The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-06-20

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Luverne, Mimi, June Bishop
Quayles statement made in St Paul
that women are losing their spiritu-
atty through club work was said to-
be untrue al the opening session of
the annual meeting of the Second
district of the Federation of Won
ems clubs here last evening
IF spirituality means doing unto
others as we would be done by, and
looking after the welfare of others,
know of nobody doing more in a
spiritual way than are women's
clubs" Mrs. A. H. Clark of Worth.
ington said
Spirituality means. living right,
not attending religious services and
protesting Getting after flies, see,
ing that garbage is collected and
| routing the plague spots of our city,
/ is much more spiritual than profess
ing our faith through attendance at
religious services. | wonder what
Bishop Quayle calls spirituality"
| A plea for more of the socalled
| frills in education, which women are
not protesting against, was made by
Mrs. c. NJ Conant of Wells.
Many Things Which Help Life.
There are many things which help
life and help living beside trade, I"
she said. 1--WE need more attention
paid to art and handicraft in our
schools. There is no life in which
art does not play part, and we take
much from the lives of our young
people when we clamor to have what
we call frills taken from the schools.
"Women should also get over the
idea that civic work. is essentially a
mans prerogative. 1t is woman's
business to establish an ideal for her
city and see that it is lived up to-"
''Ibsen has done more for society
and morality than has Shakespeare,
Mrs. George o. Moore of Worthington
said in a paper on Were Ibsen's
Ideas of the Woman Question Cor
rect?" eve pretend we do not un
derstand Ibsen, or say we do not like
him, because we are afraid to looh
the truth in the face. We are afraid
to study Ibsen because he shows us
how we are killing the race by al
lowing the marriage of the unfit. Hi:
correct one. He wants woman to bt
an individual and all of his men wht
amount to anything require the com
partnership of a woman"
Rest Rooms and Shopping.
, REST rooms for farmers wives il
the smaller towns are said to be thu
only solution of the catalogue hous,
problem" said Mrs. c. NJ Conant o
/ Wells GIN towns where there is n,
: place for the women to rest the,
hesitate to come in to shop. Whel
they do come in the children ge
h tired and cross and hungry; tn
!. mother becomes disguised and goe
Il home. Then, after the children ar
f put to bed she gets out the mail OF
, ! der catalogue and orders what sh
: needs, regardless of the fact that sh
= pays more for shoddy goods and
b not able to see what she is buying
: If the merchants of small towns rea
lied that rest room would make
= possible for the rural woman to com
:, to town in comfort, have place [
rest and get something to eat Will
she is doing her shopping, the
= would stop putting obstacles in tn
way of club women when they try [
&c establish rest rooms
~ merchants say they want the wor
g en- to stay in the stores when the
u. but when they have to hang aroun
u the stores all day the children e;
lie cookies all over the goods and bot
Oh mothers and children help themselv,
" to fruit and cookies that are expose
If the merchants want to put Il
I them put rest rooms in their towns
L The Militant Suffraget.
The presentation of the questio
DO you approve of the militant 81
=, fragette?" brought out interestil
- opinions yesterday afternoon at Il
= HicctiuS Tile OOCOuu
nc Of the Federation of Women's clut
The general conclusion was that Al
VI erican women. are treated different
oil from English women, and thereto
en- cannot judge English women intel
ne gently
Here are some of the varying OPP
Ter ions expressed:
MS Mrs. A. H. Clark of Worthington
ci- Men go to battle and kill each 9th
of when they want things. Why shol
he not women, when they feel the ne
for of something, destroy material thin
he to meet it?
he Mrs. C. NJ Conant of Wells-C
we right wrong by committing
other? e.r
For it BY Any Means.
~ Mrs. Zillah d. Wilson of Aberde
ing s. D.. President of the South Dakt
OF Federation of Women's Clubs-I
H. for equal franchise first, last and
The the time, and on any and all teri
es- no matter how we get it.