Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-12-29
NEW WOMEN'S CLUBS,
OWING TO AMERICANS GER
MANY NOW HAS A NUMBER.
From Modest Beginning Two in Der.
lin Have Acquired Large
Membership and
Prestige.

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country of clubs in the English and
American acceptation of the term, and
it is small wonder that German women
have been among the last to establish
clubs for themselves.
To American women belongs the dis
tlnctfon Of having established the first
woman's club in Germany, in 1896. This
| was organized for the purpose of
~benefting girl students by opening to
them a house where they could hear
their own language, have access to
American books, newspapers and mag
azines, and above all receive advice
and sympathy to help them along the
unfamiliar ways of life in a foreign
city.
from a very modest beginning the
American woman's club has grown to
De one of the most important organiza-
tons of its kind on the continent.
Although possessed of no great capt.
tai, the organization is self-supporting,
any deficit being made up by a bazaar
or entertainment. In the winter a re-
ception is given once a montk, and
1SSlo1 CD L l10Qu0HtlY
held. The club owes much of its lit
erary activity to the efforts Of Mrs.
Andrew D. White, wife Of the former
ambassador to Germany, who curing
her residence in Berlin was president
of the organization. The present
president is Mrs. Charlemagne Tower,
wife of the ambassador, and the vice
president is Mrs. Frann H. Mason,
wife of the United States consul gen
eral.
The membership as a whole is vari-
able. but averages between 400 and 500
a year. The fees are ten marks and
five marks, the last for students.
Glasses in German and French open
to members are SO pfennigs a lesson.
A charge of so pfennigs for a guest to
the reception is made, this idea having
been borrowed from the practical Ger
man.
Three years after the American
Woman's club was organized the
Dertscher Frauenklub came into ex-
-istence, being founded by the wealth.
est and most influential women in
Berlin. This is prominently the smart
club of Germany and counts among it's
members and supporters one royal
princess and two or three -excellencies
and ladies in waiting at the German
court. Marie o Luyden is the presi-
dent.
Once a year this club opens it's
doors to strangers, when a large re-
ception is given, to which members are
permitted TO invite husbands or broth
ers or friends. This is the only oc-
casion upon which men are allowed
to enter the house.
After this club was well established
it was decided that it's fees were high
for professional and self-supporting
women, and a second club was organ
lied. These two, the Deutscher
frauenklub and the Frauenklub Won
1900, which are in nc way rivals, are
situated next door to. each other. The
second club has a membership of LOO.
The annual fee is six marks. and the
restaurant prices are correspondingly
moderate. The club offers business
opportunities to it's members and or
ganizes sales for their work. The
president is Fraulein DIR. Tibertins, n
OF the best known of the woman physi-
clans in Berlin.
The Hanover Woman's club. estab-
llshed in 1900, is the youngest in Ger
many. 1t combines the characteristic
features of the ten Berlin clubs. offer
ing social entertainment to the woman
OF leisure and assistance to the pro-
f%essional woman.
With these four the list of woman,s
clubs in Germany is made up. unless
n may include the many working
women's clubs in Dresden and Berlin
and the Young Women's Christian
association, established in Berlin a
year ago.
The working girls clubs were estab-
lished in Dresden in 1896 and later in
Berlin these were SO successful that
the German Association for the Pro
lection of Young Women took & hand
in the movement, with the result thai
such clubs have been formed In nearly
every city throughout the empire. 81
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