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the meeting were over, the program for
the day was in the bands of the Field
club. Mrs. F. A. Marsh, their leader,
had done her utmost in preparing for
the occasion. A large portrait of Mr.
Field adorned the audience room, and
numerous photographs of members of
' his family and prints of the heros and
heroines of his famous poems, were to be
seen here and there. The program con
shted of sketches of Mr. Field and
Tro'.t," ttj citation of many of his
poems, with yocal and instrumental mu
sic. The new club then presented our
president. Mre. S. C. Langworthy, with
a picture of Mr. Field and a beautiful
bouquet of La Trance roses, with their
'compliments and claimed her as their
'president too. The program was closed
' by their singing a motto song, "Keep
sStep With the History and Art" A pri
vate letter from Mrs. Field to Mrs.
-March was read, thanking her for the
'zeal and labor In making this day of
tribute to Mr. Field a success. The let
ter bespoke much loving kindness and ap
preciation and is highly prized by its
owner. Mrs. Norval pleasantly surprised
our club by serving dainty refreshments
in the drawing room, while the Field club
'wore feasted around the lorg dining ta
ble. AUer congratulating the new club
and expressing hopes for its future suc
' cess we adjourned to meet one week from
date.
It cl aba are a good thing why should
we keep them to ourselves. "Let the
good we are doing shine into every
tenement window and en every cottage
"floor.'
ill club life help to develop a feeling
of greater responsibility in women ? Per
haps we should first ask is there a need
of such development? Are women, as a
class, as responsible as charged? Do
they fail to keep engagements and are
they lacking in punctuality? Let U3
answer the last two questions affirma
tively. Will club life help to correct
them? We think so. The woman who
joins a club and voluntarily assumes
the obligations thereof, in a sense
pledges herself as a part of a certain
'whole, which she, with others, hopes to
make perfect. They pledge to meet so
often and at such an hour. Failure to
keep this engagement or lack of punc
tcality for trivial reasons amounts to
discourtesy, even to injustice to Bister
club women. And the average woman
intends to be kind and just to all her
associates, yet the failure to punctually
keep engagements often causes annoy
ance and sometimes constitutes a wrong.
Women are charged with allowing a
light headache, the weather, the dr66
maker, a call, to make a valid excuse
for tardiness or absence from a meeting
where the time and convenience of many
others may be involved. Coming to a
committee meeting late one afternoon a
lady was shocked by having the chair
man say, "Mrs. H., you have wasted
fifty minutes of our valuable time."
Never before had the iady realized that
as a part of the whole she was responsi
ble for the time lost by each member of
that committee who was on time. We
are, indeed, "our brothers keeper" in
more senses than one. The tardy or un
punctual woman invariably suffers her
self, but that is of minor consideration
"when the inconvenience of others is in
volved, many of whom have often over
come greater difficulties and made real
sacrifices that they might keep their
engagements. We expect a remedy for
these faults from club lire, because there
the general tendency is to discourage
careless forgetf ullness of the rights and
feelings of others and to correct caprice
and irresponsibility. The universal sen
timent that the club meetings must be
gin on time will eventually accomplish
its purpose. One Lincoln club made
the proposition last year to begin on
time if only the hostess was present.
'Perhaps if the quorum clause in our by-
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Represents our New Bosom Ironer. This is the most modern irouer at this time and has
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Also see our new ironer for flat goods. In th last ten months we have invested $3,000 in
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laws should be restricted to business
sessions, the moral obligation would
be enough to accomplish this result.
Where it is lacking there is the greater
need of raising the standard of responsibility.
Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The Truce
of the Bear," baa cut its way to public
appieciation as quickly and keenly as
jiis "Recessional." Through a Hindoo
legend be scores the Czar's peace peti
tion in a manner at once powerful, sim
ple, convincing and terrible.
CHBISTMAS DONG'S FOE CLUB WOMEN.
Don't spend more than you can easily
afford.
Don't give a present out of policy.
Don't buy just what a child needs un
less the little one is actually cold or
hungry.
Don't cast your bread upon the Christ
mas waterB expecting it will be returned
after few or many days.
Don't neglect to neatly tie 'up the
package for nurse or kitchen maid with
a little sprig of holly tucked under the
string.
Don't put off making or buying your
Christmas gifts too late.
Don't be too practical in selecting gifts
for family or friends.
Don't forget to be hopeful, cheery,
thankful and merry on Christmas morn
on this blessed Christmas day let us
"dwell on our marciee," thus lighten our
own load and honor Him.
And alove all Don't forget to help
spead that heaven-born Eong, "Peace on
earth, good will to man.'
Interest in the Milwaukee Biennial is
already lively. Mrs. Buchwalter of
Ohio, one of the pioneers in Federation
work, has charge of the program as
chairman, and is already giving serious
thought to the task that lies before her.
There is a tremendous amount of
work, as well as great responsibility in
arranging for a great Biennial. It is
comparatively easy to find fault with the
Denver program; but it is an entirely
different matter to tell definitely where
and how to strengthen and improve it.
Mary Lyon U6ed for the mo, to at Mt.
Holyoke in the days when our mothers
and grandmothers used to come nnder
her caie "Freely ye have received, freely
give," although for that matter, the
words originated with a Greater than
Yary Lyon, What better motto for the
club movement?
Culture is a worthy end, and one to
which we all aspire. But whose culture?
Our own or our neighbor's? "Freely ye
have received, freely give."
If the women of the clubs were to be
mingled with non-clubbing women
in an assembly; no man could
select the active from the pas
sive ladies by any of the outward
signB which were once supposed to be
appropriate to them. Nor is the old
quip about the disregard and neglect of
home duties and husbands any longer
opposite.
Mre. Mary Orme Hall, who has been
for two years president of the New
York Sorosis, has been obliged by pro
longed ill health to resign that office.
For ajearpaBt Mrs. Hall's health has
been in a very precarious condition, and
for several months she has bean in
sanitarium in Michigan, although she
has now improved sufficiently to be re
moved to her sister's home in Detroit,
where she will remain through the win'
ner. if able. Mrs. Hall has long been an
active and .popular member of the exec
utive board of Sorosis and her resigna
tion was accepted with regret The Vice
president, Mrs. Dimies T. S. DenuisoD,
another exceedingly popular wornar.
has been elected president Club Wc-man.
To have the entire meaning of a sen
tence changed by the typesetter might
verily develop incipient insanity.
It is bad enough to have tie t po mu
tilate grammar and spelling until ou
feel youi teeth on edge, as when jcu
find yourself on record as usin; a con
junction for an article; a plural verb for
a singular; a personal pronoun for a
relative; the word sense translate I into
"issue;" and find lhat Mrs. Brown came
"around" with pictures of the ' Buzza
cat" ovens, instead of armed anil Buzza
cat, etc.; but the ' unkindest cut ' of all,
iB to be on record as speaking ,f Hud
yard Kipling's Recessional as a ' 2 "J"
poem. As soon speak of 0' i ' a5
the good old man. Still, w ' treat
sympathy with the typo. uoubt if
the average woman or man who writes
for the press would send along m in
terpreter with thtir copy such nought
fulness would be highly appr-tiated by
this much abused member of Mciety.
The women of Massacb - Ms are
showing their loyalty to the - ' resi
dent of the G.;F. W. C. in p vid
practical ways this week xlTd
federation meeting was cal.eJ to meet
in Boston December 13 and 14. in honor
of Mrs. Rebecca D. Lowe's viE t 'here
Meetingq were he!d in Park street t'nirch
the mornine and afternoon of Tu taj'
The subject discussed at both se
was "Industrial Conditions," espt
those pertiinine to women anil
dren, and in a manufacturing stat
Massachusetts there is plenty cf
for improvement of these condi'
Hon. Carrol D. Wright of Worthit
and one of the state factory inspec
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