The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-06-16
BY PAULINE SUING BLOOM
above all things she is womanly-'


This statement covers Il lot of ground Ii was
meant to sum up the characteristics which emf
nently fit Serena f. Mathews to take the reins
that To guide the Washington State Federation
Of Womens Clubs from the hands of Esther Stark
Maltby of the most loved women who has
led the federation, this week ut Waa Walla.
Mrs. Mathews, says that To keep womany is
important than be president. She believes
that it is more important 10 be II mother than Il
club woman, but she also believes that mother
makes the best club woman and that the woman of
today should aim to be both mother and club
woman.
Mrs. Mathews is what would call IA prac-
teal woman. She has been IL club leader for -
years. Left widow ten years ago with three
battle-ground children She prudent and careful
enough in winding up her husbands business af-
fairs-he was Il lawyer and had practced law in
Pullman for p yearS-to manage things that
she could give all three of her children college ed
ucations Her son, Homer II. Mathews is just fin
ishing his law course at Leland Stanford Univer-
sity, one daughter is college girl now Mrs j. Il,
Friel wife of an instructor in North Central High
School and the second daughter Charlotte is also
ii college girl half way through Washington State
College, though she has not been in school this last
semester.
William Goodyear. editor of the Pullman Herald
sums up the qualifications set forth in an edi-
torial follows
after all, her strongest endorsement for the
position is the high esteem and confidence in which
she is held by the community in which she has
resided for many years. Pullman will be proud
If she is elected to this Responsible position ana
the w0maIfs clubs of the state will be proud of
her administration when her term expires"
Mrs Mathews carried the invitation from the
Fortnightly Club of Pullman the club which has
always claimed her allegiance and which is spon-
soring her candidacy for the highest office which
the women's clubs of the state has to give, to the
fifth annual convention of the Washington State
Federation held in Tacoma inviting the women to
hold their sixth annual convention in Pullman. The
invitation was accepted and % years later 1t was
Mrs Mathews who carried the message from the
same club to tae state federation convention in
vting it to hold its 2Sth convention in Pullman.
Ii was this convention that was the first college
convention" of the federation the delegates living
on the campus of Washington State College in the
same delightful manner characteriZing the conven-
ton now in session.
We are so accustomed to buying bread
wrapped in sanitary waNed paper packages that we
do not realize that there was time when bread
not wrapped. But il was through Mrs. Math-
aws efforts. and her work on the pure food COM
mttee of the state federation of which Mrs. Over
ton c. Ellis was chairman that we owe this SAM
tary protection of the bread we feed our families.
She was state chairman of the legislative com
mttee of the state and was appointed by Governor
Lister as one of the Commission to establish a
minimum wage for laundry girls. She was at one
time first vice-president of the state federation de-
cning to permit her name to be used dele
gate for the the presidency because her children
small and she felt that she could not give
the office the required amount of time ito preserve
the dignity of the Fortnghtly." 1t is the Fort
nightly that comes first in her thoughts now-it is
to do honor to the Fortnghtly rather than any
Standardization that will characterize any forward
looking work which she will sponsor during her
reign as president of the state federaton-the Of
flee she will hold providing there is no mis-deal
in the playing of the cards at the polls tomorrow.
OF the Fortnightly she has been vice president
and president and at the present time she Is state
chairman of the club extension department. Her
efforts speak for themselves when you stop to con-
slider the fact that she has added the following
twenty-five clubs to membership in the state
federation
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