| Show FE FEMININE r Thu Club Women or of Toda oday The period tar for information for club women is II now upon us UI Will It lead leadIn In the future towards a period of ret ref Will the woman of the future talk In her club an anti iii 11 her ller church on vital Ilal con oon concerning her own being aril ard relation to the w without fear ot of being termed unwomanly or aggressive Are the club women ot of en enInS InS those walls of silence about women so 80 that same somo day the walls will fall foU down and t may may speak tot fog them anti and their see ea with and aull deference Marriage and divorce lire are two definite questions n now W before the public which concerns KOden with ipso yet club worn women II are silent on this vital question It Is not lot 1 Boo good women do not k keen keenly n ly Iy on Db the subject It h I Is because they Ibey lack the to face and the unjust of being bold bald Or unwomanly If the they utter pub their convictions on thllma this r rYet Yet Vet man many timid shrinking women are laughing Inwardly at the civilized spec spectacle ft n tile the twentieth cen century century tury ot of a solemn ward boar of men sitting alone a 11 womans pr presence to determine upon divorce laws whIch ap apply I ply to this the one relation In life lite In which woman must always be an eq l Ial a I part partner partner ner with r union or FAnnie Gaffney In hisser Skirts The skirt It At It po 00 more 0 ly 11 then than ev ever around the Tills This In spite of all tb the tucks tuck and pleats that art are In fashion the they flare ar however Inure that ever around the tool foot and ani andare are re inside with et ruin and aoun flounces The Mune stun rule applies to the thin material as al to cloth and heavier Rood goods for tor th III idea that has to be CArried out is to have hae everything III as straight up and down all as lION possible ble and the slender figures ute are considered vastly smarter than the on ones Which Is rather 1 a para pera paradox dox In view Iw of tile the fact that that ulan trim mill are more becoming to rather stout figures figure When the flounced skirls are worn tile the list effect of course COUII ii Ia more to obtain but there thre Is not one Inch more Inore In the than Is II necessary while the skirt upon unon which they are sewed ed tile Ills closely to the figure ure and Is III made over overa a lining that more cIol closely still The Outlook The higher culture gives give for tor joy and aUd action It gives worth and dignity to unmarried life but It tak takes away none of f the joys of true I k know that the Idea Idoa Is II prevalent that the die educated Woman is III spoiled for ter humbler duties that she will whit plat JIll the piano In the parlor perlor while hit her mother molher cools Iq III the kitchen and that ah she Ja Is weak Id hi nerve nene and nab flabby In muscle less leM fitted for the stress of life and I less willing to do her part In it Il than hr her untrained mother or her unlettered grandmother As s to this I 1 can oan only eay It is 18 not Ih the fact A little learning wit without haul training la Is B a dangerous In these days ot of many books book the uncultured women is III exposed to many new dangers which our OUI not tot know Halt educated mothers mother are too often orten caught by br passing literary and religious It among partly educated women that worth worthless I books book I find their readiest minis It le 18 from among them that the societies for tor the promotion ot of the higher e draw dra their Starr Jordan In Harpers Harper Dazar How lIow the tho World Changed nor For Woman With the Not Nol new women but nw new condition and the al once InCe that th the world does move time tile National Woman Womans Suffrage association has hll published R a neat little calendar of the century In which a are recounted the progress of woman her development and the enlargement of at list sphere of action from the year ear 1500 1100 to the of the cycle ccle 1899 1849 It is Ia full tull or of Interesting incidents and gives man many historical facts and much data of value alue to the student of wo we womans mans advancement rough time the last years That h attainment ot of many things thing now enjoyed as a matter of tact as only gained by hard and persIstent struggle and the utmost and on part ot of a few rew earn earnest women Is also dearly shown A perusal of this took book although It shows many advantages gained for tor women such Buch ns as hl higher her education the right 10 to In the professions and a greater of action In all el of lIre life gives 1108 more clearly still un an idea ot of the Immensity ot of the In Pie dignities suffered by women as I a ela chart before any attempt wu was made to gain rIghts for tor them So that It would look as aa It this great cause affected people much as David said laId the tho of at money did For It la Is not so 0 much what money mone 11 gives a person as that hat It saves 1408 him from And In manner though the work of the century has given women much It has haa saved her from many Indig and much Injustice as well wellIn wellIn In 1600 no married woman In any country was 1 permitted Ue te her pro property nor could she will It away awny at al death The law In oper anon atlon In England and the United States held husband and wife to he be one and that one time husband An And the wire wife was considered to be died d ad In it law In fact rall she he had bad absolutely no freedom or of thought speech or lie ac tion This as Abigail s so 10 pointedly pointed showed oWn able hue hUI band when the Constitution o of this country was wal formed was all right In Inmost Inmost most cal cases 8 lIa as humane and ate men made no such use UBI of such luch laws lawi but bUl It would have havo been totter better to have bave put It out of the legal power of anyone any one to inflict such uch Injustice It was Impossible for n a marrIed woman to make II a legal Igal will viti at this time and If she worked for wages wage her Iler husband could collect and spend pend them and evern widows and un unmarrIed unmarried marrIed women who J some lomo money were ere not alia allowed to go o to a bank to deposit or draw It this hav havInG tag InG aU all to be done through the a agency of some Dome man friend or relative PAoli Ingratitude Living In expectation ot of gratitude dulls dull all our beet beat action says Mya a writer In IJa rl hazer There is IR In sushi living always a touch ot of the pose lOSt It Is II playing to the he gallery galler It Is asking for fer fora fera a receipt for tor a good act It Is demand demandIng Ing com compound interest on triO trifles of favor tavor We must let the of doing right of at living In harmony with our Ideals bf be our reward and or lire life will become to us 1 a series of failures and disappointments Let u us defy Ingratitude let lel Us tower above It and be independent ot of It Let Letus us never surrender to time the pessimism that tha t falsely tells us ue there Is II no gretl gratl tude In do the w world that our good deeds are wasted u |
