WOMEN'S CLUBS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 535, 16 June 1909, Page 3

WOMEN'S CLUBS.

: Beginning .with the statement that tho GoneralFederatiota. of Women's Clubs -in America is sending a woman "Rhodes" scholar to England this spring, an. English, writer gees on to say Tho Federation of''Women's Clubs in America-is; a very "strong organisation, , and in somo ways it is Vpity wo have not the same kind of thing here. But,- according to 1111. American lady who is .writing about us just now, of our women's' clubs have any purpose'beyond social enjoyment. She must have , missed examining some of - the most representative. On the other hand, tho jpinion of men is that tho English" womeu's stubs have too-much-purpose. A man would jonsider it unwarrantable, interference if his slub concerned itself with . his - professional interests.-. ■ Ho would also think it an interruption ,if he found the members actively banding '.tojether to 'forward tiie subjects-in* which they iro specially interested; by lectures and so 'orth. Tho Paris Lyceum, for instance, is irying to outvie, its ..English mother in, the mergy with" which.it.Ls. devoting itself to the study and l( sei.'ice, to-say .noffiinV "oT'fte.'lighter, subjects.' Vud similar news comes, from the Florence 31ub. At Home .tho same, thing, is' true. '