The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-03-09
YE GODS AND LITTLE FISHES !!
Lincoln's Woman's Club Meets in Special Ses-
sion to Discuss Matter That Must Be Settled
Now or the Country Goes to the Demnition
Bow Vows Without Recourse-Whither Are
We Drifting, and Why?

If ever there were any doubts about the prac-
tlcabllity and the usefulness of the Lincoln
Woman's Club, those doubts may now and for
ever be set at rest. After long period Of COM
parative quiet the Home Department Of the
club has awakened to realizing sense Of the
duty it owes to itself and to humanity and
with an enthusiasm that is deserving of widest
commendation it has plunged into the discus.
sion OF a grave question that is pressing for So
luton, and one which has too long been ignored
in the search after knowledge concerning a
whole lot of comparatively unimportant prob
lens.
No sooner the attention Of the Home De-
partment Of the Womans Club called to this
important matter than it hurried to hold spec
cial meeting to consider it. The meeting was
held in the club rooms at the city library last
Thursday afternoon and there and then. with
out any fuss, frils or feathers one of the grav-E
est and most vexed social problems that has
been puzzling the minds of sociologsts was set
tied beyond peradventure
Was it the problem of the proper care Of chill
dren? Perish the thought Was it the prob
lem of preserving the home against the
onslaughts of greedy and constituencies
commercialism? Out upon such a frivolous
idea Was it to discuss the question of the
employment Of women in unsanitary and vile
Sweat shops?" Away with such foolish no
toni Was it to discuss the problem Of rearing
up home makers and home providers against
the day when the American home would be the
only bulwark between the rule Of the god of
gold and the rule of free people? The very
idea is ridiculous ssksa
Z Why should the Home Department Of the
Womans Club Of Lincoln waste its precious
time on such frivolous and nonsensical prob
lemse Other and far momentous prob
lens press for solution, and one of them
the problem discussed and settled last Thursday
afternoon
At this special and momentous meeting L. NJ
Morse-whether Mr." or "NIrs. we do not
know-gave stirring and eloquent address on
that most important of all questions Oriental
Rugs andbTher Care
For years have painted for solution of
that question as the hart panteth for the water
brook. For years have we struggled bhndly.
groping in the darkness of ignorance and pray
ing that some man or woman, or some Organlza-
tion would take us gently by the hand and lead
us into the bright light that would enable us to
see just how we ought to take care OF the price
less Oriental rugs that decorate our beautiful
castle. Too long have been fooling away
time children and home, and indusrtialism
and commercialsm. Too long have we beer
frittering away precious time trying to keep
our little ones out Of the clutch OF the manufac-
turers who want them to labor in the mills and
factories. Too long have we been wasting sem
timenta tears on the fancied wrongs of women
and children doomed to lives of binding and
unrequted toiled.
thousand two thousand Lincoln
workingmen and their wives have fidgeted and
fretted while such idle questions were being
discussed by the Woman s Club, and yearIing
for the time when they could get some badly
needed information concerning the care Of their
beautiful and costly Oriental rugs Helpless
and hopeless they have sat supinely down III
their baronial castles, earned by sweat and toll
in workshop and mill, and watched while the
omniverous moth dug tunnelys and made
CHASTITY excavations in those priceless Oriental
rugs that decorated their every room.
But thank heaven, the deliverers have come
No more time will be wasted fool questions
Of sociology. No time will be frittered
away on trying to do something for women and
children who really ought to have sense enough
to take care Of themselves
We have yearned, heart hungry and soul
weary, for information concerning the care of
the Oriental rugs that beautiful the homes of
our mechanics and artisans, and with character
istic energy the Home Department of the Lin
coin Woman's Club has rushed to the rescue
For all of which let devoutly offer up ourS
heartfelt thanks, and standing sing the first
verse Of that beautiful hymn
''Ths is the day we long have sought,
And mourned because we found it not ~