Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-02-17
W0MAN'S WORLD.
WONDERFUL GROWTH or womsN.s
CLUBS WITHIN A FEW YEARS.

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There Is nothing more significant than
'ne present intellectual activity among
women IL Is confined TO no particular
locality. but il widespreading and Al.
most universal.
Abby Sage Richardson is said 10 have
remarked not long ago, after returning
rom . tour In the far west, that the
progress made within the past ten years.
between the time of her frst and last
visits, was almost incredible. She found
IN the mining villages and in the large
towns everywhere that clubs for study
and mutual Improvement have been
established beyond number. The tensc-
ity of life OF clubs In general has been
astonishing. There have been very few
that have not gone ON increasing In
numbers and usefulness and doing work
OF the most practical and improving
nature.
In the sonth IT, has been a general
awakening. and there. where perverted
ideas Of chivalry have opposed the
mental development Of the weaker sex
II means much more than in the north.
New Orleans has one of the most able
and influential womens clubs IN the
United States. One of the leading news
papers is owned and managed by a
woman, and there are many women en-
ployed upon its staff In the most i'm.
portant capacities. Elsewhere through
out the south women are beginning to
assert their mental power and are con-
tributing to the newspapers and to that
phenomenal literature which seems to
have come into existence full grown.
In the north, where there Is broader
liberty and larger opportunities, there
seems to be scarcely any limitation put
upon intellectual aspirations of women.
The Chautauqua circle. subject to
criticism as IL may be. has been tire
mendous pioneer. Ii has made 1t posi-
BILE for those whose education was neg
iected or interrupted by household cares.
70 take up systematic course OF reading
and pursue it diligently toward definite
aim. This has led to desire for further
knowledge, and university extension
win afford still greater aid for thorough
instruction.
The W. Z. 7. U. has also been a won
derful educational force throughout the
entire country. its members have been
lifted out Of petty cares and have been
brought into the contemplation of broad
questions Of ethics and of national policy.
Even though they may be charged with
onesidedness, there is progress In the
very desire to know, and there is always
the possibility of swinging back to the ra-
tional means from an irrational extreme
Literary clubs, as has been stated, can
not be numbered, and innumerable others
have been formed for the study of the
constitution, Of parliamentary laws, with
classes In art and the natural sciences,
and travel classes with their profuse IL
lustrations. The Daughters of the Amer
lean Revolution have given an impetus
to the consideration Of American history,
and the various philanthropic and re-
formatory organizations afford the brains
and executive talent of women exercise
In other important directions.
The question is, How will all this
eventually be applied? Knowledge was
never yet a passive power That II win
be manifested in better homes and in n
higher type of the human being goes
without saying. But 1t Is also possible
that crisis shall arise in which II shall
be Of lasting and even Of saving value to
the state. Chicago inter Ocean