The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15
CLUBS AND CLUB WOMEN.
How They Do Things wOmanwise
and Otherwise,

An important business matter that will
occupy the attention of the womans confer,
ehce at Denver will be the question of .
means Tor raising sufficient revenue to sup
port the organization. Under the present
regulations the ways and means committee
has found itself seriously embarrassed in
the pecuniary obligations incident to the fed
eration's work. Only about one-half the
requisite sum is provided, thus making It
necessary for individuals to come to the res.
cue by making up the balance. This revenue
has been derived by assessing each club
OF fifty members or less S. a year and the
larger organizations $40. 1t is now proposed
that clubs Of over fifty members shall nav
a per capita of 10 cents on their member.
ship. Thus a club of 1000 members, and
there are a few such in the federation will
be obliged to pay 500 a year, instead of
So
1t is also proposed to charge an annual due
of Is cents per club for state declarations. &C,
cording to the number of individual clubs the
state organizations embrace. The expedl-
ency of this is evident when it is explained
that many large state declarations are mem
bers of the general federation while only
a few of the clubs subordinate to the state
organizations have joined the general one.
For instance, the state of Maine is represent.
ed in the general federation by only six
and influential factor, is part of the gen.
eral federation.
Among the encouraging reports which will
be given at the Denver convention of the fed
Grated clubs will be that of the educational
work accomplished by the national fedora
ton and it will be one of which the organiza-
ton can be justly proud The Maine feder-
alton, through its educational committee,
two years ago, canvassed the state for da.a
pf the condition of the public schools. The
result was that last year twenty-four bills
were presented to the legislature for the
benefit of the school system, and twenty-five
of these bills became laws. The committee
is now turning it's attention to the country
schools.
New Hampshire is looking after the educa-
ton of dependent and delinquent children.
The Massachusetts, federation is encouraging
the school children in the study Of natural
history by offering prizes for the best es-
says on the habits of the common toad. New
Jersey is promoting the kindergarten move
ment. The Wisconsin women are trying to
introduce manual training into all educa-
tional institutions, and Minnesota is active
in househald economics movements and viii
lage Improvement matters. Every state fed
Grafton is at work on some educational prob
lem, and the summing up of actual achieve
ments will create small interest at the
June convention.
Mrs E. Morgan Dockren discusses In a.
womanly but vigorous manner the modern
club tendency, her discourse appearing in
the May number of The Humanitarian. She
treats the woman's club not as panacea for
all feminine Ills, but as an elevating, broad
ening, toning influence; an influence which
does not conceal the absurd pettiness and
small envies which have been engendered
in women by centuries of complete and par
tial confinement but one which causes the
disease to strike out and makes it suscepti-
BILE to curative treatment.
In view of the approaching convention Of