Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-04-07

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Rawllns Mrs. J. D. Spencer IL chair
man Tor the day and the subject is
Robert Browning
Women engaged in phllanthropic
work among young children have been
dsheartened summer after summer at
their inability to provide a place In
the country or at the seaside for sick
Infants Through the generosity Of two
women, who wish their names withheld
IRON publication, an infants hospital
and a beach pavilion viii be built at
Coney Island this summer The new
buildings VIII be an extension 20 those
owned there by the Childrens Aid so,
cleiy OF Brooklyn, 10 whom the gift
Oh $4,000 for the purpose was made,
me hospital Will be reserved for cases
OF critical Illness. The main floor win
be divided into number Of rooms. so
as 10 permit mothers TO be with their
sick children. The buildings are TO be
finished in time for the summer sea-
son.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union Of New York is d.
rectng attention TO preventive
and correctional work among child
rem. il has proposed 10 the sheriff OF
Kings county a plan OF appointing
special deputy sheriffs whose duty IL
shall be to discover and, II necessary,
arrest juvenile offenders In a crusade
10 suppress juvenile crime and reclaim
offenders. In their letter to the sheriff
the committee call attention TO street.
gambling, the assembling at improper
times and places OF the youth OF both
sexes, the Illegal use OF tobacco and In.
IoNicants and other petty offences.
They suggest that II from two 10 four
representative men from each OF the
churches were vested with authority
as special officers. there would be a
prompt and growing decrease In this
wrong-doing. 1t would be brought
about" they say mot by making ar
rest, primarily, but by the establish
ment OF a strong public sentiment in
favor Of the right"
The sheriff has approved the plan,
and has appointed a committee. con-
slsting OF five clergymen, a teacher In
the public schools. and representatives
OF the churches, who have authority to
take the legal measures necessary 10
realizing this end, and whose duty Il
Us 10 create and stimulate a public SEN
timent for the protection OF the moral.
ty OF children.
Clubs conscientiously desiring 10 CO.
operate with school authorities may
md something 10 their advantage In
the place OF the wOman's club Melrose
Mass. II has three branches OF work
the decoration Of grammer schools with
pictures and works Of art applicable
10 the course Of study, the admission
OF two members Of the graduating class
OF the high school each year TO the
club as honorary members, leaving the
selection 70 the teachers. The last
branch Of the work Is the formation OF
Mothers clubs which viii give assist
anee to primary grades,
Three leading principles are presented
by the Massachusetts, State federation
In its Home Talent Day" programs.
Ito avoid mental confusion and TO
leave clear-cut definite impression.
only one subject should be presented
at a session, unless the subjects are
very closely allied.
MAKE sure that the topic selected
Is rich IN interest vital I'm its import.
and worthy Of serious study. As Ro-
settl wrote 20 a pOet-frend, Work
your material all you please. only be
sure II Is gold and worth working"
stake up the subject from different
points OF view. Usually. a subject has
several sides-historlcal. ethical. social.
and which should be devel.
oped IN the papers and discussion.
The adoption Of these rules wouldn't
be a dctriment 10 club meetings out
side OF the one specified by the fedora,
ton.
Mrs. Anna Maxwell Jones. secretary
OF the general federation Paris EXPOSE
ton committee, writes:
The Paris meeting OF the general
federation has been given up, also the
tour. still receive letters regarding
the tour, so I am advising State chair
men TO send notice 10 their most
widely read State newspapers, so that
no club woman may be disappointed.
Miss Helen N. Winslow advises club
women 10 take warning from the mem
tai status Of the following would-be
student:
John Swift the rapid reader, sat him
down 70 read.
Sermon, essay, poem, leader-what an
awful speed
Such omnivorous absorption no good
end attains:
John Swift, the rapid reader, ignorant
remains.
Even the cherished treasures OF the
china closet are not exempt from one
Womans little Ratchet. II all hap
pened 40 n meeting OF the Denver Wo-
mans club, and Miss Emily Miles was
the brave speaker who broke up your
sevres ware into a thousand atoms
and then said the scattered bits never
had been artistic, and that Sevres china
should have couventionallzed decorative
effects, not pictures that changed their Fl,
colors IN tring and were consequently
unnatural. As II that shatterng OF
your Ideal were not sufficient Miss
Miles went on 10 say that GObelin
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