The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-27
MRS. coULTER's PAPER.

MRS. CoULTER's PAPER.
Words That May Have Caused the
Discerd.
Mrs. Coulter's paper on Some of the
Ideals of Club Life" is reported at
length herewith. 1t is:
Pending the last session of Utah s
Mothers congress, five out of seven wom-
en- We're pictured with open mouths in all
the eager persistence of speech.
Destiny at recurring intervals has thrust
me into the mazes of the topics. WON
ems Clubs" or Club Women until [
seem to be a retailer in this line, for five
times in seven is my mouth open to this
theme. Indeed the evidence in the wake
points to a right of way such as in legal
phraseology is termed an easement.
One week ago L, hlched from chests
pigeonholes and corners of the brain all
past efforts on club women, but they
had grown cold-the longer l looked at
them the colder they grewm,,and the
greater became my confusion. There was
no FEASIBILITY in Them l could never
warm them into life again.
CopiouS notes and careful deductions for
some far-off Fourth of July emergency
looked like so many icicles-they had no
possible relation to the present need of
our club; in truth, the whole mass of ma
terial looked like shoddy and were better
ton. Yet, what women have done, what
! they have not done, what they will do
and what they will never do, piled up
about me until I was neither a-foot nor
| on horseback, and I felt when the day
came for accounting to this club l should
be very lame, my steed still lamer, and
perhaps N the confusion retreat alto
gether.
Gradually the light of humor played
about the situation, the whole movement
reflected an incongruous, funny aspect
it was the ant Juggling at the molehill.
l was conscious of a new interest, and
! yielding to it wrote several pages in light
er vein. In dreamland that night l con-
summated my foolishness by reading it
! to the club. The members lent the usual
ear, but were singularly unmoved, singu-
! larly silent A few, however. insisted upon
! appointments, at which time l should
! satisfactorily explain my jokes. One lady
on my right, in an aside to her neighbor,
said: THE handling of the subject did not
! comport with my years and my gray
hairs. Another remarked that l might
| have been less lavish with the seasoning
and have given them more meat. Still
another said if I could only climb up an
inch and look over where | left off
something. a fourth complained of the
diversity and wanted her money back be-
! cause there was no unity, adding that she
paid for both in the Aglaia. On all faces
| er, the look which DR., Holmes. says
sucks the warm soul out Of him" l had
/ Just stated that the members of the I'M
/ limited club must demonstrate limited
ability: that in the Home Culture club
/ it is Indispensable that the members rear
their families in boarding house; that
| in the Practical Womans league" each
member must stand ready to discuss &c
! the fun the problem of the whichness OF
the wherefore of the why and to see
! clearly the need in every instance 'oi
] doing. differently If not otherwise, when
! a male voice awakened me with: Mary
F.! that's foolish; whatever the theme. you re
| discussing it with the utmost leVity.' The
Teproof was sufficient; il bore an implied
request. To obey is the rule of three in
! our family. On the following day, in q
! more sober frame of mind 1 determined
! to present with due dignity but with q
| slight deviation from the programme
Some of the Ideals of Club Women.
In the beginning of our country's his
tory woman cherished but one ideal-that
of home in a restricted sense. As late In
our history as 1850 we can enumerate
scarcely a half dozen women who hao
| advocated ideals reaching beyond the
immediate Wellbeing Of their families
The early part of the present century
gave birth to the womanhood whose love
embraces the world and whose ideals per
meate the fartheSt circles of humanity
The year 1868, marking the advent of or
ganized club movement. cannot claim oVel
sixty women advocating ideals outside the
home. Twenty years later. in IS, so
would be a large estimate of the number
engaged in urging on the wider work
find 5000 women forging ahead with the
altruistic ideal, While almost 100000 WON
en- are, with a greater or lesser degree O
interest following their leadership. Tht
great ideal which we behold is not thu
Individual but the association and it:
work. The farther we look into the move
ment the smaller the individual appears
until it would seem that TennySon fore
saw it all in writing:
''And the individual withers
And the world is more and more
To get at the present day ideals of WON
ems clubs in general we have but to lool
into their constitutions and read: TT
facilitate. alleviate, promulgate. foster
propagate. disseminate encourage, cult
waite, stimulate, advocate, strengthen
protest develop"-on every hand ar
clauses rich in these live, thrilling verbs
which center somewhere in the human
heart and reach out through all human
ityl
women differ widely. Some go to the clu
for tea and friendly gossip, some for indi
vidual culture, others to have a good tim
in general. still others for social prestige
few, perhaps, for personal promotion
while many. very many. go because thei
sympathy and faith and work lies in thi
direction-these cannot help but go; the.
see the world in the larger sense.
To these latter. responsibility is NOR
than an ideal. it is a cause Of action. Oh
servation however, would lead us to be
lieve that a fuller sense of responsibility
Stitl nOldS q place among the luedlS
club life Woman has been cared for an
looked after until she has an inherite
tendency to throw off responsibility. T
the average woman, everybody's time
of as little value as her own. She doe
not hesitate to keep. an entire body i
allowance when it suits her convenience
, The golden rule in club life, as else
where, is infallible. Let each club mem
Der say, u am responsible for the club
it shall no longer wait Itnnn me- Le
this ideal of responsibility extend t
unaninitv in the club Atter We nav
fixed the best possible thing circumstance
will permit. let us all unite in promotin
that thing. it may not be what You want
ed or what / wanted, but the club want
it and we should unitedly work for it t
the best of our ability.
il is within the realm of individual re
sponsibility to preserve the aim of tn
club. It is highly ideal to keep the air
of the club paramount. No dissatisfaction
however great viii disaffect one VIII
weighs well the aim of her club. If W
set out on a work of regeneration. W
surely will not be dismayed by pueril
PURE GRAPE CREAM or TARTAR POWDER