Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-11-13

are over q girls now SurOAASu'
The program committee chairman,
Miss Ruth Stacey, announced that the
next meeting, which Will be held
Wednesday. November 10, will be
held in the clubrooms in the local
public library. The reason for two
weeks meetings in succession is tina
owing to obtaining tho out-of-town
speaker last night the meeting was
postponed from last week.
| The membership committee, Miss
( Helen MACMILLAN chairman, report
ed that open membership was now
closed and a girl in order to secure
membership in the club must be in
troduced by two girls and voted upon
at the next executive meeting.
The music committee, of which
Miss Louise Crowell is chairman, an
nounced that the~Glee Club will start
rehearSals next week, the exact time
will be announced in the NEWS. A
resolution was adopted that members
of the girls clubs throughout the city
who belong to the federation be ad-
fitted to the Glee Club at the same
fee as paid by the Girls Club and that
outsiders be admitted upon the pay
ment of an additional fee.
The dramatic committee, which is
headed by Miss Thelma Emmons,
stated that the parts for the play are
all cast and it will be held Wedues-
day, December IT, in the Majestic
theatre. The tickets will be sold by
the members of the club.
The athletic committee, Miss Anna
Helen Roessler chairman, asked for
a large number of rooters at the next
basketball game which will be a re-
turn n with Matawan girls and will
be played Friday night. December s,
In the RoeSSler gymnasium.
Plans are also under way for the
commencement of a gymnasium class
after Christmas under the direction
of a Y. w. c. A. worker and also a
story telling class, an instructor for
which will be secured by Miss Helen
Grannis, Of the local library.
Following this the evening was
turned over to the program commit
tee. The first speaker of the evening
was Mrs. Edith Ramsay. Mrs. Ram
say said that h vas there as a last
minute substitute for Mrs. Adrian
Lyon, who owing to important busi-
ness was unable to be present. "The
club Is so splendid, so well conducted
and so enthusiastic that 1 should say
that we members of the Woman's
Club had better look to our laurels."
Mrs. Ramsay then touched in a brief,
interesting manner upon her topic,
' 0Ih anu community service. In
listening to the busy winter that the
club had planned she said that il
seemed to be pretty we'll filed but
that the Day Nursery stood out plain>
ly. The club could with the assist
ance of the Red Cross Motor Corps
help in the passing of the provision
baskets for the home. She laid spe-
cial emphasis upon her assurance of
the success of the club owing to the
fact that at such an early date the
club had opened the benefits of its
Glee Club under the musical director,
Mr.. Moke, Of New York, so smaller
and newer clubs.
Miss Clara Gill then rendered a
musical selection and was compelled
to return for an encore. The speaker
of the evening, Miss Jilia Capen, field
city secretary of the Y. w. c. A.
spoke upon Y. w. C. A. work.
The association is open for girls
from eight to eighty years of age. A
city association means to a girl one OF
the following things she said, "a
swimming pool, a gymnasium, a cafe
terra, a room for a nights lodging, a
class in Office work or English or dra-
MATES or simply a place for a good
wholesome social time" The blue tri.
angle stands for three things, body,
mind and spirit" The Y. w. C. A. Is
an international institution. She con-
Guided by stating that in her wide ex-
p%erience with Girls Clubs she sees a
big future in front of this organization
because it has a set purpose and an
unusually intelligent, fun loving, So
cial, democratic lot of girls.
Mrs. Edith Cruise, the local Interna-
tional Institute worker, which is a
I part of the Y. ". C. A, then spoke.
She told of the purpose of the insti-
tute to make out of these foreign
born girls and women interesting, In
telligent American citizens. She stated
that many of them are really better
Americans than we are although per-
chance their mastery of the tongue is
not quite as fluent as ours. The meet
ing was adjourned and dancing reign
ed supreme. Among the members of
the Women's Club who were present
were Mrs. A. J. Ross and the presi-
dent, Mrs. A. Clayton Clark.
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The Daughters of Ilonia, a club
organized among the Hungarian
speaking girls of this city, met Tues
day night at the home of Mrs. Frank
RrOmna in Hiph utrpa+ Tbn h1-c