Evening journal., 1902-03-15
CLUB WOMEN TO
GO TOsCALIFORNIA
Many Will Attend Biennial
Meeting OiICeneTalFed- q
GRAFTON There


The circle Of interest about the hi
ennial meetings of the General Fedora
ion Of Women's Clubs are gradually
widening
Zach year new clubs are added OF
dhis General Federation, and every
where club membership is increasing, |
for the womans club movement /
throughout the United States and
abroad is assuming vast proportions. |
These great Federation meetings |
aDriginally sprang from happy invita-
on extended in 1889 by SOrosis, Of |
New York, to club women to join with
them upon an anniversary occasion in |
discussing woman's club work The |
Invitation met with such generous ac-
ceptance and was so productive of
helpful inspiration that a general fed
eratiOn of clubs was the outcome.
The first biennial meeting was held
+ in Chicago in 1892 and the idea had
by that time been enthusiastically
embraced by hundreds Of club women
many clubs having allied themselves
with the General Federation.
The second biennial held in Phila-
delphia in 1894, proved conclusively
how far reaching was the interest
aroused in these biennials the third
was held in Louisville in 1886, and inI
1898, when the fourth biennial was
held in Denver, the General Fedora
tiOn included more than 300 women's
clubs, with a membership of 100000,
the United States and many foreign
countries being represented.
No statistics showing the further
increase have since been published,
but the fifth biennial held in Mil
waukee in 1900, gave convincing proof
that women's clubs were springing up
Everywhere, and the sixth biennial
which is to be held In Los Angeles dur
ing the first week in May will bring
together an army of club women
whose numbers will surprise the most
sanguine.
The value OF these biennials is not
10 be estimated alone by the oppor-
tunities afforded for growth nor the
Immense stimulus received from the
gathering together of so many brilliant
women.
These privileges are perhaps inesti-
mable and are appreciated by hun
dreds of club women. But there are
hundreds more, members of struggling
clubs in isolated country towns, who
look forward to each great biennial
meeting as an opportunity to make a
little journey in the world
For such, IL is fortunate each place
selected for the biennial meeting has
given special opportunities for broad
ening q narrow perspective.
Yet no place which has heretofore
been chosen has offered quite such
wonderful attractions as those which
are tempting thousands of club women
to attend this sixth biennial to be
held in Los Angeles
Women Who would never think a
visit to the Pacific Coast possible un-
der any other circumstances are de-
termined upon this trip. The extreme
ly low round-trip rate is an induce
ment; the time limit is liberal; and
the fact that so many friends and ac-
quaintances will furnish congenial
companionship clinches the matter.
Starting late in April when the first
evidences Of spring are venturesome-
ly showing, travellers will find them
selves, inside of four days, transplanted
into the heart Of summer
And in Los Angeles what a recep-
tion will await them. The whole town
en- fete because of La Fiesta de los
Flores.
Every street and thoroughfare gay
with bunting and floating pennants In
Mexican colors-red, green and yellow
everywhere music, flowers, joyousness
for gay insousiance characterizes this
novel festival.
Already the women Of Los Angeles
are preparing for the reception OF
their guests, and every possible ar
rangement will be made for the com
fort Of the 6,OO0 visitors expected.
1t is early yet to definitely announce
lust what hospitality will be EXTENDED
beyond arranging suitable accommo
dations at as reasonable rates as pos
sible.
The one formal reception permitted
by the Program Committee viii b'
held on the evening of May an bh'
Woman's Clubhouse. 1t may be on
of the many surprises which avail
eastern club women that the women o
Los Angeles are the owners OF club
house large enough and suitable fo
entertaining so considerable an assem-
bly,.
This clubhouse, which is situated
ON one of the fashionable rcsidenc
avenues, is commoCloGs and ornate II
# its architecture It is built in tli
stvle of the old California missions
M The general plan is rectangular witt
81 n patio at the north. and IL is enclose
on three sides by arcades; TIE from
# corridor is 100 feet in length, the noru
165 feet. Tie building is two stories
rooted with terra Gotta tile, and III
south dormer, in its sky line, sug