The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-05-17
THE ENN1AL MEETING.
milwaukee Women Make Great Prepara-
t1cns for Entertaining.

The FTelcome given to the visiting
women at the June biennial is mat
ter involving, in Milwaukee, interests
wider than those of the federation. To,
the ca11sof Estate and civic pride all
Milwaukee club women have loyalty
responded, whether their respective
organizations federate or; not. The
Woman's club, which is to throw it's
beautiful club house open during BIZ
ennia1 week, for the uses of. hospital
ity, has'never chosen to assume the
ties of federation, preferring to work
along It's own lines andsso preserve in
fullest measure its individuality. The
sWoman's club is tone of the two clubs
in the city not started during the de-
cade, but old enough to have back
ground and traditions. A quarter of
century of existence has strengthened
the iterest of it's members in their club
and in one another, and the long wait
ing list outside it's quota of two humid
red attests the desirabi1ity of member
ship.
In the givingsof social functions the
state 4aderation is given precedence,
opening the week with a reception at
1.-THE Plankinton Monday evening from
eight to ten, while the Deutscher club
offers lawn fete from nine to eleven
at its house and grounds on Grand
avenue. Tuesday afternoon is recep-
ton day at the Athenaeum, when. the
Woman's club formally entertains the
weeks guests. Wednesday afternoon
carriages will take the visitors on the
Lake Shore drive, and returning will
convey them to Milwaukee-Downer
College, where the Art and Science
class, founded by Professor Farrar in
1874, when he left Vassar to become
president of Milwaukee college, though
at first I study class, pure and simple,
gradua ", expanded into club, with
Mrs. Hurry Payne as its present head.
1t has been connected with the college
since its inception, and was the first
trial given in Milwaukee of University
extension.
The so-caIfed college endowment,
club as democratic as the Woman's
club, is exclusive in it's methods, is in
point of size the lmost imposing club
in Milwaukee. The energy of one
woman, Mrs. Hannah Pierce Vedder,
has been the most potent factor in
making It what it is, and member
ship Of six hundred testifes to her
genius for organization. No formal
entertain lent has been, plannedSon its
behalf 80 Will shave headquarters
at the PIankinton house throughout
the week.
The Woman's school alliance, over
which Mrs. ,Charless Quar1es presides,
is one of the5 most practical of clubs,
its membership of one hundred and
sixty fver standing for 'woman's unde-
niable share in city politics.
The Social Economics is the club
which has the future presidents of
other clubs III training, since it unites
discussion of sociological subjects
with a study of Roberts Rules Of
Order, and an assiduous practice of
parliamentary law, SO that each mem
Der of it's fifty is prepared for presiding
over any legislative body from a
woman's congress to board meeting.
Other federation clubs prepared to
assist in extending Milwaukee hospi-
ta1ity are the recently organized South
Side Wonan's club; the. Social Culture
club, North side organization of
which Mrs. Lawrence Murphy is
president; the M. w. K, study and
travel club of ssome years standing.
And lastly, the,patriotic and genea1og-
ica1 societies, seconded by the fedora
ton, are to,have, every afternoon, some
pleasant par1ors at the Pfster, open to
visiting Daughters and Danes and
their friends, with hostesses ready,
like all the rest, to make acquaintance,
to answer questions and to serve the
needs of guests by every means in
their power.