The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-09-25
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anxious to increase our fund to one.
thousand dollars.
The Domestic Science department,
with an equipment unequalled in the
state, will interest every mother OF
a daughter.
All northern women are interested
because of their nearness, but 1t is a
happy accident which has made a.
southern woman chairman. ! can
well believe the university has been
discussed In dozens Of places, on
rnumberless occasions where it was
scarcely mentioned before In time
from our interest In the Loan Schol-
arship fund, the club of every town,
large and small, will be bureau Of
information for the university. Let
any interested person present the
name of prospective student, who
desires help from the fund, to any
federated club in the state All have
the right to present his claim to the
committee. The chairman, Mrs Bow
erman, will report payment that has
been made already on one loan. The
U. of I. catalogue just received makes
mention Of our fund in the lists Of
benefactions.
The hostess clubs of Moscow which
entertain the state meeting are the
Pleiades, the Historical and the Cur
rent Events. The first has an inter-
esting origin. The early members
of the faculty found fewer adyanta-
ges for their families than we shall
find In Moscow today, so their wives
and daughters, drawn together by
common interest, formed the club
for mutual benefit. Though still
limited in membership, it has long
outgrown the number that gave it It's
name and the membership is no
longer solely derived from that Of
fetal source. Here is club that
followed a systematic plan of work
last year and the year before and
the year before that, back to the
beginning they were reading Shake
speare, two plays year, often some
have been re-read / fear to tell you
the number they have studied. This
alone is an effective answer to the
objection sometimes offered, that
women's clubs never do solid,
thoughtful work Unless we make
a Shakespearean quotation correctly
we shall have the Pleiades set us
right. They have also been fac
tor in the Carnegie library of their
town The Historical club, with
membership of 60, has shared the
responsibility of the Carnegie library
and been most effective factor in
it's upbuilding 1t is a department
club and trust we may have from
it, from the Columbian from the
Montpelier V. /. S., as we'll as others,
written description of their plan
of department work, which the Out
look, and others, expect to discuss
this year, with view to adopting It
next. Let this topic be discussed in
Presidents Round Table at Mos
COW, and a resume published in
Echoes" for study afterwards. Can
the inexperienced club safely take up
more than two lines of work at first?
Is the loss of friendly, personal in
terest in every department compen-
stated for by greater efficiency in
each? Shall there be a general meet
ing once a month? What depart
ments shall be chosen first-litera-
ture, home or household economics,
village improvement, music? A
Montpelier club gave me a good rea-
son for supplying Kensington de-
partment. Young ladies interested
chiefly in that, become interested by
the general meetings in general club
work and afterward develop into
excellent workers. Partly through
the efforts of the Historical club.
Domestic Science has been intro
duced into the Moscow schools and
they, in the future, will share with
the Columbian club the honor of |
club cook book. Would
that every club town might witness
a similar achievement on the part
of its local club, not only as a |
source of revenue, but for the many
excellent recipes circulated widely.
The Current Event. Club is
new organization admitted into the
Federation just in time to add its
welcome to the visiting club, formed
to study what the world is doing"
as Golfers phrases it. BY the way,
there could be no more valuable
source of information than the Col
lier's page SO headed, for 1t sets
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