Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-27
WOMAN IN CLUB AND CHARITY

At Monday afternoons general meeting
the Woman's club gave substantial en-
couragement to the study of art by voting
$3.50 to its art department to enable it to
continue it's study with the stereoptcon
and otherwise extend its work, which has
been seriously limited for want OF means.
The action grew out Of a resolution COM
ing through the club directory from a
committee of the art department asking
the club to allow the art department to
tax it's members 81 a year in addition to the
annual 50 club dues to be used in buying
the necessary slides and renting a stere-
opticon necessities in continuing it's study
Opposition was at once expressed to any
plan that would limit the clubs depart
ment work. on the ground that many
members might be barred from the art de-
partment by the additional expense. IT
was suggested that the club buy a stereop-
| ticon that might be used by all the de-
| partmcnts, but this plan was opposed as
| impractical, the department having dis
! posed of one stcrcopucon because of the
| cost of hiring an operator, and when
| competent operator could be found he
usually owned an instrument that he pre-
ferred using. The suggestion that an
appropriation large enough to cover the
necessities. to study, he made to the de-
partment, met the opposition that such
action would establish a precedent that the
club could hardly afford to follow. In
reply to this Mrs. f. c. McGilton. a MEM
Der of the art department, frankly an
nounced that unless the department could
| be allowed some means of raising neces-
sary funds while retaining it's connection
with the club, 1t would be necessary for
it to withdraw. Not wishing such a loss
but unwilling to limit any of the clubs
benefits by additional fees, it was decided
to appropriate $50 for the art departments
work next year The program was in
charge of the literature department and
consisted of two vocal numbers by Miss
Margaret Damn and lecture, sidney
Lanier," by Miss Florence McHugh.
The household eU6honiics department of
the Woman's club will meet at 2:3O o'clock
Thursday afternoon instead of in the
morning as usual, at the club rooms. a
demonstration of the conservation of heat
will constitute the program and demon
stration luncheon will be served The
members of the Bellevue Womans club
and the Council Bluffs club have been
invited to attend,
The story of the origin and progress of
f8llt NbllSulhtlS ltdButy dS lbiu ny hl .
: Frederick Nathan before the national meet
ing held recently at Boston, answers a
question that has been frequently asked
since the effort has been made TO interest
club women in the union labels. Mrs,
Nathan said, in part:
The first league was started in New York
City sixteen years ago. Leagues exist to-
day all over the United States and In hall
dozen countries Of Europe. When We
started our work we merely tried to amol-
iOrate the conditions of saleswOmen in re-
tail stores In New York. We did not boy
, colt. we did not blacklist; whitelisted
ditions for the employees. We then turned
our attention to creating better conditions
in wOrkroOmS and factories, The National
Consumers league had, as its primary OBJ
ject, the abolition of the sweatshop inciud
ing child labor, starvation wages, cruelty
, long hours and those unsauitary workroom'
which are so terribly a menace to the con
sumer as well as the producer. Now, after
seven years work. work which has beer
greatly hampered by lack of sufficient
funds, we have sixty manufacturers OF
all goods are made on the premises of the
. factory. are made by adult labor and dur
ing daylight hours.
3 The North Dakota Federation is raising
$ funds for a memorial to Sacajewea the In
j dian girl who guided the Louis and Clarl
G expedition. 1t is to be bronze statue anC
I will be erected at Bismarck at the place
h where the Indian girl Joined the expedition