New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-09
WITH THE WESTERN CLUBS
WHERE ABSTRUsE PROBLEMS AND
SOCIAL JOYS BLEND.
WOMEN UNITE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ~
MANY PLACES. BELIEVING THAT

WOMEN UNITE FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH IN
MANY PLACES BELIEVING THAT
KNOWLEDGE is POWER.
TIE club idea has taken a strong hold OF the
progressive woman OF Grand Rapids Mich For
purely literary and social purposes she has clubs
known the East Side. the West Side Ladies'
Literary. the Igdrasll Ladies' Literary. Eagleshed
South End Ladies' Literary Avon Shakespeare,
North End Womans. the Fortuightly and the
Arden Shakespeare Then there the Froebe
Club for Child Study the St. Cecilia. the Art
Study Glass the Fiction Club and the Society OF
Eocution, while whist. euchre and other distinctly
frivolous clubs exist in nearly every neishborhood
The South End Ladies' Literary Club observed
Washngton's Birthday by patriotic programme
of recitation and song and the North End Wom-
ans Club made 1t Temperance Day., with appro-
PIRATE songs and rotations and account Of the
w c. T. L. convention at Toronto.
The Fortnightly had Washington tea party.
and member spoke Washington In Society
and at Home"
The Igdrasl Club has the study OF sociology for
its object and discusses "Heredlty Education"
parliamentary law and various other abstruse
problems; and the art class studies the old Grecian
ideals and hopes that the city will erect build
ing Crescent Heights that shall be a centre OF
art and literature.
The problem OF evil in Morse mythology has re-
Gently been made the subject of research by the
Ladies' Literary Club. and the myths OF the va
rious races are to be studied with the same end
In view.
Ottawa, Canada. has schoolgirl club which
meets fortrightly and talks about current events.
The youngest member is fourteen and the eldest
eighteen Fifteen minutes OF every meeting are de-
voted 10 para nentdry drill and Of the features
OF the clubs work this year is original story
now being written by different members, and based
on early Canadian history. The club is called the
Sappho and has the names Of twenty-five school
girls It's rollbook
There Is a club in Troy KAN that was formed in
1873 which has occupied the same cubrooms in the
courthouse for eighteen years Any unmarried
woman over sixteen years OF age, OF good moral
! standing is eligible for membership, but mar
! rage after Joining does not invadate this The
| club maintains 4 public library. and Is said TO be
a valuable factor in the intellectual life OF the
town. At the close OF the Worlds Fair In Chicago
the sunfower chair which attracted so much at
tention in the Kansas Building was presented 70
the S. L. X. Association, as the club is named the
letters mean Seekers of Light and knowledge, and
tho club MOTTO is knowledge Is Power. rs
colors are white and green. symDollZng purity Oh
thought and vigor in intellectual growth, Amohe
he queStioYs, studied nfe aGss "oe
lists Actors" and Poets and Politicians
History. music and other similar subjects cam IN
attention also while occasiona evenings gre o oe
voted 10 absolute frlvoity. and others to the con-
sideraton Of sociological questions ro,.r ranor
THE Cycle" which was started ten ear sars ak ak,
Miss Helen WinslOw, or Boston, orednlzeh w
| second one "The Club Woman" about six months
ago, and is making it success. Probably the mrs
| newspaDer Club Column was that opened el. n
| or nine years ago by Mrs. Estelle NJ r. MerrlIl
| then Jean Kincaid" OF The Boston Globe. ah'
one Of the prime movers in the formation OF th'
New England Womans Press Association. C Mnos''
| president she afterward became. me ul1 }
closed the department when Mrs. Merrill retire.
from It's staff It, l., 81. on,r,r,
is Inc Fortnightly of Chicago whlcs Is soS ~.
twenty-four years Of age. II was orgaiIIeu 10 -
soc,ai' and literary purposes. and the membership
is lI5 - 49,. ALA T, has beer
o-ran,2ed this year in University Place Sepp,
and original feature or rs tnee, by
rheSa will be preserved IN Sorosis .su So ,b
Rock" The meetings are 10 De DIIlou t reviev
tfudv of Shakespeare. and monthly lor I'll, eysn
of current magazines. with occasional s0N'a'
The emblem Of the General Federau Ip ,S U World
or,s clubs is said to be known al over t.e y,h -
t5r,v Tour States are represented In ~. a Tiu
I1orl3s 80 indian women claim memoershlp: al ~
ren9oscu, hronches in London. India. Austrian
and south Africa. Its motto Is O tqnmen Svn
Reform. True Democracy ana h'o'1
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