The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-30
Clubwomen and Their Work
BY MARY AsHE MILLER


X week with the opening meetings of
the new club year that they will
have an opportunity to vent all their
energies which have been bottled up
during the summer vacation.
This morning the board of directors
OF the California club will meet and the
final arrangements will be made for is
suing the calendar for the month and
others matters of Importance will be
disposed of.
The Sunday assembly of the Califor-
MIA club will begin its meetings Sunday
next at 2:30 o'clock and a program Is
promised of which the principal feature
will be a lecture on Shakespeare by
Prof. William Dallam Armes of the state
university
For the coming season Mrs. A. P.
Black, head of the department of edu-
cation, has arranged some good pro-
grams and lectures. one of which will
be lecture by Mrs NJ. E. Blanchard on
Art as Expressed in Music"
Mrs. Will Madden has mapped out a
course of Shakespearean reading for
the members of the Sunday assembly.
to be done as outside work and dealing
particularly with the plays Macbeth"
As You Like IT, Romeo and Juliet"
and "Cymbeline," with view to study
ing the women characters.
The assembly meets on the first Sun
day afternoon of each month and all
business women are cordially urged to
be present.
There Is. no membership or definite
organization, but the business women
who feel that they are disposed to keep
in touch with the educational features
of club life are given this opportunity
to accept the hospitality of the Califor-
MIA club. This assembly was instituted
about year ago and proved great
success last year.
The dedication ceremonies for the
mission bell to be erected by the Cali
ifornia club at the terminus of Ell Cam
inc real will take place September IS.
The bell is to arrive next week from
Los Angeles, where it is being cast.
It will adorn the sixtieth post erected
on the old road Permission has been
received from the park commissioners
to place it in one of the parked islands
In the center of Dolores street in front
of the Mission Dolores.
1t is hoped that Senator Knowland
will be present to deliver the address
of the day.
The first of the monthly calendars
for the season comes from the Laurel
hall club, which reopens for its years
work Wednesday afternoon under the
leadership of the president. Nine. Emilia
Tojetti.
Business will be the opening note of
this organization, and not until
o'clock will guests be admitted
Wednesday is to be known as Federa-
ton day, and the first subject on the
program will be Echoes From Del
Monte" by those delegates who were
present. Addresses by Mrs. Cora T..
Jones, president of the Alameda district
of the state federation. and Mrs. ~ P.
Black. vice president of the San Fran
cisco district, will follow, after which
tea and a reception will end the after
moon. Mrs. Sophia E. Peart will be the
club hostess.
Wednesday, September 8, the program
will be supplied by Nine. Sofia Nsu-
stadt, soprano. singer and lecturer on
music, who has recently returned from
abroad. Mrs. Wallace B. Pond will be
the club hostess.
Charming auxiliary, of which Mrs
Sophia Peart is president, will hold its
first meeting Monday afternoon next
and plans for the winters work will
then be inaugurated, which have been
arranged by the board of directors
consisting of Mrs. Bradford Leavitt,
Mrs. Marvin Curtis, Miss L. Smith, Mrs.
r. B. Holm gsworth Mrs. j. o. Low
and Mrs. Edwin Stadtmuller
In addition to the classes of last
year in modern drama, applied art and
home decoration, voice culture and
French. class in bible study from a
historical standpoint, under the lead
ership of Rev. Bradford Leayitt, will
be instituted, to meet on the first and
third Thursdays, at 2 o'clock, beginning
Thursday, September 16.
To Kalon will meet Tuesday, Sep
TENDER Z. at Jackson and Fillmore
streets. at $3.50 o'clock, for the election
and installation of officers and the
reading of the annuai reports.
Founders day breakfast will be held
Tuesday. September 81, at 1 o'clock
in To Kalon assembly room, Calvary
church.
1t will be 81 plate and each mem
Der is entitled to one guest upon the
payment of an extra dollar. Tickets
may be procured from the treasurer,
Mrs. E. E. Williams, 1921 Scott street.
No tickets will be issued after Sep
TENDER is.
A meeting of the state executive
board of the state federation will be
held Friday morning at EbeT club
house. Oakland. at which the principal
matter of discussion will probably be
the maintenance of reception rooms for
clubwomen during Portola week.