The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-21

ffen a9 wife and mother. Mrs Miinel Ewas . Monteoinery giri. Miss Moilie Whip pie daqGhter Of Dr.. H. L. whipple. shi | was graduated as vassar in 1887. q, :, The next number on the program wa, 1 . .song Twilight is Failing rendered bt Mfr. EuGshe H. Aliison accompanie6 or piano by Mrs. Al1tlen, The report ant address of the President. Mrs. John. D wyckerk wss next made. and was as fol towB: sb .s .-
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 | s- AxNuAL ADDREss. Members cf the Alabama Federation, La ts This tstuG the hfAt time that Club Eo- nyen hsve Appeaxed in psbiic In the De- caturA1 Su6 as the arrival of our af11s- E;versarN inclisies us to look backward we taks' q, retrespectivs aiance at our; hls- tory aS c Feieratfon. was surprised to keifn recently. in couversation with a fflsnd ef tAe le9ai fraternity. that the fy him as . band of Woman's Rights
 womah e would Hks to tell the gem 1 tfMnen whe have hona4ed us with their eressnce tonight. something about the The term Chsb woman . su5iect to vid4 @nerence in fntsrpresat ton. and definition. TO many n in- the coDe of nay friend msans the woman with mascrhins tend ssSASSs ss.S4 - Stoy fuK .Out. IHkntS, want inn to vote. to 10 to war and enlancipate nerseif froEn dofng what she has been or0u9hf up to do and elect herself to do- in9 aH thcge tainze she has a mind to do.
 wHo s.nnes nses h n.s as sessisss iner own bnsineas. but must needs gossip over the business of others with hke-
 mmdea women. Far from having mascu-
 most intensely fenainine creature possible;
 enA never clubs at night and is against war even for men. To the charge that sne has tendeHcy to do what she has q Mfna tc do. sne must plead guilty.
 science and Charities form the list of
 the dreadful thinxs the Alabama Club
 woman n.s q mind to stuiy If you were
 co t se with % ne tonight to an institution tne wAtfs. some, of whose fathers and
 mothers arc servina their terms in the penftentiarv. or the bow. sentenced last yetr ys % 70 the coal mines from our county.
 men parcled by our kind Governor to. be pf9ced in this instttatien or that other boy taken. by our. Probate Judge and Commissioner's Court from the Morgan County Indrmarv to this school. what kind of woman Club Woman is, I tMnE chorus of sixty boyish voices would tell you She Is an angel of la.ht but If you were to ask the. same question of the pronlnent -clergymen of our State. am afraid the answer would ,ssa ,s,: you to sRink. that the boys are color.
 when our Federation was first formed, for two years the work was of a literary character only. but from reading books ourselves. grew the desire to give them to o<nef3e and a. library of 600 volumes
 Wss placed fn the Girls Industrial School, Trayeiing Libraries sent in to the coun- trv districts. and local ones established in the various towns of the State. our own cotaco library of the pecaturs being one of the. Mbrarfes.
 Several scholarships in the Girls h. dustEial School and in the Julia Tutwiler Annex t0 the State University hava been kept up bS different clubs. After the Free .Schefarship. Committee. came the committes cn Reformatary. This. Com mittees Of one.s strong in the Knowledge that she had l.200 women back of her, went before the Legislature of the State and obtained a charter and appropriation formatory for White Boys under a Board of Control of prominent Club women with the one whom we all delight to honor for It's President ... -.
 Rarteus and Education have done good work. When the subject of increased ap- propriations for Normal Schools came before the last Legislature. the report of this committee was read as an argument tn favor of the measure which cartied. Later @ eircrlar sent to the Constituti onal Convention from the Committee was Rtven respectful hearing and some of it's clauses made use of.
 Our Art. Music and Domestic Commit- tees are, new ones. Our Club Ext ansion Committee has not been able to report much pFo8ress this year for two reasons, are most of them already members while those which are not are awaiting our de- cision in the matter of joining the Gen eral Federation. It will he remembered ty ths pioneers Of our Federation that. hon framing I.F m f,o at Birmingham In '9o. I proposed the clause which made it impossible for Us to unite with any. other organixat exc spt as individual clubs; but three years later Federation, wishing to show it's appreei- ation of the compliment to our section in he election of a Southern woman as Woman's 6 Ciuba. adopted a. set of resolu- tions and asked the Club to take a vote on the question of the State Federation toining the General and report to the isvoraSiy Ny % own % opinion: onse thate sst0f,se we would enjoy no benefit In joining as a Federation which we would not enjoy through membership as individual Clubs, remains unchanged. In fact. If reorgani- up at the Milwaukee Bienpial. but which paled into insigntfieance when Madame. Ruffin presented her highly .olorad ere dential to have them laid on the tab ble by
 
 had carried in California. we would have more beneft through membership as Clubs. and not weaken our strength at home by keeping out Clubsyopposed to the | General Federation.
 Tho problems which confront us are very different from those which our sis | ters East and West must deal with. In make such questions as education. schools for manual training and domestic scienoe.. drawing and music in public schools outside con- while we hang our heads when we hear of the number of white l men who continue to make their mark 1 when they register as voters.
 Our new Committee on Legislation has done nothing this year. but 1t will he heard from next year when the Child | Labor bill comes up. In the meantime | you will remember that 1t was reported | last year that 1.200 children under the age | of 10 are at work Tn the cotton factories l of our State thus by a strange coinci- | ience giving each Club member a ward |
 A physician told the chairman of this 1 committee that he had cut off a hundred | know that these questions are difficult of | with the mother in the factory. | " which is better for the child, labor by | her side bent double for ten hours In the | lay or freedom to run wild in the Dew | IT workshop-the streets?
 While one dwarfs the body and mind. | the other may wreck the soul. A Club | me last year that The Club woman had | served her day." I am not believer | Tn the doctrine. The hand that rocks | he cradle is the hand that rules the | world" but l do believe that the home | makers and me;keepers have their |