Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-24
WOMAN N CLUD AND CHARITY

The Young womeu's Christian sssocia-
ton will keep house Thanksgiving day |
from to 10 2. m. Supper will be served /
at s O'Clock. The evenings entertainment |
has been planned by the members OF the |
gymnasium classes and will consist OF !
games, music and readings. All young |
women are invited to attend, whether |
members or not but. in order that the |
committee may make DEFINITE arrange |
ments. those expecting to attend are asked \
to leave their names at the ONCE or with /
some OF The secretaries.
Arrangements have been completed to
open a dressmaSing class at the association !
the first Of January The term will ex-
tend over ten weeks and will include |
plain sewing, cutting from pattern and !
drafting patterns. Inquire at the Office |
for further particulars.
Mrs. Harriet S. MacMurphys suggestion
that the Omaha women volunteer their
services as deputy milk inspectors has
met with favor among many Of the club
women. and 1t is probable that the plan
will come up for further consideration at
the next meeting OF the household eco
Monies department OF the womens club
next Friday morning.
The National Child Labor committee has
recently issued in bulletin form the adj
dresses delivered at the first annual meet
ing of the committee held at New York
last February, and reprinted from the
proceedings as published by the American
Academy of Political and Social Science.
Most Of these are for free distribution
and club women may get them by applying
to the secretary, Samuel McCune Lindsay.
rs East Twenty-second street, New York
City. Among those especially recommended
for use by the clubs are: The School as
a Force Arrayed Against Child Labor by
James Kirkland, chancellor OF Vanderbilt
university; Child Labor From the EN-
ployer's Point OF View" by Emil G.
Hirsch of Chicago university; Child
Labor Legislation, Requisite for Indus
trial Efficiency" by Jane Adams; Child
Labor in the United States" by Felix
Adler; THE Work of the General FEEDER
alton of womens Clubs Against Child
Labor" by Mrs. A. o. Granger.
Other pamphlets deal with child labor
legislation and methods of enforcement in
different sections of the United States All
were written by experts and are valuable
to those interested in the subject.
The editor of the Household department
of the New York Post makes the follow
ing comment on the alleged inexpensive
Christmas gift that il worthy of the con-
sideration of many women:
At this season of the year the Christmas
magazines are coming out with the annual
article on inexpensive gifts for loved ones.
If you have no money FOR gifts you are
advised to make rich English plum pud-
ding, a fruit cake, handsomely iced, or a
dozen small nut cakes, and send them in
lieu Of other offerings Among other gitts
ted boxes filled with nut meats, jars
OF preserves, glasses of jelly, jardinieres
filled with blossoming plants: ana inUeTted
are mentioned This is truly feminine econ
omy, and suggests household where the
except money. Doubtless there are few
women who are so spiritless as to submit
to such state of AFFAIRS, put surely IN
this emancipated generation the number
cannot be 80 great as to constitute a pub
lie II moneyless wives do exist as class,
publishing articles showing their husbands
the false economy they practice. The price
OF fruit cake, richly iced, would BUY
handkerchiefs, or any number of similar
Christmas presents, besides saving the time
spent in baking the cake. Money is really
one OF the cheapest commodities In the
world compared with health, strength ana
happiness. B.
The Chicago womans club is rothing if
not ambitious. It's latest project Is the es-
| tabIishment Of a theater at which only the
classic drama shall be presented, the gem
eral aim being an elevation of the popular
taste in dramatic art The Chicago Trib-
une gives some space to the plan, quoting
! Mrs. George Benedict Carpenter. president
| OF the club who, in her annual address
| some time ago advised the establishment of
| an independent theater fitting work for
the largest and most progressive club I'm
| the middle west. A number OF Chicago
| university students became interested and
joint committee representing the club
and the university conferred with outside
interests and definite plans resulted. At
meeting of the club last week it was an
nounced that between $4,000 and 5000 has
| been raised toward the new home for the
| club, another of its enterprises. The site
! for the building is now under considera-
| 3 I. Besides the Chicago Womans club
! tue Teachers Federation, the Catholic and
| possibly the Daughters of the American
| Revolution, besides other women's organ
! izations, will have quarters In the building.
| The Wednesday club of St. Louis, the
| largest and most influential club of Mis-
| souri,, at a recent meeting considered n
| plan for using the public schools as COM
munity centers in the evenings where par
| ents and children might meet for study
! and recreation. At present such a use of
the school buildings is prohibited by the
state law, but the women having been in
fuential in bringing about other reforms,
are hopeful Of accomplishing this. too il
public sentiment can be educated, and they
! believe It can.
IOWA MAN HOLDUP VICTIM