Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-09
FEDERATION IS
CLOSING ITS
SESSIONS
FINAL Meeting TOMORROW MORN.
ING=TODAYS SESSION FULL OF
BUSINESS, IMPORTANT COMMIT
Tees NAMED RECEPTION LAST
NIGHT.
TONIGHTS MEETING IS
WELL WORTH ATTENDING

New Mexico evening, will be cele.
brated tonight in the State Fedora
tion program. Mrs. l.. G. Collins will
be i'll charge. The gallery will be
open to the public and the lower
floor will be reserved for the dele
gates, members of the local hostess
! clubs and their escorts. All are re-
} quested to wear their badges this
evening so the ushers will be able to
properly seat those attending
A new lecture, and said to be we'll
, worth hearing, will be given by Col.
. Ralph e. Twitchell, on the subject,
Some Neglected State Assets" ;"
American Indian songs, by Charles
Wakefield Cadman, will be interpreted
by Mrs. Pierce-Winn, and there will
be typical Indian dances by real In
dams from the pueblo of San Ildefon-
so. The exercises will start at
o'clock and will be held in the Scot
tish Rite cathedral.
The Woman's Club as a factor in
New Mexico education was the topic
under discussion at the general meet
/ ing of the Federation Of Women's
! Clubs yesterday afternoon. Mrs.
George H. VanStone opened this meet
ling with beautiful organ recital,
igiving a selection from the opera
Martha"
The question of the help that clubs
could give the rural schools was given
by Mrs. r. F. Asplund, Miss Bryant
lof Portales and Mrs. Bundy of Las
Cruces and Mrs. Young of Tularosa.
Mrs Brewer of Orchard Park and
Mrs. Nutter of Clovis, Mrs, Weideran-
iders of Estancia and Mrs. Frederick
Vim, of Albuquerque. All Of these
ladies spoke of the needs Of the ru-
raj schools and the real work that the
club women of the towns could do
by sending magazines TO the outof.
town schools, Books were in need
everywhere and some of the ladies re-
ported starts in circulating libraries
and loans Of books already in circpla-
Ition in their counties. Mrs. Theresa
B. White gave a most interesting ap-
peal to the club women to aid the ru'
raj schools in an industrial way. She
said in part that the city schools could
take care of themselves, but the poor
conditions and isolation of the country
school with its limited funds should
appeal to all the club women.
'If you could only see just what
| little help could do, give the teacher
a small stove and pan or two and
even with little ability in cooking
she could make soup and sometimes
cocoa for the little ones who come so
| far probably from homes where they
are poorly nourished. If the children
donated few potatoes and the club
women furnished the cocoa and can
ned milk there would be something
warm for the children to eat and
start in the cooking department of the
domestic science work would be made
In sewing, flour sacks donated would
! make curtains and towels for hands
and dishes and start in personal
cleanliness and the use of individual
towels would teach sanitation.
"A dry goods box with hammer and
nails would start the boys in con-
structon work and give the school a
book case. Some of the county super
intendents are now going around with
their buggies piled high with these
donations"
Mrs. White is the chairman of Home
Economics committee for New Mex
nn nd nf fJn
board of home economics. She said
that she spoke in behalf of Mrs. Gull
berson Of Portales, who was to have
presented the side of the rural schools
but who was detained.
Mrs. Roy Prentice of Las Vegas,
then gave most beautiful vocal solo
singing in her usual brilliant style.
"Oberon in Fairyland" Miss Bishop
of Santa Fe, was her accompanist.
Mrs. r. ]. Palen. vice president of
the Santa Fe school board, gave the
paper on the club woman's help to the
city schools. She said in part:
The parents and the mothers should
help establish good relations between
children and teacher. That the club
woman should try to relieve the mono.
tony of the teachers life. All the
teachers are cultivated women and
most companionable. We of the city
can aid the question of the travelling
library by personal influence with the
voters. The great value of the work
of women is being recognized the
world over and in no other field more
than in the improvement of schools"
There were four women members
Of city school boards present and there
are five women county superintend-
ents in New Mexico.
The question of what the clubs
could do for the higher institutions
was handled in the open discussion.
The question of women on the board
of regents of these institutions being
the most vital The governor has
already placed Mrs Rogers on the
board of regents of the Normal School
a, Las Vegas. Mrs. Fugate stated that