Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-06
FOR CLUB WOMEN.
What Can Be Effected by Wise
Organization.
A Lynn Club Woman Talks to the Point
Clubs Broaden and sweeten Their
Members-Fitchburg Study Electri-
city = Cantabrgia's colored
Members-Notes.

Not long ago the president of one Of
Lynns five clubs of women voiced in a
forcible paper the consensus of opinion
Of eminent club workers all over the
county, in regard to the value and i'm
portance Of the woman's club move
ment. Respecting the size and char
acter Of the movement, she said: ITO
day there are more than 100000 men,
hers of federated clubs, besides many
who have not Joined the federation. So
long as the majority of clubs were lit
erary and egotistical merely, there was
ground for the opinion held by people
still dwelling in the past, that the club
movement would collapse. But wom-
ems clubs of the country have ceased
to be merely egotistical, even in its best
sense. They have become altruistic.''
After enumerating many of the differ
ent Kinds of clubs that have sprung up,
the paper emphasized the power of or
ganization. zone woman" the writer
declared, cannot clean dirty street;
even her husband with his vote can't
do 1t. But she can organize a health
protective association and agitate the
question of hygienic conditions till public
sentiment is made intelligent enough to
put into the office of street commissioner
a man who will bring the town or city
into line with modern sanitary progress.
One woman unaided has no redress when
she finds that her children have to take
thelr school recess in the cellar and
study by gas light, but to keep her child
at nome or move to another neighbor-
hood. A numerically and intelligently
powerful association, like some Wonnen's S
club, can put men and women on the
school boards who will be alive to the
outs of the school system in their COM
munlty and bring about a reform. They
can do 1t in any community, because
they have done it,"
The craving for a larger life and
broader culture" which are necessary
to the perfect house mother, were given
as the cause and solution of the up
rising called women's clubs"
The possibilities of the clubs were de-
picted: ''The clubs for women imply a
source of inspiration; a place for work
They intend to make women better
takers, better listeners, better hostesses
better guests, better companions, bet
ter mothers. The club life tends to
destroy the germs of ignorance, narrow
ness, supersens.tiveness lack of self
control and prejudice
1t is a great social leveller; in club life
we seldom inquire about the property
social standing, religion or politics OF
our co-workers. We do not care; we
are on an Intellectual level and all work
ing for the same grand purpose-the up
lifting of mankind"
The first members meeting of the
Fitch hIIt,or yyrer,,o (s1,,L -. -. -. - l.
of March, was held Wednesday after
noon: After an additional $50 had been
voted Tor the household school, managed
by the science section, it was announced
tffat the lecture on Color" given the
week previous through the kindness of
one OF the members, was a double COM
plement since the lecturer, Mr.. Henry T.
Bailey, upon finding how the matter
stood, requested to be allowed to con-
tribute also, and refused to accept any
fee.
Mrs. Stewart, in making her announ-
cement of Mr.. Bailey's generosity
stated that she considered the money
ss1e had originally intended to give as
still belonging to the club, and said that
she had now donated it again, this time
TO assist in securing the services of Mr..
Heinrich Schuecker, the harpist of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, for the
midWinter "Gentlemen's night" March
f.
The lecture, which was under the aus
pices of the science section, was by Mr..
Caryl H9skins of the Thomson Houston
& General Electric Company, on the
subject of electricity. Mr.. Haskins be-
gan by relating the incident of Thales'
discovery of the electrical quality of
amber 800 B. O., and gave the deriva-
ton of the word from electron (ambeT).
He contradicted the idea, so generally
accepted, that electricity is treacherous,
unreliable and i'll understood, declaring
that it is more capable of control than
steam, water, or compressed air, and
quite as much to be depended upon,
while its capacity can be figured out eX-
actly. What electricity is we do not
know except by it's results, which pro-
claim it to be a potential force, an
energy which can be produced by arr
fetal means and applied, and this was
illustrated.
A happy alIusion to the future of
electricity was made in closing, when
the prediction was made that, within
the lives of many of those present,
small conical carriages would wheel
through the air, carrying the passenger
within, in safety, from point to point,
moving sidewalks would render the
word walking" nisnomer, since it
would only be necessary to stand still
until the office, store, or house was
reached; the soft glow of twilight would
be given to our streets throughout the
length and breadth of town and city,
during the night, bicycles would be self
propelled and the loiterer upon the
street hear, from the watch tower, the
striking of the clock, accompanied by a
voice announcing Fair weather, rain
or snow" as the weather prophet pre-
dicted for the coming day. All these
prophecies are based upon practical re-
suits already accomplished in work
shop and laboratory
After the lecture an informal recep-
ton was rendered to Mr.. and Mrs. Has
kins, and tea served.
THE ,sgentlemen's night" Friday, was
a brilliant affair, for, in addition to the
playing of Mr.. Schuecker, there was vo.
cal music, and Mrs. Mabel Loomis
Todd of Amherst lectured on the Ha'
waiian Islands.
THE Ouinsigamond Reading Club mel
Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs
H b. Bridgman. After the magazines
OF the month had been reviewed, an eX,
ceedingly interesting paper on NOTED
women at the time of the revolution
was prepared and read by Mrs. f. w
Grout, who also read extracts from
"Worthy women of our first century,
edited by Mrs. Q. j. Wister and Miss
AGNES Irwin Mrs. Bridgman provided
the music for the afternoon in a unique
and pleasing manner, through graphic
phone. Of which Mrs. Simpson hat
charge. and the club had the pleasure
of hearing Sousa's band in Eel Capt.
tan" and "Liberty Bell" beside Other
popular music.
The prominence given to child study
at The present time is illustrated by the
fact that at the underwriters dinner
in Boston recently. it was predicted thai
the problems of evolution, growth anc
development involved in this study may
In time control the quality of the indi
1,;dual risk from a life insurance stand,