Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-01
Club News

r a brief business meeting held
u before the program yesterday,
IA Ebell formally indorsed the name
of Mrs. Russell ]. Waters, president of
Los Angeles district, as nominee for
president of the California Federation
of Womans clubs, similar action all
ready having been taken by the dis
trict board, the Friday Morning club
and the Shakespeare club of Pasadena.
Rev. Charles Edward Locke, d. D.,
pastor of the First Methodist Episco-
pal church, was the speaker of the
afternoon, taking for his topic "The
Twentieth Century Call to Women. "
DR.. Locke said in brief
Never is a man so grotesque and
so tragically lame as when he essays
to answer the question, What Is
woman? 1t would be well for him to
remember Pope's injunction. no doubt
the result of his own experience, that
the proper study of mankind is man.
woman is not mans better half,
she is not fraction, but mans equal
equal in the mind of the Creator,
equal in brain possibilities and in spir-
itual aspirations. She is mans equal
also in moral responsibilities, for re-
sponsibility is not a question of sex,
but of altitude, the greater RESPONSE
bility resting upon those who have at
tanned the noblest heights. Upon each
should rest with equal burden all the
sacred responsibility for the moral
condition of the race.
If man has his sphere, his limita-
tions. his opportunities, woman, too,
has hers, and there are certain dis
tinctions and honorable boundaries
which must be observed if the equi-
librium of the race is to be main
tanned. 1t is a great thing to be an
Edison, Marconi Morse or Robert
Fulton, but divinely. immeasurably
greater to have nodded a character
and trained an expanding genius that
found out and applied those mysteries.
Back to the home" is the twentieth
century call to women. The greatest
earthly institution is the home, Of
which by nature and divine appoint
ment woman is the center, the SUI
preme custodian of its riches.
The manner in which women are
crowding into the work. day world,
doing mans work, is not a permanent
condition. 1t is proved that women
can do many things that man can
do, but her call is to those things that
man cannot do. Woman's work is
spiritual, social, idealistic, altruistic,
domestic.
NY contention is that woman's
sphere should be as wide as her tastes,
her abilities, her necessities. That as
custodian of the home she has a
sphere which far surpasses in impor-
tance any work possible to man. AS
home keeper, character builder, hers
is a sublime employment beside which
profession, commerce or merchandising
are but irksome and slavish toll.
This new century is calling women
to rally to the defense of the home
from devastating influences. 1 have
argued in favor of suffrage for women
because | believe it will furnish her a
strong weapon of defense-it is not
ballots or babies, but ballots for the
babies.
Woman should stand for the Sunday
as rest, worship and home day. She
should oppose intemperance and pro-
test against that vice known as the
social evil. Rescue homes are women's
work. There cannot exist this social
evil at one side of the city without
indescriba BILE tragedies of home life at
the other. The home is the throne Of
our republic the mother is its un-
crowned queen.
If the world goes to the devil, woman
will be to blame; if it goes Godward
the highest honor will be woman's.
And the world is moving Godward, and
it will continue it's aerial flight until
all mankind shall be redeemed, and in
that day of celestrial triumph the most
exquisite crowns made by the artificers
of the skies will be placed on the
brows of the women who have been
true to their heavenly obligations.
Tn nreparation for the tenth biennial
convention of the General Federation
of Woman's Clubs, which is to be held
at Cincinnati May Ills inclusive, the
railroad companies have made the fol-
lowing statement
"The agreed rate for convention
round-trip tickets is $50, optional route
west of Chicago, except through Port
land one way, when rate will be Sis
extra. Both ways over the same line
between Chicago and Cincinnati. Sale
dates are May and 8, but tickets may
be purchased ten days in advance.
Limit Of going trip is fifteen days, and