Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-11-15
CLUB WOMEN MET
Echoes from the state Federation Meet
ing Held at Lansing.

and Monday Oct. % proceeding the con
vention, every train bore delegates
from the four quarters of the state
The sessions were held in Represents
tive hall. Leading out from this were
reception rooms and Post Office where
letters could be written and received
appointments could be met, tete q
tetes held and questions answered,
The Art committee had beautiful
exhibit in the Governors parlor and
the Authors committee through the
courtesy OF the State Librarian had an
annex from the main room where the
works Of the federated club women
were on exhibition and Michigan has
large number OF talented women au-
thors.
l22 clubs have federated and each
one is entitled to , delegates and all
members of federated clubs are enti-
tied to entrance and to take part in
discussions. None but legates can
make motions or vote.
At the stroke of the gavel the five
hundred dignified women settled to or
der and as the order of business was
taken up, one could see that the age
Of pink and yellow teas and exclusive
clubs in this great movement had
passed. and that the word ''reform"
was the "key note 10 all their delib-
erations Seven thousand women is
the total membership OF the fedora
tion OF Michigan and W. en- such a
number of dignifed and scholarly
women are banded together, "their
works will follow them"
Wednesday evening a reception was
held in Maccabee hall. Over one
thousand women were crowded and
squeezed so that you could scarcely
move. On Thursday the whole feder-
alton and their friends by invitation
attended the dedicatory exercises Of
the woman's building at the Agricul-
tural College and partook of the ban
quet cooked and served by the girl
students.
The dedicatory exercises were held
in the Armory and a fine program rem
dered, President Snyder presiding and
music by the Lansing orchestra.
After the banquet DIR. KeGzie as
toast master introduced the speakers.
DR.. Eliza Mosher of the U. OF M. was
the first. Her toast, The Evolution Of
True Womanliness.
Prof Julia King OF the State Nor
NAL gave Greetings from the Normal
Schools Miss King said that schools
we're looking at the practical side of
training and the educational indus
trial training. 81 hope" says she,
'that the pupils Of the M. A. c. will
grow up, their mutual life sharing
with one another"
We need social culture just TO
practice ethics for culture, character
comes by doing; you have got TO live
it.
Mrs. lockwood, editor Mich. Far
mer household dept, toast Twentieth
Century Girls" She said, among other
good things, take as good care OF your
bodies as you do of your houseplants
and good health will follow. The 2Oth
century girl will fall in love and mar
ry the same as her mother and grand
mother before her. She will have a
home to keep and children to care for
which was the original plan for women.
How much better prepared will she be
for these duties by reason OF such a
two.fold education as that offered by
our M. A. G.
Hon. l.. w Watkins OF Manchester,
Mich, toast was "The Country for
Girls" He being young man, he said
he did not know much about girls any
way but he believed that the mothers
of country girls had less anxiety over
them than the mothers OF city girls
but Of all girls give him the American
girl.
Hon. G. j. Monroe OF South Haven,
toast, ''Some OF the things hoped for
from the Woman Slept" Said he was
not only going to brown his toast but
burn it "a little and predicted great
things in the future OF the Dept.
Hon. Jason Hammond, Lansing,
toast, "The Boys Side," full OF good
advice for the boys.
Julia Ball OF Hamburg, Mich, toast
"Women helpmates rather than com
petitors OF men" Said that in compe
tition she was proving a bitter help
mate and thought the best helpmate'
on earth would be the NJ. A. G. girls
The college woman toast by Miss
Martha A. Heating, full OF gooC
thoughts. College life broadens won
en-.
Mrs. Martha S. Root of Bay Cit!
then presented the college with sever
al trees, one a Japanese Ginko tree.
Mrs. Immen OF Grand Rapids pre-
scnted the Library with over two hun
dred volumes from clubs, Mrs. NJ