Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-26

would therefore recommend to our President the appointment of a com mittee-whether from our officers or the body of the Club, which shall can vas the possibilities of forming liter ary classes-for literature appeals to all. while it is doubtful if art CT music or any other subject would together the desired number for classes. A Shakespeare class has been suggest ed Ruskin says of Shakespeare: The intellectual measure of every man since born in the domain of crea- tive thought. may be assigned to him according to the degree in which he has been taught by Shakespeare. . Surely a study of his works must yield something of good even if We have no practiced leader. But ii Shakespeare seems dmpracticable. let us turn to some later writer sure of a reward for aspiration always lays n
 noble reading. However poor and humble we may be, we are thus grant ed conpanionship with the master
 minds of the world, and may be rais- thought. We are given knowledge and a sympathy with the mighty world. with its needs, its tragedies and it's burdens, and are shamed out of the petty worries and mean pleasures wherein our lives fade like bitter grass in fruitless fields. " The woman whose mind is occupied with great themes has no room in it for corrosive ill-temper, or jealousies or bitterness.
 In studying literature, most Clubs include a department for Current
 Events. certainly a practical depart ment. The modern woman's time is nearly always overful, and she finds It hardi if not impossible, to keep aflcat in the flood of modern news papers and other literature. We read
 the headlines If they are large enoughb. skim over this article or
 glance over that, and go about our work camly forgetful of what we have 1 reaG. We are like the man who be- holdeth his natural face in a glass and straightway forgetteth what man. ner of man he is'' But if We could meet with other women and talk over
 what we have read. listen to othe: opinions and gain new view poin s, how different it would all be.
 In our Constitution, We now official 1 ly recognize the value of work-fo- we all know that strength comes from labor fully as much as from enlarg s- ment of sympathies and inter- ests. And there is always tools to work withal for these who will" Often, the hardest part is the de- ciding what to do. Meditation IS apt to prove as fatal to the best life of any person CT organization as it did to the famous Ass of Buridan, who
 starved beneath two bales of hay because he could not decide which to eat first. And any attempt to 10 everything brings less concentration on some few lines. After careful thought, the Club has made choice ot work-of such work as it is confident will seem good to it when the day .s done and eyensong is at hand. Ney let each member conscientiously ac- quaint herself as far as she may with that work in all it's bearings and ie- tails. When discussions arise, she | may then take her part in them with a sure knowledge and a well founded opinion If we differ in opinions, 50 much the better, for by comparison of thought, we greatly increase our knowledge Holmes says: Tt does not follow that l may not recognize another's thought as deeper and broader than my own; but that does
 not necessarily change my opinion
 otherwise this would be at the mercy
 of every superior mind that held a ' different one" When reports are
 made she will know at once what is ! best to do with them, and nine ! tenths will be doing the work while
 an inglorious tenth may well be per
 mitted to do the criticising. The re
 ward of one 6uty done is the power tc | fulfill another" and while the reward and visible results of such co-opera ton will be that we shall eat "tht ! grapes of Canaan" and find them
 good. yet the greater reward is the
 inward grace that comes because oi
 the high faith that failed not by the | way" Our measure is being Gaily ! taken. and who knows when fate may say to us, T find thee worthy
 do this deed for me?" Years ago il
 some old forgotten book, read Ga:
 nearly as I can remember) the fellow
 ing dialogue:
 Opportunity, controller of all things
 Why standest thou on tiptoe
 I am always running"
 Why then, hast thou wings on botf
 feet.
 fly like the wind..,