The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-08

Miss Anna Swanich, London; Baroness
Bertha Won Suttner, Austria, etc.
SOUTHERN WOMEN IN THE REAR
Although Maine was the first state to
lead the way in an organization of fed
| Grated women'S clubs for mutual bene-
/ fit, Kansas claims the honor of possess
! ing II more clubs than any other state
in the Union. Three hundred and one
! clubs in all is her boast, with men,
bership of 2.543 women. New York state
comes next on the roll with 230. contain
! ing 1880 members. Iowa is a strong
third, with 1874 clubs and 5,9s7 women On
| her roll call. Ohio, Illinois, Massachu-
sets and Maine follow in regular or
| der. while North Carolina, South Caro-
| lima, Virginia, Delaware and Missis-
| sippi bring up a very lame rear with
| only one club each.
Every one of the far western states
make a fair showing, for New Mexico,
! even. has four clubs, Utah II, and Cali
fcrnia 26. 1t would probably make the
| grandmothers of these club women
stare and gasp, merely to read over the
! amazing list Of topics and problems
that the modern feminine mind wrestleS
with valiantly, and often successfully,
in the privacy of her club meeting.
The women of Ohio lead off with va
riety in club study topics, and the fol-
Loving is veracious statement of their
special interests and work:
There are 40 clubs whose subject of
study is literature, and this generally
includes English, American or French
literature: Sc clubs whose subject is
history, % of which are devoted to
American history; 10 clubs study cur
rent events, II study art, 10 Shake
speare: 80 are devoted 20 miscellaneous
topics; three clubs to Norway, Sweden
and Denmark; seven to Germany; three
to Italy; three to France; two clubs
consider Spain; six are interested in
civicS: seven in household economics,
and five in social science; four clubs
dedicate their study to Greece; two to
Russia one club to Rome; one club to
Scotland: one club to England; one
club to the British Isles; one club to
astronomy; one to bacteriology; one to
seif-culture; four clubs to science; one
club to England in the 10Th century:
three clubs to Egypt; two clubs to Per-
STA; one club to Babylonia and Assy-
ria: three clubs to education; two to
the drama: one club to Robert Brown
i1'g; two clubs to travel; one club to the
poets, novelists, statesmen and philan-
thropists of the United States: three
clubs to parliamentary law; one club to
Emerson: one club to the Eliza bethan
age of literature; one club to history,
art, literature and science of the
French; one club to Tennyson, Lowell,
Browning and Whitman, and three
clubs to the Victorian era. In addition
to these, Is are musical clubs. Some of
the clubs included in the list study sew
eral topics. For example, the SoroSis,
of Toledo. has wide programme, en-
bracing art education, civics. literature,
music. the drama, philanthropy, etc.
The Cleveland Sorosis is similar in it's
scope and sometimes club will take
L. g. al i
as Shakespeare and bacteriology, which
forms the work of the Advance club of
Dayton.
Looking over the field of work in 9TH
err states, literature invariably claims a
leading interest almost in every state,
though in New York music seems of
first Importance to the club women.
Fifty-one clubs alone are absorbed in
the study of harmonies and melodies.
while for music Massachusetts, comes
next with 26 musical societies, Illinois
with 81 and Wisconsin with IA. Iowa
leads in literature, having 90 circles;
New Jersey comes next, counting SO to
her credit, and Maine confesses to 20.
Beside music the Wisconsin woman
most dearly prizes a knowledge of
Shakespeare. and eight clubs. give to
the works of the great bard their al
most exclusive attention.
The motto or the Georgia women
clubs is Wisdom, Justice and Modera-
ton" and it's lines of work, education,
prison reform, the travelling library and
club reciprocity. The topics of study
embrace literature, the home, educa-
ton, philanthropy, social economics,
finance, music and current topics. The
Woman's club, with 300 mem
bers, has sections like the sorosis clubs
on every one of these branches. The
Women's club of Rome has also many
The lines Of study are as
follows: Two clubs, French history;
three clubs, American history; three