The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-05-24
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club Is a genial friend. But 60 at
odds with the world, or preoccupied
with matters of more immediate in
terest, or carry an apology instead
of the paper You we're to vii te, and
the club is carking care, an incu-
bus that You groan to be r.d Of.
A Few ladies got together one day,
and began to make history; for this
single act of "getting together" at
once became a custom, end to this
day "getting together" is the initia-
tive i'll every important movement.
Since the last moon some of our
friends got together in Washington,
and stirred up = hornets nest that
created an international buzz. O.,
it's a great to set the pace for nat
ION like ours! Well, this circle of
ladies foregathered, and invited a
few more; a short constitution and
two or three bylaws were adopted
to give tone to the secretary's book,
and that was the Saturday Club.
They walk softly before men.
They make small stir in the social
world, and few demands in a public
way. They have never sent miles of
petitions to congress, nor any num-
Der of nagging letters to the legislat
ure, for which I know they have your
gratitude. And hence 4 few are
uncertain as to their very name,
whils many neither know nor care
whether they write Volapuk. or read
Boer, or walk Spanish"
They deny that they write poetry
as habit. They do not make verses
for pastIme, nor for a livelihood in
these lion -and-lamb-like davs; it is
only when some burning issue de-
mands it that they lend their pen
and their fervor. to lofty and vigor-
Gus verse.
Late events show that they place a
low estimate on their right of SUIT
frage, as exercised in School Board
elections. Perhaps because they
have proved it snare. perhaps be-
cause possession is nine tenths Of the
law of depreciation, perhaps because
they have not scanned Alright the Zine
potentialities of the hour" But
with the chagrin of personal exper-
fence, l charge them not to 60 near
the polls till they get used to voting;
for believe the Australian ballot,
under the guise of free vote and an
honest count, or whatever that jingle
is, was devised by the the enemy for
the discontinue and political ship
wreck of women.
1 am glad my club is not very
largely spinsterdom. The cry for
wives and mothers has been heard
there. Yet they do not assume ex-
travagant airs on that account, for
they have been told that Jezebel was
a wife and mother, and Lucrezia
Borgia, too; and SO, for that matter,
was Mrs. Jellyby, if there ever was
''any such person." Their families
have dinner on washday, and are not
afraid to 60 home to their meals in
the house-cleaning season.
They are the same enigmas that
their grandmothers were, the same
parado1es. They are and they are
not; they do, and they don't. They
talk about the Catacombs with the
that BELTS an Easter bon
net, yet they adore those Gloves of
bonnets." They enjoy "pink teas"
and ''Shakespears lunches" yet they
earnestly desire the domestic peace
Of Utah. They have the prophets
'peculatlons. They see visions of a
broader intelligence, with less of
and less Of childishness.
They dream that benevolencs, and
purity, and sslf-effacement shall be
along with their deep con-
'iction that they are destined to be
what they most admire, and then to
'e helpful in helping. They are
,rophecy-of woman's attainment in
hings intellectual, and things spirit
,al; and in proportion as they are
'ble to discern the face of Truth, and
each out to grasp, and assimilate, G
md dif1use, they are their own full i
illment.
And because clubs and club wom-
N abound in community, we must
ook for its gradual social betterment,
with the poet, that "a
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