, 1902-03-14
COLOR
QUESTION ONE OF THE MOST I'M
PORTANT At COMING FED
GRAFTON MEETING.
Mrs. Robert Burdette. Candidate for
President OF tho General Fedora
ton Of Women's Club, interested
In the subject-Whist as a Wo.
mans Club Game.

+ Mrs. Robert J. Burdette of Califor
MIA. wife OF RobertJ. Burdette the lee
turer and writer who has announced
herself as a candidate for the presi,
dency OF the General Federation of
Woman's Clubs, hopes the biennial at
Los Angeles in May will be a convention
of ideas and not of fashion. says the
Chicago Inter Ocean. Mrs Burdette
was guest of the Women's club yester-
day. She attended a meeting of the
study class in the afternoon. preced-
ing which she was guest of honor at a
luncheon given by Mrs. Herman J.
Hall.
Mrs. Burdette is keenly interested
in the color question. and hopes all
clubs will send their delegates to the
convention uninstrucfed. Color gos
sip was revived in the rooms as a re-
suit of her arrival, and it transpired
that DR.. Dickinson recently received
a copy Of a letter written by Mrs. Annie
Miller in the Nebraska State Journal,
as follows:
III any one knows OF any place in
clubdom where colored women are adj
mitted. either singly or in groups, and
made happier thereby. l would be
grateful for the information.
The reply was characteristic. DR..
Dickinson cited her own club, the Social
Economics. which admits colored wo-
men to membership, stating that a
few Of the majority rebelled against
the admission OF the colored women,
but the majority was victorious, and
now rarey a regret is voiced.
Whist In the Denver Clubs.
A discussion whether to have whist
or not to have it in the Woman's club
precipitated a very lively exchange of
opinions at the meeting of the home
and education department yesterday
afternoon, says the Denver News.
Although the introduction of the sub
ject had about as startling an effect as
a bottle of champagne would have at
a W. c. T. U. meeting, 1t brought out
cry cleverly, and in a manner never
demonstrated before. that the women
have reached the pont Of handling dan.
gerous subjects and saying quite plain
truths In a diplomatic way that might
easily give pointers to accredited rep
resentatives Of the country abroad.
The occasion vas a winter picnic
by the committee Of the home and
education department to the members
of the department., SO that a very
small part Of the club was present,
but there was enough energy to make
q whole club by itself and it gave such
head will be in bandages for many a
day.
Two lines of work were presented
for next year under the heads of What
I Wish to Do for Myself and What |
Am Milling to Do for Others" Under
the first cam whist, and as this was
decidedly an innovation in that depart
meht's programme, it fixed the at
tention Of those present.
Mrs. Charles e. Dickinson presided.
She said the discussion was simply to
be one of suggestion and not a final
matter. But final it proved, for only
one member defended the subject,
Mrs Edward F. Hermanns. She CON.
sidered it a great training for memory.
1t cultivated silence and several other
golden virtues and accomplishments.
Mrs. Jacob Downing thought the club
would get a bad reputation outside.
Mrs. Mary C. c. Bradford carried out
the same thought, saying that as the
club stood for the best things in the
community, 1t could lot afford to take
up anything that had even the appear
ance of evil. Mrs w. s. Decker made
bright speech in which she express
ed herself as very much opposed, as
there were other things nor impor-
tant.