Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-11
Club News
VII ITH the close of the vacation sea-
w son and renewed activity in all
W dana rtrnents of the family life.


departments of the family life,
one is confronted with another nine
months of club work, months which
promise much of mental stimulus and
achievement.
The executive board of the California
Federation of Woman's Clubs met Sep
tember 8 at the Ebell club house in
Oakland with a full attendance of state
officers and chairmen, and with repre-
sentatives present from the six fedora
tion districts.
The federation year book has been
distributed. The Federation Courier,
which will be ready the latter part of
the month, will contain a summary of
federation news, a parliamentary sec
tion and items of general interest to
club women. Publication will be quar-
terly and the price 80 cents year.
Two important committees have been
appointed-one on waterways, Mrs.
Robert Potter Hill, chairman, and a
press committee, Mrs. H. P. Black,
state chairman-who will have the
assistance of six district chairmen.
1t was decided at the board meeting
to place one more bell guide post on
Ell Canine Real in San Francisco Mrs.
B. F. Walton of Yuba City reported the
cataloguing in convenient form for the
use of all clubs of papers considered of
sufficient merit to be kept for future
use and reference.
year book has just been issued to
officers and club members.
Tentative plans were made for the
state convention which is to be held in
Santa Barbara in April.
Political Equality League
At a meeting of the Political Equality
league held yesterday at Hotel Hay
ward the policy eof the club was OUT
lined for the coming year.
Headquarters are to be established
at the Hayward in the parlors on the
second floor, where the league VIII
keep a desk, literature and league sta
tionery. Meetings will be held each
Friday during the winter, and the pro-
gram will include lectures on parlia-
mentary law and the history of Amer
lean politics, especial attention being
paid to the makers of political history
in Los Angeles and what they nave
wrought. The members Will become
familiar with the different political
parties and what each one claims to
represent, with the city ordinances,
with the record of the men now at the
head of affairs and with their fitness
for office.
Legislative measures which have
been passed with view to protecting
the home will be discussed and an
effort made to learn how far they serve
their purpose. At each meeting under
a competent leader talk on current
events will be followed by discussion
and q short parliamentary drill.
Every afternoon from Q o'clock to
5 some of the members will be at head
quarters to meet any one who is IN
terested in the objects of the league.
Club Meetings
The several thousand club women of
Los Angeles will participate during
1909 and 1910 in programs very similar
to those enjoyed last year.
The Ruskin Art club, which has had
a home SO long among the studlos IN
the artistic atmospere OF the Blanchard
building, has foresaken those sacred
haunts for a large and beautifully
equipped hall on the second floor or
the Womans club house, and after
hanging it's collection of rare pictures
and engravings owned by the club, and
arranging other Lares and Penates,
will probably open the year with re-
ception a little more formal than the
usual opening event.
The Woman's club house, by the way,
is now suffering the throes of vigor-
Gus putting to rights" and when theI
members of the Friday Morning club
gather for the first time this fall every
thing will be spic and span as al
new pin.
1uch interest attaches to the October
program of this club, which will be
issued soon after the middle Of Septem-
ber. The first program for each month
will be in charge of the publicity COM
mittee, according to the precedent so
satisfactorily established last year,
and it is probable that the progressive
lines adopted by the committee of last
year will guide their successors in
oAiOo That tho Ueor'a nnaAtiOUQ will
be marked by programs offering much
that is novel and of permanent value
Is assured.
Tbell club program for October is
announced for the latter part of next
week. This study club will continue,
as in the past, its delightful Monday
afternoon programs and teas, and the
class work, which is a prominent fea-
ture of the year, promises to be greatly
strengthened in every department
Cosmos club, which will hold the first
meeting of 1909-10 the afternoon of Oc-
tober is, in Ebell auditorium, has a
membership larger by several hundred
than last September, and the club
routine has grown proportionately in
interest
Hollywood Woman's club has an am
bilious program outlined for the COM
ing twelve months, and for its initial
effort will unite with the Hollywood
board of trade September % IN cele-
brating the opening of the First street
tunnel with reception inaAhe grounds
of the Paul de Longpre home.
Members of the Wednesday Morning
club are devoting every energy to the
erection of their new club house, the
Entire Nous club is also looking for
ward to a new club home, and so Is the
Highland Park Ebell. The Galpin
Shakespeare club and affiliated bodies
are anticipating a delightful season
travelling the familiar Shakespearean
ways and byways. The Averill Study
club is honoring Mrs. Anna S. Averill'
its venerable founder, with reception
and literary program FRIDAY AFTERNOON
at the Wonan's club house. other
clubs are Weakening from the summer
siesta and will line up for the start the
first week in October