Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1905-03-18
ADDRESS TO PUBLIC.
Telling What The Catholic
Woman's Club Has
Been DoinS.

AhC DOoAO VI A(iiCINOAo vi tnC SdAhOhO
Womap's Club found it necessary to
hold two meetings last week in order to
complete all the pressing business that
called for attetion. The election of
officers resulted in but one new officer
Mrs. 7. B. Leahy, who was elected Cor
responding Secretary. The resignation
of Miss Katie Fitzgerald from the board
was reluctantly accepted and Mrs. J. w.
Calvin was elected to succeed her. Miss
Judge proposed the following Chairmen
of the various committees and the board
approved the selections:
Buying and Finance-Mrs. Charles
Smith and Mrs. B. D. Mattingly.
Lunch-Mrs. Charles Smith.
Library--Mrs. Matt O'Doherty.
Press-Miss Elizabeth B. Walsh.
Educational-Mrs.T T. B. Leahy.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Kate Newman.
Membership-Mrs.M Marcus Doerhoefer.
Exchange-Mrs. Agnes Montague.
House Improvement-Mrs. ]. ]. Barrett
and Mrs. Charles Sauter.
House-Mrs. Mary Cross and Mrs
John Graves.
A new committee was established, with
Miss Judge as Chairman, which was
called the Building Fund Committee,
the object of which is to raise the means
for new club house. Mrs. Winnie Nc
Auley started this fund by Offering to do
nate 500 il energetic efforts were made
- -a;sa The a,,,0uut ,,aoassaxx, n earnra q
more satisfactory home for the club. In
connection with this move the following,
taken from the address of the House Com
mittee, is presented, trusting that a care
full reading of it will be giveu by all
friends Of the Kentucky Irish American:
"It is pleasure to be able to report
that the regular visits of inspection by
the members of the House Committee
now find everything neat and orderly
throughout the building, with most ex-
cellent discipline prevailing. The house
keeper and matron work together har-
moniouly. while the boarders under their
charge are subject to influences which
can scarcely fail to make more womanly
women or good Christian girls.
"This work of providing home for
unprotected young women is one which
should appeal to every mother who val
ues the innocence and purity of her own
daughter, to every father who knows the
world and its dangers for iatherless
girl, to every brother and sister who
enjoy or have enjoyed the blessings of
fathers and mothers care, and in fact to
every one fortunate or otherwise.
"There are so many Catholic women
in this city who do not understand the
workings and aims of this club that we
take this opportunity of calling to their
attention certain facts and figures, hop
ing thereby to enlist their sympathy.
at has been limited that the Catholic
Woman's Club does no charity; that, on
the contrary, it Is business concern ex-
pecting dollar in full for every dollars
worth given out. To this we answer
that the lunch department is certainly
not claimed to be charity in itself. 1t
is essentially a business concern, but
different from other business concerns in
that it seeks to be only self sustaining
and is not money making concern.
The lunch department is, however, the
means toward an end. 1t makes the
charitable work of the club possible.
"The financial report of the Treasurer,
Mrs. D. B. Mattingly, shows the returns
from the boarders for the entire year to be
81, 604 So, although the regular board
rate is So so per week. 1t requires very
little figuring to ascertain that with the
number of boarders never less than
twenty-six, that the average board has
amounted to less than 81 per week.
None of the boarders at the club know
who of their number was not paying full
rates nor who for time was unable to
pay any board at all, and for this we can
say:
Thank God that the charity in this
and other things is not stamped on the
recipients brow! Thank God that charity
can be so bestowed that those around
have no means of knowing to whom mis-
fortune has made this necessary Thank
God that this home welcomes the girl
who, through no fault of hers, is tempo
rarily unable to help herself, and does
it in the only charitable way--that is, |
without publicityl"