Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-02-03
WoMAN'S DEPARTMENT
MABEL H poMERoY, EDITOR.
About Women.


lem has the distinction Of ranking at
the head of women organists Of Amer
lea, aside from her splendor OF pass
ion and execution ct the key board,
she is gifted as composer, and
some OF her songs and sonatas are
very beautiful.
The great institute for the blind at
Pittsburg, Pa, was planned and do
mated to the afflicted people by Mrs
Mary SChenley.
The first school for training women
10 journalism WAS opened in West
Minister bridge road, by couple OF
English girls for the benefit of the
English reading public.
Harriet Beecher Stowe was an hon
orary member Of the Anthois club OF
New York city, and was the only
writer of the gentler Sex connected
with that organization.
Mary Anne and Ellen Francis
Dougherty two Irish girls in the
employ OF Barbour Bros. Thread
Manufactures at Patterson, N j..
have deposited with that firm $lG,-
600, every penny Of which was saved
from their earnings, they worked
there about nineteen Years Their
earnings they left with the mill
owners who paid them six per cent
interest.
Mrs Anna Martin OF Mason county,
Texas, has great expectations, accord
ing to the reports Of the papers in
her neighborhood. She expects to
make $4,000 within three months
following her purchase Of 5000 head
Of cattle. She paid $150,000 for her
cattle. osher expected gain will be
good return on her investment.
The British colonies are more pro-
gressive in the matter Of wcman's i'd
yancement than is Great Britain. 40
evidence of this is seen IN the late
election Of woman as governor OF
the uni Versity in Victoria Miss Alice
Cooke is to represent women on the
board Of governors in this university
She is distinguished for her literary
and historical work.
THE CLUB QUESTION.
Mankind, or his Confessedly incon-
sistent sister, osn never agree upon
anything. Therefore questions" will
always exist, and large proportion
of human life will always be devoted
10 their discussion, albeit we all rec.
ognlze that the discussion contributes
nothing TO the impossible decision
That questions are sometimes drop
ped, argues nothing; the disputants
are not agreed; they have simply
turned their minds and tongues to
new topics; a new question has driv
en- out the old.
So long as women assemble them
selves together for whatsoever pur-
pose, so long will "the club question"
vie with the weather as a fruitful
theme of conversation, and its clash
ing, discordant pros and cons will be
heard in the land How can it be
otherwise when sane women will
assure you in all solemnity that any
woman who JOINS q club has already
Lnsexed herself, that clubs are an
abomination unto the Lord and man
and equally sane women will assure
you with even greater solemaity that
the world will be redeemed, the lost
Eden restored, and the Millennium
dswned, if only women will "organiz
ed" How can we escape discusslon?
Were the ideal attainable, and
were humanity endowed with eyes
that could recognize it, the club
question, along with all the other
questions that vex and perplex us,
would be of easy solution. An ideal
Club-if we could recognize it when
we saw lt-would leave nothing more
to be said. But perfection, alas
is not for us; the race crucified the
only example ever given it. So the
wise woman, amidst the clamorous
tongues, must decide for herself the
question as best she can.
Men say, and the tone and manner
carry with them a confession Of In
fsllibility, that woman Is endowed
with great curiosity. Her mind Is
active. She must think about some
thing--if not something worth while,