Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-01
Asst WEEK IN NOVEMBER IN # # t.
= ##% TIE W0MENS CLUBS OF BUTTE

The clubs this week have enjoyed
more or less sociability. On Monday
the Homer club met with Mrs. e. S.
Batterman and had 4 delightful end of
the century day. The art department
of the Woman's club entertained the
club and a number Of guests. The West
Side Shakespeare club passed a pleas
ant evening with Whittier. The Atlas
club postponed the regular meeting this
week. 1t was to have been social day,
but as they have changed their day of
meeting from Friday to Thursday, they
decided to let nothing interfere with
Thanksgiving cheer.
One thing noticeable in the clubs were
the way members were planning on
giving some one else a good time. One
earnest little woman was excusing her.
self from certain committee work be-
cause she was going to have. a number
of clerks in her husbands employ eat
Thanksgiving dinner with us and spend
the evening, too" someone asked her
why she went to all that trouble. They
none of them hay homes, and on holt
days they all seem to feel blue and
discouraged, and | like to cheer them
up Several Of the women who heard
her looked as though their consciences
Were uneasy; probably they were think
ing Of some young man or young wo-
man, Who boards always, to whom they
might have made Thanksgiving q real
holiday.
"a little knot Of women discussed the
subject in the Woman's club as they
ate their sherbet. One and all agreed
that on Christmas they would make up
for their remissness THANKSGIVING and
invite some homeless one to dinner with
them. One sounded the keynote when
she said, Il never think There are
more homeless people in Butte, the per-
centage being young men and women,
than any other city in the west.
The talk Of college and club settle
ments has fired the ambition of many
women in Butte, and several parties
have been formed who will go to house
Keeping on the cooperative plan. Hire
rooms or a fiat and share equally the
expenses of food, servant and rent.
Nearly all, being poorly endowed with
this worlds goods, are, securing furnish
ed apartments. Several are buying their
own furniture, sharing the expense. One
party of six jolly school teachers have
secured three rooms-just three. One
room intended for a parlor, and so fur
nishcd, was changed into a bedroom and
the bedroom into a parlor by the trans
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other. Then the girls purchased four
single mantel folding beds two sleeping
together in the bed known as 1.-The big
bed" TIL room looks odd at first sight
with all those beds but it is Just as
.""cOmfy" as can be. The kitchen has a
gas range Each girl gets her own
breakfast and lunch and washes her own
dishes but for dinner they nave a feast
and all hands assist in preparing it and
take turn washing the dishes in squads
of three. And their parlor is just the
dearest college pillows aAd
cosy resting places. They are just as
happy as sandpipers for they are con-
genial spirits. The one thing necessary
in this cooperative business. They say
frankly they cannot afford a servant,
and although the first month is not
completed, they are sure the individual
expense is not half what it was under
the old regime.
J Next week all the clubs have interest
Ing programmes prepared. The Current
Topics department will have charge at
the Woman's club. The discussion will
,be on Affairs at Home and Abroad"
Mrs. Harriet r. Hamilton will give a
voice solo, and Mrs. Jean I. Hall and
Mrs. NJ. I. Bake!. will talk of the new
books of travel and miscellany.
The Homer club will study Leopold II.
N179O-1792). Francis II. d792-1s95). Mrs.
10. j. Groeneveld will read a paper on
"Thc First Coalition The discussion
will be on the question:: Does bril-
liancy in speaking or writing produce
greater or more lasting results than
solidity Of ~attainment?' The leaders
Will be Mesdames Weirick, Atwater and
Hight.
THE Atlas club will discuss Pennsyl-
wanna, Mrs. A. j. Daum reading a paper
pm Pennsylvania and Miss Peters one on
the life Of William Penn The roll call
will be answered with quotations from
Whittier.
The West Side Shakespeare club will
omlmenc reading king Lear" the first
act. Miss Mary Fosselman will read a
character sketch of King Lear, and the
members will all participate in a discus
sion regarding new books.