GOOD RESULTS OF WOMEN'S CLUBS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 50, 22 November 1907, Page 3

GOOD RESULTS OF WOMEN'S CLUBS.

An anonymous writer in the "North American Review" considers the highest function of the woman's club .to be that it serves to introduce women to the idea of comradeship »nd co-operation, , and, releases them from merely .personal interests. It is truly said that women have, served men and children, but few women have understood how to serve their kind bravely. Passionately loyal to their immediate family; but only hero and there have they shown loyalty to womanhood. If the congregating of women should ultima-tely-lead to the realisation that the welfare of; each woman is insolubly bound up in the welfare of all women, what a social change Voiild ,. b'a wrought.', If-jthe comradeship of women should show'them that some form of economic independence is'necessary to the dignity of each human being, what a world of • falseness and favour-currying might be done away with. So long as woman's :indepeiiderico is gained only, by undorhand means, by favour or admiration, so long, says the writer, will she'remain only a part of man's goods and chattels and in a position to w.rite dishonour. These are interesting' reflections, but the woman's club has developed far beyond ,tho elementary, state of being merely a means of proving to women the solidarity of the sex. , It has become an effective means of betterment in many directions, rendering important aid to good' movements, and initiating many hew ones that affect the welfare of large classes of moro or less helpless persons. A scanning of a Federation bulletin would convince the least observing that the woman's club, properly organised and run, is a welfare inovement of immense import.