Items from the World’s W.C.T.U. Bulletin.

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

Items from the World’s W.C.T.U. Bulletin.

World’s Convention, Boston, Oct. 17-23. Arrangements are progressing most satisfactorily for a helpful Convention. The veteran President of the Japan W .C.T.I . 74 years old) expects to be present. Baroness Non Hausen and Fraulein Nix will represent Germany, and Fraulein Julie Kassowitz, the daughter of the famous physician and scientist, Austria. Greece v.ill send as representative Miss (’allesperi, of Athens (Inspectress of Schools). The B.W.T.A. expects to send 5b delegates or more and Scotland 23. C.S.A. — I The W.C.T.C. shipped from Pasadena to San Francisco L> sacks o.f good, clothing, and organised an employment bureau for the women wanting work Mrs Bainbridge, county president of San Francisco, opened a tent reading room in Golden Gate Park, for tin* dwellers in the tents erected there, to whom books are now indeed a boon. Germany. —The Union is growing steadily and now lias 20 branches, besides several young girls’ branches. A union of women teachers was formed in 1904 and is working zealously, having recently issued a publication on “ How to Introduce Temperance Teaching in the School Code.’ Liberia. —Cnions have recently been formed in Liberia, West Africa.