The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-12-03
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disappointing among club women not
only in Rhode Island but elsewhere
for early i'm the week when most club
gatherings convene,
"The watchful winter Fastening on
! apace
With clustering blasts had all ybar'd
the treen,
| And old Saturnus with his frosty face.
| With chilling cold had pierced the
tender green:
The nantes rent wherein. enrapped
| treen,
The gladstone groves, that now lay
overthrown,
The tapets torn and every tree blown
down."
This inharmonious condition Of
| things I'm the material world was the
cause of the postponement OF many ex-
cellent Monday and Wednesday pro-
grams i'm the club womans world, and
tho few OF the faithful braved the
drifts piled high" yet the efforts of
the few were vain for in no instance
was a quorum I'm evidence.
The Monday morning meeting of the
| Sorea Club, Mrs. Nathan Barton, presi-
| dent. was deferred one week.
| The Monday afternoon meeting or the
| Read Mark and Learn Club was TO
have been an exceptionally interesting
one, the theme being, Sketches Of
| Celebrated Women of Spain" inter-
| spersed by Spanish songs and music.
Mrs. Julia Ashley Rich the clubs pres
ident. with characteristic energy,
| sought To meet her constituency, only
| 10 be greeted with empty chairs and a
| silence as complete as the desolation
and gloom without. AS may be imagin-
! ed the meeting was a~,ourned.
| The Don't Worry Movement" which
was To have been the theme of the
! Mothers club on Monday afternoon.at
! the Manual Training school, tho in
| thought and discussion yet failed 20
| draw hither sufficient number of its
| adherents TO discuss the same or 10
formulate any plan concerning 1t.
The Don't Worry Club which had
it's inception among Western club
women. is distinctly organized move
ment. which is becoming as popular
and widespread as is the need of such
club.
The following are the rules to be
strictly observed by the members OF
the club:
Rule 1-Consider what must be in
volved in the truth that God is infinits
and that you are a part OF his plan.
Rule 2-MemoriZe some OF the Script
ure promises and recall them when the
temptation 10 worry returns.
Rule 3-Cuilvate a spirit of gratitude
| for daily mercies.
| Rule 4-RealiZe worrying as an en-
/ erny destroys your -hepPiHess---
Rule 5-Realize that IL can be cured
by persistant effort.
Rule 6-Attack it definitely as some
| thing To overcome.
Rule 7-Realize that il never has
done and never can do the least good.
1t saps vitality and impairs the men
tai faculties.
Rule S-Help and comfort your neigh
Dor.
Rule 9-Forgiye your enemies ana
conquer your aversions.
Rule l0--Induce others TO join the
Don't Worry Movement"
The Ardirhebiah club held its regular
meeting on Tuesday afternoon, at the
home OF Mrs. Kilton on Blackstone
| street the subject being Historical
| background and Social Classes of
| Russia" i'm charge of Miss Grace At
kins and Miss Nj G.. Blake. 1T may be
observed here. that the subject. Russia
| was wisely chosen since IL Is on"
often included in the calendar or liter
ary clubs. Moreover most of us are in
flnitely more familiar WI t-a -ilstoiy
of other European countries.
| Miss Atkins presented a beautifully
| written story of the background of
Russian history, brief synopsis of which
follows: Russia is a sixth part Of the
world" the Emperor Alexander III ia
reported to have once said. and geogra-
phy has nothing to object To the
naughty utterance. Russia's chief char
acteristic Is perhaps immensely, from
ice-b bounu Lapland, the home of the
reindeer. at the north, 60 the scorched
wastes that skirt the Caspian, where
So ht... Ion fgnf
the lakes that sleep with their granite
banks, in Finland to the warm terrace
ed slopes OF the Crimean shore. is n
! contrast that strikes one with grand
eur and has as much to do with her
history in the past as they Will have
i'm Russian and everywhere Russia has
| Russia is a colony one or two centu-
ries old and at the same time an en-
pire of thousano years. she mas some
affinities with America and some with
Turkey II is country at once new and
old, an ancien- half Asiatic monarchy
and young European colony. double
faced Janus. tuning westward ana
eastward, one face old and decreplt the
| other Youthful almost boyish. This ac-
| counts for the contrasts that strike US
| in Russian and everywhere Russia has
| a long history, but the chain OF her
| national existence has once or twice
been so rudely snapped, that II Is an
| arduous task 10 unite the several links.
! Continuing from this period. cat
about the 4th century II. CO Miss At
kins spoke of the fourishing colonies
which the Greeks had established on
the northern shores of the Black sea
| and beyond the line of tribes whom the
Greeks called by the common name OF
IYthians and witn whom they entered
into wars and alliances. The classifca-
tion (by the historian, Herodotus) OF
the Lythians into three distinct tribes,
was described. viz: The Lythians on
| the Dneiper who were agrlculturists:
the Nomad Lythians To the east and the
| royal Lythians encsmped around
the sea OF Asof. who regarded the
| others as slaves.
Continuing. the Russian Slavs' or
the 9th century and their place in Rus
| sian history was noted briefly when.
passing, something OF the religious as
pect of the Russia of those times was
| OF interest, as followsi THE early Rus
slams seem to have had no temples and
no priesthood. They erected rude idols
| on the hills. the leaders of the people
| offered sacrifices, there were sorcerors
and magicians whose councils seem 10
| have had great weight. IL has been the