The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-13
|.tt.r 70 Be Fought Out in los
Angeles Meeting.
SENTIMENT IN NORTH DIVIDED Q
Club women There Not Al OF One
Mind, while Those Of the SCUM Are
United Against Admission OF
negroes-A About Clothes.

e,,.. we~x Of May there VIII
s.,on,,,ana In Los Angeles the SKIN o. .e4t
. MAI meeting of the Genera1 e eoe .,,l's
4 - 1ynmnn.s Clubs This sounds ike =
4 ,,.r,, ,,eaceful announcement put a IA
& as,a,a the proceedings OF the body VIA
he anything but lamblike. IN pas
3 ,nount issue Of the meeting VIA o0 49,.
3 at,,m b,inE- block-the race qucsuoh. ~ -,
16ilvaukee, two years ago the lats ,ata
question came up and inc asi.auon ..a1'
s 1nvn every month since. A pron NJ
- oaubvo1ran sums up the situation 70
q New York Sun reporter as follows
MASSACHUSETTS wishes herself through
~s.h the whole business, but her women
are mot Of the sort that shrink 1rom an
ebItxation because st - disaErseable> the
lssDe was sprung upon them In MI
vankeo In the most unexpected way.
6hav stood fer principle then; they
stand for a principle now.
Georgia IL about as tired OK me ths S-
!. esr. but she, too represents II not :.
r1ancdple at least a feeling that IS strons
and traditional and quite BIS inii"enl,ai
a syen Plymouth Rock principle. she
~ oecdded to lay aside the proposed
r:eorria smendnent and her first Plan
and viii ACCEPT the comprsmise
sss7ou+hern club women stand almost
s ~oafd bAI,ind Georgia Northern clup
1870, are nv no means 30 united in their
s,,onort Of Massachusetts. Many States.
Nrev York for one, have evaded the uues-
Qen up to the last possible moment by
oenoang their delegates untnstructed 10
Eos Angeles,
..lsut the issue has been raised and
..ust be met. II it were submitted to
every individuel club woman Of the Cen
erai Federation to-day, I believe the de-
cision would be overwhelmingly against
che Admission OF clubs of colored women.
It As ali very well to say that the So
cial element in club life should not exist
and need not be considered. 1t does
exist and must be considered.
1.-The white woman Of the United States
certainly is not ready TO receive the ne
90 woman OF the United States socially.
.-what will probably happen at Los
Angeles Is that the compromise resoiu-
itself. This would leave the question
6a the hand Of each State to settle.
The woman's Club of Richmond has
shown its good sense in not Joining the
Eoderation. do not speak by the card,
but apprehend that this question OF the
color line was 1arrelv RESPONSIBLE for its
refusal to enter the Federation.
l. 4
why can't the men and the maya
zines let woman and her clothes alone!
No paper or body of women attempts to
dictate as to the styles of mems cloth
fnc. and why should some man or news
naner be ever announcing crusaos
against women's dress? Doubtless some
s.,ncre man. will allege that the present
style of mans apparel cannot be mn
proved upon. Possibly this is SO from
an utilitarian standpoint, but surely
from an artistic viewpoint, nothing ugher
could have been devised. Compare the
present frock coat. trousers and high nat
NTH the velvet knee breeches, brocadeu
GOATS. lace ruffles and plumed hats OF
the DAYS of the cavaliers, and tel rue
Chic1a is the most beautiful and artistic:
The men and the doctors. the news.
0apers and the magazines may say ana
write all they please, but no woman IS
knowingly going to make herself ueIer
than Mother Nature has decreed she
should be, and ninety-nine out Of hun
Ared are going to be in the fashion,. OF
Mt least try to be- Since the Day "he'l
Eve fashioned herself a garment Of dg
leaves. the question of dress has been
m Important one to her daughters
mi latest oppression on the subject tea1
has come under my eyes is from Protes-
nor Roller, president Of the Society OF
Artists at Vienna.
He begins by saying that artists can
not he considered competent on woman
Aress, which for them exists only from
che decorative point Of view. whereas one
Urust have lived in woman's dress to be
0ompetent to pronounce an opinion on
VIA. 81 the ideal dress.
He thinks that women must propose
me reforms, and carry them into effect.
Ne Wishes women to be more truthful
and sinoeee in their dress. He hates the