The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1928-07-05
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Up to the very last social hour a tea at Pa
cIfie beach on day when women enjoyed walk
ON the beach so close to the oceans edge that
they tempted the tide to cover their Shoes no
detail OF the social amenities of cultured women
was ever omitted. lhls tea was given under
the auspices OF the Hoquam Club women with
Mrs. Llillan Burkhart Goldsmith the honor guest.
Dr. Aurela Henry Renhardt to have shared
honors with her but she called to Seattle
the night before owing to the death of an uncle
who was one of that clty's pioneer business men.
Wednesday evening Dr. Renhardt president
OF Mills College, Oakland California. gave the
address, Modern Education from Child TO
adult. Df. Relnhardt in her own inimical
way. DR.. Reinhardt deplores the breaking up
of the American home through SO many women
working who should be in the home but she said.
tamiles must have food and often women must
earn it. Thousands of homes would not exist
today were 1t not for the fact that in order to
keep them women go out and become bread
winners l dream of time when home will
be too precious in the eyes of this country to
be broken by the mother going out of it to earn
the food which they often now must earn.
Comb history and you will find that Christ first
gave the child its proper place. Today the
Jesuit teaches as he has always taught Give
the child until he is six, then you may have him
but l will have made him.
Could any words more forcibly stress the
Importance of the American mother and child in
those tender years known as preschool?
Mrs. James s. Mckee, of Longview, in an
address Thursday afternoon on 1.-THE Sunwise
Turn put the stamp of dsapproval some of
our Twentieth century tendencies.
Mrs. Lillian Burkhart Goldsmith, of Los
Angeles who won laurels for herself in Spokane
last June during the International meeting of
the Council of Jewish Women and who is one
of the most beloved club women of the west
spoke on "The Theatre of Today and Tomorrow.
Mrs. Goldsmith founded the first Girl Scout
Council in Los Angeles and is now honorary
commissioner. She is National Director of
the National Council of Jewish Women, Founder
and President Emeritus of the Philanthropy and
Civies Club in Los Angeles and is member of
the headquarters board of the Los Angeles Dist
riot California State Federation of Womens
Clubs. She is also Interstate President of the
entire Northwest of the National Council of
Jewish Women.
Mrs Goldsmith perfaced her address by ask
ing permission to digress from her subject for
a few minutes and stated that in the last two
years she had crossed the continent five times
travelling from the Pacific to the Atlantic at
tending important conferences called in the in
terest of Child Welfare, Social Service, Forest
and Water Conservation and the Cause and Cure
of War. Upon returning home last January
and recalling the many contacts made-one
rather curious and arresting fact stood forth
above all others and that was at not one of these
conferences was religion ever mentioned and vet
it was the unseen guest the intangible but per-
sstant presence-People were constantly aware
OF 1T in what women were saying-in what they
stood form what they lived form spite of
agtations and upheavas all over the world there
was deepening of religion as social OBJ
legation and with the exception perhaps of the
theatre of today. There was a new kind of
idealism abroad in the world. She said that
Club women who love the theatre of the spoken
word who reverence its traditions are aghast
not so much with the dramatists and producers