Arizona republican., 1912-07-07

| hostess of the last weeks gathering | when routine business occupied the attention of the members.
 l Fifty members and guests attend = l ed the Fourth of July celebration ! given at the home of the Reverend l. w. Brooks. of Madison district. un- der the auspices of the Madison Inn l provement club. There were out of = door events for the children and a rousng patriotic program The next regular meeting of the club will be Smith, Thursday. August first. l
 To place the home on a scientific 1 basis and to dignify housework with l the same artistic sense that might | be expected in any other calling or | profession was the keynote of the ! speakers at the household economies l conference of the Federation of 1 Womens Clubs
 | If there was anything lacking re- garding domestic principles it was be- 1 Nond the ken of some of the most I noted women experts of the country. l for they gave their views on every 1 thing. from the complete furnishing ] of a home artistically. out of old box 1 es that might be had for the asking from a grocer to the cooking of the 1 most luxurious dishes at trivial l cost
 | While not of the greatest impor- i tance, if was perhaps one of the most l interesting and enthusiastic confer ences of the convention Mrs. Olaf Guldiin, of Fort Wayne, Ind a teach 1 CT and an authority on household economies, presided. and in opening ] the conference told of the study and 1 interest being stimulated in the sub i Ject in womens clubs throughout the | country. She appealed for the aid 1 of women in setting a higher standard ] for the housewife that the artistry of a trained mind might place the care of the home on plane with any other worthy pursuit
 An unusually interesting address was delivered by Louise Brigham. of i New York, founder of the box furni- i ture idea. who explained her method 1 of converting old boxes into service able and artistic house furniture and
 
 Dr. Caroline c Coffin of the 1 Housewives league, told of the great 1 progress and growth of that organi- 1 zation. and mentioned one striking 1 instance of it's harmony and strength Of women when in the New York l butter strike" recently housewives ] won their fight in reducing the price of that product from g cents to g. cents per pound.
 Miss Laura Drake Gill. of the Uni | Versity of the South at Sewanee Tenn, and also chairman of the fed -eration committee on education. made | an interesting address on vocational | education at an open session of the 1 biennial convention Wednesday even ing. Miss Gill organized the first vocational bureau for college women 1 She gave q brief review of the move ! ment of the work since it's. inception five years ago by the late 0r. Frank l Parsons at Boston.
 Miss Gill. during the course of her remarks, said:
 This vocational movement is an
 effort to bring about the democracy of equality of opportunity Neither
 democracy nor any other form of
 government has yet done away with
 social differences. This new ideal of
 education is to train men toward ] equal patience. industry. equal judg-
 ment Until that end is gained so-
 ciety will be as little equal as the
 troughs and crests of the sea-
 Every girl. rich or poor, needs a
 skilled occupation carried to a self
 supporting point. She needs 1t for
 insurance against reverses. for her
 mentality, which reacts better to- ward concrete aims: for her sense oi responsibility to society or ethiCa
 development and for the joy whicf
 only comes from constructive activi- ties.
 Every woman needs equipment fol q vocation and an avocatiOn, either of which may at any given time according to the demands upon her become her chief interest. Home making should be one, the profes- sion or occupation which calls ou her maximum ability and enthusiasm should be the other
 What club women of the cOuntr! . are doing for the advancement of ar