The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
CLUB WOMEN ACTIVE
ESSEX C0UNTY COMMITTEE
HEARS GOOD REPORTS.
Effort Made to Solve Servant Problem,
Sociological Questions and Legis-
lative Matters.

Climb women. representing nearly
every club in Essex County, assenpieu
IN the Free Public Library yesterday
afternoon 10 hear reports of the chair
man of the various subcommittee
which make up the Essex County COM
mittee of the New Jersey state Federa-
ton Of Women's Clubs.
Miss Sophronia Anderson. chairman
of the committee. presided ana caiiSu
for tho various reports.
Hotisehold economies. the domestic
servant problem. sociological and legls-
lative work. the progress of school gar
dens. and the Improvement OF the CITY
baths. are some of the speclal prahcnes
Of work which the federation has I'M
der consideration and which were as
cussed by the women at some length
Mrs. william S. Disbrow told the
women what has been done by her com
mittee in its effort to bring ABOUT d
systematic enforcement OF the p"ie
food law.
Mrs. Disbrow advanced an opinion
that the enforcement of the law rested
largely with the women. while You
81. idly by" she said you cannot look
for results. You are going to eat adui-
terated food-for there is plenty OF n
Just as long as you defer your lndivlo-
ual help in the matter. 1t devolves
upon you whether the law is carried
out or not
In referring to the domestic servant
problem. Mrs. Disbrow asked the women
to present the question to their ind'-
yidual clubs. with a view to reachihg
some definite solution of the SITUATION
as it now presents itself.
.Everything." she said. lies back of
the knowledge of how TO conduct d
home
recommended that some scheme De
adopted by which ho~usekeepers could
work together 10 protect their interests
and at the sam time live in harmony win
the servants.
Mrs. Florence V. Frapwell. Of Airing
ton. said that. after giving the question
serious thought. she had arrived at the
conclusion that two important reasons
exist for the great scarcity of domestic
help. namely. that the demand exeeefs
the supply. and that factories are 'akIHs
fo all the female help available, giVlhs
them mems positions. because o. "''
Willingness to do the work cheaper
Ell occurred TO me" said Mrs. Frap-
well. ssthat we might petition manufac-
furers not to hire girls to MI the posltlohS
OF men. because in this action we nave q
double grievance The men are thrown
out of work. while the girls are given tne
nos;fious because they will accept lower
wages. II the girls could be brought 10
n realization OF this fact perhaps we
pvo,,ld have better servants. Until these
conditions are rernedied the present state
Of unrest and distress wiz continue
Mrs. Mary B. Kinsley. OF Hoooken' too
Of the good accomplished By the sociology
ssa1 committee. This committee. she eN-
tA2aiped.-xopked in conjunction with the
Esaisfative department and the Consumer
= 80 and Is now able TO report the
massage of the child labor bill, or the me4-
camille bill. az 1t is also called
Mrs. Kinsley urged the women 10 "ytA
- she hill She also 7
rseommended 70 the individual elnos a
closer interest in The George Junior Repuo-
liz In addition she stated that 1t is Tie
hona Of her committee to establish more
correspondence schools in the prisons
Mrs. wiIfred r. Harrison Of caldweH.
speaking for the same departments tod OF
MANY improvements in the county inEiitu-
fIons since the women had eTinceo an in
terext in the various reforms asked for
aGreater cleanliness prevails. she said,
..and the inmates are comfortably and
cleaniy housed
Mrs.. william H. Brown. Of the Ray
Palmer Club, reported on city baths, ana
told OF the efforts Of her COMMITTEES 10
have conditions bettered in those institu-
lions.
Some appropriations have been made she
told the members. and some improvements
made. The COMMITTEES was retained to con-
tlnue its work along the same lines and TO
investigate the possibility Of having COM
fort stations placed in the local parks, as
1t was agreed that their absence was a
menace to public health.
DR.. Elizabeth Van Duyne. also Of Ray
Palmer. told of the methods In use for
the stamping out Of tuberculosis. "A
dehnste line of work is now going on" she
told the women, and is being conducted
by the Public Health Defense League"
In her report DR.. Van Duyne suggested
that the county committee form an al
lance with the league" Mrs. Harrison
told of a step forward in dealing with the
disease in the county p~enitentiary and OF
the method employed by large local manu-
featuring concerns. which have been sue
cessfui in a large measure.
Miss Antoinette Rehmann, president OF
the College Woman's Club. whose mem
bers are interesting themselves In the city
beautiful, told of a movement on foot
among the members of that club to have
the nuise ice of Objectionable billposters
and advertising signs abolished. At Miss
Remnants suggestion the following reso-
luton was adotped by the committee, A
the abuse of the billboard Is directly In
opposition to all movements for beautify-
ing the city, the Essex County commit
tee Of he New Jersey State Federation
wish to approve the efforts Of its City
Beautiful committee and recommend 10
the Individual clubs the necessity of rec
tifying this abuse"
Mrs. S. Erwin Manness, Of the Saturday
Club. gave a comprehensive report of
the work in the school gardens, introduced
by the clubwomen a year ago and since
carried on in different sections OF the city
by the Board of Education. Mrs. Manness
dwelt on the interest shown by the children
in the work. and displayed a large picture
Of the school garden at Eighteenth ave-
rte and Boyd street, which is to be pre-
scented to the Board of Education by the
clubwomen.
A resolution was presented and adopted
that school gardens be established and
conducted on a separate plan from play
grounds and summer schools"
The committee agreed that the various
reports gave proof Of untiring work and
voted to AVE the subcommittee con-
finued.