The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-13
Notes About
WOmen's Clubs.

The mothers congress has put plank In
its constitution so that the fathers may
have resting place thereon. The husband
of a leading member of the congress is re-
sponsble for this extension. He wrote to
the president, making the following strong
points
!. That mothers. as a rule. depended
upon fathers for their support.
g. That fathers were equally interested
with mothers In the welfare of their chill
dren.
D. That were there no fathers there
would certainly be no mothers.
Therefore he applied for membership.
The council saw the justice OF the COM
plant at once and he was promptly
elected
While the club study is practically sue
pended for the summer, club work goes on.
Vacation schools, no longer an expert
ment. but an established fact, as a REIN
ing and humanizing agency are at their
best these hot August days. Just what 1t
is for children in tenement house base
ments and attics to breathe fresh air and
feel the green grass under the feet is a
tale that has often been told
The MiddlcseX Woman's club of Lowell,
Mass, opened its vacation school, and
what was of more all around importance,
the play ground with its swings and sand
heaps. early last month. One hundred
children came the first day and more the
second They are given luncheon at 10
o'clock and their narrow little lives have
other bright spots. notably an excursion
out IN the country one day of every week.
The Cantabrigia summer kindergarten.
which was a club wonder and example
worthy of imitation last year, has como
step further this season. 1t has inn
proved equipments, has taken up clay mod
cling and ninety children of all sizes, col
ors and nationalites are enrolled in kin
dergart-n work.
There are over forty summer schools in
Massachusetts, all under club direction.
The West is little slow on vacation
schools, but 1t has other good irons in the
fire. Denvers poor children know what 1t
is to have flowers OF their own, all through
the council of Jewish women, and what
it is to have good bath provided by
these same true home missionaries.
Verify, the poor child Of today has adj
vantages over his brother OF yesterday
and the day before.
OF course a club column must have some
Gentlewoman from London has a record OF
the July convention with occasional mild
criticisms. One follows /
The discussion on an equal standard OF
morals for men and women did not proceed
upon quite so smooth plane as some ex-
pected, and, in fact, without going INTO
unsuitable details, II is sufficient to say
that Mrs. Creighton, who was In the chalr.
finding her right to close the discussion
set at naught. forthwith left the platform.
1t is also pity. perhaps. that some re-
striction had not been laid upon those
who felt 1t their duty to disseminate inter-
AZURE on subjects which the least pruhish
of people might reasonably object ~ nav
ing sent to their houses unasked for
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Club names are of special interest In the
bulletin list. 1.-THE Womans club leads
by big majority; Shakespeare" is next
in frequency. There are several "clios
and "Portias,' and an Occasional
"Pleiades." palmetto" waves in
the sunny South. Wallace. Idaho,
has a Occur d'Alene Treble
cief" and Twenty Monday Dames'
meet In Macomb. Ill. The "zetamatheans'
are of Charlton. Iowa, and Bacnelor
Maids" have magazine club In Ida Grove.
ioNh. disregard LOT an oiu nuPp' SeNt""
Is evident In the naming of Manchester,
Iowa, club. THE Thirteen
In particularly odd names are the "Kiio-
italian" of Greeley. Colo; PRO Re
Nata" of Washington. d. c.. "the Lesche'
OF Dalton. Ga; Mike" OF Chicago Thief
istrial" OF Marion, Iowa. and "Witenage-
mote" OF Marshalltown. Iowa, "Anakris-
ians" Of Sioux City; want to- Know OF
Topeka; Mustard Seed" OF Brunswick
Me-. and "Ammoncongin" OF Cumberland
Mills.
RockIand. Me-. has Methesbec club and