Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-01

season of active work Wimodaughsis has
secured a new home at 1905 H street. where
1t viii embark upon some lines of work
never before attempted, but which were
outlined at its Incorporation.
More than ever before Wimodaughsis,
which is not 50 mysterious word as some
seem to think. being made up. as Is well
known, of the first two letters and the
first syllables of the words wives, mothers,
daughters and sisters, respectively, is a
true woman's club. The social features OF
the organization. its literary and diverting
activities, it's games and its dances, its
lat homes and social afternoons and
evenings so far remove it from the idea OF
the strenuous that at last the women OF
Washington are coming to feel that
club for women exists right here in their
midst. Here a taste for study may be
INDUCED, if one is SO inclined; and here
taste for tea, magazines, chats and COM
fort is certain of congenial companionship.
A Club House for Women.
There is no intention on the part of the
present directors of Wimodaughsis to de-
part in any sense from their original pur-
poses in providing club house for women.
But with the years that have passed since
its incorporation in June $780, there have
been naturally many changes in the courses
and opportunities offered as being best
suited to the needs of women. One char
acteristic remains; the very first occasion,
fifteen years ago, upon which the club
opened its doors was for a very magnifi-
cent reception rendered to Miss Alice
Fletcher whose fellowship conferred by
Harvard University was in recognition of
her excellent anthropological work. The
club is still social There are minor de-
partures. For years the directors have
provided opportunities to young women in
stenography and typewriting. There was
an idea that civil service preparation for
women was especially needed These
courses will be given up unless registra-
lions demand their organization. The real
departure is, however, by way OF acces-
sion From the beginning, Wimodaughsis
has been interested in physical culture; now
for the first time IT will have gymnasium.
Glasses will be given instruction in dumb
bells and wands. Apparatus for basket
ball, yolley ball and medicine ball have
been installed and the chest weights, box
ing gloves and punching bags give the
gym" an air of reality. A shower bath
will be provided by November /. The
classes will be under trained instructors.
II is interesting TO observe that the la
dies announce that men are welcome to all
class work on the same terms as women.
and that separate classes for them In
gymnastics will be formed
Stimulus to Intellectual Work.
In many y7omens clubs where the neces-
sity of diversion Is recognized the entire
energy and time of the members Is given
over to whist music and tea, but Vino
daughsis, like the enterprisng wemen's
clubs of New England and the west. is
nrovinc n stimulus TO intellectual attain
ment and higher culture. While there will
be the regular social afternoon every
Wednesday throughout the season COM
mencing Wednesday, October 4, when Mrs.
Harry Coupe will be the hostess, and while
the Junior Club for boys and girls will
meet every Saturday from . TO o. clock
beginning October with a special junior
reception. with all the refreshments. which
alone make an affair a party to the young
people. there is to be that tone given to the
work of the year by the study of language
English. French. possibly Spanish and Ger
man. literature and art, which alone at
tracts the refined and earnese woman. There
was a time when men feared that wom-
ans club was DISCRIMINATING and anti-do-
nestle 1t would be well for the cynic to
visit the rooms of the Vim xaughsis, where,
In the most alluring fashion and with the
most modern devices, the art of cooking
is practieed and taught and all the mys-
teries of domestic science impartsAto pro-
speetive housekeepers. And that tht4 women
are stil women is proved by on& glance
into the bewildering maze where I'll kinds
of weird material is miraculously trans
formed into the creations which women
term millinery.
Last year body OF more than fifty dew
Shakespeare. Milton. Thackeray, Stephen
Phillips, Maeterlinck, Tbsen and even Soph-
ocles. but more than two hundred ac-
CURED tho art of twisting wires into frame
work and so placing ribbon. chiffon lace
and blossoms as to entitle the proud pos