The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-14

didate and was elected over her Demo- cratic competitor. She lives near the University of Illinois and can give time to 1t, Mrs. Busey is a Vassar gradu- ate and an active educational worker. When her election was announced club women all over Illinois congratulated her.
 The Illinois federation has taken what some consider a radical step in voting to permit women's trade unions to join the State Club organization. The meaning of the word club" has been extended in a sisterly manner to cover the societies of working women. Working women's unions have, how ever, been christened sociological or ganizations," which sounds fine.
 The present of the Illinois federations Is Mrs. James E. Frake of Chicago, and the vioe-president is Mrs. George Watkins, also of Chicago. In Mrs. sherman of Chicago club women of H. linoIs have one of the best parliament tarians of either sex in the United States. Mrs sherman is a teacher of parliamentary law and kept official proceedings straight at the meeting of the National Feedration of Women's Clubs of St. Louis.
 The thought and aims of the club women of America, at least large part of them. may perhaps be judged from the resolutions passed by the H. linois federation at It's last meeting. By large majority vote the federa- ton declared for woman suffrage. The ladies believe 1t will better the condi ton of women wage earners. Another resolution was emphatic in opposition 1 to Mormonism and incidentally thanked the United States Senate for its vigorous work against the much marrying hierarchy. Then the ladies want uniform divorce laws, the ma | tion's flag protected from advertising l devices, the forests of the country, the Calaveras big trees in California and | the cliff dwellers and their interestin g rock homes preserved.
 Scores of .women's organizations are 1 working for the renewal of the natural beauties of our scared up country, l There is a noble society for the pro- tection of native plants which last year distributed 10000 leaflets on this subject. Miss Margaret E. Allen, 12 Marlboro Street. Boston, is authorized to give information concerning the work of the plant society. There, too its members scattered all over the land, is the Women's Outdoor league which is striving to make our cities parks and rura llaudscapes beautiful
 Eethical and philanthropic work oc- cupies clubs in many towns and cities One of the most prominent of asso- citations of this kind is the civic fed eration of Manchester, N. H. This fed eration contains twetny-two individual clubs and has held together for ter years. It helps maintain a boys clut and reading room, a public kindergar' ten and a fresh air fund for tenement house children. Its spare time 1t puts in aiding the Forestry Association ir the effort to preserve New Hampshire woods.
 San Francisco has a newly estab. lished women's municipal league which, will work to make the Golden City better and handsomer. The wo. mems Legislative League of New YorH City is busy the present winter ob- taining legislation to remedy the de- fective law concerning the earnings of married women. Under the pres ent law. by a technicality. a husband may collect and spend his wife's earn. ings, if he Is mean enough to do so In New York City there are among the numerous foreign population still many husbands who do not hesitate tc take possession of the scant dollars their wives obtain by hard labor Mrs Lillie Devereaux Blake is president of the Legislative League.
 
 paper reading, white kid glove. af. ternoon tea era, of the women's cluE is rapidly passing away.
 The large events of the past twelve month in feminine clubdom have been the biennial meeting of the ma. tional federation at St. Louis and the grand gathering from all the earth of the International congress al Berlin. The election as president oi
  Platt Decker, a new woman of admir- able type, is a straw that shows sig nificantly which way the wind blows among the woman of America A still longer straw and livelier is the re- spectful reception of the. wife of lthe Imperial Chancellor von BuIow gave the ladies a party. The sweet faced. gracious German empress herself also received the national presidents. shak- ing hands with all her visitors. | Alice W. Mortimer.