Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-20
A UNIQUE woMANs CLUB.
COMPOSED of wives and Mothers-it Dis
nnases Practical Ouestlons.

COmpospd OF wives anu Hf"'A'
cusses Practical Questions
The bride, Wife and Mothers ciuo,
,omposed of young matrons ana motnefs'
meets on Wednesday afternoons at the ="
,,ons Working Girls club house in Thirty
eighth street, and it is in sense an ouO
yroyyth Of this very prolific club. Some OF
he members of the girls society graduated
into wiaehood. and, forfeiting thus the
privileges of the girls club, they entreateu
Mic DODGE to organize a special branch
for wives. Once the organization was
for,,ad and its officers elected, the mem
bers invited in their friends and relatives
until now there is a society of about thirty
members. with Mrs. James M. Cunning
ham az preeident and Mrs. Benjamin Mor-
risou as treasurer.
Here are some of the subjects: Choosing
and Furnishing n Home" Best and I1asl-
est WAY of Keeping House" House Clean
ino and Its Aid. =" Glow to Dress, Amuse
and Train Children" "How to Make
Home Pleasant for Both Husband and
Children" and "How to BE Nelghborly
without Being Cosby" woman phy-
sician has been hired to talk on Babies
and Their Needs, ," Emergencies and How
In Meet Them, f." "The Medicine Box ana
and Its Uses" A trained nurse has given
practical lessons in the care of the slcb'
the making of beds for invalids, the pan
daging of simple wounds that are not Sc
rious enough to need the doctors atten-
ton, and the preparation of FOOD Tor the
sick. A professional cook has instructed
them in the mysteries of her art, from
marketing TO dessert. A dressmaker has
taught them how to cut childrens 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 a charity, but, on
the contrary, is self supporting, self gov
erning and cooperative, and meets the ex-
penses of all its professional teachers; and
tbe best thing about it have not told yet.
II is not A papa-rock- -the-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 an officer nor a Der,
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 screams?" "Do you believe
in breaking Il child's will?" and "How do
you manage child when he won't eat his
breakfastY" and perhaps it may interest
mothers not fortunate enough to belong to
such a nice club to hear what the sweet
faced teacher said.
"When Il 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 wantN
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, do
not believe in breaking child's will, and
| | do not believe it is ever done. Mothers
that succeed after battle royal in making
a 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 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 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