Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-07-23
What
Women Are
Doing in the World

An automobile tour Of Douglas county for
the purpose OF boosting the cause Of
Votes for Women" is being discussed by
the Omaha Woman Suffrage society The
| members Of the society have taken upon
themselves the task of gaining 500 subscrib-
ers to the national organ OF the suffragists,
the Woman's Journal, Forty societies in
the state have promised to get five sub
| scriptions apiece for the Omaha society,
which is working steadily on the PROPOSE
ton. Since tie society gets commission
on subscriptions sold a neat sum will be
realized IL the 500 mark is reached and
this money will be used on the automobile
trip. The jaunt will be arranged after the
manner Of that held last spring in Cook
county, Illinois.
The Business women's club will meet
Tuesday evening at 7:SO in the Omaha Com
mercial college building for the purpose of
discussing plans for next seasons study
and meetings. The club, which meets regu-
larry twice month and which pursues
! college studies through the Lincoln-Jeffer-
son university, has kept up its activities
on small scale throughout the summer,
even though many members are away on
vacations. Last Tuesday evening the club
held a picnic in Hanscom park.
The summer school and conference held
under the auspices of the Woman's Fedora
| ton OF Missions at the University of
Omaha July y to IS, has been pronounced
a success. So much so that at the meeting
to be held July for the sake Of preparing
the report plans for making the conference
an annual occurrence will be discussed.
The registration of grown-ups at the
sessions was 224; of children. S. Financially
also the conference made good.
Fruit and vegetables have been scarcer
than usual at the Old Peoples home this
summer. owing to the advance in price Of
these commodities. Tuesday will be the
regular gift day. when donations will be
received at the home by the members Of
| the board OF managers.
The Woman's Baptist Missionary quar-
terly meeting will be held Friday in the
| Benson Baptist church. 1t will begin at
IL a. m. with devotional services conducted
| by Mrs. George Campbell of the Benson
church. Luncheon will be served in the
| church. In the afternoon Mrs George
MacDougall Of the Olivet Baptist church
| will speak on the recent convention of the
| NortneFn bdpllSt CnuTcn IN EnllaQelpnla-
which she attended, and business session
will be held.
A practical home meeting will be held
August by the Benson woman's Christian
| Temperance union. How to get rid of bugs
and insects in general and flies in part
ocular will be one subject of a round table
discussion among the members Another
topic will be how TO save steps and con-
serve strength in housework. Each wo-
man will speak from her own experience
The executive committee of the Douglas
County Womans Christian Temperance
union will meet Tuesday at go p m. at tn,
Young Women's Christian association will
Mrs. ID. c. John, president, to arrange tn,
date and place Of meeting for the count!
convention.
, Temperance union has chosen August OF
which to elect officers and delegates to tn,
county and state conventions.
The federated Womans Christian Tenn
? perance unions OF Omaha and SOutl
Omaha will meet August l6 with the Soutl
Omaha union. This meeting will complies
the round IN which each union has take
its turn at playing hostess and a new
round win begin.