The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-07

A
bore
OF him who sleysihe dragon, Never
more
Those hideous fangs should tear their
human prey,
Since good incanate henceforth should
hold sway
Ger evil vanquished, prone, to rise no
more
Yet still, from age to age, the hydra
heads
or the slain dragon rise from out the
dust.
st. George st. Michael! where are We
to-day?
The reek Of carnage from the Orient
spreads;
The dallying nations sheathe their
blades in rust,
While, in Gods name, woman leads
the way.
--Woman's Journal,
TWO CLUBS H. YOUANI.
Right in the heart of shopping
district, where ladies most do congre-
gate, where handsome equipages line
the curb, and all the stores and offices
are full of women workers, one looks
up and secs a sign With this singular
inscription:
'Youari Club.
There's something attractive about
that peculiar word,-which after lit
tie thought resolves itself into you and
I'-attractive enough to draw one UP
fight of stairs in search of information
concerning an association the name of
which smacks so decidedly of good fell
lowship and friendliness a door mark
ed Reception Room" lures you onward,
and, entering, you find that one of your
| own dreams has taken a positive and
practical shape. Heie is a pretty, in
wiling room, not elaborate but so COM
| Portable, not over-furnished but--Word
| dear to woman--so cozy. Low couches
and rocking chairs, cushions in plenty
a few pictures and a good many books,
a little choice bric-a-brac, plenty OF
music Gor the piano which is to Gomez,
plenty of sunlight and a growing plant
\ or two, there you have 1.-THE very
room for a wage winner to spend her
| noontide hour of rest in, or where the
weary shopper or sight-seer may drop
down among the cushions and renew
1 her strength for the remainder of the
days employments From the recep-
| ton room open two lunch rooms, made
attractive with bright fires in the
| CRATES, neatly spread tables, and plain
but dainty table-furnishings In the
| farther one an ingeniously contrived
| hot-water table is keeping hot the SOUP
/ vegetables and meats. A bill Of fare is
displayed upon the wall and scrutin-
izing it, you are struck by the fact
that the club does not allow you to
pay more than five cents for any one
dish Soup with crackers, or, meats.
are five cents; vegetables three, bread
and butter each one cent, pie or cake
| four cents, tea or coffee three cents,
and milk two cents. One may lunch
/ sufficiently for ten cents, sumptuously
and extravagantly for eighteen or TWEEN
| ty, Everything is well prepared and
| neatly served. II your head aches, the
genial custodian stirs UP a remedy; If
| your glove is ripped. or skirt binding
parting company with the skirt, she
| produces needle, thread, and thimble.
| You pile up some cushions at your back,
| and turning over the leaves of a maya
zine, or looking idly out at the passing
show in the street while half atten-
| tive to the pleasant hum of voices
/ about you, you say to yourself-"Pve
thought Of just such place as this;
| I've talked about it, i've said there
should be one in every city, and here
| it is, just as / wanted it!'
| Miss Fad, a cultured spirited, busi-
ness-like young Englishwoman, has
this particular Youani Club well under
way in Atlanta. She instituted SINH
lar club in Chicago, and in little more
than year it grew to a membership
of one thousand. Evening classes We're
taught at it's rooms, and lodgings, in
charge of a responsible matron We're
| furnished to women travelling alone
or to those whose work had kept them
in the city until late in the evening.
| The Atlanta club will have, as soon as
| required, evening classes In stenos-
raphy, biography, bookkeeping, dress
making and drawing. The member
ship fee is twenty-five cents q month,
| emitting one to all the privileges of the
rooms, and to the classes on the pay
ment Of ten cents for each lesson.
Members may bring their own lunch
/ il they like, and non-members may
share the inequalities of the Youani by
| paying an entrance fee of five cents.
Everything is cheap enough, as you see,
and yet, with good management, such
an institution more than pays its way.
| And in the hands of intelligent CHEEKY,
sympathetic ladies. like Miss Fad and
her two eo~workers, it is a power for
good. especially to the many young, in
experienced workers, who after spend
ing long hours in stores or shops must
return at night to cheerless homes or
shabby boarding houses. To such that
bright noon hour may be the one that
of all the day will most encourage and
stimulate, and bring them in contact
with refining, uplifting influences.
1t would be a good thing, so it seems
to me, to have just such comfortable,
pleasant. 1unch-place and rest-place as
this in New Hayen. What think you?
HILARY.