The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-27


era of impersonalism. By this | mean
that very welcome time (rnay it be close
at handD when a woman can get up in
her club, oppose motion or a measure,
offer her conscious thought. criticise
paper, speak the word Mormon, Catholic,
Methodist or Presbyterian, without some
other woman. or two or three perhaps.
taking this as q personal atfront. YOU
must not feel and / must not feel, that
all in all centerS in our personality and
in the things we advocate THE club is
right to speak and even to speak adj
Yersely, If it so appeals to them, OF the
measure we advocate.
In this connection, trust the club VIII
accord to me a few suggestions, in the
line of little things which would widen
and elevate the influence of our club life
Among these are closer attention to pa
pers and business, earnest Individual
the advancement of the club, kindller
regard for the differing opinion of our
nelghbor, at the same time overlooking
inadVertencieS, faults, mistakes and Mttle-
nesSeS incident to social life; special en-
deavor to tighten the duties of our preSl-
dent and to further the work OF the U.
+. w. c.; a greater cordlaI1ty SHOWN
guests, in the way of a personal word
from members to visitors; an ever-mlnd-
full search for women eligible to our or
Sanization: united etfort Tor greater
freedom in the club and for making this
year and this meeting the most success
full year and the most successful meeting
in the CLUBS history. 1t IS 10 be noped
the era of impersonalism will soon cover
the entire club movement. The time will
be truly ideal when personalities snail
be lost in the broader sweep OF the move
ment; when the club organ Will not, pc
stuffed with the names of women VINO
have been accorded fonors and position,
but its pages will be devoted to general
results drawn from club RECORDS, TO SuS-
gestions and standards which VIII assist
and guide club effort, and to the eXalta-
ton of associations and not of lnolVldualS.
Let our talk be more of the work we are
doing as clubs and less of personal pro-
motion and personal compliment
further ideal is an occasional session
of freedom and humor-a time when the
contributions are to be voluntary ana as
full OF fun as possible. There are times
when doing nothing is the very best thing
we can do. There is power and strength
in freedom. and rejuvenation in laughter;
The bans of Formally should be cropped
now and then, nor do we need the safety
valve turned on all the time. Such ses-
sion of voluntary contribution. freedom
and humor would prove a red letter Jay
3 in club annals Indeed, / have long
thought that the flow of our club life
| should be freer While it should not De
impeded by a too conventional! restralnil
neither should it be forced: We should
not exact the same material in the same
measure from each and all. You may
! find it easy to write poem, while 1t may
| tax me to recite in company stanzaS Win
| which | have long been familiar You
NAV sneak wisely from an enriched eX-
n ,1lsrf on the problems of childhood,
while it may be possible for me 10 pre-
| sent only the outcome of my reading ahu
! observation in a paper on the prooleiil7
| of the twentieth century
1 may speak right knowingly and to the
point on kitchen economies Whlle you caI
| only take flight to the stars. Our pTesen'
| club system Is one of pressure II at
! temDts to make of all oriSinatorS, pro
! ducers and dispensers in equal kind ano
measure. In the ideal club none Will DC
made to conform but each will contribute
freely of her talent and of values all hel
own Plagiarism will offer no temptations
| since we will never be pressed TO 90 Whd'
is not within the range OF our aplil(y.
In turning into the time-worn realm o.
, home it would seem that one is hare
pressed for material. Yet this is pre-
eminently woman's realm. To her homt
| is the hub of the universe ana tne hut
! should be in most excellent repair.
! There should be no unsolved problems
! in her especial departments OF mother.
| hood. child-culture, domestic service anC
Woman has forced her experience into
all fields. Like the bad boy, she has
climbed every fence and planted + her Zee e
strength and power which always goe:
with accomplishment. Her prayerfu
/ persistence has at last leveled all fence:
! of a witty woman, She has arrived"
In the flush of this large measure o.
success let there be no laXity in dealing
with the problems OF nOIIle- oOlIle lllliS.
come more Immediately within her juris
diction than others; let such receive he
| first attention
1t was my privilege some years ago t.
have as my special preceptor the onl!
authority on the profoundeSt branch o.
our American law-the constitutions
limitations of legislative powers. His
master mind never pointed out the neceS
sity which JUSTIFIED this course or tina
course in law-making, or untangled tn
conflict of laws or made plain the intri
! cate subject of rights, but what we wer'
impressed with his absolute Instability
IT has since occurred to me if the en-
tire moral law in all it's lines and shad
ings could be laid down to US all will
equal plainness and infallibility we SHOULD
make fewer mistakes in life, for it is m.
belief that evils and error result natur
ally from misinterpretation and mis-
understanding. Did we see the order o
the right just a little better certain thing
would inevitably always take precedenc
and satisfactory results in those thing
would be the first TO be attained.
ask your attention for a few moment
to one of the unSolVed problems in on
homes which it should be the ideal of w
club women to master at the outset. l
is that of domestic service.
There are only two alternatives-eithe
the servant question is bigger than an
question which man grapples with, Q
woman is less fitted to grappIe with dit
that even the most daring Sufragis
would choose the first of these as a tene
of faith: yet the other horn of the di
lemma certainly is not calculated to con
vince America that equal suffrage is, a
its supporters claim, the solution of a
problems and the remedy for all ills!
If interest in the club movement is t
be sustained, if the clubs are to survive
are to grow, and take on, as | believ
they are added usefulness, we must hav
something better, something more bene
fetal and more satisfying to offer eac
year.
A club may run along on a miscel
laneouS programme for time we ma
be entertained by the variety of paper
on a variety of subjects, but no grea
benefit can accrue to US in the enc
Whereas a careful and systematic stud
of one subject, supplemented by pape
and free discussion. should leave last
ing impression and some reasonabl
definite conceptions in the mind.
Mental power is better nourished, b
many ideas upon one subject than by
few ideas upon many subjects.
1 will place before you this ideal {
systematic study. 1t is the relation {
ideas, the definiteness and harmony {
= arrangements, together with the facult
of distinguishing what is of value frol
what is worthless, which forms the reall
, educated mind. If you will look care
fully into the subject of University ES
tension you will be convinced of its 81
periority and also of it's adaptability t
, club work.
! Having held to view a few of the idea
permit me to speak of the unideal. {
some of the evils and dangers of assC
citation. Perhaps the chiefest anon
these is that of repressed development,
being swept away by the crowd, of Twin
life of mere imitation, of letting Other
do our thinking for US, of being moulde
, from abroad instead of determining frol
within. Growth is the putting forth
: an inward power and not the receptio
and reflection of an outward pressure
. From Emerson's essay on 'Self-Rel
J ance: "Your genuine action will explai
itself, and will explain your other genuir
actions. Your conformity explains notl
ing Act singly and what you have a
ready done singly will justify you nov
Greatness appeals to the future. If 1 ca
10, finn 1ncrin to ID ,inht