The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-11-16
IN THE. REALM OF WOMEN
What the Federation and Womens Clubs in General Are
City Club Women Preparing for Approaching Social SeaonNotes


people. The club has always had its
indefatigable workers wh7 were ever
ready to hear the cry Of the dis
tressei: VINO were alert to succor the
needy, tte sick and the sorrowful; and
to share the burdens OF tn ,overDuf-
aened aud ovesworked women and ne
glecteit ana dpnient children. There
is & long llss Of good deeds placed to
their credit. For charity suffereth
long and Is kind"
II Is not an easy thing to get at the
record of the many kind things that
have been done by the benevolent
women of Guthrie, for most OF the
work that Is done is of such a nature
that Il cannot be done in the limelight
II is work that cannot be heralded
abroad as is other lines Of club work.
for did not He leave command: Let
not thy right hand know what thy left
hand doetRI
We knw that charity has not been
Withheld. The Benevolent AssOcia.
tion furnishes several Hundreds of dol
lars to the N. T. hospital in the way
of money, provisions, clothing and
medical attendance for the sick who
were to poor to bear the expense
All these u,ings and many more have
the workers done lin the Masters
name" For | was hungry and We
gave me meat and / was thirsty and
ye gave me drink. and ! was a stranger
and We took me in
And the greatest Of these is char
ity.
What the Federation Has Done.
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been an important factor in the eyolu
tionary process of state-making Polit-
ical institutions, commercialism, and
other material implements reared a
magnificent outward structure. but the
womahood, yes the organized woman
hood OF this and other cities has pant
ed the Ideals and has given a moral
aud ethical code that has bl ssomed
into a rich citizenship and ripened into
q splendid state,
The City Federation by uniting all
the clubs OF Guthrie into a single or
ganigation was enabled to accomplish
the political kings that advanced the
best interests of the city relating not
cnly to material things but working
ais for the home. church, school, and
state.
Some of the results OF the work OF
the women OF Guthrie are the Carnegie
library with its shelf loads of booksi
the Lhidlren's room: the reading roOm
with all the leading periodicals IN the
tables n bulletin board as guide for
good reading; club room furnished
In quiet elegance as a meeting place
for the club women, with pictures on
the walls and a bronze statue of
George Washington standing as
heroic example for the sch oil child
,Ai1o drinks In patriotism every time
he looks upon the Father of his coun
try" who was also "First In war. first
In peace, and first in the hearts his
eountrymen."
The club women have tried In every
way to induce public improvements
They have offered prizes for flower
gardens and flower contests 10 en-
courage the children in flower growing
They have taught the children humane
work: and have taught them to protect
and preserve the song birds of the
country. They advocated the estab-
llshment OF free kindergartens In The
public sch OILS until II was done; they
agitated and promoted the teaching of
manual training In the public schools
AS an example of what manual train
ing has already done in our public
schools, the following is cited:
The manual training exhibits sc
cured from the specimen works the
Logan county high school aud the prb-
lis schools OF Guthrie, and taken tc
the Ardmore federation convention by
Mrs. NJ. c. Hart, chairman f House
hold Economics, called forth praise and
admiration and surprise from national
state. and local women They were
TAR ahead of the other exhibits"
iSut the crowning work Of cur FEEDER
alton is not that Guthrie is now the
cleanest city in tie new state, but that
the taxpayers of the city gave US the
desire OF our hearts and voted bonds
for new school houses for our fast
growing schools, thus relieving the
unsanitary conditions Of last year.