Smyrna times., 1907-03-13
CLUB LADIES. URGING CIVIC PRIDE.
Hear an Interesting Address From Mrs. Chas.
II. JoIls, State Chairman of Ciylcs and
Home Science Which They Endorse.

things, are trying to encourage civic
pride. Recently they were given an
entertaining address by Mrs. Charles
II. Jolls, of Wyoming, state chairman
of Civics and Home Science. Her re-
marks which contain good and whole
some advice for Smyrna is as follows:
"Madam President and ladies of the
Twentieth Century Club of Smyrna.
feel that it is a great honor to be
asked to be with you to-day and to say
few words for Civics. 1 believe that
every woman is interested in this sub
ject because Civics, as we use the word
in our club work, means beauty and
cleanliness. We individually take
pride in the appearance of our own
home and collectively we are now try
ing to improve the appearance of the
outside in general. We are sometime
asked "why don't you women leave
the outside alone. Let the Town
Council attend to that as they haveal-
ways DONE" We have no wish to in
trude upon mans absolute domain, if
he has one, but when it comes to the
life that make for comfort either do
mestically or aesthetically I believe the
women are superior to the men. There
are of course exceptions to all rules.
Cleanliness is woman's cardinal virtue,
physical, mental and moral, and no
woman possessing these attributes can
be accused of interfering when she
takes active measures to make her sur
roundings and her country more at
tractive, more cleanly, and thereby
more sanitary.
Don't AntagOnize But Encourage Town Council
OF course we must not antagonize
our Town Council. If we will prove
to the men composing that board, that
we are in earnest, that it is not simply
fad, but that we honestly want to
help them make our town more beauti
full and more healthful, they will re-
ceive us with open arms (6guratively
speaking), and when they do once take
| us III, buC1 no LAOob IL
giving us the praise and glory. Tha
has been proven right here in our owl
State. Women areraised to sweep anC
. clean, to dust and pick up and the un
sightliness of our streets affects u
: most acutely. / believe if we mother
; would train our boys more as we'll a
y we do our girls the next generation
would need to hear less of "Villag
8 Improvement" If we would or coul
Q train our children to be as careful ou
IL of doors as they are within, in regar
u to throwing waste paper, fruit peeling
II and all sorts of unsightly refuse.
our children were taught that it is un
10 slightly, unmannerly and what is wors
l. unsanitary, to expectorate in publ
% buildings aud upon our sidewalks,
IS we would early instill into them Low
for trees and their protection, lov
le for our native birds and their prote,
n tian, (the English sparrow is not n
r. tive), if we could instill all these thing
re into our children, we would be in ia
le way to have "the country beautiful
~ Perhaps we can't do all these thing
ne but we can do much, and while we al
n raising our children and teaching the
to carry on the good work we haye b
s's gun, we can each be doing our lit
or best by never throwing anything u
ng slightly into our roadways and allie
or ways, by picking up all such In fro
ce and in back of our own homes,
ed planting trees, by burning our refu'
Gil by helping Town Council, and aidil
10. in every way possible by both prece
lis and example to make each spot cred
ng to its community.
of
The Filthy habit of Expectorating on Stres
have not time to-day to go into
:. various lines of work in any detail,
y 1 do want to call particular attention
the subject of expectoration on {
a'" sidewalks and especially in our prov
ion stores. AS you all know consun
ion tion is now classed among the cont
hat ious diseases and it is not heredita
,me The tendency or the weakness of
ard lungs is the only thing inherited and
few germ has to be deposited upon fer
al field to cause consumption. 1t is 8
i, that an absolutely healthy person '
the not take any contagious disease
n;t cause the soil is not suited to the gt
;cas development. Absolutely healthy |
old sons are rare. 1t is said that Am
M cans think they have to have sc
ION ailment, and if they can't have a
ala thing else they have dyspepsia.
Mil. germs being deposited upon
5au sidewalks and upon our floors becC
tock dry and being disturbed by the
Tod and the skirts of pedestrians, 1
ance through the air and into the lungs
n;tv the passer-by. II they there md
rbv ditions suitable, they grow and w
Lnou the rasult Tuberculosis is