Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-29
LOCAL CLUB WOMEN
Membership of Seven Thou
sand in the District.
THE OBJECTS IN VIEW
ART, SCIENCE AND LITERATURE
HAVE THEIR voTARIEs.
The Upbuilding Of Patriotic Sentiment
Temperance Organizations-Mix-
ed Clubs for Both Sexes.

The 1000 club women Of Washington con-
stitute an important factor in its civic and
social life. The majority of these women
are banded into organizations that have
for their object some general good-the up
holding of patriotism temperance the
reforming of public abuses or the simple
carrying out of the Masters injunction to
feed the hungry and cIothe the poor.
Art science and literature have their or
ganized votaries, and with these are hun
dreds of mixed clubs, where men and
women, old and young, meet at regular in
tervals to do things of one kind or another
that their fancy most demands. Cards and
dancing are special features of pleasure
clubs, and there are also Instructive So
ceties where the members take turns in
giving talks, reading papers or entertaining
with rectations and music-the latter vary
ing from Wagner to the latest hit in coon
songs
The club woman has been an object Of dis
cussion, in and out of print, ever since that
way back day when the pioneers of wo-
mans suffrage first stood up before the
world to make their fight for the new wo-
manhood and were jeered at for their pains.
The world has changed its opinion since
then and accepts the club woman along
with other modern improvements of the
age.
The Directors.
There will always be men and women who
have no sympathy with clubs, and boast
that they are not 'joiners," but even they
admit fairly enough that the very rules of
a club are good discipline for young peo-
ple and that the chance it gives them to
break into songs, rectations and talks"
spurs their ambition to do those things
much better because of the criticism poor
work entails. Ahere are successful men
and women on the stage today whose talent
was first made known through their club
work here at home.
Rich people have the gay doings of So
ciety to occupy their time, but for the
many who are barred by circumstances
from entertaining or being entertained on
an extensive scale there is nothing pleas
anter in their lives than a social evening
at their club.
One of the oldest clubs of the District is
the Woman's Suffrage Association. which
was organized prior to 1870, and incorpo-
rated February %, 1901 1t carries a men,
bership roll of 125. The stated objects of
the associa ton are to secure for women
citizens of the United States the full right
of suffrage and the same right to which
any other citizen Is entitled; to build in this
and disburse funds for the purpose of erect
ing such club house and other public memo
rails to the women who have performed
national or other merltorlous work for the
manity. The association is also formed for
educational literary and scientific pur-
poses and for mutual Improvement. The
incorporators are Clara w. MacNaughton,
Mary l.. Talbot, Ellen Powell Thompson,
Helen r. Tindall, Clara Bewick Colby Kate
w. Burt. Sarah A. Haslett, Carrie E. Kent
and Belva A. Lockwood. The present Off
GERS of the association are: Belva A. Lock-
wood, president; Clara p. Colby ditectress,
and Mrs. 1. P. Macrille corresponding sec