The San Francisco call., 1904-11-14
BY LAURA BRIDE POWERS.

forth TO the farthermost ends Of the
state that an annual convention is
not a clearinghouse for the details Of
club-hOusekeeping.
The dollars and cents spent by an
Improvement club for the sprinkling
OF streets or the placing Of rubbish
cans on corners need not be expatiat-
ed upon in detail. It is enough to
know that the club is doing said work,
the correctness of the expenditures
being purely domestic matter. And
who. pray, would think of expatiating
80 public upon the expenses Of her
own household The cases are
analogous. Clubs are households of
8 large growth. and amenable to the
same laws Of government as the
Family
Therefore, clubwomen. in the inter
ests OF good taste and progression
and fewer headaches-in making your
future reports OF club doings. don't
pray don't-Fo into the infnitesimal
details OF your club work. For that,
there IS no time, because IL adds Moth
ing 10 the general interest OF your as
Eertons. We take IL for granted that
your bills are correct. State explicit
~ what your club has done, or plans
20 do, and let IL go at that; and let
the tine be given TO vital topics, such
cation. state Tubercular Hospitals,
Preservation OF Landmarks. Protec-
ton OF Forests. Reformation in Penal
1nstituuons-these and MANY more
live topics that directly concern the
worlds welfare and happiness.
When time Is given to such topics
rs these. delegates go back TO their
clubs with new things 70 think about
and new things TO do. And therein
S. fulhlled the primal object OF fedora
Iions and conventions-an interchange
Of ideas: and that these may be prop
erly ventilated. let US strive to elm
mate the unnecessary and meaning
less details-and this with all due re-
Epect TO the carefully prepared reports
ct Palo Alto, whose very earnestness
brought about their one defect-tedi-
GUS detail
The State Federation will convene
In Los Angeles IN February, and there
viii be hundreds Of reports TO be read.
Let every delegate thereto determine
20 chOose words that will but carry
her meaning, eliminate unnecessary
details. get a broad sweep Of her SUBJ
sect and get through on time.
True, this is disciplinary, and seem-
ingly harsh-when We all love so well
20 hear our own voices-but II is
Christian course. and the only sane
course. Long sessions, il matter not
how good the papers are, will pail
q whole day-and when, as in these
glorious days the fields are calling,
calling.
The Claiming Auxiliary. Mrs. W. r.
Wheeler president, provided an inter
esting afternoon for its members last
Monday, when the regular session was
held in the Unitarian parlors. A paper
on Fiction as a Moral Agent" read by
Mrs. George Oulton, VIII live long in
the annals OF the club With a deft
usage Of words, chosen with precision
10 fit a delicate theme, Mrs. Oulton
said, among other things, that novels
reflect an impression Of life, not a re-
production" From the time Of bards,
with their harps (who were the first
story tellers). the trend Of tales has
been love and adventure-novels deal
ing with truth, romance with fiction
In the realm OF imagination fiction
thrives; Imagination. God-given, is TO
be freely used by Gil who strive for the
field Of literature. Dumas fiction is no
bic, powerful and immortal, while Dau-
Oct is the most graceful Of French hu-
morists."
The reader spoke Of Balzac as under
standing supremely the pathology Of
the affections, while she attributed TO
George Sand the motherhood Of nat
uralism, with Flaubert it's father. The
closing lines Of the paper claimed even
the whole topic was cleverly sum-
married in a group OF terse, compre-
hensive paragraphs.
This Is the type Of paper that stimu-
1ates thought-and blessed be the thing
that promotes thought! We can't have
TOO much OF it in these degenerate
DAYS Of helter-skelter scrambling for su-
premacy. The afternoon was pleasant
~ terminated by two violin solos, exc
ruted in fetching fashion by Miss Elsa
Sherman and Miss Mills.
The Mills Club convened last Tuesday
afternoon IN the SOrosis clubhouse.
A music programme was given by
Mrs Ingeborg Larsen. who sang "Oh,
DRY Those Tears" and by Miss Mary
Pasmore and Miss Dorothy Pasmore.
who played compositions for piano and
cello.
Professor Josiah Keep Of Mills Col
1ege addressed the members on The
Poetry OF Shells" This talk was not
only instructive, but rich with imag-
fnative beauty
The Association Of Pioneer Women
Of California met on Friday afternoon
e. its headquarters at Golden Gate
Hall
with felicitations Mrs Anna McIn-
tyre presented her successor in the
chair. Mrs. Agnes 3. Macdonald, and
right gladly was she welcomed as pre-
siding officer, although ii was with
great reluctance that Mrs. Mcintyre
vas permitted to retire. It was under
Mrs McIntyre's regime that the or
Ranizati0n founded by Mrs. Noble Mar
tin has risen 10 its present prosperity.
The special work now in hand by the
Pioneer Women is the preparation Of
memorial 10 the next Legislature pc
tiOning for an appropriation to place
two statues Of California's pioneers in
the art rotunda at Washington. Now
this matter has been thoroughly can
vassed in this column before. The OBJ
5ect is most worthy, and the Pioneer
Women. by virtue Of their priority Of
residence and the honor due them in
consequence, seem to be the proper
body 10 memorialize the Legislature.
But the Native Daughters demand