Arizona republican., 1901-11-24

lords of their city, for they are allowed to hold their meetings in the council chamber.
 A number of Minnesota clubs open their rooms on market days to farmers wives and children, who are glad of a comfortable place to rest after their shopping, while they wait for their "men folks"
 I would not overlook the noble effort of Kentucky club women to improve the condition of the mountaineers of their state by means of travelling li- braries. At first the people were sus- picious and afraid to use the books, fearing they were not free, but mem bers of the library committee visited them in their homes and treasured them, read to them and left books in each locality, trusting that they will not only be useful to those who can read. but that they will challenge others to learn.
 The College Women's club of New York city. with a membership of 200 loans money without interest to strug- gling women students. The Chicago Woman's club, membership about $50 touches the great city's interests at many points, through its six depart ments. The department of education. for example, supplements the school
 
 ing playgrounds and decorating school rooms. while it's auxiliary outgrowth. the School Children'S Aid society, fur nishes clothing for thousands of chill dren who otherwise would have to re- main out of school for lack of admis- siblc apparel. These cases taken at random from among hundreds, do not even typify the broad scope of helpful philanthrpies carried on by women's clubs. They simply illustrate a few points in support of our argument that in the wider areas of life, as in the home, women will in the main be moth erly and sisterly because it is their nature to be-" and if they become in terested in the public parks and streets they will. as in the paths and flower beds about their homes, fix them up to look prettier. as a rule, than their hus- bands and brothers would, if carrying out their own designs, unaided by the suggestions of women. As Mrs. Sewan has well said, cooperation promises the best results.
 We no longer lack masculine encour- agement. The broadest shouldered man of my acquaintance starts the fire and puts the kettle on if he happens to get home from his office before his s'wife gets home from her club. Sometimes our generous brothers make compari- sons galantly unfavorable to them selves. as when the London correspond ent of the New York Tribune. reporting the international council of women. said of the speakers: They have neither hemmed nor hawed. like the noble lords who disqualified women for service in the metropolitan council, but have spoken with cleverness and flu ency."
 Some of us read Rev. Robert Bur dette's racy letter from Rome last winter in which he recounted some facts concerning a woman's club in the fourth century. composed of patrician Roman danes, who held their meetings in the palace of the noble widow AL pima. They met to study the new philosophy of Christianity, had classes in Greek. that they might read the Mss. of the teachers and historians for themselves. Some even learned He brew in order to get the original flavor of the psalms. Marceila, the daughter of Albina, and her friend, Paula, both members of the woman's club. assisted Jerome in making the Vulgate transla- ton of the Bible- Melaina, another member. went to the Holy Land and gave of her wealth to feed the starving Christians there, who were under the ban of the empire. When arrested she sent a message to the proconsul as- serting her standing in the Roman world and quoting a few names of power before which the provincial gov ernor trembled. and he hastened to set her free. Mir. Burdette remarked: 'The brown -gowned pilgrim who had jour neyed from Rome on club work knew enough about practical politics to take care of her own rights
 The wife of an eminent Chicago nh mo 10 woman's club to please her husband He thought she needed diversion from household cares. and that the complete change of thought was for her health.
 Had they seen what we would do in our clubs men would have greeted us fraternally at Nthe start. They were conservative only because they felt that the deepest welfare of the race was in our keeping and that too much was at stake to risk the untried. How could they know that we would not smoke cigarettes and gossip and drink whiskey and water and put our feet on the table-all under cover of our club ? How could they Know that when Soro- sis should be presented with a loving cup by sister clubs it would be filled with roses instead of with the stuff that moveth itself. and that at our an- nual banquets we should be able to dine eloquently without wine?"
 A few clubs, notably the Twentieth Century of Boston, forecast the organ ization which must afford the best op- portunity for intellectual culture and social power, and which will ultimately 1 prevail the club whose membership i, consists of both men and women.
 I know a woman who confesses that ! s.-e has no inspiration to cook, unless | there are to be men at the feast" and she uncovers a deep principle in the na- ture of every normal woman. Neither | men nor women do their brightest and | best, save only as they work with and | for one another.
 As nearly we can learn men have i