Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-22

the meetings an hour will be devoted
TO the study of New England, ana an
hour to the topics of the day.
The Pierian Club of Pressure Isle Is
studying London, this season. The
club has also voted to have music day
each month. At the opening meeting
Mrs. F. l.. White gave paper on Con
temporary History" and Mrs. Arthur
Gerow one on Roman London" The
officers elected for the ensuing year.
are: President, Miss Myra F. Vickery;
vice president, Mrs. Nora E. Perry; re-
cording secretary, Mrs. Arthur GeroW'
corresponding secretary, Miss Mary +.
Collins; treasurer Mrs. Nellie F. Per-
ry; members of executive board, Mrs.
Eta Blake, Mrs. M. L. II. White, Mrs.
Alice b. Smart, Mrs. Dora May Fer
maid; program committee, literary Mrs.
Della II. Stevens, Mrs. Grace NJ. Smith,
Mrs. Lottie Belle Lowrey; musical,
Mrs. Lulu Pratt Upham. Mrs. Dora nj.
Fernald Mrs. Margaret b. Stevens;
committee on resolutions and courte-
sizes. Miss Myra F. Vickery, Mrs. Ida f.
Mcnamara. Mrs. Laila F. Graves; edu-
cational committee, Mrs. NJ. l.. L.
White, Mrs. Nellie Perry. Miss Eta
Perry. The meetings will continue un-
til March %, inclusive. The annual
banquet will take place April 4.
The Woman's Literary Club of Carl
bou, has raised the sum of $50 towards
the salary of the instructor of vocal
music in the public schools of that
town.
Seeking preferment in the club will
stultify Il womans heart and brain
surely, but not more surely than the
pathetic scramble for social position
outside the clubs We so constantly see.
The matter is apparent to every on
locker in either case. The woman who
spends her thoughts and aspirations in
the effort to pull herself into the up
per set may gain her world, but she
has lost her soul in doing it and the
woman who wastes her club privileges
| in effort for Office will have lost the
! good her club might have given her and
gained little else than criticism and
! mpt.-l'annie H. Howard, in the
Club Woman.
Portland Advertiser: A great deal
| has been said. in fun and in earnest
/ about the new woman" and about
| Women'S clubs. Some of it has been
true and a great deal untrue. The wo-
mans club movement has undoubtedly
| contributed iberally to the progress of
! the past few years. 1t has given the
modern club woman something to think
about beside the routine of household
duties and the burden of household
cares. Custom and tradition and false
ethics have committed many crimes
against womankind in the bygone years
and the wonder has been that before
modern ideas came to the rescue, her
mind did not suffer as much from the
narrowing process as do the feet of the
| Chinese woman from the torture that
the Oriental custom imposes. OF course
| there are clubwomen and clubwomen,
but that is another story.
| The woman who is careful to main
tain the proper balance between
her home duties and her club
| interests will never be likely to
be called "new' woman in the
opprobrious sense. If she does this
she will be broader and better, more
patient and better tempered, more in
| terested herself and more interesting
and attractive to others because she
meets other women in the club meet
ing and takes an active part in the va
rious interests which such clubs engage
in. She will be a better daughter,
better wife and a better mother. 1t is
only when she loses the balance and
allows club and public interests to out
weigh the interests of home and family
that she shows an evil effect from the
! club influence.