The San Francisco call., 1909-12-20
CIubwOTReR and Their Work
By MARY AsHE MILLER

The chief interest in federated club
circles this week centers in the
L third number of the quarterly Off
ciaI organ. the Federation Courier This
is decidedly an Improvement over for
mer issues and reflects credit on It's
editors.
The opening article is of particular
interest as it is by Mrs. Russell Judson
Waters who is mentioned prominently
as the next state president 1t is sald
positively that Mrs. oliver c. Bryant
of Los Angeles. who has been tenta-
lively put forward for the last two
years as a willing candidate for the
nomination. has realized the hopeless
ness of the situation as far as her
election is concerned and clubwomen in
all parts of the state are declaring that
she will not@be mentioned next year.
The office goes to a southern Cali
fornian elubwoman by right of legiti-
mate succession, however, and it is
said that the greatest favorite in the
south is Mrs. Waters. She has been
district president with great satisfac-
tion to those who have observed her
rule and it is believed that she pos
sesses the requisite tact, executive abil-
ity and personal popularity to make
successful president. Furthermore she
has never been prominent as a politi-
cal worker and that counts decidedly in
her favor. She has not had influential
friends to take up cudgels in her be-
half for fancied sights, nor has she
made catspaws of amiable but un-
thinking women, all of which tends TO
weaken a possible candidate. Mrs
Waters comes into the political lime
light of the federation with a clean and
wholesome record and it seems prob
able that her election will be unani-
nous even without the preparation of
a slate
To return to the original discussion
that of the Federation Courier@it is
decidedly more ambitious in form and
matter than heretofore and has much
of interest to those outside of club
circles. 1t covers the field of club
women's interest fully and the only
Improvement that might be suggested
is in the department of club notes and
personal mention. Some of these are
excellent, but others are rather anna
teurish. If one member of the Courier
staff might be detailed for that column
alone and were to devote her energies
to getting more brief and pithy notes
more gossipy yet concise-it is probable
that it would do much toward increas-
ing the circulation.
The Outdoor Art league of the Cali
fornia club will meet this Afternoon
at 2:30 o'clock. and the members are
urged to be present, as some matters
of Importance are to be discussed and
arranged. particularly in regard to the
founders breakfast next week
The Council of Jewish Women viii
hold their meeting this afternoon at
$3.50 O'Clock at the California club house
and an interesting program is prom
ised on Our Future Citizens" Thomas
E. Hayden will deal with the mental.
DR.. Annie G. Lyle. the moral, and DR..
William Vocrsanger with the phys
ical aspect of the question George
". Diekie will speak on The Impor-
tance of a Merchant Marine" and Mrs.
Leon Levin will sing. The time of
meeting has been changed from the
regular day TO this date.
The Susan B. Anthony club will hold
its meeting this afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Ellen A Sargent, 2417 Califor-