The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-06
IN WOMAN'S REALM.
CLUB CORNER.

The u o D wishes to impress upon tne
women of the Northwest that, while it strives
to make It's columns meet the wants OF
both men and women, In the line Of news
and information, this particular column Is
devoted exclusively ito the interests Of women.
These are the days when not only club
women and women in public life are doing
some serious thinking, but when the thor
oughly domestic woman looks from the home
upon the trend Of social, Industrial and edu-
cational affairs with an Increasing thought
fulness and growing convictions. The world
has seen no reform whose origin cannot be
traced to scattered expression Of individual
opinion. 1t is such opinions which The
o b e aims to make effective by securing
them fair and serious expression Signatures
will be withheld from print If it is re-
quested, but We want the views as well as
the news of what is being done and what
ought to and niEbe done by club women
and non-club women to improve the condi-
ton Of the home. the school and the indus
trial life.
We should especially urge that where wom-
en-, whether members of clubs not, have
tried any experiment in connection with their
particular line Of work they would describe
the results for this column, as nothing is
so instructive. encouraging and inspiring as
example Comparisons are always helpful,
and we are therefore anxious that clubs
should submit notes their progress. To
facilitate this work club programmes are
valuable.
AS a consequence Of the recent strike
among the women tailors of New York city
cooperative ladies' tailoring shop will be
open in February, seventy of. New York's
NEST prominent society women having PROM
ised their patronage. The company is capt.
talized at $4,000. Nearly half the stock has
been sold.
This Is only one Instance of the effort being
made by society and club women to i'm
prove the Industrial conditions under which
women labor Consumers leagues" are being
| organized for the purpose of checking petty
| prosecutions to which employers are subject
ing the factory girls. Forced contributions
from the employees. involuntary vacations for
| trivial offenses. and other harassing and hui
initiating rules against which they are pow
| erless to protest, have enlisted the active in
| terest OF the National Federation of Women 8
! Clubs.
| 1t behooves pinch-penny employers to treat
| their employees with more consideration, II
| they do not wish to become the object of a
persistent and effective boycott. If the ordi-
nary sense Of decency does not restrain a
man from charging each girl in his factory
twenty-five cents for a box to keep her hat
| five cents for key to the same which is
mascot to every ether hat box in the
house, the prospect Of losing two-thirds of his
! patronage will.
| The Woman's Industrial and Patriotic
league, with headquarters at the Arlington
hotel, Washington, proposes to establish an
| industrial exhibit Of American women s
achievements in the arts, sciences. medicine
and literature" This exhibit will be made in
Washington the middle of February.
! A club has been formed In Vienna, each
member Of which is pledged to marry a poor
| girl. If by chance or design he marries q
rich girl, he is fined $4,000, which sum is be-
slowed on some respectable but impecunious
couple engaged to be married.
|
The women Of Colorado are interested In
| the management Of the state institutions.
| An Investigating committee Of FIVE men and
two women has been visiting the institutions
/ ard has found that an Improvement in their
| conditions is greatly needed, particularly in
| the insane hospital and the prisons. The
chairman. Chancellor Mcdowell. of Denver
university, recently addressed the reform de-
| Iartment Of the Women's club, and urged
that they work for the appointment of q
| woman physician in the insane hospital.
| sssss
One of the most hopeful auguries for the
| future of the general federation is the fact
that it has definitely recognized its duty with
respect to industrial conditions. Thousands
| OF women and children are suffering from
the lack of intelligent sympathy as well as
from scanty wages. impure air. improper
food and all the other things that are at
terdant on grinding poverty.-Club Woman.
|
When We come to recognize that 1t rests
| with us to create demand for better con-
| ditions we are ready for part of the
work. We may deplore the existence OF
yellow journals" but If we buy them we
encourage their sale and contribute to theil
support. We may believe the sweat shop te
be Let institution of Satan, but If we buy
IT'S products we are encouraging the men
| who keep up Its existence. The Consumers
league, which is formed for the purpose Of
demanding goods made under proper con-
ditions, offers 8 practical method by which
! we can all help solve this problem. This
organization is composed Of upwards of six
thousand earnest men an6 women, who are
studying the economical problems of the day
and are bound together to find a way to bet
ter them by the simple and practical method
of creating and keeping up the demand fol
goods made under proper conditions.-Clut