Clubs For Farmer's Wives

A simple organization and one of great interest, is called "The Xewspaper Club," writes Helen Jay in the Marcl Ladies' Home Journal. The members are bouml to carefully read the news o the day as stated by the papers. One member is assigned the foreign ne.ws for one week, another the politieal doings in our country, a third has chanxe of the book reviews, while others must study up the records of the lives of men and women at the moment most prominently before the public. In this way women are brought closely in touch with the life of the world and liftel above local prejudice and tradition. In some neighborhoods what are called "JRocking-Chair Clubs" obtain. Such organizations have no object other than the cultivation of friendship among wo men. The motto might well be the words of Emerson, "Conversation - what is it all but that?" One mernber reads aloud wliile the others sew, but part of the time is devoted to the good old fashion of telling the individual experience and passing on the ltelpful thoupht, the title of the book or article found of service, the useful receipt or the personal discovery of new methods of value in the liome. In one club what has been called the "Three D's - Dress, Diseases and Domestics," were prohibited topics, and no woman was illowed to quote her husband or chroncle the sayings and doings of her children. In another neighborhood, where most of the women were young mothers, thelittle ones became the principal subect of discussion, and that most charmu work, "Mothers in Council," became almost the hand-book of the organization.