The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-19
Hm0mg the Club Wonnern.

The regular meeting of the Woman's
club of Butte was held on Wednesday, s
usual in their club rooms at the Preshy
terrain church. The meeting was well at
tended and many visitors were present.
The persistence of old winter in Ginger
ing in the lap of SPRING and the chilly at
mosphere of the club rooms had an effect
upon the audience therefore the meeting
lacked in the enthusiasm which is usu-
ally shown on art and music days.
Miss Baldwin, a teacher of elocution,
and Miss Mooney. a teacher of music.
were present by invitation, and entertain
ed the club by selections in their respective
lines
The only paper of the afternoon was
one on Most Noted Portrait Painters
by Mrs, Canty. The leaders of the En-
glish school and their famous master
pieces were the subject of Mrs. Cantys
sketch, which was very entertaining.
Next week the tourist department will
have charge and two interesting papers
are expected. RED Men of the South
west ana in the Days of the MonteZu-
mas
Ever since the organization of the club
it has been the wish of the majority that
an evening session might be held and their
men friends invited to enjoy with them
the entertainment. Such an evening has
been arranged for the Goth of March. On
that evening every member has the prvi-
lege of inviting her husband, while the
young girls are given the privilege of
asking gentleman escort 1t is also the
plan of the club to invite representatives
of the press and others outside who have
encouraged the club in all of it's under
takings. AS all of the details of the en-
tertainment will be announced at the
next meeting a full attendance is de-
sired.
Mrs J. X Mcdonald. after an absence
of month in California and Pacific coast
cities. returned to Butte last week and
was present at the Womans club on
Wednesday. While away she saw several
Butte people and some OF the absent club
members
Mrs. Harry L. Luke, who is now in
| California and one of the Woman's club
of Butte, spea-1 Ks words of encouragement
for her home club. She has visited sew
| eral of the California clubs. and yet none
| have changed her good opinion Of the Butte
| club; rather she has become more enthusi-
| astic in favor of it and emphatlcal ex-
| presses her belief in the use of parliament
| tary law in the conduct Of meetings.
When hard worked president of a club
asks one of the members to serve on a
| committee how much better is the answer,
| Madam President, | shall be glad to if
| you think / can do it, than Madam
President. I must beg to be excused; l
| have so much to do, and there are others
who have not served on any committee
| And yet if the machinery of the club runs
not smoothly. the president and officers
are blamed. not the ones who refuse to do
what is asked of them. 1t often appears
| as if some club women have never heard
! of the almost undefinable something call
| ed "the club spirit" 1t is not the club
spirit which leads a member into bur
lesquing her club when out calling or at
tending an evening party. 1t may amuse
| some people to say. 1T was as good as a
| circus; you ought to have been there y
but the club woman who makes such a
| remark knows she is not telling the truth,
though she may not be conscious of in
spring undeserved criticism Of her club,
and most of ALL deserved criticism of her
| self Every club member has an indivd-
ual responsibility which is very great, and
| if she SO far forgets herself as to speak
unkindly of her club, the listener some
how knows that the fault is not so much
| of the club as the member who has failed
| in duty and loyalty. All true club wo-
men know that she has failed to grasp
the club spirit and feel sorry for her
| Again it is not the true club spirit with
in which prompts you to sit silently
| through meeting and afterwards say,
why didn't they do SO and SOP You are
one of the they and if in your judgment
the club was committing itself to the
wrong course 1t was your duty to say SO
and try and win the majority on your
side.
1t is amusing to hear. after a heated
discussion at the club, or after an honest
| expression of opinions in regard to some
| point in parliamentary law, that there
was an awful fight between Mrs. So and
So and Mrs. Doe, and yet men in their
clubs and public meetings often witness
grave differences of opinions and who
ever calls it a fight? If there were no
differences of opinions there would be no
progress.
| Again. If any club ever refuses member
ship to the woman who calls her clui
they instead of I'VE what hue ant
cry goes up about the shame of blackbail
ing such a lovely woman. The broad
minded women say. Take her in; sh'
needs the club even If it does not neet
her." While the thoughtless woman says
Don't let her in; she'll only stir up
fuss
Time was when a "fuss' might breal
up a woman's organization, but the clul
movement has developed SO many fair
minded women who look to their club in
terests as greater than Individual bicker
ines that Il so-called fuss Is simply a.
a ripple upon the otherwise calm surface
of the ocean. The ripple is even some
times a good thing; certainly preferable
to the jealous, hypercritical murmuring
of the woman who sees no difference be
tween 1--WE" and "they.'
Another club has sgnified its intention
to aid in the organization of a state fed
Grafton The committee reports that thu
Woman's club of Anaconda a a recen
meeting unanimously agreed to lend {
hand to the enterprise.
A state federation is an assured fact
| enouph clubs having already pledged theil