The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-03-24
Of women's clubs.

oo' t""ichi o'hs wv bldd 10 take them
OH their hands as soon as they had
oeen shown their virtues very ef-
fective measure has been found to be
the issuance of leaflets appealing to
the children to do their part and show
ing them, in manner calculated TO
attract them, what they can do This
has been marveiously successful i'm
Cincinnati Dayton also has very
wideawake federation They are send
ing two girls to school, giving one a
musical education and holding an
| educational art exhibit Miss Annie
| Barrows, the eminent domestic sci
ence teacher. has been secured and
| they expect TO raise hundreds of dol
| lars to pay the expenses OF n house
mother to teach mothers how to care
| for their children and how to cook
and live on what they have.
Why do club women have TO do
these things? Because the factories
have taken the girls and women and
| reform must follow the factories. In
| every town there are three classes of
women: working women, women who
have some leisure and the frivolous
class of women whom we always have |
with us. The club women come from |
the second class which is too intelli- |
gent to use its leisure to no purpose. |
| There Is wide difference between |
| Intelligence and intellectually. The |
intellectual person doesn't know or
care about actualities The club wo-
men need a broad Intelligence. They
can't escape hearing of conditions and
they must know how things are go.
ing. Every woman must be interested
In children and missionary societies.
That their importance and influence
In the community Is known and felt
is illustrated by the fact that every
bill which has come up in the last
legislature has been submitted to the
clubs. Why? Because they are be-
coming intelligent. because they have
no political affiliations and because
they know what they know"
Mrs. Broomhall made an earnest
appeal to the Marion women. "If
you love your work see what you
can do in Marion" she said. There
are so many fields open, Il should not
be difficult to find one where work
was needed. The park commission of
Troy now is seeking for work to do.
inspired by the suggestions and work
of the club women. When the two
speakers for the afternoon were on
the board together, they worked for
the juvenile court system and all con-
cerned acknowledged that 1t had pass
ed largely through their efforts. The
wife of an Ohio sheriff saw two little
boys, arrested on a trivial charge, IN
close conversation with criminal OF
the worst type. She asked them what
lhe was telling them and they said he
hwas showing them how to pick lock
Z The juvenile court has done away with
all these things, Mrs. Broomhall took
| 1t for granted that we had such q
! court in Marion. Other fields of en-
deavor which tho state federation Is
y taking up are state scholarships. bust
ness women's Clubs. Every club would
G do well to belong to the federation
They work through the Legislation
and engage In every kind of public
I work Everyone in Lima is helpine
0 the business womans y club there. Be
fore IT was organized there were two
g thousand street watkers. IL is no
t necessary for these girls to go wrong
" If they have the right kind of amuse.
c ment provided for them.
\ Mrs Broomhal foresaw great work
y for the city federations and rejolced
| that they We're coming into the state
> federation. self development and
s service" she said, "are all there is in
I life. Have we any influence? Why
e isn't the most cultured organization
S the most influential? That influence
n is responsibility comes home In club
life. City and state federations are
( for service. Only through the organ
{ lzation of a million women can we
undo the wrongs perpetrated by men,
e Club women are the most intelligent
= and best informed class of women to-
day. The speaker left two sentences
+ to be engraved on the minds of hei
T" hearers: Intelligence is influence. In
$ fiuence Is responsibility"
II After Mrs. Broomhall's address q
= quintet gave delightful interpre
a tation of "Tho Waternymph bS
g RubensteinI
i Mrs. James Hopley. chairman o
$ committee of state institutions gave
e an address upon the state laws con
II Icerning women's homes for correc
ton. She stated that the things whicl
O are wrong at the Ohio Iudustria
, School for Girls are so, because o
" the unjust and ignorant discrimination
4 against girls as such, and the polio.
n of state honeycombed with politics
/. which is self satisfied and sociological
Is ly and philanthropically unprogres
q sive. Ohio has been at the tail en
a of the procession of progress. Lon
n since In all the eastern states ant
some of the western there have bee
n established effective training school
n for dependent and delinquent girl
a with reformatories for women. Obi
II has one school for all three. 1t
inadequate for its needs now Sine
/. 1901 DR.. Katherine Davis has been a
If the head of Bedford reformatory. NeN
l. York, and for thirteen years woma
Il has been superintendent of the Re
10 formatory of the Commonwealth O
J. Massachusetts Practically all girls