The new age. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1902-190?, 1902-05-30
CLUB NOTES
The AfrO-American Woman,s cIuh

The club met on April 29th the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Parsons.
Each member was entitled to invite
one guest and all responded. The
meeting with an address by Mrs. M.
Il. Davis. The next on the programme
was an address by Rev. Jordan Allen
on Progress of Womens Clubs"
third, Mrs. Tate; fourth, Prof. Par.
sons symphony odchestra; next fol
lowed solo by Mrs. Parsons, accom-
~n1od by Mrs. Bullet; reading Dy
Gom Jones, subject. Progress of
1chee;" piano solo. Mrs. j. Bull
Life of Moses Dixon" read by
Gem Jones; select reading by
1ordon Curd; solo by Miss May
kentucky Babe" selection by
6nondolin club solo by Miss
~ Scott, Because" Mrs. Jose
II Jacobs read a paper on Club
She said: Our position today
Dorezting, sad and full of hope.
0oA4Sn Va Aobds lOl Nllt IIlOSl
never been slaves. but their con.
Dn with that institution is close
ooe, indeed, that they are the legi-
1o heirs OF most of its unhappy
11ge, but yet we are full of hope
0Uurage because We are producing
noration now pressing hard upon
cels whose spirit will be forever
ff0m the bliths of prejudice and
~ opportunity which has so
~ moulded ours. We believe in
onanhood and that womanhood
should not be bound by the narrow
lines of race or creed. Our womans
clubs Of today believe in the elevation
and the publication of the home. In
the past our women have not been able
to give proper attention along that line.
The late census declares that nearly
seventy out of evry one hundred col.
ored women in America go out to
work by the day or week or take work
into their homes. but this honest toll
does not tell more against our worth
and welfare than the luxurious ease
and idleness of the multiplied thou
sands We might name. AS a collective
our women's clubs are inaugurating
the establishment of kindergartens.
day nurseries and Industrial classes
which are least beginning to do some
thing to supplant the lack of attention
which working mothers are unable
to give to their children and their
homes. No class of women in America
have made such sacrifices under such
impediments for the culture and edu-
cation of their children as have ours.
until today in the high schools of the
leding cities throughout the north land
In the leading colleges and universi-
ties of America. our sons and daught-
ers are dividing honors with the best
brain and culture which white women
OF this country have been able to pro
duce throughout their generations #
untrampled opportunities. Our women
OF today have produced types of beauty
nnrivaled elsewhere in America or in
the world, a faithfulness and fidelity
unsurpassed, a sweetness of voice and
grace of movement seldom equaled.
We are accommodating property, build
ing characters, getting education,
wealth and culture, but with all our
progress we have in America today
race problem. The representatives
OF the people sit in Washington in
marble halls and make a football out
OF the constitutional rights of ten mil
lions of American citizens and free
men, with the crime of disfranchise-
chisement form of jim-crow ismis
either engrafted in constitutions of
the Southern states are sustained by
a brutal public sentiment there and
acquiesence of sentiment in the north.
no less cruel and unkind, but some OF
us remember other days when in our
captivity we were not like the daugh-
ters of Babylon, who hung their harp
upon the willows, We sang, and had
faith. We do not hang our harps upon
the willows now. We still have faith
and hope inthe future, but yesterday
our honor, sport and toy OF whlte
mans desire, today all this is changed