The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-27


For me therell be fun in
The world that Lies runnin'
An won't 90 to askin' 'em "Wly?"
-Woman's Life.
What Can Women Do for Ardmore ?
Hearing this question asked. a pic.
ture arose before me of a town in
which drive where you will at any
time Of year or day, no cloud of dust
arises from its well watered streets.
to fiji eyes, throat and lungs with fe-
Yer and consumption germs, a city
in which no filthy streets and side.
walks offend the eye. aggrcvate the
temper, soil the clothing and destroy
the health. where no malaria, ty-
phoid and dipthcria breeding ravines
and ponds are allowed to polute the
air with their pestiferous odors.
In this fair city no lofers obstruct
the sidewalks which beautifully
clean are bordered with well kept
grass and heavenward reaching trees.
Such a city could be made of Ard.
more by the united actions of the
Womons clubs.
Through this great western coun-
try there is a movement on foot to be
autily ones environments. Towns
have sprung up in a night, business
has been at full head while corn
stalks have remained uncut in the
streets. This state of things has pro.
duced a crtain dlsorderliness, a lack
of system, ragged, gutterless, unpay-
ed streets no regular skylnos, all
kinds of architecture placed at all an
giles.
Now that the wilderness has been
conquered and men and women can
take time to look about them there
has come this desire for more sight
illness, more regularity, more comfort
and less Queen Anne yards are TO
be graded and bclutined, streets are
to be worked and paved, housese are
to be constructed with some eye to
the true line of beauty shade trees
are to be planted, parks laid out and
school buildings and grounds improv
ed in short everything Is to be look
ed after which will in anyway bring
order out of disorder, cleanliness
where ugliness reigns.
Women's clubs in almost all the
cities and counties where they are
organized. have taken M this worl,
with a great deal OF enthusiasm.
They have been largely instrument
al in educating sentiment in this re-
gard as well as doing within the club
a great deal of practical work, discus,
sing the needs OF "A town and calling
attention to them until the machin-
cry hes been set in motion which pro
ducol the desired results.
In a large degree we are our broth.
cr's keeper, as his physical and spir-
itual exlstance are often the result
of our influence. Women cannot vote
but they can throw their influence to
the election OF official boards who are
broad and progressive enough to
place human comfort and morality
above dollars and cents.
Another civic duty is the stimula-
tlon of civic taste the idea divine
civic beauty should be a dominant |
idea, for just in proportion as we |
utalize the beauty do we approximate |
the divine mind. In time as the de-
sire for improvement grows Western |
towns will present the same 'ivable |
characteristics as are seen in Tie old
er Eastern towns and cities
What Ardmore most needs at his |
critical moment is strong well lDv-
erned civic organization supported |
by the Womens clubs Of the eli ana |
from conversation with many of our |
city officials and business folks, we