The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-21
Feminine
Snapshots
Are WOmen's Clubs on
the Down Grade I?

III
Chicago and makes charge that the
woman's club is losing ground; that it
Is taken up with tea and waters and
nice clothes to the exclusion Of things
useful and vital to human progress.
Ihls has been true, certainly, almost
up TO the last year, but now the wom-
ans club is bursting the swaddling
bands Of infantile uselessness and COM
ing into yigor of life as a world factor.
l have been recently looking over the
doings OF club women in America and
London for the past year, and really I
never have seen so much hope for true
progress among them as there is now.
Child labor, city identifying and san
itat1on, equal suffrage for their sex and
the preservation Of American forests
and wild flowers are some of the causes
In which our women's clubs the past
year have been doing admirable work.
In Philadelphia women have erected q
club home large enough to house Ave
feminine associations. Among these
one Is the very practical depository
and exchange for women's work. An
other is kindergarten association that
maintains a training school for its
teachers; yet another is the Civic club,
which is really educating itself in mu-
nicipal matters. Now, isn't that practt-
cal usefulness?
With amazing rapidity women arc
learning the grand, rugged lesson Of
self dependence.
Recently some charitable women in
New York heard of family that was
in want. They investigated and found
in the so called home Of the family a
sickly woman who was the mother Of
nine children. The youngest of these
was girl baby six weeks old. During
the six weeks of her life that baby had
lived in a soap box filled with straw,
only piece of muslin keeping her ten
der skin from it's sharp blades. How Is
that for nineteen centuries Of civiliza-
ton?
Let us love all mankind and keep our
advice to ourselves till it is asked for.
Eleanor Kirk remarks in her Idea, "If
you want to do good, love every living
creature, walk straight to the kingdom
of heaven and mind your own busi-
ness" But some women are so engag-
ed in looking after other peoples bust
ness that they never have time to at
tend to their own business.
A woman makes very poor lmita-
ton man, especially when girl college
students 60 in for haZing their sister
students.
It really is beginning to dawn on q
benighted world at last that the popu-
lation Of country may be increased
quite as well by a diminished death
rate as by an increased birth rate.
The old maid and mother-in-law
jokes have been worked overtime now
many years. They have become at
length SO feeble that it is time to give
them good long rest.
women can't cook" cries DR.. Robert
Ellis Thompson. Good! Women are
quite ready to quit cooking and let the
men have a try at it any day. DR..
Robert Ellis Thompson himself might,
for instance, for the sake of setting
good example to his sex, enter the
kitchen and begin frying, broiling,
stewing and baking.
Did you ever observe young wom- /
an in a street car chewing gum? Isn't
she sight?
Hon. Frank w. Higgins, the new gov
ernor Of New York, is in favor OF wom-
an suffrage as an act Of justice to the
feminine sex.
It lust makes me tired, that affecta- !
ton Of domesticity many so called pro-
fessional women put on. II they love
cooking and housekeeping SO much bet
ter than a money getting life outside
the home, why don't they do cooking /
and housekeeping? The field Of house .
lOlO LABOR Is Wei WloC OASs S~S 49,
well paid. Lately one Of these women
afflicted with the affectation of domes-
ticity boosted to another lady thus; L
am the best cook in Penville" There
upon the woman addressed looked the
speaker over from head to foot and
said to herself, "And I'd hate to eat
YOUR cooking OF course every true
woman performs perfectly such do
nestle du&es as come her way, out
TO boast of it is like Boosting OF keep
ing ones skin clean.
The correct name for the trailing
street skirt is tanglefoot- !
The saddest part Of being an inmate
NJ sultan's harem must be that not
one among the whole assortment OF
wives can 90 to Paris and choose her
own gowns. Lately the finance mill
lister of the sultan of Morocco journey