Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-12

Iowa club women who had the
plea of hearing Mrs. Sarah Plat
Decker, of Denver, president of the
General Federation, at the Iowa State
Biennial of Women's Clubs held at
Waterloo. this spring, will be inter
ested in knowing that their Nebraska
| sisters are to be similarly favored. The
Nebraska Federation of Women's
| Clubs is to hold it's annual meeting
this year at Lincoln, on October 3, q
| and 5, md as it has been five years
| since Mrs. Decker has been the guest
of the Nebraska Federation, they are
especially pleased to learn that she is
to remain throughout the entire ses-
sion. The civil service committee of
the federation has ~endeavored, thru
the various clubs, to place the civil
service pamphlets in all of the public
schools of the state, in connection with
the study of history and civil govern
ment. The Omaha Women's Club
placed 1000 of these pamphlets In their
city, and the members of the Lincoln
club are said to nave been equally ac-
tive.
The summer vacation is almost a:
dh III anu llOoCly LIN ~
ing of the schools comes the opening
of the various women's clubs, with
their helpful social and study features.
What to Eat" gives a very interest
ing description of New York's wo-
mems new club house, of which it is
said that when completed, nothing
else so exquisite can be found in all
the world. The Colony Club house, by
-, s~1, ,~,1, ~ ,-;11 1N will he
the only women's club building in New
York owned by women. The idea Of
the club, as stated by Mrs. Borden
Hartman, the colony's president, was
first suggested three years ago at New
port, only her it was thought to build
a modest little house to which the
members could go, leave their parcels,
meet friends, lunch or stay over night.
Now, however, no mans club provides
for the intellectual side so largely as
will the colony and besides the ar
rangements fully meet the outdoor de.
votee's approval. The Colony is bull.
chiefly to simplify social and business
obligations and pleasures by providing
a convenient meeting place for womcn
who live at a great distance from the
center Of affairs, or are obliged to fit
back and forth between town and
country, and who, under present condi-
lions, are largely dependent upon no.
tells or forced at inconvenient or in
opportune times to open up closed
homes. There will be ne bar, billiard,
pool or smoking rooms. however.
1t is hard to agree with the opinion
of a Mrs. Lane, in the Fortnightly Re-
view, who says: I'VE are
adopts of the idle industries because
our time is Of no earthly consequence.
Think of the miles of lace we crochet.
the embroideries we make, the count
less odds and ends we construct, of no
earthly use, except to catch dust
These are nice accomplishments, when
not carried to the extreme, but we
know Of instances where hundreds Of
| dollars nave been paid out on treat
ment Of eyes whose sight was nearly
destroyed by too Jealous application to
making fancy work. 1t is strange h a
any woman of today, however, will
dub our time as of no consequence. 1t
always has been of a very important
consequence, and is daily becoming
more so, in ratio with the advance of
the times.
Mrs. John Jacob Aston Is proving
that it is worth while for a woman to
nav reasonable attention to her ap-
pearance. and the preserving OF her
good looks, by looking much younger
than she did before adopting the new
rule of life, which v her the neces-
sity of the injurious practice Of many
society women who employ artificial
methods to produce an artificial youth.
Mrs. Aston made a careful study OF
dietetics, and has prescribed for her
self a diet of remarkable simplicity,
such as many in the less favored walks
of life would regard as an unbearable
oppression. 1t makes a vast difference