Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-02-01
WOMEN'S CLUB
ACHIEVEMENTS
Aim to Work for Civic and
Social Bettsrment.

The following interesting com
munication on "Women's Clubs"
published In the New York Sun, has
been received from a member Of the
local Woman's Club:
To the Editor of the Sun,
Sir: ! am not In the habit OF
bursting into print, not having the
facile pen of many OF my sex, but ]
feel that ] must express an opinion
even though 1t may never meet the
eye of the person for whom 1t fs In
tended. / am not writing In refer
| ence to woman's suffrage, but TO as-
| sert my unqualified disapproval OF a
statement by Martha McCnlIoch-Wil-
Hams, In which she says, speaking
of woman's clubs:
"They may have their uses. /
have never discovered them, no be-
ing given to microscopic research"
/ have the honoring being a
member OF a large woman's. club In
a suburban town OF $4,000 inhabit-
ants not far from New York. II
Mrs. Williams will honor me with
her address, / would like to present
her with a copy of the annual school
report of this town, In which the va
rinns ways In which the woman's
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ted and mentioned with apprecia-
ton. For instance, by the efforts of
the art section of this club in COM
junction with the aid of the children
of the schools and the board OF edu-
cation an art exhibit was held which
over 1,100 people attended and
whereby a copy OF a famous master
piece was placed In each of the 125
rooms OF the schools of the city. al
so pictures and casts II the cs.cns
bly, rooms. Another mention is
made In this report OF the establish
ing OF children's Fairgrounds
through the woman's club; again,
mention IL made OF the library
talks for children by the same wo-
men who were instrumental In Sc
curing the library for the city.
Strange, isn't 1t, that club women
are interested In children: that they
should give young peoples concerts
at nominal prices, giving rich and
poor alike the opportunity of hearing
| good music. that they should do so
| many things for the best interests Of
| the community that ] cannot posi-
| bly, enumerate themf Strange, Is
Il not, that there are other women's
! organizations In this town also do
ing splendid work in more ways than
one?
OF course the woman who Ia
working for the civic interests of
tho community In which she lives
werely does this sort Of thing for the
sake OF being conspicuous and orig
inal. She desires above all to 10
What a pity and what a blow to her
~self-conceit 1t must be when she hap
pens to remember that there are
thousands OF women Just like her
working out civic and social prob
lens, seeking the conservation of the
child and the woman as we'll as the
preservation of forests and inani-
mate things; thousands of women in
the 1000 clubs of the General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs whose
platform Is "the care of women and
children and the home, the latter
meaning the four walls OF the city,
as we'll as the four walls Of brick
and mortar" Even the Federation
of New York city, marvellous as 1t
may appear to the nin-miscropic eye
of Mrs. McCulloch- Williams, sup
ports two scholarships for girls and
other philanthropic enterprises. +
am not so we'll Informed OF their pol
itics as Mrs. Neutrality-suspicious.
seems to be, but know that one of
the present candidates IL above re-
proach. AS for the politics of the
larger. declarations, they are CONDUCT
ed with dignity and a regard for the
constitution of the assembly with no
perceptible "hysteria"; at least I
have never beheld any manifesto
tons of the disease, and would like
to know OF what it really consists.
II Mrs. Observation-Disclosures will
read the last report of the conven-
ton OF the General Federation Of
Clubs held at Cincinnati last May,
which fills 9 book of 500 pages OF
achievements and possibilities ~
further achievements, and then APP
ply a microscope to her own soul, abe
might ind in il a small germ con-
tanning the elements OF sympathy
and tolerance, which with careful
cultivation might develop int a
great and glowing belief in the ef-
forts of her sex to widen, deepen
and sweeten" the lives of othera as
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