Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-22
TO PREPARE GIRLS
FOR LIES BATTLE
Contemporaries Civic Meeting
Next Tuesday Will Be Devoted
to This Theme.

What Newark IS doing to prepare
its young girls for life will be the
subject discussed at the civic meet
ing Of the Contemporary. to be held
Tuesday, February rs. at 3 p. M, in
the chapel of the Second Presbyterian
Church. Washington and James
streets.
! The subcommittee on education
VIII be in charge of the meeting. The
program will be an innovation, in that
no outside.speakers will appear. Club
members only viii constitute the
speakers, and these will report the
work of the year
Mrs. Walter Read, chairman of the
sectional committee on direct self
preservation, will discuss what the
city offers to prepare the young girl
to take care of her health, her
body, etc.
Mrs. S. Erwin Manness, chairman
of the sectional committee on indirect
representation, will give a survey
of what Newark does to equip girls
for self-support
Miss Jane Roberts, chairman of the
sectional committee on preservation
of the state. will tell of the oppor-
tunities which Newark provides for
its girls.
Education for Home Making.
Mrs Charles Titus, chairman of the
sectional committee on preservation
of the home, viii report possibilities
of education for home-making, Wife
hood and motherhood.
Miss Florence A. Hague is chairman
of the sectional committee which mas
been considering the girls preparation
for proper employment of leisure time.
All reports are based upon personal
visits and Investigations conducted
wholly by club members. over fifty
women have been at work on the edu-
cational committee
The meeting is an open one, and the
public is most cordially invited to at
tend
The places visited include schools,
homes, the public library, churches,
settlements and like institutions.
Those who have served on the COM
mittee which made the investigations
are: Mrs. Beatrice NJ. stern. chair
man; Mrs. S. Erwin Manness, vice
chairman: Miss Florence A. Hague,
secretary.
Sectional committee on direct SELF
preservation, Mrs. Walter c. Read, !
chairman: DR.. Joanna c. Leary, Mrs.
Edmund Heath, Mrs. Joseph f. Fol- |
som. Mrs. Jean VOLTS, Mrs. William
s. Nicholl. Mrs. L. E, Travis, Mrs. |
Louis o. Faulhaber, Mrs. Robert w.
Hartpence, Mrs. Charles w Baker, |
Mrs. John Contrell Mrs. Charles w.
Beardsley. Miss Frances Depue, Mrs.
Solomon Foster, Miss Isola P. Stone
lake. Mrs. John ]. Perrine, Mrs. Theo-
dore e. Hevden, Hiss Anna Boiler
other Committees.
Sectional committee on Indirect
preservation Mrs. S. Erwin Man.
ness. chairman; Miss Margaret Baird,
Mrs. Joseph r. Bradner, Mrs. Samuel
Clark. Mrs H. A. Haussling, Miss
Ruth e. Healy, Mrs. William p.
Mead. Mrs. Frank J. Milman, Mrs.
Edward H. Rockwell, Miss Emma L.
Richards.
Sectional committee on preservation
of the family, Mrs. c. p. Titus, chair
man; Mrs. P. C. Gravelle, Mrs. c. W.
Vaudeville. Mrs. w. w. Oppenheim,
Mrs. S. Fl. McIlroy, Miss M. Roe.
Sectional committee on preservation
of the State, Miss Jane Roberts, chair
man; Miss Eleanor Goodwin Mrs. H.
Belcher, Mrs. Charles D. Kari, Mrs.
F. r. Smith, Mrs. F. L. Driver, Miss
Ruth Osborne, Mrs NJ. Wheeler, Mrs.
E. c. Wisner, Mrs. E. o. Chace, Miss
NJ. E. Lusk, Miss NJ. Louise Watts,
Mrs. William Rushing, Miss X. l..
Roberts.
Sectional committee on proper en-
ployment of leisure time, Miss Flo
renee A. Hague. chairman; Mrs. Will |
lam C. O'Donnell, Mrs. c. E. c. Smith, !
Miss Sara Esterbroo6, Miss Margaret
McGrath, Mrs. Henry ~Kehrl, Mrs.
Roy Schindel
Mrs. B. NJ. Stern will preside at the
meeting.