Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-18
WOMEN'S FEDERATION.
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better opportunity for club women 10
| exchange and share benefits than
| through the Bureau which has been
created as station for supplies
| and medium for information
in all topics relating to club work.
| Each State Federation is asked to see
| that every club be given an OPP
| portunity to donate single volumes, a
| small library of reference books or
money to purchase material. The new
| edition of the American Library As
| sociations list of books for boys and
| girls issued by the General Federalism
| for mothers and others Interested in
| children's books, is ready for distribu-
! ton and may be obtained from Mrs.
| Mary |. Wood, Chairman of the
Bureau, Portsmouth, y. H.
We are coming year by year into
| closer relationship with the educational
| forces of our country. A supreln.
! effort in this direction was made by
| the late Miss Mary NJ Abbott, when at
| her request dt lcSatcS from six Orfan-
Zations of women met with the
| Executive Board and other members #
| National Educational Association in
| Chicago last February
The invitation extended to the Now
| England club women by the American
| Institute of Instruction TO its annual
| meeting in Portland two years ago has
| been renewed annually. Each year
| more time has been allotted to the de-
| partment of Home and School" as
| signed to the club women At the
| meeting held in Montreal in July (17tn
ANNUALLY Mrs. Mary l. Wood presided
| over these sessions.
| Mrs. Myrtle l.. IT, White, ex-chair-
man Of Ed. Com. will bring US a report.
The Nation has awakened to the
| appreciation of the pioneer workers for
and founders of the higher education
of women in America. On Memorial
| Day. 1900 three tablets We're unveiled
| at the hail OF Fame of the University
OF New York bearing the names of
three eminent New England women,
MISS Mary Lyon. Mrs. Emma Willard
and Miss Maria Mitchell
! Never in the worlds history has the
| universal mind seemed to echo that of
| Whittiers, as today. when he SAYS:
Lend once again. that hciy song a
tongue
Which the glad angels Of the absent
sung,
Their cradle, anthem for the Saviour's
| Glory To God and peace unto the earth.
Through the mad discord s nd that calm .
| ing word
| Which wind and wave on hin G.pce,re+h
heard.
Though the worlds first Peace
society was founded in New York in
iSl', the arbitration and Peace Con-
$fcsS held in New York, April 14-f7.
was the first really National Peace
Meeting in America.
1T was largely attended A marked
feature was the prominence given ~
thc education Of the young in Tho
| pflnclples Of peace and for the first
tilne a Woman's meeting was held in
connection and was pronounced n very
important aid. The relation OF women
TO the Peace movement was discussed
by Miss Jane adams. Mrs. Ellen II
PRESIDENT, Mary I. Woolley of MI
H"lE"ke and others. The meeting was
presided "Eer by Mrs Anna Garlin
Spencer and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
WAS one Of the guests of honor NO
We're invited to send delegate n,,t
your executive found none available
we reel that passing mention at
eaSt. should be made of the x.,,1d
feace congress, which convened ~ t,s
hague IN June, as ii marks the frs
iihe IN It's history when the rrur,.
SchtatlVeS of the whole civilized world
nave met together In 1899 there ,ynr,
representatives from % nations. in 19o7
from forty-fivc
| America sent strong delnrotion ~
eminent men. their Secretary Mr.
Clarence Hale. son of Names Son,tar
| 1t is said that the mention Of t,o
names of President Roosevelt and Az
Carnegie evoked the greatest ent!,n-
| saSm.
We would note that during his ,.o.r
me centenary Of Names beloved noot
L"nsfcllow. has heen celebrated and ~
| euioSleS which found expression in tbo
land Of his birth, has rc-echond in a.,
| lands. '''
h'j"itihG IN all victories gained
through women for women. We extend
| 'iif'id uidtlohS TO Connecticut 1pon
th' unique law passed By the last Leg
stature proceeding for woman an
p"ih'ed' woman Factory Inspector. A
commission Of three women has beer,
| appointed by the Gov. who are to rec
commend Candidate. 9*FE 4xH7
| ~ movement set on foot by The Cen
| cfai Federation of Womcn's Clubs and
|"thpf organizations Of women. to secure
an investigation by the National De-
| paftmcnt of Labor. as to the conditions
| 'liuef which women and children work
| throughout the United States. mot With
! the approval of President Roosevelt
ana resulted in the appointment of
| Mrs. Ellen j Foster
| lis George Elliott who saws that a.,
woman who cares only for her own
| children IS not ono of Gods mothers"
| TIE anti-tuberculOsis society ash, nc
| 70 ald them in their effort to stav tine
| W htte Plague, which is stalking
| through the land and it bchooves us TO
take every precaution to protect the
| children of today-the men and women
OF tomorrow.
| The bend of sympathy which enables
us 20 rejoice in another's prosperity.
| makes us also DESTROYS of mitigating
their sorrow
SO Your President S,IppoStc tb,+ n