e, they are prepared to become zealous workers in the
Mother's Club.

"Our Mother's Club at Solaris, was organized by Gertrude Gerrish, as the
fulfillment of a long cherished dream. She has reason to be proud of her
work! Like that other Gertrude, made so famous by Pestalozzi's charming
story, Gertrude Gerrish is a born teacher, an ideal mother, one of
nature's noble women. Much of the success attained by the club, is due
to her wonderful power as a leader. Her enthusiasm is infectious. It has
carried all obstacles before it. To this self appointed task, she has
given her best energies, a rich harvest of ripe experience, with its
fruitage of earnest thought, radiant and glowing with the genial
influence of her sunny temperament, and withal, rendered more potent, by
an overflowing love from the deep fountain of her great mother heart. Is
it a matter of wonder, that she is such a general favorite with club
members! Her word they accept as law. Her suggestions as commands.

"To Gertrude Gerrish, motherhood was a holy and sacred office, which
demanded from its devotees, a season of careful preparation, and a
thorough knowledge of the physiological and psychological laws, which
govern that life-evolving function, that crowning glory of womanhood.
She seemed to be inspired with the idea, that progress has ordained,
that unwilling, ignorant and accidental mothers, must be replaced by
those who are predetermined, properly educated and fully prepared. These
ideas, she has endeavored to impress most forcibly, upon the minds of
all club members. She has also taught them the importance of maintaining
joyous, healthful, mental conditions; consequently, of carefully
avoiding all emotions of selfishness, cruelty, anger, envy, or
melancholy. In this connection, for the purpose of creating in the minds
of our club mothers, as many good and pleasurable emotions as possible,
and of repeating these anabolic emotions so often, that they may become
dominant during the entire gestative period; Gertrude Gerrish has wisely
planned for them, a great deal of open air exercise, study and
amusement.

"The study of botany, and botanizing parties, have become very popular.
These prospective mothers, have quickly learned how to amuse themselves,
by combining study with pleasure. When organized into congenial outing
parties, almost every fine day they may be found, seated in the
luxuriously appointed motor carriages which belong to the club, ready
f