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l[TH, some ‘interest the country _watched the proceedings of the recent convention in Boston of
the General Federation of P'Vomen's Clubs. bind, as was to` be expected,,the same time- 'llonored questloirswe t along ingthe wake of #he news emanating fzbom that gathering. _ “Of what use are women s. clubs, any way? What ood has ever been acconvplishezl by them? _,Cin any permanent reforms be 'traced to the influence of the mooemerit, now grown to such extensive proportions tn' the lUnited States? g ‘ "Do not these clubs take. wvmen ffvnl their duties at home? dt any rate, have their members been taught or influenced to become 'better housewifves, better mothers?"
Such quesiioncrs, no doubt, will be aston-
-ished to learn even in part of the reeoy made by these organizations during their comparatively brief history.
tions in the United States? Have the various organizations taken women from their duties
at home. or have they enabled them to become better housewives? Putting aside _iests and unfounded proj- udlces, one can Judge the organization by its accom- plishments.
Through the influence of women'e clubs, of which
there are now more than 5000. thousands of American households have been artistically furnished towns have been improved and cities cleaned.
Civic bettcrmout has been studied and oivll service
1'-‘~'1'ris siccolnplished, impure food dealers have been 4-... -"_ pure food movements carried to success, the i:lilu=.nc.- of which largely effected the passage of the national pure food laws.
Forests have been saved, historic spots preserved,
parks laid out. playgrounds -opened for the children of the cities, _‘~- 1 'l-ts established, deficient cllillren cared for. l¢i...l.l,,....~.»lr.l founded, libraries built, books put in circulation to a number excoedlng 300,000.
Political ilghts for civic reform have been cham-
pioned by the women. Y An education of iuemolent housewives hns become o, feature of the work. The care ttf children il sl chief object. Working girls enjoy blspgtggs scoured by clubwomon, in betterment of con- diiuns and places of shelter.
There sro at present more than 800,000 clubwomen
in tho United States. I
The club movement has -extended to every part of
thc country-east and west, north and south. There are now about forty-six state federations which include clubs social and literary, civic and other kinds.
This movement had its lncorltlon. lCC0fdll\i; to many
suthorltios, in thc union of several scattered litcrnry clubs united hy tho Sorosls of New York in 1889. This was followed in isso by me orzsnizins of the G°"°\'°l Federation of Women's Clubs.
COMMITTEES CARRY ON WORK
‘At present the principal work is carried on hy com-
mittees of tho federation-the art committee. the edu- cational committee, the civic committee. tho civil serv- ,_ _ _ ,, :- i ld i. commit- 1.7. “Ii:;"i;..l.;"ill;i'°Zl..i.*l.Ei.’2.§’é{“°.l& i§E2;‘.l5‘ °¢’<»mmm-r. tile' lcgi1;latl"e committee the industrial and child labor c..i\_~rnit<.ec, the library ox'tensloll committee and tile out- l°°"{lhCx'¢;.‘~El`;?\l)ntt'l\es' nrt committee the federation has sent. thollnulldil ei pictures over the country, illto schools snd ;omes. llnments have been erected, drinking four- talns houses artistically decorated and par I p.a.~.n_ _
Bei l b l s es have been formed. Ono western
web s;1%t_ a$‘l'0,l>0g gblcorating a school. 'rho protection of tim vqllsadu of the Hudson, the establishment by Cvllirrlss of the Mesa Verde National Park and the pr.-5.,_-vMl_,»= ofghg ¢|iff dwollings in Colorado are results gf the work of the committee. The sim il Nl "MKG m'i"b'§'}aTl`::&?i¢irii‘iatl‘°i`érl?i'iis'tBl'¢f`has imilwvsd °<1“°“"°“°‘ fss!‘ltiea in mahy part! of the cllunirl' Bhd Glmblllhed lvilnlsrships he household economics committee teaches niaitsrs -elicit-e to the home. how i0 b° ¢°’“P°*““' ‘river aria mothers; it seals with me problems 01' *ll* in-vi-.4 .a-i.a...»|vely_ 'nie ure toon committee has wassd 'warfare t. silist ndultsragod funds and was effective ill seollrlnq ‘he :usage o' the federal pure fond law.
'fhrbligivli he fnrufry committee forests have llsen
"rote:-t r il-.mi slwuuolev at trees UllI\f°¢- Cmi' dl-ul :se 'been mvxd flow- aber in mills snd mines by lilo nglid labor committee Conditions in factories and ‘NPI iberl women and 'children work have been im- Pwvvd. \ tations ave bo n suoenafniiy waited-
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.m-t-_-lu mv. .H form" ‘nd Carnegie libraries ss-
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structures help- of the women.
Recognizing the value of thrift among children, many
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.»' of the women’s clubs in the East have established stamp
savings stations. In four grammar schools at Brockton, Mass., there are more than a thousand depositors in four grammar schools; more than $2000 was saved within tive months by the public school children of Clinton. Mass., and more than 800 children-opened stamp bank accounts ‘ ln Wlnchcndon, that state. . Scholarships have been_endowed. in _many women's colleges by clubs. Arpermanent fund for the education
\. of girls‘.is`f_maints.ined by the New Hampshire federa-
tion; in Maine the wornennhave ,for years worked for the improvement of rural“lchools;‘a. trade school for
‘girls is the ogject of the New York federation. it Aifieorge unlor Republic for boys is maintained by the women of New Jersey; in Pennsylvania., school gar- dens were.sts.rt' d._ by the olubwomon; the consolidation of small distri t echoolii ,into graded schools ho.; been effected in Veériont. while in bode Island tho -:onion
succeeded in getting s. law gaseed provldini: ii: the instruction of adult blind p_ople in their i.olllcs by the board of education.. .
Moro than twenty-tf‘i;e gluYlZ1'0\-lilds were the zarlult.
of the playground es lls ed some years ego by the
established a school o domestic science, which was
at nntnllls success thaf at the end of four years the city undertook to support it.
Manual training has been instituted hy clubs in New
Hampshire, Itilodo .island and Connec lout. while in
Moesaclllusettskabout twenty clubs have made it their
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puriiflcdiclal ihspcction was established in tho schools of Baltimore through the efforts of the Maryland federa- tion, wllilo a school attendance law tllero was the result of s, movement started by the Arundel Good Govern- ment Club. _
In Portland, Maine, many bare, unattractive school-
houses have been changed into places of charm and beauty through tho women's clubs, while throughout the state of New York the clubwolrlen have encouraged art
by teaching children tho Principles of decoration, also by furnishing pictures, pho ogrsphs and casts of statues to schools.
Throughout the entire East children have been en-
couraged n planting trees and vllles about schools and
at their homes; prizes sro glvcn to cncournfo the culti- tvatloll of school gardens;__ln many conimun__tlp_s,___lndo_ed,
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man,” who passed his life by the_ Ganges, go- ing oil' into trences most of the t.l_me, to plnce its cooling hand on the fevered, rioting pulses
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Civic Club #in Philadelphia. This is one of the banner organizations; it' gave the inception to vacation schools,
inaugllratlod a. school for ‘backward children and flrst ave us o even n conoor s. g ’l‘silanlent house? reform, the cleaning of streets, cars and parks and the establishment of public baths have
‘boon succsAsli;flil}l‘y accomplished by the women of Pitts- ur and e ny.
Throug/hong l°ennsylvanle., women's town improve-.-
ment clubs have cleaned u their towns. taken refuse* off oi' streets, demolished olg and useless buildings, pur- chased strest sprinklers and established perks. The women of Carlisle. Pa., ilovo made theirs an ideal town.
Thrnllgllout New Jcrscy the town lmgrovenlent idea
hrls been lcrpetuatcd hy the women, an in one town, which is iyplcal of many others, they have not only cleaned tho community, llllt secured good milk and mala- _tg_ine_d ct hospital fund for tho deB!itut_e_ Agii-;k._ _ _
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In tl w crinllccilon, the care of the sick has D80!!-
llarly .ppvillcll to the women, and hundreds of clubs support. frcllil-alll' camps, hospitals, vacation houses
_ and district nurses. A hospital is owned by the
W0man's Charity Club of Boston. _ The preservation of forests, which has become such an important national issue, long ago was championed by tho clubwollll-ll of thc entire country. in the East, _Pennsylvania has the ilnest reserves-the result of the work of clubwon1on_
In New Htllllpsliire, Massachusetts and New York
they have llllsolod for the preservation of the forests. In liIessacil;:;.t;.s tho work during one year took the form of s. campaign against the hrorvntnll and gypsy moths, in which almost every club joined, one of which, with the alll of an army of school children. de- stroyed 3'l5,00u nests.
Planting of 1000 trees in four years by the school
children in one town in Pennsylvania, and of 400 in one year in Boston, ure but sillgle instances of s. Wide- spread and effective pl'opu',:ell.tl.1.
gn the middle West lin-ri; are more than 1300 clubs
an & melnbersllip ext~cedllll;‘ 75.000. The w_omen of the est ,boast oi' their club lrlcn ;l.l nlltedating that of the East. They point to it Liiilios' Library Society
in Kalal§1zoo. Mich., founilotl in 1852; the Minerva Club, of cw Hal~llloll_v, ind.. founded in 1859, and the Chicago Wonlalrs Club. of the '70‘s_
Forming of stato fctl~.-rllllolls, bt-iron with Iowa in
1893. wa! continued bl' Olllo ill 1S‘J~i; Michigan and Missoui%vn{Bii5, and lniililllil in 1000. \\'llat the women of the sl have accolllplisllt-tl l_l l»liL a. repetition, in 5 lense of their prolld rccllill in the East. And it is thus With the wulllcll ol' lll~~ Silutll.
ln Et. Louis, for lllsl_ll.l'\\, tilts Under-Ago Fres
Kindergarten illls bccolllc olli- of the largest instltu- 'tions of its ltlnil ill tile 1-.iunll-y. Within two years manual training' was trltrlbllshcd through the women in six schools in lolfil.
Four nornllll so-llo-sis and appropriations for two
more were secured ill i902 by the women of Ohio- after flve yc'l:~.=' effort, l_‘\1.ilp~.llsol'y cducatlnn bills re- warded the ~~1t.ll~is of t-luliltllillcn ill tile states of Illi- nois Iowa .li l _'.1ls.lol|l-l.
The Clllvulx-» Wolli:l;.':~. i'll;ll established the Glen-
wood Indlislrinl School for ll'1,\'.°l at it cost of $40 000. The vacation ncilools' 1-l~.illllxltt<~o of tile wolnen‘s clubs of Chicago opcllvil i-l;;llt :-vilools within a few years, And huntlr:-ds of t-lllldlcll, irllollg thcm mnny foreign- ers wcrc clll't\\lt-il.
Tsuncllcolls were served ill the high schools by sov-
sral clubs, unc, tho Englcwood Woliinn’s Club, serving Within t\vent_\' minutes about 430 cooked luncheons. The School of Doillestic Arts and Science in Chicago, established by tllo clilblvolzlcn, furnishes instruction in hrlusekteping and the 1-:ire of the children to 1100 students.
In Mir,-ll"::1ll the wolllcll cnflczlvored to secure an
appropriation of $90,000 for n ‘building for the Mich- igan A; .lltllral College, whero women might study domestic arts and science.
FOSTER DOMESTIC SCIENCE
At. tho L'ni\'crsilt,l' of illinois, thc l`lli\'9l‘sity of Chl-
cngo, ibn ill-lliiley lil.-wtiltltc, nt Peoria, and tile Lewis Instituto, vi' (',‘lllc:l;;‘ll, llunlcsiit' ililtl economic llcpnrt- nlcllts \\'.\ri~ <-lllnlllisllcll, wllill- lilo wulllcii rllso suc- ceeded ill gvtiilll: lilo Lcglsllltllro to establish house- hold crwlllolllli- villllwlcs ill il\‘l~ liornlzll scllouls Of the stute ililll till: high schools of Chicago.
Pure-fllotl callipztiglls have been successfully wngcd
by the cllllnvolllcll nf Illinois, lnfllallu_ Michigan, Mis- souri :llld Ohio. Lrlcfll pure-fooll crusades resulted in the cllllllllatlcll of impure products allrl the securing of
Rure milk; willlo nlully state laws were passed by the
e%s1atures at tilo pctltloll ol' clulswomen.
osides this. industrial conditions have coma in for
a large share of attention! 1~`llctol'y conditions in Ohio have been systclllntically studied by cluilwomcll. .-\n association In Clllcilgo sol-vrs ltlcale to nearly 1200 working wolllcn il dr.v nt cost. bosldcs providing sick
rooms, rest rgoius and s. lils'ral',\'.
Estnlllishc about illllc yt-urs uno thrryllgh the in-
tercossinll of clllbwumc-n. rho nrst juvelll e crolft has been taken us an example by eighteen other states. in
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for many Oriental religions. In NSW Y0fl
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swamis. They are said to have won several hundred conver s.
Undoubtedly the religion of Ramnkrishna is unique
in this western world, and in justice it must be said that it is different from many of the new and strange teachings that have been accorded A more or less hearty welcome.
For theso in-olvn-sklnnrlrl. torbaned. gentle-voiced
mon from India have llntlortnken to teach hustllnf. bxstling commercial Alnoricn that worldly wealth s o no value, that power in futllo, that the ideal life is that of meditation. concentration snd the develop- ment of spiritual perfection.
B l U0\|I'N of dieclplin; they hope to develop in
til ‘Miter and nr’-,n er that lmlrlt of Oriental to A tl t s calm t at is unru sd, which noth-
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an rilltomobllo snlasll-up *Jilin luck sores-ity and bs- nli.;llll_v of expression me h¢_ Nici Univ" After s. re- frcsllillg nap. This pr‘.\l.tlt-lilly, is will .\e East hal undertaken io teach the ‘Nut
'l`i\is religious crusade is one of more stron!!
anonlaliss one nt times witnesses in s country' ll-0” as this-and who can My but this inconsistent D°°l'|l°» :ltn hilnoli- him-to ¢;:l‘rn%df5.e -:fr eri°§Jt|"*h*‘]‘°l,§"'{‘:r‘}; rest oss ass e »' ‘
sagg, which tells them how fool.ibh all th.r'r efforts are "_ Ralnakrlshnr. was born in 1885 in the Benlll V lege of Kallmrpuksr. His P00910 "0" B"r’l2".|,“|','| our. 'ro make a livliu' the bo( beamline I D cncmu "°"n:.2' i::"» lil.. l::"°:.:...i"§_~..".°.-.' ... .ml- xnother, piecing dowsrg on hor else. lirvflllt Ml'
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which the Illinois law was either intifill Ol K0 IGN' extent adopted.
For a number of years s. school for dhildrdfl Wil
conducted ill tllc Cook county jail in Chicago by tile Woman's Club. The treating of little children oifsndeu as though they nero adult criminals struck the women interested in the work as wickedpand harmful. What was to be dir c'_’
An attornl was employed, and A hill providing
for a juvcnilc court was drawn lip. It was presented. and passed by tho Legislature, becoming I llw in 119|, Then in other slcltl-s the women took up the problem and juvenile ~ollrt laws followed. Lswl pruhotlnl child ldoorers wore passed in many states after een- paignu of clul~ vomen. ' ~ In tho iso; .ted sections of the West traveling lk braries have i..lc-d a crying need. Through the llitlsn
tive of olubwonlen who inaugurated them, tote or Propriatlons h:l\'o been secured and hundreds este. - ishsd. liior.~ iliozl 12,000 volumes are oontrolle by the
Fbrary Col imisolon of Iowa: through he women, orty towns enjoy Carnegie libraries in ln ions: there are more than sixty traveling libraries n Michigan, forty in Mis lonri, while in Ohio ths women roars an ipgropratioll of |8000 for the circulating o the ltsts
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But hend'11. hand with literature goes nrt. Art col-
lections are s lit from place to place througholat the West. and rl ;ular courses of study conducts In Iowa about fo.ty clubs are devoted to this study. and the Ohio fedei ltlon has undertaken to institute art ss part of the ed lcntlonal system of the stats.
A traveling ant gallery is supported by \h0 Tll:l
federation. \\'ithin five months its circuit ihclud d about seventy-live clubs. Nearly 25,000 children wars enabled to stutly artistic work,
Througllout the entire South there are traveling #-
brsries; in South Carolina, for instance, there are l 0; in Kentucky more than 85: more than 100 in Tennes- see' 65 in Texas. and about 15 in Arkansas.
with their els-ters-.sr the North. the eiubwolpon of
the South have vigorously dealt with the prob em of child labor. A child-labor and compulsory education law was passed in Georgia, tim last of the states with- out protective legislation for children as s. result of
the earnest, wcrik of cluhwovlwn. in nil the ltl!\_l ox- lsting laws are nforoed unfl~v~ the vigilant eyes of the women guardians of the ii' . -1. Texas lsadbl pos- sibly, in kliidel-gnrtsn wo. _» iurlnatory and Juve- nile court \-'cro dgmulde.. ii _-ured, by the women of Atlanta. Gil.
Social s--ttlomsns wo... '-een inaugurated in
New Orlcal _-1. An e aoatlol ....npaign~ resulted in s
conguest ul er yellow !ev»._
no mlb lt pursue s recital of what organised
clubwomon ‘lure accomplished ad inflnitum.
“Mon's c ubs, ns it rule, sro purely social," geclarosl
S\iper|ntell<l~ni of Compulsory Education Bo ine of Clllcllgo. “‘. 'r1mell`s cllllls are llot. I belinve in wtvill- cn's clubs. '.Vllut this c1»lllltry needs is more wcmen‘s clubs, more lf tile Mothers' Congresses, more national Councils of 'lV0lllen, rnllre Catholic WUmsn'l Leagues. for in ortzn. lzrfi lvonmnllood lies the moral snd intei-
lectual hopv of tllis republic."
Mrs. llol -rt J. liurdctte, of California, who took e
grollllncnt lurt in the rcccnt convention at Boston
as put forlll the follmvlllg ns her crccdt
"I hellevl- in afternoon club life for women. l bs-
lleve in evening cillb life for men and women together
wllcn it docs not rub the home of father snd moths'
"I believe that woman has no right. to \lndcl't': a
Hill' \\'lll‘k wl\ntsov\'c|~ outside of the homo. along ‘ 1.1 lillcs of philanthropy. cllurch, temperance or club "'.l tinil docs not emallzitc fronl the home and in its il - ullil best results rcturzl to thc home. Home must . -
ways be the center, b\\t nog the limit, of wuman's ' W
I believe in equal rlgh s in the family for fall ci
and mother ili_ intelligence, affection and llll resp--'
These the -;iuo_shouid _foster."
with f-ood and incense and lights.
Then doubt came to h m. Is there I divine
motller? he asked. There followed s. spiritual strugglf was hours at prayer and fasting. so terrible been l.- tho spiritual conil ot that the boy was unable to sol- - ggttilo altar. he lost all sense o time and refused ..
For months he suffered mental lllohli and tiv-
accordlng to his dlscipllles, a vision came. The div :,- mother appeared to hi , clothed in radiant. glory. a
his doubts passed.
'rbi-n, for twelve years, this young) msn underl _ _
il Sl\1<|l' of the worlcl’e religious. A` enutiful will* mine to him and taught him the religions of India r . the practice of yoga. Ho sought beggar wise men inquired of tlllllr faith. Ho studied Mollammsdul
intl Christianity-in fact, all the faiths of which .
llC\V.
All of them, hc sltlri, were paths to the llms pp..
Tho goal was coilstriuusllcss of tho divine. l{.l krishns_ having reached this stats spent most o'
life ill meditation und preaching his gospel.
Willie in ills throes uf doubt ills family had 1
dad to lllln ii. young girl of ii years, For many 1 he forgot hor. One day she onlne to him, A lul- fresh and beautiful. Ho fell ut her feet, told ht- -
would serve hor, that bg regarded her as I mal. _ tation of the cllvinc mot er.
During ills life Ytllmilkrishna, in his Nirest 1
the trlllplc, ovcrclilne all earthly desires. HQ so . lrllmoy tlizlt, it l:-1 suill, he shrank from it in his ~ lic collslilolvul power useless. Marriage, hd dei.
ulloulll llc plir-‘l_v spiritual.
l\l<»r.- iliiin lwl-nty years rlgo he died, worship-~ v
thnll.~'.lll.is. ilnlf ni` lnllla now regard him as all lllilllirestatlon of Vishnu. ills widow is still livin. _ l is venerated as tho “Blessed Virgin Sands Devi."
"A REAL MAHATMA"
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