New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-06
HOME LIFE AND CLUBS.
SOME WOMEN THINK THERE is TOO MUCH
TIME DEVOTED TO SOCIETIES.
-ur Nrv-YoRK LEAGUE OF UNITARIAN WOMEN
LISTENS 10 THE VIEWS OF VARIOUS WELL
KNOWN PEOPLE

r.,r Nrv-YoRK LEAGUE OF UNITARIAN WOMEN
LISTENS 10 THE VIEWS OF VARIOUS WELL
KNOWN PEOPLE.
Two special cars were al too small to accommo-
..,e The crowd Of women on their way TO Yonkers
r-,5s, morning TO attend the last meeting Of the
Nev-Yo-k League of Unitarian Women. II was
en- au-dav meeting and delegates were present
rom an The churches in New-York and Brooklyn
i.o from Staten Island and Flushing. Long
$50 P,ainAeld Rutherford and Passaic. y. J.
The president Mrs A Wendell Jackson. called the
A.s,,sss meeting 10 order al II o'clock Mrs. Emil
Roas read the yearly report. which stated that
g most successful year Of work had been done ana
,v,ei,e new members added 10 the roll
Trereuorts Of the branch alliances Of the churches
~, hen read as follows New-York Church OF
-. Messiah Mrs E Roberts; All Souls
church Mrs Bishoprtck Lenox Avenue Church
NJ Hobart Clark: Brooklyn Church OF the sa-
v,o,,- Miss Harrington. Second Church Miss Har-
re- = Comstock: Unity Church. Miss Fisher;
vo,pe-s Church Miss Wi-ams Staten Island,
Mrs Emil A Boas Flushing Long Island Hattie
u Graham. Passaic. y j. Mrs. Emil A Boasi
PatrAeld J. Mrs. f. l. Reynolds Rutherford
y Mrs Bell. Orange. y J.. Mrs. Boas; HACK
s,ssok y J. Miss Annette cobb Ridgewood. y
! Miss Anna Warren
The freasurers report was read by Mrs Don
,erv and showed an income Of 1922 and expenses
80
The election Of officers then took place and re-
suited as follows President. Mrs A NendeH
Jackson. ,ice-presiderts Mrs Henry T. Wing. Mrs
y : Bshoprck Mrs W A. Keener record
,rg se,re,arv Mrs Emil Boas, corresponding sec
rotary. Mrs F NJ Wheeler. treasurer Mrs H. d.
Dome ly.
Mss sade Of Flushing gave all the members
prescnf A cordal. invitation 70 attend me annual
meeting 70 be- held there on Friday. May 49, in the
Friends Meeting House
4, ~ o'clock the meeting adjourned for luncheon,
served in the spacious pariors Of the Methodist
church. which were kindly offered for the occasion
and beautifully decorated by the women OF me
church
A,2p N the meeting opened for he discussion
NJ The s,biect for the 5ay-namely women's clubs
raso.,ed that they are ininical 10 home life.
Mrs Charles 3 Bartram. Of Brooklyn opened
the discussion on the negative side. she divided
her paper under four heads. the subject OF these
heads being she said distinctly traceaole 10 the
influence OF womens clubs. viz. health. cheerful
,sss raticence and the estimate Of values She SAID
-,onoto7y causes quite as much nervousness in the
home as the exacti0ns OF club life. and one clever
scientist declares that he has discovered an en-
f,relv new form of nervous disease that has its
root In The trials incident domestic service The
woman whose outside interests bring her IN con-
ia, with specialists learns from them and takes
N her home the condensed results OF their years
o. research and investigation. She filters the water
burns the garbage, sees that the plumbing Is per
feet battles the cuts and burns Of her children IN
Ter that has been boiled sterilizes the milk and
hsndaRes and ventilates her home after improved
methods
"Cbeerfulness is the great need Of the modern
home" said Mrs. Bartram, and If the modern
woman has more duties than her grandmother she
has longer time in which to do the work because
the dead line of age has been lifted from the home
BY the added cheerfuness"
After speaking the value OF the reucence
learned in club life. Mrs. Bartram concluded ny
saving: The woman who joins hands with Others
hot nNIfn
stately h citations than the human architect can
plan for she makes the home not an accumuiaIon
Of things. accretion Of matter, Out me very
Mrs Margaret Hamilton Welsh read most ad-
sides Of the question clearly and forcioy 9he
T TSynSs'e Of Mrs wens chamPney on the TgPy
Row he made his shielah:
Faith. 7 choose the stick that's raggedest.
The thorniest, crookedest jaggedest
The thorniest. crookeGest. snaggedest-
I cut the blossoms swatey.
Leave the knots and thorns so nately.
And for six long nights compiatelv
Il must soak and soak and soak.
This is the lesson Of patience We mus learn
Mrs Edwin Atwen also OF Bro9kyh look tne
SO many women 60 10 clubs 10 get away from
fhat their club attendance seems rather Joyfu
recess than q task OF any kind But although
iii The uplifting suggestions the Intellectual simu-
lus the strong; clear thoughts ana me eX,endea
the club do they take home with them and inhl-
rate through the domestic currents
NO doubt in some cases they are better fitted
for the burdens Of the next day, but 90 they put
their shoulders the wheel afresh. or DO they go
OF 10 another club for more strengthening thought
and influence .,- = e,
smoke on the negative side and said that clubs
might be inirnical TO home Mfe-she could not tell
from personal experience. being member q one
cinh nnlv-but that Il largely depends the
woman and the kind Of clubs which claim her at
tention
psper written by Mrs. Nichols who deplored the
diyision into compound fractions II the time given
nv some women 10 club duties She said.
Thomas Wentworth HiggnsOn says. II Is com
mon 10 denounce club life N our greater cities ~
destructive TO the home. The modern mems club
is simply a refined substitute FOR the social at
rnosphere Of the old-fashioned tavern. an advance
on It in morals and manners ! honestly believe
that a melancholy desertion Of the home Is due 10
The separation Of the sexes in club life II seems
10 me that the fatal weakness In clubs often IN
committees is that tax a great deal about
things and do very little There the mothers
in theory who read child culture. VINO attend nu-
nerous lectures on the development OF the child.
and ali the time the child s getting small profit
from the mothers study. Great stress IS laid en-
our present schools for the education Of teachers
upon the value Of a school Of practice. The nur-
serv is every mothers school OF practice"