The San Francisco call., 1909-10-04
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State Federation to Entertain
At St. Francis During
Portola Festival
By MARY ASHE MILLER

~ save for the Portola luncheon of
the California club, the new
month opens with promises of much
activity, with many things to delight
the clubwomans heart in the way of
literary and musical features.
Many of the leading clubwomen of
this vicinity are deeply interested in
the plans of the state federation of
women's clubs to maintain headquar-
ters on the mezzanine floor of the St.
Francis during Portola week. A large
reception committee will be present
each afternoon from L to 8 o'clock, and
all visiting clubwomen from any part
of the country will be made welcome.
The state president will be in at
tendance each day and the receiving
party will be made up not only of
women from the clubs near San Fran
cisco but as many as possible of those
farther afeld.
Refreshments will be served for the
visitors and a musical program will be
given. 1t will be an attractive place
in which to spend a pleasant, restful
| hour. the clubwomen hope, and every
plan is being made to make it one of
the popular features of Portola week.
Charming auxiliary will meet this
afternoon, the hostesses of the day
being Mrs. O. D. Baldwin, chairman;
Mrs. E. C. Burr. Mrs. C. C. Burr, Mrs.
Robert Collier, Mrs. w. S. Duncombe
and Mrs. C. P. Osgood. A business
meeting of 20 minutes will be held at
o'clock, and at $500 o'clock the guests
will be made welcome for the program,
which will be lecture with vocal il
lustrations on "Old Spanish Mexican
Ballads" by Mrs. Mary Roberts Cool
idge, Miss Mollie Pratt accompanying.
Miss Anna Miller Wood will give a
song recital in the parlors of the Uni
tartan church Thursday afternoon next.
the Charming auxiliary.
Tuesday Mrs. Will Maddern will be-
gin her class in the study of the mod
ern drama. and Ibsen's "Rosmerholm''
will be studied first.
Thursday afternoon the second of
sons will take place at 2 o'clock. the
subject to be Our English Bible: The
Text. the Authorized and Revised Yer
sions."
The California club meeting tomor-
row afternoon will be strictly busi-
ness session and no guests will be per-
mitted. This is the first general busi-
ness meeting since the opening of the
club year and several matters of i'm
portance will come up for the consid-
Grafton of the entire membership.
Thursday afternoon at o'clock Mrs
Will Maddern will hold the first meet
ing. of the dramatic section of the club.
Mrs. Maddern has led this section so
successfully in the past that it has
been one of the most enjoyable features
of club life and great interest attaches
to its reopening. The Interpretation
of Maeterlincks latest drama. "The
Bluebird." will be the afternoons work.
For the following meetings of the
month the club will have musical
day under the direction of Nine. Emilia
Tojetti; civic day in charge of Mrs.
Louis Hertz, and a social day, of which
Mrs. George A. Clough will be the
chairman, and at which Mrs. Dora Gray
Duncan will be the guest of honor. Mrs.
c. c. Boynton will speak on "The Life
and Work of Isadora Duncan" and Mrs.
Boynton and her children will give in
terpretative dances.
The Laurel Hall club will meet on
Wednesday afternoon and is to be
Travellers day." with talks on their
travels by club members There will
be music as well. Miss Elizabeth War
den singing some folk songs and Mrs.
S. Gray will be club hostess for the
afternoon.
Wednesday two weeks hence will be
Portola day for the Laurel Hall and an
interesting program full of appropri-
ate addresses and music will be given
Friday. October %. the club will as
sist in receiving at the state federation
headquarters III liS 0l. FRANCIS.
Another Portola event for which
cards have been sent out is the lunch
con to be given by the Corona club
on Thursday. October ii, which is to
be followed by an elaborate program
Of Spanish music, addresses and dances.
One of the events will be Spanish
songs by Senior Roderigo Kern, a great
great grandson of Don Gaspar de Por-
tola. A talk on Don Gaspar will be
given by his great granddaughter, Sc
nora Kern. Sonora Josefa Baillache
will give an address, I'm the Times of
Spanish Grandees."
The committees announced for Octo-
Der are as follows: Music, Mrs. George
w. Lunt. chairman; Mrs. Charles H
Ham and Mrs. Charles Emerson; tea.
Mrs. John Bandemar; decorations, Mrs
w. b. Cookson.
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