The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-13
SPEECHES At The
CLUB BREAKFAST.
GOV. CUMMINGS VIEW OF CLUBS
AND ALTRUISNI.
President Northrop Urges the. Fact
That Neither the Church Nor the
Home Are Doing Their Duty by the
!, Childre1lJanes Gray's Suggestion
for a Pocket Club.

The program Of toasts and speeches
at the Federation breakfast yesterday
touched the high-water mark Of eX-l
cellence. Mrs. f. S. Aliens opening
words, in which she told the women
that, while she had pledged herself to
do the best she could for the fedora
ton her husband and home came first.
struck a responsive chord.
Gov. Cummins' brief 81 speech re-
vealed "a comprehensive knowledge Of
club AIMS and ACHIEVEMENTS and a
thoughtful appreciation. of possible
ties. He regarded the club move
ment as natural phase of the evolu-
ton of woman and Of society. The
country has grown more complex and
with this condition government has
become infinitely more difficult. Clubs
have come to preserve peace and good
order and to maintain conditions Of
social progress.
The governor reminded the club
women Of their important function in
influencing the unwritten regulations
that make life tolerable, that supports
the enforcement Of law and that makes
progress possible. The club is, the an
swer, to the demand society makes in
this age. ~ %.
II don't look on the club as an or
nament or. an, establishment" he
said, h"buts as q, necessity Of the day.
The dominant note. of the past sgener-
alton or two, especially in: this coun-
try, has been individual efficiency.
Now the time has arrived for another
note equally loud and clear, that of
altruism, not as AN ornament OF hu-
man character but as a fundamental
principle in social economy. We must
now teach John to care for someone
else in accordance with the div1nest
maxim I am my brothers Keeper
President : Nerthrop expressed the
desire to see, realized the state pic
tured by Mill, sin which no serious
distinctions in disposition and mind
between men and women should be
recognized. He objected to the view;
that regards men and women as diff
ferent orders of beings like tigers
| and sauashes.- He wished to- see men
| lose some Of theirs roughedges and
women acquire some masculine
strength and self-reliance. He be-
lieved that it, was. divine intention
| that men and women should grow
more and more into a common likes
ness.
President Northrop found the ter
ror of the time in the fact that neither
church nor home is doing its duty
by the children. He charged with
terrible earnestness that neither
church nor home. were doing any
|
thinking or to train them for good.
He pleaded strongly for a revolution
in home thought and asked women
to give. up everything that stood in
the way Of the attention their chill
dren need. -, -.
Mrs. Lydia Phillips Williams spoke
on the biennial convention Of = the
general federation, to, be held<iin St
| ST. Louis in. May. Mrs. Frances b
| ~ q ifyrsf far 1ty.
an interesting picture OF the life Of
the girl students . at the university
to show why they are asking the fed.
4 Grafton to- aid them in securing g
woman's building. James. Gray va.
ried: the program agreeably., by some
facetious observations on club. life
4 especially suggesting UNDUE clubs
such as a, pocket club. He was I'm
able to- see how Women could hope
to carry, precincts and, wards: wher
they We're unable even to carry {
handkerchief. His appreciation OF
the modern woman with her club
. was shown In a closing tribute. il
4 which he said that the educated. cul
/ tivated, ambitious woman Is not tn,
drudge, but she is the counsellor
confident and equal, who enters full,
, family. -, - 49,
Mrs. C. G.. Higbee, of St. Paul out
.. lined the provisions made for the car
of delinquent girls to show the nee
Of the separation of the girls train
/ ing school from that Of the boys. .
> At the close the death Of Mrs r
S. White of st. Faul, which occurrei
: fast, was announced. The womei
were painfully shocked. Pres1den
Northrop offered a brief prayer tina
relieved the tension.