The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-07-10

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A new organization that came into
existence during the Chicago conven-
ton Of the General Federation of Wo-
Biennial. Miss Ruth Pennybacker,
president of the General Federation, is
the president of the Daughters. Miss
Laura Holmes Kelley, of Charlotte, N.
Lapeer, Mich, daughter of the treas
urer, is treasurer of the Daughters;
Miss Winifred Fairfax Warder of
C c. ! Ire III, secretary; Miss Ellen James;
st. Joseph, and Miss Agnes Squire Pot
ter, Of Chicago, are other members.
One OF the speakers at the convention
on the night that Miss Wilson spoke
was Miss Laura Holmes Reilly, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Eugene Kelley of Charlotte,
N. c., formerly of st. Louis. who Is
1t that packs mothers trunk when she
goes to the board meeting? Who at
tends to the mending while mother Is
ameliorating the condition of man
kind?" These and other questions Miss
Kelley answered by saying 1t was he
daughter who did it. The mothers
laughed at the daughters and then the
girls decided to show mother" n so
formed the new organization.
The Linnaea society was the first or
ganization to follow the example set by
the Anti-Tuberculosis society of Goth
enberg, Sweden. in selling emblems
eacn year Tor the Denent or SurfererS
of the disease. 1t was through the ini-
tiative of Fru Beda Hallberg, a sister
of Mrs. Josef Lonegren of Duluth,
Mimi, that the Anti-Tuberculosis So
ciety was formed in G~othenburg, deve-
Looping in branches in every city and
village of Sweden. 1t was her tdea that
on May l, every year, under the aus
pices of each local branch, little cellu-
loid flowers should be sold for the re-
lief of sufferers Of the white plague.
The first year, 1907, 100000 buttonhole
flowers were sold. The sales increased
each year, so that last May 100000
flowers were sold, this time a daisy of
natural size. In former years the ane-
none was used. at first the white and
later the blue variety. When the Sec
ond Worlds Anti-Tuberculosis con-
gress met in Stockholm in 1908 several
members of 1t were Influenced by Fru
HallberE's idea and on returning to
their home countries took the initiative
to spread the plan. BY this time 1t
has taken root in more than a dozen
countries. Denmark was the next coun-
try to adopt the flower, Prof. Carl
Lorentzen of Copenhagen, taking the
initiative. Fru v. Guam of Christiania,
introduced the heath as the emblem in
Norway. Froken Greta Klarich of
Helsingfors, was the first person in
Finland to work UP enthusiasm and or
ganization in that country. In Holland
DR.. w. J.. Van Gorkom introduced the
sale Of an artificial flower on April 80,
calling it "Juliana," in honor of the
little princess, whose birthday Is on
that date. In Russia, where Madame
Alexandra Drummer took the initiative,
little flowers were sold this year to the
amount Of 100000 roubles. Queen
Alexandra has adopted the white rose
as an emblem in the anti-tuberculosis
fight in England. The idea was carried
to Prussia through the efforts of Prau
Agate Meters of Wiesbaden, Belgium
and several other countries have since
Joined the procession. Herr Lennart
Brusewitz, a Swedish business man in
Yokohoma, introduced a sale there, but
it Is not known If 1t carried further
than among his own countrymen.