The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-27
WOMAN'S CLUB NEWS,

| Another Boston organization which
| is deeply concerned with public school
matters is the Woman's Educational
| and Industrial union. It's interests are
! many, including three model lunch
rooms which are to be used during the
convention for the comfort and accom-
| modat1on of the visiting teachers. The
| large reception room of the union has
| also been placed at the disposal of the
! association
The lunch rooms, it should be added.
were an outgroWth of the laboratory
| kitchen and bakery established in Cam
| bridge by two college women Miss
| Bertha Stevenson, of South Carolina.
and Miss Elliot. Canadian girl Their
| idea was to conduct a lunch room and
| to deliver cooked dinners hot at homes
in any part of Boston.
Ella Morris Kretschmar writes in
Good Housekeeping for July concern
ing the position of women and the
l coming exposition at ST Louis:
To be explicit as to the position Of
| the lady board (drs. Blair calls it
'woman's boardO, and also as to it's
right to exist, it may be we'll to ex-
plain:
THAT it was created under a pro-
vision of an act Of congress.
That is number twenty-one.
That 1t has the right to appoint one
member Of every jury which is to pass
upon awards for exhibits composed in
whole or in part By female labor
That 1t shall incur no expense
ceremonies as the commission and
company may request
That it shall incur no expense
whatever without the approval of the
commissioners and company
That it may organize by the cleo
ton of officers and prescribe rules for
its own internal government
The club women of the Louisiana
purchase States, who petitioned the
worlds fair legislative committee to
strike out such clauses as provide for
a special woman's department." as
Mrs. Kretschmar says, saved the
world from new proclamation that
we still knit, and that knitting, being
very commendable, should be sprettily
rewarded-though naturally only as an
unimportant side issue of human ac-
uVlty," but, it would seem, not quite
in the manner planned
Mrs. kretSchmar concludes: None
OF the fairs guests will discover that
the dispensing of official hospitality
does not fill ideals as to what besides a
Woman's board of managers might do
and be. Yet, perhaps, no one who
views intelligently the massed results
of all humanitys travail up to the
twentieth century-the travail of brain
and hand-will fail to feel that wom-
ans honorable quota entities her to an
honorable place, as sharer of the
worlds burdens and it's progress"
For the first time in history, as far
as known, the women of Germany
have played prominent part in a
re1chstag election. The dispatches
mentioned as an extraordinary feature
OF the election last Tuesday the part
taken by Socialist women. Hundreds
of them went from house to house
bringing out laggard voters, waiting
at the exits of factories and mills, and
accompanying voters to the polls. The
Socialists in Germany are not, strictly
speaking, Socialists at all, although
many of them do believe in the prin
ciples of common ownership of prop
erty, single tax, etc. They represent
the reform movement in Germany. the
lessening of the military power. and
the emancipation Of women. They adj
NIT women to their clubs, and have
done so ever since the edict preventing