As our name implies, this Club is formed to serve the interests of The Home--those interests which stand first, I trust, in every human heart." A telling pause, and the light patter of gloved hands.
"Its second purpose," pursued the speaker, with that measured delivery which showed that her custom, as one member put it, was to "first write and then commit," "is to promote the cause of Culture in this community.
Our aim is Culture in the broadest sense, not only in the curricula of institutions of learning, not only in those spreading branches of study and research which tempts us on from height to height"-- ("proof of arboreal ancestry that," Miss Eagerson confided to a friend, whose choked giggle attracted condemning eyes)--"but in the more intimate fields of daily experience." "Most of us, however widely interested in the higher education, are still--and find in this our highest honor--wives and mothers." These novel titles called forth another round of applause.
"As such," continued Mrs.Dankshire, "we all recognize the difficult--the well-nigh insuperable problems of the"-- she glanced at the gallery now paying awed attention--"domestic question." "We know how on the one hand our homes yawn unattended"-- ("I yawn while I'm attending--eh ?" one gentleman in the rear suggested to his neighbor)--"while on the other the ranks of mercenary labor are overcrowded.

Why is it that while the peace and beauty, the security and comfort, of a good home, with easy labor and high pay, are open to every young woman, whose circumstances oblige her to toil for her living, she blindly refuses these true advantages and loses her health and too often what is far more precious!--in the din and tumult of the factory, or the dangerous exposure of the public counter." Madam Weatherstone was much impressed at this point, and beat her black fan upon her black glove emphatically.

Mrs.Thaddler also nodded; which meant a good deal from her.

The applause was most gratifying to the speaker, who continued: "Fortunately for the world there are some women yet who appreciate the true values of life." A faint blush crept slowly up the face of Diantha, but her expression was unchanged.

Whoso had met and managed a roomful of merciless children can easily face a woman's club.
"We have with us on this occasion one, as we my say, our equal in birth and breeding,"-- Madam Weatherstone here looked painfully shocked as also did the Boston Marrow; possibly Mrs.Dankshire, whose parents were Iowa farmers, was not unmindful of this, but she went on smoothly, "and whose first employment was the honored task of the teacher; who has deliberately cast her lot with the domestic worker, and brought her trained intelligence to bear upon the solution of this great question--The True Nature of Domestic Service.