The San Francisco call., 1903-12-14
Many Organizations Are Actively Engaged in the Work
of Furthering City's Interests, Relieving the
Distressed and Promoting Gayety.

! and without which he cannot develop
into a normal being.
Go up to the court, ladies, some Fri
day afternoon. You will find ample food
for thought, and perhaps for activity.
For there is more work ahead.
That was a remarkable gathering
| at Golden Gate Hall on Thursday
when the Pioneer Women held re-
ception in honor of the fiftieth ami
versary of their arrival in California.
Debonair old ladies, and sprightly
younger ones, curled and primped,
daintily bonneted and gowned, stood
in the receiving line, led by Mrs. Nc
Intyre, the president, and it was a
far cry back to the days Of 40, or even
to tanner '53, when these women in
the flush of vigorous womanhood
stepped out from a rowboat at Mont
gomery and Clay streets, or as glee-
full children scampered up the sandy
slopes to investigate the wilderness
they had travelled so far to find.
While fine programme of the Gus
tomary kind was thoroughly enjoyed.
it was the stories told by Mrs. Scoffy,
an aged member that filled our hearts
with JOY. Alas! Alas What has be-
come of the vitality, the endurance,
the ginger of our pioneer mothers.
With the possession of luxuries our
necessities have increased proper
tionately, and with them our functions
have weakened.
The Forum Club will gather round
the wassail bowl on the eve of the
New Year. Right merrily will the
members toast the coming year and
bid adieux to the cares that infest the
day.
At the reception of last week the
club achieved a social triumph and
many stunning women stood in the
receiving party, at the head of which
was Mrs. Henry Payot.
The Irving Club, though scarcely
out of its swaddling clothes, has had
a most remarkable career-for a baby.
Last year, under the presidency of its
founder, Mrs. Ella Seaton Tuttle, a
pabulum of lectures was administered,
upon which it thrived famously, and
no wondeR for Miss Fairbrother de-
livered them. This year. under the
guidance of Mrs. Bauer, the Irving
has grown proportionately and cards
to its days" are much appreciated.
On December 80 the Social Science
Section of the California Club, pre-
sided over by Mrs. Jacob Brandt, is
making active preparations for
Christmas party for the inmates of
the City and County Hospital. There
are 400 unfortunates, i'll. and. for the
most part, friendless. Somewhere,
lurking in the shadows of every hu-
man heart. is a longing for the pleas
ures of Yuletide, with its song and
jest and good cheer. To add just a
little pleasure to the sufferers is what
the women of the social science sec
ton are planning to do. And therein
lies a deep, dark secret. A gramo-
phone was borrowed to furnish music
and other diversions for the occasion,
but Mrs. Arthur Cornwall the bor-
rowee, has just informed the club that
the machine need not be returned.
that a dear man had given it out of
the goodness of his heart. And so.
after the ladies have gone, and the
usual lonesome silence hangs brooding
over the wards, the captured voice
may beguile the long, gray hours
away-the doctor willing, and the
nurse.
And thus are the club women busy
buster than ever before, bringing com
highways.