Evening star., 1902-02-24


strong, vigorous per5bnality for emulation.
To endeavor to keel their minds on the
good, pure, true and beautiful, for as
child thinks sohe acts, and as acts Tor
ments are the influences taken in the weak
mind, yet incapabienof resistance, deter
mine the characters that control the laws
of our nation.
Promotion of Social Purity.
Mrs. Dusenberry was followed by Mrs. E.
B. Grannis, president of the National Chris
tian League for Promotion of Social Purity.
Mrs Grannis is graphic speaker and puts
no veil of obscurity-between her subject
and audience.
Mrs. Susa Young Gates, one Of the promi-
nent women of the west and power
among the women Of Utah, addressed the
council on the subject, Can Mother For
get Her Own"
Mrs. Gates said at the beginning OF her
address that lit has remained for the great
civilization of the nineteenth and tWen-
tieth centuries to impose upon Womanhood
the burden of regret and often or shame
Of children. There is small use OF ap.
preaching the facts, and this statement OF
them. with suavity." she asserted, or
covering them up with sweet indirectness
or rhetorical hyperbole, as reasonable
women seek to discover the reason for this
unwelcOme situation and gather from IL
what lessons we may.
What are women of America thinking
and doing about this grave problem? she
asked. do you ask yourselves? Study the
census returns in all their slgnfncance
Traverse the New England states and OBJ
serve the half-empty school rooms ana
their occupants. Go to the great centers OF
population and enter the common schools
Count the nationalites Of the children OF
the United States, and what is the result?
Russian children, yes, thousands of them,
there. German
fans, In ever-increasing ratio, crowd into
our places Of public instruction. In the
New England schools the eFrench-Canadian
and the Irish predominate.
Several Queries Propounded.
Where are the descendants Of the Pill
grim fathers and the Puritan mothers,
whose families were often more than If
teen In number and seldom less than seven?
II their descendants had followed in the
footsteps Of their fathers they would today
have been the people Of America, in num-
bers as we'll as intelligence. Where are the
old Knickerbockers Of New York? And
where. may We ask, are the pure descen-
dants of the courtly southern families?
There are a few of them all scattered here
and there, and they are leaders wherever
they are, because Of the vigOr and inde-
pendent intelligence Of their forefathers.
The position taken, the question will fol-
low: What Is the cause of this condition
of affairs? And perhaps another question
may be added: What Is the remedy?"
Mrs. Gates, in conclusion. said that one
remedy at least for the conditions she had
pictured was in the wise counsel Of older
women to the younger, instead Of the often
covert sneer and burden made doubly hard
by the unthinking jests that the young
mother has to bear.
Miss Cannon's Theme.
Miss Ann NJ Cannon's theme was Give
Not Gifts, But Thyself to Humanity" and
as The Stars report closed there was being
presented an exhibit Of improved dress, as
recommended by the council committee on
dress.
From to ocock this evening Mrs. John
B. Henderson gives reception to the Ma
tional Council of Women.
Woman's Relief Corps Day.
Saturday afternoon at o'clock. in spite
of the inclement weather, a large audi
ence, composed of members Of the Wo-
mans Relief Corps Of the Department of
Potomac and others interested in patriotic
work. filled Carroll Institute, to take part
In and witness the patriotic exercises by
the Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the
Grand Army Of the Republic-the after
noon Of the National Council of Women
being given over to them. Promptly at the
hour named the meeting was called to
order.
The first on the program was Mrs. Cal
icta Robinson Jones of Bradford. VT, ma
tional president of Woman's Relief Corps
sketched the history and growth OF the
order. History" she said. is emblazon-
ed with the daring deeds of brave men.
Woman's part in the worlds history OF
heroes is not only the inspiration Of BRAY
cry untold by countless heroic men,
but is real and priceless as type of the
highest courage. self-sacritice and almost
divine devotion to a noble course.
ages ago the Roman mother gave her
two beautiful sons for a noble cause with
the deepest devotion. These are my
jewels. she said To America has been
given the glory Of the heroic lives of the
Hannah Dustin. Ann Story. Molly Pitcher,
Dolly Madison. Molly Stark and others Of
revolutionary days: to the blessed army
nurses Of the civil war: to Clara BARTON.
who now as then. bears her cross of GRIM
son hue. Annie Wittenmeyer, Jennie Wade,
Dorothy Dix Of the sanitary commission.
Emma Edmonds. the daring SPY: the grand
old Rarbare Fretchie and a host of others
mad each a thought from her.
He then told now sickness and wounds
began to deplete the ranks Of the surviving
veterans and render them incapable of
earning a living, and how the need for con-
certed aid grew, and how Paul Van der
yoort commander-in-chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic. urged his comrades
to form an auxiliary that would be mon
ument so broad and high that all the world
would wonder; a monument of fraternity be-
fore unknown, monument Of fcharity unpar-
alleled, a monument of loyalty unsurpassed,
where the millions of men who stood shoul-
der to shoulder In battle should inscribe
their names as q band Of brothers In truth
and so it was that woman's part in the
war Of the rebellion, her inspiration and her
neyer-failing hand Of help came to these
heroic men, and out Of 1t all has grown
great organization.
When the national encampment was held
in Denver, Col. in 1888 the national organ
izatton, the Woman's Relief Corps was
formed with fifty members. In the first
wear 6OOO members We're added and 5000
given for relief. Now in the nineteenth
year of the order 1t has 145, 600 women en-
rolled and working under one united sys-
TEN. and has expended in relief this year
sl63 294 During this period since organiza-
ton over two and one-half million Of dol
among soldiers families by the Womans
Relief Corps, and yet" she said, there Is
s166 900 which can be called into immediate
use if an emergency should demand it." She
went on to say that in nearly all the
states, through the power and influence of
the w r. c., there have been established
and maintained soldiers homes, homes for
soldiers and their wives and other allied
charitable institutions.
Lines Of Work.
Among the various lines Of work nro-