Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-10

ton Of the overdone club woman, from
/, mans point of view, and we fancy il
is some women's viewpoint also.
| Edward scores the club Women un-
mercifully for tying TO master the
worlds literature IN one winters study
| He says in part:
The agility with which the average
lswoman's classes can fly from a series OF
three months study of English litera-
ttlre to three months study of German
literature, both in one winter, is enough
10 make one gasp. 1t is the same in arr,
music and the world of books. Here
IS the modest program for a single
month of four Tuesdays laid out by one
reading CIRCLE The first Tuesday,
Goethe and his works: the second Tues
cay, George Eliot and her books; the
third Tuesday, the Victorian poets; the
fourth Tuesday, the American New En-
GLAND school of'literature. And this is
no extreme but typical case OF a nun :
bred of these programs. l was given
the privilege of looking over these
Tuesday papers Chat is possibly one OF
Eddie's fales) and they were something
remarkable for their undigested intor-
ma ton"
The club woman who sees his article,
will want to go at him with a toma-
hawk. Personally We've no desire Tor
Eddie's scalp, inasmucf1 as we acknowl-
edge the truth of it. Two of our
friends. ex-club members, testify they
withdrew from their club because they
We're threatened with paralysis of the
brain brought about in the effort to
x,fs i&.i1i
term.
But speaking seriously. there is
whole lot of good sense in the editorial
There is, of course, another side to
the question, which we leave for the
club woman to present, since space
will not permit us to do more than
call attention to the article.
Here are a few pointers from the
editorial:
THE American woman has acquired
the habit of dabbling in many things
father than achieving power in any one
thing.
1T is rare to find woman VINO can
put one great thing first in her life,
as a man does, and then make all
other things secondary to 1t.
THE mind is receptive only when
it is free, and it is free only when it
is concentrated on the thing in hand
TO the exclusion of all else.
"a clever woman has become
woman who knows a little of a great
many things, and very little of what
she pretends to know.
.sThe really clever woman is she who
is clever enough to know that it is
given to each of us to know only one
thing well, and strives to set in action
every faculty given her to find out
that one thing, and then to master it.
True happiness lies within our reach
by being simply ourselves, and refus
ing to be what others think we should
be.
ITO know one thing thoroughly, and
to do that one thing in the very best
way that it can be done, is a mighty
big achievement, creditable to the best
of u.s."
John Kendrick Bangs tells good
story on. himself. Stepping one day,
into one of New Yorks largest book
stores and inquiring for some light
reading for summer vacation, he was
offered by the unsuspecting clerk one
of his own books. "Oh. don't want
that" said Bangs. Il can't read
Bangs"
We'll. do you know, responded the
clerk, Il can't either. don't see what
there is to Bangs. anyway
But the best joke on Bangs is. he
doesn't seem to know there are whole
lot of folks who feel just like the
clerk.