The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-05

way before the federation was formed
but which now through it's president and
delegates could help in all work. The
club developes. the federation utilizes
She likened club life to the mountain
stream. flowing through barren sur
roundings. enriching and blessing, finally
growing into the mighty river. Fedora
't,on was the great thing. Each club, like
the bundle Of STICKS was perfect in its
way, but of small strength compared to
what both stick and club gained when
bound together. She urged loyalty and
Willingness to accept suggestions. New
vistas are opening up every day before
the club women. Here in Butte there is
mich work to be done. The health Of
fifrs should be upheld. The women
9kkbuld see that the new scavenger sys-
YIN. the boxes for waste paper the many
improvements DIR. Leggatt spoke of in
tladucing. be introduced, and speedily.
she urged the club women to see them
selves that the MISREPRESENTATION law
be enforced.
81 The federation pledged the clubs they
/ represented to take an active part in en-
Forcing this law, promising the board
Nj health to do SO. How will they dare
ask for favors in the future to have laws
iaSSeu IL tuey loIu lIelr nad1uS ana 80
to sleep over this. In city work preven-
ton is often better than anything else
She spoke of school visiting and thought
mothers should oftener visit the schools,
She ended with a story defining true
knight: Here lies st. James, a true
knight, and Elizabeth his wife. too. a
white SOUL One must remember the
miserable, the tempted, the poor, the
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word of cheer though your own heart
be sore and full Of sorrow. Then one
will be a true knight and a white soul in
the lists of the world.
Henry Mueller, chairman Of the board
of education. gave a forcible talk Of ten
minutes on the same subject, ard he in
deed gave the members food for thought,
earnest thought. He said 1t took con-
sidera BILE courage to bring him there: he
had indeed tried to secure a substitute
in vain. He did not flatter himself that
it was himself in his own personality
which had been paid the homer by the
club of asking him to speak, but to him
as the chairman of the board of cduca-
ton. The women had all tod what they
would do. He would speak CT what the
board would do. The board had formed
: . very different opinion of the Woman's
club since the masn ficent art exhibit.
They had won, by that work, the appre-
dation of every member CT that board.
Speaking for the board, he would say
that the board, when such an occasion
arose, would work with and heip the
women. They could count ON the hearty
cooperation of the board.
They had started the ball rolling and
paved the way for the time when the
identifying Of school rooms would not
have to be done by the work Of woman.
but by means OF the regular Sc,1ool fund
devoted to school purposes They had
shown how necessary the work was, and
how it should besdone. The time is COM
ing wh6 n this will he done; but for the
work Cf~1he women however, it never
would have been even on the way. So
much, so very much can be done by
women in united strength. He then
spoke of .sthe SPIT ordinance, as the
officials cSll it.
He had Travelled much here and
abroad and in large cities such an ord
nance was not necessary. He would NOT
cal Butte a mining, camp; it was noE /.
hut city of wealth and entrprise, ana
there was just enough Of the spirit of
the mining camp to make such an ordi-
nance necessary. 1t was the heritage of
her past. He spoke OF one thing the
women can do. He alluded to the red
light district. He said the social evil
they could not expect to abolish, but they
could lessen it. He stood in the ruins
of Pompeii recently and there were plain