Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1895, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. ==— WOMEN ANDTHE FLAG Patriotism Made the Subject of To- day’s Addresses, CLD GLORY HONORED BY THE COUNCIL Instruction at School is One’s Duty to His Country. - SOME STIRRING SPEECHES It was Washington's birthday at the meeting of the National Council of Women at Metzerott Hall this morning. All about the platform were draped American flags of all sizes. The desks were hung with lit- tle silk flags, the front of the platform was hung with mammoth flags and each of the officers and delegates who were seat- ed on the stage held in her hands a minia- ture copy of the stars and stripes. It was in every sense a patriotic occa- sion. The session was held under the au- spices of the council's committee on pa- triotie instruction and all the set speeches on the program were ornamented with eloquent expressions of love of country. Many different phases of the subject were discussed—the influence of patriotism in developing personal and national character, as an element in government, as a factor In woman's development, and the needs of a fuller and freer teaching of the prin- ciples of patriotism. When the meeting was called to order by Mrs. May Wright Sewall promptly at 10 o'clock this morning there was scarzely @ vacant seat in the hall, and these did not long remain unoccupied. Waving Flags. It was an enthusiastic gathering. Many of the ladies in the audience carried little flags, and these they waved in the air on occasion in heu of the more conventional forms of applause. Some of the ablest speakers in ‘the eounecil were on the program of the morning, and this fact, coupled with the other that the subjects and the addresses were eminently suited to a national like this, sufficed to make the session the most interesting of all that have been held so far. The spirit of the life of George Washington seemed to animate all alike, and the day was one that will not soon be forgotten by those who were so fortunate as to be present. Mr. Bonney's Address. The session started out with something of a novelty, in the form of an address from a man. But the position he holds de it very appropriate that that par- representative of the stronger—phys- stronger—sex should be given the m of the platform.” vas Mr. Charles C. Bonney, president of the world’s fair congresses of 1803. In that capacity he was brought into close contact with the members of the world’s congress of representative women and with the women of the national council. ‘The result of this is that Mr. Bonney has the greatest respect for assemblages of women and their ability in meetings of this sort. Mr. Bonney made a very handsome ad- dress, in which he urged a more general teaching in the schools of the principles of the American Constitution and of American history. In conclusion he paid a high tribute to the congress of women held in Chicago in 1 Mrs. Sewall, on behalf of her fellow-of- ficers and the members of the council, ex- pressed gratitude for the pleasant words Mr. Banney kad uttered. Then Mrs. Kate Hrowniee Sherwood, chairman of the com- mittee on patriotic instruction, presented him with a little flag, and this in turn brought about arother little speech of thanks Mrs. Kate Brownlet Sherwood. Then the regular order of the day was taken up, and Mrs. Sherwood read the re- pert of the committee on patriotic con- struction. Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood of Ohio, chairman of the committee on patriotism, National Council of Women, is a native of Pennsylvania. he iy the daughter of the late Judge Jas. Brownlee and the wife of Gen. Isaac I Sherwood, ex-Congretsman and ex-secre- tary of state of Onio, a soldier journalist. ‘They married early and have pursued their editorial work together, on s of the leading Ohio newspapers, and their cor- has extended far and wide. respondence Both are authors of several books and have an assured e in patriotic litera- wre, as well as in journalism. Mrs. Sherwood is the author of several bocks and poet whose ly '$ are recited en every patriotic platform. Although the recognized poet of the Union soldie was among the first of northern writers to preciaim the mission of peace, and for this was the chosen poet of southern solic imbued with the same spirit, at ing of the Albert Sidney John trian’ statute at New Orleans. ent of Canton Sorosis of the Gener pr Federation of Clubs of the Internaffonal | Press Association and the Daughters of | She was an early member s and the Washington the Revolution. of New York So Literary Club. Mrs. Sherwood is past ne ticnal president of the Woman's Reiief Corps, and the official delegate of that bedy, 140,000 strong, to the national coun- cil. Report of Committee on Patriotic ‘Teaching. Your committee on patriotic teaching cannot too strongly commend the great peace movement to teach patriotism in all the schools of the United States, public and parochial, and cannot too earnes‘ly condemn the military movement, which would turn our schools into drill camps 1 fill the minds of our boys with the merican ambition for war and blood- a un- shed. Particularly do they disapprove a bill introduced into the United States: Con- gress authorizing the government to d tail olfic s from the regular army to ve as drill masters in our public schoois. Your commitcee believe there should be united action upon the part of the women of the rep ic to educate our youth ad children in true American patriotism, since the fruits of ignorance are the one side and law ther. They believe that in- rnment should be mary grades of all our that over every school house school room the stars and 1 prociaim the gospel of the upon which our government jeve that upon the fresh, plas he little children should be early stamped the knowledge that n citizens, with om them which If of themsely i others. » that in a rep sentative government, in which every citi- of sound m or may become a voter and a legislator, provision shouid be made by the state for proper instruction in the preblems that shall confront them believe t the founders of | our Kove ent Ww uilty of a terrible | oversight \ neglec school of founding a military school vint; that from this oversight and devastating war that that from this oversight ree conflict between la 4 © upon ~ at} West ame | vaging through our land. that a set of American cit id be a bulwark of national safet and that instead of planning how to = our regular army and_perfe militia t je trend of legisla- should be how to inculcate in the hearts and ¢ “sof our child native and for n, the great princi- ples of free gov t! enunciated in the | ration of Intepom e and the Constitution of the U e the Decla 1 be hung be ns and fraternity fair play. and fair play an even chance in hfe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that freedk q the nity that ‘will give is its highest function ts resources for t commor They believe that to teach 1 to teach respect for the flag anc Mrs. Mussey. K. P. Sherwood. ernment it represents, ready obedience to laws that are just and peaceable, resist- ance to laws that are unjust; that to teach patriotism is to assimilate our alien ele- ments, stem the encroachments of organ- ized force and make the American republic in truth what the immortal Lincoln hoped for, “a. government of the people, by the people and for the people.” The signs of the times are encouraging for patriotic teaching. The salute to the flag intreduced inte the free kindergartens of New York city by the late Col. George Balch, auditor of the schools of New York, is given today by between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 children the country over, includ- ing the government Indian schools. The Youths’ Companion salute, first used on the Cclumbian year program, a modification of the Black salute, is given daily by many thousands more. The Connecticut legis- lators last spring ordered a flag over every school house in the state, and old Trinity College of Hartford set its seal of approval upon the act by raising a flag on the campus with imposing ceremonies; the first institution of higher learning making an effort to join patriotism to scholarship. Montana has passed the flag bill. The state teachers’ associations and state township trustees of Indiana have lent their united influence to the flag movement. The Indiana and Pennsylvania legislators are in the throes of patriotic legislation, confronted by the demand for the flag on the one hand and the demand for the gat- ling guns apon the other. The National Woman's Relief Corps have inaugurated a system of patriotic teaching, and the last national convention Woman's National Christian Temperance Union com- mended the work to its membership. As patriotic women of the republic, seourged and harried by wars that have not been of our own making, and menaced and tortured by calamities and crises, in- dustrial and financial, which an educated patriotism might have averted, let us lend our encouragement to every movement which shall have for its end the assimi- lation and unification of all sections,classes, creeds and nationalities into one homo- geneous American intelligence, an intelli- gence ich will justify the confidence of the founders of the republic in the endur- ing power of free self government; an in- telligence that teaches that he who lives for one’s country is greater than he who dies for it: an intelligence that is all-em- bracing, all-pervading, universal, the tri- umph of free thought, free speech and free and unfettered reason over brute force; an intelligence that beholds in the stars and stripes the symbol of justice, equality. and fraternal love. ‘The program of the morning was divided under two topics, patriotism in government and patriotism in the schools. At the con- clusion of tne reading of the report of the committee, Mrs. Sherwood presented a fully prepared paper on the subject, triotism as an Blenient in founding and Preserving Free Institutions.” Mrs. Sherwood’s Speech. Patriotism does not find its best expres- sion in a military review, the gleam of brass buttons and the toss of a feather. The greatest military patriot this country has ever produced looked forward to the time when the only armed force the United States would need was a national police. In his triotic watchword, “Let us have pei is couched the statesmanship of the nireteenth century. Patriotism does not reach its highest form on the battlefield, when the trumpets blare and the cannons roar and the general cries “Ferwaru!” Splendid is the patriot- ism that leads a man to die for his country in the forefront of battle; but splendid be- yond human speech to depict is the patriot- ism that leads to the martyr’s stake, to the death of humiliation, defeat and the re- proach of men. Patriotism is fraternal; it is the passion to serve one’s country through serving our fellow-creatures. To him whose heart has been meited in its pure, white, fervent heat, how contemptible the hoarding of wealth, the emoluments cf office, the clacking of the galleries, the plumes and pageantry of power, the castles on the heights and the marble palaces on the boulevards, for which men live and die. Thomas Jefferson's vow, when entering upon his civic duties, never to enter upon any project that would add to his private emoluments while engaged in his country’s service, is worthy of the man who penned the Declaration of Indepen- dence. Individual rights is the motive power of patriotisrg, and that mouve power has been the civilizing force of the world. It wrested the charter from King John, it razed the Bastile to the level of the Seine, it freed the serfs of Russia, it guided the Pilgrims over unknown seas, it nerved the famine- stricken patriots of Valley Forge, it nerved the hand that penned the emancipation is organizing labor throttling municipal corruption, rging the mgney changers from legisla- tive lobbies, thundering in the pulpit, shout- ing from the platform, firing the hearts of patriets with a new hope, crying out with and tongues and voices for better better men, better wo- “rights better hom for the new dispensation of faith, h d charity, whose kingdom is a x deemed. ‘anding here today we demand more pa- triotism and less politics, more institutions to prevent criminal making and fewer to punish; more money for training schools and less for the police courts; more power in the hands of the keepers of law and less im the hands of law breakers. ‘The first declaration of independence came from the pen of a woman, long be- fere the Mechlinburg manifesto, long be- fore the liberty bell at Philadelphia’ pro- ciaimed independence in the name of the Continental Congress. “Let us separate,” wrote Abigail Adams to her husband in the Continental Congress when King George preclaimed all the revolutionary rebels who would not lay down their arms. Abigail Adams, who had the immortai honor to be the wife of one President and mother of enother. Her letters were published in France, and, who knows, they fired the Frene heart to come to the rescue of Washington at Yorktown, or watered the seed that blossomed into the overturning of 178). Great Britain recognized the in- fluence she had wielded, and George IIL and his queen refused to have her presented at when she went to London, with her nd, John Adams, the first minister from the United St Nor did the spirit of this woman patriot spend itself in pro- test. To her independence meant equality, the triumph of human rights. “I long to hear you have declared an in- ney," she wrote to her husband in utinental Congress, when it was slow sp the issues of the hour. “And, by she said, “in the new code of which I suppose it will be necessary to make, I desire you would remember the and be more generous than your ancestors have been. * * * Why not put it cut of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunit Does any one suppose that if the advice of 1is woman had been followed, the hters of the Revolution—pure, peace- law-abiding, going about doing good— ave to open ranks and stand would today ith bowed heads,while hordes of untaught outlaws, paupers, contract laborers, hed off by the spewing ferment of de- ng old world monarchies, ‘knowing her our laws nor our language, march up to the polls, to the inspiring spirit of a glass of whisky, and vote, as they often do, for the immoral, corrupt, for-sale-cheap lemagogues that vote away the honor and rties of the republic. ‘As citizens of the republic let us teach triotism. Let us teach it to our children t our knegs, as the mother of Alfred the reat taight her son, of whom it is said: ile legislated with a single eye for the geod of his people." Let us teach it in our schools, as the candidates of chivalry were taught. Velor! To be clean, strong, keen of exe. firm of hand, stout of will. Loyal- ty! Fidelity to trust, faithful to duty, punc- tial in engagem ceremoni getfuln opini lib. of self, care for the feeling and of others. Muniticenc i: in of pecuniary rewards, rejection of the theory that money getting is the chief end of mam ready to relieve want and reward merit, hospitable, liberal, generous. Let the stars and stripes proclaim pa- trictism from every school house. Let it blaze it forth in every school room. Let the Declaration of Independence be hung beside the blackboard, and let patriotism alternate with arithmetic in the lessons of the day. Let us take our stand on the supreme Sarah C. Mink. Mrs. L. B. Robbins. heights of a perpetual union, and looking dcwn over the grassy graves of a million and _a half of heroes, sacrified in fraternal strife, through the mistakes and shortcom- ings of our revolutionary sires, pledge our- selves anew to patriotism, with— One heart, one hope, one destiny, One flag from sea to sea. Miss Willard Could Not Speak. ‘The next paper was to have been by Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the Na- ticnal W. C. T. U., on the subject, “Pa- triotism as a Factor in the Advancement of Woman.” Unfortunately, Miss Willard was ordered home yesterday by her physi- cian and forbidden to speak for a long time to come. She has been in bad health for some time, and her friends have been much worried by the thought of the possi- ble bad effects that might result from ac- ne participation in such a convention as this. te Mrs. Isabella Charles Davis of New York spoke on the tople, “Patriotism as Ex- pressed in the New York Free Kindergar- tens.” Patriotism, said Mrs. Davis, is not inherent, but is an acquired virtue. In a land like this, that is flooded every year with vast hordes of foreign immigrants, it is no easy task to keep up the tide of pa- triotism to its highest ebb, nor can in- struction begin too young. In the kindergartens of New York the little ones are taught to love their flag, to make it from stripes of old white and blue paper, to sing songs of praise to the flag that floats above us all, and to be familiar with the simple principles of good government. In these kindergartens are gathered children of all nationalities, but all are taught love of our country, which is broad enough for all alike. From such as these, said Mrs. Davis, anarchists can never come. Mrs. Mussey Address. “What the flag has cost womaa” was the subject of an able address by Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey of this city. Mrs. Mussey, in the ccurse of her re- marks, said: The women of the revolution were as he- roic as the men, and bore their full share of the hardships of that time. Mrs. Mercy Warren first proclaimed “that the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is inherent, and belongs equally to all man- kind,” and was first to advocate separation from the mother country. Mrs, Abigail Adams urged upon John Adams, without success, the justice of recognizing woman in the new constitution. In the late war woman and her influence was felt at every turn, and always for good. In those days man learned that there were in woman powers and possibilities he dreamed not of before. And there were women who followed the flag to the hos- pitals, to the field, to the very battle ground, giving up youth, strength and life itself. E And a grateful country, in some rare in- stances, when the record is clear and ab# solutely flawless and fire proof, gives them in their old age the magnificent pension of $12 per month. Abrahan: Lincoln said “that without the help of women the rebellion could never have been put down nor the country sav- ed.” Arlington bears witness to what the flag has cost women. At the close of the war the thirteenth, fourteenth and fif- teenth amendments were added to the Con- stitution, but did not recognize the rights of women. Once another flag floated over a part of this great country, and even now it Is ru- mored that it is raised at times to receive the cheers and commendations of the r ing generation. Cherish if you will that other flag, water it with your tears, and put it away with the shoes your baby wore, but in this reunited country there can float but one flag. “Let the dead past bury its dead.” True patriotism consists in doing one's whole duty in times of peace as well as war. It is better to live for one’s country than to die for it. What the country needs today is good citizens, whether they be voters or not. Citizens who are familiar with these great bulwarks of American liberty—the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States Every woman should have a copy of th Constitution and study it. Its study would be no more fatiguing than to put together a crazy quilt, and vastly more invigorating and helpful to the rising generation. How can We support that of which we have no knowledge? Not one person in a thousand has reai over the Constitution a dozen times. The provisions contained therein are taken on hearsay. A bright woman said not long ago that she knew how the Constitution began. It is “All men are born free and equal.” Women are citizens if not voters, and at last her iater in moral and municipal reforms is arousing her to a sense of her duty and her power for good. She is a ural reformer. When the time comes— as it has now come—when politics lays its paralyzing grasp on the throat of industry in what has seemed at times likely to prov a death throttle; when the country says by its popular vote that it wants prosperity without regard to party, it is time for wo- man to tahe an interest in public affairs. Woman is the formative principle and molds public opinion. It was her influence that carried a certain district in Kentucky in the last election. She understood the question involved there. It is not purity and temperance alone that should engage woman's interest, but every question that affects the prosperity of our country or in which a principle of right and wrong is involved. The laws that control immigration, the proper monetary standard, the tariff. are all questions demanding our attention as patriotic citizens. Be American in thonght and deed. Let profligacy give way to pur- ity and party to patriotism. One of the best addresses of the morning was delivered by Louise Barnum Kobbins on “Patriotism in Forming the Character of American Citizens.” Patriotic Instruction. Mrs. Robbins said: Patriotic instruction should begin in the home, where the influ- ence should he one breathing the great poet's injunction, “Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou aims’t at be thy coun- try’s, thy God's and Truth’s.”” Under the formative care of the best of teachers, a good mother, the elements that go to build up a patriotic spirit will be instilled. She will teach her children the national hymns and patriotic songs, she will tell them the story of that sturdy band of Puritans, who planted the seeds of American civilization, and upon Plymouth’s sacred rock laid the corner-stone of the nation. She will tell em of the supreme patriot, he who was ‘irst in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” and of that distinguished line of patriots down to our a day. She will teach them how grand thing it is to acquire the principi obedience to law, of love and vene for the stars and stripes as the liberty and national supremac: ory child should be taught the origin of the flag, when it was adopted, what trials it has’ encountered and what blessings pre- rved. It should be in every home to be n should be selected with the ut- most care, as many a child has been ruin- ed by unwholesome books. There is a grand literature inspiring a lofty pariotism and embalming the names and deeds of heroes and patriots. These are the books that make of boys and girls high-minded men and women, who are faithful to the duties of preserving the liberties and_ blessing that they have received as a priceless herit- age. Next to the home comes the school in- fluence, that of the teacher and the books AS in the home, so in the school, st aim should be to develop char- acter that will uaderstand that freedom means opportunity, not license, op) to be great, useful and matchless, or and degraded. 2 text books on American history have undergone a change and are being severely criticised by loyal and awakened c They should contain a true record of the history of the nation, its founding, its perils and its victories. Let patriotism be taught In the home, the school, the college, in the pulpit and on the platform, let it be an inspiration to society, in the office and in the shop. Let dove of country sweep the heart-stri of the youth of this land, let it touch the eee Tn i a Le Ta aT iu Ham And 4 f é elevator. 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Vests, 11. 50 dozen Ladies’ Swiss 2ibbed Spring-weight Vests, low meck and ort sleeves, 19¢. value. For tic. 37¢. Vests, 23¢. 50 dozen Ladies’ Lisle Thread Swiss Ribbed Ve white and ecru. For 23¢. $1 Silk Vests, 61¢. 40 dezen Ladies’ All-silk Vests, in light blue, pink, lavender, white sud black, $1 quality. For 61c. 75c. & $1 Silk Hose, 39¢. Balance of 3 lots of Ladies’ AN- in black, heliotrope, nile dinal, gray and brown, ., $1 and $1.25 per pair. For 39¢. value, 1 COAT SALE. Hardly a hundred Coats ‘eft, and we would like to move them by to- morrow night. At no time in the his- tory of the Coat business have such ridiculously low prices been quotd. All of our $5, $6, $7.50, $8 and $9 Coats, latest style cut, in black and navy blue Se 48 40 .g0 fors-..-c=2--00--- All of our $10, $11, $12, $127 $13 and $14 Coats, all this season’ styles, in smooth and rough fabric, black and navy blue, to $4 98 for ...- All of our $15, $16, $16.50, $17.50, $18 and $20 Coats, the mos* fashion- able styles introduced 8 $7.48 winter, to go for.. 5 $1 Chiffon, 66c. About 10 pieces of 54-inch Chiffon for evening dresses, in pink, light blue, black and white. Were $1 per yard. For 66c. yd. Embroideries, 11¢. 2 to G-inch Eibroideries. The re- mainder of pleces that were 15c., and 2c, yard. Choice, 1c. yd. mering the Woodwork, “Hammering the IPrices! Our “Remodeling Sale” started off with a rush Thursday morning! We -are tearing out, “remodeling” and putting in a handsome We announced nearly a page of bargains on Wednesday. Here is another batch for tomorrow’s buyers! Lad. Hdkfs., 3c. Men’s Hdkfs., 5c. Ladies’ Sets, 4c. Chemisettes, 16c, $4 & $5 “C. P.” Corsets, $2.19. BON MARCHE, 1 lot of Ladies’ White Handker- chiefs. Regular 10c. quality. For 3c. Each. 1 lot of Men’s White Hemstltched Handkerchiefs. Regular price, 10c. For 5c. Each. 1 lot of Ladies’ Sets, comprising a collar and a pair of cuffs, in plain white and a variety of fancy stripes and checks, Regalar price, 25c. 4c. Set. 1 lot of Fency Chemiscttes, neat, at- tractive color effects. Were 25 For 16c. Each. Broken lines of sizes of “C. PP.” Imported Corsets, in black, sizes 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24 and 25: white, sizes 18, 19, 22, 23, 24 and rab, sizes 19 and 2% Were $4 and’ §5 per patr, Choice, $2.19. o souls of the childven, whp are so sgon to become the guardians. of.the laws and freedom of our country. Let it move the family circle and brighten the flames upon the hearthsiones of the land. Let the na- tion be a nursery of men -and principles ich as inspired the founders of the gov- ernment. Mrs. Louise Barnum Robbins. Mrs. Louise Barnum Robbins, patron of the National Council of Women, Is a cul- tivated woman of marked literary tastes and high intellettual endowments, enrich- ed by liberal education and quickened by executive ability of a high order. Born in Potsdam, N. Y., she is the daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Royal Barnum, lead- ing citizens of Michigan of New England ‘y, and the wife of Col. Robbins of the fourth Michigan cavalry. Her center of culture and a wide ci friends, 1s at Adrian, Mich., where also is located Adrian College, her alma mater, whose alumni association she serves as president. She organized the Woman's Rellef Corps of Adrian and served as its first president and later was chosen president of the de partment of Michigan, instituting subor- dinate corps in many cities, and is con- sidered one of the ablest presidents Michi- gan W. R. C. has had. She has filled nu- merous offices in the National Association, is now a member of its executive board and is secretary of the relief corps com- mittee on National Council of Women, and by her enthusiasm on woman's work and her faith in organized unions, has been instrumental in winning the interest and co-operation of many representative wo- men and men throughout the country, par- ticularly In the philanthropic and patriotic possibilities of the council. Daughters of the American Revolu- 0. At the conclusion of Mrs. Robbins’ speech, Mrs. Sewall introduced, in a few remarks appropriate to the occasion, a deputation of visitors from the continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Mary MePherson loster, Miss Mary Desha and Mrs. Mary Temple. Miss Desha acted as the spokeswoman of the deputation in acknowledging the intro- duction. This was a pleasant feature ot the morning, but it was followed by the ttiest incident that has yet marked the sions of the council. it was an illustra- tion of what is known as the Balch salute of the flag. It began with the appearance of the John B. Henderson Fife and Dram Corps, com- posed of boys, in handsome zouave uni- forms. ‘They came in from a side door of the hall playing in excellent style the war song, “We'll Kally ‘ound the Flag, Boys.” Mrs. Sarah C, Mink. As the notes died away Mrs. Sarah C. Mink began the reading of a paper on the subject of the Balch salute. Mrs. Sarah C. Mink, past national pres- ident Woman's Relief Corps, is a New Yorker of revolutionary anéestry and the wife of Maj. Mink of the famous Mink’ Battery. Syracuse, N.’¥., has long been her home. She is a broad-spirited woman, of culture and great force of character, and was the first national president of the Relief Corps to represent that great asso- ciation in the National Gourtcil of Women. Upon her retirement asj president she was made a life patron of the gouncil by her workers. She is a valiant worker in the nuse of patriotic teaching, and it was dur- ing her administration that the Grand Army of the Republic, to which the Relief Corps is auxiliary, through their com- mander-in-chief, Gen, J, & Adams of Los- ton, set their seal of approval upon the council's extension of patriotic teaching in the schools. American Patriotic Salute. Mrs. Mink said: To Col. George T. Balch, late auditor of the board of education in New York city, we are indebted for the earliest sugges- ticns in regard to patriotic education and the practical application of it in teaching patriotism in the schools of America. He is also the author of a series of patriotic papers and “Methods of Teaching Patriot- which has received the highest in- dorsement from the United States commis- sion of education and many of the best educators and distinguished men and wo- men in the country. Col. Balch was brought up in New York city, and always in touch with its growth and progress. CoS aE NA i in S67 stl. He was a student of history, a practical philanthropist, and a co-worker with Chas. Loring Brace, founder of the Children’s Aid Society of New York city. He made a study of the immigration question, which is becoming a serious problem in America. This led him to trace the soctal condition of the immigrants in the homes from which they came, and how best to over- come the influences and condition, to make law-abiding citizens of the ignorant and irresponsible persons who are flocking to our shores, bringing wit) them socialistic ideas, to incite others to lawlessness and anarchy. In the spring of 1886 he received an ord:r to make an exhaustive examina- tion of the department of health, and be- came deeply interested in the tenement house system in New York. He was con- vinced that freedom has no security, no de- fense, protection or safeguard but educa- tion, ‘and that moral power and principle which education brings. in January, 1889, Col. a careful examination of each of the twenty-one schools of the Children’s Ald i a task which occupied some two This examination embraced the relations existing between the teachers and the parents, and what steps had been en, or what special exercises were ob- served to awaken and stimulate a spirit of patriotism among the scholars, and, if in use, how far they had been successful. ‘The teachers welcomed the movement in all these schools, and especially the prin- cipals, who found a keen appreciation of the imperative necessity of developing and encouraging a distinctly American ideal, of how important it is that the child should understand just what the school ts for, and why the children attended it, and their future destinies as Americin citizens. In these schools tens of thousands of the children of the very poor of nearly every race on the face of the earth, and of every color, children unable from extreme pov- erty, trom speaking a foreign language, ir- regular hours, or other reasons, to attend the public schools, have been taught what it means to be clean, orderly, respectful and obedient to authority. This examina- tion and investigation led Col. Balch to formulate his system of patriotic instruc- tion, with the flag in every an incentive and object 1 1891, he introduced in the twenty-one day schools of the Aid Society in New York the patriotic salute: “We give our heads and our hearts to our ceuntry. One coun- try! One language! One fla The effect of the daily use of this salute by the children was so happy in arousing their enthusiasm for the national flag and in awakening a deep interest in the prin- ciples it symbolized (so far as the children were capable of understanding them) that he became convinced that the salute needed but a single amendment to com- pletely fulfill the patriotic purpose for which {t was intended. That amendment was the recognition of an overruling Providence, of the Almighty Father of all, of that God whom all civilized nations, races and tongues acknowledge and adore. In introducing the salute in a school the aim has been to interest the child by arousing and appealing to the emotion cf gratitude, the outgrowth of its love for its parents, who are all in all to the child. It is easy to pass from love in this form to the love of home, of the locality in which the child is reared, and of personal friends and neighbors, and thus gradually enable the child to apprehend the idea® of love for the country of its birth or adoption, that larger home which we designate as our country. After careful deliberation it seemed wise to amend the salute as used from 1891 to 184 so that it shall recognize, first of all, the Ruler of the universe, the Almighty God. The form now used ts: “We give our heads and our hearts to God and our country! One country! One lan- guage! One flag!” The Flag Drill and Salute. At the conclusion of Mrs. Mink’s speech came the prettiest scene of all. The plat- form was cleared of chairs and seventeen of the prettiest young girls in Washington filed on to give the flag drill and salute. One wore a brass helmet and carried a handsome silk flag, around which the four groups of four went through all sorts of pretty evolutions to the music of the “Liberty Bell March.” ‘The little girls who took part were from twelve to sixteen years of age. Among them were the fol- Balch commenced lowing: _ Edith Stowell, Helen Hastings, Carrie Hastings, Jessie Holden, Clara Quinter, Eva Grossart, Edith Randall,Lucy Smith, Edith Coe, Bessie Leete, Bessie Dyer, Carrie Butt, Maggie Bell, Edith Prince, Nellie Myers, Daisy McElroy,Edna DeNeale and Mabel Kiff.: The girls were attired in attractive uni- forms, knee skirts of red and white stripes, white blouse waists and blue zouave jack- ets spangled with gilt stars. "The drill was given under the management of Mrs. H. N. Rose and Mrs. Rose E. Ferree of the Legion of Loyal Women. Mr. Sheri- dan Ferree acted as drillmaster and Miss Emily Rose as accompanist. At the conclusion of the <alute to the flag the boys ascended the platform and took places on the sides, leaving the center for the girls. Then all together sang “America,” the audience joining in with a vim. The enthusiasm was immense. Many an eye was filled with tears. Many a heart was too full for utterance. It was all very inspiring. After this the subject of the morning was thrown open for general discussion, which was participated in by Miss Desha, Miss Shaw and Miss Anthony. At 1 o'clock, after passing a rising vote of thanks to the girls and boys who had made such a beautiful picture, the meeting adjourned. The Evening Session. There was no afternoon session today. The program for this evening is as ‘fol- lows: National Association of Loyal Wo- men of American Liberty. Presiding offi- cer, Mrs. I. C. Manchester. “The Degree to Which Women Are Responsible for Maintaining the Sentiment of Patriotism in a Nation” (paper), Mrs. Geo. M. Howe, Maine; read by Sarah D. LaFetra, Dis- trict of Columbia. “The Degree to Which Governments, Ancient and Modern, Have Availed Themselves of the Patriotic Serv- ices of Women.” Mrs. Samuel L. Beiler, District. of Columbia; patriotic singing. Woman's Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.—Presiding officer, Emma R. Wallace. “The Story of the Flag,” Margaret Ray Wickins, Kansas; “Revolutionary Types of Women of the Republic,” Kate Brownlee Sherwood, Ohio; “Women as Patriots,” Mary H. Krout, Illinoi: he Afternoon Session. At the afternoon session of the council yesterday, Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens presided in the absence of Mrs. Sewall. ‘Organized Werk in Philanthropy” was the subject for discussion. The first address was delivered hy Minnie J. Snow of Utah, the delegate of Y Mutual Improvement Association. This address was preceded by a few remarks by Mrs. Josephine Nichols of the Indianapolis Council of Wo- men. Mrs. Snow's talk was an interesting de- scription of the Young Ladies’ NationaJ Mutual Improvement Association and its methods of work. It has over 300 branches in many sections of this and other coun- tries, embracing a membership of 1 There is an organization of young men also, and the two societies hold joint meetings. Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells, delegate of the National Woman's Relief Society of Utah, was the next speaker. She said she repre- sented the largest society of its character in the great west. It has thirty branches in the Sandwich Islands-and in many other part of the world, amounting to about 600 in_all, * Indus- 1 of Michigan, spoke of the work of that institution. She informed her hear- ers that ‘there are now about 260 girls in the home between the ages of twelve and twenty-one years. fi 2 evens presented Mrs. Margaret Ray Wickins, who spoke for the Illinois In- dustrial School. One woman had given $65,000 for the establishment of the institu- tion, which now had inmates te the number of 150. Mrs. Havens of Wimodaughsis gave an interesting account of that organization. At the-evening session Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells of Utah presided and Marilla Daniels of Utah read a paper, prepared by Mrs. Sarah M. Kimball, on the “Sixth Sense,” dealing with the spiritual side of humanity. The sixth sense, it was shown, links the mortal with the immortal existence. Mrs. Kimball was president of the Utah Woman Suffrage Association from January, 18%), till October, 189%. She has attended several conventions in Washington, also the National Council in 1801, and was one of the Utah women who took part in the meeting of the National Woman's Relief Society, in connection with the Woman's Congress Auxiliary at Chicago, in May,183. Following this paper Mrs. Wells present- ed a detailed history of the founding of Salt Lake City, the title of her paper being “Forty Years in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake.” Mrs. Alleseba Bliss, president of the board of managers of the Girls’ Industrial School at Adrian, Mich., then addressed the audience, outlining the work of that institution, te which unfortunate girls bes tween the ages of twelve and sixteen are committed. They remain there until they are twenty-one unless they are sooner pros nounced worthy of discharge, and are ine structed in reading and writing, together with household duties. Mrs. Margaret Wickins, “The New Thought, the True Thought in Philanthropy,” was the subject of an ad dress by Mrs. Margaret Ray Wickins, one of the most graceful and eloquent speakers in the council. Mrs. Wickins in her annual address be- fore the tenth national convention recom- mended that the Woman's Relief Corps join the National Council of Women. This had been declared unconstitutional. It was necessary to rescind the former ace tion, which brought an animated discus- sion, but her firm hand held the gavel, and with a clear head she decided parlia- mentary tangles in a manner that carried her point. Beyond the fondest hopes and expectations of the most sanguine friends of the movement, the former action of the convention was reconsidered, and the rec- ommendation adopted and the Woman's Relief Corps became a part of the Na- tional Council of Women, in consideration of which the twelfth convention, W. R. C., by unanimous vote, made Mrs. Wickins a patron of the nacional council, as one of the prime factors on the Woman's Relief Corps membership of the council, Mrs. Wickins is a fine presiding officer and Las earned the title ot “The James G. Blaine of the Woman’s Feelief Corps. On January 1, 18%, Mrs. Wickins was elected superintendent of the Llinois In- dustrial School for Girls at Evanston, which position came to her at the solicita- tion of the executive board. There the need of her fine executive ability, winning mother love for those dependent girls, and her adaptability to control and govern with love rather than fear, makes her a most acceptable worker in philanthropic lines. The institution known as State Home for Juvenile Offenders is for. reformation and saving of the girls, and is the only one established and maintained by the state where a woman is superintendent, Mrs. Emma R. Wallace, national president of the Woman's Relief Corps, is a promi- nent officer and patron of this most in- teresting institution. Philanthropy, said Mrs. Wickins in her address, Is the great love for all mankind. The old and false thought has been an in- discriminate benevolence, giving because importuned, lest by their continued asking they weary you; making no discrimination between the worthy deserving one, who perhaps would starve rather than ‘make known their needs, and the one who, by profession, importunes constantly the care- less giver; injudiciously adopting the easiest method rather than the most bene- ficial, thus leaving the character no stronger to be self-sustaining after the present relief has been consumed than be- fore your aid was given. The true thought in philanthropy is to so dispense benevo- lence that the recipient shall be more self- relant, more helpful to himself, better qualified to stand alone. The child taken into the home, sheltered, cared for and protected, is injured rather than benefited if not taught in all the lines necessary to make that child a fully developed physical, moral and spiritual character. It is not enough that they be fondled, petted and caressed, that they be loved or that they be induiged; all these have a part, but beyond these expressions of deep interest the true thought is to train the youl mind in lines of self-reliant thought, teach the little one that it must, as it grows, become strong to stand alone, and to be helpful to others. Death of Douglass. Last evening there was a special meeting of the officers and delegates called for the purpose of taking appropriate action re garding the'death of Frederick Douglass, After a brief debate it was decided to ap- point a committee, the president of the council, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, to be chairman, with authority to choose the remaining members. Mrs. Sewall promptly named Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. L. M. N, Stevens, Mrs. Margaret Ray W! Mra, Foster, Rev. Anna H. Shaw and Mrs. a § Howland. The committee will meet so Ebbitt House at 3 p.m. today. It has given full power to draft resolutions, = pressing the sentiment of the council the loss it has sustained. ———_—_. William Jones, a boy, was struck and in- stantly killed Wednesday night by a trolley car in front of a church in Philadele phia, in which his parents were attending prayer meeting.