The San Francisco call., 1908-08-24
lubwomen to Begin Work
OfNeW Season This Week
BY Kathleen Thompson

The moral code was falling fast
When through Saint. Francis, city, passed
band that bore through sin and Vice
banner with the brief device.
''The Womens Clubs
To foil their ancient foe the rat
In conferences grave they sat
And where neglected moo-moos grazed
They ragged and seolded. gaped and gazed,
The Women's Clubs.
II streets were mispronounced, or signs
Were marred with vulgar words and lines,
Or IL cigars defled the air
They with their civic lawsswere there,
The Women's Clubs.
No longer do they meet to sew
AS in the days Of long ago;
They meet to organize and plan,
To form new laws for fallen man,
The Women's Clubs.
And startled brothers. sons. and hubs
Have stopped their teasing and their snubs.
Life would be pretty dull without
The Women's Clubs.
T HE California club is the first to
enter the field with completed
calendar of it's first months work
this year, which will reach the
members today The little brown slip
stands for a great deal with club
women. for it means that vacation time
is over, and the busy winter season is
in view. There will be three general
meetings of the big club in September.
on the 1st the 18th, and the 2sthi ana
of course a dozen OF more less import
ant meetings of the various sections
and committees
A special meeting of the Equal Suf-
frage league will be held this after
noon, the committees and officers feel
ing that the need of special efforts just
now because of the work they purpose
Is do at the approaching republican
convention Almost all the prominent
suffragists in this part of the coun-
try were present at Mondays meeting.
Mrs. Alice Isarke coming up for that
purpose from Falo Alto, Mrs. Horace
Coffin from Mill Valley, and Mrs. Mary
l.. Keith from Berkeley. Today'S meet
ing will be the last before the con-
vention. and 1t IS expected that large
delegation VIII be requested to attend.
Some of those present on Monday were:
Mrs Mary Sperry Mrs Ella Hathaway
Miss Vivian Bailey Mrs. William Gunton
Mrs. Minnie Andrews Mrs. Ella Sargent
Mrs. Theodore Pinther Mrs Mary Farebrother
Mrs. sarah Norton Mrs. j.. Monohan
Mrs Sabina Solomon Mrs. Helen Moore
Mrs. Agnes Pease iDr. Minora hiDbe
Mrs. Horace Coffin Mrs theodore Piinther
Mrs. /. NJ Tuohey Mrs. y. 1ssScoville
The National suffrage association.
with headquarters in Warren. Ohio.
mentions in it's bulletin this week the
fact that Miss Dorothea Klumpke of
California, one of group of brilliant
sisters who have lived abroad for sew
eral years, is the first woman to win
the degree of doctor of mathematics in
France She has special building of
her own in the great observatory gar
den of Paris, AMI when photographing
the stars for her far famed astronom-
ical Investigations, frequently makes
dificult and dangerous balloon ascen-
sions
The Milk Improvement association
met on Thursday morning last for one
of the most important discussions that
have yet arisen In connection with the
work it rs undertaking. The necessity
OF. having regularly paid inspector for
the dairies of the city and the adjoin-
ing counties has been impressed upon
the members of the association for
several months, and finally it has been
decided to raise funds for this purpose.
The inspector. who will be a graduate
dairyman, a veterinary surgeon, and a
chemist. will be instructed Il latch
suspected dafries with especial vigil
lance. and the regular reports OF the
association will be a valuable guide for
those who are anxious to ascertain