Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-03-09

cream pie. broiled steak with onions
the kitchen is tabooed by the aristo-
cratic musicians and milliners when
the latter is in prOgress-eorn beef hash,
graham gems and various other delies-
cies too numerous to mention They
are taught economical cooking, too
The lessons are adjusted TO the practi-
cal needs of the scholars. One young
woman got married few months ago.
She is, it is said, one of the most earn
est pupils in the cooking class, and the
young husband is a warm friend of the
Girls Mutual Benefit Society.
There are, however. many branches
besides cooking taught in the club.
Plain sewing, embroidery. dressmaking,
millinery, typewriting, telegraphy, elO-
cution, voice culture, music. even Dels-
arte! The working girls of Chicago are
quite as well up in all the modern isms
as their more fashionable sisters, and
they must have all the frills and furbe-
lows in vogue
The teachers Of the club are mostly
young women of leisure who are willing
to spend an evening a week from their
social duties to devote themselves TO
more useful as we'll as more refreshing
work. In few cases paid teachers are
employed to teach branches which
would otherwise have to be discarded,
but it is the aim of the club to have all
its teachers volunteers, and it is gradu-
ally attaining that result. The young
ladies who devote themselves TO the
work number about twenty in regular
attendance, which gives an average of
about three a night
The working girls of the club
though, indeed. all are workers, teach
ers as we'll as pupils, for we have
reached an age when work, and work
alone, is noble and idleness is consid-
cred Disgrace put it more exactly,
the members Of the club who are en-
ployed in factories and stores during
the day and go To the club in the even
ings. number over two hundred, and
they are of all uatioualities and creeds.
The first idea of the club was merely
to have place where girls could spend
their evenings-to coax them in from
the street, as it were, and by innocent
ings lead them back to the right path in
life. very short discussion of this
showed the young women that the club
would have to be run on a different ba-
sis to be a SUGGESTIVE evil influence
would only place the good in peril
They therefore resolved that il should
be working girls club; the attractive
ness of the club would in no way be di.
minished, but profit could be combined
with pleasure 10y using ii as an educat-
or They prevented any but respecta-
BILE girls being admitted by placing the
safeguards in the hands of the girls
themselves, thus making it matter of
personal honor with them that the
standard of the club should be kept up.
The name of any girl seeking admission
to the club had to be proposed by a
member who vouched for her good char
acter, Endorsed by two other members,
and posted for two weeks on the bulle-
tin board before voted upon. So care
full are the girls as to whom they pro-
pose that, to their honor be it said
black balls are rare.
The officers for 1898 are: President,
Miss Alice c. Burkhardt; first vice pres
ident, Mrs. A. NJ. Allen; second vice
president, Miss Katie Horn; recording
secretary, Miss Annette Huebner: cor.
responding secretary, Mrs. C. b. d.
Howell; treasurer, Miss HELEN L.
Hutchins; assistant treasurer, Miss
Dorothy Kantz.
This list includes both the teachers
and the working girls themselves, who
are eligable for any Office in the club =
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