The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-03-24

and enthusiasm. Mrs. Broomhall stat- |
ed emphatically that she was a be- |
lclver in the city federation. A club |
is organized for culture and social |
purposes but a federation means SER
vice and power because the very fact
of combination shows that 1t is going
to do things.
The speaker has given much at
tentiou to the development of club
women and told a short history of
the movement. 1t started twenty
years ago. Its nature in the begin
ming was sporadic and epidemic and
Il was considered a startling sensa-
tion. The grandmothers, the house,
wives of the older generation held up
their hands in horror and dsmay.
They didn't need elubs" The fact
was that they had no time for clubs
They had no time for anything but
lspinning, sewing, baking and kind
red occupations and they had no
books If they had had the leisure TO
study them. Now, however. modern
Inventions have changed all that.
Women don't have to do a thing"
If they don't want to. The depart
ment stores will furnish them COM
pletely from top to toe and their time
is their own to do we'll or i'll with
About that time the colleges open
ed and girl schools sprang up all
I over the country. Cheap literature
came out and everyone can buy ten
or fifteen cent magazine. What is
more tho cheap magazines are the
ones which deal with the live ques-
tions of the day. ...a..a
The club woman is the kind Of
! woman who cannot ''sit around" 80
| clubs were organized and they studi-
ed things from the beginning. The
| getting of culture had to be the first
| step because culture brings light.
HThen the sensitive tendrils had to he
brushed off. Women had ito learn
now to do large things in large way
ana forget their small animosities and
lsensitive vanities. The pretty feuds
OF the church society and the sewing
circle had to be left behind. II
women are to do things they must be
wiling to accept the ideas of others
ana have the courage of their own
convictions.
The study clubs are all right. If
we don't know the history of the
worlds life, If we don't know its lit
erature, we don't know how to live
now Cicero said: History is a Wit
ness OF the times, the torch of truth
the life of memory the teacher of
| lltc and messenger of antiquity"
NO matter If the editor of the Ladies
Home Journal does say they are "just
getting "A smattering," they will per-
slst' Not to know history is to be a
child. History is a voice sounding
across the centuries the laws of right
md wrong. Opinions alter, manners
change, creeds rise and fall but the
| moral law Is written In the tablets OF
| memory"
/ After while club women began to
| notice the wrongs of little children.
Y The first time they We're strikingly
| brought to their notice was when at
the Los Angeles federation, q woman
rose in the gallery and told how chill
| dren were treated In the cotton mills
OF the South. The whole country was
shocked. The clubs took up child
labor, 1t was found right here in
| Ohio of the very worst type.
| The women went to visit q Chicago
court for women. They saw children
in jail in charge of a man indicted
for murder. The result was the first
| juvenile court of Chicago.
| You can be intellectual but not in
telligent. Organization is the test OF
intelligence" is the Ohio slogan. In
telligence is influence. Study must
be done before work is done because
you must keep putting in fuel to radi-
ate heat and study must continue and
IL you do continue studying you can't
help doing" You can't be full of
the spirit of God and not do some
thing.
|. The results in every line of the
woman's movement are visible all over
the state. AS a typical instance OF
what a club can do, Mrs. Broomhal
cited the experiences which her own
| club had In Troy, Ohio. They worked
almost entirely through the power OF
suggestion. II was suggestion in the
right place and forceably, albeit tact.
fully, administered and its result has
been a transformation of the little
city. And the men think they did II
all and congratulate themselves ac.
cordingly. However, results. not credit
were the object of the endeavor
whats the difference who gets the
credit? Let the men do the work II
they want to-" One of the strongest
aids which the club had in theii
campaign was the question or "kick,
ers' box and Mrs. Broomhall advo-
Gated its use very strongly A valu
able ally was the good will of tn,
property owners who are always read,
for advancement II approached prop
erly. The speaker also considered 1
wise to keep on the good side o
1.-THE press and gave the newspaper
the credit or foir and courteous treat