norance and which can be corrected only by that knowledge which results from personal acquaintance.
"In the first place its influence has united different organizations of the same country hitherto indifferent or inimical to each other; and in the second it has commenced the work of uniting the women of different nations and abating race prejudice. It has promoted the movement of peace and arbitration, and through its international committees it is forming a central bureau of information in regard to women's contribution to the work of the world."
It is composed at present of fourteen National Councils of as many different countries representing an individual membership cf about 6,000,000 women. Its president is Mrs. May Wright Sewall, who was one of its founders.
The National Council of Women was organized in Washington, D. C., March 31, 1888. Its constitution is introduced by the following preamble:
The scope of the Council's work is indicated by the heads of its departments: Home Life, Educational Interests, Church and Missionary Work, Temperance, Art, Moral Reform, Political Conditions, Philanthropy, Social Economics, Foreign Relations, Press, Organization; and by its standing committees: Citizenship, Domestic Science, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Dress Reform, Social Purity, Domestic Relations under the Law, Press, Care of Dependent and Delinquent Children, Peace and Universal Arbitration.
Each of these departments and committees works along its special lines and at the annual executive meetings and the triennial Councils the reports of their work are discussed, their recommendations considered and every possible assistance rendered. The general public is invited to the evening sessions and valuable addresses are made by specialists on the above and other important subjects.
The Council is composed of sixteen national organizations, one State Council, six local councils — representing a membership of about 1,125,000 women.
The National Woman's Christian Temperance Union was