The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-27

men consider a woman's club a harm
less institution, a thing to be humored
and endured. Others possessing less
of the tactical fluid of human kindness
having restricted ideas of the advanced
woman's sphere Of action, feel that
women should be home teaching their
! children to consume their own cries,
instead of here discussing the whyfore
! of the whichnesS of the what and
studying the genealogy of the molecule
There are other men who are broader
minded, to which class / beg leave to
! belong, who recognize that a woman's
| club is a spot where old Archimides
could have stood and moved the world.
To me woman is delightful, no matter
! from what standpoint she may be view
ed. 1 care not whether she be a club
woman, cultured, refined, intellectual
and in all things admirable, or the sun
| light of a humble home, where the care
of children and the unending battle for
! the means of life grindS into her soul
with each recurring day. She is at all
times and under all circumstances an
evidence of a higher existence. An in
centive to live better and to do better.
Woman makes the home. Woman
sweeps away the eobwebs of despair
with her dainty hand. and let's some of
the radiance of a higher sphere into
the darkest lives. Woman binds the
wounds caused by an unfeeling world
and hangs upon the meanest walls the
rich draperieS of love. Woman points
our feet to paths of happiness and COW
erS our errors with a sweet mantle of
charity. Woman puts courage into our
blood when, beaten back by adversely.
we cover and cringe and would yield
the fight Woman. ciinging to our
hearts with unyielding fidelity, makes
it possible for us to be men and to adj
vance to nobler purposes. She is wife,
mother. sweetheart and friend. Without
her there would be savagery. With her
all things are possible and all is not
lost although the ambitions and the
work of a lifetime fall at our feet in
tangled ruins. A woman's club being
the result of women's work, no matter
how much we may criticize it, or talk
about it. viewed through the eyes OF
man, has a fascination and an interest
that always attaches to the handiwork
and the headwork of those whom we
love"
Woman's View of Mems Clubs.
Mrs. Cain began, saying the word
that best describes mems clubs is gas
tronomic." while to the women's clubs
she held that intellectual was all
embracing. The speaker desired it
known that no reference was being
made to local clubs in the treatment
of her subject. She continued:
Though the club is intended pri
marily to afford recreation to weary
men of affairs, it is, on the other hand,
a convenient place for conducting bust
ness negotiations. Here busy men
snatch the time from other enterprises
of great pith and moment, to deliberate
upon special interests. Often great sa-
gacity and foresight are shown in these
manipulations. There is a keen rival
ry. productive sometimes, it must be
admitted. of discord, each man being
intent upon playing his own game.
These transactions are apparently pro-
longed, for it is said that those en-
gagged in them see each other many
times before they are concluded. And it |
must be, too, that they frequently sep
arate at their conferences, as I am told |
they often cali each other. These ne
gotiations are sometimes of the high |
est financial Importance. Why, 1 have !
heard that large sums of money have
changed hands in single deal
''It is well understood that men have
great difficulty in keeping a secret. The |
drill club members get in, being re- |
quired to refrain from speaking of oc- |
currences in the club to outsiders, helps |
to correct this ioquacious tendency. OF |
course, the rule against making diselos- |
ures is not always observed, and the |
matters that do leak out show that a /
dislike for publicity is not to be won
dered at.
While club organization for women
means progress. continued Mrs Cain.
lit usually means the reverse for men.