The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-07
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throne" Everybody is familiar with the
saying, "the hand that rocks the cradle
ETC., but the time has come when woman
is no longer satisfied with rocking the
cradle. She is tired of standing behind
the throne. Her place, she feels, is on
the throne and She is going to get there.
Woman is hard to suit-that is. the
woman of ~today-the club woman. For
over four hundred years America has
been ruled by man, and man alone. Four
hundred years of prosperity, and yet
these women are not satisfied. They want
the power to rule in their own hands.
Mems politics are corrupt. OF course,
corruptness in wonan's politics would be
an imoossibility.
When women form organizations for
'sWoman's Rights they call them Par
liamentary Study Clubs,' because the
public smiles b~enevolently upon the latter,
feeling perhaps that the dear women in
deed need that study, while to the former
there is a sort of %repugnant sound. ac-
conapanied by life size photos of bicycle
faces and boomers.
Club life is certainly improving woman.
1t broadens her views and it broadens
her feet. This does not necessarily mean
that womans foot has grown any larger
since the organization of the club. But
that it has reached its normal condition.
She now sees the folly of her ways Gin
all else a club life) and has released
her foot from a cramped condition into
a larger and more sensible shoe. 1t is
now the woman with the narrow toed
boot who pulls her skirts well down oven
her feet. while she of the broad toed,
common sense shoe plants hers proudly
in front of her and tells her ~neighbor,
s.how perfectly comfortable she feels in
those shoes" She has paid seven dollars
per pair and upwards for that footwear,
and she wants you to know it.
Mrs. John A. Walker has been a busy
woman this week. She has been in charge
of two meetings of the Woman's CLUB.
One a committee meeting of the Litera-
ture Committee held last Wednesday, and
the other the regular meeting of the CLUB
held Thursday. AT the committee meeting
there was a lively discussion as to the su-
periuous advice given in the columns OF
women's journals; Ruth Ashmore's "Ad-
vice to Girls" and especially her articles
on the girl in the business Office being
especially criticised, one member, the or
iginator Of the discussion holding that mo-
body could give advice upon a subject
without practical, experienced knowledge
of that subject. If this were the case
some of the best writers of the day must
needs go out of business, not to mention
those whose works have lived after
them. nor. the clergy. who would simply
be nowhere. Sidney Smith was not SIM
ply joking after all when he said, Never
read a book before you review it. 1t
prejudices you So"
Section 7 of the Woman's Club constitu-
tion reads
New members shall be entitled to all
the tights and privileges of the club on
the payment of three dollars (sS.0W annual
dues. Members entering the club be-
tween March and January must pay the
same"
This seems hardly fair as it entities
those admitted to the club in January the
gslHlege of fifteen months for three dol
lars, while those joining a month earlier
must pay six dollars for fourteen
months.
The next meeting of The Educational
Committed will take place January IS, at
the Jersey City Free kindergarten. 1t
will be guest day, and Prof. Richards has
been invited to speak. On this occasion
a small entrance fee will be charged and
tickets MAY be procured from any of the
members of the committee, or from Mrs.
william C. Marvin, Chairman. The Pro-
lessor will speak on "Manua Training"
The programme of the Education Com
mittee for the balance of the season is as
follows
January 1s-Guest Day. Manua Train
ing.
February Threading for the Young.
Miss Burdick.
March 2aZThe Value of Home Reading
Courses.
April 2o-Educational Work of Women's
Clubs. Miss Fuller.
May 1s-Guest Day. University Exten-
sion. Miss Farrant.
Owing to the p-ostponement of various
club meetings Hasbrouck Institute was,
Wednesday, the scene of three club meet
ings. The Ramblers. who had postponed
their meeting of the week before, be-
cause so many of the young ladies spend
the holidays out of town., the Keramics,
who met the first Wednesday in the
month, the first Monday, their regular
time of meeting, falling on January 2,
the day celebrated as New Years, and
the Literature Committee of the Wom-
ans Club, who had arranged their pro-
gramme in the beginning, SO as to avoid
a meeting during the holidays.
The programme of the Literature Com
mittee of the Woman's Club, for the bal
ance of the season, is as follows:-
january 1s-Women Novelists, lecture
by Miss Gaines.
February History, Grote, Macaulay,
Carlyle.
February 15-Green, Froude and Nc
Carthy's History of Our W Times"
March 1-Guest Day. at residence of
Mrs. John A. Walker, No. 260 Montgom-
cry street.
March 15-The Development of the Mag
azine. Scrap Book Day
March 29-The School of Criticism. A
Study of Ruskin.
April 12-Women in Poetry.
April 2e-Poets of the New Era. Brown
ing, Tennyson.
The women don't seem to care 0
having their voices cultivated. At least
as yet there has been no voice culture
n1o~c farrnad ~, +bo Nornonsr CI1b