The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-12-13
Our
WOman'S
Department

The Saturday afternoon Club of
Ashland has recently organized with
% members.
The custom of reading articles from
the Portland Club journal lis becoming
prevalent at club meetings and the
publishers commend the practice for
the reason that the journal is de-
signed to be a medium and to cater
To- the needs Of the club.
out Of thirty-threc exhibitors at the
Camera club in Portland the past wool,
six were women Miss Bertha Brcv.
man. well known i'm Salem. received
first prize. Miss Breymau has held
the cup for two years now another
success makes It hers.
Florence May Wright. our local
poetess. contributes some charming
verses to the current number of the
Club Journal. Her work of late has
grown in depth and shows here and
there touches of true poetic genius.
Miss Wright's style of composition
is pleasing and her breadth of subject
indicates a spirit soulmlly eager to
solve for herself those questions on
metaphysical lines that confont the
thinking mind OF today
What might be said to be the effect
of club life upon the woman in her
own home may be considered perth.
mt question while this subject is
under discussion, says Mrs Robert
j. Burdette vice.presdont of the
National Federation For the average
woman, it has taken her away for
happy little whiles from certain daily
uaggng details of life many of which
she has thereby discovered were non.
essentials and super0uitics with her
the old gossip or talk of servants has
given place TO intelligent discussion
uf current events She has eliminated
from the minds of her children the
idea that Mother possessed only the !
affections and Father the intelligence
of the family. by bringing back TO !
the family table an intelligent interest
at least. in the subject that daily alb.
sorb thoughts of husband and children
sons as well as daughters. She has
learned to think Independently ana to
be wisely, as well as strongly sug-
gestive She has somehow learned
10 command the years to stand STILL
and though yet lavish as sunshine
with health and strength and life for
loves sake, she is ooasing to be- mean
and stngy and small over strectcar
fare, strings and paper bags.
Every time a woman goes 10 her
club she should return TO her home /
"a better companion for her children.
the best fellow ON earth, you know;
a better comrade for her husband
In the fullest and truest and freecst
sense of "comaraderie"-a better
home keeper, which is far more than
being a house.keeper
sst
DO you really think Il right 20 teach
the children that there is such a per
son as Santa Claus when all the while
you know there isn't, and when you
know too that before long they will
inevitably discover the deception.
Many conscientious mothers ask this
question seriously, They are siren
uous in inculcating truth into their
children and il seems TO them little |
short OF wickedness 10 interest child |
rem in a mythical parsonage whose |
home is in the cloud land Of the i'm
agination, and who has no visible |
and tangible hold upon reality and,
too, they dread the moral effect upon
their charges, when they are disil'
lusioned as in time they must be, Well
some Of US never are disillusioned.
Children are endowed with great rich
es in their power TO dream dreams
and see visions. They live in their
early years in a beautiful wonder
world out of which they emerge when
the school room gets them into its
routine and acquaints them with the
facts of life
Santa Claus as a literal entity ii is
true, has no existence. But Santa
Claus as a myth, as a genius OF uni
versal charity, as a spirit Of unfettered
kindness and good will is just as vital
and worthy Of our love as if we could
chain him fast 10 time and place.
Every age owns him and every hemis.
There. No, let us not rob childhood ,
1f this beautiful myth rather incul-
cate It's beautiful symbolism Of truth ,
-harity and love. .
To some minds il appears that the o.
daughters are not always as careful
II their parents as they should be. r
The modern mother seems 10 us in ,
yreat danger Of bafng abused Once