The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-06
What the Virginia
Women Have Been
Doing This Winter

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There Is a great deal Of talk about
the woman in the home. She is the
supreme type of the hour. Too much
cannot be said In her praise.
The woman in the home is an admir-.
able figure. Nobody can gainsay or
wishes to sainsay the eact. But sore-
times won,an's work lies outside OF
the homo as we'll as inside OF 1t, and
this winter Virginia women have full.
filled their duties, whatever the nature
OF these duties, private or public, In
IN equally creditable manner. They
have showed themselves gracious.
charming and hospitablc In their
drawing rooms. They have proven
themselves intelligent, helpful and
practical In their apprehension Of mat
tcrs affecting The public welfare, and
when their help has been asked, they
have given it quietly and yet effective.
". In their patriotic organizations
they have been busy Will, intcrcstst that
have much more than a Statewide cf-
feet.
The record of their social triumphs
upon the close of brilliant guberna-
torial administration and the ina,usu-
ration of another have been duly set
down to their credit in the memories
OF the community and in daily columns.
where those who rum may read. Work
otherwise accomplished is not SO we'll
known Justly est imated.
That of the United Daughters OF the
8Confederacy, who are constantly devils
ing programs and amusements for the
pleasure of the veterans in gray at Lee
Camp Home, who are even now busy
over plans for keeping their annual
memorial day, who arc actively inter-
ested In the educational work of the
mountain missions, and who are maxi
ing history for future generations in
the Confederate Museum OF this city.
That of the Association for the Pre-
servation of Virginia Antiquities and
the Society Of Colonial Danes in Nir-
Einia who are furnishing inspiration
to the young. by the zeal with which
they have engaged in the task of re-
storing Virginia's mighty past and of
placing it as an object lesson before
tho eyes of the American nation.
That OF the women in their club
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and district nursing work. their Audu-
bon Society work and their humans
tartan work. which takes them into the
broader world that lies outside of their
sphere Of Individual interest and effort
In the home.
That of Woman's Club in Richmond.
always a centre of intellectual and ar
tistic as we'll as of social life, With
standards maintained there represent
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literary and musical entertainments,
its lectures, Its class work, affordins
an outlet for the activities and a re-
SPOUSE to the demands of woman's nat
ural tastes and tendencies
That of the sisterhood OF women II
general, meeting on the broad plan,
of common effort in furtherance o
whatever helps and advantages othe
women. wherever. they work and what
ever the nature of their work may be
representing movement that is a
significant as it is important, a move
nent that has led women this wintc
into opposition against Legislation
which tended to set aside precautions
taken for the health OF the city and In
to opposition to bills introduced tt
Z lengthen the daily hours of labor fol
women and children; which has induc.
" cd women to strive for legislative en-.
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state college for other women. to sup
port teachers pension bill, bill for
the protection of birds and bill for
& the preservation of trees in the Capt.
tol Square, and for the setting out OF
young trees and ornamental shubbcry
wherever needed
These are only few of the many
measures thG have engaged the inter
est and THE ssn,e OF women of earnest
purpose. endeavoring to do their par,
in the uplift of humanity. Tho result Of
what has been done will be summed VI
In the future. For the present one fac
arresting attention has been demon
strated. This fact is that a woman may
be womanly without being absolutely
and unvaryingly home keeper and ;
home worker.
VIRGINIA MISSIONER.