Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-01-27

truth. We will be generous in our
judgment He may have been only
ignorant Probably he has not fol-
lowed the work of women's clubs.
He may not know that the club
women of America are behind the
most perfect child labor law in the
world. Perhaps he has not heard their
| fiat addressed to the employers of
children, ''You shall not take these
babies from the cradle to work in your
factories and shops! You shall not
drown the music of their laughter in
the whirr of your great machines.
Their shrill, glad voices shall con-
tinue to ring DOT in the poorest home.
We, the club women of America, love
these little ones and for every little
careworn face and every little tired
back you shall answer not only to
God but to usn'
Perhaps he does not know that the
club women of America stand for COM
pulsory education and that they are
behind all the best legislation along
this line.
DR.. Leach is probably ignorant of
the vacation schools the club women
have provided, of the travelling Ii
braries and great city libraries these
women support, of the sanitary i'm
provements they have secured all over
this country, of the milk commits
sioDs and improved hospital condi-
tions they have worked for and OBJ
tanned in many cities, of the changes
for the better in city tenement and
apartment houses brought about
through the revelations of club
women.
For the sake of DR.. Leach's soul
we will hope he is ignorant of all
these things.
have been in many club rooms and
L have yet to find women smoking and
drinking and 1 am at loss to under
stand where the learned divine OBJ
tanned his information.
We are interested in child study, in
mothers congresses, in kindergartens,
in clothing bureaus, in industrial
schools, in civic gardening, in irriga-
ton, in forestry, in the preservation
of historic sites, in everything that
will make the home or the community
happier or pleasantersplace to live
in. For this, DR.. Leach, we have no
apology. 1t does not give US time to
indulge in all manner of evil prac-
tices, as you seem to suppose.
We are a big army-we club women.
Some of US take up one thing and
some of US another, but we are all of
US trying to make this great world
such a cheerful place that even a mo-
rose, cynical fellow like you, DR..
Leach, can be happy in it.
Women's lives are not the easiest
lives in the world. They are burden
ed by thousand worries which men
know nothing of. Only a woman can
understand the trials of "the day
when everything goes wrong''-the
day when your housekeeper "gives no.
tice" before breakfast, when your
second girl lies groaning in bed with
imaginary ills, when the fire will not
burn, and breakfast is late, and Mary
goes whining about that she will be
late for school if you do not find her
hat, when your husbands most dis
agreeable relative writes to say she
will make you an extended visit. l
say no one but a woman can under
stand the trials of such a day. 1t
would be impossible for a woman to
keep her temper sweet in the midst of
such petty worries, as these, if she
had not outside interests to engage
part of her time and her attention.
Oute'de interests she will have. She
will 30 Lulrying cut OF her home in
search of something she does not find
there. Then we'll for her if some club
door be open, if warm hearted club
women open their arms to her, for
the frivolous life will have lost vic
tim. In that wholesome atmosphere
she will gain serenity and poise and
in that serious community she will
find honest, helpful friends. And
because she comes from their midst,
rested in soul and body, the home will
receive benediction too.
Says Olive Schreiner: 'There are
some among us who carry our banner
for mere pleasure and passive gain,
who obtain and abuse our privileges.
They are the parasites that sap our
strength. But most of US club
women because we love some idea the
club represents, because we believe
that the home and the community
need our patient services, to secure
thousand reforms, because we believe
'That out Of our failures and miscar-
riages the enwidened and beautiful
life of the future shall rise.''
Again Olive Schreiner has embodied
our ideal in the words, eve are child
rem of breed whose racial ideal was
no Helen of Troy, passed passively
from male hand to hand, but that
BrinhIld whom Sigurd found, that
warrior maid who gave him counsel,
the deepest that ever yet was given
to living man, and wrought on him to
the performing of great deeds
And so side by side with the men
we love, inspiring them to noble
effort, thinking no task too great for
our frail woman's strength, if it in
volve the happiness of home or state.
we the club women of America, have
taken up our Political, social, intel
lectual and philanthropic labors."
Many Reasons Why the Grand Jury