The Ocala evening star., 1915-02-13
WOMAN'S CLUB. WORK
MRS. FORD H. ROGERS
Editor for February

CLUBS magazine:
"a girl has no right to complain
that there is nothing at home for
her. 1t is her duty to put something
into the community. God holds her
responsible for the use she makes of
all her advantages.
t'Those who have grown sons real
ize that the girl who is taught to
set high value upon herself is the
girl who commands the respect of
the best men.
"Our club houses can exercise a |
marked influence on the tone of the
social life of the young people.
"No education committee should
allow its club to neglect the impor-
tant duty of club women to help give
to every individual of our FIVE and a
half million of illiterates opportunity
to learn to read.
"a child of ordinary mind can be
taught to read and write in three or
| four weeks. One man, aged thirty,
after four lessons wrote legible
/ letter. A man, aged fifty, wrote a
/ legible letter after seven lessons. A
/ woman, aged seventy, wrote legi-l
BILE letter after eight lessons. These
are exceptional cases, but few
weeks attendance at night schools is
sufficient to enable adult pupils to
read and write.
"In every thousand people over ten
years of age, there were in 1910 illit-
crates. Alabama, 22.9; Arizona, 2O.9;
Arkansas, 12.6; California, 81; Colo
rado, 81; Connecticut, 60; Delaware,
81; Florida, 1873; Georgia, 20.7; Ida
ho, %; Illinois, 3.7; Indiana, 81;
Iowa, IT; Kansas, 2. 2; Kentucky,
12.1: Louisiana, 29.O; Maine, Al;
Maryland, 7.2;; Massachusetts, So;
Michigan, 3.3; Minnesota, 30; Miss
issippi, pa; Missouri, 4.3; Montana,
At; Nebraska, 1.9; Nevada, CT; New
Hampshire, 4.6; New Jersey, Sc;
New Mexico, 20.2; New York, 5. s;
North Corolina 1876, North Dakota,
81: Ohio, 81; Oklahoma, 5.6; Oregon,
1.9; Pennsylvania, So; Rhode Island,
II; South Carolina, 25.7; South Da-
kota, %; Tennessee, 1876; Texas, 90;
Vermont, 8. T.; Utah, 2.5; Virginia,
15.2; Washington, 20; West Virginia,
8.3; Wisconsin, 81; Wyoming, 8. 8.
HThe Hyechka Club, of Tulsa, Ok
lahoma invited the presidents of the
thirty two music clubs of the states
to be guests of the club during the
fall festival at which Nine. Louise
Homer sang. These guests were met
at the station and conveyed to the
homes of club members. Automobiles
conveyed them to and from the hall
where the choicest seats had been
reserved for them.
See to it that every tea-table club
and Sunday school begin intelligent
discussion of how to promote peace.
The state Federation of Clubs of
New Mexico, endorsed equal suffrage
at its annual meeting held in October
1914.
The State Federation of Clubs of
Indiana endorsed equal suffrage in
1913.
The North Dakota Federation of
Women's Clubs endorsed political
equality for men and women, 1914.
Texas clubs are striving to get a
compulsory education bill through the
legislature.
Club women in North Carolina are
bending their energies to help the
war sufferers.
Work of the Study Glass
The study class of the Woman's
Club is reading that most popular OF
all Shakespere's plays, Richard III
intellectually it is far below Hamlet
King Lear or Othello, and POLITICALLY
it can not be compared with The Tenn
pest, Romeo and Juliet or the Mer
chant of Venice But there are more
early editions of it than of any of tbs
other plays, and there are more al
lusions to it, by other writer's o.
Shakspere's time, than to any othel
of his works. 1t has always held it
place on the stage, for Richards ny
/ pocricy, which leads him to play tn
/ part of subject and sovereign, tn
sage and the satirist, the soldier an,
the suitor, the. sinner and the sain
and frame his face to all occasions,
: makes the part especially attractiv
to the actor hence every eminen
y English tragedian has represente,
! the wicked crook backed king.
Character Building
: There is no growth of character il
. the play. Richard comes before us il
, the opening speech with his declara
$ ton of evil be thou my good. (Per
S haps Milton was helped to imagin
Satan by this very speech). Hypoc
ricy and cruelty are full grown fret
the start.