Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-12
WHAT THE BUSINESS
WOMEN'S CLUB DOING
BY Mrs. Anna Franklin.

| BY Mrs. Anna Franklin.
1t is not generally known what the
! Boise Business Women's Club is trying
to do. Some think they are a union
and are preparing forces for a strike
trying to coerce their already harassed
employer with an increase in salary
| The Business Women's Club is not
union and has not touched the wage
question. 1t sees very clearly that
| there is no wage question but efftc-
iency is the big question It's main OBJ
1ect is to raise the standards of eff
ficiency. 1t realizes that good work is
well paid for, and that the business
woman must fight her way up to the
equal work of men before being given
equal pay.
In order to make the business woman
more efficient the Club has started
it's gymnastic class The class has a
| threefold object. First, by diagnosis,
every member of the class can find
out If there is anything wrong with
her. The business woman cannot take
a day off because she has a headache
She must be able to work longer hours
than her strength will some times per-
nit If the business man goes back to
| the office evenings, Sundays and hol-
| idays, the business woman must be
/ a bic to crowd in more time How to
! do this and not oVertaX her strength
the problem that the gymnastic class
| is going to solve. Any member finding
| That sickness interrupts her work NAV
learn what the trouble Is from this
class. The class will help he correct
this trouble If she is too heavy to
work efficiently, it is the object of the
class to help her reduce her weight, If
she Is too thin and using up her ner-
Vous energy, she must be taught by the
class to knock off work. to rest and to
| feed up. She must learn what are the
best clothes to wear and how to cor
ha oil g.
recreation too. 1t will be SO arranged
that business women may spend from
| fifteen minutes to half hour several
times week in play
| In order to raise the standards of eff
ficiency of the business women, the
! Club has started a class in salesman
ship. This class is TO have for its in
structor the best man that can be Sc
cured In the United States The class
VIII meet in sections; those interested
in selling shoes will meet in one sec
ton; those interested in selling hard
ware in another, and those interested
in selling their services in another, etc.
The big aim of this club is to pro-
mote the welfare of business women,
AT present II IL an intensely inter-
ested in the housing problem The
members of the Club realize that wo-
men are more efficient If they have
the comforts of home, and do not
! have to room in "a home where they
are afraid to wash out a pair of stock |
ings. The Club has very modest
house where, girls may do as thew
please. 1t is the ambition of tho club
to have larger and more commodious
quarters soon where girls can get a |
reasonable room and lave some peace |
of mind
The Club Is also interested in Civic |
work, and has a committee discussing
me Kenyon bill. 1t is backing the |
augmentation plan, raising the STAN |
dards of living of the foreign born in |
Boise. The teachers are we'll suited |
Tor such work and the teacher mem ,
bers of the club will constitute a COM !
mittee for such work.
The Boise Business Women's Club |
needs only a visitor attending one Of |
Its meetings to see the enthusiasm that |
1t shows in ali of its work It is diff |
Ierent from any other wSman's club |
1he gaVel of the president falls sharp |
~ at eight oclock-not one minute af- |
ter, but precisely at eight. The bust
ness is put through with dispatch that |
would make any mems club envious. |
Temperamental femininity is dealt |
with in the same way. IL member |
Is pouty over the failure of her pet |
scheme 1t goes unnoticed by the other |
members The Club realizes that the |
greatest trial of the employer with |
women In business is her unnecessary
constituencies which makes 1t hard for |
rim to treat her as a business partner. |
The members stanI for business ex-
amples in their tr satment OF such cases |
The need of business women meeting
together and talking over their work I
mas been 80 great that when this club |
was suggested. GO members camo in |
a few weeks without any urging. The 1
Club has been SO busy that they have |
not had a membership drive The mem II
peTship mas been entirely voluntary.
The motto OF the Club is 800 mem Il
pers by next June. This will enable II
US to have q down town club HOUSE. H
where women of all the dfffarent rc III