New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-12
MRS. JAMES S. PECK HOME.
SHE RETURNS FROM A YEARS soJoURN
IN AFRICA.
AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD THAT WILL PLAN
THE NEXT NATIONAL BIENNIAL CLUB
WOMEN WARMLY WELCOME HER


Mrs. James Sidney Peck chairman Of the Board
that will plan the National Biennial OF Clubs for
1900. is again in America. and has been heartily
welcomed by all club women who had the good
fortune TO know she was here. After year and
a half In Europe and Africa with her daughter
Miss Peck she was no more welcome 10 her init
mate friends than she was those OF her friends
on the local Board OF the National Biennial, who
have been awaiting the arrival OF the chairman TO
oegin active preparation.
The election OF Mrs Peck to her office In her
absence filled her hands with work from the mo-
ment OF her arrival. In addition TO the chairman
ship she returns to her old duties chapter regent
of the Milwaukee chapter OF the Daughters OF the
American Revolution and member OF the boards Of
several important Milwaukee clubs and active MEM
Der OF all the largest ones.
You can see" she said how my absence has
placed me out OF touch with club affairs so far as
news Of them goes at least. though not at all in
spirit. I have had time to look over the ground
and see how II ali stands. or to confer with any
one. But OF thing am sure: The biennial VIII
be a success. Nothing that Milwaukee ever under-
took yet In this way failed to be, and with such
women as Milwaukee women, and with such CITY,
the great convention must be a notable one.
There is this TO be emphasized: That the con-
yention must be an Individual thing. do not know
at all what they did in Denver. but the good taste
and Judgment Of Milwaukee women must dictate
what we shall do. While they had things that we
shall not have, have many things which they
were without We have the lake. and we have
beautiful homes upon It and on the lakeside. which
am sure will be opened, and where the women OF
the convention will be royalty entertained. We
nay profit by other inevitable convention mistakes
without Initiating We know best Miwaukees IA
cites for entertaining convention like this. ana
II II cannot always be original, the entertainment
can always be individual"
Mrs. Peck quoted Washington woman with
whom she lately talked. who had touched upon
matter which the Programme Committee VIII nave
in hand when 1t meets in Milwaukee on May %
and with which the local board will have nothing
to do That was upon the matter of the social
character of the affair.
The Washington woman" said Mrs Peck said
a great deal about the Importance Of the coming
together OF delegates 10 the convention Not SO
. much in receptions and teas, perhaps, as at
meeting place such the Athen@um, or some
ones home. where they may become really ac-
ouainted Many Of the club women have a wloe
acquaintance all over the country, and Will ike
an opportunity to see one another. as they cannot
AZ reception. This, OF course, the Programme
Committee will attend TO wholly
Mrs Peck talked charmingly Of some ghmpses
OF woman's clubs which she had while abroad
TN North Africa? No" she said. the club has
not penetrated there but 1t may One OF the pleas
ATTEST clubs have ever seen was in Berlin IL Is
called the American Girls Club and was so started vT
w Mrs Mn fo- 1nf president Of Cornell Uni
versity and has been Minister TO Russia. The rooms
| OF the club are in a pension. and they have been
| fitted NJ, delightfully."- Here some very charming
| American women at home on certain GAYS o. o.
| the week and every fourth Saturday In the month
| the cluhrooms open to men Ihere are many
delightful American students there-Prnceton laLe
| end harvard graduates doing postgraduate work
AT the university American men coming mere Wno
are fortunate enough to have cards OF
| or credentials are always warmly welcomed anu
the pace is quite the centre Of American society IN
/ Berlin !, r,1.,t- Me- peck
| In connection with her stay In Berlin, MIS- IecS
! spoke Of the young Jewess VINO was siIu "a
| from Berlin University while she was there anu
was the first woman upon whom the institution mas
No one saws thev will do II again. said Mrs,
Peck, but the grand old conservative INSTITUTION
| Mrs peck was not in France or England ms
dime abroad and she and her daughter spem nus IN
~ their time In the German cities IN florehSe' III
| Aleiers and other cities of North Africa