River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-03-21
The Mission OF a Club.

times. The Home Culture club was
organized as a study club. We
were all busy wives and mothers
with the usual endless round oil
home duties and with little time fol
social pleasures. And when wore
was sent us to meet with Mrs. Fred
Bliss and talk of club organization
but few thought it possible to at,
tend.
But each felt longing for study
and improvement so our club was
organized and nearly all of us have
found time, interest, profit and
pleasure enough in it to attend every
meeting unless prevented by sick
ness. Our meetings are held once
in two weeks and we not only find
time to go but our lessons are pre-
pared and the home duties not neg
lected. We seem to be able TO &C.
comp1ish more work than before
and do it with more pleasure too.
One Tuesday club lady said to us:
my club work rests me and makes
me more patient with the babies
when at home"
Our work for three years has been
English history and we have spent
a part of each afternoon discussing
current topic study. This year we
have British literature and we still
continue the current topic study.
think there are none of us will
ling to be without the benefit gain
ed from the study. 1t broadens our
knowledge, makes us more observ-
ant and gives better understand
lug of our reading. The editorials
in our newspapers and magazines
are of much more interest than be-
fore. And these are not all the adj
vantages to be gained. We are
learning to discuss questions and
to tolerate each others opinions,
and about the happiest thing about
our club is the pleasant comrade-
ship among us. Gossip and telling
neighbors' faults have no place in
it.
Edward Everett Hale says, "A
club must do something for others
besides itself and should have the
uplifting of some person, neighbor-
hood or institution outside the club,
to be beneficial to the world" but
the improvement of ones self GER
tainly must come first and if we
keep trying our work may become
broader. We hope so at least.
Our year generally closes with a
social
Owen Meredith says:
eve may live without poetry, music and art
We may live without conscience and live
without heart,
We may live without friends, we may live
without books,
But civilized man cannot live without cooks
He may live without books-what is knowl-
edge but grieving?
He may live without hope-What is hope but
deceiving?
He may live without love-what is passion but
pining?
But where is the man that can live without
dining?"
AS our club ladies certainly had
not lived without music, poetry and
art during our study year but had
enjoyed many "feasts of reason"
what more fitting way to end the
year than by having a banquet to
which we might invite our husbands
and brothers? Accordingly a COM
mittee to plan for the banquet was
observation-disclosures Reynolds, Bliss
and PIERCE; also a committee on en-
tertainment was appointed-Mes-
danes Fuller, Stiles and Haddow.
According to the plans, each lady,
accompanied by her husband or
brother, hurried with we'll filed bas-
kets to the home of Mr.. and Mrs. P.
Pomeroy where with happy hearts
and smiling faces and willing hands
the beautiful tables were set for
thirty-six. Nearly every place was
filled.
Each found a souvenir place
card by his or her plate with hand
painted design upon it, also quo
tation from some English author.
The cards were painted by Mrs.
Fred Bliss, Mrs. Fuller and the
Misses Mary Stevens and Lucille
Haddow. Mrs. Bliss presided as
toast mistress. Mrs. Freeman, our
adopted sister," responded to the
toast, "The Home Culture Club. "
The next toast was, "The gentle
men of our club" to be responded
to by John Elliott, but as he was
detained at home by sickness Mrs.
C. w. Taylor wittily responded.
The next toast, 1.-THE ladies of our
club" was responded to by C. w.