Severance,
mother of the woman's club in Califor- |
MIA, be made an honorary vice presi-
dent of the general federation. Mrs.
Severance responded happily, the aud
fence paying tribute to her age by ris-
ing to it's feet when she stepped to the |
front.
The official reception. which closed
The day with a crush, took place in the
evening under the auspices of the Fri
day morning club at the womens club |
house, u quaint structure of mission |
which had been trans
formed into tropical bower.
The throng of thousands was greeted |
by the national officers, the local bien- |
nial board and the presidents Of the |
Les Angeles club. Mrs. Francis, as
chairman of the introduction commit
ec, served in this capacity during the
.s,ning.
The report o. Ms. Fox tells of sew
.ral meetings of the board of directors
held during the pas two years and |
ays that one question rerains to be
ettled in connection with the office of
ederation secretary and that is
whether the secretary is ex-oifcio en-
it cd to vote in the convention. An
xplicit bylaw defining the duties and
privileges Of that Office is necessary.
'he report recounts the history of the
ase growing out of the application of
he New Era club CT Boston, club
omposed largely of women of the ne
no race, for membership in the feder-
ton. The application was presented
t the fifth biennial convention and the
resident of the club was present with
az dues Of the club, expecting to be
Gated.
A motion at a meeting of the board
directors that the New Era clubs
PUBLICATION be granted was tabled. The
Tub was not refused admission. No
ardship was imposed upon the dele
ate of the club, as she was entitled to
seat in the convention in another ca
a .ity. Reference is made to the use
illness of the club woman, the official
ryan Of the federation, as ameans of
information concern