Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
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Entertainingly Described by Miss Jea-
 sis Aeissrnnan Before Local Woman's


 The Congregational Church House was filled Tuesday afternoon at o. clock when the members of the Won- ans Club gathered to listen to Miss Jessie Alderman lecture on the work of the Woman's clubs and organiZa- tions throughout the world.
 The program opened with soprano solo by Miss Steine of Hartford Mrs Robert Fenton, president of the club then introduced Miss Alderman, who has travelled around the world eight times and has made study of Wom- ems clubs and organizations in near ly every country on the globe. She is splendid speaker, and held her au- dience in close attention while she told of the work women are doing in
 Some time ago, said the speaker, I was in the city of Berlin at conyen- tion Of women's clubs where there were six thousand delegates gathered, representing fifty thousand women. It was necessary to have the biggest hall and divide into sections for various groups to meet to work out plans. ms work of women's clubs and organ1za- tions has gone forward so that men, statesmen, men in authority, are com ing to say: we don't know what to do with these women. In the devel- opment of the various forms of gov ernment, social order and civilization, from China to South Africa, from Ice land way down to South America, you will ind men saying We don't know what to do with our women"
 They don't dare to do as men used to do years ago, shut them up and say that they haven't brains to learn anything.
 found myself in Japan number of years ago when the women there were trying to establish university. They struggled and finally they were able to have their building. They built it to accommodate five hundred women studentss When they came to hold examinations to enter the uni- versity they found that one thousand women had passed the examination.
 Women in Japan.
 Japan has established one of the finest school systems in the world. In one particular respect they have placed it beyond the dominion of any party in politics When a politician goes out of office he does not take the school system on his shoulders and carry it out; it remains there. So women in Japan are having the ad- vantage of education precisely the same as the men are. They have or ganized themselves into women's clubs. They have set into action all of those things that are engaging the attention of all women throughout the entire
 Progress in China.
 The women in China have organiza- tions The higher class of women in China have had their feet bound and you will see leaders in the women's clubs carried to the meeting, not be- ing able to walk because of their crip- pied feet.
 In travelling throughout the world you will be astoniShed to find that there never has been a time when men really stood out to legislate against women, or to keep them in
 The feet of the women of China were bound to keep them off the streets, to protect them from the out side world.
 have talked with the women of the aborigines in Australia and asked them why these customs prevail and they have invariably told me that it would be dangerous for women if they did do this or that don't believe that in any part of the world men have ever enacted legislation to keep us down.
 In India there are three women in a university, the only ones in the country. Women in India are com ing slowly, organizing clubs, going to universities, entering higher schools, are OF the broad road of Progress.
 Iceland Leads in Education.
 The people of Iceland are the most highly educated people in the world. Every child in Iceland is educated. When the child cannot go to school fha Sch001 iS brought n fha rhifd ha