Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-27
MOTHERS GATHER
TO TALK HOME
NATIONAL CONGRESS OPENS
ITS SESSION MONDAY
First Function Is Reception at Night
in the EbeI Club House, to
Be Arranged by the
Caifornians

| The program for the meeting of the
National Congress of Mothers to be
held in Los Angeles the week begin
ming Monday, May 7, has been COM
pleted.
The first meeting of the convention
will be held Monday afternoon, when
the board of managers will convene at
| the Alexandria hotel for an executive
| session. Monday evening a large re-
ception will be given by the California
congress to the officers and delegates
at the Ebell club house.
The main conference will open Tues
day. Following is the program:
TUESDAY, MAY 8
| $3.50 a. m.-Meeting of board of man.
ayers at Alexandria hotel.
p. m.-Opening of the conference
at the Ebell club house. Invocation,
Robert Mcintyre, d. D.; greetings,
Governor George G. Pardee: Hon.
Thomas j. Kirk, state superintendent
of public instruction; w. j. Washburn,
president of the board of education;
Ernest C. Moore, superintendent of
Los Angeles city schools; Mrs w. w.
Murphy president California Congress
of Mothers. Response, Mrs. Frederic
Schoff.
s p. m at Polytechnic high school.
Robert j. Burdette, d. D.. Music,
girls chorus: address, deficiencies in
Care of Children as Revealed by the
HJuvenile Court" Hon. Ben B. Lindsey,
Denver, Colo; music, boys chorus;
address, 1.-The Juvenile Court in Los
Angeles" Hon. Curtis D. Wilbur, Los
Angeles.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9
10 a. MAT Ebell club house. Con-
ference: probation Work." 1.-THE De-
linquent Girl" Mrs. Frank r. Hill.
Tacoma. Wash. "Runaways and Tru-
ants" "Child Thief" Mrs. Frank De
Garmo, Shreveport, La.
2 p. m.-Polytechnic high school.
Mothers and teachers will meet to in
spect the workings of the Polytechnic
high school at the invitation of j. H.
Francis, principal.
s p. NAT Ebell club house. Invo-
cation. Francis Murphy; address,
Links in the Chain of Child Nurture, F"
Mrs Frederic Schoff; address, Study
of Childhood" Mrs. Theodore w.
Birney.
THURSDAY, MAY 10
10:3O a. mat Ebell club house.
Report of the international conference
on the blind at Edinburgh, June, 1905.
Esther Josselyn Giffin, delegate from
National Congress of Mothers; ad-
uT6SS, lie oman N'pS'fN'
Mary Garrett, Philadelphia, principal
Pennsylvania School for Teaching
Speech to Deaf Children; address,
Humane Education" Mrs. e. R.
Weeks, Kansas City, Mo-
%. MAT Ebell club house. Confer
ence; Relation of Child Study to
Home, School and State;" 1.-THE Home" "
Mrs. Roger B. McMullen, Mrs. Theo-
dore w. Birney; 1.-THE School," Miss
Mary F. Ledyard, Mrs. w. w. Murphy;
1.-THE State" Mrs. Frederic Schoff.
Discussion opened by Mrs. Emma M.
Greenleaf.
8 D. mat Ebell club house. Invo-
cation. Rev. S. Hecht, d. D.; address,
possibilities of Parents Associations,
Mrs. w. S. Hefferan, president Illinois
Congress of Mothers; address, Moral
Training in Public Schools" Prof.
James A. Foshay.
FRIDAY, MAY II
3 D. m.-Meeting of board of man
ayers at Hotel Alexandria.
8 p. mat Polytechnic high school.
Invocation, Rev. Warren F. Day, D.
D.: address, uniform Divorce Laws" "
Rt. Rev. Joseph H. Johnson, d. D.;
address, "Our National Disgrace.
Charles H. Jackson, Boise, Idaho;
closing words; America" sung by
audience.
SATURDAY. MAY IL
The delegates and visitors to the
National Congress of Mothers will be
the guests of Pasadena. The day will
include drive, luncheon and trip to
| Mount Lowe.