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CATECHISM FOR THE CLUBWOMAN, by                    
First Line: What do you see in the women you meet
Last Line: Makes this glorious sisterhood.
Subject(s): Clubs (associations)


What do you see in the women you meet
In your club life, day after day?
Are you impartial and kindly of heart,
And just, when their motives you weigh?
Do you realize that most of them
Are doing their best to make good?
And give them credit for all they achieve
In this glorious Sisterhood?

Have you sympathy, and a friendly eye
For the woman who strives in vain?
Do you give her a lift along the way
To the post she hopes to attain?
And when she fails, have you been at her side,
And have let her know that you care?
And have you thought that "the last may be first,"
In the Sisterhood, Over There?

So if you have made a success of things,
And have gone to the top with speed,
Be gracious, and offer a helping hand
To the one not destined to lead;
Give her warm words of praise, remembering
That she, too, "hath done what she could,"
For the "mite" of all, not the strength of a few,
Makes this glorious Sisterhood.





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