Show > I SCmNCE fOR BUSY WOniENS BRAINS I > > E President of the National Science Club Mrs L H Grene f wald Says the Sex Should Search Scientific Scenes fA 1 J I and Subjects Systelllatically Witcheries and Wonders 7 of the Work All Over the Wide Wide World f t 1 i Science as nn entertaining occupatIon occupa-tIon for idle women Is a negligible fr i quantity Asa genus of species women i i wo-men belong < In ethnological classlflca j lion with men and In consideration oft of-t women accepting the study of natural J and physical science as a diversity r who ever heard of an Idle man giving < ii thought to the sciences as a diversity 1 i In idleness History produces no rcc f t ord thereof But science as nn occur occu-r < 0 patlon for busy women Is no Utopian 1 o I dream and brainy women today I whoso measure of time Is filled with T the routine of duties with which nature li na-ture circumstances and expectation i 0 have environed them accept this wider o 1 sphereof usefulness which the passing of years has brought to them Woman now crowns her life by bringing for vynrd in original scientific research a r phase In higher education among wo Q men to cause the world to grow wiser t and better To this end delightful so 5 clal functions are abdicated and earnest earn-est Intelligent women accept lifes extended t ex-tended plane and crowd the years meted to them with usefulness to an unusual degree Character Is formed and Inspired by i r the accomplishments of others When k C 11JJR ji = r ir i i Harriet Beechcr Stowe awakened the I f world purblind people to the unholy wrong of Iniman slavery her impassioned impas-sioned satire was not the outgrowth off I of-f Idleness preferred or enforced But among her crowded womans duties oftlmea irksome as to most women the thought pressed insistently of the i t galling yoke of millions of American t slaves No clements of ease or idleness l i J > idle-ness centered her life but mayhap her manuscripls were laborsoiled and u wlih hands often flourdusty with the 1 faccunmlation t o of family bakings her 1 pencil was quickly seized to catch thc j burning thoughts that thrilled her heart and brain Her story of Uncle 1 Toms Cabin rocked the world The struggle came and then the end And four million American slaves held their shackles in their hands More than a quarter of a century ago Prof and Mrs Louis Agcsslz gave to women the opportunity of obtaining I biological scholarships in the United t States On PcnJJ esc Island In Buzzards Buz-zards bay a summer school of science J was inaugurated There fifty students gathered Twenty of them were women and they studied on equal terms with 1 3ncn An outgrowth of this science Ti school Is the Woods Hall Massachu l setts Biological laboratory Among 1 flip noteworthy wouier ir this connection I connec-tion is ProC Cornelia M Clapp of Mouni Holyoke college who spends her summers studying at Woods Hall 1 She was one of the Indents at Agas sis Penikese laboratory Miss Julia t B < Platt < a utudent at Bryn laT and at Cambridge Mass when the college e for women was known as Harvard Annex has spent several summers at Woods Hall and a year In Germany They have won distinction exacting science The circumscribed environments environ-ments of many women seldom place them In position to accomplish work in this manner Unpretentious women have continually added successful efforts ef-forts to this line of work and won success suc-cess In a quiet way But concentration was demanded of this energy and isolated Instances belong be-long to the dim past Women no longer need pursue their scientific studies In a halfhearted solitary soli-tary manner debarred from sympathy of fellow students Opportunity Is with us and recognition gives us a cordial handclasp This Is procured through the National Na-tional Science Club for Women which was Incorporated in 1803 with headquarters head-quarters 1 in Washington In August IbDl during the meeting I of the International Congress of Geology Geolo-gy in Washington seven women from Ins > I-ns many different localities organised I I this club at Columbian university I Mrs Laura O Talbctt the present general secretary was In the chair The first president Mrs Ada S Davidson Da-vidson of Obcrlln 0 wrote the first constitution which was accepted by the board For three years there were no fees When the constitution and bylaws were revised in 1893 previous = 0 j ffir f 9 T t 4 0 v f I if llIj 1 j 1 I I j Ws l I 1i i I I I ii ijLjLv huiAy I io j JqflI1 7 i l r o fIll f-Ill 1 I f I f pAi 4 f c7W13lfrcL i 1 1r Mrs I H Grenowald President of the National Science Club < Jt T Thomas Fortune Reviews the Race Question from its Origin Up to Date to the Incorporation oC the club a membership mem-bership fee of 1 was charged The objects of the club are farreach ing The establishment of scholarships fellowships and professorships for women wo-men In our higher universities the aiding aid-ing of investigators In surgery and medicine and encouragement to hy jjltno and sanitation The active sympathy of the wuJ i Is in the promotion of the preservation of forests the protection of birds the jiitr suit of science studies in schools The sections of the club comprise ethnology archaeology ormlthology entomology ichthyology embrjology pay jlt logy M rmatophyta pterlSophyta liallo phyta bryophyta physical botany hal eontclogy geology mincroOKy astrnn pmy meteorology forestry inJci oscopy I hygiene medical science economics I Each section Is provided with a chairman chair-man oxcent In case of vacancy The work of these sections Is In the direction direc-tion of outlining work for the incmhor the arranging of each sections course of study tho distributing of Ihousimls of outlines referring to the branch of science pursued and he I recommendations recommenda-tions of the best text books for that lino of study I The publication of the Journal of the cub was preceded by a bulletin to nionbers The first years issue of the journal was quarter During 15 flD a bimonthly bi-monthly edition was i > otnblhi The journal is unique as an itbue i by a dub of 1 women and contain original contributions con-tributions by members tf the club The officers are giving time and ability gratuitously gra-tuitously and the running expenses aio met by membership ftc suhsenptioiut to tho Journal and the enotosily by I patrons Auxiliaries are formol from the original club with a certain Indc endent line of procCjiiiv but must pay a representative cum to the National Na-tional 1 Science club annually The cam I nlltec on auxiliaries report excellent condition and progress of auxiliaries In Chicago Milwaukee and In Wavorly N Y Efforts are extending for Lie establishment estab-lishment of free whicH ui ivs nrch at biological stations for the members and hopes aro entertained of founding a traveling library when proptr regulations regula-tions can be established The quiet work of thc National Science club Is deepiMihur Over 300 names have been enrolled since Its organization or-ganization Naturally A member who takes up science ns an occupation for Idle women drops out im r slarns because be-cause the pass word along ihv dub lines Is work and no social life Is connected I con-nected with It except after the binineas I of the annual meetings In April of each I year hen receptions ire given Incidentally 0 Inci-dentally by resident frlendd r > i the club I lectures visits to popular plaivs of attraction at-traction to strangers etc An interestIng interest-Ing feature of tho late annual l meeting was the informal reception by Jresi dent McKinley of a committee of twen tyfive of tho members In the upstairs I room of the White House onca used by 1 Abraham Lincoln as hg Cabinetroom I and In which he signed the emancipation emancipa-tion proclamation 1 The National Science chill is the only lone of Its kind in the United Slates and Its membership extends abi ml Its original nnd central purpose is L unite for Improvement and cncouinsum all women Interested in he Ntudy of science and original research A number num-ber of the members lUte college professorships pro-fessorships and others have wun rcvog nltlon All HIP oflicers arc wunHn of r ability In their respective branches The I meteorological chair at one time was I occupied by Mrs Rosa Harrington wife of Prof Mark Harrington who at that time was chief of the United States weather bureau Moving to the far l West was the cause of her resignation resigna-tion The ofllelak of tho weather bureau bu-reau at Washington recommended a voluntary observer of the weather bureau bu-reau on tho Pennsylvania aect J on who had made an unusual success of painstaking l pains-taking meteorological work for the I bureau bu-reau and also for her local station Af ter occupying the meteorological chair for several years she received the unan imous vote of the club for the presi dency in April 1000 MRS L II GRENKWALD President of the National Science Club |