The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-04-04

tlAC tlub as a SycGldl lOplC, DuJ SuF lF
prepared to say (unofficially) that tne
club holds itself ready to listen to the
suffrage side of the question if at some
future time its advocates request oil
opportunity to make themselves heard
upon the subject; and she can hope
that that part of the club which is
opposed to the further extension of sui
frage will extend to their opponents
that dignity and courtesy which was
certainly somewhat lacking on the part
of the suffragists last Wednesday.
Il hold with your correspondent OF
Sunday when she says: Personally. I
say give us neither suffrage nor anti
suffrage i'll the Worcester Woman 5
Club If suffrage and its claims are
strong enough to stand on their own
feet, nothing the Worcester Woman s
Club can do will retard their progress.
But certainly the weight of influence
in the Woman's Club Is al present
against the extension of suffrage. The
club has changed in this respect, and
whereas the most brilliant leaders may
in the past have been suffraglsts, today
the same could scarcely be claimed re
garding the club"
when 1 read that letter in Out and
About Sunday morning, from a mem
Der Of the Woman's Club" said an
other member of the club, yesterday,
I wanted to sit right down and an
swer it. While 1 am not a charter
member myself l remember hearing
Miss Henshaw say repeatedly that it
was the idea of many of the women
that the club should be a suffrage
club, but that her own idea was that
such procedure would ALLEVIATE wom-
en- whom it would be desirable to
have in the club.
As for the statement of your cor
respondent that the Woman's Club was
unfair and cowardly for the first time
in refusing to have the suffrage side
presented, I should like to remind the
members that of the five meetings held
especially for the consideration OF the
question, three were held under the
auspices of the woman suffragists. and
set forth their side. These meetings
have all been held since 1890. The first
was on Nov. T. 1890 when William
Lloyd Garrison spoke for woman suf-
frage; Jan. 10, 1892, when Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe spoke for woman suffra ge
april 10, 1894, when Miss Alice Stone
Blackwell spoke for woman suffrage
under the auspices Of the Woman Suf-
fragist League or Association at a
meeting especially appointed for the
purpose. Nothing was said at the time
about having the other side represent
ed, and it was not represented. The
meeting at which Mrs. Blackwell spoke
was IN every respect similar to the
meeting last week, except that IT was
for suffrage instead of against it, The
Woman Suffrage Association offered to
send a speaker, and the Worcester
Woman's Club accepted the offer. Al
though the meeting was held for ed
ICational purposes the suffragists did
not clamor for the anti-suffragists to
be represented, but they see things i'm
a different light when the anti-suffrag-
lists hold a meeting for educational
purposes and the suffragists are not
represented.
THE other two meetings took place
when Miss Hersey addressed the club
from the antl-suffrage standpoint in
1895, and the meeting of last week
The Book Buyer for April contains
an appreciative article on Walter APP
pleton Clark of this city. by Jay Ham
bridge. In the course of it, Mr.. Ham
bridge says: 1T is a matter for con-
graduation that Mr.. Clark and his
work bear evidence Of the strength and
cIearness of the native view. His art
is essentially of this country Here
it has been awakened aud here it has
been developed. While restless stu.
dents have flocked to the famous cen
tres Of learning elsewhere, here he has
remained content and faced conditions
which at times must have appeared dis
couraging. His faith in the soundness
of the opportunities for art study af-
forded in this country, however, seems
never to have been shaken.and it might
seem to Justify such a belief that one
now sees American students returning
from abroad, disappointed that a
training in these studios, hitherto sup
posed to represent the end Of all that
was desirable i'm instruction, has not
made artists of them.
While Mr.. Clark has cOnscientiously
Travelled the routine of the class rooms
one feels, however, that it has been is
olated example which has had more
influence with him than general pre-
cept. He has chosen the narrow path
of sincerity, where company is seldom
met and where there is q lack of that
forced individuality which usually at
tends pronounced early successes based
upon strong eccentricity, which so Of
ten marks the decadence Of achieve
ment. There is in his work much that
suggests methods which in the past
have always been forerUnners Of ex-
ceptional artistic development
His frank acceptation Of things as
they are, without question of the ex-
listing conditions, and a rendering of
them according to tried principles
mark the serious artist who knows tNat
to secure anything beyond the notoriety
attending the success of biased seIec-
ton. he must consider the complete en-
Vironmant and measure his success by
the accuracy Of his adjustment in those
conditions"
Mrs. Edward F. Tolman will enter
tain the charity whist this afternoon
at IS Catherine street. The charity
whist will hold its next meeting on the
18th. at the house Of Mrs. John s.
Baldwin, 81 Chatham street.
The Woman's Club may lose its wait
ing list, if it does not look out. There
are rumors to the effect that some of
the leading spirits among the 2S7 are
holding little run-tOgetheTs at each
others houses to talk up a distinct and
separate club, which will take the wait
ing list off at one fell swoop and owe
no allegiance 10 the Woman's Club. The
latter organization may wake up some
morning 20 find Itself confronted bv n
formidable young rival. Unless the
w oman Club concludes to eXpand and
take in the waiting sisterhood without
much more ado. something Of the sort
is likely to happen.
Miss Grace Z. Mix. 80 Wachusett
street. writes to Out and About as fol-
lows; Would you kindly call the at
fention Of people to the need of the
Girls Club for more booI,a9 W. NOD