The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-28
CHICAGO WOMEN AND THEIR
CII-RS

When one comes from California to
Chicago the physical senses are oppressed
and offended by the by no means track
less wilderness. A wilderness Of tracks
rather, for at first sight it appears as if
these busy citizens har no object in life
beyond hurrying hither and thither over
the face of the earth, and the vast city is
scanned and streaked and threaded by in
Vulnerable trains for that purpoIe. But
soon the inner senses are appealed to by
the mental and moral aspect of Chicago
life, and here the climate is much better.
As the civilization and progress of a
place are always to be measured by the
ad vancement OF its women, we must look
to the women OF Chicago as guage of
their city's development and we are not
disappointed.
The w1man's club, with its member
ship .! hundreds upon hundreds and its
widespread subdivisions. is but one
among many. A mere list OF the woman 5
clubs of Chicago would fill the brief
limits of this paper, and their united
membership form formidable voting is
in the interests OF good government.
May it soon Gomez But the names and
| figures 90 not give the most valua BILE
part OF these clubs and their worK.
The subjects which they take up for
study and discussion; the speakers they
engage, the prices they pay and the honor
! they show them; the spirit which they
meet and work together; the effects of
their work upon themselves and their
| city, these are what show the value OF
the Chicago women's cluos.
The spirit of conservative intolerance,
/ sure mark of ignorance and bigotry. is
| not prominent among these women
! Some there are, to he sure, who have not
+ thrown from them the mantle OF
ancien. received opinions. but they are
| q minority and of little weight
Wealth, fashion and culture are on the
side of progress here, and that makes a
vast difference to the more timid sisters
whose convictions have no courage in
| them.
One plain proof OF this is in the mum Der
OF women who wear, correct dress, as
long face, who dresses beautifully in re-
form clothing?" says one club woman, en-
| deavoring to identify another.
| To dress beautifully and yet preserve
the sem blance of human form inside
ones clothes is an achieved fact in Chi
| cago, and its womena's clubs are largely
responsible for this.
Equal suffrage has plenty of staunch
adhercnts here, the woman's club having
| its political equality league, and that
league further division in q study class,
wherein earnest women made study OF
! the laws they nope some time 10 helL
make and mend.
Education, from the all important kin
dergarten to the big universities, has its
/ full share Of attention; civic government
and reform, household economics. There
is hardly progressive movement OF the
day but has either its special club OF wo'
men or its due amount Of representation
! among the general ones.
CHARLOTTE PARKER STETSON.
CENTURY CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO.
The Century club Of San Francisco Is
the representative woman's club Of tina
city, com posed OF trainy women, many
Of whom are prominent also in otilca
life The club is unsectarian AMI allow:
the greatest latitude in the subjects with
which it deals.
WOMEN'S CLUBS IN THE SOUTH.
The club movement in :he south is .
very recent date, the oldest and larges
in Louisville, KY, has seen but twe v,
winters, and the youngest the Atlant;
Woman's club. was only born last week
and has hardly get got its eyes open
The naughty Southern arstocrats ar
heavier on "sassie,y" than culture. The.
like to :riyol, and they spend their tim
gambolling about the seductive tea tabl
and gyrating at the cnticing ball to thu
exclusion OF anything that will draw oil
their mental forces. ! am inclined Il
think, upon investigation and reflection
that the best part of the Southern maj
and woman OF this generation is. like
the potato under ground, and it will no
he until the next generation has beer
educated in northern institutions, tina
the reconstructed south will accom- plisl
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northern institutions advisediy, for Their