Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-16
WOMAN IN CLUB AND CHARITY

The third annual meeting Of the Second
district OF the Nebraska Federation OF
womens Clubs, held in Omaha Monday.
was altogether profitable. and indicates
that, with little more experience and time,
II will be- possible for Nebraska to give UP
the annual for the biennial convention. as
Iowa and some OF the older and stronger
states arc doing. The district organisation
has much to work out before Il will be
ready for this. At present the responsible
ity of the program falls largely, Ii not en-
tirely, upon the district vice president IL
the district meeting is to take the place of
the alternate annual convention. this plan
will be among the first that II will be nee
essary to change. No matter how compe-
tent the vice president may be, or how
widely familiar with the needs and inter
ests of her district. no one person should
be entrusted with the entire responsibility
of the program There should be a program
committee, and. first of all. the interests
OF the several state standing committees
should be consulted in making up the pro-
gram. II is a question whether one day will
then be sufficient for a serious, worthy con-
sideration of all those. but II could be ac-
complished In two days easily and leave
time for the other desirable subjects and
embellishments. II the meetings come BIZ
ennially the work of the general fedora
ton should be seriously considered. and
certainly all matters pertaining to the state
work should be thoroughly discussed and
understood by every woman present. That
IL quite possible under the present arrange
ment but such responsibility would be
rather a hardship for the vice president
Ample time should be allowed. however. for
the r1re IF ma NJ moth
ing should be allowed TO encroach. The
fact that the state business was not more
fully discussed was the one regrettable fea-
ture of Mondays convention. II had been
planned evidently that the round table con-
Quoted by the state president should ac-
complish this, but many of the women were
timid and the latitude of which the subject
admitted, How the State Federation Can
Help the Club. and How the Club Can Help
the Federation" resulted in considerable
random talk. while If the several subjects
1t was desired to discuss had been presented
! topically there would have been no waste
of time in bringing definite discussion I'm
der the direction OF Mrs. Charles Selleck of
| Blair club interest and work in the Second
district have fiourished this year and Mon
days meeting was at once credit to it's
chairman and the organization.
The new directory of Women's Clubs IF
America, issued recently by Miss Helen
| winslow. shows nearly 5000 clubs in the
| General Federation. Every state and ter
| ritory in the United States except Nr-
ginis and Alabama, Nevada and New
\ Mexico have state organizations. but each
of these have individual clubs affiliated
with the General Federation. Foreign or
ganiEatiens affiliated including two clubs
in London and one each in Shanghai.
Honolulu, Bombay. Colombo (Ceylon).
Saltillo (Mexico). Ponce porto Rico).
Santiago Child. and Peru and West
Australia. respectively. Alaska has four
nourishing clubs. all AFFILIATED and located
at sitka, Nome and Skaguay.
| new departure of the Denver Womaus
club is a special school for boys and girls
In the department stores of that city. Ac-
cording to press reports the classes are
being arranged with reference to children
who have left the grammar grades and are
still not fully equipped to meet business
requirements in arithmetic. spelling, read
ing and writing. One large store has q
| school of it's own and several others have
expressed appreciation Of the classes. es-
tablished by the club and are arranging
to send their young employees in relays
during the morning hours. The committee
hopes to induce all the stores TO follow
suit.
| Under the title of 1.-THE Remonstrance,"
the Massachusetts, Association Opposed to
Further Extension of Suffrage to Women
has issued It's annual protest The pamph-
let gives list of eight state organizations
that believe the majority of women do
not want the ballot and that to force 1t
upon them would be not only an injustice
to women, but would lessen their nfiu-
ence for good and imperil the community"
The greater part OF the two sheets is de-
voted to press clippings derogatory to the
suffrage movement. The municipal strength
of this opposing organization Is not mem
toned. but 1t includes but eight state and
two city organizations in its list of the
opposing force.
or the sixty-two students recently
dropped by Stanford university because
their work was not up to standard, sixty
one were men and one a woman. About
one third OF the entire student body of the
university is women. Such statistics should
be considered by parents who. in sending
their girls to college, are uncertain whether
their daughters can take the same college
training as their sons
The Daughters OF the American Revolu-
ton, Daughters Of the Confederacy and
the club women of South Carolina have
united in a petition to their state legisla-
ture for an appropriation of $4,000. toward
a statue of John c. Calhoun, TO be placed
in statuary hall, Washington. commemora-
tive of the great South Carolina states
man. A strong committee is at work and