Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-14
retention in Office as long as the incumbent
:, bonast capah1e and desepvinr


Mrs Robinson, also from the good old
! town of Boston, who has somehow gained
the name of 'chronic kicker" made
a strong speech in opposition. Her idea
was change, change, change so as to give
every woman chance to show her powers.
Her plea was not so much to hold fast to
that which is good, but to let go every year
in the hope of catching on to something bet
ter. The sense of the meeting seemed to be
against this view. Many old saws, the con-
densed wisdom of poverbs, and modern
instances were quoted by both sides in lively
STYLE In very many of the clubs repre-
sented the term of Office is unlimited. With
| a secret ballot as the rule, full freedom of
| choice is given and the members follow bus
mess principles and hold on to those who
recommend themselves by good work and
executive ability.
The President of the Confederation.
Which plan is most desirable and profit
able is for the members of each club to de-
eide for themselves. But it is a matter of
larger moment as to the Confederation,
which now includes somewhere about 100
clubs. Mrs. Charlotte Emerson Brown, the
now acting President of the Confederation,
favors rotation in Office She argues strongly
that fairness and common Justice demand
rotation-that sit tends to harmony and
good fellowship, that it sets up new mile
stones in the march of progress and pre-
vents falling into ruts." Mrs. Browns
argument was directed chiefly at the presi-
dency. Changes in the Executive Board
should be made very sparingly.
Mrs. Brown is a tall, handsome woman, of
fine presence and most agreeable manners.
In the management of affairs she shows
great tact, knowledge of human nature, and
lii ~ of ,too~ h.
near relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and
shows some of the philosophical traits Of
character of that great man. On of the best
off-hand speakers was Mrs. Ketcham, of the
indianapolis Woman's Club She re-
ports that in Indiana the club idea is
raging. In that part of the country the old
fashioned sun-bonnet meant darkness, the
adoption of a hat is the first step in pro-
gress the next is when the wearer of the
hat goes in for and learns to play Moody
and Sankey upon the cabinet organ-then
she joins womans ''club" and enlight-
ment follows. In Indianapolis the women
have erected a fine three-story building for
club uses at cost of $4,000. There are
400 stockholders, the shares were S25, and
the money was raised with but little trouble.
The originator of the project was Mrs May
Wright Sewall. 1t is named classically
men soon christened it s'the Cockalorum"
much to the amusement of the sisters.
Don't Like Hensel and Pattison.
: Another of the good speakers was Mrs.
Mary A. Numford, President of the New
Century Club Of Philadelphia, organized in
the centennial year. The women of this
club have also engaged to erect building
for their own use and to rent. They paid
10000 for the lot; the building will cost
about 100000 The shares are $50, and
have all been taken except $4,000 by the
members of the club. This New Century is
the club which applied for charter, and
the Attorney General Hensel decided that
such could not be issued to married women.
In this opinion Brother Pattison coincided.
This rather gave the club sisters cold
chill, and the most conservative of them
felt that they had not all the rights they
wanted. In order to lose no time they de-
cided to take out the charter in the names
OF the "spinsters' in the club. By this
time the fact was brought out that Mr. Hen
sci and Governor Pattison were wrong, so
the charter was secured without going into
the Legislature for new law.
The hall of this clubhouse will be rented
for womens meetings and various purposes
for which it is suitable, and the club men,
bers have no fears that it will not be pay
ing investment. In the town of Fryburg,
in Maine, the Woman's Club had secured
headquarters by one of its wealthy men,
bers paying the rent and buying the carpet,
while each member contributed her own
chair.
The Uses of the Club.
How the world has changed as to women
and their ways in score Of years OF less!
The direst things were predicted of the
homes and the cradles when women began
to hold meetings and attend conventions,
none of which have come to pass.
Women find in their club meetings
rest, refreshmeht, new thoughts and fresh
inspiration for their business in life. One
busy mother of six children told the writer
that she never had time to go anywhere bat
to "the club" and this did her more good
even than going to church. In her busy
had new ideas, new knowledge to think
over and talk over with the children, and
thus she was educating them, in this way,
as we'll as herself.
The prayer meeting used to be supposed
to be about the only little bit of recreation
that busy and burdened mother should
steal an hour for, but whoever found rest
and refreshment from the melancholy and
lonG-winded prayers of an old drone of
deacon who fond1y imagined he was gifted
in that line? Whoever found recreation
and enjoyment iu dolorous hymns that
moved to nothing but depression and the
blues The same old story of sin and satan,
of punishment and death, the horror of nom
election, and the uncertainty of salvation
do not conduce to cheerfulness or Joy.
Broadens a Womans Mind.
A woman's club widens woman's mind;
it lessons prejudices and kills superstition.
It gives her pleasure to meet her fellows;
it answers to her desire for knowledge, it
trains her to express her thoughts, and
takes from her that narrowness of mind
which can see no good outside of her own
good in all and to respect the rights and
opinions of those who differ. 1t encourages
her to think for herself, to use her own
brains, to cultivate her own powers. AL
though the clubs for women are growing on
all sides, the home is still preserved, the
country is still safe, and the world still
goes around as of old.
The croakers are not all dead, but they
are a little more chary Of their prophecies
of evil. The men who once professed to be
greatly alarmed over women's wanting to
know, you know, are beginning to get over
their scare. They are not "yammering" so
much now for the angelic beings so sweetly
ignorant as not to know that two and two
made four without asking their husbands at
home. The day has gone by when women
only showed brains enough to be bigoted,
and when ignorance was one of her greatest
charms. BESSIE BRAMBLE.
HOW THE BANANAS GROW.
The Mission of Tree Is Finished When 1t