The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-16
New Club Maps Out Lines
of Effort.
THE SCOPE OF STUDY
The "Chairmen" of the Varions De.
partments Speak of Their Aims at
Meeting Yesterday-..From Louis
Nv to Babies and Chatting
nsehne
Dishes.

department or the woman S Ctub Oh
Raleigh gave the key to the situation
at the Agricultural Hall yesterday af-
ternoon. With this conviction the
club completes it's organization, and it
is this truth which gives assurance of
its future usefulness.
The meeting was called at four
O'Clock, Miss Heck, president, smiling,
Self-posed, ready, asked leave to an
swer before the heads of departments
should be heard FROM several ques-
tons which had come to her since
the preliminary meeting last week.
This, she said in effect. is a separ-
ate organization, having no concern
with anv other club or federation of
clubs. That there is a State fedora
ton Won all know. At some future
time you may see fit to join with them.
That time may never come. IT 1t
comes, when it comes. the question is
for you. This club is organized for
its own individual ends.
Southern women have a reputation
for bravery. OF two things they are
afraid, doing something unwomanly
and getting mixed uD with politics.
These things have no part in the Wo-
mans Club of Raleigh.
Membership is to be had on appli-
cation. and not by invitation. There
limits charter members or time in
which books shall be open for charter
members. You may see fit to close
them on a certain date. You may
think best to limit your membership
to a fixed number. These questions
are for you. After charter member
ship is closed one may apply with the
endorsement of member of the club
and be elected by majority of its
members.
This club was suggested at the home
of Mrs. Moffit five months ago. A
committee was appointed TO see what
could be done. You viii see how
faithfully they have worked. 1t was
thought that a general mention in
the newspapers would not meet with
full response. PostalS We're, there
fore, sent to women whose names were
secured from church and literary So
ceties No discrimination was in
tended
The chairman of each of the seven
departments will tell you of the work
projected in her sphere. Each mem
Der is expected to connect herself
with a. least one branch in which she
will be expected to work. All meet
ings will be open to. all members.
There will be a general monthly
meeting.
Mrs Wade Brown has the depart
ment of Music in charge. She spoke
straight from the shoulder. and with
entire faith in her cause. Music
stands first. She has Shakespeare S
anathema for the musicless. She
calls for work from those who are
and those who wish to be musicians,
talks of recitals by artists home
grown and imported, of lecture reel
tails by specialists. and dreams of
grand concerts and a musical library
i'm "A place accessible at all times to
all members, where they may read,
play. sing or dance as they are moved.
Mrs j. n. Holding rose to make a
plea for another phase of life which,
she approved, though perhaps not so
popular. Surely quite as important
Domestic Science. The rank of this
department was assured by the prom
Use to solve at it's January meeting the
very generally VeXed problem or 40
nestle service.
For the meetings to be held during
the first year the following topics are
arranged:
/. The Evolution Of the Home.
.. Light. Heat. Ventilation and
furnishing of the Home,
3. Problem of Domestic Science.
A. Lecture on Bacteria, by DR.
Lewis.
:. classification of Food. Great
Markets of the World. Marketing
Special Study Of Meats and NutrltiVe
Value of Foods, with illustrations and
Chatting dish demonstrations.
7. Art in the Household. Use ana
abuse of decoration.
Miss Susie Heck, in sprightly five
minutes talk took uD the cudgels for
Literature. Quite as popular she
said. as music. and as important as
Domestic Science.
She called on those Interested IN
her department to enjoy and to work
i'm such proportion as they might find
sport but not without the game.
Three courses of study are offered
for selections: The times of Louis ~.
the Victorian Age, and a Study OF
American Literature.
The lecture feature is TO be made
prominent.
Mrs. Moffitt to whom the genesis OF
tho club is traced. prefaced her talk
nv a few inspiring sentences concern
ing the spirit and meaning OF the
movement. In her special sphere oil
village Improvement, she was full OF
enthusiasm. Care of the streets
mine is y waste paper fight, she said
sanitary conditions, identifying OF
citv manning trees in waste places
caro- of trees, sidewalks. school
grounds. repairs on public buildings
things to be accomplished by the or
tsanized work of earnest women. Ano
most particularly is 1t MRS. Mollitt
10 Sir Walter Raleigh be pushed Tor
ward, built by the children of Raleigh
with this clubs assistance. in the form
noseiblv of public drinking foun-
tain.
There was a stampede for mem
bership in the child study department
ably projected by Mrs. Stevens, Wht
proved a warm champion of the child
The first six years of life are to be
studied under the following heads:
xe: tininitrincall llr aashralut mem
HereditF.
Development of mental actlvlties:
Order of development, instinct IN
buttons.
Social instincts. instinct OF making
DEVELOPMENT of rythm ana Iahc.
str~v-teiiing to youne children.
DEVELOPMENT of physical body.
Effect of physical growth upon dc
velopment of language.