Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
GossIp From the Clubs.

The Travellers Club has adopted a new
| constitution.
The successor to Mrs Benjamin Harrison
as head of the Daughters OF the American
! Revolution has not been yet appointed. Mrs.
! Cabell is at present the acting head
| THE Bellamy Club, of Junction City. Kan,
! has q cooperative kitchen which it claims
| is satisfactory solution OF the domestic
| problem for the ladies connected with the
| club.
The New Century Club, OF Wilmington.
Del, although only four years old, has be-
| gun the erection of a club building for itself,
| the design being made by IL Philadelphia
woman, Mrs. Minerva Parker Nichols.
THE usual holiday decrease in attendance
has beer noticed at all the women's clubs
and this is probably due to the fact that the
passing hours wer5 improved not in men tai
culture. but in the construction Of gifts for
CHRISTMAS.
The Women's Press Clubs last social
meeting at the East End Hotel was made
enjoyable by several very clever bits OF
speech making on the part OF the members.
The january place of meeting has not yet
been decided upon.
The tN enty-dfth annual conven tion OF the
National American Suffrage Association
will be held in Washington. D. G., January
l4la Hon. Carroll D. Wright has accepted
an invitation to be present and will speak
thony is President OF the Association
The Social Science Club of Kansas and To-
peka are the Originators OF q movement
toward the abolition of the smoking CON-
partment in Pullman sleeping cars. at a
recent meeting of the club a resolution was
adopted asking Mr.. George Pullman 20 10
away with the smoker, which the ladies
claim is not only an annoyance to other
passengers, but unheulthtul. 1t is intended
to present this resolution to every woman's
n
Miss MARY ALLEN WEST, ono OF the fore
most workers for the advancement Of
women, died ut Toxic, Japan, December1,
where she had gone to do temperance work.
Sho was for the last seven years editor of
the Union Signal, the National organ or the
W. G. I. U. She was one OF the representa-
tives of Chicago at the international League
of Press Clubs held II year ago, and was
Secretary of the Soldiers Aid Society. She
WAS for many years President OF the Illinois
Women's Press Association
EVERYONE has heard OF the club house the
women's clubs of Pitrsburg and Allegheny
are anxious to build. A member of the
Women's Press Club, who is, it must be con-
fessed, Just q tTif1e conservative, fled her
objection 10 the movement thu: MADAM
President, shall never consent to such u
thing. Why, just imagine what would men
think OF US! Nobody would know what we
were doing, smoking or drinking or playing
cards, or any thing awful. eouldnt eonsct-
entionsly belong to q club that had a club
houseP' And she meant 1t.
The New York Woman's Press Clubs new
quarters at 126 East Twenty-third street,
consists of q suite OF four apartments and =
bath room. The walls OF the parlor are OF
terra Gotta with a frieze Of deeper tones.
The ceiling is OF cream with delicate tfntS
of pink and green. and the noor OF par.
quetery in dark and light Woous cnerry
mantol with a tilfng oftawny brown is upon
one side OF the room, and against the op-
posite wall is the Presidents chair, with an
oak table I'm front Of it. The chair Is OF
binck walnut, upholstered in leather and
Gothic in style The chair was the gift OF
Mrs. Frank Leslie Wilde, while the table
was presented by the members Of the Ex-
ecutive Committee.