The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-13

much enthusiasm as his speech had been
awaited with keen expectancy. He greeted
the guests as SISTER Members claim
ing that he was a half member and he
thought it fitting that he should appear
with greetings from the thousands of
other half members. He devoted himself
to the, task of giving the feelings and
thoughts of the club husbands suggested
by their observations of Women's work in
clubs He pronounced the club move
ment one Of the most stupendous phe-
nomena of. this day and generation ana
declared that it's effect on the home would
determine whether it should be criticized
or commended by club husbands In his
opinion the work Of the clubs had served
to make homes brighter, better and
stronger e..~-.ss - ...-.... ......
Judge Wilson regarded it a sad mis-
take to magnify. the tendency. among
women to try. to do a. MANS work. lie
| believed men and women are endowed
| with different talents and. that Jointly |
they can do what neither can do alone.
The highest. possibility of success in life
| comes through service for the home. !
Those who go through life without CIV
| ing service for others will miss happiness,
| one of the profoundest truths. of life
being wrapped up in the saying that he
IWho would save his life shall lose it. II
A cordial and sympathetic greeting
from Mrs. Lydia Phillips Williams, now
| in Florida, was read. ---:.s II.
Mrs. J. l.. Washburn of Duluth dealt
with the topic "Club Progress in an
allegorical way, making it very entertain
ing. She found that when the travellers
in the lane Of self-culture emerged on the
highway of altruism some of them ADAM
doned the safe but rather slow club
wagon for hobby horses that We're good
for speed short squirt but fell by
the way. She found the majority, how
ever, inclined to make careful and we'll
Lon ci1 rat or "a inl11
ing. She assured the audience that club
women were on the right road and had
useful vehicle in which to travel and
wished them Bon voyage" a p
Professor Sanford's Notable Address.
The effect of the closing toast by Pro
fessor Maria L. Sanford on Tomorrow"
was electrical and everyone was glad. to
have the gathering dismissed promptly to
} have all opportunity to, press about the
speaker and talk about it to her and to
others. The note of solemn earnestness
was struck in the first sentence in which
, Miss Sanford said that all light thoughts
had been driven out Of her mind by the
burden of the message on her heart-it
was the future of the young girls Of the
+. country. She said that she looked at
class after class going out from educa-
tional institutions her hopes were not un-
9 mixed with fears that girls were not be-
: | ing properly fitted for their future. She
: continued by saying that she had no sym
!. pathy for the opponents of co-education
e and that she asked no special favors fol-
!, girls. Her demand was for freeing them
Of the heavy handicap they now suffer
n | under in the matter of their physical
: training. She urged the mothers to give
t their first consideration to the health anC
d physical we'll being of their daughters, ad
S vising rather six years Of romping free
e dom than six years Of school under tho
|. conditions now laid upon a large proper
e ton of girls. She believed that will
: proper treatment a girl could readily have
: both vigorous health and a liberal edu
n cation but the first consideration is health
u This can only be kept by proper attention
;. to intelligent exercise, food, sleep ant
. dress. She scored sharply the thought
y less mothers who turned their daughter
~ over to dressmakers to be 'choked in tn
y neck, pinched in the waist and weighte
~ down with heavy dragging skirts tina
~ We're always dirty and often damp whe
their clothing should be planned to Civ
IT them complete freedom of movement. Ais
the neglect which permits her: to toll lat
into the night and go to school withou
n sufficient nourishment.
~ She advised taking out of school or tn
l. diminution Of school work for the gil
If who has grown nervous over her Studio
and thought the frightening Of the schot
t. period in this way an advantage rathe
IN than a.. detriment. During this period {
nv enforced mental idleness she would have
iii part of the wholesome exercise consiStil
ch of household duties, even to washing an
rx ironing as she was not advocating a ho
house nurture, but a sturdy growth.
In drawing on her own experience ST
told of her Inquiries at the universit
he where she found that the girls habitual
ne violated the rule that, corsets should NJ
It'll be worn during physical drill, a conditic
of affairs of which the mothers We're al
. parently ignorant, as they are of mai
other conditions menacing the health
i their daughters.
4 The program was interspersed with m.
j sic arranged by Mrs. r. r. Dorr and tt
u soloists were Mrs. Marie w. Graves al
Harry E. George, voeaEsts, and Har
Dorr, violinist. :,