Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-14
CLUB CHAT.

For twenty years the Staten Island
Diet Kitchen association has worked
among the poor providing grauit0usly
nourishing food Tor the needy Sic. In
the county OF Richmond. The assJga.
ton was founded by Mrs w. W. nc.
Farland, ana has grown steadily In
usefulness ana prosperity Today il
owns a handsome commOdious stone
house IN IOmuhOuse in TompklnsVIe,
Tor years II has kept free from debt
ana has I'm It's treasury a sum sufficient
10 tide 1t over any sudden emergency
that may arise Each year II Wldgns
a little more lbs field. and 50 thorough.
practical, and quick are rs efforts
that II lessons considerably the suffer.
lngs among the sick who are too poor
10 provide for themselves with suita.
BILE diet during their illness and conya-
lenscence. Food Is distributed daily
on the written reQuisition Of any ply.
slcian, and from nifty to a hundred
patients are supplied every day with
beef tea, mutton broth, milk, eggs,
jelly, rice, farina. oatmeal. cornslafch.
and barley, each and all OF which are
skilfully prepared when the recipient s
unable 10 do It properly The order
given each patient Is good only for
two weeks. but II may be renewed at
the end Of that time If the patient needs
further attention. Many, indeed. are
supplied daily with articles OK food
throughout the greater part OF the year
as In the case OF some cOnsumptiyeS
who are not received In hospitals and
those afflicted with incurabe diseases
AZ Thanksgiving and Christmas boun.
titul baskets OF provisions are sent %
the families Of those under the care o..
the association during the preceding
year.
The faculty Of pure science Of COL
umbia university. New York State. al
It's last meeting decided to allow wo'
men who had taken the baccalaureaN
degree in recognized college ana were
candidates for higher degrees at col.
umbia. TO use the laboratories and
other facilities for work In astronomy
botany, geometry and physics.
Mrs. Jennie June Croly has this TO
say Of the formation Of wOmans clubs
Each one, started at different times
and under varying conditions, by an
apparently simultaneous impulse, be-
came an embodiment OF purely demo-
cratic and altruistic ideas Each for
all and all for each, was the motive
which inspired their work and action,
creating In time a curlously strong and
vital sense OK fellowship and unity ol
spirit and action. The first effort o.
these clubs was 10 form a more or less
elastic organization and acquire order.
ly-that Is, parliamentary--methods o.
procedure. This alone 10 women
whose lives had previously been, for
the most part, isolated and desul 0rN
though perhaps filled with domesie
cares was a tremendous step lu al-
vance.
For II must be remembered that ths
club life OF women did not begin WIN
women leaders and agitators. lt ady9-
Gated no propaganda, II simply du'
dressed Itself TO the women inthe nom1
ana endeayOred 10 satisfy her desire %
know. and make herself more Vidsy
useful,
one way for the women IN smah
towns 10 get the wherewithal ior W.
age improvement work Is ~ follow lhs
unique example Of the Kansas CIV
women.
Wishing 10 have a park that could 70
proudly pointed out, Instead Of "a neg
ected piece Of ground. these women a'
'anged with their city fathers 90 hsNs
lalf Of the dog tax They promises
20 use the money Tor park improvement
purposes That was two years 1go'
lnd now, after an expenditure ol gov"
lNV huga "a ftur III fNat a. a. furN
The untaXed dog, you may be sulT
las had his day in Kansas City.
Speaking Of conventions, the oHe.
lay when the new president OF Wv
National society Of New England Wo.
len was being installed In Office uv
husband received from the husuanss
Y The retiring president a big pui.5i
u yiolets [he accompanying va.
vas inscribed Greeting and sympN
hy.'
That question Of reorganization az
used in a lively manner at the w
ago Womens club recently keH,s
emile rap from Jennie June W.uss
nown as the mother Of women ciuy,
u these parts, where the senuHl-
GEMS 20 be largely IN favor Of o. n
Ional organization made up on %
EXAMINATIONS, II may be interesllhs
ear an argument from the 'indif'1sest
lub' side Al any rate, In the 20
umber OF The Cluh-woman she ~
In the method Of reorganlA1 "a
lggested OF sacrificing the genera
deratlon, history repeats w.,
'hat would The United states p.sr
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