The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-13
MEETS IN Mrs. Orr Says I've Got All We Came Here
 For" Condemns Proposition to Repeal Anti-Pool Selling Law, Declar- ing They Have More Interest in Men Than in Horses.
 Mrs. Haley Elect .. ed Editor.
BY MRS. J. M. DE COPIES.

The morning session of the special ses- sion of the Alabama Federation of Wo- mems Clubs was devoted to the reading of the reports of the standing committees and the discussion of them until at Il o'clock a motion was made by Mrs. Erwin CraiSnead of Mobile as follows:
 fl move that as this special session of the Alabama Federation of Women Clubs was called for the sole purpose of meeting in Montgomery to work for the passage of a bill to regulate child labor in the State of Alabama. that We take a recess, and go as a body to the capitol at Il o'clock to hear the Nte.'
 This motion. after Httie discussion as to press of business and lack Of time was adopted.
 The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Orr, the president and opened with prayer by Rev. Stewart Mcqueen, after which Mrs. J. M. Falkner, recording sec retary read the minutes of the Wednes- days proceedings, which were accepted.
 As special order of business for the morning was the reading of the reports of standing committees, left over from Wednesday. the report of the Household Economies Committee was called for and made by the chairman, Mrs. A. T. Good wyn of the Mothers Union of Montgom- cry. She spoke as follows:
 Mrs. Goodwyn's Report.
 You will be grieved to know that the report of your committee on Household Economies, will be very short. So far as your committee has been able to learn only one club in the Federation is in- terested in the study of Household Economies: The Mothers Union of Montgomery. To the early spring this club had sketched it's work for the com- ing year deciding to give the years work, almost exclusively to the study of Domestic Science. The club prospectus can be found with the committee on Re ciprocity.
 Your committee has tried in a way to do its duty to the Federated Clubs by contributing occasional articles on the subject assigned 1t, to the Federation Organ, with. apparently, no effect upon the clubs. As these articles were most convincing your committee draws the inference that they were not read, ex- cept by the writers, who already proba- bly knew them by heart. and had neg lected their children. and otherwise af- fiicted their households economically in getting them up.
 For the sake of the presentation of this Federation of ours perhaps it is just ae we'll that these articles were not read for this subject of Household Economics when seriously considered is found to bc so fundamental. so far reaching. so all embracing, that If the clubs were really to become interested in 1t they would band themselves together no longer as a Federation, but as Household Economies Association. There is not a woman here today whether married or single, mother or maid. who does not know that she represents the influences of her home, that she Is proabbly the strongest factor for good or i'll In that home. but she has been slow to learn that the great principle that governs life is law and she has been slower still to learn that this law is love.
 "Alls love for alrs law sang the great poet Browning. The psalmist says, 'the law of the Lord is perfect convert ing the soul" He might have added and converting the body and the home life, all life indeed just as fast and so far, as 1t Is brought into conformity with law.
 Your Committe does not know much, nobody knows very much about the laws of domestic science. When we speak of Domestic Science, we simply mean the best knowledge of the subject of homo government, in all departments of life This knowledge has never been crys- talized into science. Professor Atnoles speaks of 1t as in that state which chemist call a supersaturated solution. and says that perhaps 1t needs no more than the point of needle to crystalize 1t. A alarming needle? What knowledge experts offer on the subject of House. hold Ecomonice is easily within the reach of all. Many valuable books have been written, and the Agr oIltural Depart ment at Washington sBlds out for the asking bulletins of the latest practically demonstrated knowledge of the laws of material living