The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1907-11-23
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Pra cffcaI Work of Women.

Since the time when women's clubs first became
marked feature of our national life the male
portion of Our population has been inclined to view
askance all efforts made by the other to better
not only their own condition but the condition of
humanity generally. But this inclination is rapidly
disappearing women become more and more prac-
teal in their work, and the results achieved show
more and the wisdom and earnest endeavor
of those who achieved them This has been espe-
ciay true in regard to the movement for municipal
Improvement that women have taken up all over
the country 1t is true right here IN Idaho, where
work along this line is progressing in many COM
munities and where results already accomplished
speak for themselves. City and village councils
often are Indifferent to matters OF civic PRIDE but
they cannot long remain in communities that
have active organizations Of women, who are giving
such subjects their especial attention.
This fact was brought prominently to the atten-
ton of the public at the recent meeting of the
Second District Federation of Women's Clubs at
Weiser when reports were made by several or
carnations of work they had done for city or vii
lage improvement showing in every instance achieve
ments so marked that any Commercial Club OF the
State might have been proud of them. All over the
Union we are hearing of the work OF women III
this connection until it that the Nation has
at last awakened to the fact that their efforts are
to be encouraged and given their tull NEED OF
praise instead of being made light of or entirely
ignored.
An instance of this new attitude toward the work
of women appears in an article in a recent issue OF
the Saturday Evening Post, in which Frank Put
man, writing of the vastly improved sanitary con-
ditions Of New Orleans, pays this tribute to the
work of the women of that city:
1t was only when the women of New Orleans took
I'D the situation in deadly seriousness that real
progress began to be made. They decided that they
had endured sanitary mediavallsm as long as they
could endure it. And they shamed the men OF New
Orleans-the Indifferent rank and tle OF men-Dy
taking the lead in public advocacy and organization
of a campaign for modern sanitation. A bond issue
sufficient to pay for modern drainage sewerage ana
water systems was proposed to the people, mainly
through the efforts of the women OF the city; and
but for their notes.-the votes of women who being
upon questions involving the creation OF public IN
debtedness-the bond proposal would have tailed
1t carried, and the work was begun
Such a record as this made by the women
of New Orleans where the difficulties confronting
them were enormous deserves the attention and
praise of the entire country, and will doubtless re-
ceive it. 1t is a record that should encourage the
women of every city and hamlet in the Nation to
similar endeavor and to Idaho people IN particular
if is cause for self-congratulaton; for in Idaho
the women's clubs have already recognized the I'M
mense possibilities for achievement in this held, and
the battle for better and brighter municipal condi-
tons has already begun.