The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-27

guest of honor, entertained the little ones
with Eugene Field For one solid hour
the children sat and listened to the quaint
drollery of Field. Then the floor was
cleared and all kinds of games were played
under the direction of the children of a
larger growth; after which grand march
was formed, and only halted when the
officers in charge announced ice cream.
After the refreshments each child was pre-
sented with a favor, which consisted of
candy tied in paper napkins, and the cor
ners OF the napkins spread out TO resemble
flowers.
A speaker at recent meeting of the
Pennsylvania Woman's Press Association
had these comments on the committee
member: During my experience of years
of committee work have met all kinds and
conditions of committees" said the speak
er. There is the woman who has been APP
pointed on the committee who writes that
she does not sympathize with the work
being done and begs that her services will
not be demanded; there is the woman who
suffers from too much husband and like
wise declines her valuable aid there is the
woman who is getting ready for her we'd
ding and who writes that her trousseau oc-
cupies all her time; and so it goes until
eventually all the work falls TO the lot of
the chairman, who works out her own sal
vatiOn.
chicago mas at IedSt one WOmanS cluD
that is managed along masculine lines to
suit feminine comfort. The Business Wom-
ans Club. enrolling about 400 members, pay
ing annual dues of $40, was established for
the comfort of the women in business down
town. 1t conducts a restaurant, accommo-
dating 200 persons, and provides breakfast.
luncheon and dinner in the evening. 1t has
two small dining-roomsj in which members
may entertain. There is a well-equipped
gymnasium under a competent director,
with a list of about 500 attendants, many
of whom are associate members of the
club. Another feature is the dozen bed
rooms and S1t1ng-roomS. Several or these
have been rented for the year. Accommo-
dations are always available to transient
members-and when the suburban lines are
tied up the business woman may find a
homelike lodging for the night. Hairdress-
ers and manicure girls are always in at
tendance.
The new women's Club which was
opened in Vienna a Sunday or two ago is
to be run on radically different lines from
the former worens club, which was
obliged to close its doors more than a
year ago owing to financial and other diff
fculties. The new club, in the first place,
will beware of the woman of fashion. Only
women having a distinct object in life
IL
is to determine the distinctness of the OBJ
iect which candidates have in living is not
stated. 1t was the large number OF fash
ionables, who took no real interest in the
work and were no more punctual in pay
ing their subscriptions than their poorer
sisters, which was one of the chief causes
of the failure OF the old, Graben, club.
| Warned by the fate of this predecessor
the women who are running the new club
have taken inexpensive rooms on the Fuch-
| lanben, instead of handsome quarters on
| the Graben, and the whole undertaking is
to be conducted on more economical and
| less SNOWY scheme.
XXX
Sydney Brooks, writing in Harper's
Weekly, says: so far as 1 know New
York is without any representative of this
class-no club, that is, which aims at be-
In London there are seven or eight we'll
established, select and admirably managed
clubs of this description-the Alexandra.
for instance, the EMPRESS the Victoria,
the Green Park, and so on All of these
clubs are in the West End, side by side
! with their masculine rivals. and the usual
| qualification for membership is ''eligibil-
! ity for presentation at II. MS Drawing
/ Room" The Victoria, which aims mainly
at supplying a town house and a perma-
/ nent town address for country members
! goes n little beyond this in restricting it,
/ self TO "gentlewomen of no profession or
| calling" The subscriptions to these clubs
strike American as wonderfully moder-
| ate. / think $50 entrance fee and $50 sub
| scription is the highest. The average, per-
! haps, is from $50 TO $35. For this a woman
| may get all, or nearly all, the conVeniences
| that a man derives from his clubs The
| appointments, of course, are more delicate
/ and better cared for, but the general
mechanism is the same-the same dining