The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-11
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The literary department of the Gull,
of Catholic Women in st. Paul was or
ganized Monday afternoon ut q genera
meeting Of the association. The in
itial registration for the new section
Is thirty-six. There r more thar
500 members in the guild. divided be
tween the civic. literary. juvenile
court. household economics and relic,
departments.
The literary section will stud,
church history. including in its course
the history of the Catholic church
from the days of the catacombs to thu
present. A program committee wa
appointed to arrange h course o.
work to be taken up, prepare paper!
on each subject n plan for round
The committee consists of Mrs. NJ
Towey. Miss b. NJ. Phelan and Mrs
W. O'Connell. Mrs. j.. H. Donohue /.
chairman of the department.; Mrs
John Schartz. vice chairman: Mis-.
Eleanor Lair, secretary. Mrs. Pierce
Butler. treasurer.
The new department will meet once
every two weeks. The initial meeting
will be with Mrs. John Donohue, Tues.
day, January %. when final arrange.
mcnts will be made for the seasons
work.
Reports of committees of the guild
showed that the Christmas york this
year broke all records of the organiza.
ton. Nearly one hundred dinners
worth of toys and candy distributed
among 900 children. and several hun-
dred garments given to the needy.
The sewing meetings of the guild
will be resumed at . o'clock Monday,
January Is. at knights OF Columbus
hall. After the meeting there will be
a distribution of clothing.
Mrs. John 3. Meacher INT the report
of the secretary by Miss Josephine
Bowltn.
Prominent among the nominations
that have been recommended for the
next Minnesota regent of the Daugh.
ters of h American Revolution, is
that of Mrs. Squires of ST. Paul. Mrs
Squires has been recommended, by the
st. Paul chapter and the regents of the
state have been notified OF its choice
In speaking of the reason for hcl
resignation, Mrs. Cyris W.. Wells. re.
firing state regent said: L believe
that the best policy for the organiza.
ton of the d. A. r.. is a rotation OF
officers that will bring into the work
new life and new interests. I have
~ appreciated the confidence that has
been given to me in all hat 1 have
undertaken. 1t is with a distinct feel
ing of good will and pleasant fellow.
ship that ! resign my position as state
regent. ! believe that it is the bcs,
plan to divide the responsibility in
our work"
Mrs. Wells has persisted in her de-
termination to give up her office in
spite of the desires of her many
friends that she continue her work.
Only one other regent besides Mrs
Wells has served a two year term.
Mrs. c. w. Jefferson of st. Paul, the
state vice regent. would be the logical
successor to Mrs. Wells. hut she has
refused the honor. An illness in tine
family has Obliged her to withdraw
meeting for the election of state re-
gent and the officers for the coming
year will he held the last Thursday
IN February.
Israel zangwill, the noted author,
in a recent lecture said:
Anybody who will go and look at
the harem scene In that popular play,
'Kismet.' ma not look upon absolute
realism. but he will get a pretty good
insight into what lies behind the anti
suffrage attitude. We-men. and wom-
en- alike-have got to shake off the
notion hat the male is to stride about
n planet throwing crumbs of love or
chlvalry to the female. The old story
against the Epglishman that he sold
MS wife at Smithfield is no mere
wives were sold in Devonshire as late
as 1860. The husband led his lady to
the market place by a straw halter,
while the town crier rang his bell.
Thus a Mrs. John Codmore was sold
Tor live pounds. which. says Barring
Gould, was as large as the price of
wives went. A Mrs. Grouchet only
fetched five shilling. thus realizing the
verse of Proverbs that "a virtuous
woman is a crown to her husband.i A
Mrs. Thomson went for twenty shil-
lings. and a Newfoundland dog.
5 many centuries of Tlrkish de-
hight do not die easily, and cen Mrs.
Humphrey Ward. the most academi-
cally accomplished woman of her day,
has to cry out when academical com.
mittees are formed which ignore wom-
en-: What a strange head for the An
r-Suffrage society is this busy lady
politician! She is as much out of
place there as Bernard Shaw would
be at an Irish wake. In her latest
letter to the Times she runs down our
success in San Francisco: she urges
that after all suffrage in one of the
United States is only equal to the local
government suffrage here. That may
be true. But with what force does
the argument come from Mrs. Ward,
who is such a strenuous supporter of
the local government suffrage for
women?
There can. in fact. be no better ar
gument for suffrage than Mrs. Ward
IN her r activities. You find in
her books, as in those of George Eliot,
that element of religion and that feel
ing. of scholarship which are almos.
entirely absent from British male fic-
ton. She shares with Mrs. Jane Aus.
ten and Mrs. Gaskell that sense of
form In which Thackeray and still
more Dickens are grossly lacking.
While British male fiction as a whole
Is shamefully slip shod and devoid of
the finer of life, our best fe-
mal fiction Is polished and spiritual.
But We have got beyond theoreti.
cal arguments. We are in the thick
of the campaign. women's suffrage is
an issue SO clear that even Mr.. Bal
tour cannot escape having a decisive
opinion about it,"