Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-17
CLUBWOMAN GIVEN
A RED-HOT ROAST
Wien Asked to Speak, Says Mrs.
Winter, She COnsults EnOyclo-
pedia and Reads Paper.
ASSERTS STUDY CLUB NOT DEAD

The typical clubwoman who never
makes q public address without her writ
ten paper was given a decided setback
by Mrs. Thomas q. Winter, chairman OF
the literature department OF the General
Federation OF Woman's Clubs and presl-
dent of the Minneapolis Woman's club.
Il am not in favor Of the written pa
per. Just think, in America women are
the only leisure class. yet the average
woman, when she has to present @ sub
iect. consults the handiest encyclopedia,
jots down the contents and reads a paper
in public" was Mrs, Winters arrsign-
ment.
THE study club is not dead as many
will tell you. 1t is only dead study that
is dead. Literature is as necessary az
food. Avoid the dusty. dngy bywsys
and when you read the ancients. read the
characters not as figures of the long ago,
hut get the message of living, breathing
persons"
Mrs Winter intimated that the woman
who reads classical works without UNI
Outstanding their message was as use
less to society as the bridge player.
The literature Of today is alive not
pedantism." Mrs. Winter prophesied,
too. that the literature of today was but
the forerunner Of another golden age in
literature.
Need for Poetry.
True, there is light literature. but that
Sometimes has more Of solution than
the ponderous sort. Never has there been
an age that needed poetry more than
ours"
Mrs. Winter pointed out how all the
great problems of the day could be better
understood with literature as a means.
The immigration problem is one of the
greatest questions of the day. While we
are complacently calling ourselves Anglo
Saxon, immigration statistics prove that
Saws are coming to these shores In
greater proportion than any other people
What are we doing to Americanize them
How can we do anything for them, how
can we possibly understand them unless
we know their literature and art?'
Mrs. Winter advised reading aloud and
open discussion as the best means for
real study of literature and admonished
all mothers to require their children tc
niemorize countless lines OF poetry, ever
IL it was beyond their little minds. ''Ir
idIeT years lney Will reap NAt ptHtllb VI
the lines of which they had no concep.
ton" she said.
Miss Ethel Dixon of the Brownell Hal
faculty spoke on Modern Drama" deal
ing with the three schools, symbolism
realism and romsnticism. The program
was In charge of Mrs. c. II. Mullin. leader
of the literature department
At the business meeting Mrs. Winter
also told the clubwomen of the success
as a business venture of the Minneapolis
Woman's club building The Omaha
'Woman's club has long contemplated such
structure,
The women must raise the money fol
such an undertaking. You must learn Il
put your money where your hearts are
You women would not hesitate at the ex
pense of hat or lace collar" she said
Mrs. A G. Peterson president of, th'
Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs
made an appeal for the Belgian relic
fund and also for q loan fund to furthe
the work of the scholarship fund.
Mrs. Page Morrison of the Council
pIuffs Woman's club, Mrs. G. c. Edgerl!
at Dundee and Mrs. w. Z. East of tn
woman's Club of the Railway Mail Serv
ice made short talks.
Mrs. Winter and Mrs Peterson wer
entertained at luncheon at the Fontenelh
today by the Woman's club.