Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18

The organization Of the Nebraska So
ciety gives twenty-one state declarations
to the National association, which includes
approximately 10000 women. There are
thirty-one state organizations, but ten Of
these are not affiliated with the national,
although 1t is expected that all will have
come in before the next national meeting
to be held at Detroit in July, 1906. With
out funds to pay travelling expenses
of its officers or for prepagandism, 1t has
| been necessary to extend the work through
| a thorough and systematic organization in
every state. which reports back to the
| national 'The purity of the home is the
| colored peoples problem of the twentieth
| century," said Mrs. Davis last week. land
| 1t is time for the women and mothers to
take a hand in its adjustment. This we
can do to a large extent through the
| teaching, the experiences and the influence
of the Woman's club. Through the club
we must instill In our women race pride
that will frown upon and place the CLUB
stamp Of disapproYal upon everything that
tends to lower the standard OF the COM
! munity. Our women can do this and with
! telling effect There is a reason for the
| low standards and ideals that our women
| hold for their homes. Only fifty years
ago they were fresh from the cotton fields
|
| relations of the home or the marital vows,
and we can not wonder that the marks
| of those dark years are still upon them.
| We have been and many of us still
| ignorant, but we are all so anxious to i'm
prove, and many of us have done so. The
mission of these uplifted ones is to lend
hand to elevate their millions of sisters
| on the plantations Of the south, in the one
room cabins and those herded together in
the streets Of the cities north and south,
and teach them frugality, honesty, clean
illness and industry We who have had
i opportunity realize that no race can rise
higher than its women and we recognize
our great responsibility. See what the club
movement has accomplished for the white
women and 1t can do just as much for
the colored If we will work"
1t is gratifying information to hundreds
of Omaha women outside the actual mem
bership that the Young Women's Christian
association has at last taken some tangible
step toward a new building. The purchase
OF the triangular property at the southwest
corner of Seventeenth and st. Mary's ave-
nue. last week places the association in
position to begin its actual work for the
building, expecting that the assistance that
has been promised when a lot should have
ptSn Will no" DC lOIlnCOHllHBs
The association has on hand 5000 of the
$4,000 to be paid for the lot and 1t will
be necessary to raise the remaining $40, 900
during the next three months. To this end
! a meeting has been called OF 100 self-sup-
porting women of the city, members of the
association, Monday evening at the rooms
in the Paxton block. Supper will be served
and later plans will be devised for raising
the money. The American committee, with
which the local association is now affiliated,
will send one of it's national secretaries to
Omaha in September to begin the cam
paign for the building. The purchase of
the lot at a figure so far below what 1t
has been expected would have to be paid.
will bring the cost OF the building and
lot within the 100000 originally asked, and
still admit of the erection of a fine build
ing The Detroit association building,
which is the most completely equipped
woman's association building in the coun-
try. cost SIS, 900. and judging from that it
is estimated that Omaha can have a build
ing as fine as any and still not exceed the
original sum asked.
The gospel meetings OF the Young Wom-
ems Christian association have been sus-
pended for the summer. The audience room
being inside and necessarily lighted by ar
tincIal light is too close and uncomfortable
TO be used during the summer The last
meeting was held last Sunday, Mrs. w. p.
Hartford acting as leader.
The Sunshine club OF South Branch closed
its years work with seventy members. who
made up a picnic party at Hanscom park
last Saturday afternoon.
1 At the annual meeting OF the Dundee
Woman's club the following women were
. elected officers: President. Mrs f. A. Ben
son; vice president. Mrs. ]. II. Hamilton