Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-22

IA gates to the biennial of the
"A General Federation of Women $
clubs. were Of the party Of lJO
Ip10SV club women who supplemented
SS1f1l the club sessions by a visit to
the Mammoth cave, Kentucky. The party
left Cincinnati Thursday morning and
planned to return to that city today. This
means, naturally, that the return here Of
this part OF the delegation will DO de-
layed.
Mrs. NJ. u. Cameron, president of the
Omaha Womans club was a member Of
the excursion. She also plans to visit In
South Bend Ind. so will not return until
the last OF this week. Other Nebraskans
who visited the cave were Mrs. w. p.
Mead of York. Mrs. L. q. Simon of sgd
ney, Mrs. g. L. Rogers OF Lincoln, Mrs.
l.. l. Cowan OF Ashland and Mrs. J. n.
Paul Of st. Paul
Tho Frances willard women's Chris
tisn Temperance union instead the usual
monthly meeting will hold an all day in
stitute Wednesday in the home of Mrs.
]. A. Taggart. Mrs L. b. Towle Of South
Omaha will give a talk at the morning
session, on Mexico" In the afternoon,
Rev. J. NJ. Leidy will speak.
Instead OF the usual corps of secretaries
the Young Womens Christian association
will be differed Thursday night by some
Of the directors OF the association, But
this statement is not so serious as 1t
seems, since tho change is only for few
hours and is to allow the secretaries
chance to hold a picnic at the new bunga-
low at Camp Gymwocka," Carter lake.
This picnic will . - d, closing party. since
several OF the SC. .,aries leave soon after
for their summer vacations.
Another closing festivity in Young
Women's Christian association circles is
the large bible study banquet Monday
evening, this closing the years work
for the Bible department. The pro-
gram for this includes talk by Mrs
Byers on What the Young Women's Chris
tian Association Stands for as a World
Wide Movement" readings by Mrs. Charles
T. Ross, violin solo, Miss Grace McBride
vocal solo, Miss Mabele Bosworth. Miss
Theodate Wilson, religious work secre-
tary, Is in charge of the banquet
The general officers of the national
Women's Christian Temperance union
and Mrs. Emile ID. Martin, World
and National superintendent OF the de-
partment OF Purity and Literature and
Art, are asking the members OF the unions
throughout the country to write TO their
senators and representatives, asking them
TO support the bill prohibiting the trans
mission OF prizefighting news and pictures.
The youngest state representative at
tending the biennial convention of the Gen.
eral Federation was Miss Roberta E. Innis
Of Alexandria, Ind. Miss Innis, who is 20
years old, was present as state alternate
of Indiana.
Miss Katharine S. Day, chairman of the
committee on streets for the Woman S
Municipal league. has just sent out to the
members of the league a letter which car
ries a message for all women interested In
the sanitation and beauty Of our towns
and villages, The letter is addressed par
ticularly to those leaving for their sum-
gner residences and asks them to carry
the spirit of civic Improvement wherever
the holidays may take them To those
going abroad 1t suggests that there they
may note ideas and study conditions for
use in the home work One pertinent para
graph, which has application in Nebraska
as we'll as almost any other of our states,
reads
I'm a series of recent journeys to friends
, houses in the pretty hill towns and coun-
try resorts in Connecticut, thus traversing
the western part of the state, and passing
innumerable villages, the writer has been
shocked to find that the main impression
gained enrcute has been that of passing all
the back yards and dumps of Connecticut
Abroad, we admire the beauty Of the Eng
lish villages, their trim cottage gardens
and the prevailing neatness OF everything
as well as the tidy French, German and
Dutch villages, while even the somewhat
soiled picturesqueness of the Italian is
never hurt by these great piles OF rubbish
composed of equal parts of tin cans, broken
bottles, chairs, old mattresses, brooms, de-
cayed poultry and other animals, which
we placidly allow to disfigure nearly al
our villages. With perfect impartiality
and entire absence OF oversight from the
village fathers (the mothers in this matter
seem to be non-existenO, these awful heaps
may be seen conspicuously placed on the
river banks, near the railroad stations
(thus affording the traveller pleasant
first impresslon), or along one of the
prettiest drives of town, or by purlint
brook or open meadow. The trail of the
tin can and the dead cat may be said K
be ubiquitous"
Women will manage the splendid new
hospital which has just been opened a.
Hampstead, l.. !. There will be board
OF women managers, woman superintend
ent and women house physicians. Thu
hospital, which has just been opened, II
the first Of series of hospitals which
it is planned TO establish on Long Island
The $4,000 which It cost was raised b!
Mrs. o. H. p, Belmont among the rVSi
dents of the vicinity.
Mrs ella w. Brown, editor OF Our Mes
senger, official organ of Kansas Women's
Christian Temperance union, will become q
member of the faculty OF FaiEmount col
Iege at Wichita next year, heading the
English department.
Miss Alice Henry, president Of the new
West Side Equal Suffrage association Of
Chicago, is a native of Melbourne, Aus
tralla. For thirteen years she was attached
to the staff of the Australasian. She spen
six months in Great Britain. investigating
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