The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1909-02-26
Echoes Of Woman's Clubs


She made some humorous paral-
lels between the past and present, de-
claring that "the Merry Widow hat
had Its prototype II the Seventeenth
century, when It was said, That
women may sleep and none may know
by reason OF their enormous bonnets, 7
and ministers talk to stacks Of straw
with men among them
The last address was BY Professor
Charles Queblin on Democracy and
Culture" He said, Culture is the
habit of a mind intent with purpose,
cognizant of a tendency and connec-
ton in human achievement, able and
industrious In discerning the great
from the trivial. 1t is not the ac-
emulation knowledge, the piling up
Of facts, II is something that acquired
becomes a habit. II your culture
does not meet with the approval and
Acknowledgement of the people you
meet every day, It has flaw In 1t.
He spoke Of the three great move
ments which are shaping society to-
day, the political movement, the
labor movement, and the woman
movement. No man or woman of cul-
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ture can afford to be ignorant Of evo-
luton, the higher criticism Of the
Bible or socialism. am no more
asking you to become socialists than
evolutionists or higher critics, but l
repeat that 1t is an evidence of a lack
of culture to be Indifferent to this
social movement. 1t is either the
most hopeful on the horizon or the
most destructive of all we hold dear.
1t surely is important that we should
know it.
The singing Of America by the
audience, closed this session, which
from scholarly point of view,
was The best one OF the entire SEES
sion. The lecture by Prof. Zubelin
was worth the price of going to Bos-
ton and should you ladies acquire his
definition Of culture, it will be time
well spent.
But we must hurry along, as /
quite agree with the lady at the coun-
Gil who said, that it was impossible
to report from all the meetings.
Wednesday was replete with good
things and also Thursday morning
One Of the most interesting addresses
on this morning was: Conditions in
the Canal Zone" by Miss Helen
Varick Boswell of New York city.
She said: 1t required six days to
reach the Isthmus OF Panama. For
five weeks | went daily UP and down
its length planning and accomplish
ing the club work which am to tell
you all about in ten minutes
What the government wanted was
men Of skill in their different lines
who would stay on the isthmus. To
have such men, to keep such men,
there must be family life. To make
the women of these families content
ed, interests must be created for
hem and the administrator acknowlr
edged in no uncertain terms it's appre-
citation of the status which organiza-
tons have attained when it turned to
the Woman's club as one means Of
the unrest and dissatisfac-
ton which grievously afflicted the
residents OF the canal zone. After
becoming acquainted with the
women OF the different social sets in
the large towns, it became possible in
each Of the eight large towns of the
zone to organize woman's club.
Before leaving the zone delegates
from each of the eight clubs were
called together, and then was organ
lied the Canal Zone Federation Of
Women's Clubs, which now sends its
representation to this convention. A
year ago there were scores of lonely,
dissatisfied American
women in the canal zone, but now
hat is all changed and the women |
ire happy and contented Each of
,hese clubs has four departments, the
home, the educational, the philan- !
,hropic and the department of enter
ainment.
Mark Twain has said that cauli- I
lower is only cabbage with a col
eye education, and it seems to be
demonstrated that the woman's club
8 a college which has evolved life on
he zone from the cabbage to the
condition. Perhaps, Il
close this brief record of the
york done in any better way than
" quoting one Of the great New York
lailies, which said that while it
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