The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-19

tating Washington club women is the
matter of having advertisements in
their year book. The year book for
1903 is the only one in which adver-
using pages have ever appeared, and
great dissatisfaction has been ex-
pressed by many. On the other hand
a faction declares that the advertise
ments in no way injure the book, and
II the money thus earned increases it's
usefulness, 1t is the part of common
sense to continue them. There is a
great deal of sentiment attaching to
the year book of a federation, and the
Washington dispute is likely to be a
warm one. 1t will be one of the mat
tiers settled at the annual meeting thit,
month.
N The Arequipa club, of Tacoma,
Wash, is entertained once year at the
country home of one of its members,
and this year it was decided to COM
blne business with pleasure and hold
the annual meeting out of doors. The
club went out of town in the morning
and spent the entire day under the
trees, holding it's election and tran
sacting other business. Luncheon fol-
lowed. also out of doors. The club is
a most harmonious body, having re-
tanned the same president in the person
of DR.. Ella Fifield. for five years
The Kansas State Federation is call
ed the Social Science Federation be-
cause it was the outgrowth of -four
lSElng organization which, in 1898, was
known as the Social Science club. This
club had a membership from six differ
ent towns, five Of them in the state
and one just over the border. This
last was Kansas City in Missouri At
its largest the club represented 700
women and had regular departments Of
education, reform, domestic and sani-
tary science, philanthropy, etc. Singu-
larry enough, it was a Missouri mem
Der who first conceived the idea of fed
Grating the Kansas clubs. Her first
thought was for a Western federation,
as an auxiliary to the general fedora
ton, then in it's extreme youth. This
idea was dropped after a time. and the
Kansas and Missouri declarations were
formed. Kansas, like other Western
states, has district declarations. This
method is almost necessary in states
where great distances have to be COW
cred to attend annual meetings.
Two of the twenty-one members Of
the newly elected charter convention to
be held in Denver for the purpose of
framing new city charter are women.
the successful candidates being Mrs.
A. M. WelIes and Mrs Helen Bedford.
which proposed to take the matter of
the charter out Of regular party poll
tics. The entire ticket was elected.
Women were represented on each of
the party tickets. There was a strong
feeling of opposition, nevertheless, to
the election Of a woman. and a great
deal of scratching was done. Mrs.
Welles, who is one of the prominent
figures in the Denver Womans club.
received the smallest vote of any one
on the winning ticket, her plurality be-
ing 1876. A few disgruntled individu-
ais take this for an absolute proof that
women do not stand by each other in
elections, but by what means they have
discovered that the women's names
were scratched by women voters is not
divulged. It is true that the woman's
club, after sending delegates and help
ing to form the civic ticket. refused,
as a body, to formally indorse it. The
reason they gave for their rather &C.
centric course, was that the club had
members on some of the other tickets,
and they should not be affronted by
having other members supported by
the club as a whole.