The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-04
I'm a Short Time 1t Has Become One of the Leading
Clubs of the Entire South.

cial club rooms were placed at the disposal
OF the ladies' for all their meetings.
1t was not to be thought of. The Wo-
mans club seorned anything that was not
its own property. Then an investigating
committee interviewed the real estate peo-
pie, and found the charming apartments
in which the club is now located. AS is
well known, the club apartments were
formerly those occupied by the Alabama
club, one of the famous social clubs in the
old days. They were dusty, eobweby and
the ghost of those days when they pre-
sented through brilliant winters many gay
scenes. The janitor was resurrected and
it was not long before the rooms assumed
Something of their former attractiveness.
The beautiful ball room remained untouch-
ed, however, the smaller assembly room
being used for the club meetings. The
club in a few weeks so increased its men,
bership that the ball room was once more
opened and the meetings have been held in
this spacious apartment all winter and
spring. 1t has presented many charming
and interesting scenes during the winter,
and there have been no more delightful So
cial functions this past winter than the
informal club teas which followed the lee
lures and musicales which were arranged
by the various departments
But this side of club life does not con-
stitute the life of the Womans club, and
the delightful informal gatherings there
have brought together women who were
interested in the improvement of condi"
lions, and in all things to which it lay in
the power of women to benefit. From the
first regular meeting, the Womans CLUB
has demonstrated its willingness TO en-
courage all practical measures that mad
for their ultimatum the interests of the
city
One of the first steps made was taking
the Womans exchange under the auspicies
of the club. The exchange had been es-
tablished by a number of women VINO MAD
brought it through the first struggling
stages of it's existence. Cooperation was
needed, and the Womans club reached out
it's hand and the exchange is now conduct
ed under the clubs auspices.
From the beginning it has tostered
music, art and literature. There have been
lectures on physical culture, and the
needs of the body. Household economies
and systematic nursing have been discuss
ed by women well qualified to speak on
the subject. Child study and the KINDER
gartens have been frequently the SUBJECT
for discussion, and the club has given us
members every opportunity for study along
all lines that are in the scope of any CLUB.
One of the most important steps the past
winter was the organization of the BOY
Civic club which is under the auspices OF
the civic department. The boys club IN
CLUBS the news boys of the city. Inc
ladies have a night school and in many
children of the streets.
The civic department is responsible for
the anti-spitting ordinance which went IN
to effect the past week. Other needed re-
forms will come later through the eiIorts
of the Woman's club.
The club has recently established free
scholarship fund for q Jefferson county
girl at the University Annex. The educa-
tional department raised the fund and the
club threw its influence at once upon the
side of higher education for young women.
This last movement was alone sufficient to
have placed the club conspicuously abreast
with the leading clubs in the country.
OF the officers and the directors of the
several departments it is not necessary to
speak of individually. They are well iden-
titled with the club. The brilliant work OF
the past winter, the permanence of the
club, and the power which it has become
tell there own story of the personal efforts
of the officers. the directors and the CO.
operation of two hundred women.