The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-05
Notes Of the
Women S Clubs

n IANY social clubs will begin their
MI season this week and several
have already started their ae-
tivities. While Of course some will con-
tinue their war relief work. the pro-
grammes for the coming winter will re-
turn to their old time brilliancy, and lee
lures, discussions on current topics of
interest, parliamentary debates literary,
musical, artistic and scientific subjects,
will once more occupy the attention of
New York's club women.
The New York Browning Society will
begin its thirteenth season in the Wal
dorf-Astoria on Wednesday with busi-
ness meeting at two o'clock, followed by
an interesting programme at $40. Mrs.
John Lewis Childs will be chairman Of
the day and will introduce as prin-
cipai speaker the Hindu poet and
scholar Dian Gopal Mukerji. Mrs. John
Holley Clark. the newly elected presis
dent, will be in the chair. The other
officers OF the club Just elected to serve
two years are Mrs. William l. Voigt.
Mrs. II. C. NJ. Ingraham. Mrs Frances
H. Carter, vice-presidents Miss Clara
J. Colburne. recording secretary Mrs.
Thomas ]. Vivian, corresponding secre-
tary; DR.. Lillian c. Randall. treasurer,
and Mrs John Harper Bonnell. recorder.
The society's schedule and subjects for
the coming season are: october. Pom
pilia; November, Give: December.
Christmas Eve; January, Fra Lippo
Lippi; February, essay on Shelley /;
March. BY the Fireside. Any Wife to
Any Husband, James Lees Wife; April.
Souls Tragedy; May, Saul.
The Beethoven Society, Nine. Aida
Tanini-TaglIavia president. will begin
its sixth season in the Hotel Plaza on
November s with musicale. The club.
which is one of the most popular or
CARNATIONS of its kind. will have a
musicale on the second Saturday OF
each month throughout the season and
concerts on the evenings OF January 81
and April 81. Mrs. James Daniel Morti-
mer is the society's honorary president,
and Mrs. Simon Barych, Mrs. Carl
Jungen. Mrs Robert F. Archibold, Mrs.
Dudley Van Holland. Mrs. +. Otis Fred
enburg and Mrs. John Papasimakes
vice-presldents Mrs Grace o. Smith,
treasurer, and Mrs NJ. Frank Dennis.
corresponding secretary. All the affairs
of the society will be held at the Hotel
Plaza.
Sorosis, one of the oldest and most
conservative of the social clubs, will
begin its fifty-third year tomorrow at
the Waldorf-Astoria with a luncheon
and social meeting. Mrs. James Nc
Cullagh, chairman of drama, will be in
charge, The programme will include
recitations in costume by Sidney Thomp-
son and vocal selections by Florence
Macbeth of the Chicago Opera Com
pany. Mrs. John Lewis Childs is presi-
dent of the club.
The New York Mozart Society, OF
which Mrs. Noble Mcconnell Is presi-
dent, will Htart its season tomorrow
with a board meeting in the Hotel
Astor. A buffet luncheon will follow
the business session, The Ushers Club,
under the leadership OF Ambrose Clark,
will have It's first meeting on wednes-
day. The first afternoon musicale of
the Mozart Soc.cty VIII take place or
November 1 In the Aston the first re-
hearsai of which waA held yesterday
under the new director, Richard t.
Percy.
The officers OF the society this year
are Mrs. Mcconnell. president Mrs. f.
Macdonald Sinclair honorary vice-presi-
dent Mrs Benjamin Adriance, honorary
active vlce-president Mrs. Clarence
Burns. first vice-president: Mrs. Aiolph
]. Wells. second vice-presldent Mrs. E.
Bassfcrd Schmalholz. third vlce-presi-
dent Mrs. John Thomas Taylor, fourth
vice-president Mrs. Joseph James Root,
Jr.. secretary; Mrs. Frederic Cushing
Stevens. treasurer.
On the board OF governors are Mrs.