Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-28
WOMAN IN CLUB AND CHARITY


| the Woman's club a menace to the home
| and the perpetuation of the race. and pre-
diets the destruction Of that whole beauti-
full system that prevailed before woman out
grew her sphere She does not state
| where she got the information she presents
as authentic regarding the General Fede-
ration of Women's Clubs. and the Gen.
eral Federation has only begun it's first
compilation of these statistics It is impos-
sible to dispute the writer. But Of course a
few children more or less charged up
against the clubwoman do not matter much
and besides II is not necessary to be
curate where clubwomen are concerned.
She asserts that the average age of the
membership of the womans club is 30 years
and that the average age of the youngest
| children of club members is II years. A
careful investigation reveals that only one
married woman in sixteen becomes
mother after she allies herself with the club
and that only one in every forty-three. dur
| ing a period of eight years, has become the
mother of two children after Joining the
club. The college woman she brands as
| Selfish" The following table affords an in
| teresting classification according to church
| denomination all the mothers referred to
| having been married from ten to fifteen
years:
with 1915 Methodist mothers the average
! number of children was 3 2-1S
! With &c, 234 Episcopal mothers the average
number of children WASP 3-12
| With R,S2 Roman Catholic mothers the
| average number of children was ST.
| With 2T,163 Presbyterian mothers the aver
age number of children was 3ls.
| With 2,2i1 Congregational mothers the
| average number OF children was 2 9-14
| With S,6$ Baptist mothers the average
number of children was 40.
| The third conference OF the Worlds
Young Women's Christian association will
| be held at Paris May 16 to n The organ
! ization includes national associations in
! Canada Denmark, France. Germany, Great
Britain, Norway, Hungary, Italy, India,
! Sweden and the United States. besides
/ local associations I'm almost every other
! country in the world The hostess organ
ization. the French national committee, has
extended hearty invitations to the Ameri-
| can association and the executive worlds
committee is also depending upon the
United States for a substantial delegation.
| The basis of representation In the conven-
| ton is stated as follows Each national
committee shall have the right to send ten
! voting delegates to the worlds conference
provided each national committee repre-
| sents 100 or more branches. If it represents
less than 100 branches it shall have power
five branches shall be entitled to one voting
delegate, the appointment of such groups
! of five to be left in all cases to the ma
tional committee of each country or in
the colonies to the branch itself" This
means that associations connected with the
American committee may send 1870 delegates
from local associations in addition to the
ten representing the American committee
itself and that the Canadian local associa-
tons may have nine delegates in addition
to the Ave sent by the national Dominion
Council. The local associations of the
! United States are asked to present the
matter of representation to their member
ship and to provide, II possible, that some
of the members of the boards, secreta ries
cabinet members and other leaders repre-
sent them at this time. Names of all
| women expecting to attend the conference
should be sent to the state committee in
the individual territory: the state commit
tee will in turn nominate these persons
to the American committee, who will then
elect them as regularly ascribed delegates
and furnish them with credentials. Dele
gates from unorganized districts will be
elected on direct application to tine Ameri-
can committee.
The conference program is made out I'M
der the following theme: The Purpose
the Power and the Progress of the Young
Women's Christian Association" Wednes-
day afternoon. May l6, there will be the
recognition of delegates, followed by a
prayer meeting. appointment of commit
tees, reports of worlds president and the
French committee. and in the evening a
reception. Friday morning there will he
Bible reading in French and English and
reports from North America, Asia Africa
and South America. In the afternoon there
will be prayer services and discussion of
the aims of the association. Later there
will be reports from Europe. various ad-
dresses and visit To st. Cloud Satur-
daI there will be more addresses and dis
cussion of recommendations for the COM
ing four years Sunday there will be evan
gelical and communion services Monday
there will be reports on the development
of national work, OF work of missions in
foreign lands, various addresses and the
closing services, The meetings will be held
In the hall OF the Young Mems Christian
/ association. Rue de Trevis The confer
enco, like the preceding ones. will be self
entertaining. The American committee Is
in correspondence for suitable hotel ia
he used as American headquarters. A no.
tel rate Of about s.75 a day will be made
The postponed program by the civil ser
vice committee OF the Woman's club will
nc presented Monday afternoon folowins
the business session at o'clock Mrs IL
: NJ. Bushnell of Lincoln. president Of IN,
Nebraska Federation of Women's clubs
Will he the guest Of the club. and vii
, speak briefly of tho state work. Mrs Field
Of Lincoln and Mrs. p. T. Buckley OF
, Stromsburg and Mrs. Mercer Fowler OF
: Omaha, the other members of the stat,
committee, will be invited to attend. Their,
will he an address by Postmaster Palmer
= on Civil Service Reform as Applied to IN,
Pos,office Department. and another b,
? DR. A. b. Somers on Civil Service in Stat,
] Institutions" Mrs. Samuel Katz will pla,
plano number and Mrs A L. Sheet
r will sing An Informal tea I'm the clul
o parlors will follow the program TIL,
meeting Will he open 10 all interested.
( The emphasis placed upon this subjec
Of civil service reform by the General Fed
n Grafton OF Womens clubs is indicated b,
q the following questions asked Of club wo
| men by Mrs. Decker:
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