Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-19
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For they were an newspaper women AID
they had taken Sunday to consider the mat
ter, because Sunday was the only day when
they had time to consider anything excep;
their daily work One young woman said
that she would have to wear her stockings
without daruing that week, because Sunday
vas the only time she had TO do her mending,
and another hoped that the club would real
ize the extent Of her interest in its welfare,
since she had, for the first time In years, de-
serted her husband On a Sunday afternoon
to attend the meeting.
Nearly double that number attended the
meetings on the following Sunday after
Moons, and now the club Is well started in
vigorous life with constitution, officers and
constantly growing membership of about
sixty.
The membership Of the club is to consist of
actusi working members of the press, women
engaged In Literary occupations and members
Of kindred professions who do journalistic
work The advantages which it hopes to
gaia are both social and professional, its OBJ
Jet being to secure for newspaper women
the benefits arising from unity, fellowship
and cooperation with those engaged in sim
tors OF the club shat women in Journalism
could cause the amount and importance Of
their work TO be better understood end ap-
preriated by both the public and the news
paper managers If they organized themselves
into body, IN addition TO the benefits and
the social pleasures which would arise from
mutual acquaintance.
The club is now looking for permanent
Il
ander lis own vine, fig tree and teapot in
some Central location in rooms which are to
De kept open all day. In this respect it is
making a new departure IN feminine club
dom, for il is the first wonen's club in New
York 30 hire and keep open permanent rooms.
It win hold business meeting once month
and 3 tea meeting every Sunday afternoon,
at which there VIII be general social enjoy
ment, smoking teapot over spirit lamp,
and much drinking of tea from japanese
cups
Mrs J. c. Croly, the president Of the new
club, Is one OF the pioneers among women
newspaper workers. She began ever 50 many
years ago as an editorial writer and dramatic
critic In The New York Times, and since
then her newspaper correspondence and mag
aziue work have made Der nom de plume one
She is Just now bending al her energies to
make success Of The Womans Cycle, which
she recently started Shs says that toe en-
terpriSe prospers excoeiin2iy even beyond |
her expectations, and promises better for the |
future She is particularly pleased that it |
attracts so rarch attention aud receives such /
warm communication from men, who, she !
says, seem 10 be as much Interested IN it as
buttons, subscriptions and clubs. She has |
Just received from we'll known Republican /
New Yorker olub OF Eve names, consisting /
Of both men and women Mrs Croly is /
slight and blonde, is in deep mourning for .
her husband, looks about 50 years of age, has
a vivacious, sympathetic face, and Is warmly |
enthusiastic over tho progress which women
are making and the spirit Of fellowship that
exists among them.
Mrs "Grace Greenwoodn Lippincott was
elected first vice president, but feArs she viii
not De able TO serve, as she is ag present very
III and expects to remove soon TO " ashing-
ton, where she viii continue Der correspoa-
deuce for The independent and other papers,
and dispense hospitality in the home which
she and her brother make and share. Mrs
Lippincott began her newspaper work thirty
five years ago in correspondence from Wash
ington, and has therefore had, probably. the
longest continuous journalistic career of any
woman in ths United States She is about
TO years old, is short in stature and rather
stout; has keen, kindly eyes; a genial facs.
v bite hair and a sunny temperament that
makes Itself felt In her manners and CONVEX
5atioa-
Mrs Mary E. Bryan, the second vice prssi-
ieat, Is a black eyed, pleasant faced. gracious
southern woman Of middle age,
md possessed of unusual executive qualities
she Is the editor of Monroe's Fashion Ba-
zar, and writes serial stories for several Of
the Monroe publications She had done
5000 deal of editorial work in the south when