El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-26

reading circle 1--WE did not venture to
call it a club thep), and got the biggest
gossip in the American colony for
president. We began by reading
| Prescott's Conquest of Mexico then
| We turned that woman loose on COrtez.
how she handled him, and led the rest
of US along. All we bad to do after
that to turn the current Of her CONVEX
sation was to say, What do you think
of Cortez, now Mrs.-?'"
Two recent articles on women's clubs
have contrasted the American club
idea and tho English club idea and the
difference seems to be mainly In that
Is educational, of the English
club social The English women
have club houses where they meet
their friends, go for luncheon or din
ner, where they can entertain more
easily than at home If the home cook
be deficient or the home parlors email,
and where out of town members may
come in, meet their friends, stop over
night, use the club for headquarters
for shopping and 50 on. It forms .
deliR htful intermediate place between
home and the hotel where one Is sure
Of ones own class Of women and where
the relations are not formal, yet one
may keep certsin undesired ones at q
distance and meet ones friends in
perfect intimacy. Incidental to this
social and utilitarian side there are
frequent lectures and classes held at
the clubs and often women find oppor.
tunities for developing their talents
through these clubs, but primarily
the club idea is social. In review OF
the history of womens' clubs In Ameri-
ca, Mrs. Croly, the president Of Sorosis,
New York etate among the church
women who objected to having to
raise moneys for foreign missions and
having no voice as to how IL should
be spent. Thus was formed the
Women's Home and Foreign Mission
Society. The club idea In our coun-
try is less than two score years old.
In 1868 there began to be discussions
of woman's right to control her proper
~ and earnings, make her will and
have control OF the children she bore.
Clubs defending her rights In these
directions sprang up In Boston and
New York and In 1859 the right
ings was granted in Wyoming, Mime
sofa and the District of Colum bis and
in Illinois they admitted as much as
her right to her own earnings. Nova
days clubs for every possible purpose
have been started and America is said
to have 500, 900 club women; further
more ninety five percent of this
number are married. Under the
federation movements, wOmens clubs
have immensely increased their work.
ing strength and all over our country
the club women have been giving
libraries and free hospitals to their
communities while the lectures and
classes have added immensely to the
advantages of the land.
social effects: GAS an open door to COZ.
tinued educational opportunities, % an
aid to higher social purpose and
standards, as destructive to caste
prejudices and an aid In promoting
unity upon non-psrtisan lines, the local
club has been of untold advantage
to all classes of women. = The
women's club idea, which Is broad,
high and noble, represents those
interests which are universal in their
spplica lion, and human, in the best
sense, in their purpose and character.
Florists for many years have been
exp 7rimentipg trying to get pink
American beauty rose but with no luck
grover developed one. The new rose
is said to be exactly like the American
beauty except in the color which is
flushed pale pink instead of the
rather heavy red. Some of this sea-
sons blossoms measure five inches In
so it will be no less proud
than the American Beauty. The Ame-
rican Beauty's wellpoised, lonR-endur-
ing and well-colored blossom ON the
long, stout, we'll leafed stem has
made Is the favorite that il is. We
may think the tea roses and old fash
Toned garden roses much the more
artistic and poetical, graceful and
beautiful. but they are not roses to
live in heated and brilliantly lighted
houses. They are too fragile for
fashion able society and SO the Ameri-
osn beauty, we'll Rroomed, stately and
to high life, queens it
at the balls, theatres. and receptions.
At Fort Worth the city federation
Of women's clubs is giving q series of
for the benefit of the
park funds. The city council has
awarded q certain sum for beautifying
the parks of the city and
the board Of trade park committee has
added to this so that with all three
In f1uences working together for the
park much is likely to be accom-
plished.
ELSIE MCELROY SLATER
Free Of Charge.
Any adult suffering from q cold set
lod thn q