Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-25

mental attainments In the meinb rs.
What are the qualifications fcf mem-
bership?"
"WelI. we decided to limit tbs number
of members TO forty FOR the present. The
names undergo very strict scrutiny, how
ever because the club haI determinec
that no cranks will be t.ken IN, and to
keep up the vitality of tue cluD AMI make
Il a success every member must take m
active interest. really clre TO- stuuy for
itself. and be able, AZ called on. t. pnt The
result into paper.
AN AUXILIARY.
"The club here is an auxiliary to the
National Club OF Science for Women, anu
has been organized about two years,
although meetings were held for some
time before that. The National club has
six auxliaries besides this one, and It's
Executive Committee is located in Wash
ington. Mrs. Davidson. who lectures be-
fore the Armour Institute In Chicago on
geology IL the national president and
Mrs Talbot, OF Washington, Is secretary.
There are twenty-five members now IN
this branch.
"Of course it is much easier TO keep an
active membership here, owing 10 the
number of women whose husbands arc
connected with the government bureaus
and who naturally have mere or loss III
terest In their work.
THE subject for study Is known ahead,
and we have usually three papers on the
topic. One day was a meteorological
afternoon, when papers were read giving
the result of our study Of winds thunder
storms and hail
The chief paper. read by Mrs. John
Greenleaf. of Rochester, New York, who
is president OF the New York State Wo-
mems Suffrage Association. on the day
when hercdity was under discussion. was
so successful that II was naliy heard
at Chicago. Tho society keeps a love OF
study alive I'm IT'S members and sends them
into the National Museum and the Smith
sonian and the observatorcs 10 increase
their knowledge. If any auxiliary club
desires. the Executive Committee Will as
sst in laying out a course OF study for rs
members"
OVBR TWENTY.
One OF the qualifications for member
ship I'm the Washington Auxiliary is
that n woman must be over twenty years
OF age.
Mrs. Harrington. the president OF the
club, has lived I'm the West most of her
life. but Is of Vermont birth. She has
long been a student for the sake Of study.
ana mas drCOnUlSUti Il itutlifft VI hhihSo
on her own account. besides being an
active help to Professor Harrington dur
ing his long Ann Arbor career. While
they were in the university in Michigan
Professor Harrington edited meteoro-
logical journal During his absence from
Ann Arbor Mrs. Harrington, although
she had never prepared herself by special
study, took hold OF the journal ana
edited IL TO the satisfaction OF all con
cerned She claims no especial scientific
attachments or prediction, however, but
avows fondness for languages of which
she has made a study abroad. She has
done considerable translating under her
initials only, and has for the first time
laid claim TO her work with her full
name IN the translation from the French
OF Rousseau's Social Contract" which
has just appeared.
Mrs. Harrington Is a tall woman with
an easy way of moving and a strongly
moulded face. She has steel blue eyes,
a firm Jaw, and a general resemblance
10 Miss Kate Field at first sight Al
though president OF science club it
doen't interfere with Mrs. Harringtons
ability az n hoUsekeeper. and the Har-
ringtons have n very happy home where
the Washington Auxiliary Science ciuD
holds its monthly meetings.
KATE SWAN.