Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-06
Council Bluffs
MOTHERS CLUB ORGANIZES
Physical Care and Development Of
Child Will Be Aim.
FAVOR MEDICAL INSPECTION
Part of Clubs Mission VIII BE to
Bring This About In Public
schools - Meets Twice
Monthly.

Mothers Culture club. starting with
a charter membership Of sixty. was
formed yesterday. The club was organ.
ICED yesterday afternoon IN the CONNER
ciaI club rooms. which were vacated 70:
the purpose.
The club is the result Of the purpose
Of a number OF women to enlist Others
in their determination to do somethinR
for the betterment OF child life in the
home, to inspire each mother accessible
with the sense of the heavier RESPONSE
bilities that rest upon her In her rela-
tions to her child than to feed and clothe
II and the child's relation 10 the public.
and then aid in imparting to the mother
the knowledge necessary to discharge
those obligations.
The physical care and development Of
the child in the light Of modern hygienies
Is but one feature Of the clubs work.
The moral training OF the child is to be
shown to the mother as an lnseperable
part OF its intellectual development u
II IL the desire to secure the best evenly
balanced growth.
AffG P1f bSEt Va ~VhNh ~
bring TO this part of the work all Of the
knowledge accessible to produce children
healthy physically. mentally and morally.
Problems that vex individual mothers
will be brought forward for the consid-
GRAFTON OF all. Each member win be an
agent to spread the influence OF the
clubs work and thus reach hundreds
of families where the mothers are not
likely to become members. Open meet
ings viii be held and any mother who
cares TO come will be welcome. These
meetings viii be open TO women gen.
orally.
Medical Inspection.
Many of the members are ardently In
favor Of medical inspection In the
schools. and to bring this about at an
early date win be part Of the clubs
mission II is said that more than one
half OF the children now In the public
schools are in some degree defective, and
that in more than % per cent OF these
cases the slight medical treatment neces-
sary to cure and prevent these defects
becoming permanent could be secured at
little cost.
Mutual benefit Of the members lie an
other desideratum sought. Parlimen-
tary and common law is TO be taught.
Tho average woman has little or no
knowledge Of either and frequent use
fer both. The club intends that Its mem.
beers shall know IN much about business
law as their husbands do. and In case
they should be thrown upon their own
resources they will be able TO care for
their business interests. Knowledge u
parliamentary Law will be impaired By
the regular study OF the subject, usln,,
Roberts Rules as the text book. Social
and literary features will be added to
the regular program and the club
made attractive IN every way possible.
There are number of women OF strong
minds and Wills In the Organization, but
the assurance Is given that the club win
not be permitted TO become a suffraEette
organization. The clubs charter men,
bership comprises tho wives OF doctors.
lawyers and all kinds OF business men,
II win meet twice month on Thurs.
days.
The officers elected at the initial
meeting are; President. Mrs. v. L. Trey
nor; vice president. Mrs. Edward p.
schoentgen; secretary. Mrs. Thomas O.
Harrison; treasurer. Mrs. T. KeeIley.