The Federation Bulletin, Volúmenes1-2

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Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs, 1903

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Página 190 - Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government practically just so much. Public opinion, on any subject, always has a central idea, from which all its minor thoughts radiate. That central idea...
Página 255 - ... inhaled to an injurious extent by the persons employed therein, and it appears to an inspector of...
Página 45 - No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts. People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
Página 144 - With wife's and mother's and poor-folk's loves, And home-loves and high glory-loves And science-loves and story-loves, And loves for all that God and man In art and nature make or plan, And lady-loves for spidery lace And broideries and supple grace And diamonds and the whole sweet round Of littles that large life compound, And loves for God and God's bare truth, And loves for Magdalen and Ruth...
Página 77 - The Grand Old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men. He marched them up to the top of the hill And he marched them down again. And when they were up, they were up, And when they were down, they were down, And when they were only half-way up They were neither up nor down.
Página 173 - It stands out in marked relief even among the feats of a nation of pioneers, a nation whose people have from the beginning been picked out by a process of natural selection from among the most enterprising individuals of the nations of western Europe. The acquisition of the territory is a credit to the broad and far-sighted statesmanship of the great statesmen to whom it was immediately due...
Página 2 - A man should say, I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
Página 172 - Women's Clubs recommend to the state federation and federated clubs that : In all states in which children work at night and children work who cannot read and write in the English language, the effort of the clubs should be concentrated upon the passage of laws covering these points, namely : (1) That children under the age of sixteen years should not work between the hours of 7 PM and 7 AM and (2) That children should not work who cannot read and write in the English language. (3) In states in which...
Página 59 - No really young people could understand it; no "simple people" would know what it was all about; no unsophisticated person could enjoy it; no "patriotic" American could stand it; few women would like it; no business men could find the time to read it; no one lacking a sense of humor could follow it. This leaves a very small class — the knowing — to appreciate the book. But for these it will be a marvel, a perpetual and high delight. For them there has been nothing like it in years.
Página 259 - ... department of home and social life. 2. To promote among members of the association a more scientific knowledge of the economic value of various foods and fuels ; a more intelligent understanding of correct plumbing and drainage in our homes, as well as need for pure water and good light in a sanitarily built house. 3. To secure skilled labor in every department in our homes, and to organize schools of household science and service.

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