Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-18
Womdn,S Cub Report
Sh0w Great CiUc
Work Being Done

Inc w OMAN 5 OluD VI L CILll AlllbOy
met yesterday afternoon in the Pres
byterian chapel. The Household Eco
Monies department again announced
that a IVA for fruits, jams and jel-
lies was to be made for distribution
at Thanksgiving among the City Hos
pital, Home for the Aged, Orphans
Home and Day Nursery.
Mrs. Adrian Lyon, chairman of the
Civics Department, announced the Sc
curing of the Community House and
stated that a number of the girls or
CARNATIONS had volunteered to assist
In its renovation. She spoke of the
Council of Girls Clubs which formed
last night, She further spoke upon
the excellent work of h Girls Club
of Perth Arpboy; how the depart
ments were completely arranged and
a years program planned n told
the women, I'VE will nave to look to
our Iaurels or the Girls Club will sur
pass U.S."
Mrs. Lyon then spoke of the Won
derful work of the baby clinic which
was secured through the child well
fare subcommittee of the civic de-
partment of the Woman's Club and
urged the women to attend this
clinic in order that they may see and
realize just what work is being done
at this station.
a. ~ INOooA EEOhS 0RCAA NAO
Glee Club under the music depart
ment of the Girls Club which has
been opened to the members of the
Woman'S Club and also spoke of Wis
iting the Girls club and how I'M
pressed she had been with their abil-
ity to perfect such an organization.
AS federation secretary she solicited
for the sale Of the state official paper,
The Bulletin"
Music was furnished for this meet
ing through the efforts of the music
committee who obtained Mrs. Whit
ney G. Leesonsang and was in I'M
usually good voice and sang with q
great deal of spirit and feeling. She
was compelled to moore. Her ac-
companist was Mrs. William Hesser.
Mrs. Charles Fletcher, Of Hamburg,
N. Y, the first president of the
Woman's Club, was present and made
a short address in which she stated
that she was commissioned by her
own Woman's Club in Hamburg to
return with an inspiration and she
had secured q wonderful one from
the civic department and she could
see the wonderful development that
the club had made since it's origin ten
years ago.
Mrs. Fritz Abegg has accepted the
Craftsmanship of the literature de-
partment, the vacancy occurring due
to the removal Of Mrs. Mortimer
Brown, the former chairman, from
this city.
Mrs. Marion Gaylord Atwell, the
current events lecturer. then was in
troduced. Mrs. Atwell spoke first of
Roumania and her unwillingness to
be controlled by the Peace Confer
ence and her recent evacuation OF
Budapest. Then she turned to Aus
tria, torn between the replacing of
the Hapsburg dynasty or the institu-
ton of a - republic, whose treasury
would profit by the sale Of the art
treasures of former royalty and this
would work toward the payment of
the national debt.
France she pictured as settling
back into work under the advice of
Clemenceau to Work, weFk, and
work to pay for the war as you work
ed to win the war;" She touched
/ upon England and the wonderful
campaign of Lady Aston who as a
girl evinced a perfect passion for
helping people and who has had ten
years Of practical social service
among the English lower classes.
She spoke of the recent election
in Spain where the men voted n day
and the women the next, as they did
not consider 1t advisable to have
them vote at the same time. She
then passed over to our own country,
touching upon the Massachusetts
New York city and New Jersey cleo
lions and referred to the very evident
trend of the negro vote to the social
istic party: also the Wisconsin situa-
ton and the failure to resist Victor
Berger in Congress and that he had
been re-nominated by the socialist
! party and that the Democratic ano
Republican parties were putting out
a fusion ticket in opposition.
She explained the efforts of the
4 sixty sixth congress to unscramble