The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-18
A PAGE FOR FEMININE FANCY |;
The Confessions OF a Club Woman
Copyright, 1904.

|of boxes from which flashed ieweled
Of luxury and display; with it's beauti-
full stage settings, giving just the right
background to our entertainment 1--WE
had the dancers, after ally, the scene
was more exhilarating than anything I
had ever seen. And /, Johnnie Henning
the girlish person who SO long had
been immured in that little fat over the
grocery .store-I was an active partici-
| pant in it. -" .-.
/ was chairman Of the ushers, for we
had decided that dozen women in
evening dress would be more ornamental
than the conventional man-usher in
black. We proved ornamental; nothing
more, altho I had spent hours in that
cold hall, trying to compass the secrets
Of it's seating arrangement.
But the people were good natured, ex-
cept the few who came late and must
be content with back seats, and we were
described by the morning papers as a
'unique and impressive feature of the
scene.'
The entertainment was nearly over
when I was called to the telephone. It
was my mother s voice:
"Come home at once,' she said.
HThe baby is very i'll. We expect the
doctor, every minute, and Joe is dis
CfdCCou.
I hurried to the dressing-room for my
wraps. The PRESIDENT IS Mrs. Henry 81
carriage stood at the door, and her hus-
band waited in the vestibule. AS he
saw my anxious face, he came forward
and, learning the reason for my sudden
departure, offered his escort; and I had
another drive in a beautiful coupe.
On the way, Judge Henry fell to talk
ing OF women 8 clubs.
"All sensible men have come to be-
said. "No thinking man can do Other.
wise when he compares the status Of
organized women in this country with
that Of thirty years ago.
HBut Mrs. Henry is president of the
Priscillas, leader Of the mothers class
in another club, and belongs to half a
dozen,' I answered.
eyes, but she always makes home her
first consideration. She is up and
dressed early, and we all have breakfast
together, and so start the day right.
Then she gets the children off to school,
and attends to certain little matters
about the house that she says only the
mother can do to make home really
homelike. Yet she attends great many
meetings in the course Of season, and
l think you will allow that she does her
part in club work. -
| .Ou, mOIe, JuuSe 11euTy, mOTe.
"But she has the good sense never to
let club work stand in the way of her
home duties. On the contrary, she comes
to us refreshed and strengthened, with
her mind enlarged and her interests
broadened; know that she is better
wife to me because she is such sensible
club woman. But here we are at your
house. Good evening"
"Good evening, Judge, and I thank
you for accompanying me home.'
~ wonder if he meant to point a
moral for meY' I muttered as T entered
the house. "But, then, somebody must
go to committee meetings, and I'm a
perfect martyr to clubs. Joe could tell
him that.'
But Joe was in no mood to tell him
anything. ran quickly upstairs, throw
ing off my wraps as [ went. By sim
pie arrangement, familiar to the econom:
ical woman, I had achieved a gown,
which could, by the elimination Of the
guimpe, be turned into an evening dress.
AS Isentered our upstairs sitting-room,
Joe beheld me in my low-necked bodice
His eyes blazed. A furious exclama.
ton fell from his lips and I stopped
short.
"Don It you know, woman, your baby
is dying?' said he.
To Be Continued Next Saturday.