St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-07

the absence of the mother, and also a
well-organized kindergarten for the en-
tertainInent OF run-abOutS during a
matinee or formal call. Already the
membership has outgrown the accom-
modatiOnS of the club house, and new
building will be secured in the fall.
The Causeries de Lundi is full of
brainy women who prepare learned
papers for others to tear to pieces; but
as there are men in the club it is not,
properly speaking, feminine.
The Woman's Health Protective As
ISOLATION is composed of handful of
enthusiasts who meet every week and
discuss ash cans, garbage boxes, refuse
crematorieS, slaughter houses, back
alleys and dirty streets. They visit
schools, scatter tracts, beg the children
not to throw bits of examination paper
about the sidewalk, and threaten to.
have any teacher removed from service
who doesn't keep the windows lowered
and an open vessel of clean water in the
school room. The bette noir of their eX-
istence is the unfortunate Beattie, and
while President Wilson, of the board of
health, is greatly admired on account of
his exquisite taste in dress, the ladies
are by no means pleased with his adj
miniStration of sanitary law.
The Recreation, with the accent on
the ''re," has for its object outdoor,
exercise. The members meet on the
highway and walk across the country
and back again for a weekly lung bath.
They wear divided skirts, reformed
dresses, big hats and shoes, and they are
happy lot.
The Monday club is composed of
SanctimOniOuS and ultra-faShionab BILE
vbn ri in wool f,
exchange gossip gathered at church the
day before.
The Kindly club has membership
equal to the Band of Mercy. Each
woman takes pledge on entering
never to speak an evil word of any one,
and also that she will do some kindly
act every day. Mrs. Kendall innocently
brought the S. P. G. into unpleasant no
toriety by facetiOus reference to the
Society for the Purity of Character,
whereas the letters are symbolic of the
Society for Pastime and Calisthenics,
since known as the Dancing, Fencing
and Athletic society. The society con-
sists of number of smart but very
proper young actresses. who go to
church and sit in judgment onlBern-
haldt, ModJeska, Jane Hading. Mary
Anderson, Ellen Terry and similar pro-
feSSiOnals.
The Clio club goes in for classics the
Emma Lazarus club aims at the wants
of the working girl; the Rubinstein con-
siders Annie Louise Cary Raymond a
little above the composer they worship,
and the Meridian is hign-noon 0rgani-
cation given to science and dyspepsia.
The working girls clubs are patronized
by some charming ladies. who dOte on
"their girls" and dole out milk-and-
wat er philosophy on the sweetness and
lightness" of poverty and things. The
art clubs are legion. the ''Dantes,"
'Brownings," ''Shakespeares' and
''rennysons' numerous. and more than
1000 women are included in the seven
socialist and anarchist clubs.
There are obesity clubs, cooking clubs,
prison-reform clubs, choral clubs and
clubs for the propagation of Chinese
Christianity. suffrage, patriotism and
the multiplicity of drinking fountains,
coffee stands. temperance saloons and
alms-bOXeS. Last, but not least, is the
WOman's Press club. These fair para
graphers can do more than prose work
and fashion articles. Nearly every
member has published novel and sew
eral poems, and is at the present time
managing paper, magazine or
mOney-making concern of a semi-com-
mercial character At the receptions
the members take turn in doing "Juliet,"l
Lady of Lyons" Camille" ana Miss.
Mutton as they played and dressed the.
part in the days of Anna Dickinson and,
Charlotte CuShman.