Show Ruth Millett Says Study Clubs' Clubs Could Learn ALot A Lot but They Seldom Do If H the majority of women could not read study clubs would be a good idea You'd think they were a good idea anyhow the way the ladies join them them but but they arent They are almost a complete waste of time You know how the study club works of course A club decides that this year or this this' season it will study South America With that thai agreed on topics for papers are handed out to the various various various va va- va- va rious members Mrs Jones is supposed to read up on South American literature and write a paper on that that that-a a paper which she reads to the group when it isher isher is isher her turn to be on the program Mrs Smith finds out all she can in the local library about prominent South Americans of the present day and she writes a paper about them and so on When the year or the season is up the group is supposed to know all about South America Actually all they know is what they read for themselves in preparIng preparing preparing pre pre- paring their own papers They yawn through everyone else's re report report report re- re port or look politely at the speaker while planning what to have for dinner Yet if these same women made use of their own knowledge and talents they could learn a lot from each other and nd have a worthwhile club Mrs Jones who hasn't the power to make South South- American literature sound even mildly Interesting Interesting in interesting In- In has the loveliest gar gar- den in town For years she has read every gardening artiste article and book she could get h her r hands on m She could teach those other women a great deal about g gar r. r dening a dening-a a subject most of them are interested in in m mAnd And Mrs Smith Smith admIttedly admittedly the best cook in town town could could really have her auf audience sitting sitti i up taking notes tf if she talked taIk d about food instead of interesting g South American personalities personality none of whom she had ever hear head of until she started digging u up p material for her dreaded paper Mrs Brown who had the cour courage sour coUr age to take up painting after she ih had reared her family could tal talk so glowingly on the fun an and r rea real al satisfaction she is getting ouy her new interest that she mIght might encourage several more timi timid souls to try their hand habd at painting paint paint- ing too a aThe The average club is made u up of many capable and some ta talented talented tal- tal women But Instead fc fot f being given a chance to tal talk about a subject the they know something some thing about th they are usual usually asked to talk on something about which they know practically nothing That's why women women's s clubs ar art often so dull |