Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-06
CLUBS TAKE WOMEN
OUT INTO THE OPEN
Crazy Quilt Habit Has Been Banished
and Wholesome Ones Substituted

of Mrs. Sara Platt-Decker of Denver,
president of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, who was guest of honor
at a reception at which club women of
Southern California extended greetings
to her yesterday.
The foremost club woman In America
Is Mrs. Decker and it would be diff
cult to find one more fitted to be the
representative Of half million women.
OF the gain the federation has been to
women Mrs. Decker spoke yesterday
and she painted a glowing picture OF
the future of woman through fedora
ton.
The fairest flowers from CALIFORNIA;
gardens were brought to deck the beau
tiful rooms of the Ebell club house yes
terday and the fairest and cleverest
women of the southland donned their
most becoming gowns to do honor to
the visitor.
For more than an hour Mrs. Decker,
with Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, Mrs
oliver G.. Bryant and other members
of the committee, received the guests
standing on a PLATFORM banked high
with white stock and ferns.
When Mrs. Decker walked to the
pla tform she was greeted with much
applause and before she had been
standing there those who did not know
her before had made a place In their
hearts for her.
She called it a western welcome, the
one which the California women gave
her.
There is something different about
western women said Mrs. Decker. 81
am from the west, so 1 have the right
to say so.
THE eastern women know 1t and
they love the difference.
"It might be my pleasure to talk
welcome, but 1t is my business to talk
the doctrine to you.
Federation is my doctrine-that is
what 1 preach. Federation means get
ting together.
Men have realized the necessity of
it from the earliest times and women
are beginning to realize.
IF the glorious host of generals
which this country boasts had failed
to federate where would we be?
Men band themselves together for
glory, religion, liberty, love, home and
friends. 1t is what martyrs die for. 1t
is worth while.
"Women's clubs have lost to women
the crazy quilt habit, but they have
gained for her the outdoor habit. A
woman has to go out now. If she has
nothing else to take her out there Is q
committee meeting at 10 o'clock. She
must go out to. that.
II wish there were some men here
not one in the building. Well, if there
We're any they could tell you how good
this outdoor habit is.
"rhe sewing society also is one of the
institutions which have become thing
of the past and the gossip of the sew
ing society has gone with it. Women
have learned the majority rule OF
obedience. They have learned ho,r to
work together. They are forgetting
this poor crammed little spirit Of ex-
cluSiveness which makes it possible, as
in one city l visited for twenty-five
women to have society for twenty-one
years without ever opening the circle
to take in one poor sister who might
have been given little of the joy.
1--WE have lost the long skirt and
other heavy garments and have learned
to be practical in the choice of clothes.
1--WE have gained a knowledge of laws
and a knowledge of business which
every woman should have.
"All that the world has gained can
never be known"
Mrs. Decker then enumerated list
of public works which the women
clubs have accomplished.
AS final piece of advice she told the
women to furnish their houses with in
telligence and fresh air and it would be
better than all the bric-a-brac.
Clever stories illustrative of her ideas
made the address especially interesting.
Later in the afternoon tea was served
in the tea and reception rooms where
a company of women in handsome
gowns presided. Lowinsky's orchestra
gave a grogram of popular music.
The floral decorations, which were
especially beautiful, We're in charge of
Mrs Matthew s. Robertson.
The roses and ferns used in beautify-
ing the auditorium were sent by the
Friday Morning club; the Cosmos club
presented the sweet peas used in the
hall, while the Galpin Shakespeare club
sent ferns and bamboo; the yellow bios
SONS used in the tea room were the
gift of the Wednesday club
Standing with Mrs. Decker were Mrs
Oliver C. Bryant and Mrs. Josiah Evans
Cowles. while seated near them were
the three pioreer club women, Madam
Caroline M. Severance, Mrs. Charlotte
Wills and Mrs. Anna S. AVerlll.
The next group was composed of cluE
presidents: Mines. Ernest *. Foster
Frank King, Philip Gerhardy, w. d
Turner of Pasadena. W. III. Housh anc
w. III. Lewis. With Mrs, Edgar Ger
man, state vice president, were Mines
Frank +. Prior, c. A. Sanborn of Red
lands, w. S. Bartlett, John Swanner Of
Santa Ana, Shelley Tolhurst, l.. F
Darling Of Riverside. also Miss Anna l..
Meeker of Pasadena. The hostesses
party was composed of Mines. w. T
F. Hammond, Frank Hyatt of Pomona
w. H. Johnson, e. Il. Root, w. w. Still
son, Willoughby Rodman, Matthew
Robertson, Andrew f. Lobinger, George
Barr of Monrovia, o. Shepherd Bar
mum, Chester C. Ashley w. b. DiclSin.
son, c. A. Bronaugh of Alhambra
Members of the reception committed
We're Mines. George Drake Ruddy
Mary G.. Osmond, Charlotte M. Green
Spence of Monrovia, j. T. Brady of Pc.
monas H. w. Taylor, Charles Hardy
ID. j. Arthur, Adelaide Tichenor OF
Long Beach, M. p. Brunson Of Cole
grove, j. j. Schsllert, S. Covell. Fl. A
Perkins of Pasadena, Morton Haig o.
Alhambra j. j. Ayres of Azusa, Kate
G. Lindley of Whittier, L. w. GodeT
and the Misses Mary Commins and
Katherine Kipp. The hospitality com
mittee included Mrs. j. T. Fitzgerald
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