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

Some. extracts from a. uaper entitled
Self Development Through Express
sion,' which was read before the Won-
ans club of Denver. may help some of
the hesitating ones who often have
much knowledge, feeling and determi-
nation upon matters before the club,
but who are not accredited with it be-
cause they cannot find courage to speak
from the floor: =
''* Education is a stronger pro-
lection than standing army. One
thing that, without any exception,
every living human being would pre-
fer as an accomplishment over any
other is extemporaneous speaking.
| Conversation is eXtemporaneous speak
ing in the miniature. That we may be
as able to express freely without draw
strings of consciousness. the thoughts
We feel of sufficient Importance TO
mortgage peoples time, is the longing
of all You should be prepared with a
systematic method or form to assist
you to bring the thoughts to your
audience, then your knowledge will be
impaired in the most effective form. I
would like to give you this outline for
extemporaneous speaking. You must
! follow the psychological laws of the
mind in order to bring the most active
thinking in yourself
| First in taking up subject. take
| it as a whole, If in but sentence or
two. Second, have the parts picked out
while you are giving utterance to your
first thoughts. Deal with each part
separately. Third. show the relation of
each part to the whole subject, it's pur-
pose, it's use Lastly, relate the parts
to each other and the universe at
large. ~, VI
/ These are the natural workings of
the mind, and if followed will give as
a result an interesting, logical, extern
! All III,
matter of ease in arrangement of
| thought without any time in which to
! study out your process.
"All the foregoing preliminares are
| necessary. Let me repeat have knowl-
| edge of some kind and be so filled with
the subject that it can no longer hold it's
conservative boundary, but must out.
| knowledge gives assurance, effer-
vescence is lack of knowledge. Avoid
| this as tyou would poison. If your
| thoughts are of the husk species, must
not the same from verv starvation per-
| sh? Do not try to extemporize till you
have something Of value to some one,
| however small the number.
| ''Cultivate the thought: so broaden
| your thought by the knowledge of it,
around it, above it, that in it's very inn
l. mensty it takes entire control of you
and self-consciousness is lost in de-
sire to give to others an elevating or
educating or hopeful idea, as the case
may be. Educate in yourself the desire
to be every day you live, of use to, not
the selected few, but those with whom
you come in contact. Don't cater, but
be. Then. when the desire comes to
help Others it is the real materiaIfrom
WomanhoOd's store. This very desire,
|. together With knowledge back of 1T,
| breaks away the heavy stone wall of
Iself-consciousness that has been piled
| up year after year.
VT at eNyIr
speaking is generally characterized by
the strange, weird experience that your
mind is an absolute blank. Summon
will TO your aid. Determine YOU will
say. one thing if you never speak again.
! Once you conquer. the greatestsengage-
ment,of the battle is over.
! eAnd You as an audience are in q
great measure. - responsible for the
speakers success. # you sit in
dreamy, listless mood, she sees you.
| You have your immediate effect upon
her mind. Train yourselves to be good
listenerss Do not sit in the audience if
you cannot interest yourself in the topic
and speaker before you. Whatever IS
worth doing, is worth doing WELL even
listening. One important rule is to con-
vince yourself that from the moment
| you step upon the floor there is not an
adverse criticism for you. Realize in
your every attempt that your fellow
| club women are pledged to help
| YOU
The Woman's club of Anacoda, after
| having a weeks vacation during the
| Christmas holidays held a meeting yes
| terday. Three excellent papers We're
| read, the two on historical subjects be-
| ing written by Mrs. Richardson and
| Mrs. Eggleston, and the one on art by
| Mrs. Rockefeller. The most notable
feature of the meeting was the splen-
did talk on kindergarten work given by
Colonel Parker The ladies of the club
| enjoyed a rare treat in having this
! great educator among them. Miss
| O'Bannon became member of the club.
Tradition of the Wedding Ring.
| The wearing of the wedding ring on the
| third finger of the left hand follows the
| custom of the Egyptians, who believed
| that finger to be directly connected by a
slender nerve to the heart itself. And
| these ancient wOrShipprS NJ held tbis