The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-14
A woMAN's CLUB.

~ WoMAN - SbO -
What is agwoman's club? No idle place
Where to chatter of the last new play,
or whisper of u sister gone astray,
Or strip with cruel gossip every trace
Ot sweetness from some life borne
down with strife.
Ills not a place where fashion reigns
supreme,
Where lack of style is sin beyond re-
deem,
Where outward garb is more than in
ward life!
No room Is there, for jest or cruel sneei,
Or meaning chances with dire purpose
cast
TO cause some trembling soul to blush
in fear.
All this is what woman's club is
not,
Things left behind, outgrown, despis-
ed, forgot.
What is woman's club? A meeting
ground
For those of purpose great and broad
and strong.
Whose aim is in the stars; who ever
long
Tomale the patient, listening world re-
sound
With sweeter music, purer, freer
tones;
A place where kindly, lifting words are
said,
And kindlier deeds are done; where
hearts are fed.
Where wealth Of brain for poverty
atones;
Where hand grasps hand, and soul finds
touch with SOUL
Where victors in the race for fame
aud power
Look backward, even in their triumph
hour,
TO beckon others to the shining goal
This is woman's club, a haven fair.
Where toilers drop an hour their load
of care.
Journal of Household Economics
THE BOSTON CHILD AND THE
BOSTON EDITOR.
Perhaps as enjoyable q subject for a
joke as any of those that constitute the
professional joke writer's stock in trade
is the Boston child
The intellect of this Boston child is
supposed to be the consumtnation Of a
culture extending through several gem
erations Of distinguished ancestry,
hence, from early infancy "Emersonia
Oldsouth' and waldo Wendell Chan
ming" reason logically and express
| themselves with a stilted precision that
I to the appreciative, is far more anus
Ing than all the coarser jests that
hinge upon the foibles OF the minister,
/ the mother-in-law, the new woman and
| the plumber.
1t is suggested that the Boston child
/ joke emanates from cultured Boston
mind, its point Is so subtle and delicate.
| Here Is one, perhaps as new as any
/ that turns very neatly on the sympa-
thetic ladys incorrect and needless use
of the word SO
| Little boy" asked the sympathizing
lady, why do you cry sou
| rs there anything in the manner of
| expressing my grief. madame" respond
/ ed the Boston boy, that strikes you as
being outre or inappropriate? Boo-hoo
| Boo hoo."
1t is hardly to be supposed that the
Boston man, especially II he occupies
4 the honorable position OF editor of a
great and influential daily, could ever
! outgrow the Boston child's keen percep-
ton OF rhetorical accuracy and
elegance. Therefore sentence from
an editorial in the Boston Globe leads
us to conclude that the writer Is not a
product Of Americas Athens but was
imported ready made In stating that
mot q single United States senator is
a resident of the thirteen largest cities
of the United States" he suggests i'm
possibilities in senatorial divisibility
that would cause wendell and EN-
ersonia" to stare at him in amazement
4 through their little spectacles, and as
sail him with reproachful criticisms OF
such English as she Is wrote