The age-herald., 1898-03-01
The Club Work of
 Club Women of the Country
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Margaret Hamilton Welch edits in very bright and attractive way department in Harper's Bazar, devoted to the interests Of the club women of the country. In the latest issue of this periodical she says among other things, that:
 One wonders if after the efforts of the various household economic associations have secured among club women a wider knowledge of dietetics there will be re- form in club eating. The room for 1t is obvious to an unprejudiced observer.
 Many-most large city clubs indeed, pref ace their fortnightly or monthly meetings by an elaborate luncheon of caterers spe- cialties. including salads, pastries, sweets, and ices, and on this poor preparation the members undertake to evolve condition of alertness. Other clubs finish two or three hours of concentrated thought in overloaded, ill-ventillated rooms with cup of tea or chocolate and a wafer of sweet cake-a menace to the appetite and assimi- lation of the dinner of which they will partake half an hour later. In addition to this regular hygienic offending is the spe- cial series of annual banquets, beginning in mid-February and lasting through April, which are almost the undolng each year of prominent club officers. To the strain of rich and unwholesome food is added in many cases that of nervousness over an iminent speech, the combination sending the victim home spent and exhausted as a climax.
 Already much-invited club women are learning that abstinence is the hope of di- gestion, and are acting upon it. Others, too, upon whom the responsibility of a meeting rests, find that to keep away from the predatory luncheon secures to them a freer head and more serene mind for their succeeding duties.
 tC Ion. .z.1.. .f1,t tOlz hn beyond the reach of a wholesale remedy at present. The individual one, however, is obvious and possible to every club woman.
 The North Carolina Sorosis of Whining ton N C., Is evidently awake to the re- responsibilities of its name. The excellent work of this club has been noticed before in this department Although young, it is in most fiourdshing condition, and has grown to five epartments-literature art, home science, current events and press. The last mentioned consists of a club depart ment in the local paper, which keeps the citizens of the community cognlzant of what the club ds accomplishing. The work of the home science department is partiicu- farly practical and commendable. It is spending its energies this winter in bring ing about a better sanitary and hyg1enic condition in Wilmington, notably in the streets. It has just presented to the board of aldermen a petition expressing the man. ner in which it would like the cooperation of the city fathers in the methods of re- moving refuse and general care of the city's comfort. The petition outlines, too, the demands that the board should make upon the citizens in assistance of this work. The ladies are very hopeful of favorable action upon their request. Another effort on the part of the home science department will be the establishing of training school for white servants-a project that is a new un- dertaking in a southern city.