INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

White Ribbon, Volume 12, Issue 136, 15 September 1906, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

The nu'etings of the Executive Committee of the Council vereheld in Paris in June, under the presidency of Lady Aberdeen. Two new National Councils wore affiliated —Belgium and (Queensland. A gold monogram pin, 1.C.W., which had been presented to Miss Anthony at the tine* of the formation of the Council in 1888, had been sent to Lady Aberdeen, by Miss Mary Anthony, with the request that she wear it as President; the brooch passing from one president to another. The Baroness Bertha von Suttner was congratulated on the fact that the Nobel Prize for Peace had been awarded to her. Lady Aberdeen reported that she had opened up correspondence in Greece, Turkey and Portugal, with regard to the formation of Councils in those countries. A new scheme, proposed by Mrs Ogilvie Gordon, Hon. Corresponding Secretary, was unanimously adopted.

It aims at organising an International system of Educational Inf* rmatinn Bureaux, whereby in each country information should he available for private individuals, both with regard to tin* educational facilities for particular courses of training in their own country, and also the educational facilities in other countries, in which boys and girls or young students may desire to reside for a time for purpose* <>l (‘duration. The Executive Meeiiug of l!M)8 will be held iu Switzerland, and combine with it a meeting of the full Council. The (Quinquennial Meeting and ( ongress is to take place in Canada in 1909. Abridged from The Englishwoman's Review.