The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-24
cHAMr1oN woMAN TnAvrLER.
She is Mrs. Denison, President ( Wcmen,s Clubs Federation.

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 Wcmen,s Clubs Federation. Brooklyn Eagle.
 Mrs. Denies T. g. Denison. president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. is at present at her home in West One Hundred and Third street. Manhat- tan. resting between journeys. And she probably needs the rest. For three months she was as continually on the road as a commercial traveller. In those three months she travelled more than most women do in q lifetime, and all without going outside of the United States. She crossed the Mississippi eix times. got almost out to the coast twice and kept g<gements In Louisiana and Texas. and engagements in Michigan and the Dakotas. She visited twenty-two States in all. travelled about 5000 miles, talked to not far from ao0o00 women and came home fresh as daisy and having gained weight during her travels.
 That Is something of a record even for these strenuous days. and now within Q week or so she starts off again to Florida first and then to Arkansas and Tennes. see and possibly one or two other places. All this. of course. on Federation busi- ness. Who takes the place of president to that enormous. segregation of women must make up her mind to put her own private and personal affairs entirely in the backeround for two years. And even that Mrs. Denison has not done, inas- much as her mother has been very ill--a situation which she did not foresee when she took the presldency-and she has been drawn hither and yon by divided duty, and succeeded in negiecting neither. But poor Mfr. Denison! He has been prac- tically wifeless for tlfe past year, be- tween his wife's mother and his wife's clubs. However, he brough 1t on himself. so far as the clubs are concerned, for it was he who urged and encouraged his wife to go into club life and cheered her through her first moments of stage fright and was so proud and pleased at the gem eral recognition of her briliiancy and gra- ciousness and ability thnt she couldn't help being pleased and proud with him. Speaking of her travels-and even as she spoke Mrs. Denison was dressed and ready to go to big local club reception as guest of honor'--she said: T had a perfectly delightful trip in every way. It seemed to me that each town ot1tdid the last had visited in its welcome And those Western club women! They are such forceful, brainy, practical creatures. They don't seem to waste so much time on l unimportant details but get right down to the meat of the matter. I suppose that in our Eastern cities our various reforms and charities and public works are % well organized, so crystallized that there | is not so much for the clubs to do. But out West the women's clubs are an .ac- tive living public force, doing things that | ought to be done, accomplishing things that need accomplishing. And their hos | pitality Is not mere activity: their po- ltteness seems to be deep seated court esy that springs from real kindness
 T attended nearly all the state federal | tion meetings. We spent good part of the summer planning how it could be done, arranging dates so that I could get from one to the other,and cover as many as possible. got out as far as Idaho, and then came back to Ohio, and from there out to Indian Territory. and through the | Southwest; then up to Michigan and Illi- noise, out West once more and finally home. Tn most states 1t was the regular federation meeting attended, in one oI | two merely local or district meetings In Idaho, for instance 1t was district meeting. The state is so divided by noun tains that state meeting is not prac- | ticable, so they are organized into tive district federations. out in Nebraska met the same cuckoo clock that once routed the distinguished Commoner but don't think 1t had quite so disasterous ar effect on me. It takes good deal tc upset me nowadays. which goes to show what training win do for one, for I uset to be simply shaking with nervousness when had to address a meeting, and ever now-between you and me and the post I'd rather get under the table than ge up at 1t to make an address. "But"-rather seriously" don't think show it, do IT. (She certainly doesn' 'tI
 T think generally get through withou any serious break, and I've gotten to tht point where I can even speaz extempore If have to.
 What did find to say to so man, women in so many states? Oh, well there's always something to say to then you know-aiways something that the ciul women have accomplished, or are ac
 complaining, in those western states where they have done so much, that can talk to them about. And yol don't know how much my going ad ded to the spirit of the metings. Tha sounds egostistical, but by me don't meal Mrs. Charles H. Denison of New York I simply mean the president of the Gen eral Federation of Womens Clubs. Knov
 ing that there is to be a big gun therc brings a lot more delegates than woult otherwise attend, absolutely regardless of the individuality of the big gun. And the pTSSiuenL or the GeneFal reucFdLlOn IS Lno biggest gun in women's clubdom. It gives the federation a tangibility to many to whom it has been heretofore a misty, for off sort of thing.
 Thanks to Mrs. Heurdtin of Chlcag }
 who was head of the federation some years ago. most of the states are orgah- ized. She traveledlteofeCecia.t ezvatha ized. She traveled a great deal in her
 time. organizing, just a have travel. ed a great deal. perfecting and maintain
 ing the organization. It Is for that am
 going to Florida soon and to Arkansas
 and to Tennessee-once more across the Mississippi and back. I have been to all the New England States-except Vermont and to most of the Eastern and Middle Western States haven't been out 10 the coast since the California convention two years ago. which made me a. pres,- dent, but I've missed very few States during my term of office. You see, it was all the more necessary that should do 1t because Mrs. Lowe, my predecessor didn't. During the first year of her term .E. c4aN