The San Francisco call., 1906-05-28
What CLUBW0MEN CAN D0
FOR CITY'S UPBUILDING
Back to Town" Their CHEEKY Slogan
and Hundreds Heed the Cry.
PRESS AND SoRosIS CLUBS MEET TODAY
By LAURA BRIDE POWERS.

The close of May has heretofore be-
spoken the end of club activities-a sum-
gner suspension of forces. if you will. with
an awakening to quiekened life in Sep
tember
The fields and forests called, and blithe-
y we nodded Coming" Then there were
pleasant little breakaway luncheons and
tea worries, and with the coming Of June
ahe clubs had dissolved and the units scat
tered abroad
But this year-alas. strange conditions
confront us.
As of yore, the fields and forests call
and this lure is music TO our tense ears.
But the call Of our PROSTATE city and her
hosts of homeless children fills the air,
and there is no choice-no debating.
There are things TO do. and urgent, sane
qhings at every turn, and it's up to every
good clubwoman TO stay in town and do
chem 10 the best of her ability.
For instance, there's the men TO be
cheered up, and coddled a bit, and cared
for II ever a community of men stood
IN need of backing up"-the kind that
women can give in a smile and caress-the
men OF our stricken city need it, They
need their wounds bound up in good cheer
and sympathy, and it's up to the wives,
methers and sisters of the city to do il.
<The omission Of sweethearts is fore
Shought-every pair of sweethearts in
9own having welded since the fre.)
Then there are hosts of tangible things
50 do-things that only women can do.
And the most vitally important of these is
20 DO their shopping and trading in town.
Otherwise, how can business assume a
gormal condition? Now that all the re-
tail firms are making so brave struggle
70 get upon their feet the women should
show their appreciation and their love OF
home by patronizing them And it's all
q case Of reciprocity. When the business
relations have become properly estab-
ushed then you and and every one of us
viii participate in the resultant pros
perity.
Then. fellow -clubwomen, help out by
buying your new gown, or your new hat
or Bobbie's new shoes, right here in town
That money will help straighten out the
financial tangle by helping TO pay some
salesman his salary, the merchant to re-
habilitate his business. the landlord to
pay his interest at the bank. and the
bank TO lend out the money that comes
in 10 you, should you need it.
II has always been my belief that the
discipline Of club membership does much
toward making women logical creatures
al least as nearly logical as our individ-
ualities viii permit.
Now the demonstration of that viii b'
seen in the manner in which clubwomer
stand by their wounded city-cheering hel
by their presence and helping her b,
spending their money in her marts anC
markets that she may rehabilitate herself
And that sort Of love for home is thu
only type Of patriotism that isn't "s
tinkling cvrlbal. a sounding brass"
Then there's a tremendous amount o.
relief work still to be done-the steady
unhysterical kind that takes steady heaC
shd a stout heart after the band stops
PLAYING.
That's the kind Of work Mrs. A w
Scott has been doing. and Mrs. John Mer
rll Mrs. I. /. Dunbar, Mrs. Aylett r