The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-25

MOTHERS CONGRESS
Last of Remarkable Series of Wo-
mems Conventions This Month
MRS. DUBOIS MODEL NURSERY
Advisory Council OF This Pow
erfuI National Organization.

Washington, Feb. 25.-The sixth national
congress of mothers began its sessions here
to-day. A large number OF the delegates are
IN the city and were received by the commit
tee on credentials this morning The program
for this afternoon includes the address OF the
president. Mrs. Theodore w. Birney. greet
1ngs from sister organizations, and reports
of officers. committees and delegates.
The election of president to succeed Mrs.
Theodore w. Birney, the founder of the Asso-
citation OF Mothers, who has held the Office for
Ave successive years. will be one of the i'm
portant features. Mrs Birney is the first
and only president of the organization, and
she feels that it is time for her to relinquish
her duties in favor of some other capable
woman. A decided opposition to any such
purpose of retirement will be forthcoming at
the election of officers. and Mrs Birney will
again be the unanimous choice OF the oon-
gress. ....- r. .-- ..-....
A model nursery will be conducted in one
Of the rooms OF the church by Mrs Fred Du-
bois, wife of the senator from Idaho, formerly
a South Dakota kindergartener. This will be
both an amusing and instructive feature of
the congress. A room will be fitted up with
all the up-to-date accessories of an infant s
room, and the care of children. all the facts
of their we'll being will be demonstrated to
all who come that way. Trained nurses In
cap and gown will be in attendance, and for
adjunct to the occasion.
A reception to members of the congress by
Mrs Roosevelt will be held on Thursday az
ternoon, followed later in the day by recep-
ton by Mrs. A. L. Barbour. .....
A unique social event. of which the congress
will have many, will be luncheon given by
Mrs. Birney to the daughters of the national
officers in appreciation Of their services This
will be held tomorrow. Mrs. J. B. Hender-
son will also give a reception. while trips to
Mount Vernon and the various places OF pub
lie interest about the city will conclude the
visit of the delegates. .- ..... .......
The National Congress of Mothers is now
classed among the most powerful of the wo-
mems organizations in this countw. Ten
states have formed organizations and hold
annual state meetings. In addition to such
active membership, the congress has CORE
spondents in every state in the union, and in
Canada, England, Germany, France. Hun
gary, China, Japan, India. Australia Brazil,
Chilli Peru and the Hawaiian islands. -,
President Roosevelt himself expressed so
clearly the objects and purposes of the moth
ers in his address to them at Albany, where
the mothers congress convened during his
administration as Governor of New York, that
it ought to be reproduced here. He said:
Fundamentally, the question OF love anu
confidence between parents and chlldren IN
derlie the whole social systenl-not only I'M
derlie, but are. Our civil life in the long run
will rise or sink as the average family IS a
success or a failure All questions of social
life will solve themselves il the children are
brought up to be the highest they are capable
of being, if our social and family relations are
as they should be; if not, no material pros
perity, no progress in literature. art, success
in business or victory in war will make up for
it to the nation
President Roosevelt is a member Of the ad-
visory council of the mothers. along with
many noted men of science. religion, politics
and philanthropy.