The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-26
WOMAN's WORLD.
The THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE DONE
so MUCH FOR BOSTON'S CLUBS.

SO MUCH FOR BOSTON'S CLUBS.
Dress Reform In EngIand-A True Hero
ine-The Result In IIlinOis-8zrs. C1eve-
lands Gracefulness-The "Anti" Women.
A CIergyman's Views.
1t has been said that Boston is one of
the most clubable cities in the world,
and since our women have come to their
larger discretion they have followed
their brothers in organizing clubs to a
surprising extent. The clubs which they
have organized to carry out their ideas
of reform and duty and self improve
ment are numerous and important, and
are pretty constantly discussed in the
daily papers. The New England Wom-
ems Press club is one of the most not
able of those and has done a great deal
to advance women engaged upon the
daily press in their work, and in secur-
ing for them the prestige which IS at
once a protection to them and an in
dorsement of their calling. They have
become stronger as a body on account of
their association together, and they have
strengthened one another for their daily
tasks, while their public meetings have
the community. The Women's Indus
trial and Educational union has accom-
plished a great work in hundred diff
ferent lines and has brought together
large number of competent persons
whose impulses and efforts needed wise
direction and proper opportunity to be
successful
Among the women who have taken
the lead in these clubs are two VINO
have been. 30 much before the public
that they deserve to be mentioned in
this connection. The first of these is
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who has been
foremost in this community in main
tanning the woman's rank in social and
intellectual life. She has brought for
many years to her work both social
prestige and personal power, and al
though entitled by length of service to
withdraw from the contest in these days
she is still a name to cOnjure by, and no
woman in America is more highly hon
ored or appreciated for her public ca
reer. Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney is a wom-
an of distinct personality who has been
identified with liberal and radical move
ments quite as much as with the cause
of woman, but during long and active
career she has always been true to the
and although many may not accept her
radical convictions all who know of her
work for humanity and for the eleva-
ton of women have only the heartiest
praise for her efforts.
Probably the woman who was lately
taken from us-Mrs Lucy Stone, the
contemporary of these twO-was more
truly a pioneer in the wOman's cause
than either Mrs. Howe or Mrs Cheney,
and the influence of each of these per-
sons is felt today far and wide in the
organization of women in clubs for the
better carrying out Of the plans which
they have in mind for the advancement
of their own sex and of the interests of
industrial and social life. 1t would seem
as if women had rushed into these clubs
with unusual eagerness. They are
springing up everywhere, not only in
Boston, but in the country towns. There
is hardly a considerable village any
where in which the leading women are
not organized in some form of a social
club and the better they are educated
the more they incline to this sort of
thing AS these clubs now exist, the
impression is that they are a helpful
agency in concentrating and directing
the energies of women in the best direc-
lions. -Boston Herald