Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-20
10000 Club Holds
Profitable Meeting

An interesting meeting of the
Woman's Ten Thousand Club was
held yesterday afternoon in the Ma
sonic Temple. the gathering was
called to order by Mrs. w. S. Faw-
cett. On account of no delegates to
the Federation meeting in Holtville,
early in February, being present, Mrs.
r. B. Vaile, on request, gave a re-
port of the convention.
The following new members were
admitted to the club: Mesdames w. G..
Case, E. w. Snow, H. l.. Iasigi, B. M.
Bishop and G. X. Reed A commu-
nication was read from Mrs. Peck of
Calexico, in which she expressed graft
tude to the women of the local club
for assisting her in the Federation
work during the past year. The res
ignation of Mrs. j. A. Lindsay as
chairman of the club house commit
tee was read and accepted. This va
cancy will be filled at later date.
Mrs. r. B. Vale moved the adop-
tion of a resolution to the effect that
since the Woman's Ten Thousand Club
md the Ten Thousand Club Corpora
ton had voted for disincorporation
and for the incorporation of the Wom-
ans Ten Thousand Club as non
profit bearing corporation, that the
executive board be instructed to take
the necessary legal steps involved.
The resolution was unanimously
adopted.
At the close of the business session
Mrs. Fawcett turned the meeting over
to Mrs. w. G. Conley, who opened
the program with an excellent talk
on domestic science and its real mean
ing, stating that instead of knowing
how to cook great many fancy
fishes and to tell how they were
made, domestic science had mucn
broader meaning and that it related
% every phase Of the home making
and home keeping, quite as much if
not more than it did alone to cook
ing.
Following Mrs. Conley, Mrs. r. B.
Vaile read her paper, which had been
written for the district meeting at
San Diego. Mrs. Vaile has vision
that of seeing school of mothercraft
erected in San Diego-sometime, and
from the enthusiasm manifested it
seems that the time might not be far
distant.
So far there is only one of those
schools in America-that of New
York City, erected in 1911. And in
| his connection the speaker stated a
surprising fact, in that the death rate
among babies is higher in the rural
districts of New York than in the
,rowded tenement districts of the
| great city. And naturally the conclu-
sion comes that the School of Mother
craft and the social workers in the
city more than counterbalance the
natural advantages of life in the
country.
Mrs. Helen Morris was next intro
duced by Mrs. Conley and read an
excellent paper on "Food for the
Child" Mrs. Morris drew the line
:learly as to just what foods children
should have at given ages; just how
often they should be fed, and Why
hey should not have those which We're
| rot allowed. The speaker dwelt at
| ength on the effect proper feeding
| lad on the so-called bad boy or girl,
,iting instances where the providing
| of nutritious food had made of the in
| ,orrigible a docile, tractable pupil,
| bright where he had been considered
tupid Along the line Of hcme eco
nomics Mrs Morris staten that If the
| three great necessities of life, air,
water and food, the first comes to as
| prepared for our use, water is usu
ally plentiful, and so our entire attsn-
| ion is drawn to the preparation of
the third, adding that we had some
thing for which to be thankful in that
we needed not to consider air as to
whether it should be boiled, fried CT
| fricaseed.
Mrs. w. w. Apple followed with I
short talk on the urgency of mothers
insisting on their daughters being
trained in home economies.
Mrs. Apple also laid stress on the
Importance of wholesome meals proi-
erly cooked and in this connection So
licited the patronage of the High
School students for the cafeteria in
that building, since it afforded them
the opportunity fof a warm luncheon.
| Mrs. Vaile announced that a special
civics meeting would be held febru-
airy %.