New-York tribune., 1908-06-20
BOSTON BIENNIAL
-Four Thousand ClubTomen UM In
7nde the Hub NeTt Week.

Ahout four thousand women delegates to the
biennial convention of the General Federation OF
Wornen's Clubs, will invade Boston next week loi
q seven days' series of meetings. receptlons' teas
outings etc The delegates will be welcomed ar
symphony Hall Monday June p with con-
cert by the Symphony Orchestra. and at the open
ing session Tuesday at the same place there VIII
he addresses of welcome by Governor Gullo' aaSoi
Hibbard and Mrs. May Alden Ward represehtihs
the Massachusetts State Federation Mrs oaran
Platt Decker president Of the General Federation
will resnond and then Mrs. DENIES T. 3 DennlsoIl
Of New York. will talk of the historic environment
of the occasion. and Professor Charles Zueoien
will speak on Democracy and Culture
The convention will continue until the 1oilo"Hls
Tuesday and the addresses and conferences VIII
cover wide variety of subjects
child labor and the betterment of industrial con-
ditions will occupy A prominent position. Mrs
Joseph NJ. Mccormick president or the woman >
department of the National Civic Federation VIII
talk on welfare Work. and Mrs. j. Borden Har-
riman chairman of the committee on the better
ment of the condition of industrial workers VIII
also be a speaker. Senator Beveridge. OF Indiana
will give an address National Legislation on
Child Labor" The allied subject of industrial
education will be treated by Miss Sarah II. Aliioi'.
of Simmons College, and Miss Juha B. Perry oI
Kansas Other educational addresses VIII De oy
Miss Laura D. Gill. formerly dean OF Barnaru
C.o1Iage on .'Co-operation of Women's Orsanlza-
tions for Good Schools; Mrs Ella NJ y. e'iehes,
on English Scholarships for American women
and Mrs Desha Breckenridge, OF Lexington NY
on THE Educational Awakening of Kentucky
Under the head of civics there will be addresses
on Methods and Factors in Civic Work. by Mrs
" w PenfeId, of New York; Parks and Play
grounds by Miss Sadie American; state ana Ma
tional Institutions" by Rabbi Morris NJ Feurllcht'
"Co-Operation OF the Daughters of the American
Revolution" by Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Malh' oi
Washington and '.PaternaIisn,' by Joseph Lee
Art will be represented by addresses on Inc
Democratic Art Movement by Mrs VI F. Jonn-
SON of Richmond Ind; Art in Our Own Country
nv Mrs Everett w Patterson. of St Louis. and
..N1unicipaI Art" by Howard Walker. of Boston
literary session will be addressed by Thomas Nell
son Page on ''Parochialism in Literature
Pure food will be represented by Miss Mary
Herman Abel. of Baltimore. who VIII ta4h on
..CvIean Food and Dr. Charles Harrington, OF the
Massachusetts, State Board of Health, VINO VIII
take 1Ip Local Meat Inspection
At forestry meeting there will be addresses on
"-The Nature Lovers Creed by Mrs. P. s Peter
son of Chicago: Voices of the Forest by Mrs
Nav Reilly Smith. and The Spirit OF the Forest
b,, Enos A Mills a government forest agent
Miss Helen Varick Boswell will talk about life In
Panama and Mrs. Rufus Williams, of Cambridge.
will discuss the suppression of tuberculosis There
will be An Evening with Business Women and
question box on household economies
ON THURSDAY afternoon the Governor of Massa-
cbusetts and Mrs Guild will receive the delegates
at the State House. Friday will be a 'playday,
tho delegates being invited by the Rhode Island
Federation to enjoy a sail Narragansett Bay.
with a real Rhode Island clambake-