Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1910-10-11
ADDRESS TO The WOMAN'S CLUB.

these acts of kindness and heart
courtesy" are not done in conde-
scending our gracious way; but in a
way that brings ever into the other
life good will that cannot leave
undone these "heartsome" deeds
that another life yearns for
There is a responsibility that each
| is to bear. A life cannot stand alone,
however blessed of worldly material
goods. Into each life must come
that heart hunger, and it cannot be
alphabetically met unless this life
has touched God and felt that these
common duties are sacred.
1t is a great blessing to have one
come into the way of your life when
all things seem to turn against us,
and lead us no where, who will help
us to bear more bravely and endure
more patiently and to see the good
of it all. They Who give you a steady
clear visioned sense of things that
are right and true, and who help
you to look for the lonely, pure, high
things do a service that is so far
reaching iii your own experience
that it's influence can know no end.
Helping others to feel that being
good is divine right is not unSelfiSh
service; because these little seeds of
love and sweet friendliness will bios
som into happiness untold to the
sower. Simple flowers, they are of
cheerfulness contentment and con-
fidence in each other.
Great lives know and have known
the JOY of service. We know they
have, else their lives would have
failed in greatness. Perhaps the
greatness was not heralded, may be
it was felt only in simple neigh
borhood; but this greatness touched
only one soul, perhaps, and that
greatness has gone on, singing the
10Y of it's service.
Recall this sweet touch that an
other was brought into your life,
and remember what it has meant
to you, and pay back by heartening
another life by sweet, sympathetic,
joyful service. Emerson in his beau
tiful Boston Hymn sang;
And we shall succor men;
Tis nobIeness to serve;;"
Help them who cannot help again.
Let us live an unselfhish club
year-putting aside all selfish mo-
tives, and seeking to know our re-
sopsibility, and shoulder our part
with a sweetness and courage that
only noble women can, and do show.
1t is my earnest desire and wish
to be understood by the club women,
to have them feel sympathetic for
me in my youth of club effort. My
motives will ever be right and sin
cere. Mistakes are sure to follow in
the path of one so enthusiastic and
EAGER but the mistakes will not be
occasioned by premeditated malice
or ugliness of feeling. 1t is my first
of all wishes to preside in a way that
will repay the women who have so
sweetly bestowed the honor upon
me.
lift the living cup of friendliness
and all good wishes and drink to the
joy and happiness of the first occa-
sion of the clubs coming together
and the healthful progress of the
entire year.
Mrs, j. B. WALL.
Mrs. Farmer, in her most
graceful manner, presented the
subject for the afternoons meet
ing and of the coming year, conclud-
ing her remarks by introducing Mrs.
John X. Otley of Atlanta, member
of the committee on Education Of
the Georgia State Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs.
Mrs. Otley spoke of the federated
clubs, presenting each department
of the club work separately and ex-
planned just what the women of this
state are actually doing for the up
lift of humanity.
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