Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-14
INTERNATIONAL
CLUB FOR WOMEN.
ANY Amount of Money Back of
Extraordinary Project of 81
Year Old Girl.
WILL ORGANIZE BRANCH HERE.
American Newspaper Girl Is Coming
Over to the United States for
That Purpose.
Special Correspondence.

special Correspondence.
London, Nov. i--There is likely to be
lot of American interest few weeks
hence in unique club for women
which has been organized so quietly IN
London that this Is practically the first
word that has been said about 1t In
print. 1t is evidently going to be
big affair. with international connec-
tons, and with money enough already
guaranteed to enable It to do things on
A large scale from the start.
LYCEUM CLUB.
Broadly speaking, the object Of the
I,yceum club as II is to be called is to
bring literary women and university
women the world over into touch with
one another. Not only are such writer's
as Mrs. Humphrey Ward, John Oliver
Hobbies, (Mrs. Craigie), Flora Annie
Steel Lucas Malet, Beatrice Harradon,
Mrs. Meynell, Mrs w. i. clifford ana
Miss Rhoda Broughton members of the
club committee, but the universities OF
Newman and Girton at Cambridge,
are taking up the scheme 1t is un-
derstood that $50 women with scientific
degrees will come into the new club
en- masse and the long established
writers club" of London, with its 500
members is planning to merge itself
in the Lyceum.
ROYAL SUPPORT.
Lady Francis Balfour, sister OF the
Duke OF Argyle and hence sister-ln-law
OF Princess Louise. King Edwards sis
ter, has heartily given her support to
the lyceum and will bring with her
large element OF radical women Lady
Frances, who does not agree in politics
with her brother-in law, the prime min
lister OF England, is an ardent woman
suffragist, but so far as l can discoV-
or the club will have nothing TO do with
politics, or any other cause others
actively working are Lady Battersea,
(of the Rothchild family; Mrs. Paget
Toynbee, wife OF the famous Dante au-
thority and herself the editor OF the
forthcoming Clarendon Press edition OF
the Horace Walpole letters; Miss Eliza
beth Marbury, the Countess di Brazzi,
formerly Miss Cora slocum of New Or
leans, and Mrs. Alfred Stead, formerly
Miss Blaine Hussey Of indianapolis,
daughter-in-law Of w, T. Stead.
HUGE HEADQUARTERS.
These ladies are to purchase a club
house in the very heart of London,
with as many bedrooms as a large ho-
tel, to give members in all parts of the
world stopping place i'm London, and
TO provide permanent residences for
those who live in London and wish TO
make the club their home.
In addition they propose TO keep
members in touch with active literary
life by means Of an information bureau
which has been thought out on orig
inal lines. A member OF the lyceum
who lives, for instance, In California
and wants to sell a manuscript in Lon
don, will be advised as to the best per-
son to send It to- II she writes a book
and wants 1t translated into French
and published in Paris, she will be Civ
en- the addresses of translator and
publisher, Museums and libraries all
over the continent will cooperate with
the club so that through IL. the Call
forna member can get research work
done, or II she wants to come abroad
and do II herself. she will be given the
proper introductions 10 curators Of in
stitutions where her study Ii to be done.
This information bureau has been most
minutely planned and will include such
less learned branches as theatcrs, con-
certs, lectures, shops and current mat
ters
THE Lyceam," like all English wo-
mems clubs, has one radical difference
from the American club. Its members