The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-29

The Atlas club held a pleasant ses-
sion in the art room Friday afternoon.
Mrs. A. B. Knights paper on Eliza
beth From Her Accession to the Death
of Mary, Queen of Scots" called forth
an animated discussion from the ladies
present. Mrs J. L. Holmes Life and
Writings of Milton" was interesting.
"Comus,' Paradise Lost and Para
disc Regained," seemed TO be the popu-
lar poems. While Milton was not one of
the most perfectly developed specimens
of mankind, vet he has given to the
world enough to compensate for all mis-
shortcomings, therefore let us
Be to his faults a little blind,
And to his virtues ever kind.
from Milton.
The Martha Washington Reading club
held its regular meeting at the art
rooms of the Public library on Tues
day evening. Mrs. Clinton Moore Wis
tied the club and gave a talk on Art
in the Public Schools"
On January % the Homer club met
as usual, and besides the regular pro-
gramme, the members enjoyed an in
formal discussion of Expansion"
There were two papers read THE Com
promise of 1880" by Mrs Groeneveld
and The Life of j. G. Whittier" by
Mrs. Hendricks.
The Womans club of Butte
met in regular session on We'd
nesday in their club rooms in
the Presbyterian church After
the usual business was disposed of.
current events were reviewed. The ex-
ercises at this meeting took the form
of magazine reviews. Harper's, Mum
sey's and the Cosmopolitan were the
chosen ones.
The tourist department had charge of
the regular programme. Mrs. ]. Me
Naught read a well-compiled paper on
THE Hawaiian Islands, Mrs. Atwat-
er's subject was THE Mojave Desert"
Next week the literature department
will present two papers, one on THE
Essayist," old and new school. by Mrs.
e. l.. Kern, and one on Henry James,"
by Miss Jean Home. Mrs. A. S. Chris
tie, who has charge of the current
events department for February, an
nounces that the discussion will be gen.
eral. All members are requested TO
come Informed upon matters of special
interest before the public.
State Federation.
Among the club women of Butte and
some of the adjacent towns there are
many who have thought for long time
that the organization of a state feder-
alton would be of mutual benefit to the
club and the state. The subject has been
discussed privately and publicly;
meeting was held in Butte and COM
mittee appointed to present the matter
with the reasons why such an organi-
zaion would be both practicable and
beneficial.
Letters have been written to all Of
the known clubs of the state. and judg-
ing by the favorable manner in which
the projected organization is being re-
ceived, it will not be long before Mon
tana will have full-fledged federation
of women's clubs.
While to the uninitiated the
the idea of the club women
being of benefit to the state
may seem preposterous, those who have
given the subject much thought and are
familiar with the results of organized
work among women in other states
know that wherever woman has seen
fit to devote her best energies the edu-
cational, industrial and moral condi-
tfons have been bettered.
This is the age of co-opera ton. 1t
has been said that the "womens' clubs
of the period, with their classes for in
telligent study, are ting a new po-
1itical economy" To-day the general
federation stands as the exponent of
this new political economy. The mem
hers of it no longer spend their entire
time in writing essays culled from the
product of other peoples brains, nor
do they meet and have a good time
with light refreshments or an elaborate
banquet, but they have turned their ct
tention to the economic conditions sur
rounding them
AS the general federation grew and
prospered until in every state of the
United States, in England, Australia
and the remote corners of the earth
there We're women wearing the modest
badge. Unity in Diversity" it became
evident that while the general fedora
ton was still the inspiration, the bond
of union among the women of the whole
world, its very greatness prevented it
from meeting the demand of local
needs.
It was for this reason that the club
women of Maine organized the first
state federation. There We're rural
school districts whose affairs needed
looking into, rude old log school houses
whose walls were black and grim with
the dust and smoke of half a century
Now all this is changed, the old build
ings have been torn down and modern
ones erected in their places or their
walls have been refreshed with a coat
with reproductions of well known