Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-06-07

ton was spent in teaching the little snails how to
rub their shells to the same degree of shining per-
lection.
think she had prejudice against women's
clubs know her husband had She told me
long afterwad that he would never have let her 60
to this one if I had not been clergymans wife
How that day in our club woke the dear creature
up! We had an inspiring, comforting discussion,
all about the privileges and duties of mothers, and
the glory Of motherhood, and the high honor be-
slowed upon woman, in that they are permitted to
make the men who are to make history. 1t was
true, earnest, womanly talk, such as one hears ten
thousand times in similar organizations where she
hears one slur against men whose other halves we
are. Good thoughtful women, who are striving
to grow better and to know more, do not "run
down. their 'big brother man" as Frances Will
lard calls him. When we parted my friend held
my hand close, tears were in her eyes: 81 came
in empty go away full" she said. s'You can
never know what all this has been to me-
We need this wholesome coming together, this
combination for the common good, this play Of
mind upon mind, this filling of empty buckets from
those that are Drumming over. And she who needs
it most is the woman who works hardest.
AS working woman, know this for, and Of
myself. Sometimes the beat of whatever mill we
may labor in so rings and vibrates in our ears that
we are ready to confound it with the action of our
hearts, and fancy we could as we'll live without
one as without the other. However we'll woman
may love her daily work, the nut in which she runs
becomes sometimes so deep that she can hardly
see over the sides Of it. 1t is a hollow turnpike
that gets more dusty with every step. We grow
narrow and hard and selfish and obstinate, and, as
natural consequence cross. With some women
the longing from change from the beaten track
takes the form of that for which men are too apt
to mistake the natural desire to learn and to grow.
They call it "gadding and gossiping"
st. Paul says of what we would style "frisky
widows" that they Ego from house to house and
are not only idle, but tattlers, also, and busy
bodies also, speaking things which they should
not" He advises as reredy for the evil hus-
bands, children, and course of Homework.
Yet Paul worked comfortably with Claudia and
Lydia and Damaris, with Perss, Tryphana and
Tryphosa, with Mary and Julia and Phoebe, and
host of other energetic and holy women and con-
Quoted meetings with Priscilla and Prisca's hus-
band His meaning here, then, clearly is to con-
denim aziness and tattlng.
Inc gossip talKs OF persons ana families and, IN
assaiing other peoples characters, lowers his own.
There is no combination or cooperation in her case
She is a guerilla and sneak thief-one who pulls
down, instead of raising, the standard of the
home. The spirit of the Women's Club is directly
opposed to gossip. Some one-I think it was the
late DR.. Holland-said, "The cure for gossip is
culture This the club supplies, culture of mind,
heart and taste.
was once asked to call upon girl who had
been working button-holes for fourteen hours
day for seven weeks. She was fragile little
thing, with big, sad eyes, nervous cough, and
painful affection of the muscles of face and hands,
which the doctor said was ''sympathetic" We
got up Dickens Reading Club, with tableaux,
music and CHEEKY talk thrown in now and then,
and gave her something pleasanter than button
holes to think of, and it wrought like magic.
Working women of all others need the kindly help
of other women the refreshmente IF talL ,pon