The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-02
In WOman's Realm.
THE CLUB CORNER.

The o b e desires to complete, so far
as possible. roster Of the clubs of Minnesota.
1t Will be indebted, therefore, to the secre-
tares of the organizations throughout the
state If they will forward to the editor OF
the department a statement of membership
object of association. methods of procedure
and such other information as will form a
valuable source of reference to the deaart-
ment as well as to club women. The latest
year book of each organization will be gladly
received. 1t is desirable to have all Min
nesota represented in The G lobe club
column, which Is devoted to an interchange
of news and views, and to an impartial deal
ing with all organizations.
Henri Dunant the Inauguration of the Red
Cross movement Is now about 20 years old.
He spent half his fortune in establishing the
Red Cross and lost the other half in un-
fortunate business ventures, and hence lived
for many years, poor and forgotten, in plain
district infrmary in Switzerland. of which
he himself was the founder Now. however.
through the generosity of the dowager en-
press of Russia, the federal council of Swift
erland and the gifts of money sent him by
the citizens of Stuttgart, Germany, he is liv-
Ing in comfortable circumstances.
That many of the womens clubs in Amer
lea are doing valuable work in many direc-
ttonS admits of no doubt says the Ladies'
Home Journal. And so long as a womans
club keeps within its sphere-that Of the So
cial mental and educational Improvement of
the sex and the children-it serves a pur-
pose high and mighty. There is no question
at all of the benefit which a woman derives
from getting out of the atmosphere OF the
routine of domestic machinery, once week
or once fortnight, according as she is able
to spare the necessary time and coming into
the different surroundings of a number OF
other women at the meeting of a sensible
and well-conducted literary, social or edu-
cational club To frown down upon all clubs
for women is senseless, and the few writer's
who constantly do this carry their argu-
ments too far. Women's clubs, like the clubs
for men, are useful institutions so long as
they are considered as a means toward an
end and that end be social or mental i'm
provement. But when they are taken In the
light of end in themselves, then they be-
come an evil which should be corrected.
The Daughters of the American Revolution
feel that they share in the distinction ac-
corded on Monday to DR.. Anita McGee, whose
appointment to the army medical stan, with
rank Of lieutenant, marks the first woman
who has ever held such a position in the
American military. She was regularly sworn
in as assistant surgeon on Monday. and by
order of the secretary of war is entitled to
wear the uniform of a second 1eutenant-lt
she choose. Dr. MCGEE has been active IN
relief work since the beginning of the war.
The war department gave her charge or the
selection of women nurses early in the spring
and she has placed more than zoo OF them IN
the field and hospitals since her incumbency.
She is now in New York getting ready
corps of thirty nurses for service In Porto
Rico AS a practical demonstration OF real
clubwoman DR.. McGee stands conspicuous
Chicago Inter Ocean.
If any country stands In need of mothers
clubs it Is France The legislative powers
have found it necessary to protect babies from
the ignorance of mothers by law. 1t is now
illegal for a mother to give solid food to
child under one year old. 1t is said that
mother whose year-old baby died, exclaimed:
81 don't know why she died. She per-
fectly well this morning. Why, she ate
three fried eggs!'