Arizona republican., 1919-04-06
WOMEN 5 NIGHT WITH ROTAR|ANS
 YEARLY EVE N I
Club Whose Sessions Are Usually Devoted to Busi- ness Gave Iteslf Over to a Period of Jollity

From all sides comes repetition Of the declaration that it was a great night-Thursday night, when the Phoe- nix Rotarians appropriated the Coun- try club the better to entertain their wives and friends.
 Secretary Shedd counted about 160 at the tables within the rose -embow- cred clubhouse. It had been called informal yet the women insisted on wearing the attire called for by the springtime afternoon in which the participants drove out from town. It was just as well the hour was set early, for it developed there was much to do. From the start the guests and most of the members were in delight ful uncertainty just what would come next. But when the uncertainty passed, there was delight. just the same. Surprises by the dozens had been fixed up by a committee com prising members Northrup, Shedd, Heard, O'Malley, Boynton, Kelly, Mills, and Wallace Button, who lost few op portunities for assuring folks that they would have done something really worth while had they been allowed more time than a couple of days.
 President Lewis made more than a few remarks, jocular especially whe:i he complained that his reputation for sedateness undoubtedly would detract from the proper reception of his witty sallies. But, somewhere during the evening, he gave courteous welcome to the wives and other guests and told of Inc work ths had been done under the club motto, 'He profits most who serves best" Rotary is not a mere luncheon clup-it is an organization with national membership of 10000 that seeks to advance the well-being of every community in which it may have a branch.
 Whence inspiration
 On behalf of the wives, Mrs. John Dennett, Jr., made graceful response told a few good and apropos stories herself and left intimation that pos sibly much of the good work of the club might have been inspired at home even if the women attended only one Rotary meeting a year.
 Trouble started immediately after serving the soup, in a fake report of a walters strike. It fooled even the president, who rose to the occasion to name a dozen members as temporary servitors. But the latter were relieved to find that Steward Roberts merely was marshalling his men for the more expeditions handling of a chicken din ner of most toothsome sorc
 Musical Program
 Even before Dad Baswitzs cigars had been lighted, the entertainment had been started. Member Heath, ir snappy toreador costume, sang llme- riclls to grand opera airs. Calvin Boyce made distinct hit as COW boy minstrel, self-accompanied on tht guitar, in a group of range songs tha ended with Don't Bury Me on tn, Lone Prairee" Miss Leona McDowel rather surpassed a mocking bird in . trio of whistled selections, accom- panied by Mrs. Ida k Merwin. Mis-. Ida May Golze delightfully."- sang { couple of ballads. Something that really ought not to be mentioned il this paragraph, possibly not even il polite society. is the fact that twt groups of members contributed voca selections of very pathetic sort.
 And there was dancing, scatteret through the programme, long befor the Eichenhroner's struck up the frs two-step, when the tables had beel pushed to the side Member Johl Brown, in the full -feathered an' beaded panoply of a Sioux chieftair whooped as he brandished a req tomahawk, to the beat of a tom ton did a war dance that must have bee