The herald., 1897-03-13
THE FRIDAY MORNING CLUB
A Bevy of Fair Young Women
of Today
THEY PRESENT THEIR VIEWS
On Their Problems, Their Athletics,
Their University Life
A forming Of Especial Interest, the Audience
Large. and the Club Room Decor
ated-Other Notes
THEY PRESENT THEIR VIEWS

ing club yesterday proved highly enjoy
able.
| The club room had been very taste
fully decorated, and the platform was
occupied by bevy of fair young wo-
century days.
The papers presented were five In
number, and in their scope covered the
many interests of the young woman of
| today.
HER PROBLEM"
| Miss Lora Variel discussed this i'm
portant subject to the girl of today. Miss
Variel said the young woman of one
hundred years ago had her life mapped
out for her; she had only to fill her place
in the home until the time came for her
to I'LL 1t in some other home, which her
parents had selected for her; she had
but to do what her mother had done be-
fore her; her life was settled for her.
But today cash girl has to think for
herself what her life will be. and to fit
herself for its best living. In many cases
the young woman of today must assist
in supporting the family, and in almost
all cases she must be self-supporting
at least. This problem of self-support
| Is easily SOlN6u ny the dIllSl, lIS
ian, the writer, but to the vast majority
of girls who have no especial gift the
work of preparing themselves for the
future must be done with care and with
system.
With the change of time almost all
avenues of work have been opened to
women. and the girl of today may
choose that for which she is best fitted.
Miss Variel then reviewed the profess
csinnc on1; of work with
their advantage to the young women,
pointing out the various attractions or
the hardShips connected with them, and
rather naively assured her audience that
she would rather be a garbage collector
than an undertaken.
In closing, the speaker touched on the
fact that the mothers of today discour-
age early marriages, and further that
| it is the duty of every girl to equip her
self carefully for the battle of life.
I'm ATHLETICS"
1.-THE Young Woman of Today in
Athletics was delightfully."- presented
by Miss Minnie North. The applause
which greeted Miss North when she ap-
peared upon the platform testified to the
appreciation with which she is held in
the club.
Miss North first presented the thought
that the physical development of the
women of today was not at all a fad of
the so-called new woman" but that
I the history of Greece and Sparta
showed how highly those nations priced
health, strength and beauty in women.
Then was touched the work of the
colleges in athletics, in Wellesley, Byrn
Mawr, Smith, etc. The encouragement
given to athletics in colleges has shown
not only the advantages in physical cul-
| ture, but in the development of strength
of character, self-poise, self-control, AS
we'll as many other desirable charac-
teristics. The running, jumping, leap
ing, vaulting, the bicycling, boating,
basketball, tennis-all the various
branches of athletics-were touched
upon, with their education of the body
and their development of mental, moral
and intellectual characteristics. Basket
ball was considered especially desirable
as cultivating every part of the body.
Tennis was more conventional, golf was
| less popular, bicycling was most COM
mon; all had their advantages; all were
responsible for the advancement OF the
young women of today.
LAS AN ART STUDENT"
| Miss Ada Patterson sketched some of
| the experiences in the life OF young
woman as an art student; her entrance
| into an art school, the beginning of her
work and her gradual love for the life
and its developments.
The day of daubs is passed; success
| depends upon beginning at the bottom
and working up. The work of illus
| trating, of designing, of decoration, were
| all taken up by Miss Patterson, and
| especial stress was laid on the decora-
| tive work, which was very broad and
gave employment to a vast army OF
| young women. A design for a fruit
can which brought s25 to the designer
| was exhibited by Miss Patterson. The
necessity for culture was shown in the
| design of baptistry, which included
| knowledge of art glass; of tapestry
mosaics, of architecture and other lines
| of work.
I'm OUR UNIVERSITIES
1.-THE Young Woman of Today in Our
Universities" was presented by Mrs. CAL
vert Wilson and Miss Blumer, the former
| Stanford girl, the latter from Berkeley.
In presenting the work of Stanford
Mrs. Wilson said: stanford university
| Is, with it's elective system and varied
| departments, leading in the reform of
| true democracy in learning" In that
| mission, like a quadrangle set down
| ir the midst of a western horse ranch,
we find the extreme point to which the
nineteenth century has been able to
bring the work of leveling distinctions
| and democratizing learning" Mrs.
| Wilson then presented some of the per-
| SCnnel Oh lne OtdulOIQ StuQcltS, SHoN
| ing how it differed from that of all the
other universities, and that this uni
versity has attracted the most radical
| thinkers along all lines in this country
and abroad. Every state in the union
| Is represented there, and the countries
| of Japan, Canada, Brazil, Germany
Denmark, Russia. England, Ireland
Mexico, the Hawaiian islands. Italy and
| France.
The noble types of womanhood ami
mated by some earnest purpose, usu-
ally as strongly ethical as intellectual,
| is marked The majority of the girls
| have had to surmount difficulties and
make sacrifices to be there, and others
are being educated at the expense Of pri-
vations and self-denial at home, and the
POSTGRADUATE courses are almost entire
| ly filled by those who are self supporting
The writer then gave little series Of
| character sketches, types, as it were,
of the ubiquitous young women of to-
day. High tribute was paid to DR.. Jor-
dan for his advanced views on co-edu-
cation, which has made Stanford so
highly broadening and successful, and
made the young women there so well
able to assume and creditably discharge
| the responsibilities of life.
BERKELEY REPRESENTED
Miss Bluner of Berkeley then present
ed some of the effects Of co-educatior
| in that university, which, she said,
helped us to realize how much 1t broad :
ened life, enlarged the spirit and gave
a true Interpretation of the worlds
| paeds The qymn si1na work. is not