The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-27
GEORGIA AND MASSACHUSETTS
CLUB FEDERATIoNS.


Georgia and Massachusetts, women are
emulating each other in GOOD WORKS.
Georgia played a fine hand at the bien-
NAL last summer when the Federation oA
Women's Clubs met on the PACING coast.
Now Massachusetts, returns her LEAD with
q brilliant and a generous caro-. AL the
recent meeting Of the MASSACHUSETTS
Federation of Women's Clubs the mem
bers pledged themselves to supply and
support a. complete model school in rural
Georgia, like the two already established
there by the splendid efforts OF Mrs. J.
Lindsey Johnson, Mrs. A. o. Granger ana
their earnest co-workers
All club women remember the hard
fought battle on the color line last year
between the Massachusetts, and Georgia
federations. and increasing respect 10 won
when they add to the firm conference OF
their individuality. the beautiful magma
nimity of expanding dimensions
The correspondence on the subject, as
given by The Atlanta Constitution and
The Southern Woman, with editorial
comment Is most interesting reading
food for thought. and new inspiration for
Mes endeavors and lifa's joys
A great teacher in Maine college
recently said: Ethics and architecture
are both ideal pursuits having as their
object to make a present ideal plan into
future fact. In one is the law of love.
in the other the law of gravity. 1t is
Just as undenia BILE. unacceptable a fact OF
ethics that the aim of noble and blessed
life must fall outside its own individual
interest, as It Is an undeniable, unescapa-
bic rule of architecture that the centre
OF gravity of a stable grateful structure
must fall within its base"
Massachusetts, and Georgia are taking
the lead in the most vital movement of
the present era in the South. Inc story
of the efficiencies and achievements Of
these women in the back lands OF civili-
xation will be more charming than ro-
nance when the future historian of our
country shall write its record.
The two things which distinguish the pre-
sent century are as finely pointed out by
John Ftske's posthumons article in No
vember Harper's-the creation of me-
ehanical force in material things. and
the unifcation of nature in intellectual
things
There is in spiritual things. a greater
nobler advance-the splendid discovery
that working with each other is better
than working for each other. One may
create halo or at least polish the
crowns Of the doors Of charity at the
risk of discouraging the industrious by
eoualing their profits with those Of the
shiftless The other is character build
tng. soul developing. a gradual and
cumulative reVelatlon OF tne laws ol
nature and of God
1t is a fine thing to write good club
papers on such subjects, 1t is finer thing
10 live them as the Georgia and Mas
sachusetts women are doing
All honor to the Massachusetts Fedora
Gion Of Womens Clubs.
RECOGNITION OF
MONTGOMERY WOMAN.
The public schools of Birmingham have
had put on their list for supplementary
reading King Arthur and his court by
Miss Nimmo Greene of this city. Some
time ago members of the Mothers Union
brought their request before individual
members of the Montgomery Education
Board for its adoption In our city schools.
As is well known this action has been
taken by several schools in the East and
North.
No better gift for Christmas could be
selected by parents than the library edi-
ton of King Arthur and His Court, -
for the book is. to speak somewhat as
Thsckeray oncS spoke. "a universal benz
fit to the world Of childhood, and a per-
eonal kindness to every girl and boy who
reads it,"