The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-23

mOnNeNltn. Inal tntTe dTt empty era
dies and saddened hearts In some Of its
homes?
In 1893 Julian Ralph contributed a
series of papers on Chicago to Har-
per's magazine. In his second paper he
wrote that when he prepared the first
one he supposed himself well equipped
for the task. He saw Chicago. day af-
ter day. lived i'm it's hotels and clubs.
met its leading business men N off,
Gals and heard much of the secrets of
the marvellous growth and sudden i'm
p~ortance. But not until he had had a
peep into the homes did he really know
Chicago-for in busy. busting Chicago.
Of all places, IL Is the custom of the
men { o gather accredited strangers n
guests around them at home for the
enjoyment of dinner. cigars and cards
rather than at the clubs and In the no.
tel Hobbies. To the women he gives
credit for making these homes n of
repose, good taste and where
friends are chosen for merit and good
breeding above mere wealth and edi-
gree. While Chicago has Its frivolous
set and it's crude. he separates this
body of its people and styles ii the
reservoir from which is to spring the
refinement and graces OF the finished
city. In this category he places the
women's clubs and enumerates the
various reforms and humanitarian
movement which they have inaugural
ed and carried out. Women of wealth,
women of fashion and women who toll
for their daily bread. To-day the wo-
mems clubs in Chicago are strong.
welding great influence In public af-
airs and Chicago men are very proud
of the
Those who attended the Denver bien-
II. an ATta0 IIAlnn Cola
who presented the subject OF The BIZ
BILE as Literature" Miss Cole was the
first American woman To enter dir
burgh university after its doors were
thrown open to women There she
took honors in English under Professor
David Mason. IN spent last year at
the University of Chicago studying
Biblical literature. Miss Cole make a
chosen work of giving instruction to
clergymen In Bible and hymn reading
and i'm addition Is helping to Introduce.
as n new department In club study.
the subject OF the literary features OF
the Bible into women's clubs.
Every member of his club should
feel a personal sense OF responsibility
for its failure or success. Every MEM
Der should be a working m and
there should be absolute loyalty from
each club mi 10 every other indi-
vidual member."-Msry Parker Wood
worth. Concord, N. II.
In Florida there are a number of un-
ions corresponding with city fedora
lions These are called town improve
ment associations. n In nearly every
case they have been formed by North
ern women. who nave been spending
the winter in the South. The work of
these clubs IL very seldom literary, of
course. and Ii usually confined wholly
to street and cemetery and library and
drinking fountain Improvement. To
raise funds to work the desired re-
forms along school or city hall bell or
paving lines. teas and entertainments
are held, rather than bazaars. to raise
the none with which to carry on the
work. The Southern reputation for hos
pitality among its women Is kept up in
the form which their entertainments
AXE. These are seldom sales or fairs,
and never '~'sociables:' they are after
noon teas or receptions. from which the
admittance money Is the only resource
derived. Invitations are seldom Issued
to these, and yet the events are a
entirely social affairs, and the atten-
dance Is deftly regulated so that the
occasions are always pleasant. F1ori-
da has no less han seven of these ASSOC
ciations.-The Club Woman.
The Massachusetts state federation
holds -four or five meetings a year. in
variably having one subject for each
meeting and obtaining specialists on
that subject as speakers. The first
meeting this e will be in October.
Sensational Journalism" will be the
subject. Two speakers. Attorney Gem
eral II. NJ. Knowlton and Miss Helen
winslow. editor of The Club Woman,
have been announced.