The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-05-28
A UNIQUE woMAN.s. cLus.
Com posed of Wives and niothers-- It Dis
cusses Practical Qaestions. II .


Compose of wives and Mothers- It Dis-
Practicai Qlestions. Eta.e
The bride, Wife and Mothers club"
composed of young mstroils and mothers,
meets on Wednesday afternoons at theta
nous Working Girls club house in Thirty
eighth street, and 1t is In a sense an out
growth of this very prolific club. Some OF
the members of the girls society graduated
into wifehood, and, forfeiting thus the
privileges of the girls club, they entreated
Miss Dodge to organize Il special branch
for wives.s- Once the organization was
formed and it's officers elected, the mem
bers invited in their friends and relatives,
until now there is a society of about thirty
mem bers, with Mrs. James M Cunning
ham as president and Mrs. Benjamin Nor
rison as treasurer.
Here are some of the subjects: Choosing
and Furnishing Home,'' BEST and Easi-
est Way of Keeping House, "''House Clean
ing and It's Aid" ''How to Dress, Amuse
and Train Children" ''How to Make
Home Pleasant for Both Husband and
Children" and How to Be Neighborly
Without Being Cosby" A woman ply
sician has been hired to talk on Babies
and Their Needs emergencies and How
to Meet Them, ''The Medicine Box and
and Its Uses" A trained nurse has given
practical lessons in the care of the sick
the making of beds for invalids the ban
daging of simple wounds that are not Sc
rious enough to need the doctors atten-
ton, and the preparation of food for the
sick. A professional cook has instructed
them i'll the mysteries of her art, from
marketing to dessert. A dressmaker has
taught them how to cut children's clothes,
and at the last meeting a kindergarten
teacher was showing them simple ways
of amusing the little ones
This club is in no sense charity, but, on
the contrary, is self supporting, self gov
erning and cooperative, and meets the ex-
penses of all its professional teachers; and
the best thing about it have not told yet.
1t is not a papa-rock-the-c -cradle-for- -mama's-
gone-to-her-club affair at all, for mamma
takes takes the baby with her, and a COM
mittee of ladies take charge of it for her in
one of the big sunny rooms of the club
house while she gives her entire attention
to the discussion of the day.
Miss Dodge helped organize the club,
but she is neither officer nor a member,
and says the only reason she is allowed to
come at all is because she makes herself
useful 1t is she who thinks to put the
practical questions that the mothers them
selves haven't quite courage to ask to the
teacher: ''What would you do with a child
that kicks and screams2" do you believe
in breaking child's will?'' and "How do
d
breakfast?' and perhaps it may interest
mothers not fortunate enough to belong to
such a nice club to hear what the sweet
faced teacher said. .l -
when q child kicks and screams" she
answered, because he can't have the look
ing glass, should go away and leave him
alone to kick his ugliness out. He wants
you. to punish him, to war with him, to
fuss over him. He is full of fight, and
wants some one TO fight with him. Leave
him entirely alone, and he won't kick long
with no one to see him. Then when he is
all over it punish him for acting so, but
don't punish him in the time of it, and,
above all, never give him the looking glass
or anything else he is kicking for. 1 do
not believe in breaking q child's will, and
l do not believe it is ever done. Mothers
that succeed after battle royal in making
Il child give up, ,+haven't broken his will at
all when he yields, but just exhausted him
physically, and he gives up because he is
tired out. believe when a child gets into
such a condition he is insane for the time,
and not at all responsible for what he does.
Iwould treat him as would a balky horse.
You put dirt in the horses ear, and he is so
engaged in getting it out he forgets all about
his determination not to go on, and trots
along. If it is, for instance, a toy that the
great battle is over, because the child re-
fuses to pick it up, take him away from it,
give him something else to do until he for
gets it, and then ask him to come and help
you pick up the room for papa; or play he
is the garbage man, and must pick up all
the toys, and he will pick it up without
thinking much about it. But remember
do not pick it up yourself if it stays there
two days, or you spoil the child. New
York Sun.