The Washington herald., 1920-03-14

of the furnishings and decorating
Of the home, and among other mem-
bers on the committee are Miss Hell
en- Taft and Mrs. walker d. Hines.
The money for adapting and
equipping the house. for the club
was raised by gifts and loans from
college: women throughout the
country. A finance committee OF
one member from each of the eighty
colleges in the association was or
ganized under the chairmanship OF
Mrs. Hill. Fifteen thousand dollars
for the furnishings was pledged by
the alumnae from six of the larger
women's colleges, while smaller
siumnae groups pledged smaller
amounts. The alumnae of Welles-
ley College gave the furnishings OF
, the large clubroom or lounge on the
first floor. The reception room was
furnished by the three daughters of
former Secretary Of War Lamont in
the name of Elmira College and to
the memory of their mother, who
passed happy years in this house.
Goucher College alumnae are fur
nishing the small reading and writ
ing room at the right of the main
entrance, and the restroom, a long,
low room looking out on the garden,
was financed by the Washington
branch of the association itself.
Other colleges furnished some OF
the bedrooms. all of which boast
beautiful twin four-poster mahog-
any beds and similar delightful fur
nishiDgs.
PLAN FOR INTERNATIONAL
FEDERATION OF COLLEGE
WOMEN.
The "A. c. A. committee on inter-
natiopal relations Is formulating
plans for q federation of college
women all over the world. This will
open our universities to able for
eign professors. and vice versa, and
will develop an international frater-
nal spirit among real people.
The clubhouse has become most
popular for luncheons and teas, es-
pecially for the club members who
are employed down town in offices.
They can drop in there for tea for
only IS cents, as the location is most
convenient, and meet the most con-
genial people in the most congenial
of surroundings. 1t Is a place l
should like to go to often.
POPULARITY OF CLUBS
INCREASES SINCE WAR.
Speaking Of women's clubs. the A.
c. A, as 1t IL generally called for
short" / have heard a number OF
people who now say that women,
released from war work, are turn
ing their energiesto clubs. The
membership of women's clubs has
, increased more in the last year than
it did in the ten years before the
war. according to the rolls Of New
York clubs, and the same seems to
be true everywhere. Certainly
women's clubs in Washington are
increasing in both size and number.
The average increase Is estimated
as 10 per cent, while the member
ship. of women's clubs was prac-
tically at a standstill for the ten
years preceding the war.
Clubwomen give two reasons for
this increase. First. they believe
that many women who did Red
served with the'Council of National
Defense and the like turned to
women's clubs as a field for their
energies when war work stopped.
Second. the programs OF all wom-
ems clubs have shown a change to
topics Of broader and more vital
interest than in the days when
"Dteratoor" was the chief subject
for programs.
Women's clubs and the power of
organization which they had incuI-
Gated in all women throughout the
country were appreciated during the
war. In many communities the
clubs had been in the beginning
more or less radical organizations.
They had represented in the early
days the reprehensibIe new wom-
an" and had the place which suf-
fragists took later.
However. late in the nineteenth
century many of our most advanced
women's clubs had become innocu-
Gus institutions with little to rec
ommend them save their machinery
of organization. They studied"
browning and Keats. Some of those
more fippantly inclined believed in
keeping up with the best sellers.
mixing Pollyanna" and Harold
Bell Wright in with quotations from
Shakespeare and Dickens.
SIGNIFICANCE OF GOWNS
WORN At COLLEGES.
To go back to the subject Of coI-
leses, I've found out something els.
1 wanted to know. It's about the
meaning of college gowns. When
attended the convocation exercises
OF George Washington University ON
George Washington's Birthday and
saw Senior Ibanez, the noted Span-
tsh author. get an honorary de-
gree, several people asked me what
was the meaning Of college gowns.
and didn't know. So I immedi.
ately looked into the matter and
this is what ] learned:
University gowns are different I'm
different institutions, but ALI over
the country and indeed all over the
Engiish-speaking. world, certain dis
tnctions hold. Most of these fun
damental distinctions may be point.
ed out as follows:
The ordinary bachelors gown. the
hrst that the college youth owns.
Is Of unadorned black with pointed
sleeves and is usually Of serge or
some other simple black stun. The
masters gown is like it in that
it is plain black. but the sleeves
are different being made with long
pendants shaped not unlike fish,
tails and hanging from the elbow
nearly to the bottom of the gown
It may be made Of silk, as also NAV
be the bachelors gown. It may be
worn by man Of long academic
standing who has happened to re-
ceive no higher degree; but the
ordinary youth would not display
himself in silk.
Most doctors gowns, especially in
England and Scotland, have hoods
which give them distinction and
mark in the difference OF color one
kind OF q doctorate from another.
Some years ago n rcorny,issio,, ~, !,