Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-01-26
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Address al copnuAicsaous for these
4 I eeiumas 70 the stats Editns. Mrs. Helena
( Dovnsy, III Bashaw street. OttumvA 10.
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COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR
SHADOWS.
The New Year Is here and with !,
same good resolutions and plans FOL
tho next twelve months. The coming
year will give An opportunity to make
up for any shortcomings of the one
that has passed beyond RECALL. Lei
the new year be an Improvement or
the old one.
ahe New Year will be one full of in
terest for Iowa club women and We
must enter club life with more Eeal
and activity and progress more rapidly
this year than ever before. We must
prepare to meet two great club meet
this year, the Iowa State Federation
which meets at Des..Moines, May %, 50
and the National Association OF Color
ed Women, which meets at Detroit,
Michigan in July.
We want large delegation OF inter
ested women attend each of these
meetings.
At the last meeting of the National
Association Of which was held in St.
Louis in 1904, Iowa sent only three
delegates, while Rhode Island and
California. those far away coast states
were SO interested in the worked that
they sent the same number of delegat-
es q distance of over thousand miles.
Only one state had smaller delegation
than Iowa and that was Utah.
We want Iowa to be well represented
in the National this year.
Each club is entitled to . representa-
tive for every ten members and the
state representative for each ten
clubs in the National.
At present we have only four clubs
in the National, we want to have
twenty by July.
We earnestly entreat all clubs to
unite wish the National Association.
Help push forward the work SO nobly
begun. help swell the number of val
iant workers for Negro progress help
swell the finance that more aid may be
given to the workers In crowded dis
.tricts of the South.
We mist act with money and time,
Tor let it be remembered that any work
well done will call for sieepless nights,
the sacrifice of money and many other
things dear to us, let the clubs OF the
state take this into consideration at
once. The organizer would be pleased
90 correspond with clubs on the subject
IOWA FEDERATION.
The work Of the Iowa Federation is
being carried on by ten standing COM
mittee. These committees and their
work briefly outlined as.follows.
there are three classes of committees,
those that aid tho clubs of the state,
those that engage directly in Fedora
tion work and those that do philan-
thropie work.
OF the first class is the Art Craft,
mnsic Committee, Excellent education
IL work can be done by this committee.
they collect books on art. photographs
Of masterpieces to be circulated
among clubs in towns remote from
galleries and libraries encouraging
them to become acquainted with the
better work of art. for knowledge OF
pictures is as essential as knowledge OF
books.
They also discourage the use OF rag
time music ard low forms of minstrel
song. for by their use our taste be-
comes warped and scared and we do
not appreciate good music, just as .
child is educated step by step in school
SO we must endesvor to train our
people to acquire cultivated taste for
the best music.
The mothers child study committee
aims to interest women in the study OF
chiId nature from scientific stand
point. No subject is more worthy.
The early influence Of home life on
men and women Is universally ad-
nitted TO be the largest controlling
factor in their character. temperament
and nnal success In life. The biogra.
phies OF great mon tell. almost with
ont exception Of the wise guidance in
youth BY mother. We should remem-
Der our mothers department and II we
have not mothers clubs in every city
Lot as at least have mothers meeting
II every club This committee should
send out an outline for study quarterly
brimful OF helpful suggestions on how
the child develops, faults and their
remedies. character building. chill
dren's associates, studies and accom-
plishments RELIGIOUS training ect.
The household economics committee
does I'LL the educational work possible
in the raising Of the standard of home.
They send ont an outline giving sug
restion for course Of study each year.
These outlines If followed would GER
tsinly bring good results. To all home
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