Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-16

mour Lake Country club.
~ ERV1CE, or the spirit that begets 1t, knows
no falling by the waysde because, perchance,
the torrid rays of the sun beat down upon US.
w. So 1t is that here and there, womans
club continues to meet throughout the sum-
mer else pursues its work more informally
through committees.
Mothers clubs especially seem loath to discon-
tinue their sessions and. for the most part have
transferred them to neighborng parks, where under
the cool shade of the trees and restful surroundings
with the childreh enjoying themselves in the park
fairgrounds, benignant schemes Matched. Such
"a meeting is the which the Miller Park Mothers
club will hold Wednesday afternoon at Miller Park
pavilion. The usual meeting place is the neighbor-
hood school house. Following the business meeting
there will be social hour when the president Mrs
T. P. Davis and Mrs. Florence McCurdy will be the
hostesses.
Other picnic affairs arranged for the week is the
annual outing and dnner-dance of Vesta chapter
No g. Order of the Eastern STAR which will be given
Wednesday at Carter Lake club, and the first of
series of diner dances which will be given Friday
evening at Seymour Lake Country club by the So
journers' club Of the White Shrine
The Business Women's council knows no cessa-
ton, either, during the days when the mercury hrts
with the 100-degree mark. On Tuesday of this week
the Rev. Ray Of the Second Presbyterian church of
Council Bluffs will conduct the prayer meeting,
which is held in conjunction with the weekly lunch
con for business girls, at the court house, between
the hours of II and o'clock. Women of the Execu-
tive committee will serve the luncheon.
Unceasing, too, in their efforts, are members of
the Society of American Widows, whose president,
MrsR essi {" Turpiu has CT cd t,tesf
welfare activity for the husbandless This is the
manufacture demonstrating and marketing of the
products of waterproof fabric company While the
/ business venture is not financed by the widows, it
Mactically amounts to a private undertaking for
I them, a contract was drawn up with the manager
of the concern which provides that only widows
will be employed by him.
To create an outlet for unskilled workers is in
deed great problem and this latest venture seems
fortunate opening, as plain sewing, which any
manage is about all that is required in
the manufacture of these articles.
In the meantime, at their Tuesday afternoon
meetings and sometimes at the Thursday evening
meetings which are now being held at the widows
headquarters in the Crounse building the
spending their time sewing for the bazaar and enter
tainment they are contemplating for September.
monthly board meeting of the Visiting Nurse
association is scheduled for Wednesday morning at
the rooms in the city hall. Miss Bess Randall the
activities especially in connection with The Bees
free milk and ice fund, will be discussed.
Club women all over the country will be inter-
ested in the following newspaper excerpt with re-
gard to the "Chief Cublady of the Land
Mrs Josiah Evans Cowles of Los Angeles, Cal,
the new president of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, received the highest honor ever
accorded southern California club woman, when
the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles gave
public reception for her on her return from New
York, June 20. The civic organization also joined
in reception at the depot on Mrs. Cowles' arrival
in Los Angeles. Few club of the
great part Mrs. Cowes has been taking in the work
~o the federation for many years. When the biennial
meeting was held in Cincinnati and when Mrs. Philip
N. Moore, the then president met with an accident
and broke her ankle Mrs. Cowles assumed the lead
ership at several of the meetings.
Her record as worker in the federation shows
that in 1902, when the general federation biennial
met in Los Angeles, Mrs. Cowles was president of
the board She chairman of the reception
mttee when the general federation met in St. Louis
in 1904. and was there made director in 1906
elected treasurer and was first vice president from
1908 to 1872; member of the executive committee
: from 1912 to 1918; chairman of finance committee
from 1908 to 1912; chairman of peace committee
from 1912 to 1916; chairman of biennial committee
in charge of the San Francisco biennial in 1912
when she could it is generally recognized have been
president; strong suffragist though she worked
against having suffrage made federation issue at
time when it would have meant much for California
women, but would have been against the sentiment
of large number of women who since have Joined
the ranks. Mrs. Cowles takes time for many week
end jaunt to the mountains north of Altadena where
she and Dr. Cowles. wel-known physician for TWEEN
ty years and more in Los Angeles, have delightful
rustic lodge"
Nebraska women will no doubt be we'll repre-
scented at meeting fraught with much interest to
in suffrage states, though own women
will be only spectators not partakers in the sessions
of the meeting
This is the National Council of Women Voters
which will hold its national convention in Cheyenne
b|Nyo July 70 to 20. in conjunction with the Frontier
days celebration when the cowboys OF the plains
will have their twentieth annual celebration. Women
voters OF the twelve suffrage states and Alaska, will
attend