PEABODY WOMEN'S CLUBS AN ARTICLE EXTRACTED FROM THE PEABODY NEWS 1901 Contributed by Charmaine Keith (charmain@southwind.net) 26 August 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday Afternoon Club In the month of October, eighteen hundred ninety-four, a meeting was held at the home of Mrs. G. W. Campbell to discuss plans preparatory to forming a literary club, the following ladies being present: Madams Campbell, Johnson, Killock, Bush, VanNest, Potter, Buck, Gibney, Huffman, Walton. No organization was effected at that meeting----but it was the birthplace of the Tuesday Afternoon Club of Peabody, Ks. At a subsequent meeting officers were elected, and by-laws adopted. The membership is limited to twelve, and holds it meeting every Tuesday from October to May. The object of this club is intellectual improvement and social intercourse. The first two years no definite line of study was pursued, the President making appointments from week to week, the readers choosing their selections. History of England and the United States including miscellaneous reading each week was the work of the third year. A varied program was arranged for the fourth year, comprising brief sketches of the life, character and writings of some of the most noted men and women. These biographies were interspersed with magazine articles, and occasionally original papers upon subjects relating to matters that were attracting the attention of the public. French History was the leading study of the fifth year---including contemporaneous writers of the period. A sketch of each was given and reference was made to their principal work. Municipal government and parliamentary practice constituted a part of the study. We found miscellaneous programs required much time for research. Experience taught us the greater value of a set course with uniform test books, which was adopted. A departure from the past years was inaugurated, making the sixth year almost exclusively a German year. A few book reviews gave a modern coloring to the lessons. The past year the program included Notes on Education, History of a Kintergarten, Nees of Our Public Schools, Manual Training in the Schools, Kansas, Her Progress in Education, Her Resources; United States Postal Service, United States Life Saving Service, Government Printing, Mediums of Exchange, Inventions, Occult Science, Telepathy, Crittenden Mission, Art, American Artists of to-day, Comparative Study of Recent Fiction. The first Tuesday of each month is entirely taken up with the study of Shakespearean plays. Readings pertaining to the study are introduced. We are a Study club---each member is expected to be prepared with the lessons, and act as leader as arranged on the program. In addition the members have kept in touch with recent events by giving at the close of each session the latest news topics. Although the suggestion had often been made, it was not until about two years ago that the members became inspired with the thought of doing something for public improvements, a subject that was attracting the attention of the citizens of Peabody. Accordingly, under the direction of the members of the club, several home entertainment's were given, creating a fund of $#127.23 clear of expense. The desire to co-operate with the teachers for the best interests of the public school, also to assist in beautifying the school rooms, had often been expressed among the members. The club have purchased and placed upon the walls of the several grades in the school building some fine pictures, including a set of Luxemberg, numbering twenty-four, also a set of the Perry engravings. Enthusiastic friends have contributed a goodly number. All are good subjects and handsomely framed. The list includes several landscapes: Millet Reapers, birthplaces of Shakespeare and Burns, Anna Hathaway's Cottage, Huffman's Head of Christ, the Venus of Milo and portraits of Bittoria Callons, Wagner, Lisyt, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Rembrandt, and Longfellow. One of the world's famous pictures, the Aurora, which was painted by Guido Reni of the Seventeenth century, is framed in black oak. For this picture $14.45 was paid. It hangs in the high school room. $90.00 has been expended for pictures for the school rooms. Last year a group of native trees were planted in the park, and six bent wood seats were placed in the park by the club, we are planning to assist in other public improvements. The persistence of the Tuesday Afternoon Club has not been exempt from the ensxorable law of change; members have come and gone within the past eleven years. But the seven charter member who still retain their membership are as earnestly devoted to the interests of the club as ever, and are ably supplemented in their endeavors by those who have joined later. To all who have studied together has come a desire for a better and higher intellectuality. The out line for the coming year is planned as soon as possible after the closing session in May, and the course of study is at once prepared by the program committee and the year books are distributed among the members. The social side of the club is planned for each member to entertain the club once, closing the year's work with a reception to which all of the members of the families represented in the Club are invited. The first officers of the Tuesday Afternoon Club were Pres., Mrs. T. M. Potter; Vice Pres., Mrs. L. C. Huffman; Critic, Mrs. Gibney; Sec., Mrs. H. M. Walton. Its subsequent presidents have been Madams Cochran, Johnson, Buck, Walton, Kollock, This Club was federated in 1897. The present members are: Mrs. Sara E. Campbell, Dr. Churchill Killock, Mrs. Anna Buck, Mrs. Jennie Cochran, Mrs. Luella Eaton, Mrs. Mary C. Potter, Mrs. Alice V. Loose, Mrs. Lizzie Huffman, Mrs. Lura Johnson, Mrs. Grace Walton Hoyt, Mrs. Helen M. Walton, Miss Elida Hanson. By Mrs. H. M. Walton. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CLUB The Twentieth Century Club was organized in Feb. 1901. By a little company of Peabody women, who felt the need of mutual help and encouragement in study as well as a systematized plan of work. The charter membership numbered twenty, which number was very soon doubled. The Club is not a limited one, busy housewives---women of leisure ---young ladies who have graduated from our schools and who do not wish to give up the habit of study---and girls still in school are all welcomed, giving and receiving the help which comes from contact of mind with mind. Its social functions are very few. It is not a philanthropic society except as it broadens and brightens the lives of those who might otherwise be left to plod alone along literary byways. It is simply a study club. The first year was begun in a very modest way by studying the general conditions and causes leading up to the formation and development of our American nation. Its second year will be devoted to American history and the object will be not only to become familiar with past events in the history of our county, but to study them in the light of the present, learning how and why our nation is able to occupy the proud place she does today among the nations of the earth. At the last club meeting of the year so many applications for membership were received that a club room will be necessary next year. As the first Club year was short one its offices were all re-elected to serve during the coming year and are as follows: Mrs. Addie Stephens, President' Mrs. Cora Bonesteel, Vice President' Mrs. Lottie Haupt, Recording Sec.' Miss Blanch Seybold, Corresponding Sec.; Miss Bessie Guinn, Trea. Its meeting are held the second and fourth Fridays of each month. By Mrs. Addie Stephens THE MOTHERS CLUB The mothers; Club of Peabody was organized January 22nd, 1901, with 24 members: Mesdames G. W. W. Amick, H. N. Baker, J. B. Baker, F. J. Bauslin, T. L. Bauslin, W. A. Bauslin, M. V. Brindley, F. E.Butler, E. F. Davison, O. J. Furst, D. M. Green, E. P. Gray, J. S. Holmbertg, W. M. Irwin, J. O. Moffett, Frank Millikin, J. H. Morse, F. H. Prescott, D. F. Rhodes, D. L. Sammis, R. B. Slaymaker, J. S. Shroeder, P. S. Turner, W. W. Westbrook. Mrs. P. S. Turner, Res.; Mrs F. H. Prescott, Secy.; Mrs T. L. Bauslin, Treas. Having been organized so short a time it is impossible to give a satisfactory report of our work, which pertains to home life and child culture. The following subjects are a partial outline of what we have and hope to accomplish the coming year; Sanitation, Hygiene, Heredity, Physical Culture, Woman's Mission, Good Housekeeping, Mothers' Responsibility, Diet for Children, Religious training for children. Etc. We closed out work which has been very profitable and pleasant with a delightful banquet at the home of Hrs. Irwin. By Mrs. Frank Prescott, Sec. --------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. 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