GOOD WORK ACCOMPLISHED PAST
YEAR BY LOCAL WOMAN’S CLUB
(Continued from Pape 5.)
tilings are being done toward the
progress of the world? Who is
doing them? "Live and learn.”
Household Economics: The proper
r lation of the family to the com
munity and to the nation. The de
velopment of ideal conditions in the
home; food values. The reconciling
of incomes with the needs of its in
mates. Scientific management ana
efficiency applied to domestic life.
To make a happy fireside clime
To wean and wife.
That’s the true pathos and sublime
Of human life.
Social Service: Service to society.
How to help the lives of others to
become more ideal. How to keep
little hands that were made for love
and play from factory toil. How ro
keep the girlish heart pure through
legitimate amusements. How 10
open the prison door upon a seli
r speeting man who can meet life
again with lifted head and steady
ayes. How to put what we value In
our lives into the lives of the more
unfortunate:
"Not what we give, but what we
share,
The gift without the giver is bare;
Who gives himself with his aims
feeds three,
Himself, his hungry neighbor, and
me."
We took our pledge: "Holding
worthy of unfailing loyalty my mem
bership in the Anchorage Woman s
Club, I will sustain its good wora
ard guard its reputation.”
The end of our first year has come.
How far have we lived up to the in
spiration of those first meetings.
Where do we stand now?
In some respects we have succeed
ed gloriously. In others we have
failed sadly. That we have become
a factor in the social life (I use it
'n the broadest sense, meaning com
munity affairs) is evidenced by the
continue 1 appeals made to us. What
will the Woman's Club do for tne
school playground? What will tne
Woman's Club do for a public
library? W’hat. help will the Woman s
Club give us toward establishing a
hospital? To have reached a polnr
r
where our confidence and help i«
sought thus, is success. We have
been spared the mortification of
being taken as a joke. And tna?
foct says worlds for the men of the
enumunity and their progressive
soirit. We can say proudly that we
h-.ve taken part in almost all the
entertainments given with a definite
I and worthy purpose in view. That
I is success We have made ourselves
a part of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs—9.000 clubs, repre
senting 2.000.000 women doing their
work all over the world. They will
help us and we will help them, our
own home club is to be represented
: at the great bi-ennial convention
j neat month in New York. We are
i a part of the world's work and have
declared ourselves a part. That is
success.
Twice has the town shown the :
•’onfidence they place in our women, i
hy making two of them in turn di- ;
rectors of the school hoard—a proof t
that woman's opinion, advice and di- j
rei-tion is sought in a woman’s dear
est and nearest work, the education
and up-bringing of her children. Ana
do you know that there are towns in
far older communities where the
women have fought for even a voice
in school affairs and not obtained it.
Our men believe us capable ana
have given substantirl proof of it.
That is success.
We ljr.ve had a splendid program.
Excellent and intelligent papers on
different phases of our life here and
our broader opportunities, by our
members, and splendid addresses by
our prominent citizens, business and
professional men. The interchang
ing of their ideas and ours has been
a great privilege and benefit to us an
—that is success.
We stand, a dignified, established
unit in the town of Anchorage,
thinking, working, going forward—
that is success.
But, my dear friends, no woman s
club is a complete when there are
still women in the tosvn whi will
not join it because they fear it is
going to break up in a row. iu
creditable as it seems there are wo
i men who feel like that. That is
failure. We must convince' them
<hat we can he large enough to (lif
ter in our opinions without personal
spite. We need thoBe women, their
Ideas, their energy and their sup
port. And they need us in spite of
what they may think and say, for
they must learn that we form no
snug little company devoted solely
to our interests for our own amuse
ment. There are, after all, only two
excuses for spending so much time
on Women's Clubs—the effect on
the individual woman and her effect
on the life around her. 1st. Broao
rning of the woman with the inter
change of ideas, development in the
expression of them, and the eonfl
dence gained in her own ability to
do her work along larger lines. 2nd.
Can we not convince these other wo
men that our aims are worth while?
There may be many and various le
gitimate reasons why they can not
iain the club, but let us make it im
possible for any to say that we are
only amusing ourselves. That were
a waste of time for there are other
things far more amusing. Let us be
broad, let us be big. that all intelli
gent women may want to become
members—and when they fully un
derstand our serious purpose, are
convinced that we are trying to do
things worth while, they will come.
We want and need any woman who
believes in growth for herself and her
town. We want her to see that be
ing a club woman doesn't mean ne
glecting home, husband and chil
dren. but it means greater devotion
to them in caring for their inter
ests outside as well as inside the
home—in learning how to do the
same things on a larger scale, and
with better results. Any one wno
careg to observe the direction taken
in the activities of women’s clubs, in
their use of the ballot also, cannot
fail to see that it all tends to house
keeping and child-rearing, almost ex
clusively—insistence on a clean
town, that the typhoid fly may be
kept out of baby’s milk, pure food
that the family may not be poisoned,
better factory regulations, that gar
ments may come to the wearer clean
and safe, and not from the hands of
a tubercular worker. Also that little
children may be protected from the
stifling atmosphere of factory worK
and granted their sacred right to
play—I might go on indefinitely. All '
prove that woman is doing her worit
and that it is far-reaching enough to
more than take her capacity, mind
and body.
You may think these things are
all vague and remote for. a member
McNALLY & MAITLAND
Have received 800,000 feet different kinds
Yard at Foot of H Street
All Ki nds of Common Dimension
Flooring Siding Finishing Shiplap
and Kiln-Dry Dimensions
Sash and Doors
of the Anchorage Woman's Club. Try
mil see I look next year for the
development of the departments.
Each member should ally herself
with the department best suited to
her tastes and capabilities.
Each department should have, De
sides its chairman, two directors,
elected by the department—its own
program carried out independently
of the general meetings and its work
brought to the club at the meetings
under its direction.
I see the art and literature depart
ment taking up the work of some or
one of the great masters, or some
period of art or writing or music, or
all three. No time is lost in the con.
templation of beauty in all its forms
: and the acquisition of many-Bidea
culture. I see it forming a circulat
ing library.
I see the department of education,
standing first and always ready to
aid the school, but not stopping
there; writing papers on many edu
cational subjects, holding classes,
may be, to supplement the pubim
work of education—advancing al
ways the cause of learning.
I see the department of household
economics' studying scientific house
keeping, demonstrating it, determin
ing for all of us which houses and
merchants are most worthy of our
patronage from a standpoint of
clean and good food. May he estab
lishing a bureau of home industry—
carrying a roll of reliable workers—■
where may be registered the names
oi those who are desirable for us to j
employ, by the day, hour or week.
I see the social service department
deviBing and carrying out some plan
to keep high school boys and girls
contented with youthful pleasures— I
perhaps the formation of a little
amusement or dancing club for
them. Keeping an eye to the needy,
of which there are fortunately few.
Giving help tactfully, because it is
not sought. Always keeping in
formed as to methods of social work
in the outside world.
You see there is so much at hand
to do, and I have not thought of a
tenth part. Your minds and energy
will supply the rest. Must not our j
watchwords be, "Development and
Work”? Cannot the Anchorage j
Woman’s Club perpetuate itself In ;
the school, in the library, in the hos- j
pi'al? Let ug by all means have a
permanent home if we may acquire
it without the sacrifice of our use
fulness towards others. I cannot
feel that we would enjoy a club
house devoted to our own interests
solely. If it seem the best way to
establish a center of community life
ait aoHvltv lot n« wnrlr for it tooth
an.l nail.
If these be your aims, you need
never feel apologetic about being a
cltio women. You will be recognized
as a useful citizen, an influential
member of society, and a power in
the state.
in closing, allow me to share with
you the inspiration derived from a
collect for club women written by
Miss Mary Stewart, of Colorado, in
19 04.
A COLLECT FOR CLUB WOMEN.
Keep us, O God, from pettiness; let
us be large in thought, in word,
in deed.
Let us be done with fault-finding ana
leave off self-seeking.
May we put away all pretense ana
meet “ach other face to face, witn.
out self-pity and without preju
dice.
May we be never hasty in judgment
and always generous.
Let us take time for all things; make
us to grow calm, serene, gentle.
Teach ug to put into action our bet
ter impulses, straightforward ana
unafraid.
Grant that we may realize it is the
little things that create differ- |
ences; that in the big things of life
we are as one.
And may we strive to touch and to
know the great, common woman’s
heart of us all, and, O Lord God,
let us forget not to be kind.
MRS F. MEARS.
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Molybdenite, tungsten ana anti
mony ores, also big low-grade gold
properties. Address full particulars
to Ralph Reed, corner Sixth and A,
Anchorage, between 2 and 5.
THE MODEL
Has fresh stock of cigars, candles,
photo goods, stationery, etc.
Doc buys everything. tf
Fine postcard pictures of the union
parade at The McCain Studio. Come
and see them.
TheTwo Girls Cafe
Mrs. Ollie Gray and Viola Bar
nett, Propr.etors.
4th Ave. and C St.
Our Motto:
Courtesy, Service, Quality
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Specials This Week
—At—
Carstens Packing Company
MARKET
Fourth Street, Near C
Fresh Smoked Picnic Hams 20 cents pound
Fresh Smoked Cottage Hams, Boneless - 23 cents pound
Fresh Smoked Regular Hams - - 25 cents pound
Fresh Smoked Regular Bacon - 25 cents pound
We carry a full line of Meats at bottom prices
Extras this week:
Sweetbreads, Brains, Liver, Kidneys, Hearts, Tongues,
Spare Ribs, Pork Tenderloins, Club House
Sausage, Etc.
LUNCH GOODS, BOLOGNA, HEAD CHEESE
Ham, Sausage, Minced Ham, Pickled Pigs Feet, Pickled
Tripe, Boiled Ham, Weinerwurst, Frankfurters.
J. J. HALES,
Manager Anchorage Branch.
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Hart, Schaffner & Marx
CLOTHING
always give satisfaction.
Full assortment to
fit the
regular, stout, long and
long stout, at
Jaffe <fe Bayles
Corner Fourth and D Streetj
The Home of Hart Schaffner
and Marx Good Clothes
Doors Roofing Paper
Windows Building Paper
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