The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-06-12
PLAIN. FACTS
Concerning Women's Clubs. Food
for Thought to Those Preju.
diced Against Them. .:.

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Prepared by Rev. Thos. Hambly
of the NJ. E. church for the meeting
of Federation of Women's Club
May, 9th, but not delivered owing
to the lateness of the hour. Pub
lished by request Of the Club ladies
of Worthington. s'$: 4.
The club woman is>here to stay
She is q good article. She was needed
She came. The world only sale
upon her arrival, "why did you no.
come befores"
She does not ask sympathy com
miseration or patronage. She
would like your respect. She get.
1T. She makes no apology for hel
|presenoe. There are no apoloigistl
in her ranks. They need none
She has assumed a great commits
sion. -.
She walks into our cities and seyt
to the boodlers and grafters who
compose the boards Of public works.
"Clean up your Streets" and i'm.
mediately they are cleaned.
She goes down to school com
munity and inquiries into the condi-
ton of the school to see if the
children are clean and if they are
properly fed at home. She will
order parks built for school children
at the Park Board expense.
She inquiries into the kind OF
tea ching the scholars are receiving
and in time will rearrange our
barbarous methods and curriculum
of studies so that our children can
go through the high school safely
and not find that it's door of exit il
the threshold of the grave. She
deals with the practical and the
esthetical. She is one of the marve.
| lous evolutions of the 10th century.
But what about her hubsand You
will have to ask him.
I will hazard an opinion. He il
not the handsomest man in the com
munity, because q club woman never
has time to trim him up. Great
minds never dress the being any
more than painter or carpenter
keeps his buildings in order or an
upholsterer his household furniture
! in repair; a blacksmith his horse
shod or doctor attends to the
health Of his own family. This il
on the same principle that you
never find standard beauty among
school teachers, Sunday school
teachers, church chojrs, VIC. T.U's.
womaps rights organizations, etc.
etc. Beauty is only found among
the constant unremitting attendants
of the tennis courts and golf grounds
and the loafers at the summer. or
winter resorts, and when you find it
it is thing that you would hardly
pluck; for like the peach blossom OF
the marsh fern it fades and loses
it's buoyancy before you reach you,
home. Genius develops beauty;
brain admires but does not deal in
it. So the husband of the club
woman is not the slickest man in
town. He can be seen as often al
almost any other high class bene
dict at an unusual hour strolline
into the Worthington Hotel or thu
Central restaurant for meal or sit
ting upon his own doorstep long
after tho supper hour waiting fol
his wife to return from the club il
} possession Of the key. He never OK
poets to see his children amount Il
} anything more than average child
rem. Busy, brainy women never
produce great brainy offspring. Big
hearted, big Drained women witt
splendid equipoise- and that WORD
carries with it judgement, self poss
ession, control and basketball Of
other measureless meanings-are
kthe women, not the over busy ones
THAT have launched human barks
upon the fathomless waters of life.
! The frame work Of the great
freighters and of the armament
which thunder strike the walls OF
rock built cities" have been built
with measured strokes. But the
world needs more men and women OF
average greatness and in this know
ledge the husband Of the club