The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-25

to work prepared by club members.
The text is simple, but only a chairman
could preach any kind of a sermon
from it. She perhaps could tell you of
the many miles she Travelled and rode,
the score or more members she i'm
portuned and pleaded with to write,
just a 15-minute paper; but everywhere
she was met with such club COR
diality and friendliness, even if they
did say no, that she gained fresh cour-
age and at last patience hath it's per-
feet work. and club members day
won the favor it richly deserved.
Eleven of our gatherings were quick
ened into new life and thought by the
eminent men and women who ad-
dressed us. The chairman could preach
nearly as good a sermon from this text
as from the other. She could tell you
about the infinite correspondence car
ried on, the making of satisfactory ar
engagements as regards prices, the at
tending to press notices, watching the
sale of tickets and wishing that some
! club members would occasionally dis
play a little more loyalty to the club
which gives so much and sometimes
gets so little; rushing to the bank to
get a check cashed, hurrying to the
station to meet and escort the eminent
I talent to the hall; and, after all neceS-
sary preliminaries have been gone
through WITH dropping into the nearest
chair, thinking if not saying: Now
lettest thy servant depart in peace"
Four of our gathering were of a
social nature There occasions form as
it were the very foundation of club life,
for what is a club worth to any one
I without the hearty hand-claSp and the
quiet words of appreciation and regard
that pass from member to member?
AS we laughed and chatted, drank our
/ lemonade and Russian tea, did we ever
give one passing thought to the chair
man who had spent many many hours
4 planning and arranging in order that
everything might be as delightful and
/ perfect as she could make it?
Two of our gatherings We're business
meetings in the fullest sense of the
word. The chairman is always present
at these meetings; promptly in her seat
at half-past 2 o'clock, she knows that
! her presence is necessary to make a
quorum for business, and that her
silence is not golden when it is desir-
/ able that she express her well defined
/ opinions. Again she is loyal to the club
and to its president, and realizes that
| is one way she can be serViceable to
/ the club when she takes her part in
/ it's business session. Hot or cold, wet or
dry, the meetings Of the executive
4 board find her present for the train
| ing school, as she calls it, must not be
missed. Here she learns business meth
| DDS, executive management and the dis
cussion of subjects in a liberal, court
eous manner; also a practical applica-
ton of the golden rule. The chairman
/ is as dependent upon these executive
meetings as the club is upon its presi-
dent or its secretary or any of its val
ued officers. The chairman is loyal to
her club if any member is; she deserves
the ready assistance and the cordial es-
TEEN not only of the members of her
committee, but of each Individual mem
! Der of the club. SO make her work sue
| cessful, give her the clubs cooperation
and then she will realize perhaps as
never before that in unity there is
strength.