Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-11

of one whose name is a household word
| throughout our land, and who by her
own words will lead us out into the broad
and inviting fields where women may be
willing, happy toilers, the women's clubs
of Augusta will rejoice that the changing
seasons since our invitation was extended
for this occasion, have brought us to this
glorious autumn day and to the inspira-
ton for future work we will come for this
| the fourth annual meeting of the Maine
Federation of Womens Clubs.
Mrs Emma Huntington Mason followed
with an address in behalf of the Unity
Club. She said:
Madam President and Officers of the
| Federation, Delegates and Visitors:
| 1t is with feelings of both pleasure and
regret that l stand before you to represent
Unity Club, this morning. l regret ex-
tremely that our hunored president, Judge
Hall, could not have been present to ex-
| tend welcome to the Federation but /
am happy to be the bearer of his cordial
greetings, and also Of personal coW-
munication, in which he writes as fol-
lows:
II regret that cannot be present as
the representative of Unity Club, to assist
in welcoming TO Augusta the Federation
OF Women's Clubs Of Maine. AS one of
the Oldest literary clubs of the State,
Unity Club halls this convention as an
important event, marking the wonderful
spread, not only of the desire for knowl-
edge of current history art and literature
among women, but also Of a simple and
very practical method for acquiring and
making popular such information. The
Importance of this movement and its in
| tuence on general intelligence can hardly
be over EST i'm ,tcd May the session ac-
complish all that its promoters designed to
| accomplish by It,
Very truly yours,
OLIVER q. HALL,
President Unity Club.
TO this message from our president, /
add the warm welcome of the entire club
and the executive committee Although
Unity is not woman's club, we feel that
we are one with you. in our aims, our
aspirations, and may l not say IN our
achievements also? Unity Club, individ-
ually, believes very heartily in women's
clubs for women; but Unity Club as a
whole, believes also in equal rights for
men. In this faith we have worked sue
cessfully for l. years, pursuing courses of
study and reading which have proved, we
trust, profitable to all our members.
therefore take great pleasure in extend
ing to the Federation both fraternal and
sisJerly greetings. As we cannot claim
the right of membership in the Federation
we count it a privilege to join as hosts
and hostesses with the two federated
clubs of Augusta, and claim their guests
as our own also.
Since we may not go to the Federation,
happy are we to have the Federation come
to us We tiust that we may long work
with you in Unity
Mrs. Henry f. Dowst, the president.
responded as follows: .,1
In behalf of the State Federation and
its honored guests, thank you for your
hearty words of greeting We would go
| back to that bright January day when
the generous invitation to become at this
time the guests of your city clubs was so
graciously and gracefully extended. 1t
i a special privilege to be welcomed by
the gentlemen and may be a foreshadow-
| ing of that ideal club of which we as yet
only vaguely dream. We are glad to wei
come as well as be welcomed by this new
ptaIity of your homes and the arrange
| ment whereby we are allowed to meet in
| these halls made memorable by the acts
of men who have guided well our ship of
state in times of peace and times of war,
| whose walls are eloquent with the silent
| echoes Of voices which have rung out in
tones of patriotism and devotion. This
seems like sacred soil where Grod Names
Idol son. "her plumed knight" who
has achieved the final victory and whose
memory we hold so proudly dear. How
| ing would be the list which should con-
| tain the names of all Names valiant sons.
Wise men have sat in council here and it
is meet that the thoughtful, earnest
women who compose our club should come
| together here in convention. May these
meetings prove source of vigorous In
| SEPARATION and lasting enthusiasm to the
| local as we'll as to all clubs throughout the
State; may we gain broader views and
higher ideas of life and it's duties and be
| filed with nobler purposes; may no note
| of nkind criticism intrudc, but not that
gentle spirit of mutual hclpfulness pre-
vail, that
| "love which says not mine and thine,
| But ours since ours is mine and thine"
have purposely set myself in this place
on the programme, that when shall have
said my little word for the members, i
may turn and say to them in a most in
formal way, the little l have to say, which
can by no possible right be dignitied by
| the name of an address, In the few
moments spared to me. The year which
began with so much promise has b. en-
rich in fulfillmeut. The officers and
chairman of committees will give you the
facts and figures, will tel! of aggressive
work done, results of united effort and
progress made Some discouragementsm may
DOS sibly be recorded but altogether the
wear has been rich in results and such as
to inspire fresh courage to meet the de
mands of the coming year. These
d smands are crowding upon us Already
questions of importance are presenting
themselves for discussion and solution.
As the State Federation becomes estab-
lished in the confidence OF the people,
movements of moral and intellectual re-
form claim its support and attention 1t
is a significant fact that the prominent
educators of the State regard it rs their
ablest ally composed as it Is of the women