The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-18
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like a broken vase whose perfume has
exhaled for two thousand years and shall
go one dlffusing sweetness TO the end OF
time Last Of all. after the rich mer of
Alexandria had cast their rattlng gold
into the brazen treasury, a poor woman
cast a speck of dust called two mites,
and To- the humble deed gave her en-
during recollection" When we grow dis
couraged let us then remember that ours
is a world in which life's most perfect
gifts and sweetest blessings are little
things. In many Of the small towkns of
the two territories, there are women,
lonely, deprived of literature. lecture, and
the refining influences that only time and
weoith can bring, who are ready, just
waiting, for a leader TO organize them
into a club, where they may come to-
gether and share with each other their
few books, their pleasant thoughts and
sympathetic greetings Here then is a
work for US all during the next year.
BY the time Of another meeting, we may
double our membership If we will.
You will remember It was morning "on
hiss and stream and tree" and morning
in the young knights heart when Sir
Launfal went in search OF the Holy Grail
And there was never a leaf on bush ami
tree" when Sir Launfal, an old mau,
bent and frail, came home from his
search for the Holy Grail. And that
Christ came to him and said:
Behold 1t is ] be not afraid,
THE Holy Supper is kept indeed
with what we share with anothers
need.
Not what we give but what we share,
THE gift without the giver is bare
who gives himself with his aims feeds
three,
Himself. his hungering neighbor and
me-"
And you will remember that Sir Laun-
fal found the Holy Grail in the loaf of
bread and the cup of ice cold water that
he shared with the leper right at his
own castle gate
So 1 am sure club women, that there
is work for us all, and that it is right
here at our own gate. Every club has
a mission. Ii may be to feed the nun
cry or to clothe the poor 1t may be u
make people healthy and strong by keep
ing the streets and alleys clean, or by
planting trees under whose shade tired
men and sick women may rest or it may
be to make thinking men and women oy
founding libraries and reading rooms.
Whatever it is. it is right here where
Providence has placed us. Club work
like all other work. is judged by its
fruits. Let club women remember tha+
club work is only a means to an end;
that mothers meetings are not intended
TO take away the mothers responsibilities
but only to teach her the best way to dis
tie legs crushed by a passing train, and
when asked where his home was, replied;
playing on a railroad track, had his lit
you'll have to take me to papa's Cf-
flee, because mother has gone to a moth
ers' meeting to make a speech to tell
charge them.
We may recall the newspaper story of
the little six year old boy who, when
them how to take care of their little
boys" A washerwoman recently com-
mented in this fashion on her mistress
who was a club woman and who had
just read paper on How to Ameliorate
the Condition Of the Laboring Classes.
"She could meliorate a lot for me, If
she'd only be a little more careful about
f1inging things into the wash. I tell you.
the quickest way to meliorate the con
dition of the laboring class is to be
little more considerate Of the ones that
works for them" While these criticisms
do not apply to all club women, it is we'll
for us to ponder thes things and be like
Caesars wife, "above suspicion"