The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-08-08
Gay Young Things of 60
Odd Form Sunset
Club.
WOULD LIVE OWN LIVES
Tired of Petting and Pamper-
ing, They Seek Liberty
in Pleasure,


Sunset club of America, n bona fide
member, for 1t is the only club in
the world whose sole test for mem
bership Is to be 60-and. II you are
a young thing OF SO you can join
II except that It is an adjunct to the
real Sunsetter, its mixed age limit
running from 6 to so.
The Sunset club at its recent an
nual meeting changed its birthday
from midsummer to winter, not be-
cane its older members needed the
change, but because those spineless
young juniors were most always to
be found In summer, and the sem
iors want to give them a good time
1t was easy to change the birth
day. because the Sunset club is the
one organization in New York which
is absolutely without red tape. 1t
has no initiation fee, no dues. no
elections Mrs. C. A. II. Rugg, who
founded 1t, merely remarked to diff
ferent members when she found a
few officers essential:
Now, my dear. you win be the
historian and you will be the sec
retary. We won't need a treasurer
for we will not have any money. II
there are any expense incidentals to
office why well pay them our
selves" said the secretary, and that
was done.
The historianof the Sunset club IS
81 and glories in IL and never misses
meeting. The oldest member is
~, and the Sunset is looking for
ward to having a really fine list
come day. for while It's members are
gradually growing younger mentally
and physically in their Joy of the
club the actual years continue to pile
up.
Wouldn't Stay on Shelf.
Mrs. Rugg. who started the club.
did so because. though her own situ-
I alton was most agreeable in her Sun
ITset days, she found that she was ION
the shelf more than she thought
she should be, and she knew of many
women OF 60 or past who were being
| thrust there and were too timid to
: get off
'Ive had the most pitiful letters"
4 Mrs. Rugg told a reporter. what do
4 you think of q woman who says she
never goes to church because she
never has any money to put In the
ontribution plate and she doesn't
Ike to ask her daughter to give 1t
10 her"
There are many who no longer
have money of their own and are
DEPENDENT upon their children. and
while they have clothes to wear and
food TO eat they have wild longings
for ice cream sundaes and other eX-
citing kinds of fun, but they can't
have them.
4 Il never have money to treat
friend to Soda" confided another
Sunsetter sadly.
4 The Sixty -pasts," before they
:olned the club, were so well over
cared for that they never could get
tout alone, and as there was not al
ETays some one to take them they
generally stayed at home. The club
las changed all that. Sunset moth
ers, grandmothers. great-grandmoth-
srs, as we'll as the Sunset old maids,
have become emancipated and there
isn't a regular meeting or evening
afpecial that one of them misses
whether she lives in the Bronx, New
Fersey or Brooklyn.
I'VE have letters from women all
IoVer the country who want to join
lps," says Mrs. Rugg. from Chico
pee, from Kalamazoo, from Salt
Fake City, from Alberta, Canada,
End one OF our 'Sixty-pasts wrote
rs Nom Nevada, where she has been
with haF arUtnAAr for thA lnG
-Four years, that she had not had "A
proof over her head all that time
We're a rugged lot IL people only let
ns out to live"
The latest branch Is In Australia.
Mrs. A. 1. Goddard, who is a Sunset
Eer in high standing, has a sister in
bldney and when she wrote her
oout the club, the sister, Mrs. II.
Wicken, wanted to join too. She
trought In a friend of hers, Mrs.
Ward. The branch has only two
Pnembers, but 1t is planning TO grow.
"oh, dear" said Mrs. Goddard as
1the told about the Australian Sun
PETERS. Mrs. Ward makes beauti-
k1nl crochet mats and she sent one
fto Mrs. Rugg and forgat TO bring
a There are men members of the
Run nket club, but being just mere men
rheT are timid and never come to
krub meetings unless they can do 80
tfs husbands or fathers. They have
rot the courage as yet to come IS
Z zrsixty-pasts."
The sunsetters are not idle. They
ga much Red Cross work for the
war, they made a silk flag which
ff'ew over the battleship Recruit and
rhder which $4,000 men enlisted,
Fnd now they are to send $50 a
fnonth to the women of France who
Efre Sunset age in the devastated dis
kFrlcts, More than sixty of these 30
faen have been taken into the organ
lation-womep in the district in
Erhlch is located the American COM
nlttee for devastated rnnce-and
2ney are TO have satin badges as a
VISIBLE link to bind them to their
american co-aged friends.
IA " S an idealistic club. Mrs. Rugg
'ayF and its historian. reading a
paper about It said: 1T stands for
equality, loyalty, personal service and
Ialth in God"
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" Babes Saye Fathers Life.
II POUGHKEEPSIE N. Y. Aug. Z.
tohn Battistoni, farmer, was saved