The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-03-30

many of the members OF the federated
clubs OF Marion and their guests,
hcacd Mrs. Charles H. Kumler of
Dayton. yesterday AFTERNOON in the
auditorium of the Presbyterian
church
Mrs. Kumber is the wife of one of
Dayton's leading merchants, the firm
of Richer & Kumer being quite
prominent there. somc years ago she
became Interested in social work in
conjunction with her active club
life. Her interest in the working girls,
their problems and lives Increased vita
the work and today she is regarded as
the foster mother TO thousands of
Dayton working girls and women.
At present she Is the president OF the
Business Womens league perhaps the
largest and most prosperous org1niza-
tIon of that nature in this part Of the
d, country. She told OF its organiza-
tion, the work OF which she assisted,
and of its growth and development
into the immense soif-supporting and
growing concern of today.
MRS. HARVEY PRESIDES AT
MEETING.
] Mrs. u. II. Harvey, the president
of the local federation. presided at the
meeting and presented Mrs. Kumlcr,
following "A piano solo "Tremolo," by
Gottschalk. a very difficult compost
tion beautifully rendered by Miss Mar
tha Meredith.
Mrs. w. n. Harder who possesses n
Ivcry beautiful voice sang Wagner's
"Traume," Mrs. George Schweinfurth
rendering the violin oblagato.
Mrs. Kumler talks In quite an in
formal way one might imagine her
lconversing with few friends in one
OF the parlors of her home in quite
the same mannct Her voice Is WON
,derfully sweet and well modulated
and her bright, sympathetic face tells
quite plainly the story that her life
has been and is given to making other
people happy. She gestures when she
talks with her hands and her sim
cere interest and love OF her work
was expressed in the quite enthus-
iasm of her talk. She was quietly
but beautifully gowned in simple
silk froclS of tan and brown with a
becoming hat to match.
Before begin talking about my
girls" said Mrs Kumler and here
she smiled "that subjects with me-"
she explained rs JUST like talking
about your first baby-there never
was anything quite so nice. / want
to talk to you in regard to our city
federation OF clubs. There is not a
great deal to tell for our federation is
young. only four years of age and
either Columbus or Cleveland may
boost greater things accomplished by
their organizations. There is one
thing. however. that we are doing
,and your federation can do II
just as well.
EDUCATING WORKING GIRLS.
Mrs. Kumler explained that the club
women are organized into committees
and boards, each member gives a cent
a week or fifty-two cents year to-
ward scholarship fund The fedora
tlon began by taking one young girl
of excellent character and studious
lnclinations, who had been forced to
earn her own living in difficult way
and was denied the better things OF
life. This girl was sent first TO q
normal training school for few hours
during the day, keeping up at the
same time her work AS Interest
grew in the project or educating the
child and the circle OF women contri-
butlng became larger. the girl was
sent eventually to be Il domestic
science teacher and receiving honors
in all of her classes The sum ex-
} pended on the girl was exceedingly
small, but she was very ambitious
and found work in each school which
assisted her in paying portion of
her own expenses. Mrs. Kumler
spoke enthusiastically of this work.
She stated that a present there are
four benencaries ana that the fedora :
tion expects to maintain four young
people one of whom is now at pres
lcnt totally blind and studying In
school TO be a teacher to the blind
we don't worry about the results
lof If the money In the treasury some
times gets low II causes us no fears,
., Someway we always get the money
and / think providence helps us
A CLEAR UP" DAY IN DAYTON.
Mrs. Kumler next told of the "clean-
up day" in Dayton,
"The work OF cleaning up Dayton,
It's streets and allies was undertaken
lby the federated clubs. 1t has been
the policy OF the women's clubs OF
Dayton" said the speaker, Ito CO.
Ioperate with the powers that be. we
join in the work with woman's tact,
interest and sympathy, and some way
or other we manage 60 get about what
we want. So we planned clean-up
day, inaugurating the first one in the
lspring.
i 1--WE went TO the mayor and asked
him II he would accept our assistance
and cooperation. We made him think
he was doing TO do II and that we
were just helping. Oh. you can do
:, anything If you can just make tire
lother person believe himself the one
doing II.
I'VE got together all OF the wagons
and carts procurable. The mayor got
out cards forhlddng the throwing OF