New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-26

money is usually secured by cooperative ef-
fort. a fair club entertainment. The needs
and tastes OF the members and the facilities Of
fered for Industrial other education In the city
evening schools determine the classes that are I'M
dertaken by different clubs Cooking, dressmaking'
sewing housekeeping millinery embroidery, as
well ms literature travelling physical culture and
dancing stenography and typewrting, singing pen
manshlp. the study OF English and current events
among the classes.
ENTERTAINMENTS
The social evenings varied by practical talks
lectures. games, music and dancing. Some OF the
clubs have social evenings, when young men
are invited This is always easier when the cluO
meets in the rooms OF Social Settlement where
clubs OF young men are already organized young
women living In tenement houses have few oppor-
tunities for social intercourse with young men,
and clubs can furnish girls and boys young men
and women meeting place where happy ooi"
The clubs in Western cities have often started
as lunch clubs for those employed IN laags sre
quently given rooms for this purpose The e1-
sss 1f b s es OF e oan
The spirit Of cooperation thus aroused has led 20
country, and other forms OF mutual enjoyment ana
Improvement. The tendency. however is to supple
ment rather than to foster the trade union spirit
Many clubs have Junior branches for girls between
twelve and sixteen. others nave domestic SnSa. 49,,
for young married women, where househOld ,mant,,
tiers and the OF children discussed. ~
course, these branches depend on me SIZE oi III
club and the needs OF the surrounding com
muniy As long as the PRINCIPLES 800 OF eSrt tow
ard self-supporD are accepted the club is free 10
develop In any way that the members may oe-
sire.
In four States clubs are organized in associa,
tions and these associations maintain vacation
holiday houses. where members OF c s3
and their friends can enjoy a weeks or lott
board This s detrays the actual running expenses
OF the house. The rent and repairs OF Jne Rl dS
association has established a mutual benefit tund
which grants benefits in time OF sickness and deatn,
bureau The Massachusetts, association has studied
how 10 improve the condition OF women WORKERS
dav in the Boston dry goods and department stores
Thrifty habits are ENCOURAGED IN eacn nroTSen+
ton by the stamps savings or penny proVlueht
CONVENTIONS HELD
Three conventions have been held where matters
Of vital interest to working women and girls have
been discussed The first was held in New-forK
CITY in 1890: the second In Boston in 1884 and the
third IN Philadelphia in 1897. As a result Of the
last convention the National League OF Associa-
tions Of Working Womens CUBS was I9 os, IN
league began It's work IN october, 1878 IL en-
braces five associations and eghty-siX clubs, WIN
total membership Of over seven IhQnSap mo WinSie
west and South Though the league at present present i
confined 10 th sn 5io association viii be formed
and will join the league Inc 0DyT' I'D indmstriaI
9,rosts ~ working women 10 increase the spirit
20 70 ,,arotion and 'helDfuness between CLUBS, ana
to aid those who organizing new ElGDs, ~
gcre-ol secretary Miss Charlotte Wilkinson, OF
Syracuse y y is conducting the business VI tHo
ncU organiZa ton. The league mas Puo'I9"o -. %
leahet How 10 start Club. ana a doom VI oIi5
for club IL also issues '''' f'F0'
1.-THE Club Worker lib n the
This account OF working womens cuDs IN ''s
United states is not tale or rApiu pI,If,,I work
5as' been done-work which has had results tnat
cannot he lightly estimated In coumtS, PIches
The dangers Of class separation are gteat ttrnar
and even education may ertcl Va" nd rnisunder-
sta6din that endanger the life Of the repuDlc. Cl
clubs TX the social settlement are Drlss i,s r
gcther people whom the circumstances OF M o.
constantly tending 20 separate. Inc sPt I'll, ~
onretinn nd sef-government destroy the spirit OF
M tronage and caste. The social distinctions ar
obli-erated that separate the III. from
worker I'm q cOrdage factory, the pVOhhcePei AVN
the woman employed in domestic Work. 49,,
OF course refinement OF manners anu person atIu
cleaulv habits sine qua non OF cIuo IhsIii ,
shin The clubs are not rcfOrmdtOrles' anu 6i'iis
iartirg in -.lf-respect would not feel at nome ~
them In tho Junior bands one sometimes Hh9s d
Cortain roughness OF speech and manner. but IL i
American working girl Of seventeen or eighteen 10
appear well hammered and well dressed ne late
Professor Henry Drummond was surprised az the
Intelligence and quiet dress and good breeIlhg OF
no members of a Boston working womens CLUB.
or course the club members are picked set OF pussy
women. and club life attracts only those VINO are
a,,5ifious for reimbursement. The ideals OF our
Young and hopeful country, though they seem 10
Influence but slightly the great foreign population
Of large cities. are strongly felt IN me pubic
schools and there they awaken ambitions IN even
the most sluggish natures.
As riches increase the one side. and the ranks
of labor and the unemployed struggle on the
other working women's clubs become OF greater
value to the nation one may theorlZe ana dream
about social regeneration. but only with the slow
growth Of nober ideas, by mutual knowledge and
loving cooperation arise that blessed common