Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-23

great time. Wlfe packs her pest all-OVeT-JeC
gown and her point lace bertha and her
credentials and her fountain pen in bag, and
goes away supremacy happy and has the
time of her life. She says that when you get
to the General Federation, then, at last, you
know. what clubs are for, and that unless you
60 you never do.
A political convention is hampered in
ways that do not affect federation where
representatives and alternates come by the
dozen from every State in the Union. In
federation elections, if there is danger of
majority contrary to the plans of the powers
and bosses, it is no unusual occurrence to or
ganize a new club in an instant and thus
carry the day. Fancy if the men could do it
in this way! An Audubon Club may be one
of these political expediencies. 1t takes only
a minute or two to organize club out in the
lobby. The delegates representing it some
times have to trim their hats over again; for
no delegate bearing Audubon Club creden-
tials will be suffered to sit in the assembly
with birds or wings of birds on her hat. Ex-
amples have been made of delegates who
have been guilty of this glaring inconsst-
ency. Wife tells story of how this political
trick was worked in Denver with success
few years ago.
1--WE were terribly excited said Wife;
"for we had to organize our club and elect
dli Ill ABOUT lOuI HlHulcS. we cNeI
had no time in which to write the names, and
then, just as our delegate was ready to 60 in
and claim her right to vote, we discovered
that she had bird on her hat. Four women
offered their hats at once. She tried them
all on and said she looked like fright in
everyone of them, and refused to go in.
Then another woman whipped pair of
scissors out of her bag and ripped off the Of
Tending Bird but the hat looked SO bare
without it that again the delegate baked.
We were wild, and then all at once we dis
covered black chiffon chou (which is kind
of black gauze rosette) on the back of the
neck of the alternate. and that just fitted
into the gap, much to our relief, and she
sailed into the meeting and was unchal-
lenged."
Wife tells me that at one of the State
declarations when an industrial enterprise
was to be put through the constitution had
to be suspended for time. | don't know
that this is customary; Wife says it was not
matter of precedent. She explained that
in the constitution there was clause about
finance, and this clause forbade the enter
prise. So in this emergency the leaders said
that by suspending the constitution all diff
culties could be removed in a perfectly
logical manner. That was how it came to
be suspended. When the gentle and better
half gets into politics l tremble to think of
results if such high handed methods are in
dulged in.
Ibelieve that this going out of the women
into club life to learn and to broaden men,
tally is kind OF evidence that the husbands
haven't lived up to what has been expected
of them. Saint Paul babe women 60 home
and learn of their husbands. But that was
good while ago. The club husband shines
dimly in his own light. l have seen him
standing around at club meetings trying to
enjoy himself and wishing he hadn't come.
Even when he is expected to speak, and has
his name on the program, he is merely club
husband. Part of him is in shadow, and all
that he says, the same that went with mag
netism at his own club banquet where he has
given it before, seems to lack spontaneity, or
to be not convincing, and falls fiat.
Story of the Little Brown Woman
THE story of the little brown woman who
attended a General Federation out West
convinces me that something is the matter
with the husbands. 1t is Wife's story:
En- route some of the clubwomen discov-
cred a plain little countrywoman eying them
wistfully, and as soon as they learned from
her that she had never been to c1,1h meet