The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-28
HEAR MRS. BURDETTE
FIVE HUNDRED WOMEN ATTEND
RECEPTION IN HER HONOR
YESTERDAY
SPHERE OF WOMEN'S CLUBS
Work should Not De,.~..-- W"
u-.1;s I..G--;:AalSS of MemberA= .,
reception the Largest of
the Season.

Mrs Robert ]. Burdette was the guest
of honor yesterday afternoon at the ldi5-
est reception given in st. PAU TINS sea
son. The reception was held in the par
Iors OF the Commercial club, the cup !
women of the city acting as hostesses y !
number of Minneapolis women attenued |
The reception, and among the 500 women |
present were seen some very handsome |
gowns Mrs. BurGette, who wore fetch |
ing creation of tan etamine made over a |
slip of blue taffeta received with Mrs
". +. Graves. corresponding secretary of
the State Federation of Womens Clubs,
and joint committee from the Schubert,
New Century, Thursday and Civic clubs.
As a social affair the reception was one
of the most brilliant events of this sea-
son. The club rooms are ideal for large
affairs like that CT yesterday, and 1t was
hard to realize that there were about 500
women i'm the rooms. Tea was served in
the library adjoining the parlor Mrs.
George B. Young pouring the tea ana
Mrs Kenneth Clark presiding at the COT
fee urn During the receiving hours Miss
Homes Ladies orchestra played, and
Alexander Musgrove sang several solos.
Mrs Burdette proved a chamlng most
oss. evincing an unfagginS interest IN
every one she met, and she had some
thing new to say to each, in this way
winning for a friend every woman VINO
TOOK Her mana III greeting. <NLCSA 'A.C
guests had all arrived, Mrs. Rurdette was
formally introduced by Mrs. Condo Ham
lin. and talked for about half an hour on
club work AS a speaker, Mrs. Burdette
was no less charming and interesting
thar when receiving her guests.
She referred to women's clubs as or
ganized altruism." and said that their
greatest power laid in the moulding OF
public opinion. Club work ought not to
f1,O11 a
en- she said 1T ought, on the other
hand help them to be better wives, better
mothers and better home-makers. If
woman would be powerful she must be
intellectual. l am not one of the women
who is working fer the privilege of add
ing her vote to that of her husband, but
when that privilege comes, and [ believe
that it will come in the natural course OF
things, she must be ready to vote judi
ciously She must not add herself to the
already large class of ignorant voters.
She must remember, too, that there are
three sides to every question, Your side,
my side, and the inside, and the last is
far the most important She must realize
that it is not my right your right, but
your right and my right If we could
only be our own grandchildren We could,
of course, know better just whether We
were doing the best thing, but as it is we
must do what seems right g t the present
time, laying the best possible foundation
we are able to for the next generation.
above all things" warned the speaker,
''d0 what you do in a true wOmanly way.
Do not do anything to make the men love
us less / do not mean respect or mere
affection, but the tender kind of love, the
sort that the men bestowed upon us be-
fore we were club women. One of the
great advantages of the wOmans club is
that there she is not afraid to say L
don't know Women are better able to
answer the why's of their children than
before the time of the club, for through
the club they are kept in touch with the
world.
Il will be frank" concluded Mrs Bur-