Arizona republican., 1904-04-07
THE SEVENTH BIENNIAL
Programme for Sessions of the Fed.
 eration of Women's Clubs.


 Mrs. Anna D. West, chairman of the programme committee, General Feder- ation of Womens clubs, submits the following programme for the seventh biennial.
 "The regular opening session will be held on Tuesday afternoon, May r, at 2 2ro'clock, in the Odeon, St. Louis, Mrs. D. T. S. Denison presiding. Addresses of welcome will be made by the Hon. Rolla Wells, mayor, for the city of St. Louis; by Mrs. Philip N. Moore. presi- dent of the Missouri state federation, for the clubs of the state, and by Mrs. Washington F. Fischel, president of the Wednesday club, for the local clubs. Mrs. Denison will respond. On Tuesday evening a literature session will be held, Mrs. F. J. Burdette, pre- siding. Professor Edward Howard Griggs. of New Jersey, will lecture on "The Expression and Interpretation of Human Life in Literature"
 Wednesday mornings session will be devoted to reports and business, Miss Margaret Evans, chairman. At the educational session in the afternoon Mrs. Frank L. Wean, of Illinois, will speak on Compulsory Education Laws and their Enforcement" Char acter Building in Public Education" will be discussed by two speakers, un- der the following topics indirectly by Means of Literature and History, :" Miss Daisy Spickard. Nebraska, and Directly, by Required Instruction as in France" Mrs. Jonathan F. S. Mitchell, Washington. "A National Aspect of Public Education" will be the subject of Miss Celeste F. Bush, Con necticutt. and Miss Mary Applewhite Bacon, of Georgia.
 Wednesday evening there will be a. child labor session with Miss Jane Addams, presiding. Following the re- ports, an address will be delivered by Edgar Gardner Murphy, Alabama on "Child Labor in America"
 E Thursday, May 19. is the Day of Gel ebration," also called Louisiana Pur- chase Day. of which Mrs. Philip N. Moore is chairman, and the detailed programme will appear in later bull letin.
 On Friday morning there will be an industrial session in the Odeo1, with Mrs. Frederick Nathan in the chair. Addresses will be made as follows: Organization Among Working WO- men, Miss Mary McDowell, of the University of Chicago settlement: 'Is the Ballot of Real Value to Working Won2en?" Mrs. Sarah Platte Decker, of the State Board of Charities and Cor rection, Colorado; "Value to Working Women of Cooperation of Clubs With Municipal Affairs Dr. Ernst J. LedeT- le, x-commissioner of the department Of health, New York City.
 Friday afternoon will be devoted to reports of state presidents. For the evening, Miss Evans, chairman of the committee on education, presents the following programme: Miss Elizabeth Harrison, of Illinois, will speak on Recent Progress in Education;" Miss Jane Addams, Illinois, Education and Democracy President M. Carey Thomas, of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, will also deliver an address.
 A household economics session, Mrs. E. H. Neville. Chairman, will be held on Saturday morning. The following subjects will be discussed: 'The School as the Ally of the Home" Miss Ade- laide Hoodless, Hamilton, Ontario; "Our Relation to the Household Trades as Carried On Outside the Home," Miss Mary H. Abel, Maryland.
 A press session will be held in the afternoon for which a programme complimentary to the profession will be presented. The industrial session of the evening will be addressed by Mrs. Anna Garland Spencer, of New York, on Home Destroying Industries" "Dr.