The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-04-12
OF Interest to the Women
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Of the Eighth grade. Fifty ladies' en-
joyed the bountiful dinner.
Afternoon Session.
The afternoon session was opened
with a vocal duet The Robin and The
Rose, which was very well sung by
Mesdames Smith and Harwood of
Hope. Mrs. Hildreth of Fargo, chair
man Of the social and Industrial COM
mittee then read a splendid paper on
the Need of Segregation of the Feeble
Minded. She began by saying, "We
build jails and Institutes for the fee
BILE minded and we never lack in
mates. We have Tot considered where
the inmates come from. We have been
slower to segregate the feeble minded
than other classes because their trou-
bic is not contagious as scarlet fever.
In 1875 real work vas begun in the
study of feeble minded and their pro-
geny. One million two hundred thou
sand dollars was the very large sum
spent by the state of New York to
care for one feeble minded man and
his offspring of 1900. Segregation
of the one ancestor would have saved
all this. There has recently been es-
SS01ASA1I0 y SuBSl4C SOlulIlILLGS Oh ma
tional scope and their duties will be
investigation, legislation and educa-
ton, and recently there has been much
regarding this in the popular mag
azines." Mrs. Hildreth's paper was
worthy Of a more minute account but
space will not permit. She illustrated
her points by means Of a we'll drawn
chart.
Miss Helen Eddy of the Mayville
normal has introduced and talked On
The Modern Drama. She said that the
modern drama had attacked the social
problems and was one of the big fac
tors in the lives of the American peo-
pie. Syndicates largely control the
Elays in America and a successful play
in New York costs $4,000 per week and
to be truly popular it must take as
we'll in other cities. She continued by
saying, "A play to interest us must
have some plausible connection with
cur lives There are 1000 members
in the Drama League Of America
which is only two years old and the
National Federation of Women's clubs
has endorsed the Drama league.
Miss Hattie May of Casselton then
S~'S ~N AASSA N5tAh5 oAo WLAOlA4 Sl-
tightening paper on Our Birds. She
mentioned a few of the more con
spicuous varieties, Of which North
Dakota people are not aware they have
so many. She mentioned the best
times to study bird life and told some
new facts about their habits and way
of living. This was followed by an
instrumental duet, The Merry Wives
of Windsor, by the Misses Ethel and
Edna Joslyn Of Hope.
Attorney shippey Talks
Attorney SnIppey or Hope began his
talk on Woman Suffrage by saying.
Seventeen years of married life has
convinced me that women know their
rights" He said hat formerly under
the common or English law, very few
rights were granted to women, and
all income from property which she
held at the time of marriage became
her husbands upon marriage, and at
his death she could only inherit one
third of the property. The husband,
according to the old law had a right
to chastise, his wife by corporal pun
ishment n he was sole judge of her
conduct. Mr., Shippey went on to
enumerate many of the monstrosities
of the old law and gave some of the
laws of North Dakota, under which
women are comparatively free. Mr..
Shippey brought forth hearty applause
in closing by expressing a wish that
the women of North Dakota mighl
soon have the right to vote.
A lively discussion followed Mr.. Ship
pegs talk, which seemed to strike a
very strong chord of sympathy with
them, Mrs. Travis followed this talk
with a solo, The Skylark's Song, by
Dudley Buck, and responded to an n
core with Little One A-Cryin', by Oley
Speeks. She was ably accompanied by
Miss Joslyn.
Miss Louise T. Reeve of Buxton, dis
trict vice president, then spoke briefly
stating that she had taken great pleas
ure in serving the district and thanked
the clubs for their hearty
ton. A resolution of thanks was ex-
tended the ladies of Hope for their
thoughtful hospitality.
Mrs. r. NJ. Pollock of Fargo smoke
for the endowment fund and stated
that the women would get out of club
work only as they contributed and that
they must put money into the work If
they expected to get good results. A
collection was then taken for the en-
doWment fund.
Four little girls then sang a very
delightful lullaby, rocking their dolls
while they ang The ladies' band of
Hope played several very much appre-
ciated numbers. A buffet luncheon was
served the visiting ladies just before
their departure for the station to leave
for home and the ladies' band sent
them away with rousing music as the
train pulled out. The ladies' band is
composed of girls from the eighth
grade and is a credit to the town.
An exhibit Of the manual training de-
partment which was on display in the
church parlors was very much enjoyed