The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-08
BY MARGARET E. sANGsTER.

Names.
BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
Your mothers and sisters and all
your grown up friends are members
of clubs. The lady who has never be-
longed to club, never attended club
function, and never known anything
about the pleasure incidental to study
and work in literary, or social club, is
so exceptional that we have to look
for her with microscope Every town
and village has its Mothers club, or its
Four O'clock club. or it's Monday At
ternoon club, or it's club with the
sociation of danes and daughters, so
unless the girls have their clubs, too,
they will really be rather out of date.
You may if you like. have club
just as the elders have and for much
the same purpose. We will suppose
ture study. This particular study has
hau what we may call a boom of late.
The birds, the flowers, the trees, the
rocks and stones, and everything that
has to do with outdoor life afford in
teresting subjects for those who study
nature.
If, in your class work, you have
taken up zoology and botany, club
for nature study will help along
by way Of supplementary informa-
ton and will be greatly approved
by your instructors. You will
have certain days for meetings
and certain other days for long
and pleasant walks, for visiting ma
ture in her own haunts, watching the
birds, the butterflies and the bees, and
seeking the wild flowers where they
grow. When you think of it it is a
shame that we should live in a beauti-
full world with so much that is fasci-
mating to engage our powers, and yet
shut ourselves up within the bounds
of four walls ard know so little as we
do about natures wonderful works
and ways.
Your club may be organized to study
English literature. In this case you
will meet periodically, arrange a
course of reading, and very likely
write papers on topics assigned to
different members. l am not sure that
you will find it so popular club as
one that has outdoor life for it's mo-
tive. Many girls think they have done
their whole duty to themselves and
each other when their school-work is
finished. Yet a Literature club would
not be bad idea. and in it there
would be room for a good deal of
what might be called side reading
Your knowledge of books and authors
would be increased in pleasant read
ings that should be voluntary and not
prescribed by professors and teachers
do not see myself any objection to
school girls forming club purely for
purposes of fun and recreation. You
have so much hard work in school and
at home that you are entitled very
fairly to such amusements as you like
and such pleasure as you can take in
have Saturday Evening club, COM
posed OF a circle of congenial girls
who do not live too far apart from one
another to make meetings early on
Saturday evenings practicable. Some
times you might assemble at five
o'clock and have supper together at
six, finishing an hour or two afterward
with games, music and storytelling.
Or you might meet at seven and sepa-
rate at nine. Have programme ar
ranged beforehand and conclude with
refreshments. You might occasionally
have candy pull or make fudge, and
once month your brothers might be
admitted to share in the entertainment
of the occasion. On the whole
recommend this idea as worth carry
ing out provided you can gain the
consent and approval of your mothers
and any other powers that be.
A Correspondence club affords a
good deal of suggestion and satisfaction
to its members. l knew such club
some years ago. 1t was composed of
seven girls not one of whom had ever
seen any of the others. They made
acquaintance through me because
was then writing some stories for girls
which interested each of these widely
separated correspondents. One wrote
from Brazil, one from Syria, another
from Bombay, still another from Ber-
lin, and the remaining three from diff
ferent parts of the United States. The
seven sent me their letters and for
warded them in sort of Round Rob-
in style, until everyone had read what
the others wrote. You have little idea
of the amount Of information and Of
fascinating interest such club can
convey.
A girls club does not require much
red tape. You will need treasurer if
you have anything for which money
will be required. If, for example, your
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