The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-23
PETTIC0ATS IN CLUBS.
"BAB'S" EXPERIENCE AS A MEM
Der OF A " oMAN'S CLUB.

and What She Found-How Women
Run q Club-What They do Before
You and Behind Your Back - The
Women You Meet-A Warning About
Woman's Clubs-A Venus-Like Pet
ticoat-A Hint of Some Spring Styles
A Love of a Bonnet The Latest
Colors and Who Sh7u!d Wear Them.
A Few Lenten Renunciat.ons.
(Copyright)
NEW YORK, March 21.-Are you be-
lever IN woman's clubsl l am not. Woman
is not parliamentary creature. She sees
no reason why she should not sass back"
and grow personal any time she wants, and
she has no hesitation whatever in telling of
her committee work, Of whispering around
Of who has and who has not been black
ballei, and Of showing that she herself is q
very lsaky vessel.
A WOMAN ON WoMAN's CLUBS.
I was talking with a woman the other
day, and she said this: "a year ago was
tempted and fell-fen into being member
of the 'Woman's Press Club / had been
duly warned by the men of my family that
l would bitterly regret this, but | believed
that men knew nothing ] thought, Here,
at last, is the ideal club. 1t will bs CONS
posed Of women writers, and wherever
there is one who needs lift, the helping
hand, in the way of giving hor the ma ne of
an editor who wants work, or the kindly
voice in the way of Offering her a sugges-
ton, will be found. They will be bright
women, they will be business like women.
shall find meeting them once month
pleasure, while, as for the business meetings,
of course, women who earn their own liv-
ing Will know how to conduct these prop
erly.n
HOW WOMEN RUN CLUB.
1.-THE original Officers were elected by &C.
clamation. Then, for several months, the
club worked along with ut a constitution
Ia very aimless manner, but still hoped
against hope that it would eventually prove
OF some v4lue. Last autumn circulars were
sent out announcing that there would be an
election for vice-presidents, treasurer Sec
rotary, and some other officers. No mem
ton was made in this circular about the
election of a president, aud yet when we
got there we found there was to be one, and
we hadn't sense enough to know that the
whole thing was illegal, because no notice
had been given of it.
NOT ALL aUILELEss WOMEN.
"One woman, who was energetic in her
desire to see some good officers put in, was
asked to be'a teller of votes-I think that's
what you call it-and she took the position,
though she said she didn't want to, and
never realized until the next day, when her
husband told her, that the thing was done
to get her off the floor. so she couldn't work
for her candidate, and that she ought to
have refused to do 1T. He laughed at her a
good bit, and tainted her with it because
she was the daughter Of a politicianl
Another time, a letter came from some
woman in the west asking for the address
OF some syndicates-a perfectly proper
question TO put to such club. The presi-
dent read it out in derisive manner, and
seemed to think it a great joke, and while
the blood IN my veins was boiling at this, a
southern woman sa ID she would take it and
send the woman the addresses desired.
women in the club
WERE SUPPOSED TO BE WRITERS
of something. Now, 1 have nothing to say
against people who write advertisements; it
is moneymaking business, and one that
undoubtedly calls for vivid imagination,
but still do not think it is journalism. /
have nothing to say against dear little
soul who wrote her first article after she
Joined the club: still, | don't see wherein
came her claim for admission; but do
think 1t funny that women who have only
written checks, or who are anxious to get in
with literary Set-save the mark ARE
eligible for membership. l tried to do my
best in that station iu which had been
placed by vote. l wanted neither ducats nor
kudos from such club, but / got an i'm
mense knowledge from various types of
women.
WOMEN MET IN A CLUB.
"For the first time in my life, I met the
woman who was determined to hold on to
her position like leech, who doesn't intend
to do any work, and VINO can't add any,
thing to club by her name, but who
clings and clings, and even death won't put
her out-death doesn't want her; she is the
woman who is ruled by the last idle gossip
she has heard, and who is wildly anxious,
by making new acquaintance, to take the
sponge of forgetfulness and wipe off the
marks on the slate OF her life. / met the
woman who is a cat clothed in cashmere.
She looks at you inquiringly, wonders what
she ought to do, then goes Eome and writes
you letter, and tells you what you ought
TO do. She is willing to give everybody al
vice about their work, and she does her
own very poorly. Then l met the other
type,
THE WOMAN WHO FLATTERs,
and f1stters, and fatters-who writes you
letter, and tells you that your genius is SO
great, you ought not to be wasting 1t on the
work that you are doing: later on you dis
cover she has made an application for that
very work. I'd discovered, too, how
women, following the fashion or OConnell,
will drive q four-In-hand through
constitution without a wink. After
all this you will do as did-come home and
sit down by your consolation-the man who
advised you not to do it tell him of the
envy, hatred, malace, and all uncharitable-
ness that exists In a womnn's club, and he
Is too much of a man, and his manners are
too gentle for him to say, Il told you So
But you will have small weep and an
nounce to him that you have done with 1t.
Any aAvantagess Yes, there were three.
l got acquainted with dear little doctor,
who was as loyal as a giant, and wasn't
afraid to speak the truth; with a western
woman whose heart is true, whose words
are honest, and who is as big of brain as she
is of heart. With another woman whose
great dark eyes saw all the WEAKNESSES, and
who felt as did. that touching pitch she
had been defled."
said
WOMAN TOLD Me THIS.
So it was. 1t was that familiar friend who
looks at me from the mirror, and, as I
shake my head sadly, her lips moved as did
mine, repeating with me, "Stick to your
traditions-abhor women's clubs as YOU do
cigarettes, bad manners. and petty spiteS :"
This is the time for repentance, and l do
much repent my lever having had a yearning
to belong to a club; and the story is told
that no other women l know may fall by
the wayside with the same innocence and
fervor that did; no good Samaritan came