The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-01

The Womans club of Butte will meet
in regular meeting on Wednesday after
noon at 230 O'Clock.
Mrs. A. Fl. Wethey has charge of the
current erents department for January
and announces the Dreyfus case as the
subject for consideration on Wednes-
day. The literature department will
present the papers on Emerson and w.
d. Howells.
With the first of the new year. the
Woman's club takes up it's work with
a membership of nearly 100. Those
wishing to unite with the club should
have their applications sent in at once,
as the only election to membership this
month will take place on the 18th, and
all names must be presented to the club
one week previous to election. The
constitution requires that the member
ship committee shall receive all appi-
cants' names and pass upon them ia
vorably before they are brought up for
consideration before the club There
fore all names should be in the posses
sion of the membership committee not
later than the first of each month.
The Woman's club of Muncie, Ind,
has been in existence for % years and
has never had a vacation. Apparently
it is not weary of well doing. for it has
just voted down a vacation proposition
and its club year will continue to num-
Der u months.
The federated clubs of Muncie- are
making war on approximations on the
sidewalks. They have petitoned the
city council to pass an ordinance, and
the prospects are that this will be done
But when it comes to enforcin~ it, aye,
there's the rub The EDITION was
signed by 20 clubs, representing 1000
women.
If the conditions in any city ever re-
quired such a law, Butte ought not to
be overlooked. Still Butte, the greatest
mining camp on earth. is unlike other
cities and the smoke problem will have
to be solved before a crusade against
expectoratons on sidewalks is begun.
The Eastern club women are accus-
toned to leading the way in all re-
forms. Recent" one of them wrote to
a local club woman and wanted to
know if the club women of Butte
couldn't do something about the smoke
nuisance which the newspapers Were
full of.
We regret that items of historical in
terest relating to the organization and
growth of the Fortnightly club of Hell
ena arrived too late for the Christmas
issue.
The Homer club of Butte can no
longer claim the distinction of being
the oldest club in the state, since the
Fortnightly club dates its existence
from the year 1883, three years prior
to the Homer's first meeting. The Fort
nightly also has the distinction of hav-
ing organized one year previously to
the first preliminary meeting, or two
years before the permanent organiza-
ton of the General Federation of Wom-
ems clubs.
The original organizers of the Fort
nightly began studying English litera-
ture in 1883 and have kept on ever since
studying some seven or eight months
of each year. The club meets always
at a private house and is now limited
to %, SO that it shall not be too large
for a parlor. Topics are treated orally
or in written papers. Since it's organ
ization the club has studied Shakes
peare, Browning, Emerson. George Ell
lot. Carlyle and others and has taken
up this year a course of present Day
Poets.'
In the compilation of its programme
for 1889. the Fortnightly leads all
other clubs in the state in so far as it
is abreast of the most advanced meth
DDS of systematic club study. The pro-
gramme is furnished by the Poet Lore
company.
More and more the clubs, especially
study clubs, are beginning to realize
that the getting up of a programme is
properly the work of specialists. Much
time is lost by giving notice to minor
and unimportant subjects. while others
which will endure through all ages are
skipped over lightly. In history. moth
ing is gained by simply storing up a
collection of facts: the, causes which
lead up to events and the influence
these events have had upon later pc
RODS constitute the knowledge worth
delving for. AS in history, so with all
other studies. it is not the mere shell.
the husk. but the principle which makes
all things possible.
Too many club women think only of
being entertained at the club meeting;
they don't know much about what was
said or done, they only know that
everything passed off smoothly and the
afternoon was a pleasant one. But the
earnest student cannot fail to observe
the great danger threatening the
Women'S club-the frantic effort to
grasp everything in sight-and long for
the time when club women will under
take less and accomplish more.