The age-herald., 1897-10-06
BY MRS. GEORGE c. BALL.
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There is one woman who will have a certain degree of peace as long as her present fad continues. That woman is Miss Susan Ford Day, New York young woman of fashion and large wealth, who has decided to spend the remainder of her days rocked in the cradle of the deep" in her own yacht Miss Day is a representative of several prominent families, and has inherited a fortune equal to the qualification of any whim or caprice She has recently sold her city home, and has had her yacht fitted up in way that would satisfy the most Luxurious tastes.
 Miss Day first became entranced with a life at sea from a leisurely cruise, prescribed for her by physicians, when she was sufferer from nervous pros tration, superinduced by sorrow and anxiety. She does not affect nautical costumes, but wears tailor-made walk ing suits, soft woolen tea gowns, or any other pretty and attractive outfit which would be deemed appropriate in an ele- gantly appointed metropolitan home. There is a well-gelected library on Miss Days yacht, and, as she is woman of literary tastes, she spends much of her time in the corner set aside for her books. As she is not a santimentally inclined bachelor maid, there are very few novels among Miss Days volumes, but ponderous copies of Plato and Jo- 'sephus, as well as scientific, psycholog ical and philosophical works, afford the eccentric young woman food for thought.
 Miss Day occasionally entertains on her yacht when she is at certain ports, and is always very charming com- panon. Last winter was spent in the West Indies; this winter she will prob ably go to the Mediterranean for long cruise.
 It is now one hundred and two years since the first woman's club was organ ized, about which there is any authen- tic information, in the city of Philadel- pha It was a charitable club, as its name indicates, "The Female Society for the Relief and Improvement of the Poor" The Philadelphia Ledger gives this interesting data concerning this pioneer philanthropic organization:
 "It was begun and organized by the Quaker spinster, Anne Parish, who was born in 1760, and died just before the nineteenth century began, at the end of the year 1900.
 'The society consisted first of twenty three young, accomplished women of the best families, who met every week to go about among the poor and needy. When tins city was visited by yellow fever, shortly after the formation of the club, the mettle of it's members was tried and found to ring true! while most who had the means fled from the towns thase twenty three Quaker women stayel1 wi h Anne Parish and fought the plague, raising money, visiting the dying, cloth ing the well and comforting the be- reav5l1.
 From that time to the present the society has endured and continued in the work thus early initiated; the grand daughters and the great-granddaugEl- tars of the first founders, who fave in- herited the club membership along with their Quaker traditions, their fine old family names that still count in Phila- delphia society, are now preparing to celebrate the clubs one hundred and sec ord birthday.
 ''The membership Is passed down through the eldest daughter, and she methods are not altered from these first chosen; there is no president nor vice president, the only officers being two clerks, treasurer and a committee of thirteen; the Trominent work of the club Is the maintenance of a house of industry where nearly hundred old Quaker women of indigent circuln- stances go daily to sew, knit and mend in comfortable quartsrs in the house on North Seventh street, which the club has lodged in since the middle of the cen tury.
 The women are paid good wages for their work, and are given D good meal in the middle of the day, besides being provided with easy chairs while they work. The society women provide <hcm- with sewing and bachelors scnil thither for their mending"
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