The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-01
Amomg the Club W0mem.

The woman's club Of Butte VIII meet
in regular meeting on Wednesday after
noon at 2:3O o'clock.
Mrs. A. II. wethey has charge.of the
current cents department for January
and the Dreyfus case as the
subject for consideration on wednes-
day. The literature department will
present the papers or Emerson and W.
D.. Howells.
With the first Of the new year. the
Woman's club takes up Its work with
a membership Of nearly 100. Those
wishing to unite with the club should
ave their applications sent In at once.
as the only election 70 membership this
month will take place on the 18th. n
all ame must be presented to the club
one week previous 20 election. The
constitution requires that the member
ship committed shall receive all appli-
cants' names and pass upon them ia
vorably before they are brought up for
consideration before the club. There
fore all names should be in the posses
sion of the membership committee not
later than the first OF ach month.
The woman's club Of Muncie. Ind.
has been i'm existence for % years and
has never had a vacation. Apparently
IL Is not weary OF well doing. for ~ has
just voted down "A vacation proposition
and It's club year will continue to num-
Der IL months.
The federated clubs of Muncie are
making war on approximations on the
sidewalks. They have petitioned the
city council To pass an ordnance. and
the prospects are that this will be done.
But when IL comes tn enforciH~ *. aye.
fharasG the ruth Tho aafftfan xgnG
signed by 20 clubs. representing loco
women.
II the conditions In any city ever re-
quired such "A law. Butte ought not To
be overlooked. Still Butte. the greatest
mining camp on earth. Is unlike other
cities and the smoke problem will have
To be solved before a crusade against
approximations on sidewalks Is begun.
The Eastern club women are accus-
toned to leading the wa in all re-
forms. Recently one of them wrote 10
a local club woman and wanted to
know IL the club women Of Butte
nuisance which the newspapers were
full of.
We regret hat items OF historical in
terest relating To the organization AMI
growth Of the Fortnightly club of Hell
tid dlliNth wv iaht Ati ~ IN
issue.
The Homer club OF Suite can no
longer claim the distinction of being
the Oldest club i'm the state. since the
Fortnightly club dates its existence
from the year 1855. three years prior
to the Homer's first meeting. The Fort
nightly also has the distinction of hav-
ing organized n year previously to
the first preliminary meeting. or two
years before the permanent organiza-
ton OF the General Federation OF Wom-
ems clubs.
The original organizers Of the Fort
nightly began studying English litera-
ture I'm 1SsS and have kept on ever since
studying some seven or eight months
Of each year. The club meets always
at a private house and Is now limited
to %. so that IL shall not be too large
for a parlor. Topics are treated orally
or In written papers. Since its organ
ization the club has studied shakes
peare. Browning. Emerson. George Ella
lot. Carlyle and others and has taken
up this year a course of Present Day
Poets"
In the compilation of it's programme
for 1s9s-99. the Fortnightly leads all
other clubs i'm the state in so far as IL
Is abreast OF the most advanced meth
ODDS of systematic club study. The pro-
gramme IL furnished by the Poet Lore
NNiildhs
More and more the clubs. especially
study clubs. are beginning To realize
that the getting up Of "a programme Is
properly the work Of specialists. Much
time IL lost by giving notice to minor
and unimportant subjects. while others
which will endure through all ages are
skipped over lightly. In history. moth
ing is gained by simply storing up a
collection Of facts; the causes which
lead up to events and the influence
these events a " had pon later pc
RODS constitute the knowledge worth
delving for. As in history. so with all
other studies. IL is not the mere shell.
the husk. but the principle which makes
all things possible.
Too many club women think only Of
being entertained at the club meeting
they don't know much about what was
said or done. they only know that
everything passed on smoothly and the
afternoon was a pleasant one. But the
earnest student cannot fail TO observe
the great danger threatening the
women's club-the frantic effort to
grasp everything in %sight-and long for
the time when club women will under
take less and accomplish more.