The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-21
new PLAN WILL WIN.
Federated Clubs Of Wisconsin Will.
Redistrict the State Along
New Lines.

No Change to Be Made in the First
Appleton Convention
at Work.
From Staff Correspondent.
Appleton, Wis, Oct. 21.-The
opening day Of the Wisconsin Fedora
! ton Of Womens Clubs indicates a
serene and uneventful convention.
| The day sessions are being devoted to
COMMITTEES reports and business, and
the. evenings to entertainment. The
program is arranged without crowd
ing and long intervals are permitted
for sociability and these opportunities
are being we'll used.
The chief interest centers in the re-
I port on redistricting. There is some
division Of opinion on the plan, as
equal strength has been sacrificed to
accessibility, and some districts object
to being separated on account of the
sacrifice of pleasant associations. The
original plan dismembered the pres
ent first district, but on account of4the
| objections made by the permanent dis
trict organization, the changes pro-
posed in the boundaries of this dis
a IL ~ !4dVS USSu uiOppeu dI1u Ill Tile
report of the committee it will be rec
commended that this be left unchanged.
It is believed that this change removes
all serious obstacles to the acceptance
of the plan and that it will be adopted
in the spirit of the greatest good to
the greatest number. The territorial
division is fairly equal, and as the
thinly settled districts fill up, inequali-
ties will be adjusted.
! There 10 M oJoction oF oFfooro tI,is
year, all holding over. The nominat-
ing committee to prepare next years
| ticket will be announced Thursday,
each district choosing one member.
The only election will be Of ten dele
gates to the general federation bien-
NAL, Which will also come Thursday.
Presidents Annual Address.
An important feature of the open
ing meeting was the annual address
OF the president. Mrs. T. H. Brown,
who said in part: -
We are beginning to realize that If GER
tain people in the world are to be helped
they must be taken in hand by women.
Inc service of men is limited by certain
conditions of temperament and education;
the service of women is a perpetually
unfolding revelation, an infant Science, an
unexplored country. If the women Of the
east are to be educated and raised to their
just place; If seamstresses are no longer
to sing the song Of the Shirt; If our
Magdalens are to be gathered to Christ
feet; If working girls are to be saved from
coarseness and vice; if some refinement
as we'll as thrift and economy / Is to be
taught to working mothers-this must be
the duty of their more favorable sisters.
My unbounded hope, and faith as well, is
that the power of organized wonanhood,
wherever exerted, will be for the relief
of the oppressed, the enlightenment Of the
| Mt nd ~ hum ffIy
St. Louis Biennial Plans. @As
The report Of the general fedora
ton secretary, Mrs. H. M. Youmans,
that Wisconsin has forty-three in
dividual clubs holding direct mem
bership In the general federation. The
biennial in st. Louis will meet May
1926 and the eight-day session will
give time for all the program without
a plan that has previously caused
much dissatisfaction. The Importance
of an influential delegation was urged.
I Standing Committee Reports.
The afternoon program included the
reports on educatlon, art and town
and village Improvement, given by the
chairmen of the standing committees,
and papers on subjects closely allied
to the matter Of the reports. The
! SooSc@S1CAle1A ACpolL was ILdue ny MISS
Carrie E.. Morgan. Domestic science
was mentioned as the chief topic Of
| interest Of the year, but as special
committee will treat the state work in
whole program to-day this passed
over and only the local domestic
science work reported. 7'
| Several clubs have done much for
domestic science and manual training
in their own schools. Oconomowoc
has maintained course in manual
| training up to the present term when
it was taken off their hands by the
schol board and this club still sup
| ports a course in domestic science.
Rapids united in raising $500 for the
equipment of a manual training de-
partment in their new high school.
The course is now being taken by 40
boys. .5--. &%.-f.
Other educational work that has en-
gagged the attention Of federated club
women is -schoolroom decoration, lee
ture courses, offering Of prizes for
composition, identifying of home and
| school grounds, serving schools, penny
provident funds, supplying pianos, lit
erature and clothing and school visit
ing. It, was noted that domestic sci
ence is progressing. 1T has been in
troduced into Stevens Point normal
school, it is growing at the Menomi-
ME training school and a recent ap-
preparation of $500 will establish the
work in the state university.
| The committee desired especially the
pushing of domestic science by lending
club influence towards the establish
ment of chairs of domestic science in
all Of the state institutions, similar to
the one the federation is aiding to en-
dow at the Milwaukee Downer college,
and by endeavoring to have the work
introduced into the public schools of
their own towns. Work for the estab-
lishment' Of free kindergartens in
every town in the state and the in
vestigation Of conditions in the public
schools as they relate to good morals
were also recommended.
! Mrs. Maud B. Curtiss gave an out
line of the philosophic basis of the
I kindergarten which she nron ounced q 9