The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-02
WITH CLUB WOMEN
Los ANGELES PREPARING FOR
SIXTH BIENNIAL MEETING OF
THE FEEDER RATION
WILL MEET THERE IN MAY
Organization Formed i'm washington
to Federate Various Patriotic
Orders - SuTraEists Meet in
Capital City This Week.

The Los Angeles club women are al
ready makfng plans for the entertain
ment of the members of the General Fed
Grafton of Womens Clubs. who will at
tend the sixth biennial of the federation
which convenes in Los Angeles in Nav
Mrs. j. E. COwles, a leading member
OF the Friday Morning Club of Los
| Angeles, has recently been elected chair
man Of the biennial local board and the
club women Of the city have pledged
| themselves to raise $1,000 toward defrav-
ing the expenses of the convention The
! Merchants and Manufacturers assocfa-
! ton has guaranteed to raise an additional
! $Z,O0. The first biennial notice has al
| ready been sent out by the local commit
! tee. 1t IS addressed to clubWOmpn i'm
! general. and says among other things;
me acceptance by the G. f. w. c. of
| the invitation to hold its sixth biennial
| in Los. Angeles, Cal. May to s inclusive
| has been given wide publicity. The rep
| utatIon Of the bennials is well establish
| ed, the representative character of the
present G. T. ". c. officers well known,
| and the programme committee ably com
! petent, so there can arise no reasonable
| doubt that the sixth biennial will equal
| if not surpass, previous ones The BIZ
| ennial local board, therefore, has pleas
/ ure in issuing a preliminary circular r.
| garding the local environments of the
| biennial. The 200 federated club women
! Of Los Angeles are pledged to the sue
cess of this undertaking. Through the
courtesy and cooperation of the Mer-
| chants and Manufacturers association
! visitors will be enabled to witness La
| Fiesta de los Flores May l to g.
''At the request of the general fedora
| tlOn there Will be but one general recep-
| ton, that occurring on Thursday evening
! May |. Three new committees have been
| added to the list Of those prepared for
| the Milwaukee biennial, viz, trains, ex-
cursions and carriage. The federated
clubs in this city will keep open house
during the biennial, and will be centers
for informal intercourse of delegates and
visiting club women"
The newest organization Of women N
| America, the Crown society, which was
| recently Incorporated by a number If
! women in Washington. d. c., has for
| it's avowed object the federation Of the
| various patriotic orders Of America Mrs.
| Flora Adams Darling is the founder gen
! eral Of the organization. Mrs. Darling is
| the widow of Gen. Darling. Of the Unit
! ed States army. She is the founder OF
! the Daughters of the American RevoIu-
| ton, Daughters of the Revolution aud
| United States Daughters of 1872. Other
prominent organizers of the society are
| Caroline B. English and Mrs. Rider b.
Haskell all of Washington, d. G. The
! society has called itself the Crown So
| ciety because it desires to crown the
results of four centuries of progress in
| America by federating all patriotic SO
! cietie5 into one common alliance, which
| shall include the sons Of these orders as
! well. 1t will be fedora ton Of patriotic
| hereditary American societies. An effort
| will be made to interest the women Of
| every state in the new organization. The
/ seal of the society is a crown surround
/ ed by the number of stars in the United
! States flag with the name, Grown So
! ciety of America" The club motto is
/ Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself,' and
! the insignia is d crown with the motto
/ attached to a blue ribbon and suspended
| from bar pin of two clasped hands on
which the membership number is en-
/ graved.
| An important conference Of the Ma
| tional American Woman's Suffrage as
! ISOLATION will be held in Washington d.
! c. Friday and Saturday, Feb. and 5.
| Sessions will be held both days at
! O'Clock in the afternoon and at o'clock
| in the evening. St. Paul will not be rep
resented at the conference, but there will
] be delegates from Minneapolis. Miss Susan
B. Anthony the veteran woman suffrag-
! ist, will preside. Carrie Chapman Gait
: president of the National American
| Woman Suffrage association, Will De
! present: also Rev. Anna H. Shaw, vice
( president Of the national association;
Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer Of the
| association, and Katherine M. Gordon,
/ the corresponding secretary A Mime
sofa woman, DR.. Cora Smith Eaton, of
! Minneapolis Mimi, will address the con-
ference. All the women's clubs will be
| asked to send fraternal delegations.
The women of the various states are
| Just now taking an active interest in
! school politics The Civic league, OF Phil
! adelphia has inaugurated church and
/ parIor campaign for the purpose of elect
ing women as school directors in four
/ wards OF the city. The club hopes that
! it's vigorous action may finally result IN
taking the schools out Of the hands Of
| the politicians. OF twenty women who
| agreed to be candidates, at the request OF
| the Civic club five only were Endorsed by
the political parties.
| Southern club women seem to be par
ticularly active in practical social work.
| Reports of their various meetings make
! little mention of papers of Rome's sys-
| tenn of sewerage and the custom of the
| Aztecs, but frequent mention is made of
| organized effort toward the betterment of
| conditions of their fellow men and
/ women Southern women ARE taking
/ particularly keen interest in the pro-
| jected hall of philanthropy at the st.
| Louis exposition which it is estimated
! will cost, If erected, SIS, 900.
! The New Century club has followed
| the example of the Thursday club and
! appointed a federation secretary. Mrs.
| William Ely Bramhall will look after
| ho oIu