The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-05-24
The Saturday Club.

of Truth in the still and quiet air OF
delightful studies"
The term "club woman" was in
the recent past, such joke, that l
can scarcely believe this toast is offer
ed seriously tonight. II it is, then
the "Twice Five" have left their old
stamping-ground and come tardily
forward. They have mended not
only their ways, but their views, and
| | behold the new Sartor Resartus. l
apprehend, too in the not far distant
future, we shall have to cope with
the advanced man, and must heed the
timely warning.
In that past, not twenty years back,
men believed, and boldly said that
the woman who knew Greek and
and quoted Browning, was slipshod,
unkempt, with inky fingers, and her
men folks did their own mending. If
she could name the consultations, and
the seventeen sounds of ga" she was
untitled to nurse case of measles,
and it was a foregone conclusion that
she could never make pie like her
husbands mother used to. They
satirized her strong-mindedness, they
fouted her feeble-mindness, and pit
led her emotional bias. How long
and how many time has her hyster-
ia been cited to point a mournful
moral and adorn a fearful tale! And
| am not sure but it was appointed
to Queen Lii and the Empress of
China, rather than to Susan Il. An.
thony, to work this revolution in the
minds and hearts of the arrogant and
dictatorial half. The most touching
thing in my mind tonight, is the
thought that these Gargantuans, these
sons of the giant founder of that H.
lustrious order of men "who dine,
and dining drink withal," have invit-
ed three women's clubs to dine and
drink with them. And more than
that. to talk.
The Saturday Club, like any liter.
airy club, is bright, joyous, helpful
institution, or it is disagreeable,
chilly and dull. 1t depends largely
on how you take it, OH how you help
make it. You go to meeting pre-
pared to edify by instructing, or
amusing; you have your classic quo.
tation at the end of nimble tongue;
your paper is ready, say, on "Progres-
sive Oasis Parties in Stanley's Time;"
and you have few roints on the
fast-fltting current events, and the
club is genial friend. But 60 at
odds with the world, or preoccupied
with matters of more immediate in
terest, or carry an apology instead
OF the paper You were to write, and
the club is carking care, an incu-
bus that you groan to be rid Of.
A few ladies got together one day,
and began to make history; for this
slngle act of "getting together" at
once became custom, and to this
day "getting together" is the initia-
tive in every important movement.
Since the last moon some of our
friends got together in Washington,
and stirred up hornets nest that
created an international buzz. o,
it's great to set the pace for nat
ION like ours! Well, this circle of
ladies foregathered, and invited a
few more; short constitution and
two or three bylaws were adopted
to give tone to the secretary's book,
and that was the Saturday Club.
They walk softly before men.
They make small stir in the social
world, and few demands in a public
way. They have never sent miles OF
petitions to congress, nor any num-
ber of nagging letters to the legislat.
ure, for which know they have your
gratitude. And hence few are
uncertain as to their very name,
while many neither know nor care
whether they write Volapuk, or read
Boer, or walk Spanish.
They deny that they write poetry
as habit They do not make verses
for pastlme, nor for livelihood in
these lion nd-lamb.like DAYS; it is
only when some burning issue de-
mands it that they lend their pen
and their fervor to lofty and vigor-
Gus verse.
Late events show that they place a
low estimate on their right of sui
frage, as exercised in School Board