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Women Are Preparmgto p jOueen Alexandra
AMERICAN women are ilniiiisr
this Spring to increase thvir Ioiik
list of clubs by the addition of
another. 'J'Iih Mothers Club, the
"Browning Society and th club that
wrcKlles with the rorvanl ulrl prob
lem, will, if present plnns mature, noon
have as rivals the Woman's Automobile
Club of the I'nitod States.
There arc already men's club for
votaries of the. machine. Scarcely any
city of sire Is without one. ami even
down to the small villa ge thone who
find their keeneM Joy in handling- the
lvcr of the motor car hav? banded
themselves for protection and pleas
ure. Rut while mere, man has been prop
erly provided for. one serious omisMon
has been made. The woman chauffeur,
or. to be exact in the French term,
the chauffeuse. has been overlooked.
There Is no American automobile
club exclusively for women.
True, they are permitted on occa
sion to enter the portals of those hand
some clubbouseo their husbands main
tain, and In som cases even admit
ted to membership or to form ladles'
associate branches. This, however,
does not satisfy the wealthy sports
woman of today. She owns her own
automobile, she Is u.ed to her own
woman'? club, which is in no way con
nected with any masculine organiza
tions. Independent or Men.
In fact, she has been developed to a
point of independence where she does
not ree why she should go without
any proper enjoyment that her wealth
can buy.
Hence she wants an auto club of her
absolute own. and Judging- by past per
formanccs she Is very likely to get It.
One of Greatest Things in World Vision
stars, sees thnt some one calls them all
by name, and that a divine hand stretches
out the heavens like a curtain, and hav
ing Journeyed through land and sea and
k. the prophet returns with ten thou
sand arguments for God s power and wis
dom in nature. But the element of emo
tion and affection enters Into this splrit
usl sence, as when the seer exclaims, in
Aiew of the multitude of God's tender
mercies. "Thou art the one altogether
lovely!" and the element of conscience,
tfo, has Its contribution, as when David
cried. "Against thee, and thee only. hav
I sinned V As when Peter remembered
his Master s warning and his own de
nial, and went out and wept bitterly. Ru
dimentary in some men, seriously im
paired in others, working with marvelous
precision and accuracy in a few. the re
ligious faculty is found in all men.
There are, indeed, some who have tried
to show that this religious faculty was
not universal, but all have Tailed to make
out their case. The spiritual sense may
fee very weak In some men, but so is rea
a in seme. "Wit ana humor are very
rudimentary In a lew natures; aa occa
iXenU M4tvJ4tMl found wan Is eetor
3rind. and is noweriera to distinguish be
t ween, xen aiw-ynow
ewe of u Icnsw
Jurtet, who is a -gmU.
U such a club Is ferined there Is
already an excellent model fer It. TIt
Indies Automobile CI Mb of Great Brit
ain is a f!nnrishinp example of the pos
sibilities of such an organization.
It comes as a sort of ltoek to Ameri
can progrossiveness t think that tne
women of the older country, who are
supposed to be wrapped In conven
tion, have already perfected a strong
organization.
The club is now almost three years
old, and has a membership of 3S. and
a waiting list as long as the time
heems In passing when an auto breaks
down ten miles from the warest point
and nothing can he done tilt someone
comes out to mend It.
The noblest, the most distinguished
women of Knglnnd are enrolled in tho
club, and In reading over the list one
might almost fancy It to be a roster
of some funotion at Buckingham Pal
ace. It waa in the home of a lady of no
bility that the club was formed. In
April. 1902. l.ndy Beatrice Kawson. an
enthusiast, drew together those of her
women friends who saw the advantages
of such a club.
Interest Instantly Aroused.
It hud not been hard to arouse In
terest. Automoblling. although It be
gan as a man's sport, has gained im
mense favor among women, and there
are fair drivers on both sides of the
Atlantic, whose skill fairly matches
that of the men. In many tournaments
women have pitted their skill against
male chauffeurs, and have won a fair
percentage of victories.
But generally speaking, while a woman
might run a machine as well as a man.
she lacked that knowledge that equipped
him for any contingency. She did not
the land, who goes through the picture
gulleiies abroad with his family, and yet
to whom the canvases of Titian and Ra
phael mean no more than a piece of white
or black cloth; a man who beholds the
gold frames, but sees nothing in them.
But as to the religious faculty, it is In
all men alike, high and low. bond and
free, black and white, civilized and sav
age. Indeed, this religious sense exhibits
man as made in God's Image. This is
why It 1 so . easy ,to xeach a child thu
great truths of God, of sin. of conscience,
of duty and Immortality; Just as a tele
phone In one house answering to a tele
phone In another house makes possible
communication, so these spiritual instru
ments in man answer in the small and
rudimentary form to tho same faculty of
reason and conscience and purity and love
in God, the All-Perfect One. This spir
itual faculty explains why Africanus, the
cannibal chief in. Sotith Africa, In 20 years
had become the -eloquent bishop, the wise
scholar, the administrator and builder of
a state. lt also explains why that Chris
tian teacher and missionary, who went
to that great tribe of Indians la Alaska
only 36 years ago. has been able to trans
form, that cruel and Wsed-thlrsty trinn
into a selt-suSOetag folk, with their own
e4wny. common scats!, kwnes, stions.
lumber mitt, mm-M nine HfwYi
THE SmfDAT - OREGOJOAN, PORTLAND,
HBBmlB W i F " 'v V ' - YiBV7pHBH Emerson BainbrWfre. Mrs. T. B. Browne.
VVt 'i'"" -" mmmmmmm "mmmmmmnTiiTinmmmmmm Mr- Broughton Dugdale. Mrs. Walter.
MBmmmmmW ' ' i OFSii. '''''2mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmVH Mm. Elliott.-of Holme Park; Mrs. Arthur
nmmmmmm 'W:-WT 1 -1 v : WV'nraB Pearson, wife of the well-known publlsh-
-P"H JlL- vv' lr? mVl " ;J7in rmmmmmmmmmi r -Mrs Manville. Mre.-Mark Mayhew,
mtlmmmml "' , iZ? ? ' ' ' ZS&T-'zt iZmmmmmmmmmm Mrs. Sthenlcy. Mrs. Charles B. Shaw. Mrs.
SB f7'( : 'ft- v i-.a ' " JjLmmmWl&l I 3mmmM!l9mmmmmmmmm Herbert Uoyd. Mra. IJndsay Lloyd. Mrs.
iiiSli'vtll ttJ ij, r JTXjESSKM- " I SStUS' XScPlmWmmmmmm Charles Hunter. Mrs. Bruc Porter. Mrs.
SSBMBrf jTj p'l, r ' ',,'PrEi(C. ' i "f-'Cj WmmmkmmmmmmM Bernard Weguelln. Miss Honeyman ana
jrittiilt lib jtahteJJ tjflBSlk-1 Jlmm King and Queen Approve.
know her leal rights a well, and in case
of trouble with, authorities on any ques
tion of speed or trespass was likely to
give in, when often a contest would have
shown her to be in the right.
So with the construction of the auto
mobile. Man is by nature a belter me
chanic than a woman, and more quickly
mastered the workings of an auto's In
tricate parts. But the fair sex can learn,
and quickly. All that was needed was
an organization devoted entirely to the
modern vehicle, where nothing but auto
should be talked, where experts would
come and lecture on the machine, where
questions could be asked and answered,
where routes and newly found Jaunts
could be announced to the other members.
This was only the practical side. The
cont1?vLnAGE
who hath equipped the stork and the
swallow with nerves toward the realm
material, hath equipped man with his
spiritual faculty, opening up the kingdom
spiritual and etcrnaL
Importance and Moral Uses of the
Spiritual Sense.
Consider the supreme importance of tho
spiritual sense. By so much as man's
intellect -is higher than his palate, by that
much is the spiritual faculty higher than
all others whatsoever. Little wonder that
for the old prophet the cae and culti
vation of this religious faculty was life's
great object. Xo wonder that David im
plores God to open his spiritual eyes, that
Solomon exclaims. "There is a spirit in
man that is the candle of the Lord. and
that Christ affirms. "The pure In heart
see God." Once the other faculties are
alert, active and fully open, what knowl
edges stream In. When Jfewton's eyes
were opened to the falling anple 'and the
falling xneoa. he discovered the law of
gravity. When Columbus eyes were
opened to the current flowing to the
Went, and tJte s4rane drfftweod thtretn.
he lwwl a w continent. Okan
fcM Ja ,tajaroy aadJjraUwr, at tannc Perfect pcKyCjJ
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social end of the proposition presented
equal allurements.
There was a general rush to Join the
club, and the cream of the sporting no
bility applied for membership.
when his eyes were opened, he beheld the
entire framework of an animal long ex
tinct of which that bone was a part.
"Open ray eyes to the kingdom of beauty
in mountain and sea." cries some Turner.
"Open my eyes to the kingdom of
melody." exclaims some Mozart.
"Open my eyes to the ravishing loveli
ness of the red rose and the mountain
daisy." cries Scotland's ploughboy poet.
"Opn my eyes that I may behold won
drous things out of thy law." cries Dsvld.
All genius Li only a form of sensitive
ness in some faculty of the soul. The
greatest man Is he who has eyes look
ing out upon th glory of the heavens
above, and the beauty of the earth be
neath, and. seeing alL understands nIL
And the brutish man Is he who stands
inert, unfeeling, dead, while God streams
In the Innumerable messages. At last
science has discovered that It takes two
to produce light. Waves of light stream
forth from yonder central sun. but pass
ing through space It Is only a vibration,
and so there Is absolute blackness and
darkness. But when light strikes the
eye. It Is stopped, and in the reflection,
light Is produced. This explains Christ's
word. "If the light in thee be darkness,
how great is that darkness!" This ex
plains why Samson "wist not that God
had departed from him. And this also
helps us to understand why Christ, keep
ing his sfvIrH se-nsKlve to the last degree,
obeying every dMeate sngxstton that
to be home aon mm from Ms
APRIL 1, 1906.
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To enter the dull any afternoon and
say "Duchcsy." "Countess" or "Lady"
would be to cause half a dozen heads to
turn, for these titles of distinction are by
no means unfamiliar. The president Is
the Duchess of Sutherland; the Lady
Montagu of BeauIIeu. Lady Beatrice Haw
son. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill and
Mrs. Gerard Leigh are the vice-presidents.
Among the members are the Duchess
of Beaufort. Muriel. Countess de la Warr,
the Countess of Losdesborougb. the Vis
countess Castlcreagb'. the Lady Viola Tal
bot, the Lady Gertrude Molyneux. the
Lady Margaret Jenkins, the Lady Wolver
ton. the Hon. Mrs. Corbet, the Hon. Mrs.
Charles Forester, the Hon. Mary Port
man. Lndy Sassodn. Lady Colvllle, Lady
Salomons. Mrs. Murray Guthrie. Mrs.
heart, saw God face to face, and was one
with his Father.
Consider the Importance of cultivating
the spiritual sense. In the college and
university there is a new principle of
education. Teachers have come to believe
that man has a capacity for almost in
finite development It Is found, for ex
ample, that with the voice, that is an In
strument weak, flabby, without music
or range, by patient drill the youth can
build a speaking voice that can arouse
like a trumpet, or soothe like a mother's
voice, or move men with the variety of
some great organ. What expertness. also.
Ls possible for the hand! Recently It was
my fortune to watch the blacksmith, with
his great trip hammer, fashioning the
steel lever for the locomotive. That
smith could drop the hammer, weighing
thousands of pounds, with so deft a
touch as to mark the watch crystal, but
not break, the glass. Who has not mar
veled at the skill developed In man's fin
gers, as he sets tht type by means of
the modern machines? And what shall
we say of the possibilities of develop
ment along the line of scholarship, where
the reason, after mastering a score ot
languages and dialects, becomes capable
of acquiring a new language within a
single twelvemonth, and until these fac
ulties are developed, man knows nothing
about the great themes that he Is stady
ing. Not until Carlyle had fully devel
oped his power of seeing what Hes hack
of an event, was ae able to describe tho
French Revolution, with Ks "MHows mt
turn and Us rivers t hld.aad. its wake
The King of England, recognizing the
presence- of many of his friends and prin
cipal subjects in the membership list, fol
lowed the formation of the club with in
terest, and when its first annual meeting
had been held in Waterloo Palace. His
Majesty and Queen Alexandria reviewed
the procession which followed from Buck
ingham Palace.
This annual parade is probably the most
stately function in which the automobile
plays part In any country-
Each member drives her own machine,
and many of them are profusely decorated
with flowers. The aristocracy of England,
as well as Its wealth, is tjned up in the
procession of costly motor cars, and an
Invitation to be guest of one of the .mem
bers of the club Is on such an occasion
eagerly sought.
On the social side, the club, also gives
various teas, receptions and enter
tainments. But In the midst of all
these festivities the practical Is not
overlooked for an instant. The club
was organized primarily to benefit Its
members, to Instruct them, and this
feature is rigidly adhered to.
The leading automobile experts re
late their experiences in lectures to
the members. Captain H. H. P. Deasy
rccently to'ld the story of "Motor
Mounta'lneering In .the Alps," and some
of the ladles were so much enthralled
by his plciures of the beauties of the
of agony and oppression. But what is
the tongue for speaking, or the hand
that carves or paints, in comparison
with the spiritual faculty that beholds
God, and "builds character. ' and amasses
the virtues that make 'up manhood?
What rebuke comes to us when we think
of that phrase. The extirpation of the
religious faculty by disuse!" What a
condemnation of Christ. "Take .away the
one talent that hath been hldaen in a
napkin!" What a world of meaning In
the story of Christ's life, and his care
in cultivating his spiritual, sense at 12
years of age. talking with the wise men
In the temple, both hearing and answer
ing questions. And what suggestion Iri the
words. "As his habit was. he went Into
the synagogue on the Sabbath day."
What delicate suggestion in the state
ment oft repeated, that when ot,her men
went to their homes in the evening time.
Jesus went Into the Mount of Olives to
pray!
Homelike Homes.
American Homes and Gardens.
No rword' appears so frequently in, the
horns literature as "homelike" What
does, it mean? With many persons a.
homelike interior Is assumed to refer to
a quiet, unpretentious house of moder
ate cost, eqnipped la a moderate way
with, modest fnrnltnre neatly disposed in
rooms nnasmtmtng preportlong. That
mMh rmm- mayo-he' homelike is. imquae
tfonaMy trite, iMtt that ail homsttks moms
snowy summits, when seen from an
auto, that a number expressed an in
tention to emulate his adventures. As
to will Is to do with these wealthy
and time-free ladies, the Alps may yet
be traversed by some member of the
club.
Another lecture that gave a great
deal of pleasure and profit to the mem
bers was Lieutenant Windham's "Ex
perience of the Good and Bad Points
of a -Motor Car."
The club has handsome headquar
ters In the Clarldge Hotel. London, and
here Is kept quite a library of automo
bile literature.
Advantages to Members.
The members dd not content them
selves with talking automobile, giving
teas or having meetings in the luxuri
ous clubrooms. This Is an organisa
tion of active autoists, and they give
annual runs to distant points. Last
year they went from. London to The
Hague, by way of Utrecht, Nijimegen,
Bonn and Frankfort.
The,, allied sport of motor boat rac
ing gets its recognition, and for the
races In the Solent the club chartered
a special boat and saw the contests in
comfort.
Briefly, the club presents these ad
vantages to the members, and the list
Is reprinted here because' of Its possi
ble value to American women who
contemplate similar clubs:
- Membership of and legal defense by
the Motor LTtilon.
A free copy of the club and Motor
Union Handbook annually to each
member.
The benefits of the hotels and re
pairers appointed by the club, a list
of which will appear In the handbook.
Information and assistance In passing-
cars through, the custom-houses of
foreign countries when touring abroad.
a"nd the advantages of the system
whereby cars may be passed through
the customs without many of the usual
formalities.
The right to enter in club events.
are ot this description Is completely erro-,
neous. Homes are of almost as many dif
ferent kinds as there are kinds of persons.
The kind of a homo that one possesses
Is largely determined by one s means.
That Is to say, the rich man will provlda
himself with a richly furnished and rlchly
conducted house. The man ot moderate
means will have a house less elaborately
built, furnished and conducted. The poor
man must do the best he can. and that
very often will be poorly enough. Now.
It Is obvious that the home which will b
satisfactory to one of these groups will
not be satisfactory to 'any other. Tnej
rich man who Is accustomed to the daily
luxury of his own house would not know!
how to live In a'poor way in a poor placeJ
The poor man, for his part, would be
eoually lost amid .the luxury of the rlcr
man: and the man in moderate clrcumJ
stances will be as' much dissatisfies with
the home of the very poor as with th"
home of the vey rich. But the abiding-
olace of each ls-a Home. Each falls wher
measured by the standard of the others I
This very essential fact Is apt to be over
looked by those who nnd it tneir duty tq
enlarge on the homelike qualities of cerl
tain homes and their absence from otners
It Is a serious mistake to deny hot
like qualities to expensive dwellings.
Artificial pumlcs itone U bow being' madj
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