Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-12-15
A Variety of News From the Clubs.

Oh the step taken Dy MIS-. fduIlnS
Harriette Lyon to forward the cree
ton of a splendid home for the
woman's athletic club of Chicago, of
which she is secretary 1t had be-
come obvious that in order to satisfy
the luxurious tastes of it's members
the club must have new quarters, and
as Mrs. Lyon explained it: This club
is one of the few organizations of its
kind having no committees, and there
fore no quarrels, and acts in perfect
harmony" So, secure that its other
members probably would accept the
step, Mrs. Lyon applied for policy of
100000 with the Mutual life insur-
ance company as soon as the policy
was drawn the money was TO be al
vanced by local banker; and, with
the 100000 already pledged, the club
house is assured and wSil be put up
at once, and be ready for occupancy
on May /. 1t is said that Mrs. Lyon
is, with one exception, the most
heavily insured woman in Chicago
also that she has furnished business
men with a new scheme to secure
money The plan for the new club
house allows for building of II
stories, to be partly used for business
reserved for the club, which will have
billiard-rooms, archery courts, indoor
golf links, drill and fencing halls,
natatorium, gymnasium, bowling
alleys, besides Libraries, reception and
recreation-rooms, all sumptuously
gotten up. The club numbers 500
members, and women are constantly
applying for membership which is
denied them for lack of room.
A novel Chicago club is one on tho
south side, to be called the "Lesche"
club Its whole aim and end is con.
versation. Having wakened to the
fact that there is nothing between ad-
dresses. parliamentary discussion ano
chit-chat. the cleverer women have
determined that there shall be one
club where women will be Obliged to
talk. This is an excellent idea
There never was better training ia
ease OF speaking and the cultivation
and expression of ideas than the old
and now derided lyceum. A talking
club is much like it. The plan OF
work in the Lesche club is briefly
this: Each member in turn proposes
a topic in which the club is pre-
sumaDly interested, and it is talked
over at the next meeting, no notes or
papers being allowed to any one, but
tended to keep the club in an informal
and conversational frame of mind,
that interest may not flag nor grow
dry and useless. The origin of this
club is said to have been the casual
meeting of some women who, com
menting severely on gossip, decided
TO start club in which talking should
be the rule ana gossip debarred, anu
the Lesche club is the result. TIL s
club prefers quiet, and therefore has
little interest in declarations or club
festivities. How charming to think of
a club where members really meet
with a pleasurable end in view, and
never an object" to be worked for!
The library extension work of the
general federation (says the Woman S
JournaD has made remarkable
growth. There are "a states belong,
ing 10 the general federation that
have 1855 libraries, containing 340,-
951 volumes. State declarations and
clubs own and control LOIS of these
Libraries, which contain 46,20S books.
The remainder are under the super
vision of the state library, or a
library commission. OF these libra
ries 2.S06 are miscellaneous, while
the rest are departmental and have
for subjects fiction, literature, history,
art. science and music. About one
half of these are sent to country
neighborhoods. local libraries and
clubs. The other half go to schools,
mountain districts, mining camps,
oranges and ranches. Eighteen states
have library commissions whose ap-
pointments we're secured through the
influence of women's clubs, and in
Maine, Kansas and Washington club
women are appointed on the board or
commissioners. Six states have II,
brary organizers.
Among me work done by the council
OF Jewish women, Washington Sec
ton, is $1,000 raised for the Kishinefr
sufferers. $1,000 for the Atlanta
orphan home, and smaller sums for
hospitals and charities. Its president,
Mrs. Henry Solomon of Chicago, and
secretary, Miss Sadie American OF
New York. represented the council OF
Jewish women at Berlin this sum-
mer during the congress of women's
clubs.
The confederate memorial associa-
ton of Atlanta. Ga, propose TO put
up monument to the memory OF for
mer slaves 1t has been talked over
in several states, and all clubwomen
are interested in it, particularly the
older members. No action has been
taken as YET.
Praise fer Episcopalisn Women.
There are those who feel that the