Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-15
WHAT THE WOMEN ARE DOING
Young Women's Christian Association
Will Give Get Two" Banquet.
CIVIL SERVICE AT woMAN's CLUB
Domestic Science Department win
Make Up Annual Sunshine Box
Women PROFIT by RevoIu-
tiOn In Turkey,


The Board Of Directors OF the Young
women's Christian association has an
nounccd a get two Thanksgiving banquet
to be given Monday evening, November 30
In the association rooms. Tickets will be
Issued to members securing two new
members and to the new members. Junior
memberships will not count, but renewals
Of memberships expiring prior to october
l will count. No tickets will be issued
after November Is. The banquet has for
several years been one Of the most salts
factory means Of extending the association
membership as It serves the additional pur-
pose Of promoting acquaintance and demon
s~trating benefits. Il the last banquet the
large dining room was taxed to accom-
modate the attendance.
wOman's Club Notes.
Civil service reform will afford the topic
for the program of Monday afternoons
meeting of tho Woman's club, the civil
service committee Of which Mrs. F. II.
Cole lie chairman, providing the speakers.
Mrs. Cole will make her report for the
year. Mrs. N. NJ. Nelson will report the
civil service session Of the Boston biennial,
she having been a delegate to the con-
v%ention, and will also report a visit to
Deer island. Mrs. NJ. d. Cameron win
talk Of the Humanitarian and Economic
Side of the County Farm Home, Rev.
Robert Bell will speak of Moral and
Economic Work Of the Douglas County
Dentention School" which will be followed
by a discussion lead by Mrs. Harriet Heller,
superintendent Of the school. Mrs. Powers
will sing.
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este Science department at It's meeting
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock on the
Emanuel Movement" The department
has for several years made up a sunshine
box each year, which is sent to the state
chairman of the National Sunshine society
for distribution among the "shutins'' and
other unfortunates Of the state. Each
member of the department contributes some
gift to the box which will be made up
Thursday morning. Mrs. Anna E. Moore
Of Myrtle, Neb., is state chairman of the
Sunshine society.
The Oratory department will meet Tues
day morning at 10 o'clock. Selected read
ings in dramatic monologue will be given
by members Of the department.
Suffrage Bazar.
Always the surest way Of raising money,
the bazaar is everywhere being employed
by women's clubs as a means of further
ing their work and just now a dozen or
more large sales of this kind are in prog
ress for the benefit of as many big or
CARNATIONS. The annual suffrage bazaar
held in Now York City last week was one
of the conspicuous affairs of the early
winter and had among it's patronesses some
Of the wealthiest and best known women
Of the city, including Mrs. Russell Sage,
Mrs. Clarence Mackay, Mrs. w. X. Van
derbilt, jr., Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mrs. Philip
Lydig, Mrs. Margaret Chanler Aldrich,
Mrs. w. Bourke Cochran, Mrs. George Will
liam Curtis, Mrs. Ernesto Fabbri, Miss
Florence Guernsey, Mrs. William NJ. WINS,
Mrs. Henry Miller, Mrs, Frederick Nathan,
Mrs. William Tod Helmuth, Mrs. William
Cummings Story, Mrs. Charlotte B. Will
bour and Mrs. Henry Willard.
Girls School i'm turkey.
DR.. Mary Mills Patrick is the president
OF the Girls college in Constantinople,
which has. it is said, been materially bene-
fitted by the Turkish revolution. Ever since
additional land was acquired for the ex-
tension OF the college DR.. Patrick has been
struggling to get the government to grant
title deeds, but not until the movement
among the Young Turks brought about a
change in conditions did she succeed. The
college property is situated on the Bos-
phorus, is accessible to the city and has
one of the most magnificent views in the
vicinity of Constantinople. The college is
looked upon as the best school for girls in
Turkey and many of the liberal Turks
send their daughters there. DR.. Patrick
is a native of Canterbury, N. H., and after
her graduation from Lyons college, Iowa,
she went abroad, taking special courses at
Heidelberg, Zurich, Leipzig, Berlin and
Bern.
In a recent article on the condition OF
the women of Turkey since the revolution
DR.. Patrick says;
The changes in the harems are the most
dramatic. Turkish women have thrown off
their wells and are lecturing in different
prominent cities, like Constantinople and
Salonica. They are forming women's clubs,
three of which are already organized in
Constantlnople. Among these one woman
is especially prominent, Halideh Saith, who
is considered today the leading woman in
Co%nstantlnople. She has been asked TO
write for every paper in the city and her
patriots. impassioned articles are among
the regular contributions to the Tannin
; OEcho), the unofficial government organ.
She is a member Of all the women's clubs
and the president OF one OF them and is
} also the only woman member of two eN-
elusive mems clubs, a press club and the
!. League for Public Safety. She is also
: taking a prominent part in the reorganiz-
ing of the schools for girls throughout the
Turkish empire. which is already planned
by the Department Of Public Instruction.
Another Mohammedan graduate of the
American College for Girls at CONSTANT
nople is lecturing in salonica in behalf OF
Turkish women and will write for a new
journal for women which is being started
there"
FATAL GRIEF AT SEPARATION