Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-23
WOMEN IN CLUB AND CHARITY

That the club womons resolutions to
shop early were not made lightly was
demonstrated at "A meeting the past week.
Out Of a gathering Of twenty-slx only four
women had not completed their Christmas
buying. While the proportion may not be
this large In all clubs Of Omaha there is
no question but local club women have
awakened to the seriousness Of the Christ
mas rush and are conscientlously doing
their share to better things. All over
clubdom the word has been passed-"shop
early" 1t has been requested at meetings
and posted in meeting places, printed on
club announcements and passed along to
other people and best of ALL according to
the club exchanges, the women have done
something more than talk about it-they
have actually, many, many of them, gotten
their shopping all out Of the way even be-
fore the rush commenced. The Womens
Municipal league of New York sent out
the following letter which. was printed by
papers all over the country:
To Christmas Shoppcrs-Please buy your
In December. That will be your biggest
gift Of the holidays to the workers be-
hind the counters and on the delivery
wagons.
The league has also issued the following:
Let us keep what is good in the Christ
mas festival
Let us continue, as before to feed the
lame, the halt, the blind and the friend
less.
But let US not, in the process, lightly re-
duce TO illness and exhaustion the young
and faithful who serve us, seen and I'M
seen.
Let us be quite sure. for these, Christmas
may be season of peace on earth, good
II might almost be regarded as a definite
violation of our humanitarian principles to
shop either the week before Christmas or
late in the day during December.
Owing to the large enrolment in the
classes of the City Mission the Christmas
celebration will be divided into three oc-
casions. The Jewish children will have
theirs Monday afternoon at the Dellone
hotel, the other boys will have theirs
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at the Mis-
sion, and the other girls at 2 p. m. Thurs
day at the Mission. There are over 300
children enrolled in the classes this year,
which makes the work very difficult to
handle. Monday afternoon Miss Magee will
distribute a number of baskets containing
Christmas dinner, among the more needy
women of the Mothers club. Twenty-Five
of these baskets have been provided by one
interested woman.
The Society of the Fine Arts will meet in
the public library Thursday morning at
10 o'clock subject The Madonnas of
Raphael"
Something of the efforts OF the Iowa Fed
Grafton of WomenR Clubs in the study of
art as applied to home decoration is in
dictated in the following report which may
be helpful to others:
To assist in the practical application
1ulf sHlNaa Il ri iTOl n
familiar matters of every day living, to
the home and its decoration, has been
one of the pleasant duties of the art com
mittee of the Iowa Federation of Women
Clubs, and the eager response with when
the Iowa club women have met these
efforts has been most gratifying. At the
beginning of the present biennial period
"a small exhibit was prepared intended to
Illustrate the advance in artistic home dec
Grafton. This exhibit consists Of mounted
samples of wall coverings loaned by the
w. p. Nelson company, Tobey and Mar
shall Field, in designs by William Morris
Walter SandersOu and Shand kydd.
In this collection there is also set of
color cards, showing the relative harmo-
MES in wall coverings, draperies. furniture
water color sketches of interiors were
loaned by Miss Mary Mower of The
interest both for their artistic merit and
from the fact that this skillful designer
is an Iowa woman, having formerly lived
in Cedar Rapids. Mr.. Edward Hall of
Davenport, one of Iowa's most slillful
decorators ana designers. also contributed
generously with samples of wall coverings
and photographs of artistic Interiors. To
this collection there has been recently
added a number Of Swedish weavings from
the Wiro shop
This exhibit, together with an explanatory
paper, was placed first, at the service Of
the district chairmen for use at their
meetings; and after presentation, at most
of these meetings was put at the disposal
of the clubs and has since been in con-
slant circulation, with more demands for
its use than II has been possible to supply.
Chautauqua by the ladies' Literary club
of that city, and the members of the art
committee gave talks on the subject
That there has been of late a wonderful
advance I'm this matter Of artistic decora-
ton no one can deny, and that Iowa
takes its part in II is apparent in all the
eager inquiries for Information concerning
the governing laws OF harmony of color,
committee. And II this committee has con-
trihuted, even though ii be in "A small
measure, to the realization OF the high
ideals Of the State federation, its labors
will not have been entirely in vain ,1,;,,,,-
NINA r. WHITNEY.
The Young Women's Christian associa-
ton will hold special Christmas services
this afternoon at 4:3O o'clock in the associ-
alton rooms in the Paxton block The
program includes good music and addresses
and the invitation is extended to all
women A social hour will follow at $50
o'clock.
Miss Florence Felt, extension secretary,
and Miss Florence Dennison, physical d.
rector OF the Young Womens Christian as
I.Ff Tavr fpV hat In,