The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-18

AS 1 am closing my term Of office, my
duties as president perhaps a brief re-
port OF my work will not be out Of place
have in that time visited thirty-hve
clubs, and have assisted in the organiza-
ton Of seven new clubs l represented
your Federation the rirst year at the
biennial at Denver, at the Trans Mississ-
ippl congress at Omaha and before the
Athaeneum at Kansas City . This year
have represented you In the reorganiza-
toin committee at Philadelphia and shall
represent you at Milwaukee in June as
one of the speakers on the program. I
have edited a club department for three
years in the Times-Journal, and have
been one of the state editors Of the
"Club Women" OF Boston and OF the
"Club Women" Of New York. And al
though my work has not always been
well done, I may say it was the best at
the time.
In visiting clubs this year, I have not
ed great improvements in the methods
and thoroughness of work, and in the
impersonal way in which club women
have learned to handle and discuss sub
jects of interest.
During these two years the clubs OF
the Federation have devoted much at
tention to the study of literature This
has been wise, for Hamilton Mabie tells
us that literature is really the cry of the
/ human soul. 1t is an expression Of what
Is deepest in a mans nature, under all
the varied experiences OF life. If this
| be true, then II is through the study Of
| literature that we can gain an insight in
= to the deep experiences that must come
| to us all. With what a fine lot Of peo-
' pie have we spent this winter, with these
people that live in literature, the learned
! and the We, the gentleand the good.
What a magnificent Federation Of won.-
en- we could select from the women who
live only in books. We could hold our
first annual meeting at Canford, dear old
Canford, that Mrs. GasKell tell us about.
How flattered and agitated little Miss
Matte would be over the entertainment
of such an august body. Romola, George
Elliot's Romola, tall ana graceful, with
her proudly poised head and it's crown
of golden hair should preside over this
| Federation with simple majesty, and
plain little Jane Eyre would make an ef-
ficient secretary. Seated on the platform,
you would find Dickens Lady Deadlock,
tanning herself with proud Indifference,
Mrs. Peter Sterling, the wife of the Hon
orable Peter Sterling, Lorna Doone of
EXmore, and the sad-eyed Evangeline
and the shrewd worldly Becky Sharp
with her patronizing air. Aurora Leigh
would talk to the Federation Of hign
ideals in club life. Betsey Trotwood,
tall, hard featured woman in a scant Law
ender gown, with a "janet-donkeys"
manner, would tell these club women
how to discipline their husbands. Shakes
peare's Porta would, 1 am sure, male
a strong plea for mercy in their cases.
What a number of quaint gentlewomeu
we should find in the Walter Scott dele
cation. The fair Rowena with the Saxon
face, and the dark-eyed Jewess, Rebecca,
and Annie of Gierstein and Catherine
Seton.
In the Dickens delegation you would re-
cognize gentle Agnes, fair Ruth Pinch,
the sunny Esther Summerson and Lit
tie Dorrit
In the delegation s-om the United
States there would be Jessica Falconer
the great lady from Kentucky whose
life has gone softly all these years, and
the tall angular Miss Ophelia, the mod
est Priscilla Alden, of New England
and Aunt Serena and Janice Meredith.
ART RIGHT HERE.
When we nave neard "a the great So
cial reforms, the muniicent charities, tn >
building of great insti. ltions Of learning,
: accomplished by the club women OF the
! OIL states, we have many of us felt that
our work here has been made up Of such
little things, just the beginnings; and
sometimes we have underestimated oar
labors. The great Italian first noted that
: thrice only did Christ stretch forth his
hand to build a monument, and each time
1t was to immortalize a deed of humble
fedlity. Once a disciple gave a cup Of
cold water to one of Gods little ones
and won thereby imperishable renowu.
Once a woman broke an alabaster box
for her master, and 10, her deed has been
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