The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1907-10-25

not even SeLIfnS tne mdIIer III Io6i-
cal order, but we hope to get the con-
Meeting links and give the rest of 1t
in our next issue. We give below
some of the papers and addresses.
Editor
Address of Welcome by Mrs. ID. H.
Biethan.
Madam President, Ladies of the
Federation:
1t is with great pleasure that we
the Current Event Club, of Black
loot, welcome you to our midst.
We welcome you to our town; The
best she has to give, we offer to you
Dame nature has donned her
richest garb of crimson, gold and
brown in your honor. The bright
sunlight, the soft and balmy breeze
have kissed the earth to gladden. our
hearts at your coming. This is one
of the Cartons days yellow, mel
low, ripened days sheltered in
golden coating" Even Jack Frost
adds to our already perfect day by
just faint suggestion of his pres
ence in the early morning; just en-
ough to bring glow to the cheek,
sparkle to the eye, and to put
elasticity into the step.
We welcome you to our homes.
1t is a good thing for us to turn a
side from our daily routine to re-
ceive congenial guests. 1t is good
to realize that after the feast of
good things we hope to enjoy during
our sessions we may HE away to our
homes to there relax. We hope that
the home atmosphere may be rest
full, and that social interchange of
thought may be mutually agreeable.
We welcome you to our club and
all it's privileges. Social and literary
clubs mean more to women living
in a comparatively small town than
to those in larger cities. To the lat
ter whose lives are so full, clubs are
mere incidents, while to the former
they nourish the spiritual, intellect
ual, and social life. They bring in
spiration and varietyand the graces
of refinement into the monotOny Of
our lives, and when the advantages
of higher life are so limited it means
much to us to have the opportunity
of the intellectual life received from
the club. How true 1t Is, as Phillip
Brooks so beautifully expressed it.
"The ideal life, the life of full COM
pletion, haunts us all. We feel the
thing we ought to be, beating be-
meath the thing we are" In club
life, as in other work, we are judged
by our fruits. Study means interest,
interest means knowledge, and
knowledge is power, and mingling
one with the other, and interchang-
ing thoughts and experience, and
learning what great minds have said
on topics of vital interest to women,
our vision is clearer. We realize
that life is more than any part of it,
and that only by ennobling personal
ideals can we have social, political,
ethical, and religious ideals elevat-
ed.
Emperor William has said that
women should be interested only in
her three KS: her Kinder, her keu-
che, and her kirche. We American
women believe that most heartily
but we go about to prove that we
believe it in a broader sense than
even the Emperor could know, for
we are striving not only to make our
own, but all children useful, and
happy elements of society by throw
ing about them better laws, better
educational possibilities, and health
ier environments. We would have
not only our own, but our neighbors'
kitchens we'll kept, under competent
hands, and well stocked with pure
food; we would make not only our
own, but all churches broader and
stronger by our administrations. 1t
has been given to women from the
beginning, said the President Of the
General Federation not long ago, to
put into life beauty, regeneration
and uplifting. There is another
thing which our club life gives to wo-
men, that Is the fellowship, and ap-
probation of other women. 1t has
long been claimed against women
that there can be no relative friend