The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-02-05
THE wOMAN'S CLUB.

The session of the Woman's Club
On Thursday afternoon was a very
pleasant affair.
Mrs. Hardin Lucas sang two selec-
lions, the first, Dearest" by Sidney
Howard, and as an encore "One Fine
Day" from the opera Madame Butter
fly. Mrs. Lucas is one of Mason coun-
TVS women who know how to do
things and is at home anywhere. Her
music is always the delight of ali
" HON she favors.
The address of the afternoon on
"The Evolution of Woman's Clubs"
by Mrs. Firth of Covington, was well
delivered and highly appreciated by
the club.
She said in part 1--WE must first
study the woman herself and try to
discover the needs that draw women
together by groups that come to be
known as Woman's Clubs. Let us
mention all the good things we know
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to say that have had little informa-
ton from books, but we get our best
knowledge from the Book of Life, the
human woman heart within us. Do
wish to know what women in general
think and feel about the great funda-
mental things of life? A search of my
own heart reveals the ancient and
modern history of all womankind We
know that every crude for moi indus
try in which the cave woman labored
was but the outward expression of the
great inward urge of Mother Eve, that
fundamental first law, the preserva-
ton and perpetuation of the species
II | should find myself with a desire
to criticise my sex it would be that
civilization has robbed q certain type
of woman of life's biggest thing, aud
that biggest thing is the unselfish
thought for others. Now and then we
meet women who claim to recognize
only personal obligations of looking
after their own children and their
own homes of four walls. Such wo-
men so confined to a sense only of
personal duty without thought of civic
duty can not even do her personal
duty in real way.
New occasions teach new duties;
Time makes ancient good uncouth;
He must upward still and onward,
Who would keep abreast of truth.
To-day there are but slree occu-
pations not open to women. | know
that there are in the state or Ken
lucky 10000 less illiterate white fe-
males than illiterate white males,
while we have in our state prison at
Frankfort 1,4OO convicts, only thir-
ty-four of whom are women.
THE community spirit among wo-
men has been developed by Woman
Clubs. Unlike our brothers club, wo-
mems clubs have fostered the prac-
teal life idead rather than Lets have
a good time idea
From our mothers sewing circle
II was but step to the aid society,
then the literary socity, then the cul-
Jure club and then the woman's club
with its civic and other departments.
well, what do women know about
war? During our own Civil war it
VAS the strategic plan of a woman
that saved the Union to the federal
government. That woman was Miss
Anna Ella Carroll. She was the au-
thor of what is known as the Ten
essee campaign Her services have
levcr been recognized. She was a
woman"
In conclusion Mrs. Firth gave a very
touching description of a mother and
Ter son in the European war.
Mrs. Firth will be a welcome visitor
o Mason county at any time.
The address was followed by a re-
'itation entitled when Katrina Went
to New York" by Miss Rebecca Hech-
niger. 1t was an excellent recitation
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