The San Francisco call., 1909-10-11
ClubwOTnen and Their Work
By MARY AsHE MILLER

tee, of which Nine. Emile Tojetti is
the chairman. Mime. Sofia Neustadt,
soprano. will sing French songs of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
in costume and gesture.
8 Wednesday morning the civic section
of the club will meet under the direc-
tion of Mrs. Louis Hertz and some work
of Importance will come up.
On account of the Portola festival
the Mills club will meet this week in
stead of next. and tomorrow afternoon
they will gather in their clubrooms.
220 Post street, for a Spanish program
as follows: Little Miss Yvonne Ross
will do an Indian love dance, Nepanee,
Misses Sherwood will give mandolin
and guitar selections; Miss Hazel Kiln
ger will give a vocal solo. "Valse Es-
pagnole," Miss Estelle Southworth TO be
at the piano; Mrs. Louise T. Hengstler
will give toe dances; Yvonne Ross will
sing My Portola Maid" and in closing
the Misses Sherwood will play again.
The first meeting for the new club
year of the Council of Jewish Women
will be held Thursday afternoon at 2
o'clock at the Forum club rooms 220
Post street, and the address of the
afternoon will be. by William Fitch
Cheney on Religion and Medicine
A quartet composed of Miss Louise
Smith, Miss Irene Meusdorfer, Miss
Ruby Wolfsohn and Miss Hortense GIL
more will sing II Would That My
Boundless Love" and 70, Vert Thou
in the Cold Blast Mrs. Myer Fried
year and Miss Natalie Wolemberg cor
responding secretary.
Corona club members will pay their
tribute to Gaspar de Portola Thursday
by a Spanish luncheon at 1890 O'Clock
at their clubrooms in Mission Masonic
hall
Mrs. John H Bullock as chairman of
the day has prepared the following in
teresting program: "A Talk on Don
Gaspar de Portola." by Sonora Kearn.
great granddaughter of Don Gaspar;
Spanish dance. Senorita Serita Madero;
either zolo, Charles Mayer, with voiiin
obligato by Walter Cox; In the Time
of the Spanish Grandees," Sonora Jo-
sefa Baillache; Spanish songs. Roderigo
Kern. great great grandson of Por-
tola; readings from Bret Harte, Mrs
J. J. Nachtrieb; Spanish dance, Senorita
Madero
The decorations on this occasion will
be the Portola colors.
The Federation Courier, the quarterly
publication of the State Federation of
Women's Clubs, has been reaching the
clubs of the state within the last
fortnight, and is being received with
fiattering interest by those who are
concerned with the club movement
The success of the little paper is due
largely to Mrs. George Fredricks.
chairman of the publishing committee.
who has worked indefatigably. There
is a foreword from the state presi-
dent special articles by Mrs. j. H
Wood, Twentieth Century club, Berke-
ley, and Mrs. Ella M. Sexton; lessons
in parliamentary law by Mrs. Annie
Little Barry; federation news from the
presidents notebook; report OF the ex-
ecutive board meeting by Mrs. A. P.
Black; news from the various district
presidents of the state; reports from,
the state committees. and a page of
club notes and personal mention
The Courier is filing, 1t would seem.
very necessary position in the state
federation by minimizing to great
extent the sense OF distances and the
isolation of many organizations. 1t is
little short of marvellous that as much
of acquaintance and good comradeship
has prevailed in the past. and there
can be no doubt that a general circuIa-
tion Of the federation organ will add
much to this. The advice of one who
has no financial or personal interest
in the publication is that every woman
who is a member OF the state organi-
zations should become a personal sub
scriber