The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-04-12

fore. 1t is great thing to have
great faith; it is still greater to be
able to tell others about it, and win
them over to the right point of view.
The typical club woman knows that
the home is the great central fact of
civilization. All women have always
felt this, now they can demonstrate
the fact intellectually. They have
also learned to see clearly tremen-
dous truth whicn, by inevitable con-
ditions, has been obscured throughout
the ages. This truth is that the father
is quite as much concerned in the
making of a good home as is the mo-
ther. There have been good men in
every generation who have acknow-
lodged and nobly illustrated this truth
but the great mass of mankind has
acted apparently upon the assumption
that it made little difference what
kind of father was in the home, 80
long as the mother was pure and de-
voted. Justice-that mightiest of all
divine attributes, is slowly drawing
upon the hu man mind. Education
must merely bring it-an d powerful
instrumental of education, especially
for the middle-aged woman, is her
club
Some of the advantages which wo-
men have derived from our American
clubs are: she has learned to know
and admire her fellow women as she
never could have done in so-called
society, where all wear their SO ciety
manners, and try to appear more or
less alike. The club shows US what
our friends really know and how good
they are.
She learns in the club to tolerate
and even respect opinions different
from her own. Sle has learned that
i the care OF her house is not the end
and object Of her existence-that her
house is merely the chief tool in the
| making of a home. She must go
abroad sometimes and meet her friends
those who are in circumstances siml-
lar to her own, and sharpen her wits
upon theirs.
The studies and addresses enjoyed
by the average club tend to broaden
their minds, and teach them to mea-
sure "small things small and large
things large
The actual range Of practical ways
and means of heus, hold and family
management has been greatly increas.
ed by the researches of tue clubs
Women in their clubs have come, not
only to know better their fellow wo-
men, but to love them better. Thus
has been developed a wonderful COM
radeship, such as never has been seen
before; this has extended to men. AS
the interest of women have gene out
to education, art, science, they have
met men on different footing from any
ever before known.
Women learn in the club not only
what they ought to believe, but the
courage to hold ones own convictions
is strengthened. We may be weak
minority in the outside world, but in
our clubs we find women who see the
right as we see it, and are ready to
die for it. Thus our own hands are
vitality upheld.
The clubs have been perhaps the
most powerful factor in bringing to
ridicule the notion that married wo
man must ask her husband for every
cent she needs. .
The clubs have been the great IDEAL
Makers for our women. Amid all
the snobbishnese, the shallowness and
the blunders of these clubs, the ideals
have been, on the whole, the highest
and best. And the "Ideal" is the
most important element in every life,
especially the Ideal of the Home.-A.
R. E. N, In Newton Pa) Enter
prise.
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