Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-27


of the strangest clubs in the country.
These societies were organized for the sole
purpose of pouring balm on the heart wounds
of Jilted lovers, and to plan means of revenge
upon false ones
The first club, appropriately called Hearts
ease is composed of seventeen young women
OF Jersey City, who have had their affections
trlfied with. The organization was to be Sc
cret, but with IL in it, it is small wonder that it
reached the ears of some of the young men of
the town who also had heart grievance They
thought the club capital idea and immediate
y formed brother secret society, which they
facetously called ''The Hearts ease-rs." Each
man to be eligible must be a discarded, disconso-
late, heart-broken devil-may-care lover.
The girls were mad March hares when they
learned of the "Hearts-ease-rs,' and they swore
terrible vengance upon the member of the
"Heartease" who had exposed their secret, could
they but put their finger on her. All professed
innocence and expressed themselves mortaly
wounded that the young men of the town should
so cruelty make fun of their most sacred wounds
While they going about with chips on
their indignant shoulders, looking for someone to
scratch and almost forgetting the purpose of
their club in this latest ndignity thrust upon
them, one of the Hearts ease-rs" found friend
In the enemy's camp, and after heart-toheart
talk convinced her that the ''Easers" were
at the girls their chief object to comfort and
assist them, and in return to be guided back to
peace and comfort again by their fair hands
The talk ended with invitation from the
Heartsease-rs to the Hearts-ease to meeting
OF the former club. This was presented to the
president of the girls association, and after
deliberate consideration was accepted The pine
of peace was smoked at this mass meeting of the
two bowed-down, grief-stricken clubs, and as it
was decided that their union would bring
strength, motion made that the two organi-
cations, while in a working independ-
emily, should also labor in unison with monthly
mass meetings to make plans and turn in reports.
They made such hip la of time over this
move that it is small wonder a whisper here and
a whisper there was heard of the H, Es"
Helen Johnson-she shook her pretty head and
clenched her small fists and stamped her diminu-
tive feet in fierce denial when first asked to give
her name but finally consented when her view
point on the matter broadened. is the president
of the "Hearts-ease," and one wonders how she
ever got there, or anywhere in the club, such a
delightfully."- charming young woman is she. In
deed beauty and grace mark every one of the
members of the organization, and the thinker won
ders what on earth is wrong with the good sense
and Judgment of the young beauX Of Jersey City
that they should not only let such fairness slip
through their fingers, but that they, having once
captured it should ruthessly cast it aside; but Ia
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Maude Greeves and Alice Noble formed the
nucleus of this club, and they were soon Joined
by Jennie Williams, We're Vought, Florence Mac
Pherson and few others who are as yet too sen.
stive on the subject to have their names men
toned. 1t will be shown later why the first nam
ed young ladies at last consented to have theil
personality known
George b. Dawson is president of the brother
club, and he is sustained by three gloomy OF
ieers. Harold Dewight, Ross p. Leroy and Jacl
Fairfield Messrs. Robert Bertram, Lee Smith
Bernard Claudele, Horace Cline, Edward Hoppe
and others are among the leading members
The object of the two clubs individually anc
in unison, is TO boycott every girl or boy, mai
or woman, who has triAed in any way with anoth
er's affections.
AS each new member is taken into either cluI
he or she must give the exact date of the case
He or she must register his or her own correo
name, and must give the name OF the person froi
whom the cruel heart wound has been received