Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-21

awarding of the prize to Miss Gutmann
the club separated only to meet again in
the evening at a theatre party.
The following short program on general
subjects which has been tried by one club
and pronounced good, is passed on Tor the
benefit of some perplexed program COM
mittee:. ,., ILL,
on 1.-The Negro in slavery 1.-The Eman:
cipated and Enfranchised Negro" and
1.-The Future of the Negro"
for Its A eai9h Its t Use and Abuse
and Its Responsibility.
8. THE Home, with papers on What
Are the Essentials and Non-essentials of
lea Degenerating" and 1.-THE Ideal
Home"
4: Self DEVELOPMENT" with papers on
How Far Is 1t Justified? How Can
There Be Conflict Between the Individual
and the General Good?' and How MAY
One Retain individuality Without Pecu-
liarity?"
The Federation of Women's Clubs EN-.
braces In its membership those who are
not content to take no par in the intel
lectual life of the day and in the moral
and educational problems that confront
the thoughtful on every side. The feder.
ation Is yet IN its youth but its influence
is already widely felt for good. That this
influence Is to increase with the multipli.
cation of clubs in the general organZa-
ton no one can doubt who has taken oc-
caslon to note the talent such women as
are represented in these clubs have for
pushing forward work that needs to be
done. a fine local illustration of this
ability to accomplish the thing aimed a
was furnished by the women of this city
a few years ago when, after years Of dis
cussion of its need. they decided it was
time for talk to cease and action take its
place in the matter of establishing pub
lie library. The husbands and fathers
ana sons aided in the movement but the
initiative was taken by the women, and
Of the credit for its hpIopoS
to them. What the library means to the
intellectual well-being Of the city hun
dreds of its patrons are willing grateful
ly to acknowledge. 1t is for similar and
kindred work that the clubs comprised In
the federation exist today, but what they
have done is but the promise of what
they are certain to accomplish in future
years. The church and school can do
much but the women's clubs can and will
supplement their work with praiseworthy
and gratifying effciency.-Wate
Mail.
At this time, when club committees are
spending many a brain-racking hour
making UP the year program, it is in.
| terestinS to know the study course of the
| Chicago Woman's Club, one of the lead :
| ing organizations of this kind in the
This club united last season in the con-
| sideration of problems of a Great city
| 4 fortnightly discussion led by eminent
| men and women that attracted attention
over the entire country. This season the
subject is The Outlook for Social
Unity the subtopics and speakers being
as follows:
The Standard Of Living" Mrs. Celia
| Parker Woolley.
"Combnation of Labor; Trades
Unions,' Miss Harriet Fox.
The Militant Phase" Paul T. Mas.
Industrial Possibilities" George w.
Perkins.
Combination Of Capital; Trusts Vic
Mutual Relations of Capital and La
Dor" Mrs. Charles G.. Bolte.
Charity as a Social Force Mrs. Mary
L. Richmond
adaptation of Education to Social
Needs Miss Maud Summers.
Mission of the Beautiful'-a symposi
UNI with Love of Nature" by Mrs
| Sarah L. Hubbard; cultivation of the
Sense of Beauty by Miss Josephine
| Locke; Beauty in the Home" by Mrs
| Lucy Fitch Perkins; "Unifying Power Of
Poetry" by Professor Martha Foote
| Grove.
Social Democracy" George f. Vincent
The Single Tax Louis F. Post.
Influence of Ideas of Life in Current
| literature Mrs. Anna B. Mcmahon.
| 'Individualism a Political Creed"
| Mrs Edward F. Ernst. Evolutionary
| Trend" DIR. Rachel S. Yaros.
The Golden Rule" Samuel NJ. Jones of
| Toledo.
The PLAN comments the committee
sis TO begin with the ideal or highest
standard of life and to follow with theo-
| ries for the attainment of this ideal, with
practical illustration wherever possible"