The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-01
EVERY WOMAN SHOULD
JOIN A CLUB.
Z Other Women-The Value of

get the problems of food. home and
school discipline, clothing, and the eN-
erlasting strain after economy In most
Well-Ordered clubs, he programmes are
of a high order. but even II the essays
are feeble and the discussions more OF
/ less beside the point. an least you viii
have your own thought aroused, and
YOU VIII often revert in your mind and
/ conversation TO the subjects when
have been brought up. II you enter
into the matter with your might" you
will grow clearer and clearer IN your
conclusions, and your judgment VIII
refine and strengthen. You Will be-
come better able TO decide the problems
/ which arise ia your daily life.
/ Snobbish and silly though some CLUBS
are, most of them have high ideals ana
have 10 do with lofty themes. After ten
Years of connection with a good club, II
/ you have been faithful TO it, you viii
/ feel that YOU could better have spared
/ out of your life almost any other social
/ element than that.
! Your greater fund of knowledge, and
your increased power of reflection and
discrimination, are by no means the
I only benefits which YOU may derive
from the club. You get these from
merely literary club. If you join
musical art philanthTOpic or civic CLUB,
you get culture in other directions,
Your sympathies your tastes, your
convictions, are awakened. stimulated,
elevated and refined. And with it all
you will have delightful times.
The greatest help and the greatest
/ joy of all viii come from the Insight
which the club will give you INTO the
( lives and characters of other women,
/ an insight which was impossible un-
L l. d h. .s.aV
/ When you first Joined il you may have
thought the most of meeting there Mrs.
/ Judge T.. with her elegance of manner
and her readiness of speech. After a
1 few months, or years, you learn TO val
ne much more intercourse with a
/ plain and modest woman, of no par
ticular social position. whose clear
mind and beautiful spirit you might
never have known save for the club.
The loving soul OF another, the un-
selfish grace of a third, the grand and
noble traits which shine out uncon-
sciOusly here and there. often where
you least expected to find them-these,
and the tender cOmradeship which they
/ promote, are the finest harvest of the
! club movement among women. 1t is
this which tends, perhaps, more than
anything else among US unless it may
] be the church, toward the abolition of
that caste spirit which is the chief
curse of so-called good society"
/ The best results in the club usually
come from a grouping upon individual
| qualifications. rather than of classifi-
| cation according to the prominence of
husbands or other relatives, dead or
alive. This must always be remem-
| bered in criticising the conduct of any
/ particular organization.
! If you have no cOngenial club IN
your town. or in your immediate cir
| Gle in the city. try to form one. Some
/ great object, public or personal. must
| lie near your heart. You can work il
out better with loyal and sympathetic
souls TO help you than ever you could
alone. Gather the most earnest and
high-minded and wholesome women
that you can reach. Some of them may
/ be poor. Some of them may be rich.
1t is good TO bring these often arti-
lfcially separated classes together on a
basis of some great human need.
/ Choose your officers wisely. Observe
lstrictly parliamentary rules in drawing
up your constitution and bylaws and
conducting your meetings. Too much
linformality has ruined many club,
while the knowledge of parliamentary
procedure is no small part of the good
which women have gained from the
club movement
Copyright, 1905 by Joseph B. Bowles.