Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-06-09
STATE BUSINESS WOMEN HONOR
BOGALUSA LADIES AT MEETING

About seventy-five enthusiastic
business and professional women
from all over the State gathered at
the second annual convention in Bo-
galusa on Friday and Saturday. The
meetings were all held is the Y. w. G..
A., which was very beautifully deco
rated in green and white, the State
colors.
E. R. Cassidy, acting mayor,
welcomed the delegates to the city,
while Mrs. Firth told them how
pleased the Y. W. G. A. was to have
them hold their meetings in their
building, and Miss Beatrice Mason.
president of the BogaIusa Club, as
sured the ladies that Bogalusa Club
considered it quite an honor to be
hostess to such a federation.
Miss Agnes Morris, president of
the Louisiant Federation of Business
and Professional Women's Clubs. in
her opening address, said:
Soon only two big women's or
CARNATIONS will be left in the coun-
try and this viii be one of them"
A telegram was sent from the fed
Grafton to Mrs. Edith Brown Bai1ie
offering their support to her and
Mrs. j. D. Wilkinson, endorsing anv
action they may take in reference to
the. racing situation.
Among the best things the clubs in
the State have accomplished the past
year was reported as the finding of
employment in New Orleans for sew
enty-flve women; the financial aid
gwen TO women in business to the ex.
tent OF $3.50, and the housing in
cIup nome OF fifty-eight girls in Alex-
andria. Mrs. 2. j. Lee told the va
rl0us clubs of the successful meth
ods used to raise money bv the Ro-
galust Club and Miss Little of Sbreva-
gave the report of that club +bev
having raised over $1,000 this wear
toward establishing a club home
there. HUME
Dr. Haidee Weeks Guthrie of the
National Executive Board, presided
at the evening meeting, and Is a MOST
ee1Ioquent orator. Miss Nell Lynn of
gave a very interesting
Talk' maintaining that women ne
longer marry to be supported. nor
cling to faithless husbands becansa
they are afraid of going hungry
Mrs. E. E. Lafferty of BoSaI,,sa
said the contact with men in offices
was liberal education in the art 'of
managing husband, and that q b,,s;
ness woman would go at her cooking
and housekeeping in a business-IiLe
way, and that there was none who
could not learn all of these things in
less than month.
Woman's duty as mothers was dis
cussed IN paper by Mrs. E. II. Firth
she having bee nunable to attend the
evening session on account of illness
MISS Ethel Hutson Of New Orleans
spoke on the need of an eioht -houT
day for both men and women: a min
mum wage and on the best way to
procure them. -
Miss Aimee Tiblier. president o4
the New Orleans Business and pro
fessional Women's Club. urged tbe
business women to save and to save
systematically. Miss Tiblier told the
business women to invest their money
IN homestead associations, put it on
interest IN the banks or in Insurance.
MISS Ilblier gave some very interest
ing points regarding the latter.
On Saturday morning a telegram
was sent reading:
I'VE protest vigorously the defeat
Of the amendment to the constitution
by Mrs. J. D. Wilkinson.
to have the wife sign for the sale Of
the home as vital to the protection Of
The family.
A four-fold policy was adopted for
1921, comprising first, the study Of |
health and housing conditions for