The herald., 1893-09-24
THE JANE CLUB.
An Organization OF Jolly Working Girls
In Chicago and What They Do.

An Organization OF Jolly Working Girls
In Chicago and What They Do.
What kind Of girls really compose this
remarkable Jane club? To tell it briefly:
Working girls-girls who earn their own
living by good, diligent, honest work
some as stenographers, others as cloak
makers, bookbinders, milliners, dress
makers, shirtmal1ers, shoemakers, type
writers. In age they range between Is
and 2S, all excepting the mother of Miss
Kennoy, who is 60 or more and who has
been member of the club from the be-
ginning. In looks they are something
above the average. Three or four are pos
itively handsome. They nearly all dress
well, and as far as manners and speech
go they do not differ from other well
bred women you meet in this town.
Some are jolly and lively and talka-
tive, and some are not. Some are-but
what is the use Of enumerating any more
qualities? They're just about what you'd
expect lot of nice young women to be,
except that they're not as well off in the
matter of money as they themselves and
their best friends might wish. For the
larger part, they're not native Chicago
girls. Nearly all hail from the interior
of this state, from Wisconsin, Michigan
or Iowa, and they have fathers and moth
ers, brothers ahd sweethearts left behind
there, about whom collectively they care
a good deal and whom they visit as often
as circumstances will permit.
Sweethearts? Most assuredly. They're
not parcel of old maids. Far from it.
The best proof of that is that one of their
number, Miss Annie Barry, married no
later than last week, and that Cupid, the
little rascal, has in fact played quite
deal Of havoc in the ranks of the Jane
club within the year of it's existence, a
score or 80 of the members succumbing
to his power and marrying some fellow
probably not half worthy of them. Be
sides, you have only to look at the girls
as they pass you by to feel sure that the
Jane club will need at frequent inter
walls new members to take the places of
those who have left it for husbands.
But those who were the charter mem
bers of the Jane club-the original seven
have SO far remained faithful to it.
But there is of course no telling what
may happen. These seven are Miss
Mary E. Kenney; her mother, Mrs. Ken
ney; Miss Reda Doeing. the present pres
ident, and her sister, Miss Fenie Doeing
Miss Toomey, Miss Mamie R. Sullivan
and Miss Kelly.
They're having, of course-that much
will have become quite apparent to every
one by this time-a real pleasant. good
time, those members of the Jane club.
With nice home, with pleasant sur.
roundings and good company all the
while and with excellent and palatable
food, why shouldn't they? But besides
that they give entertainments from time
to time, where everybody is bound to
enjoy himself or herself Little inform
al hops--for which the two large con-
Meeting parlors are just the thing occur
frequently enough, and there are any
number of girls among them who can
play with some proficiency, such as Miss
Cast, who has been a pupil at Colonel
Ziegfeld's conservatory for several years,
and Miss Searle and Miss r. Doeing, and
there are others who can sing, and thus
they get up informal or formal musicales
at moments notice. Once in awhile,
too. they entertain on larger scale, as
when the typographical unions had their
national convention here couple of
months ago the Jane club gave the dele
gates delightful reception at their own
home and then adjourned over to the
Hull House, where a regular ball was
given in the large gymnasium. .-C Chicago
Herald.