New-York tribune., 1869-05-12
RECEPTION OF THE WoMANS BUREAU.

1t is wise saw that to be out of the fashion is to
be out Of the world. Last night the fashion, and by
inference the world, crowded the parlors of hand
some house in Twenty -third-st Very elegant cards
invited it, very elegant women received it. very bril-
liant talk entertained it, and very exquisite mnsic
charmed it, A line Of carriages as long as thatwhich
fills Iryng-placc on q Parepa night set it down, and
elaborate toilets it off In fact, if the critical
stranger had not read "WOmap's- Bureau in unmis-
taxable capitals the lamp before the door he
might have imagin himself in the drawing room
of the most senseless and t woman of society whom
it had been his fortune TO encounter This critical
stranger naturally asking right and left, What is
the Woman's Bureau ~ not as a conundum. but as
question of Importance, would have been met by the
courteous but discreet reply Something delightful,
butust what was abOnt 10 ask you" Atlast eSpying
in the archway of the middle paror three ladies who
are clearly hosteSses and again propounding his
question: he would have been told that the Womans
Bureau is an organization which hopes to extend TO
wOrkingwomen hOsptable and hearty kindness. And
il recognizes as workingwomen not only shirtsewers
and book folders but artists writer's. speakers,
teachers, singers. Ii may become Brain Exchange,
peTchance. A wealthy lady OF New-YOrk, seeing that
tracts good perhaps but territory better bought
the other day this fine house In Twenty -third-st.,
furnished it, and now lets it in apartments for the
speclll hcINlCe OF WOmcnS NOIhs Inc uctOtUitOh
hires the lower floor but the Bureau is larger IN its
intention than The Reroluton Sorosis occupies a
committee room, but the Womans Bureau does not
pledge itself to Sorosis. The Workingwomen's Pro-
tective Union finds harborage there. but the Womans
Bureau comprehends much more than is included in
the Protective Union. The WOmans Art Association
preGmpts ground, but the Bureau has still an un-
taxed hospitality. by and by there will be a room
or two for an occasional lone woman.wOrker the
stranger tarrying within the gates. On payment of
q year n lady becomes member of the Associa-
t0n, has her namo upon the register, and her well
come in the fact of her membership. Then Gorgias,
arriving from Idaho TO order statue, poem, an
essay picture can at once discover who will give
him the worth of his money, and commissions can
flow in in ever swelling food. But if Gorgias should
neyor come, and no commission should ever adorn
the patient names upon the register earnest women.
trying TO do good work in good way, will have
chance of mutual helpfulness and sympathy. They
Will have chance Of knowing new and strong per
sons They viii have little foothold in this great
city.
An artist, woman trying to rent a studio in tho
building of the Young Mems Christian Association
was informed that no woman would be tolerated
in tho building. Mrs. Phelps then said to herself
II is time that women have building where they
are not tolerated. but Welcomed and so she has
oponed this one to them. But this house is by no
means q charity. rental absolute but not extor-
tionatc, is demanded for each apartment. The
young women of heArt Association unknown artists
many of them, hang their pictures on the walls of
tho drawing room OF the Bureau. By-and-by. per-
haps in some nice way each little society oler
grace and room to each other.
III the crowd of last night may be taken TO mean
approval as wen as interest, the WOmans Bureau is