The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-06
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of Its program, and 1t also
in its January cards h a a series OF
under Its auspices by the Minneapolis
string quartet at the First Unitarian
church.
The first session of the club will be
next Tuesday at the Handicraft guild
hall. 1t will be a general business
meeting and reports will be given by
the committees on music. working con-
ditions of women. public morality and
by the specially appointed committee
to investigate entertainment for work
ing girls.
Thomas Whitney Surrette. lecturer
on music at Oxford university. Eng
land. will give q lecture recital jan
uary IL at the Handicraft guild hall
to which non-members of the club
may be admitted.
The department of home and edu-
cation. will monopolize the meeting of
January 16. 1t will be a discussional
meeting. at which Miss Ida Hook
Clarke will give an illustrated lecture
on "Outdoor Schools of England and
Germany" and at which DR.. c. H.
keene will give a talk on ''The Plan
for Outdoor Schools in Minneapolis"
r. G. Hall. president of the state
federation Of labor will speak on
Child Labor" at the meeting of the
vi ooSlot SkA
uary %. DR.. Hall will illustrate his
lecture with lantern slides sent out
by the national child labor commit
tee. Miss Josephine Schain will speak
on the plan to form a class for the
study of the city charter. and discus
sions from the floor will be permitted
after the two lectures.
The second lecture recital nv Thorn
as Whitney Surette will be given jan
uary 25 in the Handicraft guild hall;
and non-members are admitted.
Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chicago,
who me- with such an enthusiastic re-
ception at her appearance before the
Woman'S club last month, comes for
a return lecture OF January 30. under
the auspices of the department of So
rial economies. She will speak on
Employment Offices for Women"
Tea will he r after the meeting
and guests may be inyietd by the club
members.
The Disposal of Household Waste
was the topic of the first New Years
meeting Of the Home Economics class
of the Woman's club, which met in
the club rooms at the Haudicraft
the work. the city health department
is doing in handling a certain amount
of household waste. She told of the
scope of the departments work and
made suggestions for extending its in
tuence through the medium of CO.
operation from the housewives in Min
neapolis. Mrs. w. n. CAROLS paper
on Fixtures. Use. Beauty and Ar
rangements." I'M Mrs. Milton n. Pur-
dy's paper on Installation of Plumb
ING was quite appropos, not only for
the reason of its sanitary values. but
also for the suggestions that might
help to solve the problems of frost
proof plumbing during the zero
weather season,
The New York Times prints an in
Nors for the emancipation of Moslem
girls. The one who is planning to
bring about this much needed enlarge
ment of liberty is none other than
Ahmed Ria Bey. the newly elected
president of the Ottoman chamber of
deputies. His present plan is to squip
a lyceum for 200 Moslem girls from
. to 10 years of age. the teachers to
be European women. highly educated
and capable of teaching by the most
modern methods. He wishes the pupils
to have general instruction also to be
thoroughly trained in nursing, domes-
tic economy and kindred subjects.
Ahmed Ria Bey. in conversation
with a trusted friend. referred to his
hopes and failures. He said:
You know. Of course. how very
the direction Of the education OF wom-
en-. This has been all along the curse
of Jul fatherland. We have women
enough. but we have no life COM
pan1ons, no sisters, no wives, no moth
ers in proper of the word. I
thought what a ~stupendous benefit
would accrue 10 the whole of our
struggling and aspiring empire if an
educational center was created. where
rational upbringing of Moslem girls,
With the sacred duties of properly
directed motherhood, could be impart-
&c to our rising female generation,
But had no means of realizing the
scheme, and l thought in 1907 that
Abdul Hamid, who had so cruelty
wroreNd his nation and country for
over thirty years. might now be given
a chance of, in some little measure,
redeeming his evil deeds. l conse-
quently told him of my plan. and
asked him to grant me a site upon
which to build a lyceum for Mosiem
girls. Next day I got the ENJOYABLE
news that this extensive place on the
hill yonder (Ahmed Ria Bey showed
with his outstretched arm the delight
fully wooded plateau above his villa,
lyceum.
The site alone is not enough, of
course. There was a melancholy in
tonation in these words of Ahmed
Ria Bey. Nor is the erection YOU see
on that side of the hill. stately and
complete though 1t is in itself, all that
is eeded To make my dream q tan
glole reality | require a gum of about
10000 pounds. The government has
1 nerm1ffad ma ~ pran~1 No. -k----
tional lottery. Money was beginning
To- come in readily and literally from
all quarters, showing that the need of
a lyceum was felt everywhere. I'm.
fortunately. however. the disastrous
war with Italy and the extensive con-
t1agrations which completely reduced
TO ashes large quarters of Stamboul,
diverted public interest elsewhere, and
my scheme Is experiencing at present
a very regrettable deadlock. I do not
despair. however, nj trust that by
next year the whole institution will
be put into perfect working order.
The chief object l have in view is
the elevation of the sense of mother
hood and Of its sacred responsibilities
In the minds and hearts of our dauRh-
tiers. I was greatly struck during NV
long exile by the splendid beneficial
results that accrue to European coun-
tries from good women brought up
with the Ideal of gentle, sweet, self
sacrificing, yet strong and rational
motherhood. Give us such mother
hood and our country will be saved,
prosperous and happy. Nothing else
will do it.
A number Of st. Paul clubs Joined
the General Federation Of Woman's
clubs IN 1911. There is a growing
tendency on the part Of city and state
organizations t. affiliate with the ma.