The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-05-11

he near them physically. There is
no difference between the colored
women and the women of other
races except that of advantages and
opportunities That is the reason
that the colored women who have
had advantages over the other WON.
en- of the race who are SUPPOSED to
lie following them should make good
of the opportunity they have had
Phillips Brooks was once criticized for
his interest in the welfare of the
colored people and silenced his op.
ponent by remarking, well. | have
had two hundred and fifty years of
advantages over the colored people
and If they can catch me now they
are welcome to it,
In the Club Work there are three
essential points the individual work
or city work, the state work and the
national work. In dealing with the
home three things are essential: the
father, the mother and the child. No
home can grow without the child In
the individual club the women have
an opportunity to show what they
can do. In a club where ten or
twenty-five women come together il
is impossible to 30 away without
some new idea of thought The city
Federation must be made up of the
clubs OF the city and is formed for
the purpose of fostering new ideas
and ideal inspirations and aspira
tons. 1t means women at work il
the various sections of the city with
one ideal. 1t means development in
your moral, mental and physical life
as well as improy ement In Your
home. your church life and your
school.
| once saw a slogan which sad:
"Know your home. Know your
neighbor's home. Know the homes
of your city, | was at a school
commencement once, and tall,
gaunt youth stepped forward as the
va'edicto,ian of his class. | re-
marked to the lady beside me, "Why
on earth did you select him as the
yaledictorian? She insisted that I
wait till | had heard him speak.
waited and he spoke very well in
deed. After tile exercise | had d
talk with this young man and learn
cd his history. His mother was a
beautiful woman who had been very
unfortunate. His father died and a
club of women in the little town took
possession of the youth and his sis,
ter. For several years he lived
from. house to house with the vari-
Gus members of the club but at last
feeling that this was not the best
thing for boy they sent him away
to boarding school. For seven years
he had been the charge of thtse
twenty-five women These women
will have a sublime peace of mind
for the boy has proven worthy and
every evidence points to the making
Of successful man.
In small town in Mississippi the
Women's Club took charge of a wOm-
an who was thirty wears of age he
cause they realized her possibilities.
and today she is one of the inhuer-
tial, intelligent, wealthy women OF
the section. In telling her story
she remarked to me that at the age
Of thirty she could not read aid
write, but because of the interest
the women of the club took in her
she was admitted to training
school and now can do her own
reading and writing and has taught
her husband also.
A woman's club in the state of
South Carolina has a Hospital Clinic
that is proving blessing to the
women for miles around. In the last
six months they have had twenty
four cases, some of them of women
who have suffered for years, because
they had no money for treatment or
did not know how to go about secur-
ing treatment | am not speaking
of such cities as Nashville who have
their hospitals and clinics, but you
know as well as [ that there are
sections that have no hospitals and
the wcmen are ignorant as how to
proceed to secure the treatment nee
essary for their relief, and conse-
oue1tly are sufferers.
The white tomen OF this country
are well organized and are doing
splendid work. They are interested
in civic and health work.
The City Federation is the child
Of the State Federation. The State
Federation is the child of the Nation
al Federation OIL cannot get into