New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-30
WORKING GIRLS GUESTS
Irene Club Entertained by Mrs.
James Speyer.
RIDE ON SPECIAL TRAIN
Hostess Provides Gay Afternoon
for Three Hundred at
Country Home.

why. hello, Flo. I haven't seen you for
an age Say. that's peachy hat you've
got"
See the embroidery on my waist? Do
it myself-learned how in the embroidery
class OF the Irene Club. They've given
those classes up now, but for my part |
think parties is better fun"
Come sit with me, Evangeline. Say, do
you s'pose that light-hared young fellow
will be waving his hat at us from the road
side. like he was year before last when
we went up to Waldheim"
Wonder what kind Of an entertainment
Mrs. Speyer'U have for us this timer
Three hundred girls, all chattering at
once. all in rush to get on the working
Girls Special for Scarborough. The dreary
subtcrrauean passages Of the Grand Cen
trai Station quite cheered up, and the gate
man at Track was so dazzled that he let
the whole three hundred dash past him
without ever once asking to see a ticket
But maybe he was on the JOB in June, l9lO'
when Mrs James Speyer gave her last
country party for the Irene Club, and
knew the faces of the girls. For they stay
with the Irene once they join it, do these
working girls.
The club is twenty eight years old. and
some Of it's earliest members are with 1t
still. Thea older ones are mostly married,
and there is a special club inside the
Irene for them, called the Domestic
Circle But no matter how old you get
you can't be in the Domestic Circle unless
IN
Ever so many Of the Domestic Circlers
went to Mrs Speyer's party yesterday and
I'm among the fresh young faces under
lingerie hats and waving willow plumes
we're many matronly faces and figures,
Special Train Of Six Cars.
The special train Of six cars, every seat
filed, went straight through TO scarbor-
ouqh. reaching there at 3 o'clock. Scar
borough station was ready for them; the
streets around looked as II a mammoth
livery stable had been dispossessed. Hacks.
buses. carts. buggies. every kind OF We
hfcle awaited the three hundred, Mrs.
Spevcr having secured the country for
means 10 transport her guests 10 her place.
Waldheim.
And wasn't # mean? Just as the three
hundred hoped of the train a young tor
nado swooped down upon them and blew
dust into their lingerie hats and willow
fumes and embroidered blouses in the
most unpleasant manner. Big black clouds
gathered and there was a rumble OF thun-
der; but don't think the girls minded. They
shrieked good deal and asked one another.
Amt II too bad?" and Amt it herce?'
but they knew the big stable and garage
at WaIdhelm were waiting for them, all
fixed up, and there was no doubt of their
having the good time they were out TO
have
Mrs. Speyer. wearing a daisy chain yards
Iong-which the children on the place made
for her at daisy party she had for them
and Mrs. Cecil c. Cuyler, one OF her fellow
officers on the Womens League for AMI
mails. also wearing a daisy chain, welcomed
the three hundred at the door OF the stable.
IL is a stable de luxe, with walls of dull
brown and delft blue which have pictures
on them. and when the three hundred were
seated in it on camp chairs it looked ex-
ceedingly festive.
Some Vaudeville Stunts.
Miss Hartz and the Tuxedo quartet were
ready for them. Miss Hartz Is, she ex
planned, the lady that has played the
piano for the Irene club every time it
comes to Waldheim" and she and the four
vaudeville boys proceeded to do stunts that
sent them into profuse perspiration and the
girls into ripples of laughter.
At o'clock there was picnic supper, and
then-the sprinkle Of rain that fell having
subsided-tho three hundred were turned
loose to explore Waldheim's one hundred
and fifty acres. They fed spears OF grass
10 the mild-eyed horses that stuck their
heads out of their extremely sanitary stalls
to see what was going on. They scratched
the nose Of Mrs Speyer's little donkey, AMI
made friends with two shaggy English
sheep dogs that wandered about the place.
They visited the model dairy and Mrs.
Speyrr's quaint little henhouse, of which
the furnishings and even the tiles in tie
roof were brought from Bavaria. Then, at
O'Clock. they said goodby TO Mrs. Speyer.
each receiving from her a silk American
flag, and they climbed into the hacks 9nd
buses and carts and buggies and rode
down the winding road to meet the work
ing girls special from Scarborough at
o'clock
The Irene Club is one OF the New York
Association Of Working Girls Societies, OF
which Miss Virginia Potter is head. 1t is
the oldest and really the mother Of them
all Mrs Speyer is lis treasurer. .