New-York tribune., 1919-02-23

We COME to see if you wouldn't like
to join our club-the Persephone Club;
Il pronounced Per-sif-o-nee. Yet, it's
new-quite. And there's such won
derful, big. new idea back of it.
Too busy? Belong to too many clubs?
Ny dear, the Persephone Club was organ
lied for busy women like you. Positively
The object is culture-strictly culture It
makes culture easy-in fact, inevitable. II
you come once month for year you sim
ply can't help coming out a cultured
woman.
No tiresome reading, you understand.
And absolutely study of any kind
nothing to worry take ones time.
Quick lunch culture? That isn't quite an
esthetic way to put it, is it? Nor preciee.
There is danger, you see, that in the
hurly-bury of the times we may neglect
culture and the higher things. And women
should be the guardians, the conservators,
of the things of the spirit, don't you think?
Our plan is simple but scientific We
meet once a month at the Hotel Vedrome
and hear Mrs. L. Vandevanter Jones lect-
ure. You've never heard Mrs. L. Vande-
vanter Jones? Nv dear! She simply gives
you resume of verything-scence, art
philosophy, economies, sociology, current
events-everything you need to know in or
der to say the right thing; at q dinner
for instance.
All, wonderful woman-Mrs. L. Van
devanter Jones Marvellous, absolutely
Always so chic, so perfectly groomed. Her
frocks are le dernier cri of STYLE And
r1,o
dress or her ideas She never offends
anybody. Poise-that is it! Poise. Her
poise is astonishing, really.
And her lectures! You know, after
you've heard some lecturers describe a book
you feel absolutely obliged to read that
book. They work on your curiosity so.
But after Mrs. L. Vandevanter Jones has
discussed a book you don't need to waste
time reading it, and you don't want to-
You wouldn't think of it. She's told you
all about its And you can converse about
it perfectly.
| got my Ibsen, Schnitzler, Shaw, dan
nunzio, Tolstoy, Anatole France and all
the rest from Mrs L. Vandevanter Jones'
And if this tendency toward women in in
dustry continues I shall obtain a position
as literary reviewer or dramatic critic on
a newspaper. l wouldn't hesitate minute.
And Mrs. L. Vandevanter Jones's tea
time chats the Russian novelists are de-
licious. Fancy getting all those Russians
without having to plough through their
gloomy nightmares. It's the same way
with socialism, free love, phlosophic an
archism and Boishevism She explains
everything bits of peppery sauce in the
salad, you know. And it's all quite nice,
perfectly respectable.
Before | knew Mrs. L. Vandevanter Jones
l used to spend hours going to art exhibits.
Now I don't waste my time. Mrs. L. Van
devanter Jones isn't that annoying kind of
lecturer who makes you feel obliged to
walk through miles OF galleries studying
this artist and that.
After she has described a picture and
explained it's meaning you know just what
to say about it.
And Freud! One must be conversant
with Freud and complexes and neuroses
and all those things, and yet one simply
cannot read them in the coarse way the
books analyze them. Her delicate and IL
Eliminating explanation of psychology and
submersed impulses and all that is the
very plus ultra of her genius.
Now you see the big idea back of the
Persephone Club? 1t conserves time and
money and effort. 1t would be a dreadful
thing if culture should die out, wouldn't it?
Here the names of our officers: Mrs
Protheroe Devnne, wife of the million
aire; Mrs. R. I. Barrigonne-awfully popu-
lar people, the Barrigonnes-and Mrs
Brinsley Protherlee. Yes, the Mrs. Prother-
lee
Now, if such women are leaders in the ;
Persephone Club, it does seem that the
rest of US can at least join, doesn't it?