Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-27
Women S Clubs
BY NJ. N. f. BRIDGHAM

T BELLS Charter day reception, or
h Presidents day, one of the most
"a important events of the club
year, is also always one of the brilliant
social functions of the fall season, and
yesterday afternoons reception was no
exception to previous years unless
perhaps the occasion was thought
more noteworthy on account of the
larger attendance.
Organized fourteen years ago and In
corporated since 1897, Ebell in this year
of our Lord, 1908-9, has a membership
approXimating 900 members, and these
and their guests formed a throng or
beautifully gowned women, VINO from
8 o'clock to o'clock passed through
the handsome reception rooms, paused
in greeting before the president, MIS-.
Willitts ]. Hole, and the long recety-
ing line, were served tea, coffee ana ices
at daintily appointed tables in the au-
ditorium and gathered in gnenps OF
three or four to discuss-oh, well, var1-
Gus matters, while DR.. Nubila's string
orchestra rendered an accompaniment
from a bower Of bloom on the plat
| form.
Mrs. Oliver G. Bryant, chairman of
| the courtesy committee, presented the
members to the new president, Mrs.
Willitts j. Hole, and officers and past
presidents who formed the receiving
line included Mrs. Edward c. Dieter,
| first vice-president; Mrs. Fred Selwyn
Lang, second president; Mrs.
George w. Bayly, Mrs. George H.
Kress, Mrs. r. w. Pridham; Mrs. E. c.
Bellows, Mrs. G. A. Burcham, Mrs. j.
B. Millard, Mrs. Augustus Hine, Mrs.
Lewis Clark Carlisle, Mrs. Josiah Evans
Cowles, vice-president of the General
n 4. oI. ,Ie. M
Robert j. Burdette, Mrs. Charles N.
Flint and Mrs. Summer P. Hunt.
Mrs. Fred Selwyn Lang, chairman
of the house committee, was in charge
of arrangements in the auditorium; her
assistants who presided at the round
tea tables or otherwise aided in en-
tertaining the guests included Mes
DANES Reuben Shelter, Alison Barlow,
Frank H. Brooks, Alice I. Anderson,
Will P. Baker, e. T. Barber, A. B.
Barret, H. NJ. Binford, George A.
Bdock, Charles w. Chase, L. E. Ford,
Herbert Leslie Harris, George E. Hart,
Henderson Hayward, Winfred Frank
Huddel, S. F. Johnson. George w. Jor-
dan, S. ]. Reese, J. A. Le Doux, w. M.
Lewis, Edward C. Magauran, Robert
Marsh, j. H. Miles, Oliver Hubert Nor
gan, Berdella Murphy, F. H. Nichols,
c. F. Noyes, William w. Orcutt. A. M.
Parsons, M. T. Russell, Sarah j.
Smith, Leon T. Shelter, John Taylor
Stewart, j. w. Van Benthuysen, Frank
Walsh, Marion Welsh, Matte H. Will
son, Edward G. Voigt and the Misses
Anna Dopkins and Addie E. Doran.
Attractive as she is I doubt if one
can quite appreciate the individual
clubwoman until one considers her en-
masse, until one has an opportunity
to see hundreds of her together not only
frocked in the latest mode, but also
in touch with all the advanced thought
of the day, posted in regard to current
topics, the latest book, either the old
est or the newest religion, and working
with the vanguard of philanthropic
endeavor.
She is more than charming is this
composite person, she is facinating. 1t
is a safe wager too, that the gray
matter of her brain lies in the finest of
convoluted convultions beneath her
smart coiffure of marceled locks and
Psyche knot, and incidentally it is
equally certain that in many cases the
while she discusses sanitation or inter-
national complications that may result
from the Balkan situation her real in
terest is lowering around wee Flossie
or Jamie taking the regular afternoon
nap, or perhaps straying into the busy
classroom where the twins are Strug-
Cling valiantly with their grade work
in order to make the high school to-
gether next semester.
All this is not wandering from my
topic, but is german to Charter day at
the Ehsll, to the president and the
other women who constitute the men,
bership.