The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-03-10
Biennial Convention Opening in New York
May 23 Gives Promise Of Being
Notable Affair With 10000
Women in Attendance
BURNING PROBLEMS
UP FOR DISCUSSION
President Wilson May Be There and Many
Other Celebrities are Scheduled to
Speak; Social Swirl Will
Be Swift

~ CHllcu ITG6S.
NEW YORK, March 1O.--Father
hnlckerbocker win tip his three-cor-
nered hat to 10000 club women while
100000 others throughout the United
States and its possessions watch from
afar the opening of the biennial con.
vention of Federated Women's clubs
Of the United States, in New York MAY
%.
Scarcely city or town in the United
States, Hawaii, Porto Rico the Phil
ippines or Panama but whose most
prominent club women will journey to
Gotham for the monster feminine meet.
ing in the mammoth Seventh Regiment
armory. This convention is looked for
ward to as one of the biggest and most
important gatherings of women ever
held
Every feminine and many a mascu.
line problem will be considered from
the moment Mrs. P. v. Pennypacker
OF Texas, president Of the General Fed
Grafton, bangs the block with her sill
yer crusted gavel, until the last argu-
mentative female voice is stilIed al
the close Of the session, June 2.
The list of subjects will include
the price of peace and petticoats, the
length of love and lingerie; women's
cnharoc and u,on,o,,,. taorr. a1,~x-
and chowder, paint and powder, ba-
bies, ballots, civic betterment and how
to avoid crows-feet, the management of
husbands and other hired help: war, di-
vorce and hats of course.
To be sure, this does not begin to
approximate the length of the list, but
when you pause to consider the num-
ber of things one woman can think of
to talk about about, then multiply that
by twenty thousand and start them
all up with the avowed purpose of talk
ing, why. no wonder.
The women want President Wilson
TO open the convention. William
Howard Taft, Miss Jane Adams,
Mayor Mitchell and other notables will
speak Mrs. John Hays Hammond is
chairman Of the conventions advis-
ory committee. Mrs. William Todd
Helmuth is honorary chairman Of the
convention, Mrs Francis D. Everest of
Chicago Is chairman of the program
committee Mrs. William Grant Brown
Of New York is chairman Of the local
biennial board.
A merry, merry session is fully ex-
pected when it comes to the election Of
new national president to succeed
Mrs. Pennypacker.
The art civic, hcme economics and
conservation departments are arrang-
ing special meetings Of their own.
Many smaller conferences and big and
small exhibits of all kinds will be
housed at the Hotel Astor. Some o.
the "small conferences" will include
luncheons for parties numbering a
mere 1900 or 1900 women.
The worlds leading specialists in
everything feminine will flock to New
York either voluntarily or by invita-
tion. The finest physicians win talk ex-
haustively and exhaustingly on what's
what and what's not what about
babies, from the first squall to the last
tooth; what to eot and drink and wear
and think.
The local committee Is doing every
thing to make the convention a sue
cess. About the first thing J. ufd
was arrange for a big beauty parior
right in the convention hall. Repre-.
sentatives of leading costnmers and
milliners, with samples, win be there
10 save the delegates running about
town if they're busy too.
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