The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1929-09-12
SEPTEMBER II. 1929
BY Pauline Suing Bloom

Three things! Always that magic number, three
Wishes, three guesses." Up from the ranks OF club
women comes Mrs. Constance Hoig with the mes
sage that II takes three things to make woman
happy; job that she likes. a hobby at which she
works for the love of the thing without pay. and
the right relationship with her God. Every woman
Is entitled to these three things she says, and
have them ii she will so order her life Of course
the biggest and best of all womens jobs is that
of the wife and mother in the family all other work
should be secondary-and for the mother her
hobby should be some interest that takes her away
from her household cares If she is on the right
terms with her God she will love her job in her
home with her children more than anything else IN
the world and after an afternoon with her hobby
viii be refreshed and strengthened for her task.
More and more the special interest of woman /,
her club, And Mrs Hoig, chairman of the De
partment of Education of the State Federation OF
Women's Clubs, asks the cooperation of women for
the best possible of the club woman's time. She
believes that Washington club women are going
ahead and she wants the clubs to be so organized
that each member of each club say definitely
at the close of the year. Il have done this. have
learned this" Each club program should be deh-
nitely educational and constructive that each
womans ideas of the given subject shall be fixed
not vague, but concrete
To make this possible Mrs Hoig has worked out
with DIR. Nader at Pullman, extension programs in
art, music, politics and other electives which
at the sevice of the club women of Washington.
They may have the aid of trained educators in the
building of their club programs and may spend their
leisure to definite end
Mrs Hoig in addition to being chairman of tho
department of education of the State Federation
Women's Clubs is vice president of the Northeast
ern District Federation. The district federation
meetings may be greatly broadened in scope she
states Mrs. Hoig believes that less time at these
semfannual meetings should be given TO the
reading of reports of the work done. I'VE have
The Spokane Woman" Mrs. Hoig said. "and we
should have district federation and city fedora
tion reports printed there and spend the time of
our meetings well outlined talks by the club
members or by the leaders of thought and action
whom we ask to be our speakers. Time which
may be spent by club members i'm an interchange
of ideas, should not be spent in the reading of
ports which may be had on the printed page and
filed for reference"
Mrs. Hoig is member of the Historical club OF
Pullman The club has been studying Latin Amer
lea over period of three years and 50 splendid
has the work been handled that Franklin Adams
International Councillor said that each years course
WAS worthy of college credit Mrs. ioig has
learned Spanish and she studied at Carnegie Insti
tute, having been interested in the Pan-American
Union for many years. Her brothern-law, Colonel
Roy Wilbur Hoig American counselor agent
in Mexico for 30 years and it through him that
her interest in Latin America had its early de-
veopment. Mrs. Hoig made lecture tour talking
the work that the Carnegie Institute is doing in
lucatan. uncovering the marvellous art and arch'.
lecture that stumps the brain of the worlds most
brilliant student. building there 25 stories high
that was built before Columbus discovered America
has recently been excavated and is claiming her at
tention. Mrs. Hoig will give lecture at the audi
torium of Lewis and Clark high school on Latin
America at date later in the fall Besides having
studied in Carnegie Institute Mrs Hoig has spent
several seasons in the summer school in Berkeley.
at the University of California five at the Univer
sty of Washington and one at Chicago University
She has been house mother at Stevens Hail. Pull
man. for IL years. Before that she taught at Puya
up for IL years She is native of Illinois and is
widow. She has who with his family lives
in Fresno, California.
In addition to her work as chairman of the De-
partment of Education of the State Federation and
vice president of the Northeastern District Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, she is past president
of the Pullman Historical Club and the Pullman
Womans Club She IL matron of he Eastern