Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-01
wOHAH u CLUB AND CHARITY

The annual picnic OF the current topics
department of the Omaha woman's club
was held Wednesday Afternoon in the park
at Florence and was one OF the largest
and most successful social affairs that has
ever been undertaken by the department
There were about seventy present includ-
There were about seventy present includ-
ing the husbands and families OF members.
DR.. and Mrs w. L. Ross, whose home
adjolns the park. contributed much to the
enjoyment of the afternoon by their hos
pitality. Mrs. John L. Healy Is leader
of the department and her committee In
cluded Mrs. oberle, Mrs. c. w. Hayes and
Mrs. Challis.
The August meeting of the woman's Club
of the Railway Mail Service was held
Wednesday afternoon at the home OF Mrs.
A. c. Rawson. 10l4 North Thirty-third
street The ratification of the constitution
as recently amended by the constitution
committee was the chief business of the
afternoon. social hour following the busl-
ness session.
Club women will welcome the announce.
ment that the University of Nebraska has
planned a new department In its study
course this year to be called the Home
Study Series and to be issued from the
home economic department in September.
November. January, March and May. Club
women and members of the Young Wom-
ems Christian association have made re-
quests for this series and 1t is in compliance
with these that II is to be issued. The
subjects discussed In the bulletins from the
university will be entirely relating to the
home and will be a reading course that
will be sent out free on application by sd-
dressing the registrar. Station A, Lincoln.
Neb.
The Iowa Equal Suffrage association,
which occasioned considerable comment by
distributing suffrage fans at the state re-
publican convention. is giving away tiny
flags at the Iowa state fair this week.
These flags have four stars and the in
scription: Let Iowa women vote. Add an
other star TO the flag of free states" The
flags are fastened to small birch sticks
and are attractive little souvenirs.
Members OF the United Daughters OF the
Confederacy in the northern as well as
the southern chapters, have been very
much exercised of late over a misunder.
| standing that has become prevalent re-
garding their organization becoming aux
Hilary to new organization known as
the Southern Industrial and Educational
association, The Daughters have long
been working for an Improvement in edu-
cational conditions in the south, but in
the main, descendants of confederate vet
Grams have been benehciaries of their ef-
forts. The new association, which was
organized by Mrs. Martha S. Gielow, who
| is it's president general, would extend
these advantages just as far as possible,
and in this interest Mrs. Gielow and her
secretary have recently travelled extern
sively in the east and south, endeavoriag
to secure support of other societies of
women and men. Mrs. Gielow suggested
that the Daughters of the Confederacy be-
come auxiliary to her organization in the
educational work, which she presented to
several chapters, and misunderstanding
their approval of her work for consent to
her proposition actually persuaded a
chapter or two to join. The general or
ganization is much opposed to becoming
auxiliary to any other association, how
ever and after some Investigation has
considerable criticism to offer. the methods
of the new association. Now those chap
tiers of Daughters that actually became
members claim that they were misin-
formed and do not care to be further iden-
tilted with the Southern Industrial and
Educational association. The president
general of the Daughters has recently is
sued a circular letter disclaiming any af-
nliation with the new organization and
presidents of several of the state divisions
have sent out similar circulars to their
| chapters.
Baron Rosen, Russian ambassador, has
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