The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-13
FEDERATION OF CLUB WOMEN ADJ0URNS;
 MEETS IN TUSCALOOSA IN NOVEMBER

| In conclusion your committe presents
 the following resolutions:
 | That whereas the study and practice of Household Economies tends to the bet-
 torment of the individual life, and of the home life, be 1t
 Resolved. That this Federation in con-
 vention assembled urges each club to | give some time and study to this ini- l portant subject In order that sentiment I may be created throughout the State, | that will result in an increased interest
 in the study of Household Economies in
 our schools and homes.
 | Resolved, That the Federation advises that the work of the experiment stations
 In the State be so amended or enlarged
 as to include the scientific investigation
 of the relative value of food product l Resolved. That a petition be presented
 by the Federation to the trustees of our
 public libraries asking for as complete
 a collection as possible of books .relat-
 ing to the whole subject of Home
 Economies showing the best modern
 thought and the history and develop
 ment of the subject
 All of which is respectfully submitted. Mrs. A. T. Goodwin, | Mrs. Chas. Henderson.
 The next report made was that of the free scholarship and was made by Mrs.
 James Lacy McConaughy and was as
 follows:
 | A few days ago something was said about the Montevallo school and a very dear friend turned and said: "Oh! that | is chestnut" She was astonished
 when she found to whom she spoke. Now
 would rather that this matter of edu- l eating the poor white girls of our State
 be chestnut than anything that I
 know It is something that we want to
 repeat and 1t is something that we want
 to make old. believe 1t is Holmes who l says that the education of child should
 begin a hundred years before Its birth.
 Surely then the women of Alabama can
 lose no time. We hear so much of the | criminality of our State. the surest rem edy is to educate the future mothers. Your Committee this time. through your
 support, has maintained three girls at
 the Industrial School. We pledged five in Decatur, and we must come up to our
 pledge. Aside from this we have a wider
 and a more binding obligation. Your | Committee worked hard to secure the Implications from the General Board and we were successful. Now that the Board has offered $l.0O0 to educate our poor white girls we as women of Alabama, have to raise $1,0O0 for this purpose. Any amount that we raise will be duplicated 1 by the Board. but as the limit of our | gift Is Sl,0o0 we must raise the $1.oOo We as women would be very much ashamed not to meet the full letter of this gift. | And as I understand 1t is the preference | of the General Board that the girls who | they educate should become teachers. If our women take up this work earnestly | believe that in the next few years our work can become self-sustaining. | A message came to me from China a | few days ago and 1t informed me that | China, to whom we are sending yearly | our missionaries, should send to Amer | lea this message: Tn China there Is prac- ticaily no position of power and influence | filled by any but 6 scholar. Any position in the government is filled by the liter ate. They make the laws and they alone mold public opinion.'
 Now as to the manner of raising this money. To me the easiest way Is simply | for each of our women to pledge A and l then leave 1t to the individual as to the manner that she will raise the amount. | I do not propose to take your time fur
 ther as I am anxious for Mrs. Kennedy.
 one of our teachers, to talk to you. But | if we desire a womanhood and mother | hood which can not be corrupted we
 must begin with our girls. They are our | trusts in our hands are their lives, around us is their poverty and hopeless ness and cannot believe that any moth- CT in Alabama will neglect this trust. May all the ends thou aspire at be thy country's, thy Gods, and truths. After the reading of Mrs. McConaughy' 6 report various sums were donated to the free scholarship of The Girls Industrial School at Montevallot as follows:
 Shakespeare Club, Mobile. 80; Edge wood, Birmingham, sSO: Woman's Club, Greenville, SEQ; Studiosis. Selma, s1o; Magazine Club. Montgomery. sl0; Potts Circle, Greensboro, $5; Up-To-Date, Tus- caloosa, n5; New Century, Sheffield, $; Chautauqua, Selma, s1o; West End, Sell ma, Sl0; Mothers Union, Montgomery, s1o; Thursday Club. Auburn. g; Quest Club, Birmingham, q: Self Culture Club, | Oxford $5; Magazine Club, Union Springs, s; Ionian Cub, Montgomery. $25; | total $199.
 | Mrs Orr stated before she asked for the acceptance of Mrs McConaughy's re- | port, that the offer of the educational Board to duplicate any sum of money up to $1 900 that the women of the State would themselves raise, is an offer to all women of Alabama, and not to club wo- men alone" She urged that the club wo- men see lO IL that all tHe WOtleH OI the State be made to feel that they should help raise the N.000
 The report of the Reciprocity Commit tee was called for and in the absence of the chairman. Mrs. Phares Coleman, 1t was read by Mrs. Burwell Boykin as | follows:
 Report of the Reciprocity Committee. | The Committee on Reciprocity begs leave to submit the following report:
 Year books on hand, 3s; year books dis tributed, 15; letters written, 10; letters received, 8.
 As the work of this committee is large ly done towards the latter part of the club year. 1t is impossible at this special | meeting of the Federation to submit full report. The committee would again urge the necessity of sending year books and papers to the chairman of this com mittee In the report read at Decatur the earnest suggestion was made that each club have what could be known as reciprocity day. This was decided upon and our chairman has since had several letters asking for papers to be read on 1 such days. If the club members would but realize that great help could be de- rived from such days. We believe that the idea would take deep hold upon the clubs and 1t would be a great incentive l to individual effort of club members to prepare with great care all papers to be read before their clubs.
 From the chairman of the Reciprocity Committee of the General Federation comes a suggestion which seems charm ingly to complete this idea of reciprocity