The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-11-07
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GREETING.

At the regular meeting of the Wo-
mans Club Monday, Oct. 80, Mrs. w.
H. West read the following interesting
paper in greeting the new members,
Mrs. J. P. Akin and Mrs. Thomas
Campbell:
In welcoming additions to our mem
bership in our association, brief al
lusion to its object and mission will not
be inappropriate.
Among the modern agencies of intel
lectual and social progress, the Wo-
mans Club is an institution, which has
come to stay.
The rapidity with which these organ
izations have multiplied, is phenomenal.
The latest reliable estimate places their
number in this country at more than
2, 400, and in this State at about 230, so
that it.cannot be long until no consid er-
able hamlet will be without it's Wo-
mans Club.
The primary object sought to be ac-
complished by the association is, of
course, the higher culture, and greater
general intelligence of the members
which it is believed can better be done
by common research and discussion
than by solitary study, for the reason
that the sources and means of informa-
tion are not equally accessible to all.
AS yet no uniform program of ex-
ercises for all the "Clubs" has been
provided so that each selects for itself
the topics of inquiry and discussion ac-
cording to its tastes or its opportunities.
The topics or subjects receiving most
general consideration are History, Lit
erature, the Arts, Current Events, Au-
thors, Music, the Drama, the Sciences
and other branches of learning. One
l have noticed has selected Folk-lOve
and Morse legends common to the rug
ged scenery and weird '!Myths" OF
"The Land of The Midnight Sum-" an.
other, the ancient and beautiful my.
thylogies of Grecian, Roman and Ori
entail Paganism; another, Architecture
and the stupendous Temples of antiqui
ty; another, The Revival of Learnieg il
the Middle Ages; and still another, the
antiquities of the Mound Builders ant
the Monuments of Peruvian and Cen
tral American Civilization, and so on
| Quite generally the topics are deter
mined by the accessibility to Libraries
and other sources of information in re
gard to the particular subject. For thu
, labors of the year which closes tn,
present century, this club has selected
among other topics, Trusts, necessit,
of Woman's Clubs observing Parlia
mentary Rules in Club meetings, I'm
4 perialism and Expansion. Closer Rela
q tionship between home and school, etc
have said the primary object of tn
Club is the higher culture and create
general intelligence of it's own mem
bers. It's purpose, however, is not a,
together selfish but is philanthropit
civic and patriotic as well.
This Club has already been instrl
a mental in forming the nucleus of Pull
d lie Library for the diffusion of geners
d knowledge to which all may have accei
o at little cost, yet this little cost cannt
i always be met by many bright childre
If and youths who would gladly ava
themselves of its advantages. 1t is su.
gested that by concerted and earne
effort of the members very many wei
to-do citizens may be induced to flu
nish these bright boys and girls wit
Is tickets of access to the Library.
1t has also been suggested that
diligent effort be made to provide
Reading Room, where the best perio
" ical literature of the day may be &C
~ ected for the general public, the a
., vantages of which can be readily u
y derstood.
In these interests, and with the
- objects in view, and having chos'
you as members in the assurance
:. your fitness and hearty cooperate
~ the Club extends to our new membe
" cordial welcome to it's membership.
H.