The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-24
xAsT DAx,8 YnocxEDIN0g or ALA1A1kA FEDERATION
 or Wo1rEH,8 CLUBS.

or ALAuAlrA REDEMPTION or WoNEN'S CLUBS. { Decatur. May D.-fs fspscial.] ]-The last session of the eighth annual convention of the Aiabama Federation of woman's Clubs was called to order at s:so by the President, Mrs. !. D. wyker. and the
 minutes of yesterday's meetings were read by the recording secretary.
 The report of the committee appointed to correct the constitution according to the changes made at this convention, was read by the chairman. Mrs. Miner. The by-laws added were two which were the moves of Miss Julia Clarke of Selma; one. that all clubs be requested to pay their dues six weeks before time of convention. The other made clearer the duties of the Treasurer. The Treasurer shall be re- quired to hand in to the Auditor. with her acconnts and books. certified bank statement of the Federation's account: second, aIl cheeks shall be counterslgned by the President.
 A by-law, proposed by Mrs. Phares Coleman at the meeting held at Monte vallo last year was added. It provides that all clubs eend their year; book with paper selected by the club to the Reel procity Committee.
 A motion was made by Mrs. Milner of
 Birmingham that the constitution. be changed 90 as to provide that no officer can vote by proxy. 1t was lost. and q motion put by Mrs, Craiehead of Mobile that all discussion of the subject of prox- ies be postponed until next meeting. waa carried. Many expressions of disapproval of proxies altogether were made by sev- eral members; among them Mrs. Wyker Mrs. Orr, Mrs. Craighead and Mrs.sJ. N. Thompson of Tuskegee. Into this discus sion also entered protests against one member being director for two clubs. But all. action on these points was postponed until next meeting. ~ The Preeident read letter from some woman who sent her check for $50. to De divided between the Girls Industrial School 1t Montevailo and the Boys Re- fcrmAtory at East Lake. The donor beg gAd that her name be not read to the con vention. The convention gave the un- known woman . rising. vote of thanks for the rift. The question that seemed to have been settled yesterday as date of meeting to be held in Montgomery this winter was brought up. It had been found that as the
 Legislature does not meet until January
 and as the meeting is to be held for the
 purpose of working to get the child labor
 bill passed. the time decided upon yes
 terday would not do.
 Discussion resulted in meeting being set for the first Tuesday In February.
 Mrs. Craithead spoke on the subject of
 the child labor blll; urging all club women
 to work to secure the passage of the child labor bill.
 . Mrs. E. L. Humphries read the report of the Free Kindergarten of Florence
 the first estabiishee in the State. The re-
 port was written by Miss Maud Lindsay,
 the teacher.
 Mrs Albert Goodwin. President of the
 Mothers Union of Montgomery, asked for two minutes In which to make a plea | for the formation of mother clubs in the towns and villages of the State. She said the need for these clubs was so apparent that the call for them. stating time and place. was all that was required. The ideal training of children was the mighti- est vocation of woman. The mother club was the foundation club. and the work of the women of the future and the men of the future would depend on the physical and mental ability of the children of to- day, She said that while mother clubs were formed primarily for the training of motherhood and childhood, the study of the child, and the need of children so ex- pand the sympathies of the woman, tha, her love reaches out to aid in many benef. icent movements for the girls and boys of the State. When the cry of the chil- dren once penetrates to a womafi's heart she must wrestle with the spirit of a divine unrest--never to be free until Il brings a blessing.
 Mrs. Goodwin at the close of her Te, marks quoted Victor Hugo's lines:. "He who has seen the suffering of men, has seen little. He should see the suf' fering of women. He who has seen the suffering of wo- men, has seen little. He should see the suffering of little children"