Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-26
WHAT The WOMEN ARE DOING
Club Women Secure Introduction Of
Travelling Clinic in California.
EDUCATION As PREVENTATIVE
President Roosevelt Expresses Az
prevail OF Y. W. G. As-sIsters OF
Mrs. Humphrey ward Take
Issue with Her.

After a long and persistent effort the
club women of California have succeeded
in inducing the state Board of Health to
take the first steps in their Dlan for a
travelling clinic. A railway car fitted up
as a laboratory has been furnished by the
Southern Pacific railroad and this viii be
used to illustrate methods Of preventing
disease. 1t Is to have special exhibits
showing how tuberculosis, fevers and other
diseases may be prevented. Both the
Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe rail-
roads have agreed to transport the car
and It's occupants over their roads,, any
place In California. free Of charge.
Presidents Approval.
While the Young woman's Christian as
sociation has ever been fortunate in its
support from those IN high places. rhe fol.
lowing commentator from President
Roosevelt. spoken to a delegation Of its
members at the White House recently, Is
especially gratifying:
1 doubt IL there IL a phfianthropic move
ment In the country which better deserves
ne interest and. support Of our people than
tan associations. There has been in the
pact a tendency to do more for the young
mon than for. the young women. I remem-
struck in New York with the fact that
there was 80 much moro opportunity for
to yS4n b mSn' t Stth himss lfieh p0 es ~ 5s0 ,s S,Sg.
a young woman; that too often there was
R9 se Ssms for 20 ,s the girl' the soS SSSns S T,Sm sna
have the human sympathy which she so
much needed.
This association is to be commended for
the way in which II works In harmony
with all other bodies. 1t is a real mis-
fortune to see philanthropic organizations
striven to mako your work part of the
general helpful work of the community.
You try to work in connection with other
philanthropic organizations. I do not know
In Washington on organization which has
a greater need and which has a juster
warrant for asking outsiders to help it than
I desire to say that this is one Of the
few gatherings seen In the White House
that has come, not on its suggestion. hut
mine. You may be interested In knowing
how you happened to get here. An African
missionary called. on me one day. He had
sT't th GS@e pe SSSe v Mfth h Ar1i's among SnH h them 1w o
young woman l was speaking TO the
missionary about the need IN missionary
point on which I have strong convictions,
and in some way II happened TO come up
that this young woman was connected with
the Young Woman's Christian association
iE Washington.
Tribute to American Women.
One of the three memorial windows un.
yelled recently at Plymouth church. Brook
lyn, shows a group Of four distinguished
American women. Harriet Beecher STOW,
Mary Lyon, Frances Willard ard Katherine
Esther Beecher. OF the four Miss BeccheT
is perhaps least widely known. She was
a daughter of Rev. Lyman Beecher and an
eldest sister Of Harriet Beecher Stow. Fer
many years she was at the head of @
large seminary for girls In Hartford, Conn.
and later opened another at Dubuque, Ia
She was among the first to Introduce
domestic science into the school curri.
culum. Mary Lyon was the founder ant
first president Of Mt. Holyoke college snt
the first to teach this important branch.
Sisters Disagree.
The two sisters of Mrs. Humphrey Ward
are as ardently advocating votes for womer
as she is opposing It. Miss Ethel Arnold
the younger sister, is now in this country
delivering speeches in the east in favor
of woman suffrage. Mrs. Turner, the
second of these three gifted sisters, wa.
one OF the principal speakers at the grear
London meeting to which Ellen Terry SEN
her written declaration OF her advocacy
of the cause of woman suffrage. Mrs
Turner has especially emphasized the In
justice of unequal pay for men and wo
men teachers and she and Miss Arnolt
are both writing and speaking in answer
to the opposition Of their brilliant sister
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